Sara
@schowes19.bsky.social
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THIS IS TERRIFYING‼️
Dr. Peter Marks, former head of vaccines at the FDA, just had his last day—forced to resign or be fired because he wouldn’t lie about vaccines.
He gives a chilling warning: the U.S. is unprepared for biowarfare—because the response team has been gutted.
Dr. Peter Marks, former head of vaccines at the FDA, just had his last day—forced to resign or be fired because he wouldn’t lie about vaccines.
He gives a chilling warning: the U.S. is unprepared for biowarfare—because the response team has been gutted.
April 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
THIS IS TERRIFYING‼️
Dr. Peter Marks, former head of vaccines at the FDA, just had his last day—forced to resign or be fired because he wouldn’t lie about vaccines.
He gives a chilling warning: the U.S. is unprepared for biowarfare—because the response team has been gutted.
Dr. Peter Marks, former head of vaccines at the FDA, just had his last day—forced to resign or be fired because he wouldn’t lie about vaccines.
He gives a chilling warning: the U.S. is unprepared for biowarfare—because the response team has been gutted.
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In his NY Times interview @schumer.senate.gov said
“We have a real direction now. I feel good about it”
With all due respect, Senator
Many of us at the grassroots level do NOT feel good about it
We feel betrayed-and we’re pissed
That’s why we’re asking you-for the good of the party
Step down
“We have a real direction now. I feel good about it”
With all due respect, Senator
Many of us at the grassroots level do NOT feel good about it
We feel betrayed-and we’re pissed
That’s why we’re asking you-for the good of the party
Step down
March 18, 2025 at 4:21 AM
In his NY Times interview @schumer.senate.gov said
“We have a real direction now. I feel good about it”
With all due respect, Senator
Many of us at the grassroots level do NOT feel good about it
We feel betrayed-and we’re pissed
That’s why we’re asking you-for the good of the party
Step down
“We have a real direction now. I feel good about it”
With all due respect, Senator
Many of us at the grassroots level do NOT feel good about it
We feel betrayed-and we’re pissed
That’s why we’re asking you-for the good of the party
Step down
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No matter where you stand on the “Schumer needs to step down” debate, you need to see this.
@schumer.senate.gov
Say it plain: “Doing things the way they’ve always been done is not working.” - @jenpsaki.msnbc.com
@schumer.senate.gov
Say it plain: “Doing things the way they’ve always been done is not working.” - @jenpsaki.msnbc.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:08 AM
No matter where you stand on the “Schumer needs to step down” debate, you need to see this.
@schumer.senate.gov
Say it plain: “Doing things the way they’ve always been done is not working.” - @jenpsaki.msnbc.com
@schumer.senate.gov
Say it plain: “Doing things the way they’ve always been done is not working.” - @jenpsaki.msnbc.com
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The assault on scientific inquiry, measurement, and expertise leaves us weaker, exposed and vulnerable. How can this be popular? Acceptable?
Breaking News: The EPA plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists.
Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate E.P.A.’s Scientific Research Arm
More than 1,000 chemists, biologists and other scientists could be laid off under a plan to dismantle the Office of Research and Development.
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 11:25 AM
The assault on scientific inquiry, measurement, and expertise leaves us weaker, exposed and vulnerable. How can this be popular? Acceptable?
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Now that we no longer have federal watchdogs who will do anything to protect consumers and investors, it’s a free for all.
NEW: Eric and Donald Trump Jr. are advisors and investors in Dominari Holdings, and Don Jr. is advisor/investor in affiliated Unusual Machines, both firms have ties to people linked to what the SEC described as a long-running $27 million stock fraud. My latest:
newstracs.com/the-trump-fa...
newstracs.com/the-trump-fa...
Trump's family, Dominari Holdings and ties to alleged $25M fraud
Don Jr. and Eric Trump are advisors/investors in Dominari Holdings, a Trump Tower tenant with ties to people linked to an alleged $25M fraud.
newstracs.com
March 18, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Now that we no longer have federal watchdogs who will do anything to protect consumers and investors, it’s a free for all.
