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All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted.

I’ve never been more angry & disgusted to write checks to IRS & Missouri Dept of Revenue. Forced to fund two governments actively making life worse for so many while enriching the few.

Trump is talking about shuttering publications and networks he disagrees with. He's talking about deporting and imprisoning Americans who dissent. This is unprecedented and undemocratic. Wake up America.

Some of the largest rallies were in the reddest of places. Salt Lake City was enormous. There were at least 3 in St. Louis area, incl a very red suburb. All 50 states. Many older, white who probably never protested before. Start of unity/movement?

Despite dubbing himself the “Father of IVF,” Donald Trump actually WILL NOT be funding federal infertility research. Trump has fired an entire infertility research team at the CDC.

Wrote about the Trump administration’s attacks on federal funding for libraries “Make no mistake about it, the elimination of funding for libraries is a political assault on First Amendment rights, access to information, and the freedom to read,” one librarian said www.huffpost.com/entry/librar...

Missouri House passes bill to require schools to develop a "traumatic blood loss plan" including bleeding control kits, require bullet resistant windows. Also Missouri Legislature: reviving the Second Amendment Protection Act.

“That is why Trumpists are so focused on “ending DEI” in the federal workforce. They see anti-discrimination and inclusion as a ladder of upward mobility for people they do not believe should have one.”

He nails it.

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

Driving thru bright red Missouri yesterday and two separate men in pick up trucks with Trump/1776 etc stickers were aggressively gesticulating at me, clearly yelling while I minded my own biz in right lane. You’d think they’d be so happy now, right? So much winning in their side. Why so angry?

Friday night in Overland Park, Kansas. Everyone already wearing their Chiefs gear. I’m here for the ⚽️ soccer though.

🧵 Trump’s Financial Coup & the Coming Election Crisis Trump is rebuilding the U.S. government in real-time to lock in permanent GOP rule. With DOGE controlling all federal payments and pardoned extremists threatening violence, elections will be manipulated at the source. It’s already beginning. ⬇️

The effort to erase the history, accomplishments, humanity and celebration of all non-white Americans is an abomination. The erasure is to keep us from learning what white men have done to minority communities, and prevent them from having to admit it, also to show us they have the power to do it.

"Cutting fact checkers from social platforms is like disbanding your fire department." www.cnn.com/2025/01/13/t...

CNN interviewed more than a dozen experts, and they said that no fire hydrants would have been able to stop the LA wildfires with the high winds. “I don’t know a water system in the world that is that prepared for this type of event,” said one expert.

If you don’t have a local library card, it should be your New Year’s resolution to get one. It’s an easy resolution to keep and you’ll actually use it, trust me.

Me: Alexa, play Middle Eastern music. Alexa: playing Middle Eastern music… Gangnam Style by Psy 😳

“Liz Cheney and I are not brave. We are just surrounded by cowards” -Adam Kinzinger @MSNBC

My dog had a very tough day. It’s exhausting being so cute #sleepingpuppy #irishterrier #dogsrule

Due to the impeccable timing of a delayed official press release, you probably haven’t heard that 40% of corals on the southern Great Barrier Reef died in 2024 due to record-breaking heat exposure. www.voanews.com/a/surveys-sh...

When an elderly woman in the dairy section randomly told me I looked tired, my first reaction was to smile. But then immediately felt like shoving her or yelling YOU LOOK OLD. How rude. No reason to say that to any stranger. #christmasvibes

Is there a dentist shortage? Finding one has been like a part-time job. My dentist retired and I have spent weeks calling places to get appointments only to get no call back at all or be told they don’t prefer my insurance. Finally found a place that said they have an appointment in May 2025.

So Elon Musk controls Trump, and Peter Thiel controls JD Vance. Yikes...

I agree, three hundred and sixty billion percent.

More than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm RFK Jr. The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice. But Kennedy is a threat they could not ignore, one said. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...