Starry Sparkles
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House GOP Leadership just announced they want to cut at least $880 Billion from Medicaid.
This webinar covers how to meet with the office of a Senator or Congressperson to advocate for Medicaid. These meetings are a way to take your advocacy to the next level, and are incredibly important.
This webinar covers how to meet with the office of a Senator or Congressperson to advocate for Medicaid. These meetings are a way to take your advocacy to the next level, and are incredibly important.
How To: Medicaid Congressional Advocacy Webinar | Matthew Cortland
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February 13, 2025 at 1:51 AM
House GOP Leadership just announced they want to cut at least $880 Billion from Medicaid.
This webinar covers how to meet with the office of a Senator or Congressperson to advocate for Medicaid. These meetings are a way to take your advocacy to the next level, and are incredibly important.
This webinar covers how to meet with the office of a Senator or Congressperson to advocate for Medicaid. These meetings are a way to take your advocacy to the next level, and are incredibly important.
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The CFPB has returned over $21 billion back to millions of American consumers.
Color me surprised that Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to close down the government agency that makes it harder for banks, big corporations, and billionaires to rip us all off.
Color me surprised that Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to close down the government agency that makes it harder for banks, big corporations, and billionaires to rip us all off.
February 12, 2025 at 12:25 AM
The CFPB has returned over $21 billion back to millions of American consumers.
Color me surprised that Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to close down the government agency that makes it harder for banks, big corporations, and billionaires to rip us all off.
Color me surprised that Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to close down the government agency that makes it harder for banks, big corporations, and billionaires to rip us all off.
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Freeland: Our retaliation is going to be a lot more surgical than that. We are going to go after American stakeholders who matter to The White House. I have proposed a 100% tariff on all Teslas. I am calling on all the countries that are affected by this tariff to join us
February 12, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Freeland: Our retaliation is going to be a lot more surgical than that. We are going to go after American stakeholders who matter to The White House. I have proposed a 100% tariff on all Teslas. I am calling on all the countries that are affected by this tariff to join us
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Oh my god yes please
I think the correct thing is for state governments to pass legislation to seize federal employment taxes to make up the promised shortfall and put them directly to their own coffers.
This unlawful withholding of funds needs to stop. There are so many Coloradans depending on this funding and the ripple effects will have no political boundaries.
www.coloradopolitics.com/news/governm...
www.coloradopolitics.com/news/governm...
February 12, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Oh my god yes please
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I think the correct thing is for state governments to pass legislation to seize federal employment taxes to make up the promised shortfall and put them directly to their own coffers.
This unlawful withholding of funds needs to stop. There are so many Coloradans depending on this funding and the ripple effects will have no political boundaries.
www.coloradopolitics.com/news/governm...
www.coloradopolitics.com/news/governm...
$570 million in federal funding remains inaccessible to Colorado following Trump's freeze, officials say
Colorado's governor and both of the state's U.S. senators asked the director of the federal budget office Monday to unlock what they said was more than $570 million in federal
www.coloradopolitics.com
February 12, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I think the correct thing is for state governments to pass legislation to seize federal employment taxes to make up the promised shortfall and put them directly to their own coffers.
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A tiny advocacy action :)
A quick resistance task:
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"
February 12, 2025 at 3:01 AM
A tiny advocacy action :)
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📚Resisting Autocracy Lessons📚
DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE
Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given.
DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE
Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given.
February 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
📚Resisting Autocracy Lessons📚
DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE
Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given.
DO NOT OBEY IN ADVANCE
Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given.
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Once again: The animating purpose of representative democracy is to protect the rest of us from the whims of insane rich people, be they kings or oligarchs. Everything else is wainscoting.
The takeover of Twitter was a preview of what we're all living with now and a stark example of why you can't let any one person have too much money: they go insane and make themselves everybody's problem
February 12, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Once again: The animating purpose of representative democracy is to protect the rest of us from the whims of insane rich people, be they kings or oligarchs. Everything else is wainscoting.
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the level of corruption unfolding right now will stagger future generations. it will stagger people a month from now.
A little-known office in the FAA safeguards the public during commercial rocket launches. Elon Musk says it works too slow. Now he’s in a position to change that. New:
www.propublica.org/article/elon...
www.propublica.org/article/elon...
One Agency Tried to Regulate SpaceX. Now Its Fate Could Be in Elon Musk’s Hands.
The Trump ally and DOGE chief is expected to turn his budget-slashing sights on the FAA’s little-known commercial spaceflight office, which has proposed fines and grounded SpaceX after explosions and ...
www.propublica.org
February 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
the level of corruption unfolding right now will stagger future generations. it will stagger people a month from now.
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climbing the ladder and pulling it up behind them is a parlor game for these ghouls
Incredible: Russ Vought’s daughter has cystic fibrosis and benefits from a “miracle drug” made possible by the National Institutes of Health—an agency Vought now aims to gut as part of the Project 2025 attack www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Scoop from @motherjones.com’s @metrauxjulia.bsky.social
Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid
Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.
www.motherjones.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:38 AM
climbing the ladder and pulling it up behind them is a parlor game for these ghouls
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Judge Bates: “Finally, it bears emphasizing who ultimately bears the harm of defendants’ actions: everyday Americans, & most acutely, underprivileged Americans, seeking healthcare.” @drsforamerica.bsky.social succeed in arguing that info on websites was capriciously taken down & must be restored.
BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
![TOTE ASTRICT COLOR
DOCTORS FOR AMERICA,
Plaintiff,
Civil Action No. 25-322 (JDB)
OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT et al.,
Defendants.
