Lindsay Nichols

No shortage of selective outrage

Over on the other site, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) burns Trump for his treatment of Zelenskyy in the Oval Office.

LGBTQ Domestic Violence Nonprofits Fight Back Amid Trump’s Attacks on Funding But given the executive orders, “there’s no universe in which some of the work doesn’t take a hit,” says one leader.

Federal grants make up significant shares of operating budgets for many domestic violence nonprofits, and losing that funding puts their continued existence at risk, @19thnews.org reports.

Dear Trump, Fire Elon. Love, The American People.

So painful.

Domestic violence nonprofits rocked by Trump funding freeze Gender-based violence organizations have begun to self-edit their public-facing media out of fear they will lose federal grants essential to the provision of life-saving services.

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the professor in my real estate law class had to use the wayback machine for HUD pages on disability accommodations in housing for this week's unit on fair housing. grim.

@raskin.house.gov: "Mexico said they were gonna put 10k troops on the border-- they already had 15k troops on the border! ... He just likes a lot of razzle dazzle and noise, but the leaders of the world are laughing at him. And we can recognize what a fraudulent pretense this whole thing was."

The word for this is "coup."

An unelected shadow government is conducting a hostile takeover of the federal government.

DOGE is not a real government agency.
DOGE has no authority to make spending decisions.
DOGE has no authority to shut programs down or to ignore federal law.
DOGE’s conduct cannot be allowed to stand.

DeLauro says federal gun violence prevention funding at risk in budget negotiations Research on gun violence prevention, funded by $125 million from the federal government since 2020, could end if the Trump administration and Republicans cut Medicaid funding in upcoming budget negoti...

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This is heartbreaking and that is the point. Create as much chaos and misery as possible while creating a huge purse of $ to try and plunder.

There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.

We should all keep an eye on Fox News so we can push back on their lies. Now it’s full government propaganda. Like it’s staterun

What Kash Patel’s Confirmation Hearing Made Clear "Patel is unlikely to stand up to the executive branch if abuses of power occur," writes Barbara McQuade.

Kash Patel is a dangerous choice to lead FBI. My thoughts in @TIME.

Disgusting move to fire the 30 career prosecutors in the DC US Attorney’s Office who worked on the Jan 6 cases. These lawyers did their jobs to protect our Capitol from political violence.

Funding for firefighters is now in danger thanks to Donald Trump.

It’s also the police. He just defunded the police

Federal Funding Pause – What We Know and Questions We Have Monday’s memo to heads of federal agencies temporarily pauses all federal grants. Here’s what we know and what you should consider.

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I’m an NSF panel reviewer that was scheduled to meet today. Just got notice that all NSF panels were canceled today. I reviewed some innovative proposals in support of students. Devastating if these scholars don’t get to do this work. For the love of science & students I hope this is just a delay.💔

It’s not a surprise when toddlers like to break things

Trump Fires 17 Inspectors General in Late-Night Purge (Gift Article) The internal government watchdogs were believed to have been dismissed at several major agencies, though the Justice Department’s was not said to have been among them.

Trump³⁴ Friday Night Massacre

Fires Inspectors General: independent roles who investigate corruption & wrong-doing

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...

Okay outrage is good. Now we need a plan to fix this

Pete Hegseth has a history of
- alcohol abuse
- gross mistreatment of women
- management & financial failure
- defending war criminals

and he’s been confirmed as our next SecDef

But tell us again how it’s actually women and people of color who are “underqualified”

Devastating for scientists and their research, and everyone who benefits from that research.

I’m not sure if everyone outside academia is aware that a delay or “pause” in grant funding often means the researchers themselves are lost from the field, along with their expertise.

I’m hearing from constituents whose jobs are at risk because they do agency outreach to minority communities.

Consider what this means for public health, national security, agriculture and justice.

The war on DEI has become a war on public service and government for all.

Crime Trends in U.S. Cities: Year-End 2024 Update - Council on Criminal Justice Homicide and most other violent crimes have fallen below pre-pandemic levels in a sample of 40 U.S. cities. CCJ’s year-end 2024 analysis also shows a year-over-year decrease in 12 of 13 major offenses...

The Council on Criminal Justice is reporting that in 2024, crime rates fell in 12 of 13 categories. Homicides (-16%), gun assaults (-15%), agg. assaults (-4%), robberies (-10%) and carjackings (-32%) all declined last year. Shoplifting (+14%) is the only outlier. counciloncj.org/crime-trends...