Justin Mccoy 🌈

And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job

Poster image with an upside-down image of the US capitol in red. Text reads: What does a government shutdown mean for science?

2/ Poster image with heading: The shutdown fight is over healthcare. Bubble 1: The government shutdown is driven by Republicans in Congress and the White House refusing to extend funding for Affordable Care Act premium subsidies, and restore Medicaid funding slashed in the “Big Beautiful Bill.” Bubble 2: The “Big Beautiful Bill” is set to strip Americans of $880 billion in Medicaid funding — driving up our healthcare premiums, lowering healthcare access and quality, and making us sicker and weaker. Bottom title: This would be a crisis for public health.

3/ Poster image with heading: The shutdown fight is over staff cuts. Bubble 1: A shutdown will force critical agencies responsible for our nation’s health, safety, and environment to suspend or reduce essential services. OMB Director Russel Vought has openly threatened mass firings of career civil servants. Bubble 2: The administration has already cut or retaliated against agency staff, from the CDC and NIH to FEMA and the EPA. This represents dire losses in scientific expertise and manpower for daily and emergency work. Bottom title: This would be a crisis for public safety

4/ Poster image with heading: The shutdown fight is over research. Bubble 1: Republicans in Congress are also refusing to restore funding cuts to research across our scientific agencies. Pending the shutdown, research will also be stalled and scientific facilities and instruments might be suspended or shut down. Bubble 2: Right now, the Big Beautiful Bill aims to slash grant funding for the NIH by nearly 40%, and the CDC by half. This stalls critical medical and health research, shuts down labs and projects, and kills scientific progress. Bottom text: This would be a crisis for innovation

With a shutdown looming, one thing is clear: this is a standoff over the future of science. Everything from science funding and research, to public health and wellness, to managing emergency situations will be affected by what our leaders decide to put first: people or politics.

#Standupforscience

A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down.

All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown.

So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

The image is an X post by @Acyn showing a screenshot from a Fox News broadcast. The caption reads: "Trump: Rigged election. *points to Erdogan* He knows about rigged elections better than anybody." The broadcast image depicts two individuals seated in ornate chairs with a decorative fireplace in the background, with the Fox News logo and "LIVE" and "FOX NEWS ALERT" labels visible.

Trump is rigging our elections through enforced mid-decade gerrymandering.

As Trump and his goons strip Americans of our constitutional rights, the silence of the nation’s leadership class is deafening. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/america-without-a-leadership-class

Listen to Pete.

📣 Nonviolent Civil Disobedience
🪧 Shutdown Trump's Procession to the UN
📆 Sept 23
⏰ 7:30AM
📍 NYPL, 476 5th Ave, NYC

Trump speaks at UN Sept 23.
Let's give him the welcome he deserves.
This will be a non-violent civil disobedience action.
RISK OF ARREST. Bring your I.D.
More info on site.

It’s easy to take democracy for granted. It’s easy to assume that the Constitution is in stone. It’s not.

This is a moment when your courage and your activism are most needed.

Hey you. Vote YES on Prop 50.

… and push for the release of the full unredacted Epstein files!

Vaccines save lives. Period.

240 socks 😂

These three biomorphic candleholders fresh out of the kiln 🙂

I want to read the book first, but yeah..

Dark times call for more candleholders… making things gives me hope..

Dark times call for more… candleholders?
working on this new series of free-form candlesticks is staving off my darkest inclinations, so far.

…still making new objects for the future archaeological record.. ceramic candlesticks from recycled clay, cone-10 reduction fired..

The White House claims planes bearing migrants to El Salvador were in international waters off the Yucatán, so that’s why they ignored the court order to turn them around.

International waters, eh? Isn’t that the Gulf of *America* now?

News from the Environmental “Protection” Agency, a quick history lesson, and Richard Nixon (yes for real). 💚✊🌎

#epa #environment #imwithher #earthdayeveryday #protecttheplanet

New cup, 15 fingerprint blue/black dots… cone 10 reduction fired.

💕👏💕👏💕👏

lifeboats, dreamboats.. making enough for everyone…

A couple of wild elk gently tussle and clatter their antlers in a misty grassland in Northern California. An official looking sign in the foreground says “danger, wild elk…”

Rainy day tea time ✨

Making lifeboats for all my friends…
#ceramicart #handmade #workinprogress

In a neoclassical mood.. new clay works, double-handled vessels, cone-10 reduction fired in Los Angeles CA.

Tiny little tea cups…

I just really can’t imagine having all that money and resources, and your best idea is “destroy the world and wear ugly hats”

Flooding Trump and Musk’s zone How to deal with their tyranny

Millions of Americans — including many who have been purged from their positions of responsibility — are standing up to Trump and Musk’s tyranny. Congressional switchboards are ringing off the hook.

We are beginning to flood Trump and Musk’s zone. Let’s flood it out.

More works in progress…

Off to the bisque kiln 🤞✨