Mary Gambino
@mlgambino.bsky.social
Retired nurse educator, Be The Bear and Heather Richardson junkie, DEI advocate
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This. Shout this from the rooftops. Add in the propaganda that tricks voters into thinking this is the American way and you’ve got the MAGA playbook.
🧵I know what the Trump administration is doing to the country because they’ve already done it to rural America.
They stripped public schools of funding. They closed our hospitals. They sold family farms for parts. They let our infrastructure rot. And then they gerrymandered us to keep us quiet.
They stripped public schools of funding. They closed our hospitals. They sold family farms for parts. They let our infrastructure rot. And then they gerrymandered us to keep us quiet.
March 13, 2025 at 4:26 PM
This. Shout this from the rooftops. Add in the propaganda that tricks voters into thinking this is the American way and you’ve got the MAGA playbook.
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Musk plans to fire 7,000 Social Security Administration employees while calling Social Security “the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time.” However, Americans have paid into the system their entire working lives!
March 2, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Musk plans to fire 7,000 Social Security Administration employees while calling Social Security “the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time.” However, Americans have paid into the system their entire working lives!
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Funding freeze leaves Kansas farmers unpaid for work they already completed www.hppr.org/hppr-news/20...
Funding freeze leaves Kansas farmers unpaid for work they already completed
Many Kansas farmers are in limbo and waiting for promised payments under contracts they signed with the federal government. It comes after a federal directive from the Trump administration paused paym...
www.hppr.org
March 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Funding freeze leaves Kansas farmers unpaid for work they already completed www.hppr.org/hppr-news/20...
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"Most of EPA’s work happens behind the scenes, like when one of its enforcement teams raided a warehouse in Colorado full of mislabeled oil barrels that had been prepared for a landfill and discovered they contained nuclear waste..."
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Opinion | Three Former E.P.A. Leaders: You’ll Miss It When It’s Gone
When the next environmental catastrophe arrives, who will be there to deal with the emergency and its aftermath?
www.nytimes.com
February 27, 2025 at 8:23 PM
"Most of EPA’s work happens behind the scenes, like when one of its enforcement teams raided a warehouse in Colorado full of mislabeled oil barrels that had been prepared for a landfill and discovered they contained nuclear waste..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/o...
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We’ve tried to shelter our minds but tonight we’re preparing for the genocide of Science.
Entire NIH departments will have no leaders.
World renowned Scientists kicked to the curb without cause, & grants will loose their lead investigators.
Is this what they want?
Chaos? Destruction?
Entire NIH departments will have no leaders.
World renowned Scientists kicked to the curb without cause, & grants will loose their lead investigators.
Is this what they want?
Chaos? Destruction?
NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research
Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs
www.science.org
February 28, 2025 at 4:06 AM
We’ve tried to shelter our minds but tonight we’re preparing for the genocide of Science.
Entire NIH departments will have no leaders.
World renowned Scientists kicked to the curb without cause, & grants will loose their lead investigators.
Is this what they want?
Chaos? Destruction?
Entire NIH departments will have no leaders.
World renowned Scientists kicked to the curb without cause, & grants will loose their lead investigators.
Is this what they want?
Chaos? Destruction?
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A lot of people now see that Musk is a vile extremist. But many still struggle to accept that he is also an oblivious fool. Once you actually listen to what he has to say about the world, you realize it’s all faux-visionary nonsense layered on top of profound ignorance.
"This is in violation of a presidential executive order. It needs to stop" -- Elon Musk, on Hannity's show, makes clear he has no idea how the American government works by asserting that Trump can use executive orders to unilaterally impound funds appropriated by Congress
February 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
A lot of people now see that Musk is a vile extremist. But many still struggle to accept that he is also an oblivious fool. Once you actually listen to what he has to say about the world, you realize it’s all faux-visionary nonsense layered on top of profound ignorance.
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Republican senators find themselves in an unusual position these days: begging Trump officials to release funds they themselves appropriated.
After ceding power of the purse, GOP lawmakers beg Trump team for funds
Republican senators find themselves in an unusual position these days: begging Trump officials to release funds they themselves appropriated.
wapo.st
February 19, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Republican senators find themselves in an unusual position these days: begging Trump officials to release funds they themselves appropriated.
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“Staffing decisions should be based on an individual agency’s mission-critical needs. To do otherwise is dangerous when it comes to public safety. And it is especially unconscionable in the aftermath of three deadly aircraft accidents in the past month.”
