Ellen

Amid shutdown, Trump administration guts department overseeing special education Multiple sources tell NPR that, as part of the Trump administration's latest reduction-in-force, the U.S. Department of Education has gutted the office that handles special education.

Here's an IDEA - protect kids with disabilities.
Trump lays off employees in department funding special education www.npr.org/2025/10/13/n...

#challengephotoaday

October 12, 2025

Peaceful

#challengephotoaday
October 9, 2025
A doorway

#photochallengeaday

October 9, 2025

A doorway

#challengephotoaday

October 5th, 2025

Golden Hour

Do not pardon Ghislaine Maxwell! Donald Trump refuses to give a straight answer to questions about pardoning Maxwell. Relieving her of her sentence would send a dangerous message to the rich and powerful that they are above even the ...

Hold Maxwell accountable. sign.moveon.org/petitions/ma...

#challengephotoaday

June 27, 2025

Who put this here?

“Is there any sign of life?”
“Have we heard a heartbeat?”
“Does she feel any kicking?”
“We don’t have the equipment to do that.”

That’s the full 911 audio from a nurse inside an ICE detention center near Denver, calling for help as a four-months-pregnant woman bled and cried out in pain.

Yes, I agree — it would be terrible. Please do NOT share this information!!!

#challengephotoaday
#photography

June 26, 2025

Unread (and unfinished) books that wait for me

Grateful to my Third Act @thirdactorg.bsky.social colleagues in SoCal for a powerful idea: Writing a letter to a young person about what you're doing in the climate fight. Research shows it's an effective motivator for the person writing the letter
thirdact.org/socal/2025/0...

I caught a glimpse of this mama swan, chilling on a gator in MVSD's Moorhen Marsh. Something you don't see every day.

June 23, 2025 In a timeline of Trump’s decision to drop 12 of the reportedly 20 Massive Ordnance Penetrator bombs the U.S.

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

21 Unexpected Heavy Hitters for a Democratic Shadow Cabinet Here’s who the party should tap to take on Trump and refresh the Democratic brand.

Democrats need a shadow cabinet. There are 21 unexpected heavy hitters who should fill it.

If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.

Defend Public Broadcasting! Public broadcasting provides Americans with access to local news, educational programming, and independent journalism without corporate and political influence. Public broadcasters like PBS and NPR ar...

Join me in signing this petition to save independent journalism - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/de...

Contra Costa County May Day Strong: We are the Many · May Day Strong Across the country—from fruit fields in California to classrooms in Chicago, from kitchens in Queens to loading docks in Atlanta—working people are rising up. **We are demanding a country that puts ou...

I'm attending May Day Strong's event, “Contra Costa County May Day Strong: We are the Many” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mayday/event...

We Sign On to Uphold the Paris Agreement! The Paris Agreement represents a global promise by governments to fulfill their moral obligation by restoring and preserving our most foundational right—the right to a livable planet. As the leader of...

Let's show support for our planet - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/we...

US, Russia, North Korea among the 18 that voted no on the UNGA resolution titled, “Advancing a comprehensive, just and lasting peace in Ukraine”.
www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/2/...

🚨 If you make one call today, make it be to your House Rep to VOTE NO on the billionaire hand out budget resolution! 🔥

Tell Congress: Resist Trump and MAGA's Project 2025 every step of the way We will resist Donald Trump and MAGA Republicans every day, starting now. We know what we’re up against. Trump and MAGA Republicans have already shown us their playbook. And Project 2025—their “180-d...

MoveOn.org's petition to resist Project 2025 - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/te...

Medicaid is not for sale.
NASA is not for sale.
The Post Office is not for sale.
America is not for sale.

We have an obligation to resist kings. We outnumber them. And they can be overwhelmed.

Dem governor tells Trump she will see him in court Maine Gov. Janet Mills clashed with Trump over transgender rights during a White House meeting.

The governor of Maine clashed with Trump over transgender rights during a White House meeting.

“See you in court,” she told him.

From the FedEmployees community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the FedEmployees community

www.reddit.com/r/FedEmploye...

Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.

Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget.


https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4

Tracking Trump Executive Actions

As promised, here's an initial version tracking all Trump executive actions, grouped by agenda and implications.

If you find this useful, please follow and share so I know to keep it updated

tinyurl.com/tracking-tru...