Thomas Scherg

E.P.A. Says It Will Eliminate Its Scientific Research Arm The decision comes after a Supreme Court ruling allowing the Trump administration to slash the federal work force and dismantle agencies.

Breaking News: The EPA said it would eliminate its scientific research arm and begin firing hundreds of scientists, after denying that it intended to do so.

The United States Congress just passed the “Big Beautiful Bill” that will deepen economic inequality and funnel billions in public money into harmful immigration policies. 
  
Now is the time for constituents to stay engaged and speak out. 
 
#NotOnOurWatch

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Trump's Big Ugly Bill is a deal with the devil.

It hikes up taxes on people making less than $50,000 while cutting Medicaid and SNAP benefits to give Elon Musk and greedy billionaires a huge tax break.

You do the math. Is that worth it to you?

Poorest Americans Would Be Hurt By Trump’s Big Bill Small improvements in taxes are overshadowed by cuts to health insurance and other federal aid, resulting in a package favoring the wealthy.

Millions of low-income Americans could experience staggering financial losses under the bill that Republicans advanced through the Senate on Tuesday, which reserves its greatest benefits for the rich while threatening to strip health insurance, food stamps and other aid from the poor.

Poorest Americans Dealt Biggest Blow Under Senate Republican Tax Package

NEW: The just-passed Senate Republican package is much better for the rich than the poor. Any gains from lower taxes may be wiped out from the loss of Medicaid, food stamps and more. Some Republicans looked to exempt their own states from the cuts.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/b...

US: Budget Would Benefit Wealthiest at Expense of Rights The budget reconciliation bill passed by the United States Senate today would extend tax cuts that disproportionately benefit the country’s wealthiest families while reducing spending on health and ot...

“It’s appalling that President Trump ran on a campaign to fix the economy but is delivering a budget that makes ordinary people pay with their health for tax breaks for millionaires” @mattcconnell.bsky.social @hrw.org on the catastrophe of a budget the senate just passed www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...

The number of refugees is growing worldwide. All deserve to be treated with dignity and respect.

As we mark #WorldRefugeeDay, we're working towards safer pathways and better protection.

Wow. Die beste Werbung für die republikanische Partei, die wir je gesehen haben.

The Senate wants to immediately sell off 3 million acres of your public lands to billionaires. No hearings. No environmental review. No public input.

We’re fighting back. 100+ groups just told the Senate: HANDS OFF OUR PUBLIC LANDS.

Letter: biologicaldiversity.org/programs/gov...

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KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.

You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.

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The protests against the Trump administration’s immigration policies that started in Los Angeles have spread to at least two dozen cities, including San Francisco, Dallas, Austin and New York City. Follow live updates. https://trib.al/1pq2QEZ

CDU/CSU nur noch mit der Verachtung des Rechtsstaates unterwegs: Der Innenminister, weist die Bundespolizisten an der Grenze explizit an, sich rechtswidrig zu verhalten!
Sie sind nicht konservativ. Sie sind Verfassungsfeinde und verhöhnen noch alle mit einem Law & Order Anspruch.

The White House Gutted Science Funding. Now It Wants to ‘Correct’ Research. Thousands of scientists, academics, physicians and researchers have responded to the administration’s executive order about “restoring a gold standard for science.”

Thousands of scientists, academics, physicians and researchers have responded to President Trump’s executive order about “restoring a gold standard for science” saying it would destroy scientific independence.

OCASIO-CORTEZ STATEMENT ON THE WORSENING HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN GAZA "Israel's blockade of food and humanitarian assistance to Gaza is in violation of international law. Another 14,000 babies face severe malnutrition if the Israeli government does not reverse course. The United States can prevent this atrocity. We must pressure the Israeli government to open up more routes for humanitarian aid and finally uphold the law by stopping further weapons transfers to Israel."

Read my statement on the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza⬇️

Republicans have just proposed defunding Planned Parenthood nationwide.

In doing so, they are telling women and people across the country that our healthcare doesn’t matter and that we are undeserving of care.

It’s time to stop this bill in its tracks.

Cartel Family Members Cross Border in Apparent Deal With U.S., Official Says

A group of family members of Sinaloa Cartel leaders crossed into the U.S. last week, likely as part of a deal with the Trump administration, Mexico’s secretary of security said on Tuesday evening.

Republicans are saying that these cuts will be reinvested into Medicaid for people who "deserve" it.

If that were true, the budget would stay the same. But that's not what's happening. Why?

Because down the hall, they are trying to finance tax breaks for billionaires.

HAPPENING NOW: Republicans are putting health care on the chopping block / X HAPPENING NOW: Republicans are putting health care on the chopping block

It’s 2 am and we’re still marking up massive cuts to Medicaid.

While their constituents are asleep, Republicans are trying to take away health care from 13.7 million people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires.

They want you to tune out. Don’t ⬇️
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AOC: The math is not adding up. Their claim is that one million undocumented people are on Medicaid. So why are they trying to cut 13.7 million Americans off their healthcare?

Even if you're on private insurance, the Republican budget will screw you over too, @aoc.bsky.social explains. #NoMedicaidCuts

WATCH: @aoc.bsky.social explains how the Republican bill will:

- Gut Medicaid
- Increase premiums for private health insurance
- Force rural hospitals to close

All to give a giant tax handout to billionaires.

RFK Jr. Orders Search for New Measles Treatments Instead of Urging Vaccination Decades of research have turned up no miracle treatment for measles, but studies show the M.M.R. shot is 97 percent effective in preventing the disease.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will direct federal health agencies to explore potential new treatments for measles as the U.S. faces its largest outbreak in 25 years. Experts fear the decision could have grave consequences, as studies show the existing vaccine is 97% effective in preventing infection.

Opinion | ‘This Is What We Were Always Scared of’: DOGE Is Building a Surveillance State DOGE is rapidly assembling a sprawling monitoring system, the foundation of many authoritarian regimes.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Elon Musk may be stepping back from the federal government, Julia Angwin writes, “but his legacy there is already secured. DOGE is assembling a sprawling domestic surveillance system for the Trump administration — the likes of which we have never seen in the U.S.”

A Mother and Father Were Deported Under Trump. But What Happened to Their Daughter? The Trump administration sent the mother of a 2-year-old to Venezuela and the father to a Salvadoran prison. Their daughter remains somewhere in the United States.

A Venezuelan family is calling for a 2-year-old to be returned to her mother after the Trump administration deported the mother to Venezuela on Friday without the child. The toddler remains in foster care in the U.S., officials said. The girl’s father was sent to a prison in El Salvador.

2 U.S. Citizen Children Were Deported to Honduras With Their Mother, Lawyer Says The children, 4 and 7, were put on a plane with their mother, who was deported. The family’s lawyer said the mother was given no choice but to take her children, which the Trump administration denied.

A 4-year-old and a 7-year-old with U.S. citizenship were deported alongside their mother to Honduras last week, the family’s lawyer said, adding to the recent string of American citizens caught up in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

I have a bipartisan bill that would make these protections ironclad. It passed the House unanimously (twice) and it was never taken up in the Senate. Now Trump is laying the groundwork to lock up reporters who don't rat out their sources who expose crimes by his administration.

Judge Blocks Trump Order Ending Union Protections for Federal Workers An order signed by President Trump last month was aimed at stripping collective bargaining rights from hundreds of thousands of federal workers.

A federal judge in Washington blocked President Trump from ending collective bargaining with unions representing federal workers.