Kelsey Gerhard

This is all To pay for a tax cut for very wealthy people

Group of children with their little fingers raised with a WHO worker depicting polio campaign underway in Gaza.

A nurse administering polio drops.

A child raising her little fingers showing the polio vaccination mark.

An infant receiving polio drops.

#Polio vaccination in #Gaza has started. WHO teams are on the ground providing support to ensure a quality campaign.

They Worked to Prevent Death. The Trump Administration Fired Them. Public health teams are being gutted, imperiling efforts to safeguard organ donation and prevent maternal and infant death. Many workers expressed fear at what would happen to the work they left behin...

NEW: Public health teams are being gutted by Trump's purge of federal employees, imperiling crucial, lifesaving work.

"We are hollowing out our government in a way that is going to hurt people and is going to get people killed."

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We are proud to stand alongside you. The rebellion is alive. You are writing history.

Senate votes to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary Kennedy managed to allay the concerns of several key GOP senators over his anti-vaccine activism. Mitch McConnell was the lone Republican to vote against him.

Virulent anti-vaxxer and HIV denialist confirmed as Secretary of HHS. Lord have mercy.

There is literally HIV being transmitted from mom to baby because of the illegal shutdown of US AID and now Trump’s State Department wants to spend 400 million dollars on Tesla cyber trucks. This is not about efficiency. It’s a smash and grab.

It’s hard because we’ve always loved it for the photos. I hate that Facebook took that away from us.

The hardest part about public health is that when we succeed, there's no crisis, no epidemic. People carry on with daily life, unaware of a near-miss. We may never know how bad it could have been - because our public health workforce is always taking action to avoid, prevent, and control threats.

The CFPB is literally designed to protect consumers from predatory banks and corporations.

It's not surprising a greedy billionaire like Elon Musk wants to shut it down.

Unfortunately for him, it’s illegal.

Musk can't shut down CFPB. Neither can Donald Trump.

“A minorrrrrrrr”

While MAGA is busy protecting women from evil trans athletes and bathroom-goers, six states are considering bills to punish abortion patients as killers, five of which have the death penalty. More will likely join. Crickets from legacy media.

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau literally exists to protect consumers from predatory financial institutions. It's returned over $21 billion to 205 million consumers. The sole result of this move is that Americans will have no recourse when they get screwed over by a bank. Good work Elon 👍

Here's footage of Sean Duffy doing a podcast claiming that Buttigieg "sucks at his job." Meanwhile, Duffy's overseen 4 collisions in the last WEEK and is MIA.

1/29: DC crash
1/31: Philadelphia crash
2/5: Japan Airlines plane strikes Delta flight in Seattle
2/6: Bering Air flight wrecks in Alaska

USAID, currently being shut down by Elon Musk, purchases about $2 billion annually in rice, wheat, lentils, and peas from American farmers.

Musk’s team—Christopher Young, Nikhil Rajpal, and Gavin Kliger—is currently at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). This move comes just months after Musk posted “Delete CFPB” on his X social media platform.

Trump’s attempt to shut down USAID is not just unfathomably cruel & unnecessary, it's against the law.

Trump is not a king, he doesn't just get to unilaterally dismantle an agency funded by Congress.

That’s why we’re suing to stop the Trump admin.

Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do.

Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.

But Trump doesn’t even know what project 2025 is?

Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.

So much for his Hippocratic oath.

BREAKING: We are suing HHS for the removal of critical health info and data from websites.

The removal creates a dangerous gap in scientific research and threatens public health.

The Trump executive order that led to this purge puts American lives in danger.

First, residents mobilized to block non-governmental Musk freaks from tampering with OPM. They put out an ask for help. Then electeds showed up and are mostly just bloviating about how bad this all is, but turnout beyond them is impressive.

Over 1,000 EPA Workers on Climate Change and More Could Be Fired ‘Immediately’ A spokeswoman for Lee Zeldin, the new head of the agency, said the goal was to create an “effective and efficient” federal work force.

The Trump administration has warned more than 1,100 EPA employees who work on climate change, reducing air pollution, enforcing environmental laws and other programs that they could be fired at any time.

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Here are the 15 Democrats who voted to confirm Scott Bessent as Treasury Secretary, the man who has granted Elon Musk full access to the federal government's payments system.

Voting to support ANY of his nominees is not representing your constituents!!!

THE ASK This week, between Monday and the vote on Vought, we're asking people from all over the country to plan a visit to Senate State Offices to demand Democrats fight and to hold Republicans accountable for their complicity. DEMOCRATS MUST USE EVERY PROCEDURAL TOOL TO SHUT DOWN TRUMP'S AGENDA Yes, we need Democrats to vote no on Vought's nomination, but no is not enough. Democrats have the power to grind Senate business to a halt and force Republicans to feel the political cost of backing Trump's extremist agenda. Here's how: 1. Deny a Quorum: If Republicans don't have 51 votes in the chamber, Democrats can walk out and shut down Senate business entirely. 2. Block Unanimous Consent: Object to every procedural shortcut, forcing Republicans to take the longest possible route for every step of the confirmation process. 3. Max Out Debate Time: Use all 30 hours of debate on Vought to expose Project 2025, Musk's Treasury takeover, and the funding freeze. 4. Delay and Disrupt: Force roll-call votes, quorum calls, and procedural delays to slow everything down. 5. Blanket Opposition: Democrats cannot continue to vote for Trump's other nominees, helping to install more MAGA loyalists into powerful positions in the federal government while this power grab continues. No Business as Usual: This is a constitutional crisis. Democrats must abandon the old rules and fight with everything they have. Bottom line: Senate Democrats must block, delay, and obstruct every step of this process-no cooperation, no easy votes, no fast-tracking Trump's takeover. To learn more about how Senate Democrats can shut down Trump's agenda with procedural hardball, check out our explainer here.

Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Yes. While there are absolutely things Democrats can and must do to slow, obstruct, etc, GOP hold both House and Senate majorities, severely limiting our options.

Johnson and Thune are handing over the own keys and relinquishing their own power. Even for the cynics this should be a shock.

Hi all, We’re still here at OPM.

We have a situation where we MIGHT, and I do mean, MIGHT have four of Elon’s people blocked from the building.

Can we get press or a member of Congress down here? We’ve blocked them for two hours and they keep coming back and trying to go in.

The US does not have an offensive bioweapons program. Gain of function research did not lead to SARS-CoV-2. The scientific evidence points to a NATURAL zoonosis, ie a jump from infected animals to people. If there is evidence to the contrary it has not been presented.

Acting EPA Administrator James Payne has dismissed all members of two of the agency’s most influential science advisory panels, allowing the Trump administration to reshape them.