Julie Gilberg

Go vote, people!

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Basically, you can get fired as a government employee for doing what Jerry Jones and Jaime Dimon did in 2020

I like telling authoritarians where to shove it in multiple languages

By Michael M. Grynbaum Michael Grynbaum reports on media and politics. April 22, 2025 Updated 1:26 p.m. ET CBS News entered a new period of turmoil on Tuesday after the executive producer of "60 Minutes," Bill Owens, said that he would resign from the long-running Sunday news program because he had lost his journalistic independence. In an extraordinary declaration, Mr. Owens — only the third person to run the program in its 57-year history - told his staff in a memo that "over the past months, it has become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it, to make independent decisions based on what was right for '60 Minutes, right for the audience." "So, having defended this show - and what we stand for - from every angle, over time with everything I could, I am stepping aside so the show can move forward," he wrote in the memo, which was obtained by The New York Times.

This is the right thing to do, and it’s a profound shame that he had to do it. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b...

A screenshot of a Reuters article stating that the US FDA suspended milk quality test workforce cuts.

Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.

Hi, BlueSky. It's Hillary.

I've joined up here to help get the word out about an important election in Wisconsin tomorrow, and other ways to defend our democracy against those who think votes can be bought.

🚨 Eakin v. Adams County Board of Elections Learn more here.

🚨BREAKING: Federal court rules that the Pennsylvania date requirement for mail-in ballot violates the First and 14th Amendments. Counties cannot reject ballots from counting undated and wrongly dated mail-in ballots.

A HUGE victory for my law firm, our clients DSCC and DCCC and the voters of PA!

There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security.

Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."

We should compare Social Security, which has never missed a payment since its inception, to Tesla's stock price.

"What if we combined the normal sociopathy of a GOP administration with the absolute destruction of your 401K?"

We Can’t Give In to Fear From Marc | No one wants to speak up. Everyone wants to hide or lay low.

New from me.👇

It does not surprise me that people are worried. I expected many to be concerned. But I did not anticipate that so many leaders across industries and professions would allow fear to silence them. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/we-c...

Friendly reminder: if you are waiting on something from a US-based scientist/reviewer/editor, please realize that we're barely making it through each day putting out non-stop fires and trying not to collapse into tears. We're trying our best, but things will take longer right now. Give grace.

There’s 1 test students in the US to show achievement year to year: NAEP.

NAEP shows TX students mostly peaked in 2015 & 2011.

Supporting Black-owned businesses in Austin isn’t just about shopping local—it’s about investing in culture, community, and economic empowerment. From food trucks to boutiques, let's uplift and celebrate the entrepreneurs shaping our city by highlighting a few from HD49.

There's a deep denial of just how deep the hole was by the time Biden dropped out and how much Harris closed the gap. That's evidenced by how bad the party's margin's deteriorated outside of the swing states (and, by comparison, how well Harris did there).

None of us can be sure what will “work.” You try multiple things and find your way in. Read some histories of the Civil Rights Movement by those who participated. They were never “sure” of what would work. Some campaigns fizzled out. But persistence, creativity, determination, and focus were key.

🚨 New Filing in Mi Familia Vota v. Fontes Learn more.

🚨BREAKING: Ninth Circuit AFFIRMS lower court decision striking down Arizona voter suppression law H.B. 2492 which imposed unconstitutional and burdensome proof of citizenship requirements.

A big victory for our clients and the voters of Arizona. A stinging defeat for the RNC.

Real Texans support public schools.

Our neighborhood #txed schools are the only schools that are a right for 5.5 million kids—so shouldn’t we fully fund them and make them the best choice?

Texas fought for a PUBLIC system of education. That’s the fight today. #txlege

Call me a liar to my face, Governor Abbott.

I stand with the millions of Texas moms with kids in our #txed neighborhood schools who see your con & know the harm you are doing to our students.

I’ll be in my office.

Women in Austin are mobilizing.

More to come.

Don't Defund My School Learn, organize, and defeat school vouchers in Texas.

Taxpayer-funded vouchers take money from your #txed neighborhood school to give to unaccountable private schools all so Abbott’s billionaire donors can turn a profit.

Find out how much your schools will lose:
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To put a finer point on it, the Trump administration is mass firing federal employees and telling them if they dispute their termination that they can take it up with a board that will (I just learned) lack a quorum to function as of March 1 when another of the current board member’s term expires.

Educators and school communities from all over TX are coming to ATX to tell their stories & fight for our kids & our neighborhood schools.

I was honored to join @menendez4texas.bsky.social to speak to Leadership SAISD before they hit the Capitol to hustle for the edu & schools our students deserve.

Uh, this is a nuclear bomb on university budgets if I am reading it correctly. Mandating an indirect cost rate of 15% *overnight*?

Republicans ran into the room to SHEILD Elon Musk from having to come and speak to Congress. They want their billionaire takeover done behind closed doors. The people deserve transparency. No one elected Elon Musk.

When I was a Hill staffer in 2009, a Dem trifecta was trying to pass universal healthcare. In response, Senate GOP released a memo detailing all of the tactics they in the minority could use to delay the effort as much as possible. I'm recirculating that 2009 GOP memo here. Take inspiration from it.

A Ketamine-fueled psychopathic goober has complete control over all of our nation’s money.
All your tax dollars.
The social security money that you earned and paid in, so that you can have it back.
The money for clean air, food, & water.
The money for medical cures, highways, and safe air travel…

Yes totally cool that a 19-year-old who called his deleted LinkedIn "Big Balls," where he lists his experience working as a camp counselor can access the entire US federal payment system without anyone looking into his background, for instance, his Russian national close relatives or anything else

USAID security leaders on leave after trying to keep Musk's DOGE from classified info, officials say The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they refused to turn over classified material to Elon Musk’s government-insp...

This is not normal.

No one elected Musk—but Trump is letting him raid classified material and people's private financial information. A billionaire with his own motives and foreign entanglements.

This is a dangerous, unprecedented power grab. apnews.com/article/doge...