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Frustrating doesn’t even scratch the surface!

This story hasn’t seem to have gotten much attention. I’ll dig into it!

Trump administration overrode Social Security staff to list immigrants as dead A senior executive who objected was marched out of his office and put on leave, while earlier warnings about the agency’s deaths database were ignored.

Exclusive: Two days after the Social Security Administration purposely and falsely labeled 6,100 living immigrants as dead, security guards arrived at the office of a well-regarded senior executive in the agency’s Woodlawn, Maryland, headquarters.

Hands off our National Forests

Trump Administration Orders More Logging in Los Padres, Other National Forests The U.S. Department of Agriculture issued an emergency order to increase timber harvesting across 113 million acres of national forests, including in Santa Barbara County.

Trump Administration Orders More Logging in Los Padres, Other National Forests. www.independent.com/2025/04/08/t...

‘Healthy aging’ communities are taking off in the Bay Area — with six-figure price tags Upscale “aging in place” communities are taking off around the Bay Area for seniors seeking a long and healthy retirement.

Older adults are expected to make up an increasing percentage of California’s population over the next 25 years. State projections suggest adults 55 and older will account for about 35% of the population by 2050. www.sfchronicle.com/health/artic...

Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez set to speak at 'Fighting Oligarchy' rally in downtown LA Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are set to speak in downtown Los Angeles Saturday as part of what Sanders calls his effort to have real discussions on America.

Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez set to speak at 'Fighting Oligarchy' rally in downtown LA. abc7.com/post/bernie-...

NIH cuts triggered a host of lawsuits: Nature’s guide to what’s next A host of legal claims aim to roll back the Trump administration’s grant terminations, indirect-cost cap and more.

Threats to US biomedical research grants at the NIH are coming thick and fast — and so are the lawsuits. Here, Nature unpacks the legal claims.

https://go.nature.com/4idgY9d

One of our Partners is always the one doing that, going vehicle shopping w/folks, taking used vehicles for test drives for them, or teaching them to do their own vehicle repairs (he can't turn wrenches anymore). #ArmyMechanic

The G0P does this ALL THE DAMN TIME. They take credit for popular stuff (often the work of the Dems or a small bipartisan workgroup), ignore (or shoehorn in) the unpopular stuff and ultimately take claim for shit they ultimately vote against or didn't do the work for.

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social: They're out there saying 'we just passed a bill to eliminate taxes on tips & taxes on SS benefits.' NONE of that's in the bill. But they deny that they're cutting Medicaid. So they want credit for popular stuff that isn't in the bill but ignore the deeply unpopular stuff.

OMFG... Ok that is funnyAF.

And serious 🚩🚩 red flags for any desire to even share space with them in the greater community. Honesty is everything when you are in a marginalized and often villainized community.

Honestly, in my 30+ yrs as an open PolyAm person, those people have often NOT DONE THE WORK to deconstruction & decolonize their mindset, nor sought therapy to address their own personal insecurities. Compersion is a beautiful and fulfilling experience for those of us who have done the work.

And take the time to LEARN ABOUT & UNDERSTAND the labels folks use to help self-identity so you can ask intelligent & genuine curious questions. 🤓
Ex) Demisexual: sexual orientation where someone experiences sexual attraction only after forming a strong emotional connection w/another person

As the should, without question. This Administration is accelerating the spread of the Bird Flu through their IGNORANCE to proven SCIENCE interventions. Their ACTIONS & INACTIONS are harming our whole supply chain. Hell it has spread into our cattle and pig populations now.

From Lollapalooza to Detention Camps: Meet the Tent Company Making a Fortune Off Trump’s Deportation Plans The privately held company Deployed Resources has made billions running tent detention facilities to hold immigrants entering the U.S. at the border. Now it is cashing in again on Trump’s plan to hold...

REMEMBER THEIR NAMES
The companies and individuals who forget humanity and assist in the dehumanization of their fellow human beings.

www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Are we sure this isn’t part of an RFK Jr plan to add poop to butter?

What do they expect when the deregulate, defund, and dismantle every Agency that exists to protect our water, food, families, workforce, and communities.

Legally, Musk's involvement in the U.S. government must end by 30 May 2025, not that the Trump administration cares about the Constitution. It is possible this is all political theater.

Current signals strongly suggest there is a bigger rift between Trump and Musk, and it's getting wider.

5/5

On 6 March, Trump took the first steps to curb DOGE's powers.

Musk's revision of DOGE's potential fiscal impact was lost in this week's news cycle due to tariffs and trade wars. He quietly slashed the estimated savings DOGE could achieve through FY2026 by 85%, from $1000B to $150B.

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May our country recover from this chaos and destruction.

The honeymoon is over.

Over the last week, Trump advisor Navarro &Transportation Secretary Duffy have publicly criticized Elon Musk and/or DOGE.

Musk just criticized Trump's planned NASA budget cuts, and yesterday, Trump said, "I don’t need him for anything other than I happen to like him."

1/5

“Not Just Measles”: Whooping Cough Cases Are Soaring as Vaccine Rates Decline While much of the country is focused on the spiraling measles outbreak, experts warn that whooping cough and other preventable diseases could get much worse with falling vaccination rates and Trump’s ...

NEW: Whooping cough is killing babies. It’s not just measles cases that are soaring as vaccine rates decline. And the Trump administration recently cut $11 billion from state and local agencies on the front lines of protecting Americans from outbreaks. www.propublica.org/article/whoo...

Wishing you the best of luck in finding the right person for #AccessibilityTesting for your #ScholarlyEditionVideoGame #JAWS

I'm looking for a JAWS-user to do remote accessibility testing for a digital project—scholarly edition of a video game. If you use JAWS regularly and have done accessibility testing before (required), please get in touch! I need the work done in April/May. Please DM with your availability and rates.

YouTube video by Jessica Craven Republicans’ tax cut bill is one step closer to passing. It’s entirely built on a lie.

Republicans’ tax cut bill is one step closer to passing. It’s entirely built on a lie.
youtu.be/yDivWhDlS38

Speaker Mike Johnson Is Living in a D.C. House That Is the Center of a Pastor’s Secretive Influence Campaign The Capitol Hill townhouse is owned by a major Republican donor. It’s the headquarters of a little-known political influence project that has reached a number of powerful Republican politicians.

#ICYMI: Speaker Mike Johnson lives in a $3.7 million D.C. townhouse with evangelical pastor Steve Berger, who has attacked the separation of church and state as “a delusional lie."

Berger's project: ministering to members of Congress so that what “they learn is then translated into policy.”

Our communities’ sacred lands and waters are NOT FOR SALE.

That’s why we are fighting to protect our air, land and water from this reckless agenda to open them to drilling, mining, and rollbacks of critical programs that used to be bipartisan.

We’ve come too far to go back.