@friznitz5.bsky.social

79 Followers 58 Following 132 Posts Joined May 2023
4 months ago

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

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4 months ago
Lawmakers reach deal to end government shutdown: Live updates A test vote on Sunday marked a turning point in the monthlong stalemate.

These ppl are beyond worthless. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

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4 months ago

This is it. It's one thing to ask us to sacrifice for the greater good. To sacrifice to help those of us with less. But you asked us to sacrifice and then settled for... nothing. Just pain. Fuck you people. This isn't a fucking game. You don't stand for anything. You don't deserve to have a job.

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6 months ago

I work there now and have for almost two decades and have never experienced this.

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6 months ago

NIH does not “shelter in place” when POTUS visits WR. They just use exits on the west of campus or tell people to leave early/late or telework.

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7 months ago

What enforcement mechanism is there to force OMB to release $? There isn’t one because no one has ever been brazen/evil enough to try this.

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7 months ago

Who’s going to stop them?

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10 months ago

The proposal by Bhattacharya to use data from Indian Health Services to study autism is outrageous and should be fought tooth and nail.

I have had the honor of working with Tribes on research projects. The steps for approval are many and lengthy, as they should be for this vulnerable population.

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11 months ago
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Lawyer for U-M protester detained at airport after spring break trip with family Dearborn lawyer says feds tried to seize his cellphone at Detroit Metro Airport as he returned from spring break trip with his family.

“While in the interrogation room, Makled said, a man in plain clothes entered and began speaking to him. He said he recalls the man telling him: ‘We know you're a lawyer. We know you take on big cases.’”

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11 months ago
ICE 24/7 TIP LINE
866-DHS-2-ICE (866-347-2423)

Y’all know what to do

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11 months ago
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RFK Jr. Says He Plans To Tell CDC To Stop Recommending Fluoride In Drinking Water Dentists and national health organizations have warned the move would lead to medical problems that disproportionately affect low-income communities
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I'm sorry, but isn't this just the Cultural Revolution 2.0? Why on earth would fired aid workers and NIH medical researchers go to work on assembly lines for worse salaries in jobs they don't know how to do? Why are they getting their economic policy from Mao?

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11 months ago
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Emails Confirm Social Security Administration Canceled Maine Contracts As Political Payback Acting commissioner Leland Dudek called Maine Gov. Janet Mills a “petulant child” for defying Donald Trump.

The ability of people to access federal programs should not be a function of whether federal administrators personally like or dislike a state's governor. www.huffpost.com/entry/janet-...

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11 months ago
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Mom, 3 kids detained in ‘horrifying’ ICE probe in Northern NY The family has been transferred out of New York state.

A mother and her three children were snatched by ICE from a dairy farm in Sackets Harbor, a rural town in northern New York.

But the location is no coincidence—Tom Homan, Trump’s border czar, LIVES THERE. He allowed his own neighbors, including a third grader, to be jailed. Deplorable.

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11 months ago

Exactly zero people in the military want this. Summer is annual training season for the National Guard and Reserve units. It's PCS season for active duty. The 14th is usually a day off for the Army. No one wants to cancel their training schedule in order to practice Drill and Ceremony. ZERO PEOPLE.

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11 months ago

Encouraging news I would've missed if it weren't for Liz's weekly update: "The Rutgers University Senate passed a resolution proposing a Mutual Defense Compact in which members of the Big Ten conference will pool funding and legal, policy, and communications capacity and expertise."

More of this!

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11 months ago
AP article on Trump tariff's wrecking the stock market with a picture of Trump looking particularly terrible.

Absolutely incredible photo choice here. A+

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11 months ago

I've already had two federal grants terminated and face a 33% pay cut due to future terminations. It's painful, but not as painful as the conversations I'm having every day with brilliant trainees in graduate school and postdoctoral positions who see little future for themselves in US science.

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11 months ago

Every accusation is an admission. Every. Single. Time.

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11 months ago
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Her Fetus Has No Heartbeat—They Still Won't Give Her An Abortion South Carolina's ban is torturing a 31-year-old mom *right now*

I spoke to a South Carolina woman today who is miscarrying - her fetus has no heartbeat - but the state's ban is preventing doctors from taking action.

She has to walk around with a dead fetus for another week so she can get a FOURTH ultrasound.

This is what bans do.

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11 months ago
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Hahahaha go fuck yourself Elon

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11 months ago

Roast this fucking grifter shithead.

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11 months ago

they are not just ending careers with these layoffs, the functional result is going cauterize entire career *paths.* you cannot possibly overstate the damage these layoffs are doing to the ability for anyone to have a career of "being a scientist" in this country.

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Sen. Jim Banks told a laid off U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) employee who approached him that they “probably deserved it” and they “seem like a clown.”

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11 months ago

@vanhollen.senate.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov @raskin.house.gov let’s go. Time to flush these fetid turds. Need to see ppl in handcuffs.

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11 months ago

To state this plainly: DOGE forced out the directors and staff of a nonexecutive agency, installed one of its own GSA staffers as president, and that person is now attempting to hand the institute’s $500 million headquarters over to the agency he came from, at zero cost.

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11 months ago
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Internal fallout at HHS delays 10,000 firings At the center of the controversy, officials tell POLITICO, is the HHS DOGE lead’s secretive approach and his attempts to shield one agency he has ties to from the reduction in force process.

Farcical bullshit
www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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11 months ago

He is wrong. He has a worm in his brain and it is constantly arguing for more worms. Be normal for once!

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11 months ago
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ICE arrests WA farmworker activist in Sedro-Woolley Alfredo "Lelo" Juarez, 25, has organized on behalf of farmworkers' rights in Washington state since he was 14 years old.

“I think pretty much every legislator in Olympia knows him. He’s a serious young man who really wants to fight for justice, and he knows how to express himself and he’s tireless. He is like 24/7 on immigrant rights and farmworker rights.”
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

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