Pat Darling
@pat-darling.bsky.social
College teacher, mom, political observer, Buddhist, peace and anti-nuke activist.
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I just read this in a NYT article!
Minnesota said it was locked out of a Medicaid system and could not submit a request for $408 million.
Minnesota said it was locked out of a Medicaid system and could not submit a request for $408 million.
January 30, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I just read this in a NYT article!
Minnesota said it was locked out of a Medicaid system and could not submit a request for $408 million.
Minnesota said it was locked out of a Medicaid system and could not submit a request for $408 million.
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Remember when Trump froze the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law on his first day in office?
In the midst of all the chaos, that freeze is still in place and is creating real uncertainty for road projects that have already started. When the construction drags on, you know who to blame.
In the midst of all the chaos, that freeze is still in place and is creating real uncertainty for road projects that have already started. When the construction drags on, you know who to blame.
February 7, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Let there be peace and love!
February 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Let there be peace and love!
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The public needs to know who actually owns agency records if they are transferred to DOGE.
If DOGE takes ownership, it may inappropriately try to hide records with the Presidential Records Act, making the public fight harder for access under FOIA.
If DOGE takes ownership, it may inappropriately try to hide records with the Presidential Records Act, making the public fight harder for access under FOIA.
DOGE software approval alarms Labor Department employees
Elon Musk’s DOGE subordinates received approval to use software at the Labor Department that could be used to transfer large amounts of data, two employees said.
www.nbcnews.com
February 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
The public needs to know who actually owns agency records if they are transferred to DOGE.
If DOGE takes ownership, it may inappropriately try to hide records with the Presidential Records Act, making the public fight harder for access under FOIA.
If DOGE takes ownership, it may inappropriately try to hide records with the Presidential Records Act, making the public fight harder for access under FOIA.
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Israel's ban on UNRWA in Jerusalem and the West Bank comes into effect
Israel's ban on UNRWA in Jerusalem and the West Bank comes into effect
A ban preventing UNRWA, the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees, from operating in Occupied East Jerusalem and Israel has come into force today.
news.sky.com
January 30, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Israel's ban on UNRWA in Jerusalem and the West Bank comes into effect
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Exclusive: Security agents escorted the inspector general of the US Department of Agriculture out of her office on Monday after she refused to comply with her firing by the Trump administration reut.rs/4hfG4Vp
Exclusive: USDA inspector general escorted out of her office after defying White House
Security agents escorted the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture out of her office on Monday after she refused to comply with her firing by the Trump administration, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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January 30, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Exclusive: Security agents escorted the inspector general of the US Department of Agriculture out of her office on Monday after she refused to comply with her firing by the Trump administration reut.rs/4hfG4Vp
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Hundreds of internal contractors working for the US Agency for International Development are being put on unpaid leave and some are being terminated after US President Donald Trump imposed a sweeping freeze on US foreign aid worldwide reut.rs/4aF8WE7
Hundreds of USAID internal contractors put on leave, terminated amid US freeze on global aid
Hundreds of internal contractors working for the U.S. Agency for International Development are being put on unpaid leave and some are being terminated after U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a sweeping freeze on U.S. foreign aid worldwide.
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January 30, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Hundreds of internal contractors working for the US Agency for International Development are being put on unpaid leave and some are being terminated after US President Donald Trump imposed a sweeping freeze on US foreign aid worldwide reut.rs/4aF8WE7
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Check out Pat Bagley's latest cartoon: A Mighty Wind
Bagley Cartoon: A Mighty Wind
Check out Pat Bagley's latest cartoon: A Mighty Wind
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January 30, 2025 at 4:52 AM
Check out Pat Bagley's latest cartoon: A Mighty Wind
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Kaveh Akbar most recently published a novel, “Martyr!”, but he began his career as a poet. He recommends four collections by Palestinian writers, each of which grapples with the status of being Palestinian in the world.
The Best-Selling Novelist Kaveh Akbar Leans Into His Poetic Roots
With the dawn of a ceasefire in Gaza, the writer reflects on collections by Palestinian poets that don’t lose sight of love and wonder in the face of exile and destruction.
www.newyorker.com
January 30, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Kaveh Akbar most recently published a novel, “Martyr!”, but he began his career as a poet. He recommends four collections by Palestinian writers, each of which grapples with the status of being Palestinian in the world.
