Sarah Richards
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Erik Siebert, the federal prosecutor whom President Donald Trump pushed out Friday for declining to prosecute his political enemies, listed as an attorney on 675 federal cases.
His replacement, Lindsey Halligan, who's Trump's former lawyer, has worked on only three.
His replacement, Lindsey Halligan, who's Trump's former lawyer, has worked on only three.
The wildly unqualified lawyer Trump just named to prosecute his enemies
Lindsey Halligan, the new US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, has no experience as a prosecutor.
www.motherjones.com
September 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Erik Siebert, the federal prosecutor whom President Donald Trump pushed out Friday for declining to prosecute his political enemies, listed as an attorney on 675 federal cases.
His replacement, Lindsey Halligan, who's Trump's former lawyer, has worked on only three.
His replacement, Lindsey Halligan, who's Trump's former lawyer, has worked on only three.
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No solidarity. Reporters let Trump talk this way to a woman reporter and then clamor to get their own question answered. He used to do it to April Ryan, Yamiche Alcindor and Abby Phillip.
And that’s why he controls media. No solidarity.
And that’s why he controls media. No solidarity.
Trump tells a reporter who asks him about going to war with American cities to “be quiet” and “listen”
September 7, 2025 at 5:08 PM
No solidarity. Reporters let Trump talk this way to a woman reporter and then clamor to get their own question answered. He used to do it to April Ryan, Yamiche Alcindor and Abby Phillip.
And that’s why he controls media. No solidarity.
And that’s why he controls media. No solidarity.
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Trump chaos is hurting those who served our nation in uniform. His attacks on federal workers are making it harder and harder for the VA to recruit the doctors and nurses it needs to serve veterans. www.propublica.org/article/vete...
Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals
Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of…
www.propublica.org
September 2, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Trump chaos is hurting those who served our nation in uniform. His attacks on federal workers are making it harder and harder for the VA to recruit the doctors and nurses it needs to serve veterans. www.propublica.org/article/vete...
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Turns out when you treat teachers well, invest in students, and focus on improving schools, you get real results.
Illinois now ranks third in the nation for our education system for a reason.
Illinois now ranks third in the nation for our education system for a reason.
August 29, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Turns out when you treat teachers well, invest in students, and focus on improving schools, you get real results.
Illinois now ranks third in the nation for our education system for a reason.
Illinois now ranks third in the nation for our education system for a reason.
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So…what’s the latest in health research in the US?
Excellent overview from @kkjetelina.bsky.social & @sciencewhizliz.bsky.social
Watching this play out, I’ve been too sad to write much myself. I’m grateful to them for continuing to tell what’s happening
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
Excellent overview from @kkjetelina.bsky.social & @sciencewhizliz.bsky.social
Watching this play out, I’ve been too sad to write much myself. I’m grateful to them for continuing to tell what’s happening
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
NIH: The quiet engine of science is being dismantled
And what you can do
open.substack.com
July 23, 2025 at 1:09 PM
So…what’s the latest in health research in the US?
Excellent overview from @kkjetelina.bsky.social & @sciencewhizliz.bsky.social
Watching this play out, I’ve been too sad to write much myself. I’m grateful to them for continuing to tell what’s happening
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
Excellent overview from @kkjetelina.bsky.social & @sciencewhizliz.bsky.social
Watching this play out, I’ve been too sad to write much myself. I’m grateful to them for continuing to tell what’s happening
open.substack.com/pub/yourloca...
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Violence against workers is being normalized, both indirectly through abusive policy, and directly as in this case.
When we say "They want you to die for their profit", this is what we're talking about.
We at altNIOSH support organized labor advocacy and stand in solidarity with those affected.
When we say "They want you to die for their profit", this is what we're talking about.
We at altNIOSH support organized labor advocacy and stand in solidarity with those affected.
Chemicals Released on Striking Teamsters at Airgas
(WASHINGTON) – Last week, Airgas released unidentified chemical agents on striking Teamsters at multiple locations nationwide. The incidents, which occurred a
teamster.org
July 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Violence against workers is being normalized, both indirectly through abusive policy, and directly as in this case.
When we say "They want you to die for their profit", this is what we're talking about.
We at altNIOSH support organized labor advocacy and stand in solidarity with those affected.
When we say "They want you to die for their profit", this is what we're talking about.
We at altNIOSH support organized labor advocacy and stand in solidarity with those affected.
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The man's arrest is the latest case of federal authorities detaining immigrants with legal status during immigration check-ins. Lawmakers call the detainment of those who helped U.S. troops at war a betrayal. [via @wbur.org]
Former Afghan interpreter for U.S. military detained by ICE after routine immigration appointment
Zia’s arrest is the latest case of federal authorities detaining immigrants with legal status during immigration check-ins. Lawmakers call the detainment of those who helped U.S. troops at war a betra...
n.pr
July 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
The man's arrest is the latest case of federal authorities detaining immigrants with legal status during immigration check-ins. Lawmakers call the detainment of those who helped U.S. troops at war a betrayal. [via @wbur.org]
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“Trans service members under the Trump Administration are being branded with a scarlet letter, or three: “JDK.”
