Rich Boone
@rdboone.bsky.social
Ecologist, former professor, progressive, ESL tutor, and runner who loves art. Proponent of social justice and critical thinking. Learning Spanish.
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The newly ousted director of the CDC refused to fire top agency leaders or approve changes to vaccines from RFK Jr.’s hand-picked panel of advisers.
Monarez refused to fire top CDC leaders, ‘rubber-stamp’ vaccine changes, confidante says
The former CDC director was ousted late Wednesday after refusing to resign despite pressure from Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
www.politico.com
August 28, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The newly ousted director of the CDC refused to fire top agency leaders or approve changes to vaccines from RFK Jr.’s hand-picked panel of advisers.
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America is in the midst of a political realignment — accelerated by Trump. The biggest indicator of how someone will vote is now based on education.
How Trump Is Fueling the Most Important Trend in American Politics
A longtime political strategist weighs in on the X factor that could help Democrats in 2026 — and hurt them in 2028.
www.politico.com
August 27, 2025 at 2:26 PM
America is in the midst of a political realignment — accelerated by Trump. The biggest indicator of how someone will vote is now based on education.
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Great Axios explainer on how Trump is organizing an Orban-style democratic dictatorship, with all power coming from and concentrated at the top.
www.axios.com/2025/08/27/t...
www.axios.com/2025/08/27/t...
Trump's playbook for capturing and crushing America's institutions
In Trump's America, authority flows only from his consent.
www.axios.com
August 27, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Great Axios explainer on how Trump is organizing an Orban-style democratic dictatorship, with all power coming from and concentrated at the top.
www.axios.com/2025/08/27/t...
www.axios.com/2025/08/27/t...
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Yes. Collapsing all fed law enforcement into one undifferentiated, untrained, masked force.
"Agents said they worried the changes would transform the FBI from an investigative agency focused on national security into something more akin to a federal police force..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...
"Agents said they worried the changes would transform the FBI from an investigative agency focused on national security into something more akin to a federal police force..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...
F.B.I. Plans to Lower Recruiting Standards, Alarming Agents
www.nytimes.com
August 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Yes. Collapsing all fed law enforcement into one undifferentiated, untrained, masked force.
"Agents said they worried the changes would transform the FBI from an investigative agency focused on national security into something more akin to a federal police force..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...
"Agents said they worried the changes would transform the FBI from an investigative agency focused on national security into something more akin to a federal police force..."
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...
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This is so important…
Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles.
In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected.
REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency.
@governor.ca.gov
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Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles.
In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected.
REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency.
@governor.ca.gov
🧵
August 22, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This is so important…
Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles.
In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected.
REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency.
@governor.ca.gov
🧵
Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles.
In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected.
REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency.
@governor.ca.gov
🧵
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May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
August 21, 2025 at 9:43 PM
May this portion of the dissent by Ketanji Brown Jackson haunt John Roberts forever and be the final word on his tenure as Chief Justice.
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The White House has instructed NASA to terminate two major, climate change-focused satellite missions. They've been collecting widely-used data, providing both oil and gas companies and farmers with detailed information about the distribution of carbon dioxide and how it can affect crop health.
White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite
The White House has instructed NASA employees to destroy two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.
futurism.com
August 5, 2025 at 12:22 AM
The White House has instructed NASA to terminate two major, climate change-focused satellite missions. They've been collecting widely-used data, providing both oil and gas companies and farmers with detailed information about the distribution of carbon dioxide and how it can affect crop health.
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Sad, but an utter rejection of science and with it, any desire to limit the damage that the burning of fossil fuels causes is where Republicanism has gone.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...
E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change
www.nytimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Sad, but an utter rejection of science and with it, any desire to limit the damage that the burning of fossil fuels causes is where Republicanism has gone.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/c...
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The worst piece of legislation since the Slave Fugitive Act passed 175 years ago rips a gash in the social safety net, delivers the largest transfer of wealth to the rich in memory, and supercharges a violent, reckless, and cruel deportation machine
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
What now?
It is time…
open.substack.com
July 7, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The worst piece of legislation since the Slave Fugitive Act passed 175 years ago rips a gash in the social safety net, delivers the largest transfer of wealth to the rich in memory, and supercharges a violent, reckless, and cruel deportation machine
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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So they’re basically laundering our federal science budget over to the for-profit prison and concentration camp industry?
NSF’s 2024 budget was $9.06 billion.
NASA: $24.875.
NIH: $47.7 billion.
Fund science, not cruelty.
NSF’s 2024 budget was $9.06 billion.
NASA: $24.875.
NIH: $47.7 billion.
Fund science, not cruelty.
If the GOP reconciliation bill passes, ICE gets through FY2029:
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
- $45 billion for detention, on top of the current annual budget of $3.4 billion
- $14.4 billion for transportation and removal, on top of the current annual budget of $750 million
- $8 billion for hiring/retention
- Billions more.
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June 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
So they’re basically laundering our federal science budget over to the for-profit prison and concentration camp industry?
NSF’s 2024 budget was $9.06 billion.
NASA: $24.875.
