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Sister, Aunt, Great Aunt, Ally, Buckeye. Every day is a good day to be a positive difference in the life of a child. She/Her. All opinions my own.

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Wow.

10.12.2025 22:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I know they don’t show it all but I would have liked more depth from him as well.

18.11.2025 02:41 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Pritzker: β€œICE is running around the Loop harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States. Now, ICE is making it commonplace.”

29.09.2025 20:39 β€” πŸ‘ 9442    πŸ” 3328    πŸ’¬ 214    πŸ“Œ 106

Pollsters need to start asking the American public whether they think democracy is safe or we’re headed for a dictatorship or we’re already there. We need to know the level of inattention about Trump’s fascist power grab.

12.08.2025 01:35 β€” πŸ‘ 331    πŸ” 94    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 5
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Recipients of a U.S. Climate Science Fellowship Are Put on Unpaid Leave

The Trump administration's proposed budget would slash NOAA's climate research funds.

It still has to pass Congress, but it's already affecting scientists. A program supporting promising new climate scientists furloughed its current cohort and canceled 2025 awards.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/c...

10.07.2025 15:08 β€” πŸ‘ 109    πŸ” 40    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 3
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Trump went golfing today as flooding hit Texas. 20 children are now missing from a girls camp.

05.07.2025 03:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1631    πŸ” 535    πŸ’¬ 189    πŸ“Œ 50

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years.

NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

24.06.2025 22:20 β€” πŸ‘ 2803    πŸ” 1522    πŸ’¬ 108    πŸ“Œ 496
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SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice Justice Sotomayor called the order a "gross ... abuse" of the court's authority. Also: Law Dork in the media.

"SCOTUS allows Trump admin to deport people to random countries with no notice"

Honestly still can't believe that I wrote this headline today, let alone that the U.S. Supreme Court's majority did so.

24.06.2025 01:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1948    πŸ” 680    πŸ’¬ 84    πŸ“Œ 91
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A White Nationalist Wrote a Law School Paper Promoting Racist Views. It Won Him an Award.

Words fail me.

www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...

21.06.2025 10:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1726    πŸ” 439    πŸ’¬ 124    πŸ“Œ 279
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β€˜Extremely disturbing and unethical’: new rules allow VA doctors to refuse to treat Democrats, unmarried veterans Trump order allows VA staff to decline providing healthcare to patients based on political affiliation or marital status

"I'd heal you if you were more in favor of taking food and medicine from the poor."

--GOP Jesus
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

17.06.2025 13:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1749    πŸ” 602    πŸ’¬ 108    πŸ“Œ 50

Target is doubling down on the dipshittery for some reason.

28.05.2025 00:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1705    πŸ” 263    πŸ’¬ 147    πŸ“Œ 19

It is a little weird to me countries aren’t more aggressively, formally trying to take advantage of the U.S. science brain drain. Once in a lifetime opportunity to buy low on Non-Dumbass Americans with PhDs who just wanna look into microscopes and quietly cure ass cancer as our country eats shit.

04.05.2025 20:54 β€” πŸ‘ 34870    πŸ” 4824    πŸ’¬ 1238    πŸ“Œ 421
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Welp, the federal minimum wage is now officially a poverty wage (as in, a full-time worker earning the federal minimum wage gets paid less than the poverty line for a single person). www.epi.org/blog/the-fed...

28.04.2025 16:58 β€” πŸ‘ 990    πŸ” 484    πŸ’¬ 29    πŸ“Œ 20
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USDA withdraws a plan to limit salmonella levels in raw poultry The Agriculture Department says it is withdrawing a plan to limit salmonella bacteria in poultry products.

We are here now. πŸ§ͺ

(The suspension of milk testing by the FDA was announced last week try to keep up)

www.seattletimes.com/business/usd...

25.04.2025 01:50 β€” πŸ‘ 194    πŸ” 86    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 17
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HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.

The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.

22.04.2025 19:14 β€” πŸ‘ 19289    πŸ” 9979    πŸ’¬ 3169    πŸ“Œ 3400
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Judge Xinis in Tuesday eve order homes in on key issue:

"Abrego Garcia appears to remain inexplicably detained in CECOT."

She cites text in written agreement with El Salvador showing US control: That detainees are kept in CECOT β€œpending the United States’ decision on their long-term disposition.”

15.04.2025 22:52 β€” πŸ‘ 9773    πŸ” 3456    πŸ’¬ 295    πŸ“Œ 249
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Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?"

Senior Citizen: β€œIf I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say β€˜no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said β€˜screw it’”

β€œI’M PISSED!”

