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Mohawk Skywalkers: The History Stephen Miller Whitewashed The Kanien'kéhá:ka Haudenosaunee ironworkers were vital to building Miller's favorite monuments to modern America

Stephen Miller tried to claim only real "Americans" built the Empire State Building, but he left out the true stories of the Indigenous ironworkers who actually did. The Mohawk Skywalkers helped shape America's skylines—and shatter the lie behind Miller’s whitewashed nostalgia.

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We've arranged a society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science and technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces.

~ Carl Sagan

It’s a good day to remember what we were once capable of, and why it’s a really bad idea to abandon science.

Measles 🧵

As of July 9th we’ve had 1,288 confirmed measles cases from 27 outbreaks across 38 states, the highest number of cases in one year since 1990 (when we had 27,808 cases).

Measles will continue to spread until >95% of vulnerable people in an outbreak are either infected or vaccinated

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A digital advocacy poster with a dark blue background and bold white and red text. At the top, it reads: “STOP THE RESCISSION” and “Defend American foreign aid.” The poster is divided into three sections. The first section, titled “WHAT’S AT RISK,” lists: “Over $6 billion in cuts,” “USAID dismantled,” and “Programs that prevent child trafficking, hunger, and forced migration.” The second section, titled “WHAT FILLS THE VACUUM,” lists: “DHS enforcement operations,” “Forced removals,” “Surveillance of immigrant communities,” and “Privatized detention systems.” The final section urges: “Call your Senator now – 202-224-3121 – Tell them: Vote NO on the rescission.” The tone is urgent and civic-minded, calling attention to the moral consequences of U.S. foreign aid cuts.

Trump destroyed 60 years of American generosity—
aid that fed families, kept girls in school, saved 26 million from AIDS, and now puts 14 million lives at risk.

He wants your tax dollars for raids, cages and terrorizing our communities.

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The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

www.theatlantic.com/health/archi... @jvl.bsky.social @altusaid.altgov.info @thelastmileusaid.bsky.social @wofava.bsky.social More lives lost needlessly and carelessly by Elon Musk and Marco Rubio.

Republicans Propose National Ban on Flushing Abortions HR 4131 would outlaw common disposal of fetal remains

Thanks @jessicavalenti.bsky.social for breaking this down.

The GOP’s latest bill would criminalize abortion providers for providing standard healthcare by punishing how fetal remains are disposed—based on false water contamination claims. It’s disinformation and it’s invasive.

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Almost like actions have consequences. In this case, the cost of those consequences are human lives.

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Our colleague created a Substack dedicated to stories of public health workers, The Public Health Workforce is Not OK. Go read a story or two and tell a friend about them. Maybe submit your own story!

More stories coming. Subscribe here: phworkforceok.substack.com

The State Department has informed employees that layoffs are set to begin soon.

An issue I don’t believe has been addressed regarding the deep cuts to SNAP, is how many grocery stores in low income areas will go out of business. Mom and pop, family owned markets. For many, almost all of their customers are on food assistance. The Krogers will just close their doors and move on.

Joe Neguse now wants to know why Mike Johnson continues to leave votes open indefinitely for hours every time they don’t have enough votes.

Exclusive | Tesla Board Opened Search for a CEO to Succeed Elon Musk With profits and the stock price sinking, board members told Musk he needed to spend more time at the company.

oh.

www.wsj.com/business/aut...

the destruction of the government, the economy, and -- especially -- the dollar isn't necessarily an unintended consequence

today:
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/b...

october, before the election: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/s...

Subaru Pulls Canadian Production From US As Trump’s Tariffs Deal A Heavy Blow | Carscoops The automaker will now build more cars for Canada in Japan rather than in Indiana

subarus for the canadian market will now go there directly from japan instead of being made by american autoworkers in indiana. more trump tariff genius.

www.carscoops.com/2025/04/suba...

White House cancels program which reduced sudden infant deaths

black history is not a month it 's a lifetime written on a yellow background Alt: “Black history is not a month it's a lifetime,” written on a yellow background

May 3:

For more than a century, believers in racial “purity” feared diversity would destroy the West. In reality, it is diversity that won wars, propelled Western civilization forward, while rigid “purity” led to blindness, stagnation, and defeat.

Here’s my painting of Jackie Robinson walking to the plate at Ebbets Field, August 28, 1949.

On this day in 1947, Jack Roosevelt Robinson bravely walked through that door and changed this country for the better. Here’s my painting of the great man at Ebbets Field, August 28, 1949.

Absolutely reprehensible. Where's the proof?

No one should be above the law, most especially the President.

Ignoring a Supreme Court ruling to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia's return isn't just cruel; it's unconstitutional.

They're saying the quiet part aloud — if they get away with it now, they'll do it to anyone.

Because if you don’t track it, it doesn’t exist. That seems to be exactly how Trump wanted to handle (or handled, as the case may be) COVID. And thus, if something doesn’t appear to exist then he can claim he cured it or that no other president has ever done so much to eliminate all of it 🙄

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12/ Peter Thiel reportedly backs the Rockbridge Network, which was co-founded by JD Vance & Chris Buskirk. bsky.app/profile/jenn...

11/ Peter Thiel donated to Joe Kent’s campaign before the 2022 midterm election. www.opensecrets.org/search?order...

10/ Erik Prince, Peter Thiel, & Rebekah Mercer. bsky.app/profile/jenn...

“Where’s My Roy Cohn?”: Film Explores How Joseph McCarthy’s Ex-Aide Mentored Trump & Roger Stone Former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone, who was arrested on Friday, and Donald Trump share a unique history: Both were heavily influenced by the infamous attorney Roy Cohn, who served as a chief co...

9/ “Joseph McCarthy’s Aide [Roy Cohn] Mentored Trump and Roger Stone” www.democracynow.org/2019/1/28/wh...

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