Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-maternal-mortality-analysis-methodology
#Abortion #Texas #GregAbbott #KenPaxton #GOPKillers #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
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New today from me at Austin Free Press: Congressman Al Green visited #Austin on Wednesday afternoon, to talk about getting kicked out of the House and censured for protesting Donald #Trump.
He called for millions of people to march on Washington, D.C. to protest cuts to vital services, #DOGE, and our current constitutional crisis. https://austinfreepress.org/no-capitulation/
#Houston #GulfCoast #Texas #politics #USpol #news #medicare #SocialSecurity
New today: I created a brief guide to help Texans, especially #LGBTQIA+ folks and allies living here, better understand the legislature and which bills are likely to become law ... and which ones probably won't go anywhere.
If we're going to be share, fight, protest ... we should make it count. https://kitoconnell.com/2025/03/22/bad-bills-texas-legislature-understanding-how-to/
#Texas #TXlege #politics #USpol #transphobia #HumanRights #Republicans #GregAbbott #fascism #genocide #News
"Trump administration texted college professors' personal phones to ask if they're Jewish."
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/23/trump-eeoc-barnard-columbia-texts-jewish/
As all academics know, you can't ask this question in a job interview.
https://www.eeoc.gov/pre-employment-inquiries-and-religious-affiliation-or-beliefs
But I guess it's OK when it's not a job interview, when it's the govt asking, and the govt includes a high-ranking official who gives #Nazi salutes.
This happened at #BarnardCollege. Probably no accident that Barnard is affiliated with #Columbia. Trump officials said they had a right to the personal contact info, and the school handed it over.
#Antisemitism #Trump #USPol #USPolitics #WTF
@academicchatter
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Boston declares itself a pro-trans sanctuary city amid GOP’s escalating attacks
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/boston-declares-itself-a-pro-trans-sanctuary-city-amid-gops-escalating-anti-trans-attacks/
Boston won't comply w. anti-LGBTQ+ fed. orders
* decision comes w. some risk. 🏳️⚧️🙏
#USpol #Boston #LGBTQ #SanctuaryCity #TransLivesMatter
#Trump #fascism #Christofascism #transgenocide
Out today at Austin Free Press: Respected UT professor Richard Heyman was arrested and lost his job after an altercation with police at a protest for #Palestine last year. Newly released video shows the Texas state trooper deliberately shoving Heyman multiple times. https://austinfreepress.org/days-of-rage/
#Austin #education #UTAustin #news #politics #USpol #GregAbbott #protest #activism
Latest comic on the dismantling of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Did you know that NNSA, the agency DOGE randomly fired people from without knowing the agency secures our nuclear weapons, also helps prevent asteroids from killing us all?
Well, they do, and now you know.
"NNSA works with partners to detect and mitigate impact threats from potentially hazardous near-Earth objects."
This is just the declassified stuff they do to keep us all from dying.
https://www.energy.gov/nnsa/articles/planetary-defense-teamwork
One reason people on the group chat were using @signalapp instead of approved government systems was to avoid records being kept. They want to avoid freedom of information act requests, subpoenas, and criminal discovery that could hold them accountable. This violates federal law.
Project 2025 trained many now in government to avoid keeping records for that reason.
@ProPublica's investigations:
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-project-2025-secret-training-videos-trump-election
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Recently I boosted a couple of links about cloudflare doing some sort of password re-use analysis on passwords they saw through their WAF. This was not a technical post. It was a call to attention. Some of the responses I got suggested that my post was misleading or blowing this way out of proportion. I assure you that neither of these are true.
Don't focus so much on the idea that #cloudflare has access to passwords that come through their systems. In better times I'd welcome such an effort. At least they didn't chastize someone who really loved a silly movie, like Netflix did long ago. Instead, focus on the fact that they are a company based in the United States meaning they are subject to the whim of a fascist regime that is proving it doesn't care about the letter of the law.
I'm not concerned about my password security for the sites that transit their service. I am a cishet middle class white male. I'm pretty low on the target list.
*** I AM concerned about the password security for at risk populations who access sites crucial for them, that transit through cloudflare. I'm concerned about the LGBTQIA+ population in the United States. I'm concerned about pregnant women. I'm concerned about Jews, and Muslims, and Bhuddists, and everyone else who doesn't fit into the narrow worldview of the fascist reich that is the republican party and their bootlickers. The FBI, Justice Department, State Department, etc no longer serve the american people. They serve an emperor. This is a time of great danger any website or service that attracts at risk populations should seriously consider if using some of cloudflare's features is worth it, or if they should take their business elsewhere.
