Don-e-sha

I am so mentally checked out.
I don’t know how I am making it each day.

Graphic featuring Vice President Kamala Harris smiling and clapping her hands at an outdoor event. 'This country is ours. It doesn't belong to whoever is in the White House. It belongs to you. It belongs to us. It belongs to We, The People.' Vice President Kamala Harris

Just delete the apps from your phone. It’s been so peaceful & honestly taking a break from everything around us can be very fulfilling

I love this! (Hope my badge is showing up!)

We are where we are because we made up reasons why certain kinds of people were inherently inferior, and we have never fully done the work to undo that.

When you see what people wrote about Black people in the 1800s, it really brings home that it is not substantially different than the things they say now.

When you see what people wrote about Chinese people, and see it hasn’t changed. About Mexicans.

It would be a shame to encourage folks to use banned book lists to do strange things like
-check them out regularly at the library
-request the library order them if they don’t have them
-buy them
-start or support banned book clubs
-organize a banned book kids story time
A real shame

We win by helping as many marginalized people survive this onslaught as we can.

They have the votes to impeach and convict him

So they are not helpless

They are complicit

Senate Veterans Affairs Chair Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) said in an interview that he and his staff have been communicating their concerns with the White House legislative affairs team, along with Veterans Affairs Secretary Doug Collins. “Certainly on the veterans side, we’re asking for information from the administration,” Moran said. “We are being reassured that no one at the VA who has any direct care responsibilities are being terminated or laid off, and we’re just looking for the positions and circumstances in which it’s occurring.”

Lots of people think it's pointless to call out GOPers on capitulation to Trump.

Here's why it's not.

You need to make this claimed helplessness visible. You need to make it clear Jerry Moran has PLENTY of tools to rein in Musk, but has chosen not to use them.

www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Let’s be extremely clear about what is happening at USAID:

The President is letting the wealthiest individual on the planet tear apart an organization that provides MEDICINE and FOOD to the poorest children on Earth.

Understanding!!!

"A Black woman named Aliyah was struggling to find work. So, she catfished herself and made a fake profile on LinkedIn named "Emily." Emily had the same qualifications as Aliyah but received 57.9% of interview invites while Aliyah received 8.9%…

This is what we mean when we say racism is systemic."

This years Super Bowl ads are like, right wing propaganda central

Kendrick brought America together the way that "Country Roads" ad was supposed to.

Unfortunately the Hunts are very racist…I hate that I am a participant in this form of slavery 🥲

Dancers wearing red, white, and blue in the formation of the USA flag, however, the “flag” is parted in half and Kendrick Lamar poses in the center.

As I saw someone comment, “a United States divided.”

Brooklyn - Tracy Brown was an excellent read…. I shall go to sleep now

DEI is a corporate term, CRT is a legal framework, Black Lives Matter was a political slogan, Staying woke was a colloquialism. It’s not individual terms at fault here, people aren’t being confused into racism.

My heart aches thinking about people I grew up with who aren’t documented but have lived here all their life being forced to a place that they know nothing about

Diversity was a conservative compromise that liberals decided to accept and now we are here

Higher Education Contributes to a Strong Economy America’s colleges and universities make vital contributions to the economy as employers, investors, incubators, and industry partners.

“Higher ed institutions are the largest employers in 10 states and two-thirds of America’s 100 largest cities. Overall, U.S. colleges and universities employ 3.98 million people, or more than 2.5 percent of the population.” agb.org/guardians-ca...

Potential Ebola outbreak reported in DRC at a time of strained U.S.-WHO relations A potential Ebola outbreak has been reported in the DRC, at a time when the Trump administration has paused communication with the WHO.

There’s a potential Ebola outbreak in DR Congo

BUT the CDC can’t communicate with the WHO to learn more

SO we will know less about this outbreak

And this increases the risk to everyone

Including us

THIS is what happens when we pull back

Stupidity.

www.statnews.com/2025/01/28/p...

Hello gorgeous! I hope you have a wonderful Wednesday!

lack of core values are why the policies are so misaligned

They don’t care. It’s all about power & control to implement Project 2025

Do these people understand just *how much* research comes out of NIH?

I am begging the national media to start taking this seriously.

Stop buying the claims that the framing of "temporary" or "pause."

They are altering the review processes of federally funded scientific research from merit-based peer review processes to political screening by ideologues.