Meg from WA

Tonight @schumer.senate.gov joins @lastword.msnbc.com 10pm

The image is a screenshot of a tweet from Sibylle (@AHaschi ). The tweet reads: "America You had it all". Below the tweet, there is an infographic titled "PRESIDENT BIDEN’S ECONOMIC LEGACY" with a photo of Joe Biden on the left. The infographic includes the following statistics: "JOBS: 16.6 MILLION jobs created," "UNEMPLOYMENT: 14.1% in January 2021 decreased to 4.1% in December 2024," "S&P 500: 5,996 on January 17, 2025, was 3,786 on January 15, 2021," and "DOW JONES: 43,487 on January 17, 2025, was 30,814 on January 15, 2021." The infographic is credited to @US_ELECTIONS at the bottom.

Biggest self-own ever to go from that to whatever this is today.

ICE actions like the Wednesday raid in Bellingham are making our communities less safe. I demand ICE and DHS respect the legal rights of the people they have taken.

ICE and DHS must immediately answer questions from myself, @jayapal.house.gov, @repdelbene.bsky.social, Congresswoman Marilyn Strickland, @repemilyrandall.bsky.social, @adamsmith.house.gov, and @repkimschrier.bsky.social.

The terrible CR Budget bill — written by right-wing House Republicans with no input from anybody but themselves — was passed tonight with the support of 10 Democrats.
 
An absolute failure of Democratic leadership. NOBODY in the Senate should have voted for this dangerous bill.

On International Women’s Day, Thousands Gather to Protest Trump About 300 demonstrations were scheduled across the United States. Organizers said that Americans eager to protest considered the occasion an appropriate time to rally.

Thousands of people rallied on Saturday to protest President Trump, including his handling of the war in Ukraine, his stance on reproductive rights and the firing of federal workers. About 300 protests, organized to commemorate International Women’s Day, were scheduled around the U.S.

Republican Medicaid cuts could shutter rural hospitals, maternity care Potential Medicaid cuts could devastate America’s teetering rural health-care system and jeopardize Republicans’ political power among rural voters.

"Rural hospital leaders in Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri and Texas who spoke to The Washington Post warned that the enormous cuts congressional Republicans are weighing could further destroy limited health-care access in rural America..."

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

A card reads: "These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration." A long list of words follows, including: biologically female; biologically male; BIPOC; Black; breastfeed + people; clean energy; climate crisis; climate science; commercial sex worker; community diversity; community equity; confirmation bias; cultural competence; cultural differences; cultural heritage; cultural sensitivity; culturally appropriate; culturally responsive; DEI; equity; feminism; genders.

Agencies within the Trump administration have flagged hundreds of words to limit or avoid, according to a compilation of government documents. These terms appeared in government memos, in official and unofficial agency guidance and in other documents. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Netanyahu’s extremist government has halted ALL humanitarian aid into Gaza.

Starving children is a war crime.

UN leaders said: "International humanitarian law is clear: we must be allowed access to deliver vital lifesaving aid. We need to get aid in and the hostages out.”

While Trump appoints 13 billionaires to his cabinet and Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg see their wealth increase by $217 billion since the election, 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, 25% of seniors live on $15g or less and millions cannot afford rent.

SAY NO TO OLIGARCHY.

Vance and Musk Attack German Consensus on Nazis and Speech Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk have challenged decades-long approaches to political extremism that were designed to prevent another Hitler.

European friends: Do not accept lectures on democracy & freedom of speech from an Administration that denies the 2020 election results and is now suing & intimidating news outlets whose reporting they don’t like.

Stand tall against right-wing extremism.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/w...

CISA Puts Election Staff on Administrative Leave Read more here.

CISA – a federal agency that helps secure elections from foreign threats and disinformation – has placed its employees on administrative leave. The move puts the security and integrity of elections in the U.S. at risk.

What do we do? Your guidance is appreciated.

It is clear that data critical to genealogy (and other disciplines) is being systematically stripped from federal websites. Census Bureau data IS being removed, and census data geeks at IPUMS verify and are taking whatever steps they can to preserve the data for the future. Scary times we live in.