#LetThemServe #Veterans
www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-troo...
#LetThemServe #Veterans
www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-troo...
Trans Troops Given A Black Mark Discharge Code Under Military Ban
“This is the kind of code that they gave to homosexuals and communists in the '50s.”
www.erininthemorning.com
June 19, 2025 at 9:35 PM
“Trans service members under the Trump Administration are being branded with a scarlet letter, or three: “JDK.”
#LetThemServe #Veterans
www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-troo...
#LetThemServe #Veterans
www.erininthemorning.com/p/trans-troo...
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What do marriage and political views have to do with healthcare? Absolutely nothing.
But Trump’s new VA rules let doctors turn veterans away just for being unmarried or a Democrat.
But Trump’s new VA rules let doctors turn veterans away just for being unmarried or a Democrat.
‘Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans
Trump order allows VA staff to decline providing healthcare to patients based on political affiliation or marital status
www.theguardian.com
June 17, 2025 at 4:13 PM
What do marriage and political views have to do with healthcare? Absolutely nothing.
But Trump’s new VA rules let doctors turn veterans away just for being unmarried or a Democrat.
But Trump’s new VA rules let doctors turn veterans away just for being unmarried or a Democrat.
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FDR warned us 80 years ago about the rise of political lies. Today, the GOP has turned that warning into a roadmap…
hartmannreport.com/p/how-the-re...
hartmannreport.com/p/how-the-re...
How the Republican Party Became America’s Ministry of Propaganda
FDR warned us 80 years ago about the rise of political lies. Today, the GOP has turned that warning into a roadmap…
hartmannreport.com
May 9, 2025 at 2:08 PM
FDR warned us 80 years ago about the rise of political lies. Today, the GOP has turned that warning into a roadmap…
hartmannreport.com/p/how-the-re...
hartmannreport.com/p/how-the-re...
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“It’s really important to have stability, to have people’s expertise be treated with the level of respect it ought to be and to have people not be wondering from one day to the next whether they’re going to be employed.”
Exclusive: Trump Pushes Out AI Experts Hired By Biden
More than 200 AI experts had been deployed throughout the federal government. Most of them are now gone.
time.com
May 8, 2025 at 3:10 AM
“It’s really important to have stability, to have people’s expertise be treated with the level of respect it ought to be and to have people not be wondering from one day to the next whether they’re going to be employed.”
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As we’ve said before now confirmed. FOIA requests reveal that DOGE employees are pulling in six-figure salaries, with many holding the title of “Expert,” a specific Office of Personnel Management (OPM) designation that pays around $190,000 a year.
May 4, 2025 at 2:10 AM
As we’ve said before now confirmed. FOIA requests reveal that DOGE employees are pulling in six-figure salaries, with many holding the title of “Expert,” a specific Office of Personnel Management (OPM) designation that pays around $190,000 a year.
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Congress created the grants in the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The goal was to help schools hire mental health professionals, including counselors and social workers.
Education Department stops $1 billion in funding for school mental health
Congress created the grants in the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The goal was to help schools hire mental health professionals, including counselors and social workers.
www.npr.org
May 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Congress created the grants in the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. The goal was to help schools hire mental health professionals, including counselors and social workers.
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Increase in productivity since 1979: 86%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 31%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 31%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
May 1, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Increase in productivity since 1979: 86%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 31%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 31%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
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“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.”
Read, share, respond. Call your representatives.
The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Read, share, respond. Call your representatives.
The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake.
www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH insiders: Trump is ‘dismantling and destroying everything’
After just 100 days, agency scientists say U.S. health institutes are demoralized and have lost essential staff and funding
www.science.org
May 1, 2025 at 1:03 AM
“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.”
Read, share, respond. Call your representatives.
The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Read, share, respond. Call your representatives.
The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake.
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Yo resisters, Fed family, veterans, and all the fabulous LGBTQ peeps— #WeSeeYou
The crisis fatigue is real. Taking care of your well-being is not avoidance-it’s necessary.
Seek out your posse, do good work, ask for help when you need it. #Resist, rinse, repeat.
Get it trending: #WeSeeYou
The crisis fatigue is real. Taking care of your well-being is not avoidance-it’s necessary.
Seek out your posse, do good work, ask for help when you need it. #Resist, rinse, repeat.
Get it trending: #WeSeeYou
April 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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1/ 🔒 Imagine a private company embedded in gov systems—processing and analyzing your health records, immigration status, and social media use.