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Cultural Revolution Vibes in Ohio. Not a great way to build trust between students and faculty, but maybe that is the point.
"By urging private citizens to become informants, SB 1 also hastens the creation of a state which sees fit to enforce its will not through the courts, but by mobilizing an army of snitches."
www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...
www.dispatch.com/story/opinio...
Students will be deputized to squeal on professors if Senate Bill 1 passes | Opinion
Senate Bill 1 threat to weaken academic freedom, undermine classroom discussions and eviscerate faculty rights.
www.dispatch.com
March 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Cultural Revolution Vibes in Ohio. Not a great way to build trust between students and faculty, but maybe that is the point.
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“There’s gonna be a big presence in DC, but it’s not just DC — I want to see this in rural areas, in suburban areas, in urban areas, in red states, purple states, blue states. It’s going to take all of us.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social
We’re taking to the streets nationwide on April 5: handsoff2025.com
We’re taking to the streets nationwide on April 5: handsoff2025.com
March 15, 2025 at 2:10 AM
“There’s gonna be a big presence in DC, but it’s not just DC — I want to see this in rural areas, in suburban areas, in urban areas, in red states, purple states, blue states. It’s going to take all of us.” - @ezralevin.bsky.social
We’re taking to the streets nationwide on April 5: handsoff2025.com
We’re taking to the streets nationwide on April 5: handsoff2025.com
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'Sudan’s children are trapped in one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. I returned last week from a country where conflict, displacement, and hunger are destroying young lives."
UNICEF's Lucia Elmi briefs on the situation in for children in #Sudan
www.unicef.org/press-releas...
UNICEF's Lucia Elmi briefs on the situation in for children in #Sudan
www.unicef.org/press-releas...
Geneva Palais briefing note: Children in Sudan: a generation at risk
This is an overview of remarks by UNICEF Director of Emergency Programmes Lucia Elmi – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the Palais des Nations in Geneva
www.unicef.org
March 14, 2025 at 9:52 AM
'Sudan’s children are trapped in one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. I returned last week from a country where conflict, displacement, and hunger are destroying young lives."
UNICEF's Lucia Elmi briefs on the situation in for children in #Sudan
www.unicef.org/press-releas...
UNICEF's Lucia Elmi briefs on the situation in for children in #Sudan
www.unicef.org/press-releas...
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Republicans, Democrats, Independents - Trump expects us all to lay down while he steamrolls over our lives and liberties. Fuck that, and fuck him.
Forgotten Man
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
www.youtube.com
March 14, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Republicans, Democrats, Independents - Trump expects us all to lay down while he steamrolls over our lives and liberties. Fuck that, and fuck him.
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Clever study demonstrates that an effective data visualization can persuade.
Now with pages in @cpsjournal.bsky.social: can citizens use simple visualizations to benchmark their government's performance during crises? Turns out, yes: visually showing the UK as one of the "worst of the bunch" for COVID-19 mortalities led to more negative evaluations. doi.org/10.1177/0010...
March 14, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Clever study demonstrates that an effective data visualization can persuade.
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Extraordinary stuff in new Quinnipiac/CNN polls:
60% disapprove of Musk/DOGE handling of federal workers
54% say Musk/DOGE hurting the country
62% say cuts going too far
On the pod, @paulwaldman.bsky.social is good on how Musk is getting voters to like govt again:
newrepublic.com/article/1927...
60% disapprove of Musk/DOGE handling of federal workers
54% say Musk/DOGE hurting the country
62% say cuts going too far
On the pod, @paulwaldman.bsky.social is good on how Musk is getting voters to like govt again:
newrepublic.com/article/1927...
Fiasco for Musk as He Craters in New Polls and DOGE Cuts Lose in Court
As a judge blocks the Trump-Musk effort to fire thousands of federal workers, a close chronicler of Musk’s follies explains why the public backlash against him and Tesla matters so much—and what’s com...
newrepublic.com
March 14, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Extraordinary stuff in new Quinnipiac/CNN polls:
60% disapprove of Musk/DOGE handling of federal workers
54% say Musk/DOGE hurting the country
62% say cuts going too far
On the pod, @paulwaldman.bsky.social is good on how Musk is getting voters to like govt again:
newrepublic.com/article/1927...
