The US SENATE will have two new Black female senators:
Democrats Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland and
Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware!
#uspol #election2024
uspol
"Pres Trump just fired:
• 90 physicians
• 350 nurses
• at least 25 nurse practitioners
• nearly 20 dentists
• 85+ pharmacists
• 45 lab techs
Employed by the Indian Health Svc to provide HC. This is going to have dangerous consequences for our Indigenous brothers & sisters."
-Sen Luján
Snr officials: ~5,200 ppl on probat. employment -recent hires -across agencies incl. #NIH #CDC will be fired🚨Fri. CDC: ~1,300 WKRs...
#Racism #Trump #PublicHealth #USPol #HHS
https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/federal-employee-layoffs-at-hhs-cdc-on-first-day-robert-kennedy-health-secretary/
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The Republican culture wars in Texas will soon turn the state into the Forbidden Zone from Planet of the Apes.
Physicians are leaving. Women are leaving. Businesses are leaving. Teachers are leaving at a rate that’s 25% higher than that of other states.
You break it, you bought it.
#Texas #CultureWars #RepublicansDidThis #ForbiddenZone #USPol #NoRepublicansEverAgain
"They'll be jobless and hungry--they won't even miss their homes."
Trump's war on veterans targets program to help them keep their homes
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/4/2314520/-Trump-s-war-on-veterans-targets-program-to-help-them-keep-their-homes?pm_campaign=blog&pm_medium=rss&pm_source=main
#Veterans #EndDonaldTrump #NoRepublicansEverAgain #RepublicansOwnItAll #RepublicanKakistocracy #VoteBlueToSaveEverything #NoFascism #USPol
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#project2025 #heritagefoundation #trump #newyear #uspol #uspolitics #usa #us #politics #president #election #maga #gop #america
The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information. Why do they hate it so much?
https://www.citationneeded.news/elon-musk-and-the-rights-war-on-wikipedia/
I read that Zuckerberg is calling people who leave his platforms, "virtue signalers." Yup. Indeed. I'd also add, "ethics and morality signalers and patriots." We should all signal that we don't support this kind of behavior. With action.
From our magazine: Over 72 hours, Austin police reported more than 70 overdose calls. Records from Travis County, which includes most of Austin, and neighboring Williamson County indicate that as many as 12 may have died. The culprit: a bad batch of crack cocaine. https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-war-on-drug-users-austin-overdose-disaster/
#WarOnDrugs #drugs #politics #USpol #news #Texas #law #CriminalJustice #health #addiction
Thousands protested in front of the Treasury bldg at 15th & F in DC today.
In case it didn't make the news.
Feb 17
Ploughing farmers under along with the rest of the nation.
Destroying the economy is the point.
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“We’ve been preparing for years for this context.”
From volunteers who serve refugees, to the government, here's how #Mexico is preparing for the returning president's mass deportation agenda:
https://www.texasobserver.org/is-mexico-prepared-for-mass-deportations/
#border #immigration #politics #USpol #news #Trump #HumanRights
What could contribute more to government efficiency than securing lucrative contracts for your crypto donors to implement inefficient technology that is uniquely suited to solving problems you don’t have?
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You read that right. 75% of scientists are considering leaving the US. Forgive me (not really) if I'm struggling to understand exactly how this is making the US anything other than diminished, stupid, and ill.
The people who are now in charge of the Office of Personnel Management apparently don’t know how to scrub PDF metadata, and have exposed the original authors of the guidance they’re publishing. Two have links to the Heritage Foundation and its Project 2025.
Noah Peters is the author of the OPM Acting Director Charles Ezell’s January 27 memo (archive) providing guidance on the “Restoring Accountability To Policy-Influencing Positions Within the Federal Workforce” executive order, which is being described as the “Schedule F” order because it effectively reinstates that policy under a new name (“Schedule Policy/Career”). Peters also authored the January 20 memo (archive) from Ezell, which exploits loopholes to bypass limits on political appointments. Both of these memos are clear steps towards achieving a primary goal of Project 2025: to expand President Trump’s power, and to replace career civil servants with Trump loyalists.
As far back as 2023, The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 was recommending Peters for a position in Trump’s second administration. Peters had previously been appointed by Trump in 2019 as the Solicitor at the Federal Labor Relations Authority, where he “aided and defended Trump appointees’ anti-union FLRA policies that went against decades of the agency’s own precedents” according to Court Accountability Action and State Democracy Defenders Action.4 Peters returned to private practice in 2022, but recently quietly updated his LinkedIn profile to reflect a new title of “Senior Advisor” to the Office of Personnel Management. This appointment does not appear to have been announced anywhere else.
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"One of the ppl arrested this week -was arrested coming out of a church service -no criminal record -had a job at a local tire store -an ankle monitor so #ICE knew where he was at all times & still in immigration court.
Does that make us safer?"
-A R Melnick
The Trump admin isn't prioritizing detaining & deporting criminals, many of those they're arresting are undoc. #immigrants w/o criminal records -filling jobs needed for the economy.
Amplify their cruelty & dishonesty.
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In today’s post on @medium, I describe how the @internetarchive and @wikipedia are preserving a record of the changes made by the #Trump administration.
Click the link, not the image preview, to bypass the paywall:
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Corporations will not stand up to fascism. They are engines to create profit for shareholders so protecting profit is their only guiding principle. They will bend to the felon-in-chief rather than face costly repercussions from a petty tyrant who wields unconstitutional power without any oversight.
REVEALED by Correspondent @stevanzetti: We identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as #ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation. https://www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor-dallas-white-supremacist-x-account/
#SocialMedia #extremism #immigration #border #politics #USpol #WhiteSupremacy #Fascism #Trump #news
#Trump Hands the World to #China
#Xi Jinping could only have dreamed of such rapid destruction of American #power.
By Michael Schuman
American global leadership is ending. Not because of “American decline,” or the emergence of a multipolar world, or the actions of US adversaries. It’s ending because President Donald Trump wants to end it.
#geopolitics #USpol #idiocracy
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/02/foreign-policy-mistake-china/681732/
Donald Trump has a secret plan to turn the United States into a dictatorship, and we now see the contours of the fierce political battle ahead.
The US senators are shocked as they realise, Trump tries to copy the dirty tricks of disgraced president Richard Nixon to become all powerful.
Watch my latest political analysis on YouTube in 4K:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTIFRUpItn0
Go get him!
A Missouri Republican has introduced a federal abortion ban in the House
https://www.fastcompany.com/91268914/bill-banning-abortion-introduced-house-missouri-republican
Making vacation plans? Be sure to consider--then dismiss--Florida!
#BoycottFlorida #NoConcentrationCamps #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #Project2025 #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Ridiculous who elected #ElonMusk anyway?
The highest-ranking career official at the #TreasuryDepartment is departing after a clash with surrogates of #billionaire Elon #Musk’s #DOGE who sought access to sensitive payment systems.
#law #Treasury #economy #USpol #FederalAgencies #kleptocracy #plutocracy #broligarchy #tyranny #autocracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/31/elon-musk-treasury-department-payment-systems/