Megan

Keep banging that drum folks! ✊

HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT?

Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.

Elon Musk admits that DOGE accidentally canceled Ebola prevention during USAID cuts SpaceX boss claims there was ‘no interruption’ to the Ebola program, but a former USAID head says otherwise

Elon Musk admits that DOGE accidentally canceled Ebola prevention during USAID cuts: ‘We won’t be perfect’

FDA’s Food Safety Chief Resigns The chief said the loss of critical employees overseeing the nation’s food supply made his work impossible. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s new health secretary, has pledged to gut the division.

the “make america healthy again” agenda appears to be an elaborate op conjured up by sentient strains of listeria and salmonella www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...

In South Carolina, tonight: “I have an ectopic pregnancy. It’s on my ovary. They’re making me risk my ovary even though I don’t want to. They refuse to do the surgery.” #ForcedBirthNation

Original Post: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2yCKENt/

A cartoon from several years ago finally coming to fruition, via Paul Noth.

Map of lower U.S. centered on Gulf of Mexico with this text over Gulf of Mexico. "Gulf of Meaningless Distraction While The Rich Who Pay No Taxes Loot the Treasury & Burn the Constitution"

Infant mortality rises in states with abortion bans, study finds Increases in infant mortality have been found in U.S. states that enacted abortion bans or severe restrictions after the Supreme Court overturned the landmark ruling that guaranteed a right to the procedure, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.

after the overturning of roe, black infant mortality has spiked nearly 11% in states with abortion bans:

www.reuters.com/world/us/inf...

Oracle’s Ellison Calls for Governments to Unify Data to Feed AI Oracle Corp.’s co-founder and chairman Larry Ellison said governments should consolidate all national data for consumption by artificial intelligence models, calling this step the “missing link” for t...

Always always always the real game, as I have said. They want the data, as dangerous as this will inevitably be. They don’t care, these ceaseless borgs. trib.al/ctRDVKs

How Elon Musk and the Right Are Trying to Recast Reporting as ‘Doxxing’ Right-wing influencers are criticizing journalists who have published public information about government employees.

Notice the attacks are largely on women who are just doing their jobs with excellence & accuracy. Having been subject to this nonsense — @profgalloway.com and I are “mean, cruel and deceitful” apparently — it’s meant to be chilling but as the opposite effect on us all www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/b...

Trump's Federal Buyout Program Closes After Judge Signs Off: Live Updates

The United States State Department is now planning to spend $400 million in taxpayer money to buy Tesla Cybertrucks.

AMID. BACKLASH.

We have power. Our calls, our stories, our spending, our conversations, our votes matter.

A democracy is about the power of the collective: shannonwatts.substack.com/p/what-to-do...

Disney scales back content warnings on classic films amid DEI shift Classic films including “Dumbo” and “Peter Pan” will no longer autoplay warnings about racial stereotypes. It comes as Trump cracks down on diversity initiatives.

So now warning viewers about racist content is DEI: Disney becomes the latest company to preempitvely succumb to Trump. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/0...

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Trump just fired USAID inspector general Paul Martin—one day after he exposed how Trump’s foreign aid freeze & mass firings have made it easier for U.S. taxpayer dollars to fund terrorist groups like Hamas & ISIS.

House GOP budget plan targets deep SNAP cuts Republicans are growing concerned about the House GOP budget blueprint's impact on food assistance.

House Rs released their budget proposal today aiming to cut nutrition assistance (SNAP) by $230b & healthcare (Medicaid) by $880b.

Evidence based ways to improve public health: expand access to healthcare & expand SNAP to decrease food insecurity.

This is why they want you focused on food dyes.

Congratulations to Super Bowl LIX champion Kendrick Lamar

Fantastic thread by IL-06's very own.

Also an elder millennial

Its easy to hide hate in small towns

Oh I felt that, and still do from some. It’s the “sly” things that were said. We all knew what was being implied.

You were taught that educated, single, child-free women are unwanted and pathetic because a woman who is unmanageable through attachment and enraged at the exploitation all around her is a very dangerous thing to an institution that needs to manage and exploit her in order to survive.

Let me know if you ever want to discuss what it was like growing up in that catholic town, surrounded by catholic family as a non-catholic. To your point, the message doesn’t sink in for most

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau literally exists to protect consumers from predatory financial institutions. It's returned over $21 billion to 205 million consumers. The sole result of this move is that Americans will have no recourse when they get screwed over by a bank. Good work Elon 👍

So it turns out when you DON'T go woke, you go broke.

Trump's New DEI? Dying Economy and Inflation.

It's only two weeks in and Trump is Making America Broke Again!

www.forbes.com/sites/dereks...

Judges curb Trump’s sweeping executive actions Federal judges are curbing President Trump’s sweeping directives to reshape the government, issuing a flurry of rulings blocking his agenda from charging forward.    More than three …

President Trump is not above the Constitution.

The both sides thing is a lazy argument.

You know all of this is happening because a billionaire wants to populate Mars and the Christian nationalists want to bring about the rapture…

I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.

the first good post i think i've ever seen from a democratic committee account