It appears former USMC folks are leading the charge against the travesty in DC. 👏
“As a United States Marine Corps combat veteran stationed overseas their entire enlistment, this is the exact situation we are trained to look for and not participate in”
He then asked for whoever is reading the email to maintain the culture he was taught in the Marine Corps: “Honor, Courage and Commitment.”
Anybody else see the "Maralago Accords " as extortion on a global scale??
*in a NY mafioso accent:
"Oh, ya wanna do bidness with the US?? You're gonna need to pay for protection"
Mar 26
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He's only look after our long term interests..
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The first words of the top headline on The Guardian US homepage right now:
“‘This is a coup’”
“The lack of detail and clarity regarding the initial investigation—beyond the vague statement that ‘we are investigating and hope to reach a conclusion within 120 days’—is simply not enough."
New: U.S. Rep. Marc Veasey is demanding answers in our ongoing coverage of the ICE prosecutor with an openly white supremacist X account. https://www.texasobserver.org/congressman-veasey-ice-response-racist-x-account/
#WhiteSupremacy #SocialMedia #ElonMusk #politics #USpol #ICE #immigration #HumanRights #CriminalJustice #news
Senate Democrats have the power to block federal contracts to #Tesla and #SpaceX. It’s the path to pushing #Musk out of politics.
The first step is for members of Congress to take a strong public stand against any government contracts awarded to Musk’s companies.
The failure to “punch up” by naming and criticizing the holders of concentrated wealth has created a vacuum in which Republicans are able to punch down against immigrants, transgenders. DEI etc.
https://theintercept.com/2025/02/17/elon-musk-trump-government-tesla-spacex/
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The White House (WH) Office of Management and Budget (OMB) quietly took down a website required by law.
The website let the public view “approvals of federal funding provided in appropriations laws.” In 2022, Congress mandated this information be posted on the WH’s website.
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~ White House scraps public spending database ~
https://www.ajc.com/news/white-house-scraps-public-spending-database/ARLAYFBOB5FNLD6P2OHIHXT6LI/
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If you organize or participate in #TeslaTakeDown protests you may have gotten an email from @indivisibleteam about fashy “counterprotesters” showing up at these events! If you are new to protesting or organizing, this may be very alarming, but here are some things you can do to help keep everyone safe.
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A musician friend notes, "I guess now we have an answer to the burning question, "How terrible does an elected leader have to be to warrant a public rebuke from the decidedly non-political Musicians' Union?" "
In today’s post on @medium, on the eve of the annual #TransDayofVisibility, I consider that I might be forcibly detransitioned due to the anti-trans actions of the #Trump administration.
Click the link, not the image preview, to bypass the paywall:
Someone just spent $8 million on $TRUMP memecoins after the president announced that the top holders would be invited to join him at a private dinner at his DC golf club.
The purchases were funded by a Binance account, suggesting the wallet owner is not based in the US.
Following the man-baby’s Tariff announcement, I think the rest of the world should immediately:
* start a consumer boycott of anything American;
* move their exports from America to other nations (with Government assistance);
* start making new trade agreements in Euro rather than $US;
* uninvite the man-baby and his various toadies from all future international meetings; and
* stop passing all forms of intelligence to the USA.
This is the moment to cross our arms and turn our backs on the USA - show them there is a real cost to voting a man-baby into office and sit back and watch them tear themselves apart.
The GOP continues to be a disaster for the country. Let's see what Republicans like Trump, Vance, Musk, and more are doing.
Hegseth put Signal on Pentagon computers. To be fair, he may have been too drunk to remember. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/23/hegseth-signal-pentagon-computer/
Plastered Pete's chief of staff just left. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/24/hegseth-chief-of-staff-pentagon-leaving-00308721
Hegseth was also screaming at a Joint Chiefs Chairman. Yeah he probably was drunk too. https://www.mediaite.com/politics/ill-hook-you-up-to-a-fg-polygraph-hegseth-reportedly-erupted-at-joint-chiefs-chairman-he-suspected-of-leaking-to-press/
Likely high on something else, Musk had a meltdown in the oval office. https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-details-emerge-in-wwe-style-blow-up-between-musk-and-bessent/
Trump doesn't want to tax the ultra-rich. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-23/trump-says-millionaire-tax-would-push-wealthy-to-leave-the-us?srnd=homepage-americas&sref=vuYGislZ
Bloomberg notes Trump's been the chump on China.. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-04-24/trump-tariff-war-won-t-bring-us-allies-on-board-against-china
Sensing weakness, China makes demands - cancel all unilateral tarrifs first. https://www.ft.com/content/3e076fb5-3988-4e21-9119-3fc637afebb8
If disease-obsessed Republican RFK gets his way, we'll face millions of measels cases over the next decade. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/04/24/measles-cases-deaths-vaccine-rates-rfk-jr/
#politics #democrats #democracy #california #santaclara #USPol #CAPol