Trump Launches Mass Purge of Air Traffic Control Staff
The Trump administration has kicked off a firing spree of air traffic controllers, despite four deadly plane crashes on his watch.
newrepublic.com
February 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
“Staffing decisions should be based on an individual agency’s mission-critical needs. To do otherwise is dangerous when it comes to public safety. And it is especially unconscionable in the aftermath of three deadly aircraft accidents in the past month.”
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Trump proved conclusively last night with his deranged statements that he is an enemy and menace to our friends and allies around the world, and the best thing that ever happened to our adversaries and corrupt dictators. meidasnews.com/news/trump-s...
Trump Says Ukraine 'Should Have Never Started' War With Russia
Zelensky responded by saying Trump was in a "disinformation space"
meidasnews.com
February 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Trump proved conclusively last night with his deranged statements that he is an enemy and menace to our friends and allies around the world, and the best thing that ever happened to our adversaries and corrupt dictators. meidasnews.com/news/trump-s...
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Need more $ for tax cuts for billionaires? Cut funding for cancer research.
Need a few extra bucks for a corporate cash grab? Cut Special Education.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk's last few weeks aren't hard to understand. Just follow the money.
Need a few extra bucks for a corporate cash grab? Cut Special Education.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk's last few weeks aren't hard to understand. Just follow the money.
February 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Need more $ for tax cuts for billionaires? Cut funding for cancer research.
Need a few extra bucks for a corporate cash grab? Cut Special Education.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk's last few weeks aren't hard to understand. Just follow the money.
Need a few extra bucks for a corporate cash grab? Cut Special Education.
Donald Trump and Elon Musk's last few weeks aren't hard to understand. Just follow the money.
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JD Vance - If you believe any of the multiple federal courts that have ruled against you so far are exceeding their statutory or Constitutional authority, your recourse is to appeal. You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny.
February 9, 2025 at 7:34 PM
JD Vance - If you believe any of the multiple federal courts that have ruled against you so far are exceeding their statutory or Constitutional authority, your recourse is to appeal. You don’t get to rage-quit the Republic just because you are losing. That’s tyranny.
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Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.
February 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Someone at the American Bar Association ate their Wheaties this morning.
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So after promising to focus on safety, they’ve gotten right down to work… on gender terminology?
February 11, 2025 at 12:14 AM
So after promising to focus on safety, they’ve gotten right down to work… on gender terminology?
Really?
"The core argument emerging in their legal filings and executive orders — one without support anywhere in the Constitution or the law — is that simply by being elected, Trump has the power to do whatever he wants."
Trump and his lawyers embrace the logic of dictatorship
And they're not even trying to hide it at this point.
www.publicnotice.co
February 11, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Really?
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About time one of ours gets a spine.
Kansas’ Moran, Davids sound alarm on delay of USAID food aid to starving people worldwide | via @kansascarpenter.bsky.social #ksleg
Kansas' Moran, Davids sound alarm on delay of USAID food aid to starving people worldwide • Kansas Reflector
Kansas' congressional delegation — Moran, Davids, Marshall — share diverse views on potential demolition of U.S. Agency for International Development.
kansasreflector.com
February 8, 2025 at 3:16 PM
About time one of ours gets a spine.
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A federal judge issued an emergency order early Saturday prohibiting Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service from accessing personal and financial data on millions of Americans kept at the Treasury Department, noting the possibility for irreparable harm.
Federal judge blocks Musk’s DOGE from access to Treasury Department material
The judge also ordered Musk and his team to “immediately destroy any and all copies of material downloaded from Treasury Department’s records and systems, if any.”
www.washingtonpost.com
February 8, 2025 at 2:20 PM
A federal judge issued an emergency order early Saturday prohibiting Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service from accessing personal and financial data on millions of Americans kept at the Treasury Department, noting the possibility for irreparable harm.
It is time!
Kansas Democrats propose minimum wage hike in response to Republicans’ plan for no taxes on tips | via Anna Kaminski #ksleg
Kansas Democrats propose minimum wage hike in response to Republicans' plan for no taxes on tips • Kansas Reflector
Top Democrats, including the governor, proposed Wednesday raising Kansas’ hourly minimum wage to $15 in response to Republicans’ plan to eliminate taxes on tips.
kansasreflector.com
February 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
It is time!
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Your sex is not a choice.
"I think I told my own child, 'Nobody’s words can take away your existence, your experience and your authentic way that you go out into the world, and there are adults in your life who are going to fight to protect you.'"
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‘Find your allies’: Trans advocates offer guidance on how to support kids in schools
Authors of “The Advocate Educator” have been inundated with questions from parents, teachers and students about navigating a rapidly changing landscape.
19thnews.org
February 6, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Your sex is not a choice.
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She's not wrong.
Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"
February 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
She's not wrong.