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HHS Eliminated Programs - Updated Here is an updated list of all programs eliminated in the 2026 HHS Budget. Reach out if you have information or clarity on the cuts. These cuts will impact Every Single American. Email altcdc1@pm.me for PDF and xlsx.

ICYMI: “Tesla faces a proposed class action claiming it speeds up odometers on its electric vehicles so they fall out of warranty faster, saving Elon Musk’s company from having to pay for repairs.” www.cnbc.com/2025/04/18/t...

I feel like an underrated part of this is that they put it all in an OFFICIAL VATICAN STATEMENT. Vatican politics is so often conducted at a volume imperceptible to the normal observer, but this is like shouting in the loggia.

An absolute must-read from @stevevladeck.bsky.social this morning: “Just before 1:00 a.m., the justices (aggressively) stepped back into the Alien Enemy Act litigation—in a decision suggesting that a majority understands that these are no longer normal circumstances.”

Dystopia is the AARP advising older Americans about how to live in a police state www.aarp.org/travel/trave...

🏥HHS ELIMINATIONS💀 We have created a list of all agency and program eliminations proposed in the HHS 2026 Budget. Feds: Please let us know if you have any clarity to share. The cuts are massive. Reach out if you would like a PDF or xlsx @alt-hhs.altgov.info @altfda.altgov.info

oh my god

NEWS: Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson, a Reagan appointee, assails the Trump admin’s behavior in the Abrego Garcia case in a unanimous opinion rejecting DOJ’s request for the Fourth Circuit to block Judge Xinis’s order that the government “facilitate” his return. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Come. On.

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JUST IN: Deputy Assistant to the President and "Counterterrorism Czar" Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be viewed as "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and be federally charged. (h/t Philip Germain)

This quote feels especially relevant today. It’s a heavy day, and it feels like there have been a lot of those lately. Alice Walker knew: We live in one world. We belong to each other and we must take care of each other. Join us on the 26th as we commit to community care right here in Athens.

It's genuinely hard to express to sort of normal not politically plugged in non-lawyers *how* lawless the Trump administration is, and I think that's some part of the problem. You sound like you're hyperventilating, but it's just a flat description of what is going on.

Sound familiar?

Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal

“Something bad is happening.” 🇺🇸 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/s...

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Law professor here: Things are F-U-C-K-E-D up.

Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."

Breaking news: The European Commission is issuing burner phones and basic laptops to some US-bound staff to avoid the risk of espionage — a measure traditionally reserved for trips to China www.ft.com/content/20d0...

Oh look. Another bribery and extortion scheme.

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“The Salvadoran president offered to turn the CECOT into an extension of the U.S. prison system in exchange for a payment of $20,000 per individual per year.” The two presidents are basically slave traders in drag. english.elpais.com/internationa...

EMERGENCY MASS MOBILIZATION TO PROTECT OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS 📅 Saturday, April 12 ⏰ 5 pm 📍 Times Square, 43rd St. & 7th Ave. An attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. We must stand up and stand together for Mahmoud Khalil, for free speech, for immigrants, for students, for each other.

On one hand, he's destroying everyone's 401k... But on the other hand, he's dismantling SSA, so it all evens out. #Trumpanomics

I'm expecting Trump to shutter NOAA research, especially in weather/climate. I don't even know if it's worth commenting on, I think we all understand. He's going to do it. The damage will be immense. Crops will fail. People will die, directly and indirectly. It's just going to happen. Expect it.

From fighting endocrine disrupters to PFAS (forever chemicals) in your water, the Duluth lab is crucial to the protection of the Great Lakes and all of the fresh water bodies in the nation. The Trump administration’s proposed cuts are irresponsible. www.duluthnewstribune.com/opinion/colu...

The purpose is to spread disease and weaken the US population so they can be more easily controlled. It's why Kennedy was appointed.

Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.

One of the early outrages in the Red Scare was Truman’s EO asserting that “sympathetic association” with communist groups was grounds for being fired from a federal job. That was bad enough, but now they’re saying alien residents can be deported for what they claim are their “expected beliefs”

I'm calling for an investigation into whether President Trump manipulated the market to benefit his Wall Street donors—all while working people and small businesses paid the price. Did Trump help insiders cash in on his tariff flip-flopping? It sure looks like corruption.