ORDER
Upon consideration of [6] Plaintiff's motion for a temporary restraining order, [8]
Plaintiff's supplemental declarations, [9] Defendants' opposition, [10] Plaintiff's reply, the
hearing on February 10, 2025, and the entire record herein, and for the reasons stated in the
accompanying Memorandum Opinion, it is hereby ORDERED that
1. Defendants Department of Health and Human Services, Center for Disease Control, and Food
and Drug Administration (hereinafter "defendants") shall, by not later than 11:59 pm on
February 11, 2025, restore to their versions as of January 30, 2025, each webpage and dataset
identified by Plaintiff on pages 6-12 of its Memorandum of Law in Support of the Motion for
a Restraining Order [ECF No. 6-1];
2. Defendants shall, in consultation with Plaintiff, identify any other resources that DF A members
rely on to provide medical care and that defendants removed or substantially modified on or
after January 29, 2025, without adequate notice or reasoned explanation; and defendants shall,
by February 14, 2025, restore those resources to their versions as of January 30, 2025;](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreifoaihlyxzbiko32lmralzpicfxnzwfoxp3ki5w4wniiihonzxira@jpeg)
February 11, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Judge Bates: “Finally, it bears emphasizing who ultimately bears the harm of defendants’ actions: everyday Americans, & most acutely, underprivileged Americans, seeking healthcare.” @drsforamerica.bsky.social succeed in arguing that info on websites was capriciously taken down & must be restored.
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Checking the CDC website as we get closer to the deadline of 11:59pm & not seeing that pages have been restored. For example, the HIV resources page is still saying "This page you're looking for was not found."
#IllnessPolitics
www.cdc.gov/hiv/resource...
#IllnessPolitics
www.cdc.gov/hiv/resource...
www.cdc.gov
February 12, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Checking the CDC website as we get closer to the deadline of 11:59pm & not seeing that pages have been restored. For example, the HIV resources page is still saying "This page you're looking for was not found."
#IllnessPolitics
www.cdc.gov/hiv/resource...
#IllnessPolitics
www.cdc.gov/hiv/resource...
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Musk killed these people.
February 12, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Musk killed these people.
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There is going to come a time in the very near future where the only way to resolve this is for every non-MAGA media company to band together and simply refuse to walk into the presser or attend the event. Because he wants the coverage more than anything else. Divided you fall.
February 12, 2025 at 4:05 AM
There is going to come a time in the very near future where the only way to resolve this is for every non-MAGA media company to band together and simply refuse to walk into the presser or attend the event. Because he wants the coverage more than anything else. Divided you fall.
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SEATTLE JUST VOTED TO ENACT A TAX ON MILLIONAIRE BUSINESSES TO BUILD SOCIAL HOUSING.
Late results tend to favor left wing results, so the chance of this flipping in the coming days is near zero.
Late results tend to favor left wing results, so the chance of this flipping in the coming days is near zero.
JUST IN: Seattle voters are saying yes to social housing and yes to Proposition 1A, which would levy a 5 percent payroll tax on employers on annual compensation above $1 million paid to any employee in the city. election-results-01.kingcounty.gov/results.pdf
February 12, 2025 at 4:13 AM
SEATTLE JUST VOTED TO ENACT A TAX ON MILLIONAIRE BUSINESSES TO BUILD SOCIAL HOUSING.
Late results tend to favor left wing results, so the chance of this flipping in the coming days is near zero.
Late results tend to favor left wing results, so the chance of this flipping in the coming days is near zero.
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To be a little real for a second, the USAID news is almost (just almost!) too much for me because I was born in one of those refugee camps. I was a difficult birth, and I know my mother got her natal care in that camp. This stuff absolutely devastates me.
February 12, 2025 at 4:17 AM
To be a little real for a second, the USAID news is almost (just almost!) too much for me because I was born in one of those refugee camps. I was a difficult birth, and I know my mother got her natal care in that camp. This stuff absolutely devastates me.
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for years a fucktillion of rightwing lunatics claimed biden was so inept that there was a “shadow govt” secretly running things and now that it’s really happening they seem fine with it actually
REPORTER: Are you policing yourself for conflicts of interest? What are the checks and balances?
MUSK: We post our actions to the DOGE handle on X
MUSK: We post our actions to the DOGE handle on X
February 12, 2025 at 4:28 AM
for years a fucktillion of rightwing lunatics claimed biden was so inept that there was a “shadow govt” secretly running things and now that it’s really happening they seem fine with it actually
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Sabotage
The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. — especially at the state level, where local election officials rely on CISA resources to securely run elections — at risk. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
CISA Puts Election Staff on Administrative Leave
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Sabotage
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I hope it goes without saying how absolutely devastating this would be for people with disabilities 😳😳😳
www.bazelon.org
February 12, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Please read and repost!
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Liars.
If you should happen to need evidence that google is full of shit about this, here’s the rationale the company presented:
“We got feedback that some other events and countries were missing — and maintaining hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally wasn’t scalable or sustainable.”
“We got feedback that some other events and countries were missing — and maintaining hundreds of moments manually and consistently globally wasn’t scalable or sustainable.”
Google Calendar removed events like Pride and BHM because its holiday list wasn’t ‘sustainable’
Some users are angry that some events have been removed.
www.theverge.com
February 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Liars.
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Elon Musk is trying to shut down the CFPB, the agency that has forced big banks and corporations to return more than $21 BILLION to families they cheated.
February 11, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Elon Musk is trying to shut down the CFPB, the agency that has forced big banks and corporations to return more than $21 BILLION to families they cheated.