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Excommunicated Latter-day Saint Laurie Lee Hall, a former bishop, stake president and temple architect, discusses her new biography, "Dictates of Conscience: From Mormon High Priest to My New Life as a Woman.”
‘Mormon Land’: Amid national attacks on transgender rights, a former stake president tells her story
Excommunicated Latter-day Saint Laurie Lee Hall, a former bishop, stake president and temple architect, discusses her new biography, "Dictates of Conscience: From Mormon High Priest to My New Life as a Woman.”
www.sltrib.com
January 30, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Excommunicated Latter-day Saint Laurie Lee Hall, a former bishop, stake president and temple architect, discusses her new biography, "Dictates of Conscience: From Mormon High Priest to My New Life as a Woman.”
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Trump and his supporters often dehumanize #immigrants as “animals” or “aliens.” A human rights scholar warns that dismissing such rhetoric as bluster overlooks how words are a first step toward discriminatory and violent policies. https://buff.ly/4aEiUW8 (@niezen.bsky.social)
‘Aliens’ and ‘animals’ – language of hate used by Trump and others can be part of a violent design
Hateful language used to demonize particular groups of people had been used long before the era of Donald Trump, including by the Nazis.
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January 30, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Trump and his supporters often dehumanize #immigrants as “animals” or “aliens.” A human rights scholar warns that dismissing such rhetoric as bluster overlooks how words are a first step toward discriminatory and violent policies. https://buff.ly/4aEiUW8 (@niezen.bsky.social)
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Guantánamo Bay: the US prison camp in Cuba Trump is eyeing for illegal migrants
Guantánamo Bay: the US prison camp in Cuba Trump is eyeing for illegal migrants
The facility has in the past two decades been used to deal with prisoners accused of terrorism-related offences with few ever charged or convicted
As part of his administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration, US president Donald Trump has announced…
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Guantánamo Bay: the US prison camp in Cuba Trump is eyeing for illegal migrants
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President Donald Trump signed executive orders Wednesday that prioritize school choice funding and seek to end what the administration sees as “radical indoctrination in K-12 schooling.”
Trump orders Education Department to guide states on use of federal funds for school choice • Ohio Capital Journal
President Donald Trump signed executive orders Wednesday that prioritize school choice funding and seek to end what the administration sees as “radical indoctrination in K-12 schooling.”
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January 30, 2025 at 2:30 AM
President Donald Trump signed executive orders Wednesday that prioritize school choice funding and seek to end what the administration sees as “radical indoctrination in K-12 schooling.”
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This is what you do when you don’t want someone watching what you’re doing…
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...
Trump Fires at Least 12 Inspectors General in Late-Night Purge
The internal government watchdogs were believed to have been dismissed at several major agencies, though the Justice Department’s was not said to have been among them.
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This is what you do when you don’t want someone watching what you’re doing…
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...
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This week, the Trump administration paused funding for a program that fights the spread of HIV and AIDS and saves lives worldwide.
Halting one of the most successful global health programs is a significant risk to public health.
Halting one of the most successful global health programs is a significant risk to public health.
January 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
This week, the Trump administration paused funding for a program that fights the spread of HIV and AIDS and saves lives worldwide.
Halting one of the most successful global health programs is a significant risk to public health.
Halting one of the most successful global health programs is a significant risk to public health.
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Today we solemnly remember the lives stolen from our world during the Holocaust.
Over 7 million people were exterminated from our Earth systematically—today we remember and reflect on the wicked hate that fueled this travesty, and recommit ourselves to the promise, “never again.”
Over 7 million people were exterminated from our Earth systematically—today we remember and reflect on the wicked hate that fueled this travesty, and recommit ourselves to the promise, “never again.”
January 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Today we solemnly remember the lives stolen from our world during the Holocaust.
Over 7 million people were exterminated from our Earth systematically—today we remember and reflect on the wicked hate that fueled this travesty, and recommit ourselves to the promise, “never again.”
Over 7 million people were exterminated from our Earth systematically—today we remember and reflect on the wicked hate that fueled this travesty, and recommit ourselves to the promise, “never again.”
