Michelle Haarhues

A sticker saying You can be anything be kind in colourful lettering on a white background

For the DOJ, it’s like having to defend a criminal suspect that keeps calling press conferences to brag about their crimes.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Utah study on trans youth care extremely inconvenient for politicians who ordered it The state's ban on gender-affirming pediatric care "cannot be justified" by science, a two-year review concluded.

Republican-sponsored Utah study on trans youth healthcare: The state’s ban on gender-affirming pediatric care “cannot be justified” by science, a two-year review concluded. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Items to find in the next #RunChatHunt. 1. Sunrise or sunset 2. An out-of-season item (like leftover Halloween, Christmas or Easter decor) 3. Body of water 4. A strange mailbox 5. Something from your hometown 6. A bridge 7. Flowers 8. Funky (or funny-to-you) lawn decor 9. A stop sign 10. Postal or delivery vehicle 11. Wagon wheel (old-school wagon wheel or a newer kids wagon wheel) 12. A little free library

No #RunChat today, but don't be sad ... #RunChatHunt is back for the next 40 days!

www.therunchat.com/runchatevents/2025/5/25/40-days-of-runchathunt

The Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 created the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. I reread it today; nothing in the law allows a president to defund PBS and NPR. In fact, Congress specifically sought to insulate public media from political pressure.

I signed up for a full 1 year in advance.

Join us for a quick #RunChat at 8 p.m. ET today!

Day 16
Ruth Bader Ginsburg:
"My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent."
#DATAWIT

Trump Administration Highlights: Judge Orders Halt on Deportations of Venezuelans Under Wartime Law (Gift Article)

Legal ‘Sky can correct me, but this is the most important immigration case so far. If Trump prevails, he could eventually deport any non-citizen at will, by asserting that they are part of an “enemy at war” with the US. And he gets to decide what those words mean.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

As Trump tries to dismantle the Department of Education, remember that his plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the entire department's K-12 budget.

Really think about how twisted this all is.

a picture of an old man with glasses sitting down with his arm out and another man leaning over and touching him. The back ground is yellow.

Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Be kind, always.

DOGE Is Putting Major Government Efficiency Projects at Risk In its apparent quest to cut government spending and improve efficiency, DOGE has fired entire tech teams devoted to those very things.

In its apparent quest to cut government spending and improve efficiency, DOGE has fired entire tech teams devoted to those very things.

Day 9
Dr. Mae Jemison:
"Never limit yourself because of others' limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination."
#DATAWIT

Day 3
Jane Goodall: "What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

BlueSky #RunChat The March 2 #RunChat will be our first-ever chat generated solely by the BlueSky running community! Fill out the form below with your question ideas and then join us for #RunChat at 8 p.m. ET Sunday,…

Thanks for joining #RunChat with YOUR questions. If you submitted a question idea but didn't see it this week, don't worry - we'll be doing this at least one more week. Submit you question ideas in the link below:

Turn up the music to turn down the voices in my head #runchat

Steak dinner is a winner #runchat

Buenos Aires Marathon #runchat

No More Female 4-Stars: Franchetti Firing Leaves Top Ranks Filled by Men Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired Adm. Lisa Franchetti, the Navy's first female chief, last week without any clear explanation -- part of a purge of top uniformed leadership that included the Joint...

NOTE: The opponents of DEI are purging anyone who is not a white man from military leadership

This is not about merit; it’s about normalizing racism and misogyny

Gutting Alzheimer's research.

First reported more than a week ago -- and as yet, this has not been undone. Republicans appear to have not said a word about it.

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

See also...
newrepublic.com/article/1917...

See also...
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Washington Post reporter, specializing in tech, cyber-crime, and the various depredations of Elon Musk.

Alaskans say Medicaid cuts considered by US House could be ‘catastrophic’ State lawmakers said the reconciliation process could lead to a loss of $1 billion in federal funding for Alaska’s Medicaid program.

"Frank traveled this month to DC to speak with Alaska’s congressional delegation... she said she was well received by Begich.

“He assured that he 100% backed us on fighting to not have any cuts to Medicaid,” said Frank. Now, she said she feels betrayed by his vote..."

www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

How Authors Against Book Bans helped defeat attempted library censorship in Florida. If you’ve been following the right wing’s obsessive book-banning over the last few years, you’ve probably heard of Authors Against Book Bans, a coalition of writers, illustrators, and other book pe…

lithub.com/authors-agai...

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No #RunChat today! Instead, we're prepping for the first-ever BlueSky user-generated question chat next week! Fill out the form in the link below and we may feature you on Sunday, March 2: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Trump Uses Lies to Lay the Groundwork for Radical Change Condoms for Gaza? Ukraine started the war with Russia? The president’s manipulations of the truth lay the groundwork for radical change.

In the first month since Trump returned to power, he has demonstrated once again a brazen willingness to advance distortions, conspiracy theories and outright lies to justify major policy decisions. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/23/u...

The USPS goes any and everywhere and can have your package in the recipient's hands within 3 days in the continental US. It runs on weekends. It handles Amazon's volume. It does this all for pennies compared to other services. So many rely on the USPS for meds and business. We need the USPS.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/o...

Firings at FDA Decimated Teams Reviewing AI and Food Safety Staff units evaluating high-tech surgical robots and insulin-delivery systems were gutted by Trump layoffs even though industry fees, not taxpayers, financed the employee salaries.

"...eliminated positions for employees who have played a role in assessing the brain-implant technology in Elon Musk’s Neuralink devices."

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/h...