Susanne Mentzer

I definitely do not understand why these ideas are considered radical. They seem like common sense to me

Dismantling of US federal agencies will ‘destroy science’ From NASA to the National Institutes of Health, federal agencies conduct research that universities cannot. Agency scientists speak out about the irreplaceable facilities, institutional knowledge and ...

Reporter @virginiagewin.bsky.social interviewed 19 current and former US federal agency scientists about the science being dismantled at EPA, NOAA, NASA, CDC, NIH, & USGS.

They say it's making America unprepared for environmental and public health crises.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Judge orders White House to restore sign language interpreters at briefings by Trump, Leavitt U.S. District Judge Amir Ali said the White House’s decision to end ASL interpretation illegally excluded deaf Americans from crucial updates from the government.

NEW: A federal judge said the decision by Trump WH to end sign language interpretation at briefings by Trump and Leavitt likely violated the Rehabilitation Act and harmed deaf people who communicate in ASL.

www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

Dumbass

Trump didn't send armed agents to the Chicago area to quell violence. He sent them there to cause violence.

.@heathercherone.bsky.social is a great source for what's happening on the ground in and around Chicago.

Trump’s Voter Citizenship Database Is ‘Flawed’ and Could Lead to Disenfranchisement, Election Administrator Warns Read more here.

NEW: Court filings reveal that states using the Trump administration’s untested citizenship verification system to purge voter rolls may be mistakenly flagging eligible voters at an alarming rate, risking the chance of voters being disenfranchised.

Here is the Vice President defending adults who said they love Hitler, want to rape their enemies, put their political opponents in gas chambers, and that Black people are monkeys. Just to name a few.

Are these those Christian values JD Vance talks about?

REPORTER: Do you support repealing Obamacare and what's your healthcare plan?

MIKE JOHNSON: We worked on repealing and replacing Obamacare back in 2017. I still have PTSD from the experience. We know that American healthcare needs dramatic reform. We have lots of ideas.

(So, no plan)

When museums are told to tell only one story - The Berkshire Edge Once curatorial independence is compromised, the slide toward state-approved history can be quick.

theberkshireedge.com/when-museums...

Breyer goes off on DOJ, saying the govt's "new national police force" is going to "intimidate" in order to bring about "certain types of behavior."

"And that's what's violative" out of the Posse Comitatus Act.

The law's designed "to get the federal govt out of states."

How much did the buyouts cost us?

U.S. taxpayers have spent $24 billion on Netanyahu's horrific war in Gaza. Instead of starving children, that money could pay for:

700,000 public housing units
500,000 low-income kids receiving health care
500,000 veterans receiving VA care
600,000 kids in Head Start

Combined.

Read Trump’s Letter to Congress About D.C. Police Department

Why is not Trump’s letter a federal crime- lying to Congress -given its false claims re DC crime?And why shd he be immune from suit for this when anyone else wd be prosecuted.
Read Trump’s Letter to Congress About D.C. Police Department www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How can we stop this runaway train? Is this an attempt to start protests that could turn violent. It is hard to ignore this. It has always been the plan.

Thank you for incessantly beating the drum!

IRS, White House clashed over immigrants’ data before tax chief was ousted The Trump administration’s move to push out IRS Commissioner Billy Long came after the agency said it couldn’t release some information on taxpayers suspected of being here illegally.

Trump fired the IRS commissioner just hours after the agency clashed with the White House over using tax data to help locate suspected undocumented immigrants. @jacobbogage.bsky.social @kadiagoba.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Trump Says He Doesn’t ‘Draw Pictures.’ But Many of His Sketches Sold at Auction.

Trump Says He Doesn’t ‘Draw Pictures.’ But Many of His Sketches Sold at Auction. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/u...

Sickening, revealing stuff from someone with the president’s ear

This is the line from the horrific SCOTUS decision today that will stick with me. “Sure, the president should follow the law - but the courts can’t force him to do it.” Rendering the Constitution a dead letter if the president decides he’d rather not deal with it.

Judge Blocks Trump’s Tying of Transportation Funds to Immigration Enforcement

Yet another Friday victory: a federal judge blocked the Department of Transportation from withholding billions of dollars in funding to states unless they complied with the Trump regime’s demands on immigration enforcement.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/u...

Has anyone calculated the cost of detaining immigrants in camps and also the cost to the economy in general? #ice

Sick stuff

I fear so for my lgbt friends.

Donald Trump Stages an Oval Office Mugging Race-baiting South Africa’s visiting leader was a perfect summation of Trump’s racially charged second term.

"Wednesday’s show in the Oval Office was the asterisk hiding at the end of the text: Donald Trump does have a few human-rights lectures in him, but only on behalf of those with the right color skin," writes @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Does anyone else believe the Elon Doge thing was yet another gimmick?

#budget It is easy- just tax the ultra- wealthy 1% more