Regina Phelps

See you in San Francisco on the streets on October 18, 12 - 3pm! More details to come! #NoKings

One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism · No Kings Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and f...

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Trump administration plans to end Energy Star program for home appliances Since 1992, the popular Energy Star program has helped American families and businesses save more than $500 billion in energy costs.

Dumb and disappointing. During an all-hands meeting on Monday of the EPA’s Office of Atmospheric Protection, Trump administration officials announced that the office would be dissolved and that Energy Star would be eliminated
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You can't make this up. Trump has pardoned a Las Vegas politician convicted last year of using money meant for a statue honoring a slain police officer on personal costs, including plastic surgery. www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-p...

Trump’s first 100 days have been the most consequential of any president this century & perhaps since FDR. Trump is leading a revolutionary project that aspires to remake the economy, the bureaucracy, culture & foreign policy, even the idea of America itself. www.economist.com/leaders/2025...

America’s presidency is often called the hardest job in the world. Yet Trump has found time to moonlight as a prolific social-media influencer. Since January 20th he has churned out 4,149 words a week on Truth Social and X, nearly a newspaper op-ed daily.
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Who will stop Donald Trump’s drive for unchecked power? Congress is inert, but a deft Supreme Court might contain him

Given our current Supreme Court, it is frightening to think they are the last chance to contain Trump. I hope they grow a stiff spine.

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This week required a purr!

“We are all afraid” Ms Murkowski said speaking at a conference in Anchorage. After a long pause, she acknowledged: “It’s quite a statement. But we are in a time & a place where I certainly have not been here before. I’ll tell you retaliation is real & that's not right
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...

Free US family planning clinics face ruin after White House freezes funds

Trump is trying to fiddle with economic data & removing the independence of the Fed. A case is making its way through the courts could make it easier for Trump to do the latter. Bad timing for a cloud to sit over the institution responsible for fighting inflation.
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Are you curious about what #Trump is up to? It turns out he is #golfing. Lots of it—he has spent 25% of his time in office so far golfing. And spending millions of our dollars to do that, and playing on his courses and booking the money! Follow along at
trumpgolftrack.com

I couldn't agree more. He is simultaneously breaking the economy and the constitution.

This should give us all pause. The moment has come and it didn't take that long. So what happens when Trump tells the #SupremeCourt to pound sand? We are about to find out. We have reached the #constitutionalcrisis and now what?

If we’re heading into a recession — it wasn’t by accident. This isn’t a crisis he inherited. It’s a wreck he engineered, with a sledgehammer he swung. Willfully. Recklessly. Alone. For the first time, an American president chose to break the economy.

Martha has definitely nailed it. There is nothing to add.

And isn't he?!?!? Am I missing something?!?!?!?

This is definitely a badge of courage.

“Not Just Measles”: Whooping Cough Cases Are Soaring as Vaccine Rates Decline While much of the country is focused on the spiraling measles outbreak, experts warn that whooping cough and other preventable diseases could get much worse with falling vaccination rates and Trump’s ...

While much of the country is focused on the spiraling measles outbreak, experts warn that whooping cough and other preventable diseases could get much worse with falling vaccination rates and Trump’s slashing of public health infrastructure.
www.propublica.org/article/whoo...

California university to expand student minds with new psychedelic studies course California Institute of Integral Studies, located in San Francisco, will welcome its first undergrad class this August

Of course, it would be in #SanFrancisco! #Psychedelics are having a moment in both research and medicine and how appropriate that the first college undergraduate degree is in San Francisco.
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I loved watching RepSteven Horsford (D-Nevada) grill Jamieson Greer, Trump's Trade Representative, about trade tariffs. He was boldly speaking truth to power. You don't have the S&P 500 surge 8.5% in 34 minutes every day. It does make one wonder about market manipulation.
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Trump threatens to end pharmaceuticals tariff exemption The US president vows "major" tariffs on imported medicines - raising fears of an increase in costs for Americans.

Have you ever thought about where most pharmaceuticals are manufactured? The majority come from #China & India. Trump says he will soon announce "major" tariffs on imported pharmaceuticals, ending decades of low-cost global trade in medicines. How is that helping you?
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A new, sweeping round of tariffs shocked Wall Street on Thursday, as upended economic forecasts & intensified worries about global growth sent stock markets tumbling to their worst day since the height of the coronavirus pandemic. The S&P 500 fell almost 5% its worst showing since June 2020.

Which is worse? The leader of the free world spouting complete drivel about its successful economy Or April 2nd, spurred on by delusions Trump announces biggest break in America’s trade policy in over a century & committed the most harmful economic error in 100 yrs

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No surprise!

One minute, she was in an immigration office talking to an officer about her work visa approved months before & allowed her, a Canadian, to work in US. Then she was told to put my hands against the wall, patted down like a criminal before being sent to an ICE center & was unable to talk to a lawyer.

What a great idea and about time!

CARTOON OF THE DAY 😕🇺🇸

RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread (Gift Article) The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say.

rfk jr's attitude toward anyone or thing that gets sick is "if he dies, he dies."

Thank you General CQ Brown for your service to our country!