15.04.2025 20:46 β€” πŸ‘ 36381    πŸ” 9350    πŸ’¬ 1217    πŸ“Œ 1003
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If the Marshals Go Rogue, Courts Have Other Ways to Enforce their Orders Opinion | Even a rogue marshal’s service is not an insurmountable obstacle to courts enforcing the rule of law.

I suggest everyone become very, very familiar with this piece by law Professor @david.noll.org. I suspect you will be referring to it often. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/if-t...

15.04.2025 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 12204    πŸ” 5347    πŸ’¬ 436    πŸ“Œ 334
Go to the online DC or Florida Bar orgs and file a complaint against Pam Bondi for not complying with the Supreme Court ruling to return Mr. Garcia from El Salvador. Her bar # is 886440.

Go to the online DC or Florida Bar orgs and file a complaint against Pam Bondi for not complying with the Supreme Court ruling to return Mr. Garcia from El Salvador. Her bar # is 886440.

This is something we can all do.πŸ‘‡πŸΌ

File a complaint with the FL and DC Bar to have Pam Bondi disbarred for not complying with the 9-0 Supreme Court ruling to return Mr. Garcia from El Salvador.

16.04.2025 02:01 β€” πŸ‘ 18739    πŸ” 8387    πŸ’¬ 435    πŸ“Œ 625

Let’s be clear. When the President defies the Supreme Court, it is the role of Congress to remove him from office. Full stop.

15.04.2025 21:30 β€” πŸ‘ 64311    πŸ” 17739    πŸ’¬ 1737    πŸ“Œ 945
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Exclusive: Trump health layoffs include staff overseeing bird flu response, source says The Trump administration has fired staff who were working on the Food and Drug Administration's bird flu response as part of its mass layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services, according to a source familiar with the situation.

Trump health layoffs include staff overseeing bird flu response.

Among those fired on Tuesday were leadership and administrative staff at the FDA's Center for Veterinary Medicine.

#MomSky
www.reuters.com/business/hea...

01.04.2025 21:19 β€” πŸ‘ 174    πŸ” 114    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 19
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Saying β€˜pandemic is over,’ NIH institute starts cutting COVID-19 research Grant terminations halt research on improving vaccinations and preventing future pandemics

...a β€œpointless, ill-advised move that will hurt U.S. science and pandemic readiness,” says Charles Rice, a Nobel Prize–winning virologist at Rockefeller University

www.science.org/content/arti...

25.03.2025 21:47 β€” πŸ‘ 76    πŸ” 51    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 5
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It is a sad day for the legal industry. Paul Weiss, didn't just bend a knee, it set a new standard for shameful capitulation. This is a stain on the firm, every one of its partners, and the entire legal profession.

20.03.2025 23:25 β€” πŸ‘ 34487    πŸ” 10409    πŸ’¬ 2729    πŸ“Œ 1027
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We’re Finally Seeing the β€œEvidence” Against the Migrants Deported by Trump. It’s Unbelievable. The Trump admin said a soccer player had a gang tattoo. It’s a tattoo of Real Madrid’s logo.

We’re Finally Seeing the β€œEvidence” Against the Migrants Deported by Trump. It’s Unbelievable.
flip.it/w9I3VK
Folks with ANY tattoo were lawlessly deported & imprisoned in El Salvadorβ€”under β€œcolor of law”.

This DOJ won’t obvi prosecute these 18 USC 242 crimes…but states could (for state crimes)!

20.03.2025 23:25 β€” πŸ‘ 179    πŸ” 95    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 8
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Federal Cuts Threaten Babies and Preschoolers with Disabilities from All Angles Slashing the U.S. Department of Education, Medicaid, and more hurts young children with delays and disabilities.

Something I haven't seen covered extensively with regards to the Department of Education is the fact that the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act (IDEA) funds early intervention services, along with Medicaid. EI is usually free, or very low cost for families.

20.03.2025 23:46 β€” πŸ‘ 881    πŸ” 323    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 26

for the one millionth time, the dept of education just monitors access to education. civil rights, title ix, disabilities, making sure everybody gets a fair opportunity.

this is not about curriculum. states design those standards. this is an attack on the idea of fairness in education.

20.03.2025 23:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2874    πŸ” 726    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 16
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Brown University advises all international community members to postpone, reconsider travel One week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including green card holders and permanent residents, to postpone international travel in a campus-wide email sent on Sunda...

Chilling report from Brown University.

Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities.

Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.

17.03.2025 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2953    πŸ” 1563    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 194

Everything Trump is doing with Palestinians, Venezuelan and Muslim immigrants are test cases for broad authoritarian rule.

Americans don't realize he'll come after them as well. We never learn.

17.03.2025 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 2834    πŸ” 734    πŸ’¬ 73    πŸ“Œ 37

Don’t you dare ask for money. Good grief.

14.03.2025 04:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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