60% disapprove of Musk/DOGE handling of federal workers
54% say Musk/DOGE hurting the country
62% say cuts going too far
On the pod, @paulwaldman.bsky.social is good on how Musk is getting voters to like govt again:
newrepublic.com/article/1927...
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Protect this man at all costs 🔥
March 14, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Protect this man at all costs 🔥
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no sentence should ever start with "Don Jr. popped up in Serbia"
Don Jr. popped up in Serbia this week, part of the Trump/Kushner families' ongoing push to invest in the Balkans.
He also had a chat with Vucic — not about investments, but about the real pressing issues: imported color revolutions, USAID meddling and the horror of *checks notes* people protesting.
He also had a chat with Vucic — not about investments, but about the real pressing issues: imported color revolutions, USAID meddling and the horror of *checks notes* people protesting.
March 14, 2025 at 10:51 AM
no sentence should ever start with "Don Jr. popped up in Serbia"
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"We’ve had to make some incredibly difficult decisions already, and I’m afraid more are coming. I must be blunt about our inheritance as a government, not just fiscally, but on the fabric of education too. You know this all too well, you see it every day."
Bridget Phillipson at #ASCL2025
Bridget Phillipson at #ASCL2025
March 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
"We’ve had to make some incredibly difficult decisions already, and I’m afraid more are coming. I must be blunt about our inheritance as a government, not just fiscally, but on the fabric of education too. You know this all too well, you see it every day."
Bridget Phillipson at #ASCL2025
Bridget Phillipson at #ASCL2025
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Thanks to Trump and DOGE, the government’s barely functioning anyway.
Democrats need to vote down the Republican CR—shut it down and seize this moment they created to show them you’re not f*cking around!
@democrats.senate.gov
@schumer.senate.gov
Democrats need to vote down the Republican CR—shut it down and seize this moment they created to show them you’re not f*cking around!
@democrats.senate.gov
@schumer.senate.gov
March 14, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Thanks to Trump and DOGE, the government’s barely functioning anyway.
Democrats need to vote down the Republican CR—shut it down and seize this moment they created to show them you’re not f*cking around!
@democrats.senate.gov
@schumer.senate.gov
Democrats need to vote down the Republican CR—shut it down and seize this moment they created to show them you’re not f*cking around!
@democrats.senate.gov
@schumer.senate.gov
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Judge demands ‘some kind of evidence’ from Trump’s EPA to halt climate grants
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Judge demands ‘some kind of evidence’ from Trump’s EPA to halt climate grants
Federal judge Tanya Chutkan issues restraining order pending new filings over billions in axed research grants
www.theguardian.com
March 14, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Judge demands ‘some kind of evidence’ from Trump’s EPA to halt climate grants
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
#climatecrisis
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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The problem Dems face is they have not visibly resisted as a group. So even (potentially) strategic decisions like this rile the base, which sees quiescence and an unwillingness to confront the nature of the threat.
The question of our moment is simple: How will we fight?
Millions of us are answering by taking to the streets, to the phones, to town halls.
Given a platform in the New York Times, you offer us no answer of your own.
Senator Schumer, the question of our moment is simple: HOW WILL YOU FIGHT?
Millions of us are answering by taking to the streets, to the phones, to town halls.
Given a platform in the New York Times, you offer us no answer of your own.
Senator Schumer, the question of our moment is simple: HOW WILL YOU FIGHT?
Trump and Musk would love a shutdown.
We must not give them one.
From me in @NYTimes.com:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...
We must not give them one.
From me in @NYTimes.com:
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...
March 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
The problem Dems face is they have not visibly resisted as a group. So even (potentially) strategic decisions like this rile the base, which sees quiescence and an unwillingness to confront the nature of the threat.
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State media watch
To be clear, Fox News is telling its audience that all of the unprovoked tariffs imposed on Canada by Trump are totally legal and fine, but that Canadian retaliatory tariffs are “the first official shot of the American-Canadian war”.
www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/jes...
www.mediamatters.org/fox-news/jes...