That’s Palantir, co-founded by Peter Thiel, who once said, “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” Yikes.
Let’s discuss 🧵
That’s Palantir, co-founded by Peter Thiel, who once said, “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” Yikes.
Let’s discuss 🧵
ICE Is Paying Palantir $30 Million to Build ‘ImmigrationOS’ Surveillance Platform
In a document published Thursday, ICE explained the functions that it expects Palantir to include in a prototype of a new program to give the agency “near real-time” data about people self-deporting.
www.wired.com
April 24, 2025 at 1:01 PM
1/ 🔒 Imagine a private company embedded in gov systems—processing and analyzing your health records, immigration status, and social media use.
That’s Palantir, co-founded by Peter Thiel, who once said, “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” Yikes.
Let’s discuss 🧵
That’s Palantir, co-founded by Peter Thiel, who once said, “I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.” Yikes.
Let’s discuss 🧵
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Elon Musk and Donald Trump want it to sound like the programs they're cutting are wasteful or irrelevant. They're not. Here's just one more example: the lab that monitors toxic algae blooms in Lake Michigan and tracks severe weather is all but shut down. www.mlive.com/politics/202...
Lab that helps forecast severe weather in Michigan ‘crippled’ by Trump staffing cuts
A recent Trump administration proposal would close the lab entirely, jeopardizing beach forecasts, lake effect snow predictions and more in Michigan.
www.mlive.com
April 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Elon Musk and Donald Trump want it to sound like the programs they're cutting are wasteful or irrelevant. They're not. Here's just one more example: the lab that monitors toxic algae blooms in Lake Michigan and tracks severe weather is all but shut down. www.mlive.com/politics/202...
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The Trump regime's repeated attacks on "DEI," "wokeness," immigrants, and the trans community have one clear purpose:
If we are angry at each other, we don't look up to see how big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.
If we are angry at each other, we don't look up to see how big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.
April 17, 2025 at 9:45 PM
The Trump regime's repeated attacks on "DEI," "wokeness," immigrants, and the trans community have one clear purpose:
If we are angry at each other, we don't look up to see how big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.
If we are angry at each other, we don't look up to see how big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.
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38 of the 43.
"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.
"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.
"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
38 of the 43.
"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.
"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
"38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic.
"The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..."
www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
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RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one.
Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.
Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.
RFK Jr. says there aren't autistic poets. We asked an autistic poet.
"I will challenge RFK Jr. to write a poem as good as me any day of the week."
www.motherjones.com
April 17, 2025 at 9:12 PM
RFK Jr. says there are no autistic poets, so we interviewed one.
Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.
Hear from Elizabeth McClellan, @popelizbet.bsky.social, an award-winning poet, attorney, and legal educator based in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Before the mass firings, many agencies had severe staffing shortages, so a hiring freeze will make it harder for agencies to meet their missions and deliver the government services that taxpayers expect.
April 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Before the mass firings, many agencies had severe staffing shortages, so a hiring freeze will make it harder for agencies to meet their missions and deliver the government services that taxpayers expect.
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SpaceX just landed a $5.92B contract with the Pentagon for Space Force rocket launches — the largest contract among the three firms who secured deals to send satellites into orbit.
While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall.
Hello?
While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall.
Hello?
April 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
SpaceX just landed a $5.92B contract with the Pentagon for Space Force rocket launches — the largest contract among the three firms who secured deals to send satellites into orbit.
While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall.
Hello?
While DOGE cuts essential services for you, Musk is getting a taxpayer-funded windfall.
Hello?
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CDC and health departments keep Americans safe.
These reckless cuts will leave us sicker and more vulnerable.
As one CDC scientist said, ‘They are cutting off our arms and legs.’
Gutting public health isn’t efficiency—it’s sabotage.
nytimes.com/2025/04/02/h...
These reckless cuts will leave us sicker and more vulnerable.
As one CDC scientist said, ‘They are cutting off our arms and legs.’
Gutting public health isn’t efficiency—it’s sabotage.
nytimes.com/2025/04/02/h...
Trump Administration Demands Additional Cuts at C.D.C. (Gift Article)
In addition to reductions in agency personnel, federal regulators are demanding $2.9 billion in contract cancellations.
nytimes.com
April 3, 2025 at 1:38 PM
CDC and health departments keep Americans safe.
These reckless cuts will leave us sicker and more vulnerable.
As one CDC scientist said, ‘They are cutting off our arms and legs.’
Gutting public health isn’t efficiency—it’s sabotage.
nytimes.com/2025/04/02/h...
These reckless cuts will leave us sicker and more vulnerable.
As one CDC scientist said, ‘They are cutting off our arms and legs.’
Gutting public health isn’t efficiency—it’s sabotage.
nytimes.com/2025/04/02/h...