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As more of the IDF’s genocidal lies and its butchery of the innocent is laid bare for all the world to see, they will try as they might to stamp out the truth, but justice will flow like a river 🕊️ 🍉 🇵🇸 #freepalestine

Let me translate this for you: We are condemning more citizens- in particular our most vulnerable citizens- to suffer more due to disasters. We consider their well-being a waste of money.

If you can watch footage of the IDF slaughtering aid workers and still not se this genocide for what it is, you aren’t even dehumanizing others anymore - you have allowed yourself to become something other than human.

On this day of peaceful resistance remember that attacks on your access to: - Healthcare - Education - Social Security - the Weather Service - Emergency Response - Housing - Legal Representation - Due Process - Free Speech - Electoral Politics IS SOCIAL MURDER. We stand now before we can’t. 👊

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o... Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security

This right here. Most people don't really understand that this is happening. And even those of us that are following it, have uncertainty about the exact magnitude of what will happen.

Groups across the country have received letters notifying them that their grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have been canceled, raising alarms about serious harm to museums, historical sites, and a wide range of community projects.

Almost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects. Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):

Please share!!! This is getting ridiculous—they just can’t accept a loss. Please help spread the word to North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted.

Amid a once in a generation storm in the central U.S. and larger changes at FEMA, the Trump administration is ending its popular adaptation program BRIC—one of the only sources of funding communities can tap to prepare for disasters before they hit. First reported by Grist: grist.org/politics/fem...

The worst news of the week. "The U.S. Senate confirmed Harmeet Dhillon, a veteran lawyer with a history of attacking voting rights, to lead the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Wall Street bets discord is so goddamn funny right now

As a policy scholar working to coordinate harm reduction for the opioid crisis via federal SAMSHA grants on the one hand and a natural hazard and infrastructural resilience analysis of the rural Fire service and code enforcement landscape in Maine via a FEMA BRIC Grant, every day is a rollercoaster.

While Americans go hungry and the world market languishes, he golfs with the Saudis. You can’t make this stuff up, folks. Let them eat cake, they say.

Scoop from me and Jake: FEMA is ending BRIC. grist.org/politics/fem...

The people who control the economy today are the same people who moved manufacturing overseas in the first place, it is and always has already been in their power to return it - they have no intention. These tariffs are a play at wealth transfer, nothing more. There will be no 2nd industrial age.

A key issue w/ today’s Lib voters is an inability to recognize the violence of Empire when it wears friendly clothes. Presiders over genocide are never viewed as such in practice - as we see with Booker and Schumer et al. They wear white collar platitudes and seem safe compared to Trump…(1)

Today, we are being liberated from the burden of economic prosperity and growth! Happy Liberation Day! (Remember: we have always been allies with Eurasia… George Orwell)

Capitalists have built a runaway machine of economic and literal death so wholly reliant on misinformation and dissociation from reality that even now as Trump’s incompetence threatens the global market, they will continue to play along, not for fear of him, but of exposing the lies that cloak them.

Hello, Congress. Are you really going to go along with this tariff fiasco? Use your power.

This is injecting bleach for the entire global economy. And he's not just floating the idea: he's holding the syringe.

I'm not concerned about the undocumented immigrant with some parking and speeding tickets. I'm concerned about the American citizen with 34 felony convictions who is driving America right into a fucking ditch.

“'Just the way he conducts himself is somebody — he repels people,' DeSantis said. 'He’s repelled people in the legislature.... and now he's going to be in Congress'...” Quite the endorsement! www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

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A shockingly straightforward headline from CNN: www.cnn.com/business/liv...

pro tip: if you can afford to blow $250 million on a losing campaign in Wisconsin, you can afford to pay a 90% top tax margin

To PIs and federal colleagues, this week will not be easy. I want you to know that working by your side has been a great honor. I am proud of what we have accomplished together. This is the best job I've ever had. #defendresearch #sciencesky #geronsky #hpss #hspr #publichealthsky #fedsky #NIH

#medsky #publichealthsky #episky #sciencesky

please send love to the smaller agencies and offices receiving much less media coverage and public support. our heroes at ACF, ACL, ATSDR, HRSA, NIH, OIDP, and SAMHSA—thank you for your tireless fight and advocacy for all americans, especially those who are most vulnerable #publichealthsky

#Gun violence? #GOP said it's Mental health. #Drug use? They say national security issue What do they do? Destroy services and data that could help. #SAMHSA MATTERS to the wellbeing of our communities

They say they want to make America healthy again. How do they define “healthy”? Must not involve food or drugs—they gutted the FDA. Must not mean disease-free—they burned down the CDC. Must not involve mental health—they scrapped SAMHSA. Maybe, just maybe, it’s a con to justify tax breaks for them.

988 Lifeline - the National suicide and crisis hotline, is supported by SAMHSA at HHS Local treatment for drug addiction is supported by SAMHSA at HHS. Yesterday Trump/Musk/Kennedy cut a BILLION dollars of SAMHSA funding. They say they care mental health and drug addiction. Is that a lie too?

The entire SAMHSA staff that manages the National Survey on Drug Use and Health has been terminated. This is the only survey that tracks mental health and substance use trends in the US. We really are flying blind now.

I wish I could say that HHS firing 10,000 employees and getting rid of multiple agencies including Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) today was an April Fools’ Day joke, but it’s not a joke.

The entire National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) team at SAMHSA was terminated today. Do not listen to the platitudes of this administration when they say they care about drug overdose, addiction, mental health, or suicide.

Liberals need to understand that premature celebration of Dems doing the bare minimum will actually hasten Trump’s consolidation of power. Denial doesn’t change reality. Without accountability and action, performative acts will only stifle momentum while the fascists close in.

The people who want you to hate Luigi Mangione to the point of death penalty want you to love the people who dismember Palestinian children with bombs to the point of ignoring genocide.

Continue this stuff. This stuff matters.

Says the guy who spent millions to elect a judge that will soon be the deciding vote on a case involving Tesla’s ability to sell cars in the state.

ELIE MYSTAL: “This is what fascism looks like. I don’t know what y’all expected it to look like… People are being abducted and disappeared from our streets. These people haven’t even been charged in court.” 🇺🇸

An Administration that ran on a crime crisis platform got to work cracking down on the PhD student, gay barber, and Dad crisis so fast.