Jesse Watters: Canada "fired the first official shot of the American-Canadian war"
www.mediamatters.org
March 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
State media watch
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This letter is a direct attack on the independence of American universities. Literally seeks to use government power to dictate how private universities are organized and operated.
I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”
March 14, 2025 at 10:44 AM
This letter is a direct attack on the independence of American universities. Literally seeks to use government power to dictate how private universities are organized and operated.
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New, from me: Trump and Musk are engaged in a broad-based downsizing of government, using that downsizing to selectively target their enemies, while expanding their political power by trading exceptions to the downsizing.
It's a new spoils systems. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-and-...
It's a new spoils systems. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-and-...
Trump and Musk are building a new spoils system
When ideological targeting becomes cronyism
donmoynihan.substack.com
March 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
New, from me: Trump and Musk are engaged in a broad-based downsizing of government, using that downsizing to selectively target their enemies, while expanding their political power by trading exceptions to the downsizing.
It's a new spoils systems. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-and-...
It's a new spoils systems. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/trump-and-...
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I just believe in the crazy idea that the director of Health and Human Services should be able to pass a 6th grade biology class. Is that too much to ask?
RFK Jr: "It used to be that everybody got measles. And the measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection. The vaccine doesn't do that ... it used to be that very young kids were protected by breast milk. Women who get vaccinated do not provide that level of immunity."
March 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
I just believe in the crazy idea that the director of Health and Human Services should be able to pass a 6th grade biology class. Is that too much to ask?
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As @jenjennings.bsky.social notes:
The MAGA playbook is to eliminate federal funding for low-income kids & give (some) of it to states as block grants instead. Red states will spend it on vouchers, which shift tax dollars from public schools to private/religious schools & benefit well-off parents.
The MAGA playbook is to eliminate federal funding for low-income kids & give (some) of it to states as block grants instead. Red states will spend it on vouchers, which shift tax dollars from public schools to private/religious schools & benefit well-off parents.
March 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
As @jenjennings.bsky.social notes:
The MAGA playbook is to eliminate federal funding for low-income kids & give (some) of it to states as block grants instead. Red states will spend it on vouchers, which shift tax dollars from public schools to private/religious schools & benefit well-off parents.
The MAGA playbook is to eliminate federal funding for low-income kids & give (some) of it to states as block grants instead. Red states will spend it on vouchers, which shift tax dollars from public schools to private/religious schools & benefit well-off parents.
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Perhaps relevant: Wikipedia has a category with 18 articles called "Businesses of Donald Trump that went bankrupt" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...
Category:Businesses of Donald Trump that went bankrupt - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
March 11, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Perhaps relevant: Wikipedia has a category with 18 articles called "Businesses of Donald Trump that went bankrupt" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categor...
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"President Donald Trump’s tariffs have spooked investors, with fears of an economic downturn driving a stock market sell-off that has wiped out $4 trillion from the S&P 500’s peak last month, when Wall Street was cheering much of Trump's agenda."
www.reuters.com/markets/us/i...
www.reuters.com/markets/us/i...
Investors flee equities as Trump-driven uncertainty sparks economic worry
Investor fears that trade tariffs will spark an economic downturn are driving a sell-off in equities that has wiped out trillions of dollars in value, a major reversal for Wall Street which had been fired-up by President Donald Trump's agenda.
www.reuters.com
March 11, 2025 at 2:17 AM
"President Donald Trump’s tariffs have spooked investors, with fears of an economic downturn driving a stock market sell-off that has wiped out $4 trillion from the S&P 500’s peak last month, when Wall Street was cheering much of Trump's agenda."
www.reuters.com/markets/us/i...
www.reuters.com/markets/us/i...
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Trump isn’t just screwing other countries, he’s costing us allies. Catch the latest episode of the LP podcast here: youtube.com/watch?v=YkJK...
March 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Trump isn’t just screwing other countries, he’s costing us allies. Catch the latest episode of the LP podcast here: youtube.com/watch?v=YkJK...