Ana Hicks

Thank you @petebuttigieg.bsky.social

"For this one, I'm a goddamn red fire hydrant and there's just water blowing out of every orifice. I'm enraged." - @timmiller.bsky.social on the Trump administration sending INNOCENT people to El Salvador

Trump's USDA cancelled programs that literally feed children in schools and families at food banks.

Let that sink in.

More than 80 @housedemocrats.bsky.social and I are sounding the alarm over the termination, and demanding more information.

Republicans’ partisan spending bill turns the federal government into a slush fund for Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

It’s unthinkable that any Senate Democrat would hand them a blank check by voting for cloture.

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are trying to steal from us so regularly, so openly, so unapologetically that Americans just accept it as normal.

We can’t let them. I’m headed to the Senate floor right now to lay out the story of 6 weeks of stunning, brazen White House corruption.

The Bay Area weather radar (KMUX) has been out of service for more than 24 hours now. An expensive broken part needs to be replaced and specially ordered, but that may not be possible due to ongoing freeze on government credit card spending, I’ve been told.

Former Presidents and leaders from both parties should be sounding the alarm and urging Americans to protest the destruction of democracy.

"President Trump is suppressing essential health information that public health agencies and providers across the country rely on to do our jobs," said Dr. Robbie Goldstein, commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. cnn.it/4i3tdWn

Every member of the House is back on your home turf for congressional recess. We’ve got events scheduled across the nation to get their attention — because fighting back against the Trump-Musk coup is going to take all of us: indivisible.org/muskorus

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

"The country is less safe. These are the deployable assets critical for investigating new threats, from anthrax to Zika," said Dr. Anne Schuchat, a former top-ranking CDC official and alumna of the program.
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USAID Lifesaving Aid Remains Halted Despite Rubio’s Promise A new directive puts further exemptions on hold. Aid workers also say the U.S. government has made it impossible to pay partners around the world.

Top USAID officials are trying to create a false narrative that life-saving aid has continued despite Trump’s blanket halt to foreign aid. Our @nytimes.com reporting shows the exact opposite. USAID even issued an internal email to stop applications for waivers: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/u...

HIV infections could jump over 6 times if US support is dropped and not replaced, UNAIDS chief says The head of the U.N. AIDS agency says the number of new HIV infections could jump more than six times by 2029 if American support of the biggest AIDS program is dropped.

This is the real life human impact of shutting down USAID.

Millions of people will die because the United States is now absent in the fight against HIV/AIDS.

Trump and Elon will be responsible for those deaths. apnews.com/article/hiv-...

You know Kate Winslet in Contagion? Where she runs into a hot zone, risking her life, so Americans could be safer?

She was an EIS officer. That’s who was just fired at CDC today. EIS officers. And many, many more public servants fighting every day for your health.

Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.

The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children
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El Salvador offers to house violent US criminals and deportees of any nationality in unprecedented deal | CNN El Salvador has agreed to house violent US criminals and receive deportees of any nationality, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Monday, in an unprecedented – and legally problematic deal – ...

Well, this is terrifying.

Sure, it’s illegal to deport a US citizen.

It should be no problem to get El Salvador to return your illegally deported loved one, shouldn’t it?

(Thanks to @hcrichardson.bsky.social for shining a light on this alarming development.)

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We Choose to Fight: Nobody Elected Elon! · MoveOn **Rally at the Treasury building to stop Elon Musk’s billionaire takeover.** Nobody elected Elon! We need everyone to fight this hostile takeover at every level—that includes Democrats in Congress, wh...

If you're not in the DC area, you should be organizing where you are. But if you are in the DC area, I think you're going to want to come to the Treasury building today at 5pm. It will be newsworthy. www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...

Today from Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny:

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Oppose, Oppose, Oppose — and Do It Loudly Opponents of MAGA: Don’t despair and don’t appease

Time to be loud!