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Life flipping sucks

Walz: When did government get to tell you how many dolls your child has? Government just big enough to fit in your bedroom, your womb, and apparently now in your toy chest.

Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

Should a SCOTUS who mostly went to private schools be making decisions about the teaching and book content in public schools?

I’m crying this morning. This world needs someone like Pope Francis. He was empathetic and inspirational. And he was a bouncer against the evil in the world. #popefrancis

My husband says bank stocks are doing well. You’d think stocks in mattresses would be doing better. #stocks

Maintaining Acceptable Water Pressure in Showerheads By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.

Taking care of the important things. 🙄

It’s Hitler’s birthday, so that date is significant. He’s already done so much damage.

"What the U.S. is doing now is not reform. It is rejecting the very system it created." - Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong

(April 8, 2025)

Away also works. Physically on the golf course, mentally on a different planet.

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Just think, we could have begun the next centennial celebration with the first woman of color in the White House.

The 250th anniversary of the nation is going to be observed in 2026. It would be a true celebration if Trump and his ilk were OOO by then.

#HandsOff Protest rally in Baltimore April 5

The fascist crackdown on universities and foreign students is shocking in this country. In addition to the grad students at Columbia, Tufts, a student at the University of Alabama has been arrested. The U of Maryland + others, has been asked to justify the reason Chinese students are studying there.

📣 Across the U.S., cuts to federal funding for health research are projected to cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. How will YOUR area be impacted?

Excited to share SCIMaP, a website that our team has created to communicate the impact of funding cuts. #PsychSciSky #MedicalSky

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I recently saw an exhibit installed by apprentice museum staff at the oldest museum in Baltimore. It was funded by the IMLS. Without that, the underfunded artists would not learn about the business of their craft from experts.

Region 5 covers Alaska, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and U.S. Territories and Freely Associated States in the Pacific. HUGE loss to medical research and education

Iranian general raises prospect of response amid US strikes on Houthis Salami's words echoed those of U.S. President Donald Trump, who announced Saturday he had ordered the U.S. military to launch "decisive and powerful" strike.

I could have sworn Trump said he would not start any wars.

The Nation’s Archivist Should Not Be Political Trump’s clumsy partisan takeover of the National Archives and Records Administration recalls two consequential and troubling episodes from its history.

A comprehensive story of the two times in the history of the National Archives when a blatantly partisan archivist was appointed. Spoiler: it didn't go well either time. ICYMI Anthony Clark:

This is very important. Part of the history of ideological exclusion in the US (esp. from the 1950s through the 1980s) is the chilling effect, and the damage done to scientific & academic exchange, research, conferences/collaborations, in addition to damaging the reputation of the United States. 🗃️ ⬇️

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JUST IN: Judge William Alsup declines to stay his order requiring rehiring of probationary employees at 6 federal departments, calls OPM acting chief failure to testify 'violation of this court's order.' Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... Earlier: www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

Had strong sense at least the timing of Trump's illegal shuttering of Voice of America was triggered by his annoyance at a question from a VOA journo. Source flags to me that the EO was so hastily put together they literally forgot to complete the last sentence. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

USDA cancels $11 million in federal funding for North Carolina food banks The USDA has notified the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services that it would terminate the agreement for the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program, which is one of the progr...

If you live in NC, call every Republican politician you know. Call every farmer you know and ask them to do the same

When money walks , voters talk. Make sure they know this effects everyone in their town and state

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The IMLS supports libraries and museums. The programs you enjoy there will be ending because Trump prefers the poorly educated.

For sure. Trump tore up original records and tried to flush them (and then complained about the water pressure) when he was in office the first time. Now he’s trying to get retribution against the Archives because they said he couldn’t keep boxes of records that belonged legally to the government.

This makes me sick. Not just because he’s trying to hide his lies, but because so much history is lost.

He loves the stupid people.

Fulbright scholars left without grant funds, outside their home country. “I have to look into the faces of these wonderful people, and they’re asking me: ‘Is this America? What is this?’” she said. “This is a mess.”

This Is How to Debunk the Onslaught of Disinformation - Dame Magazine So here we are, back in a disinformation-riddled Trump administration. This time around, though, we have fewer journalists, no Twitter, and malevolent maniacs wrecking our federal government. History ...

In case you missed it, in case you need it.

I have never doubted for one second that Trump is a rapist.

The way he talks about Ukraine really confirms it. Ukraine sure as fuck wasn’t asking to be invaded.