NIH: $47.7 billion.
Fund science, not cruelty.
NSF’s 2024 budget was $9.06 billion.
NASA: $24.875.
NIH: $47.7 billion.
Fund science, not cruelty.
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We now have a concentration camp in Florida.
Stop pretending any of this is normal.
If you claim to be a good person and you're not outwardly opposing this regime, you're not a good person.
Be human.
Stop pretending any of this is normal.
If you claim to be a good person and you're not outwardly opposing this regime, you're not a good person.
Be human.
July 1, 2025 at 1:48 AM
We now have a concentration camp in Florida.
Stop pretending any of this is normal.
If you claim to be a good person and you're not outwardly opposing this regime, you're not a good person.
Be human.
Stop pretending any of this is normal.
If you claim to be a good person and you're not outwardly opposing this regime, you're not a good person.
Be human.
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Remember Collins and Murkowski could have stopped this. People who lose healthcare coverage will die because of them
June 29, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Remember Collins and Murkowski could have stopped this. People who lose healthcare coverage will die because of them
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I'm not a huge fan of citing the Founding Fathers (after all, they endorsed slavery and denied women the vote), but I think it's obvious that they'd be aghast to see today's Congress and Supreme Court surrender their power to an aspiring dictator.
June 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
I'm not a huge fan of citing the Founding Fathers (after all, they endorsed slavery and denied women the vote), but I think it's obvious that they'd be aghast to see today's Congress and Supreme Court surrender their power to an aspiring dictator.
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Stripping birthright citizenship from people born in this country goes against rights guaranteed in the Constitution. We must stand against unconstitutional actions and stand up for the fundamental rights granted to people in the United States of America.
June 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Stripping birthright citizenship from people born in this country goes against rights guaranteed in the Constitution. We must stand against unconstitutional actions and stand up for the fundamental rights granted to people in the United States of America.
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Dismantling of USAID is expected to kill more people than the bombs dropped on Japan during WW2. Now, the US is actively threatening access to vaccines at home and abroad. The potential death toll in just a few short months is staggering.
These are slow-moving massacres of choice.
These are slow-moving massacres of choice.
June 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Dismantling of USAID is expected to kill more people than the bombs dropped on Japan during WW2. Now, the US is actively threatening access to vaccines at home and abroad. The potential death toll in just a few short months is staggering.
These are slow-moving massacres of choice.
These are slow-moving massacres of choice.
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A 2024 study found two-thirds of Chicago children under 6 years old live in homes with tap water containing detectable levels of lead - the city with the most lead service lines in the country doesn’t plan to finish replacing them until 2076.
www.wbez.org/environment/...
www.wbez.org/environment/...
Many Chicagoans likely to wait decades for dangerous lead pipes to be replaced
The city with the most lead service lines in the country doesn’t plan to finish replacing them until 2076.
www.wbez.org
June 26, 2025 at 12:09 PM
A 2024 study found two-thirds of Chicago children under 6 years old live in homes with tap water containing detectable levels of lead - the city with the most lead service lines in the country doesn’t plan to finish replacing them until 2076.
www.wbez.org/environment/...
www.wbez.org/environment/...
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As a physician, I can’t stay silent. $1T in Medicaid cuts, provider tax caps, and work requirements will cost lives. This isn’t reform. It’s a heist.
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@meidastouch.com
WATCH HERE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0tg...
@elladisruptors.bsky.social
@meidastouch.com
WATCH HERE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0tg...
June 25, 2025 at 11:38 PM
As a physician, I can’t stay silent. $1T in Medicaid cuts, provider tax caps, and work requirements will cost lives. This isn’t reform. It’s a heist.
@elladisruptors.bsky.social
@meidastouch.com
WATCH HERE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0tg...
@elladisruptors.bsky.social
@meidastouch.com
WATCH HERE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0tg...
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Federal and local law enforcement wearing masks is just plain unamerican. It’s a cowards move, and shows the fact that the kinds of deportations happening and the methods are, shameful and unpopular.
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...
Why Are Federal Agents Wearing Masks? It’s a Threat to American Democracy
Masked Federal Agents Are Undermining Trust—and Democracy
adamkinzinger.substack.com
June 26, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Federal and local law enforcement wearing masks is just plain unamerican. It’s a cowards move, and shows the fact that the kinds of deportations happening and the methods are, shameful and unpopular.
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...
adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/why-are-fe...
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Wonder why ICE workers are so horrible? Whistleblowers who speak out about illegal actions and inhumane conditions are being fired, then replaced with Trump loyalists who won’t ask questions. ICE leadership has seen over a dozen top-level resignations and firings since Trump took office,
June 23, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Wonder why ICE workers are so horrible? Whistleblowers who speak out about illegal actions and inhumane conditions are being fired, then replaced with Trump loyalists who won’t ask questions. ICE leadership has seen over a dozen top-level resignations and firings since Trump took office,
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"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
June 22, 2025 at 10:00 PM
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
-Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
Smoky sky from forest fires in Fairbanks, Alaska.
June 22, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Smoky sky from forest fires in Fairbanks, Alaska.