keep on going booker! 💙

@booker.senate.gov @corybooker.com

USDA cuts over $1 billion in funding for schools, local food purchases The U.S. Agriculture Department has cut two federal programs that spent over $1 billion annually to help schools and food banks buy food from local farms and ranches, according to a school group and a Politico report on Monday.

www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...

America first. Dr. Seuss

Hmmm this guy is on to something

I'm a Clinical Social Worker. I've served folks thousands of low income and unhoused folks during my career and I can tell you this is the absolute truth.

WATCH — @emmavigeland.bsky.social : “Trump is the privatization President. An agenda of authoritarianism and mass privatization.”

what a day

Especially after today…

In Early-Phase Pancreatic Cancer Clinical Trial, Investigational mRNA Vaccine Induces Sustained Immune Activity in Small Patient Group Learn how MSK researchers are deploying mRNA vaccines against pancreatic cancer.

I wonder if spreading extremely encouraging experimental results on helping treat pancreatic cancer with *gasp* mRNA vaccines may help people who have villainized them come around. This is a good press release on the study and links to the Nature paper. www.mskcc.org/news/can-mrn...

We must have missed where the right wing media went after Elon for not wearing a suit

This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II.

Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

UNITED24 - The initiative of the President of Ukraine UNITED24 was launched by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the main venue for collecting charitable donations in support of Ukraine. Funds will be transferred to the official accounts of...

United24 is our government's initiative aimed exactly at that. All donations are collected directly by the National Bank of Ukraine and then redistributed to a relevant ministry.
u24.gov.ua

Trump administration actions, Elon Musk’s DOGE news and Ukraine policy: Live updates | CNN Politics President Donald Trump and his administration are continuing to try and implement his agenda amid multiple legal challenges. Follow for live updates.

www.cnn.com/politics/liv...

Trump administration cuts to CDC will affect 9/11 responders, critics say Critics say the Trump administrations cuts to CDC staff will negatively affect a health fund for 9/11 first responders.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

Live updates: Trump rails against Zelensky while federal overhaul takes shape in the US | CNN Politics President Donald Trump is forging ahead with his federal government overhaul as his administration’s changes face multiple legal challenges. Follow here for the latest.

www.cnn.com/politics/liv...

DOGE, Education Department threaten states’ funding if they don’t cut DEI programs A letter penned by the Education Department and posted to X by DOGE gives state education departments 14 days to comply.

www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Hey sorry I just saw this. We had a full car .

Spend mid day today pat an unpermitted🤣 protest at Washington state capitol!

CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired

CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health

EIS officers investigate disease outbreaks and health threats in the U.S. and abroad www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

Muhsin Hendricks, world’s ‘first openly gay imam’, shot dead in South Africa Police say motive for killing of Hendricks, who ran a mosque for LGBTQ+ Muslims near Cape Town, is unknown

Muhsin Hendricks, world’s ‘first openly gay imam’, shot dead in South Africa | South Africa | The Guardian

Horrific

You cannot determine whether you saved or cost money based solely on one side of the ledger.

Example: I saved my household $2K by not paying the mortgage.

Your friendly neighborhood librarian here...buy physical copies of your favorite books, especially challenged or banned books. Preferably from small local merchants. That's all; carry on. #Read #BookSky #Resist 📚

Exactly 😡

Yes, indeed — what the fuck!!! 😡

With Handmaids Tale people focus on the shock of the mass rapes in the book and the show.

But how the regime came to be in power in that book keeps me awake at night because it is playing out in very intricate detail in our real lives right now.

I repeat…