Japanese potato salad 🤩 how did I not know about this? Be still my southern heart!

This morning I finished reading “The Ministry of Time” and we made homemade pop-tarts for the first time.

Both were a revelation.

If you want to know what’s happening here in the US, look at Hungary. They are 15 years into the future with this sh*t.

“…now lives with only the scaffolding of democracy.”

Amateur legal analysis: this is a clear equal protection/title IX/title VI violation and the way you should intent is the executive order targeting DEI and showing that DEI was targeted because of the belief it served these groups

The Trump administration cut federal funding for a research project at Cornell University aimed at developing a heart pump designed for babies and children with congenital heart defects bringing the effort to a halt.

And then they came for AmeriCorps 😥

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‘They’re trying to bankrupt me’: A dairy farmer in West Virginia is feeling Trump’s government spending cuts, which ended up killing a lifeline for his business — a butter contract he had with a food bank that lost its funding reut.rs/4cgLvSo

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

I can’t believe it’s only been 2 months since inauguration. Feels like way more.

Is planting trees 'DEI'? Trump administration cuts nationwide tree-planting effort The Trump administration's efforts to end DEI programs is hitting some unexpected targets, including a nationwide effort planting shade trees in neighborhoods to reduce extreme heat.

The Trump administration's efforts to end DEI programs is hitting some unexpected targets, including a nationwide effort planting shade trees in neighborhoods to reduce extreme heat.

Trump and DOGE Propel V.A. Mental Health System Into Turmoil A chaotic restructuring order threatens to degrade services for veterans of wars in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.

In Veterans Affairs facilities across the U.S., therapy and other mental health services have been thrown into turmoil amid the dramatic changes ordered by President Trump and pushed by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

Sure, I’ll start with a dude’s name that is also a word, why not?

Next, I’ll go for a word that has double the same letter because now I’m feeling sassy!

Solved in 3.

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Monochrome photograph featuring a sitting Black woman in a long dress and white shawl holding knitting pn a table beside her, looking outwards

Sojourner Truth (1797-1883), abolitionist, women's rights advocate, who chose to be photographed with her knitting. As an enslaved person, she had knitted/spun endlessly and when free later in life, she taught knitting to former enslaved women aiding self-sufficiency #womensart

I’m so sorry for this loss. I imagine it is devastating on personal and societal levels.

This is what is happening in the federal grant world. Helping people in need is now framed as wasteful, fraudulent, or in the worst cases (like climate work) criminal.

Is St. Patrick’s Day DEI?

Under the heading “Peak Operational Efficiency,” a person sits at a computer with speech bubbles that say variations of “You’re Fired!” and “Back to Work!,” in addition to directives and retractions regarding sending the manager a list of five accomplishments.

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Sarah Kempa. #NewYorkerCartoons
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If Russia wants peace, they should end the invasion.

This is what House Republicans voted for tonight.

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

LGBTQ federal workers brace for a McCarthyist purge "They’re not asking people, ‘Are you gay? Are you lesbian?’ They’re asking, ‘Who is participating in DEI?'"

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Saw the new Range Rover on the road today and couldn’t help thinking it’s what a Tesla SUV should have been if their CEO wasn’t a complete sociopath.

MAGA in a nutshell:

"Please only viciously hurt *other* people for giggles and kicks!!!"

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

They’re doing project 2025, just like we said they would

I believe most of those were people still in their probationary period that were forcibly fired. They did not choose to leave.

Anti-Racism tells us our rights are only as secure as they are for any demographic. This war on DEI that has swiftly expanded beyond trans people is not a surprise but the expected result.

Stop blaming the fight for trans rights for being a mirror to the bigotry lying in wait.
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To the “trans people make up less than 1% and we alienated voters by centering their rights” people:

It was never just about trans people. They were the scapegoats, the vulnerable flint that fed an intolerant base and gave permission to feel self-righteous about oppressing people.
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I have a word: insanity.