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Anyone here remember when Donald Trump claimed he had nothing to do with Project 2025?
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time.com/7209901/dona...
Trump's Early Actions Mirror Project 2025
A TIME analysis found that nearly two-thirds of the executive actions Trump has issued mirror or partially mirror proposals from Project 2025.
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January 26, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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🚨BREAKING🚨
Leonard Peltier Granted Executive Clemency
After 50 years of unjust incarceration and the tireless efforts of intergenerational grassroots organizing and advocacy, our elder and relative Leonard Peltier has been granted executive clemency.
Leonard Peltier Granted Executive Clemency
After 50 years of unjust incarceration and the tireless efforts of intergenerational grassroots organizing and advocacy, our elder and relative Leonard Peltier has been granted executive clemency.
January 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🚨BREAKING🚨
Leonard Peltier Granted Executive Clemency
After 50 years of unjust incarceration and the tireless efforts of intergenerational grassroots organizing and advocacy, our elder and relative Leonard Peltier has been granted executive clemency.
Leonard Peltier Granted Executive Clemency
After 50 years of unjust incarceration and the tireless efforts of intergenerational grassroots organizing and advocacy, our elder and relative Leonard Peltier has been granted executive clemency.
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The White House released the National Resilience Strategy: www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo..., building on the earlier resilience framework. Download it and use it to help inform state and local climate resilience efforts. 🔌💡
National Resilience Strategy | The White House
To read the National Resilience Strategy, please click this link here: National Resilience Strategy ###
www.whitehouse.gov
January 19, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The White House released the National Resilience Strategy: www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-roo..., building on the earlier resilience framework. Download it and use it to help inform state and local climate resilience efforts. 🔌💡
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From my own reporting: X wouldn’t even show up for a hearing about foreign state actors trying to influence elections in Musk’s home country.
An X official who had agreed to appear suddenly resigned before the hearing.
Musk is to the EU what Yevgeny Prigozhin was to the US; Trump’s chef.
An X official who had agreed to appear suddenly resigned before the hearing.
Musk is to the EU what Yevgeny Prigozhin was to the US; Trump’s chef.
January 19, 2025 at 8:11 AM
From my own reporting: X wouldn’t even show up for a hearing about foreign state actors trying to influence elections in Musk’s home country.
An X official who had agreed to appear suddenly resigned before the hearing.
Musk is to the EU what Yevgeny Prigozhin was to the US; Trump’s chef.
An X official who had agreed to appear suddenly resigned before the hearing.
Musk is to the EU what Yevgeny Prigozhin was to the US; Trump’s chef.
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I saw Deb Haaland speak once. it made me keenly aware that I had never before, and perhaps never would again, see a globally powerful person on a stage who looks like my mother. I hate to diminish Haaland to her identity, but it was a profound moment for me (and for my mother, sitting next to me).
Deb Haaland, the country's first indigenous cabinet secretary, used her term at the Interior Department to make what activists say is irreversible impact in recognizing the painful history of the government's treatment Native Americans.
Outgoing Interior Secretary Deb Haaland hands off closer ties with Indian Country
Deb Haaland, the country's first indigenous cabinet secretary, used her term at the Interior Department to make what activists say is irreversible impact in recognizing the painful history of the gove...
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January 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I saw Deb Haaland speak once. it made me keenly aware that I had never before, and perhaps never would again, see a globally powerful person on a stage who looks like my mother. I hate to diminish Haaland to her identity, but it was a profound moment for me (and for my mother, sitting next to me).
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Thousands of people attended the People’s March in Washington on Saturday, days before President-elect Trump’s inauguration, to rally against his hard-right plans for the U.S. and show support for causes like racial justice, immigration and gun violence prevention. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/u...
January 19, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Thousands of people attended the People’s March in Washington on Saturday, days before President-elect Trump’s inauguration, to rally against his hard-right plans for the U.S. and show support for causes like racial justice, immigration and gun violence prevention. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/u...
Had an okay Birthday weekend even though trapped inside. Polar vortex weekend.
January 20, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Had an okay Birthday weekend even though trapped inside. Polar vortex weekend.