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Blue dot in a red sea. Sci and tech educator; former Scout leader; tatooed Harley rider; papa. Kansas State U (BSx2); George Washington U (MA). No profile no follow-backs. #BlueResisters #CHIEFS 🚫MAGA 🚫Crypto🚫DMs
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Several red state AGs including mine are suing to dismantle 504s in schools. Please, call your reps and AGs to demand they let all children learn in public schools. The end goal is to delete all special education services. All accommodations.

Seems like maybe the Attorney General of the United States should know the difference and speak with some modicum of legal accuracy…?

Facts matter. And the Hojse Rep Schweikert of AZ is a blooming idiot. Always has been. But the faulty census, rampant gerrymandering, and MAGA hotbed has worsened the situation in AZ.

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This is like a bank robber getting to fire the cops and disable the alarms just before he strolls into the bank lobby.

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A 71-year-old woman has died after her oxygen supply was abruptly cut off in response to the United States’ freeze on USAID funding. Pe Kha Lau, a refugee from Myanmar living in a displacement camp in neighboring Thailand, died only four days after she was forcibly discharged from a…

House Republicans plan to cut $880 billion from the Medicaid budget. That is the entire Medicaid budget. You think they won’t strip the sick, elderly and disabled of their healthcare? Exhibit A: USAID

Now why would Trump fire election security experts? www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Dear MAGA: You wanted cheaper eggs and lower inflation. What you're getting instead is much more expensive eggs, trade wars and higher inflation, and a president who's spending all his time on invading Gaza, Panama and Greenland, paper straws, pennies, and The Kennedy Center...

Of all people to complain about a performance…

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Visit me in the camps

She speaks truth.

When social media exposes traditional media’s deceit, it’s time for independent journalists to investigate why the press is backing a president who undermines free press—and is it coordinated?

I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze. I worked at an organization that -helped veterans who have lost a limb -Assisted elderly and disabled people -Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did.

My firm is employee-owned and we have a robust DEI program, we can do whatever the fuck we want and we’ll sue the absolute fuck out of anyone who comes for us

So proud of our Democratic members of Congress, right now! They’re being blocked from the Dept. of Education—and they’re not having it. Seeing Auntie Maxine ready to fight for our kids warms my soul. She hasn’t changed. Waters isn’t my congresswoman, but we love her in this house!

UPDATE: My colleagues and I were locked out of the Dept. of Education and denied a meeting with Acting Secretary Carter.

Abolishing the Department of Education will further decimate rural schools... And, for what? The Dept of Ed does not write curriculum -- that is done at the local and state level. The funding from the department mostly supports economically disadvantaged school systems. The poorest schools...

@msnbc.com why aren’t you at the Department of education with your cameras?

An unelected broligarch and his merry band of unripened incels have hacked our bank accounts, Bird flu is raging, TB is is spreading, planes are falling out of the sky, Trump’s planning Gaz-a-Largo and eggs are more expensive than ever, but at least we’re getting plastic straws back.

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Sincere props to a colleague who very obviously is doing his job well.

Donald's Attorney General Pam Bondi stated that "no more special counsels targeting anybody." In other words folks, no matter what crime Donald commits in office, she will turn a blind eye. 👠

John Fetterman announces he will be voting NO on Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr.

Don’t mess with @ellenlweintraub.bsky.social

Musk has given DOGE engineers barely old enough to buy beer—and with ZERO government experience—free rein over the Treasury Dept. Now they want to access data in the Dept of Labor, National Institutes of Health, and even the FAA. SIGN HERE to tell Congress to kick these bozos out of government!👇

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Russ Vought was just confirmed. Say “hello” to Project 2025 & Christian Nationalism. 1/

. A Black spy saved George Washington’s life, helped win the Revolutionary War, and still had to buy his freedom. If America really loved Black history, James Armistead Lafayette would have his own blockbuster spy movie by now. Instead, we get another reboot of Batman. #BlackHISTORY

ABC News reported Marco Rubio has been acting as head of the National Archives for weeks. This is news to everyone at the National Archives, including, apparently, the current head of NARA: www.404media.co/national-arc...

Sen Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) letter to chair of Senate Judiciary Cmte, which is poised to vote on confirmation of Kash Patel: “We regret that you have rejected our efforts to inquire into the first-ever invocation of Fifth Amendment protection by a nominee seeking to lead the FBI”

If you are taking care of a parent, or struggling with the decision to put them in a home, remember you could have had a paid worker come to their house to help take care of them, but Kamala Harris laughed funny, so now their Medicare is about to get frozen.

The Alliance for Retired Americans filed a lawsuit against Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary for disclosing information and treasury data to DOGE. A hearing on the restraining order is at 3:00. 🍿

Casar: "I don't know why Republican members even show up to this committee or Congress when it's clear who's really in charge of the federal govt right now, and that's Elon Musk."

Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections. Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.

Senator Schiff (as Dems filibuster the nomination of Project 2025 author Russ Vought): “The moment you say it’s ok to violate the law to shut down USAID you have said it is ok to violate the law and shut down anything.”

It appears the VA site for grant applications to help homeless veterans is down. Unsure if this is a glitch, or the end of assistance for homeless vets.

Court blocks Elon Musk team from government computer systems: report: The U.S. District Court of Washington, D.C., ruled Thursday morning that Elon Musk and his team of coders have been blocked from further accessing government databases. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly approved the temporary…

I’m heading to the Senate floor right now to speak through midnight to make it clear: we cannot confirm Russell Vought to the Office of Management and Budget. Tune in to C-Span and find out why…

On the “nobody voted for Musk” v “oh yes they did” debate: Voters were told prior to the election that Musk was going to Chair an advisory committee that would recommend budget cuts of $2 trillion. That was it, nothing else. He created the Co-President role for himself after.

this is the "merit" two-step. first, you strongly imply or state outright that the presence of anyone who isn't a straight, able-bodied white man is unfair "DEI," then you argue that just because an institution is all-male and lily-white doesn't mean there is discrimination. that's just merit!