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What a great exercise!

The headlines on Trump’s HHS review are getting better at least, acknowledging its major problems.

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble.
For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity.

What will you do?

So now they are arresting people accused of no crimes who are lawful residents of the United States.

Wow.

So yeah I just watched this 8 times

You know this is 100% going to happen…

The court ordered that NIH grant funding be unfrozen, so The Regime found a way around it. For NIH grants to be funded, a review panel must rank them. In order for a review panel to meet, they must post it on the Federal Register. Submissions to the Federal Register are now on hold “indefinitely”.

He's a puppet who comes out for shows when needed by the overlords who are working in the shadows writing executive orders for him to sign, taking apart the government, and setting up ways to target the people they hate. All they need to do to make him perform is feed him praise and tasty lies.

People who voted Trump who are feeling pissed off right now about broken promises are an organizing opportunity, not a gloating opportunity

The Chiefs have totally collapsed. Karma is real.

The #PEPFAR tracker is following the real time impact of each passing day of the funding suspensions spurred by the USAID funding freeze. Although there is a waiver to allow dispersion of ART, this is not happening because clinic workers have been laid off. People are dying.
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Or what if you did? What then?

“Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him.”

The entire website for the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is very nearly stripped bare. This is so, so devastating. orwh.od.nih.gov/research/fun...

California DOE fires back against Trump's executive order:

"It does nothing"

"It is against federal law for the White House to dictate what educators can and cannot teach"

Will not comply.

CDC removes data on sexual orientation, gender identity from website Data from an expansive federal survey on youth behavioral habits, including their sexual orientation and gender identity, have been removed from the website of the CDC.

“Everyone I know in public health and science more broadly is freaking out right now.”

Datasets are disappearing off of the CDC website (and we're hearing rumors that there will likely be more by the end of the day)

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A Dad in the World - The Rumpus I always knew I wanted to be a parent, but I didn't know I'd be a dad specifically.

I drew this back in 2023, not knowing how bad things would get #trans #comics #protecttranskids therumpus.net/2024/06/06/a...

School Systems Across US Declare They Will Not Comply With Trump's Anti-Trans Executive Order On Thursday, multiple school systems around the United States released advisories stating that Trump's EO mandating discrimination in schools will not be followed.

1. School systems across the United States are declaring they will not comply with Trump's anti-trans executive order.

MCPS, Maryland said they will fiercely protect their teacher sand students.

Columbus City Public Schools president: "bring it on."

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Thank you for this, @kimacquaviva.bsky.social !

In federal government buildings, bathroom access will be restricted to one’s “biological sex” as of 5pm today, according to OPM’s guidance document. Biological sex is NOT the same as what is on your birth certificate or driver’s license. It can only be determined through chromosomal and hormonal analysis, visual examination of your genitals, and imaging studies, all of which must conducted by a licensed medical professional who has expertise in diagnosing differences in sex development (DSD). This testing is invasive, expensive, and humiliating. Call your representatives in Congress today and demand that they oppose this unconstitutional invasion of your privacy. Image of a blue “Pissport” with examples of insert pages

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