Cyd Haug-West

FDA wants to limit access to the COVID vaccine. Speak up.

"Lonely Boy." I love my '70s stations, but that song is an instant channel change. I specifically will not listen to 70s on 7 while I'm in the shower because then if it comes on, I'm trapped, unable to escape from that awful, self-centered whinefest.

Reinstate Target's DEI Programs NOW! When companies invest in DEI, they invest in people. Now's the time for Target to stand firm in its values, not retreat. Will you add your name to call on Target's leadership to reinstate its DEI prog...

When companies invest in DEI, they invest in people. Now's the time for Target to stand firm in its values, not retreat. Will you add your name to call on Target's leadership to reinstate its DEI programs? sign.moveon.org/petitions/ta...

This is all of Medicaid, by the way. This means people will die. It means disabled kids like my son will lose our extra medical coverage and our waiver funds that help pay for his care.

This will devastate the country in ways you cannot imagine.

An absolutely hate-filled group of people

Remember that a mask does more than protect against covid.

A well fitted respirator will also keep you safe from flu, measles, TB and other airborne viruses. It will keep those around you safe if you’re sick.

It’s an easy way to demonstrate community care and solidarity.

"I am not leaving my patients": What it's like to treat trans kids under Trump A Nebraska doctor on Trump's new barriers—and old lies—around gender-affirming care.

"I am not leaving my patients": What it's like to treat trans kids under Trump www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I understand it took Hitler 53 days to dismantle a democracy. What is happening within the US government should be alarming to everyone inside and outside the United States. Calling this a kakistocracy may turn out to be an understatement.

This is an absolute disaster.

Musk's team given access to U.S. government payment system, New York Times says A Treasury official tried to stop the move, and has since retired, the Times reported.

This is absolutely terrifying. www.reuters.com/world/uk/mus...

Two wristbands on the hairy arm of a pale-skinned person. One says Stay Kind. The other says HUMAN; the letters are the colors of the pride flag.

Wrist reminders today. I won't be erased.

Musk is leading a coup.

“Staff are being asked to alter signature blocks by 5 p.m. ET today … Pronouns and any other information not permitted in the policy must be removed from CDC/ATSDR employee signatures”

According to leaked emails, CDC staff have been ordered to remove pronouns from their email signatures by 5pm today.

Dear Mitch McConnell,

I want you to know, before you shuffle off this mortal coil, that you are the single person who bears the most blame for the ongoing destruction of the United States Government. You knew better. You did it anyway.

NEW: In response to orders by the Trump admin, the CDC has taken down the Household Pulse Survey, one of the biggest and most important sources of Long COVID data in the world.

The US government is literally erasing the existence of Long COVID.

Simply put: we need y'all to get fucking angry. We need y'all to be pissed. We need y'all to reflect what we're feeling right now. We need to know that you feel our collective pulse.

At bare minimum--the very bare minimum--we need y'all to show some goddamn fire.

It's not that rhetoric isn't useful. It's that not only is there an absence of a plan to combat what we're seeing, but on top of that, the rhetoric from many Democratic lawmakers feels detached. The messaging is ludicrously subdued. Unhelpfully formal. There is a massive failure in reading the room.

Democratic lawmakers need to understand something:

Imagine your house is on fire. Fire truck shows up. Firefighters get out. They look at the fire, then at you, and say: "Such a fire is a grave threat. This house will not sustain."

And just stand there.

This is how many of you are coming across.

An important idea for dealing with Trump, from north of the border Friends,

An important idea for dealing with Trump, from north of the border
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

Leader Jeffries: God Gave Us Free Will -- Use It We have enough prayers. We need action.

"Sir, the House Democratic Caucus is failing to meet this moment. By a lot. There were ten weeks between Election Day and Inauguration, and it’s not as though y’all didn’t know in advance the rough sketch for what’s occurred over the past eight days."

charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/leader-jef...

Read, share, act.

Trump is essentially carrying out an illegal shutdown of the federal government, putting tens of millions of American lives at risk.

Dems in Congress: this is a very easy call. Announce an immediate boycott of all nominations and legislation until federal funding is restored.

Clearly illegal This isn't about cutting the size of government. It's about further concentrating power in Trump's hands.

Clearly illegal
open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

I just finished A Canticle for Leibowitz. I'm going to need some internal processing time before I start something else. Written in 1959 but feels like it could have been written just a few years ago. Highly recommend.