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US effectively moving to a system where tax policy is set by the executive branch, fully adhoc, unpredictable, and bespoke per company, and based in large part on the presidents' personal relationships with the company's leadership

OK, a few things on this absurdity:
1. The 2020 Census was conducted by the Trump administration.
2. The only systematic results of undercounts that the Census has acknowledged were undercounting communities of color in almost all states.

In L.A., police nightsticks are clubbing press freedom to death | Will Bunch On Friday, LAPD cops allegedly battered and detained journalists at a protest — the ugliest of the many threats to U.S. press freedom.

The press freedom crisis in America isn't only billionaires bowing down at big outlets like CBS, the Post. In L.A., elsewhere, indie journalists at protests are getting beat up or arrested by cops, a chilling sign of an authoritarian U.S. police state

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/los-...

A common milkweed leaf is being chomped on by a yellow, white, and black monarch butterfly caterpillar. It is on the underside of the leaf. Next to it, a yellow and black bumblebee sits resting and drying off.

I feel this! I have a nest that placed itself right at the entrance of the walk to the house from the driveway, where it happens my pollinator and kitchen garden are both adjacent to. So I've currently put up a warning sign and roped it off because I can't think of a way to treat it.

Pete Hegseth shares a clip saying women shouldn’t have the right to vote, the 19th Amendment should be “repealed,” and women should “submit” to their husbands: “All of Christ for All of Life”

We've become so accustomed to lawbreaking that this probably won't ripple much, but it is important not to forget that firing the IRS Commissioner for refusing to break the law--if that's in fact what happened here--would and should prompt immediate articles of impeachment in any other presidency.

Cuyahoga River pollution in Cleveland

Discarded pesticide containers. U.S. National Archives photo. (Vice article)

The smog rolls over Manhattan. U.S. National Archives Photo. (Vice article)

Baltimore Harbor filled with tires. U.S. National Archives photo. (Vice article)

Trump's EPA has drafted a plan that would end the federal government's ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

This is what America looked like before environmental protections.

We can't go back.

“As a public university, we are stewards of taxpayer resources, and a payment of this scale would completely devastate our country’s greatest public university system as well as inflict great harm on our students and all Californians.” —UC President James B. Milliken

How Trump’s Acting U.S. Attorneys Are Driving the DOJ’s Partisan Turn Read about the fight for democracy from activists, elected officials, legal experts and others.

NEW ANALYSIS: To keep loyalists at the helm of U.S. attorneys’ offices, legal experts warn that Trump and the DOJ are exploiting loopholes and making extraordinary claims of presidential power that circumvent the appointment processes laid out by the Constitution and federal statutes.

When Tucson organizes, things happen The Tucson activist’s cookbook … Project Blue timeline … And a weirdly prescient laugh.

I’m an Education Specialist at Watershed Mgmt Group (water consv nonprf). We threw ourselves into public education. No Desert Data Center, informal coalition, sprung up and did incredible resistance organizing. Tucson pulled together. & we won. Summary here: tucsonagenda.substack.com/p/when-tucso...

The FBI As We Knew It is Gone It took a hundred years to create the Bureau as we knew it. And it took one dinner at the White House to destroy it.

I know we have seen a lot of agencies being hobbled and dismantled over the last six months. But the coup happening at the FBI should worry you the most asharangappa.substack.com/p/the-fbi-as...

Last night, LAPD violently attacked demonstrators and the press. What was the subject? Violent raids by ICE that are prohibited by a federal judge's court order.

And, there is Temporary Restraining Order from a judge barring police from attacking/assaulting and arresting journalists.

Spike in homelessness followed Cuomo’s move to cut off voucher funds as governor The shelter population spiked 35 percent in less than three years after the end of the Advantage program.

And on homelessness, for that single mom and her kids he’s crying crocodile tears for:

In a spat w/Bloomberg, Cuomo eliminated state funding for a rental voucher program known as Advantage, that helped people move out of shelter.

The result: homelessness spiked.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

True: @zohranmamdani lives in 1 unit of rent-stabilized housing.

Also true: Andrew Cuomo oversaw the loss of 96,064 units of rent-stabilized housing. And killed NYC’s program helping people move out of shelter.

Leaders must show moral clarity. Andrew, time to move out. 🧵
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A video arguing that women shouldn’t be able to vote was just shared by Trump’s Secretary of Defense, the guy in charge of our whole military.

And Democratic Party leaders still can’t stand up to this administration?! Our rights are on the line and all our party leaders offer us is silence.

Are Americans aware that down here in Mexico we’ve been getting bombarded for months with ads of Kristi Noem telling us to our face that we’re out welcome in the US, and that these ads even found their way into our national TV broadcasts

Because I feel like I have seen nobody mention it

if you're reporting on the UCLA shakedown, you should ask the gov. what the legal basis for the $1 billion demand is. if they point to title VI, ask how a billion dollar demand squares with the limited remedies available by law. if they say the False Claims Act, ask which specific contracts.

I'm sorry. Does this asshole think that I get to pocket NIH grant dollars in my personal account?

I once had a refund from a canceled purchase that had a seven dollar discrepancy (resulting from changing exchange rates). I had to pay that shit back to the grant out of my pocket

Yet another helpful explainer to counter the ignorant disinformation spouted by the unqualified extremist who is currently destroying the HHS

Video shows Department of Justice official urging Jan. 6 rioters to 'kill' cops The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

The Department of Justice hired a former Jan. 6 defendant who was caught on tape urging rioters to "kill" police. The department calls him a "valued member" of the administration.

US Health Department Pulls Back on Funding mRNA Vaccine Research The US Department of Health and Human Services is ending contracts to develop vaccines using messenger RNA technology, another step in the agency’s changing practices toward vaccines under Secretary R...

Government announces plan to kill more Americans

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Health secretary RFK Jr. shuts door on U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news that RFK Jr. has shut the door in U.S. investment in mRNA vaccine research.

WHAT, WHAT, WHAT ARE WE DOING!!!
“Vaccine experts and people steeped in pandemic preparedness expressed horror at the news.” www.statnews.com/2025/08/05/m...

I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.

We figured out to *cure cancer* (ref: last year’s pancreatic cancer trials) and the Trump administration decided “nah.” That a society could reject a cure for cancer is astounding.

RFK Jr. pulls $500 million in funding for vaccine development

Trump and RFK are slashing $500M in mRNA vaccine funding—jeopardizing lifesaving research.

We should be investing in pandemic preparedness, not gutting it.

This is reckless. This is dangerous. This will cost lives. We must fight back.

What’s Behind Trump’s New (Old) Physical-Fitness Test? He misrepresented the history of the gym-class test. I know because I served on the council that helped modernize it.

"Trump described the initiative, with characteristic fanfare, as a return to tradition that was urgently needed because, he claimed, President Obama had 'eliminated' the fitness test. That was simply not true."

This is why Donald is crying about Elizabeth Warren.

The rage. I have to use stock photography in my line of work; I pay for it, I am totally above board, I don't steal content ever, I pay artists for their work and I make money too it's all good, creatives unite. But it's getting nearly impossible to weed out the AI from all my sourcing sites.

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