nancyhicks.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

After going after OMB last week, Trump has set his sights on annihilating a critical arm of HUD that is responsible for handling all of the long-term local disaster recovery that FEMA doesn't. Add that to the housing crisis and we have a real problem. shero.substack.com/p/trump-hits...

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

The Trump presidency is a threat to the well being of the American people.

submitted 1 day ago • 108 comments

The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs. Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)

submitted 2 days ago • 577 comments

I'm a huge fan of Dolly Parton. We're the same age and same height, but she can sing better. We also share the same values, including that every child should have the chance to dream big and succeed. Indiana Republicans should reverse these cuts. www.huffpost.com/entry/indian...

submitted 1 day ago • 178 comments

So...the president is literally taking business meetings at the White House now. With the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, which finances a golf tour that regularly hosts tournaments at his properties.

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

submitted 1 day ago • 3406 comments

For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 1%, it can collect $13. For every $1 the IRS spends auditing the top 0.1%, it can collect $26. Laying off 7,000 IRS employees (during tax season) isn't about efficiency. It's about making it easier for the rich to evade taxes.

submitted 1 day ago • 246 comments

Trump has been president for 31 full days. He has spent all or part of 16 of those days at four Trump Organization properties. All of which makes him money.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

On this day in 1956, local officials issued arrest warrants for civil rights activists for leading an "illegal boycott" to protest racial segregation on city buses. 89 would later be indicted.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Republican abortion bans kill women. Texas’ maternal mortality rate increased 33% since they banned abortion and threatened doctors with 99 years in prison. You never see laws targeting and denying healthcare for men that increases their risk of death.

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

On Being in Community joycevance.substack.com/p/on-being-i...

submitted 2 days ago • 152 comments

"Racial diversity is not only essential to create the most dynamic learning environment or the most successful economy, but also it is crucial for the integrity and survival of our multiracial democracy," @janainelson.bsky.social of @legaldefensefund.bsky.social writes.

submitted 2 days ago • 11 comments

And if my rough math is right, even if it has done what it claims it has still only saved about 6/10ths of a percent.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

The top 1% evades $163 billion in taxes each year and many Fortune 500 companies pay an effective tax rate of 0%. President Musk is cutting 6000, mostly enforcement, jobs at the IRS because he feels the rich aren’t exploiting the system enough. Grift.

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

Governing is about choices. And we have a big choice ahead of us. We can choose to invest in our families. Our workers. Our future. Or we can choose to give another few trillion to those who need it least.

submitted 2 days ago • 292 comments

I rarely reread what I've written because then I just think of all the ways I could have rewritten it, but I still very much appreciate @maddow.msnbc.com sharing @leahgreenberg.bsky.social's and my op-ed on air tonight! You can find the whole thing here: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

submitted 2 days ago • 25 comments

Take note of the messaging - this is both accurate and deeply unpopular. It's the kind of thing that forces GOP House members to quietly tell their constituents that they too are concerned about Musk. Make them own this. Make them squirm.

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

"They're putting persecuted Christian refugees in camps in the jungle" sounds like something Glenn Beck would accuse the Obama administration of doing and yet now it's a pillar of the Republican agenda.

submitted 2 days ago • 78 comments

So, President Trump is speaking at an investment conference backed by the Saudi Public Investment Fund, which does business with Trump through LIV Golf and invested $2 billion in Jared Kushner's private equity firm. See the problem?

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

NYC's first four weeks with congestion pricing has come with faster commutes and less traffic, according to a new poll. Six in 10 (59%) of voters say Trump should “allow congestion pricing in New York City to continue.” pfnyc.org/news/new-pol...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

A million fucking times this. "66 percent of adults who regularly drive into lower Manhattan support the congestion charge"

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

If Hochul is scoring on him, it’s open season. Have at it, Dems.

submitted 2 days ago • 59 comments

Donald Trump has reportedly spent an estimated $10.7 million worth of taxpayer money to play golf since his inauguration. This is happening as Head Start programs have struggled to access previously approved federal funding due to the Trump admin's illegal impoundment. Hello?

submitted 2 days ago • 219 comments

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

submitted 2 days ago • 1214 comments

10,000 King Soopers workers are currently on strike for better pay and working conditions. Instead of negotiating in good faith, parent company Kroger has been using scabs and prioritized $7.5B in stock buybacks. Don't tell me they can't afford to pay a living wage.

submitted 2 days ago • 201 comments

Dear @nytimes.com: If you yourselves know that what Trump is saying is nonsense, put that in the headline.

submitted 2 days ago • 32 comments

In addition to parroting Putin, Trump’s storm of angry lies about Ukraine is no doubt part of his pressure campaign to extort half a trillion in Ukrainian mineral rights he can dole out to his cronies. Corruption is usually behind the curtain.

submitted 2 days ago • 61 comments

This is a concentration camp. They are describing a concentration camp.

submitted 2 days ago • 502 comments

Did Panama agree to build and run Trump’s concentration camps so he’d stop talking about seizing the canal?

submitted 2 days ago • 55 comments

DOGE recommended firing staff at USDA who were working on the nation's response to bird flu and hundreds of employees working at the National Nuclear Security Administration overseeing our nuclear stockpile. Now the Trump admin is scrambling to hire them back. "Efficiency."

submitted 2 days ago • 165 comments

While families skip doctor visits because of cost, and choose between buying groceries and picking up prescriptions, Donald Trump was hosting lavish dinners for insurance and pharma CEOs who were lining up to cut him million dollar bribes to keep healthcare costs high. Grift.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

When CA or any state struggles to respond to devastating wildfires this year: It won't be because "the spigots" are closed. There are no such spigots. But it just may be that when we needed help the most – firefighters' jobs got cut to pay for billionaire tax cuts.

submitted 3 days ago • 110 comments

There always was Trump/Russia. There still is Trump/Russia. The early actions of the Trump administration signal the continuing force of Trump/Russia. Feel free to add to the list, but here’s my list. Note: It’s only been a month.

submitted 3 days ago • 67 comments

This story can't be repeated enough. The GOP is lined up behind the guy who is so incompetent that his quasi-gov't agency did this. They're confirming his highly questionable nominees & hurting the American people. And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

submitted 3 days ago • 1155 comments

Wow. Mike Lawler met with the Westchester County Legislature today and when JOSE ALVARADO - an elected County Legislator and Vice Chair - brought up concerns about ICE, Lawler actually wondered out loud whether Alvarado was a citizen or not! #NY17

submitted 3 days ago • 61 comments