Diane Christopherson

bsky.app/profile/frut...

Tell Costco: Don't Cave to Extremists—Dispense Mifepristone Now! Costco has announced that its pharmacies will NOT dispense mifepristone—a safe, FDA-approved abortion pill used in the majority of abortions nationwide. This dangerous decision is a concession to anti...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/co...

The Department of Energy is quietly slashing disability rights "If we don't put a line in the sand here, other agencies will try and do the same.”

The Department of Energy is quietly slashing disability rights

Fossil fuels get something like 20B in direct subsidies and 950B in untaxed externalities.

The tax credits to zero emissions tech payback 3-4 to 1, only considering climate impacts and not the health costs.
impactlab.org/news-insight....

RFK Jr. sent Congress 'medical disinformation' to defend COVID vaccine schedule change A document circulated to members of Congress misinterprets studies and cites debunked research, scientists say. It could influence congressional perceptions of vaccine safety.

"The HHS document says that another paper it cites found 'an increase in placental blood clotting in pregnant mothers who took the vaccine.'

But the paper doesn't contain any reference to placental blood clots or to pregnant women."

www.npr.org/2025/06/13/n...

Planned ‘No Kings’ protests grow in number after LA militarization: What organizers expect 'The numbers have skyrocketed': protest organizers expect massive crowds nationwide on June 14, including up to 250,000 in Los Angeles.

"Mobilizing military forces into cities is going to be seen as an overreach, and it's going to be now met with peaceful, boisterous moms, dads, grandmas. kids and their dogs and families showing up, saying, 'we're not going to put up with this authoritarianism..."

www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Noem’s Goons crossed the reddest of red lines by attacking and handcuffing a U.S. Senator. In times past Senators of both parties would have rallied behind their fellow Senator and called Noem and her henchmen into the Senate to demand their resignations. MAGA Senators will do nothing.

#ProudBlue

Orlando martyrs: Pulse gay nightclub massacre recalled in art and prayer LGBTQ people and allies use art and prayer to remember the 49 martyrs killed in the massacre at the Pulse gay bar on June 12, 2016, in Orlando, Florida.

LGBTQ people and allies use art and prayer to remember the 49 martyrs killed in the massacre at the Pulse gay bar on June 12, 2016 in Orlando, Florida. Jesus is pictured as one of the shooting victims in “Pulse Christ” by liturgical artist James Day. qspirit.net/orlando-mart...

The most inspiring chapters in our nation's history came when Americans faced down some of our country's darkest demons.

Those moments, like our own, were difficult to live through but also brought the chance to bring out the best in us, with enduring consequences.

Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board Resignation Statement Effective immediately, members of the Congressionally mandated Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board voted overwhelmingly to resign from the board, rather than endorse unprecedented actions that we beli...

The entire board tasked with overseeing the State Department's Fulbright Program has resigned — claiming political interference from the Trump admin.
 
The Board voted "overwhelmingly" to resign "rather than endorse unprecedented actions … impermissible under the law." substack.com/home/post/p-...

Bipartisan House Members Urge Secretary Rubio to Save Program Tracking Kidnapped Ukrainian Children Washington, D.C.—Today, U.S. Representative Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), an active member of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus, led a bipartisan group of colleagues in urging State Secretary Marco Rubio to...

Bipartisan House Members Urge Secretary Rubio to Save Program Tracking Kidnapped Ukrainian Children
doggett.house.gov/media/press-...

It should be a priority for these guys to be informed somehow that ICE gets hotel rooms.

Where are the Marines going to bunk?

Peaceful protest is the bedrock of our movement.

Thousands demonstrated exactly that – coming together to demand the release of David Huerta and to call for an end to the cruel, destructive, and indiscriminate ICE raids that are tearing apart our communities.

#FreeDavidEndRaids

This isn’t even remotely legal what he is doing.

Desperately starving people do not queue in orderly lines. It is utterly ridiculous to set up the area around the distribution site as a combat zone between 6 PM and 6 AM so if anybody shows up early they get murdered. This is a shooting gallery. This doesn't comply with any of the best practices.

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

In an act of integrity and resistance, a supervisor in the Nashville federal prosecutor’s office resigned over how the Abrego Garcia case was being handled. The charges are bogus, pure political theater meant to justify a wrongful abduction.

Pam Bondi is making a lot of claims about Garcia that he isn't being charged with.

If he smuggled weapons and drugs, why isn't that charged? if he solicited explicit child videos - why isn't that charged either?

What unites countries under Trump’s travel ban is American imperialism | Heba Gowayed US’s cruel escalation of policy puts misplaced target on vulnerable nations such as Afghanistan and Sudan

"If we sit with this list a little longer, though, with attention to the history of the world we share, we can see a different unifying logic. All of these countries are in the global south, their citizens are racialized as Black or brown and Muslim. Most have high poverty rates."

Law Professor @rgoodlaw.bsky.social catches DOJ in a contradiction in the Abrego Garcia case. A major one.

One attorney, Lizbeth Mateo, said ICE officials slated several of her clients for check-ins at the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building in downtown L.A. but when they showed up on Tuesday, they were detained and immediately escorted to the basement. Mateo said a couple and their two children, one of whom is a U.S. citizen, spent the night in a room with no beds and limited access to food and water. Mateo said the father had previously been issued a stay of removal, barring him from deportation but he and his family were detained anyway. His wife was released Wednesday evening along with their children since she needed medical attention due to a high-risk pregnancy. He was still being detained early Friday, Mateo said.

🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles.

Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

This updates and confirms previous analyses by Adam on the distribution of probationary cuts. DOGE was broadly a downsizing project, but a highly ideological one.

What?!

"Staff of the Federal Emergency Management Agency were left baffled on Monday after the head of the U.S. disaster agency said during a briefing that he had not been aware the country has a hurricane season, according to four sources familiar with the situation."

🇺🇦 Today the Ukrainian side officially handed over to the Russian side a list of Ukrainian children who need to be returned, - Yermak

These are hundreds of children who Russia has illegally deported, forcibly relocated or is holding in temporarily occupied territories.

Trump is forcing this dirty, costly coal plant to stay open The White House is taking unprecedented actions to steer the power grid away from clean energy and toward more fossil fuels.

The Trump administration is taking unprecedented actions to steer the power grid away from clean energy and toward more fossil fuels, like reversing Michigan’s plan to retire an aging power plant, forcing it to remain open and continue burning coal.

Trump uses massive amounts of federal resource to visit his golf clubs.

Why won’t House Republicans cut these trips instead of Medicaid?

Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death

"there is no word in any language that captures the level of obliviousness..."

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Musk did irreversible damage to the US civil service, soft power, science, education. His teams stole data and broke the law."I was on drugs and had family trouble" is not an excuse.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...