‘In Three Months, Half of Them Will Be Dead’ Elon Musk promised to preserve lifesaving aid to foreign children. Then the Trump administration quietly canceled it.

Two American companies manufacture an emergency food product that can save starving children, even those who are days away from death by malnutrition. @hana-kiros.bsky.social spoke to those companies, who now have no way to get their product overseas www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

Our public lands are not for sale. Speak out. Please share this. ‼️‼️🔔

Millions Stood Up: April 5 Hands Off Day of Action I was the closing speaker at the ebullient San Francisco Hands Off rally, and when I got home later I scoured the news for  reports on the more than one thousand other rallies. Of course people would ...

If one of us stands up, they can pick that person off. If ten or a hundred or a thousand, they can pick those people off. And they're picking off people--immigrants, dissidents--to make an example of them. But if ten million people stand up, they cannot stop us all.

@sulliview.bsky.social writes that tamped down coverage of the nationwide demonstrations is a sign that the media "refs have been successfully worked," by a Trump administration that's painted a target on any outlet that doesn't toe the official line.

margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/big-protes...

Also this: bsky.app/profile/sier...

The stupid coup's stupid energy policy--coal is just a dirty, expensive, moribund way to make electricity, and it's also some kind of symbolic Ye Mannehood of Olde stuff that the right gets all sentimental about, while screwing over actual coal miners.

Attention Arizona: Report Social Security Disruptions Attorney General Kris Mayes continues to hold the federal government accountable for the illegal and unconstitutional actions by President Trump and Elon Musk, including reversing devastating federal ...

Here's the webpage put up by the office of Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes for people to notify her office if they're havig problems dealing with Social Security.

Every state AG's office could do this. Might help.

www.azag.gov/socialsecurity

Did climate change supercharge the 'once-in-a-lifetime' storm pummeling the central US? A relentless storm is unleashing floods and tornadoes. Here's how a warmer atmosphere and a simmering Gulf of Mexico may be making it worse.

The answer to this question is always YES.

Every extreme event today occurs over a background of changed conditions that dynamically affect temperature, rainfall, and more.

The real question is, “by how much did climate change make this event worse”? That’s the info attribution science provides.

Yes, by the time I got home to trade off with my husband in kid duty, there just wasn't time for him to vote.

Haley Britzky @halbritz AFRICOM commander Gen. Langley tells senators that China is "trying to replicate" USAID programs in Africa as the US scales back USAID. "They're trying to use that as an extension of the Belt and Road Initiative to gain favor by the African countries," Langley said.

Wow who could’ve guessed that this would happen

It’s almost as if USAID was a pillar of American soft power and influence in the world

It’s almost as if it was entirely predictable that America’s adversaries would work to fill the void left by USAID’s destruction

Justice Dept. Official Says She Was Fired After Opposing Restoring Mel Gibson’s Gun Rights Elizabeth G. Oyer, the former pardon attorney, said that she was not told why she was dismissed, but that as events unfolded she feared they might lead to her firing.

This is really remarkable. A pardon attorney was told that Gibson was a personal friend of the President and she should recommend he be given his access to guns back. She didn't and was immediately fired.

They will fire lawyers who won't bless their cronyism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/u...

I love this! We had a Barred Owl sitting on a tree outside my work window for three weeks recently.

Chaos at the V.A.: Inside the DOGE Cuts Disrupting the Veterans Agency Clinical trials have been delayed, contracts canceled and support staff fired. With deeper cuts coming, some are warning of potential harms to veterans.

A leaked memo reveals that DOGE's next target is the VA, with plans to fire more than 80,000 agency workers who provide critical services to veterans and their families.

More than 25% of agency staff are veterans themselves. 

How is this "efficiency"?

FAA targeting Verizon contract in favor of Musk’s Starlink, sources say Turning the $2.4 billion project over to Musk’s company would be a major test of conflict-of-interest rules in government contracting.

"Instead, Musk’s team determined the job should go to Starlink." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

We’ve received too many reports about GOP voicemails being full for this to be a coincidence.

If your Republican representative is avoiding you, show up to one of their local offices.

You can also send an email to make it clear you don’t want to pay the price for the GOP’s billionaire tax breaks.

He said he was “deporting criminals” but he’s actually importing them…

Just want to add that "restoring" a program or team or mission is like glueing the fragments together after you broke something. It's not as though it didn't happen, as though you didn't damage it (and in this case, the glue has not been supplied or applied).

YouTube video by The Intellectualist Trump's Economic Policies Fueling Fears of Major U.S. Recession

Trump's Economic Policies Fueling Fears of Major U.S. Recession

🚨In this video, we review how Trump’s tariffs, federal job cuts, and economic policies are fueling fears of a 2025 recession, with experts warning of mass layoffs and market turmoil.
www.youtube.com/shorts/qdfT8...

Cruel and Usual: Republicans Prepare to Gut Medicaid And their own supporters will be among the biggest victims

Cruel and Usual: Republicans Prepare to Gut Medicaid. And their own supporters will be among the biggest victims, by @pkrugman.bsky.social paulkrugman.substack.com/p/cruel-and-... via @paulkrugman.substack.com.web.brid.gy @crof.bsky.social

This is what House Republicans voted for tonight.

Another reminder that we have socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for the rest.

Hundreds of political scientists sign letter "to express our urgent concern about threats to the basic design of American government and democracy" and ask administration to "reverse course" on actions that "can undermine democracies and destroy the rule of law."

drive.google.com/file/d/1lGk2...

Only One Big Economy Is Aiming for Paris Agreement’s 1.5C Goal The UK is currently an outlier with an increasingly ambitious climate plan after more than 170 countries missed a UN deadline.

New from me: The UK's climate plan for the period to 2035 is the only one that gets anywhere near the ambition required to limit warming to below 2C, observers say. Will anyone else follow suit? Story with @akshatrathi.bsky.social & @zhirji.bsky.social. Gift link:

Never give up!

Dry growing seasons predicted Central American migration to the US from 2012 to 2018 - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Dry growing seasons predicted Central American migration to the US from 2012 to 2018

We did a paper with Andrew Linke and colleagues on how hotter and drier than normal conditions in Central America were associated with the recent migration surge at the border. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The CFPB has returned $21 billion to 205 million consumers who were scammed at the hands of predatory banks. You can root out waste, fraud, and abuse... or you can eliminate the CFPB. But you can't do both.

Elon Musk's DOGE office budget more than doubles from $6.5 to $14.4 million Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, focused on cutting government waste and spending, has more than doubled its own spending.

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, focused on cutting government waste and spending, has more than doubled its own spending.

My Mom is a miner's daughter. Her whole family fought Nazis.
She was walking through the snow with her walker when a woman asked her,"Will we survive Trump?"
"Of course we will," Mom replied. "I don't need asparagus. I'll eat root vegetables. We've done it before."
That's Canada.
#strongasfuck

We knew this. Stay calm, stay #strongasfuck. We will never bow down. Keep buying Canadian and do everything you can to get Mark Carney elected.

With the clear and present danger of another country invading OUR country to rape our beautiful resources, the only vote in Fed election is #MarkCarney
Widely respected worldwide & knows the $ aspect and strings to pull better than anyone.
#SaveCanadaLand
#NeverPoilievre
#VoteLiberal
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