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DOGE, Education Department threaten states’ funding if they don’t cut DEI programs A letter penned by the Education Department and posted to X by DOGE gives state education departments 14 days to comply.

It’s going to be fun being a parent or school age children during this DEI witch hunt, because I will raise hell at the school board meetings. I got a flexible schedule and a grumpy disposition. Let’s go. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

Also, I friendly reminder that he has no authority to withhold funding and that Congress has abandoned their post.

sreenshot from the new york times reporting that Stanford University’s provost is talking about how the loss of funding from national institutes of health funding will cost the university $160 million. that’s not the way to get this changed — the people think “stanford is rich; no big deal.” leaders need to talk about what this will cost the public

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!

EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump signs sweeping order on death penalty, compels attorney general to help ensure states have lethal injection drugs.

Initial Rescissions Of Harmful Executive Orders And Actions – The White House By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as

Here’s the list of the 78 Biden-era executive orders that have been reversed by Trump.

A black background with a Palestinian Flag. A photo of Umaymah Mohammad holding a microphone. Red text says "CALL FOR COMMUNITY SUPPORT." White text on red background says "Emory School of Medicine Suspends Umaymah Mohammad, Palestinian MD/PhD student and organizer."  Logos at the bottom for Do No Harm Coalition, Healthcare Workers for Palestine, National Students for Justice in Palestine, Palestine Solidarity Working Group, Doctors Against Genocide, Medical Students for Justice in Palestine, and Palestinian Youth Movement.

Umaymah has been under attack for over a year by Emory for her public comments about the university's complicity in gen0cide. We demand that Emory drop the suspension charges & stop targeting students protesting gen0cide
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U.S. egg industry sees record chicken deaths from bird flu outbreak Data from the USDA shows more than 20 million egg-laying chickens in the U.S. died last quarter because of bird flu.

Did you know?

“More than 20 million egg-laying chickens in the U.S. died last quarter because of bird flu, data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows, marking the worst toll inflicted on America's egg supply since the outbreak began.”

www.kpax.com/news/nationa...

Impacted By The Fires? Here’s How To Apply For FEMA Assistance

FEMA has issued a guide on how to apply for federal aid if you've been impacted by the wildfires.

Aid may include money for food, water, baby formula, breastfeeding supplies, medication, or even with basic home repairs and personal property losses. www.huffpost.com/entry/southe...

California wildfires: What we know about the victims At least 11 people have died across the Los Angeles area in the wildfires. Officials have said the true death toll is not known as the fires continue to burn.

“What we know about the victims killed in the California wildfires” www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

Indiana Considers Dissolving Public Schools if more than 50% of eligible students were enrolled outside, that public school district would be dissolved and replaced with a charter system governed by an unelected board.

Indiana is considering dissolving public school districts — including Indianapolis, with almost 50k students.

A GOP proposal says that if more than 50% of students are enrolled outside public schools, that district will be replaced with a charter system.

www.forbes.com/sites/peterg...

so much is too much right now

Who Are the Victims of the Los Angeles Fires? At least five people died in fires raging across Los Angeles. Several of them lived near each other in the ravaged Altadena neighborhood.

so far, seems like the first few victims are black folks who've lived in altadena for several generations and were trying so hard to hold onto their homes that they were willing to fight off the flames by themselves. man, they are so familiar to me. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/u...

LA’s Wildfires Threaten Almost 40 Prisons and Jails. Here’s How They’re Responding. The Appeal contacted 38 facilities that may have air quality issues, possible evacuations, and power outages amid the LA fires.

Breaking: We contacted 38 prison & jail facilities in the LA area to ask how they’re preparing for air quality issues, possible evacuations, and power outages. Thousands of people—including hundreds of children—sit in potentially impacted facilities. theappeal.org/los-angeles-...

X Considers Charging All New Users to Sign-up to the App X is still looking for options to make up for its ad revenue losses.

Musk could be about to make people pay to sign up for Twitter. Would be yet another nail in the coffin.

“Under the plan, which could be implemented as soon as February, new users would pay $8 to sign-up for X..”

www.socialmediatoday.com/news/x-forme...

DeSantis Admin Revokes Trans Person’s License Over Gender Marker Change Florida’s DMV plans an audit for past errors, potentially increasing risks for trans people in the state.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s administration has revoked the driver’s license of a transgender content creator who publicly shared how they updated the gender marker on their license.

Literally this year is already out of control.

I lived in Australia when throttling was happening. It’s awful. You bank time by not watching videos, not listening to music, not reading articles. They move around dates to charge more money. Not only a rip off but in this time of attempting to communicate against fascist oligarch takeover, brutal

More Midwestern wetlands threatened as federal lawsuit targets farm programs A Chicago investor is seeking to upend one of the federal government’s last mechanisms to protect wetlands. Iowa farmers are rallying to stop him.

A Chicago investor is seeking to upend one of the federal government’s last mechanisms to protect wetlands. Iowa farmers are rallying to stop him.

Around 2 a.m. during the 17-hour marathon lame duck session, lawmakers passed H.B. 315, a massive, roughly 450-page omnibus bill. In it was a provision that could cost people money to get access to video from police and jails. Law enforcement could charge people for the "estimated cost" of processing the video — and you would have to pay before the footage is released. Governments could charge up to $75 an hour for work, with a fee cap of $750 per request. Legal experts say this could affect access to video from dash and body cameras, as well as surveillance video from inside jails — which are public records in Ohio. The policy was not public, nor had a hearing, prior to being snuck into the legislation.

Tonight, near midnight, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed bill into law to charge public for footage from law enforcement, including body cams

This follows a massive bill passed in December at 2 am (via @morgantrau.bsky.social) www.news5cleveland.com/news/politic...

Oh hell no

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The death toll from a deliberate crash in New Orleans is now 15, coroner says.

We're gonna have to go back to physical media to ensure we have what we want.