The Supreme Court must be destroyed. “Given the Supreme Court's ruling, HHS is now permitted to move forward with a portion of its RIF. Accordingly, you are hereby notified that you are officially [fired].” The rightwing SCOTUS allowed the Trump/DOGE mass firings, as we predicted. #NIH #science
These researchers were all nominated under Biden's NIH. The move will leave councils at most NIH institutes seriously understaffed: NCATS only has 3 of its 18 slots filled and will be down to only 1 in November. More than half of these slots across NIH are empty, compared to <25% in Jan 2023.
Your post got us over there to try? Nomnom!
On a Wednesday no less!
And please don't forget the ones with a bad, blurry photo at the shelter. Mine had a bad photo and she is the sweetest, prettiest little girl! #dogs #cats #petfinder #puppies #kittens #blackcats #blackdogs #dogsky #catsky #dogsofbluesky #catsofbluesky #4thofjuly #independenceday #caturday
Not a single Republican officeholder should have another peaceful day. Their lives should be perpetual public torment.
Keep doing what you do and ignore this nonsense. We need your voice.
Congress voted to pass the largest job-killing bill in history. Congress voted to take away health care from 17 million people to pay for tax breaks for billionaires. Congress voted to take away food assistance from 3 million people. Congress voted to betray working people.
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
The slickest, most cynical trick in this GOP bill is time-delaying the Medicaid/SNAP cuts to January 2027, so when they hit Dems may well hold the House and it will be easy for Republicans to blame them. And with no cuts for the next 18 months, people will forget what happened today.
BREAKING: The Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down the state's abortion ban from 1849. This is a win for abortion rights.
Donald Trump is attacking me because he is desperate to distract from his war on working people. We must and we will fight back.
Washington, D.C., has a population roughly equivalent to Alaska's. And it has zero senators. If D.C. had senators, the GOP megablil bill would have failed today. Instead, Murkowski got carve-outs and money for Alaska, and then voted to subject DC to the bill
It’s a beautiful thing!
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority." E.B. White
Just Lu
Turtle Mutual Aid:
No Kings in RVA!
What a contrast: On the one hand, one grandiose spectacle in the nation's capital, a panorama of propaganda put on by an aspiring autocrat. On the other hand, thousands of assemblies of free citizens across the nation, authentic celebrations of the proposition that here the people rule.
Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop! Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels
With the tragic assassination of a Minnesota Democratic leader, I’m going to underline this point again.
it's like what the image says. they think they're kings — they think they rule us — and they want us to obey youtu.be/ULdUsHB-7VE
Protest at Stonefield in Charlottesville today
“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.” Doechii at the #BETAwards
Lines of people waiting to get into the HHS building in Rockville, MD after massive RIF this morning!
Check me out! 😊 c-ville.com/a-dual-show-...
RFK is a eugenics freak first and foremost and everything falls downstream from that. he *wants* excess deaths. he thinks that only the "fit" should survive.
Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid
AOC doesn’t need the NY machine
I’d like an AOC primary announcement for Schumer’s seat now please!
THE Rep. Jasmine Crockett to Elon Musk: "Fuck off." So say we all. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Video clip courtesy of @calltoactivism.bsky.social
hi, are you doomscrolling? So many things are chaotic and unsettling right now. But staying up late doomscrolling will also make things harder. Try to do something offline, go to bed early and charge your phone away from your bedroom. You still deserve time to adequately rest and recover.
Are you bored tonight? Send your five accomplishments, maybe your shopping list, or your five thoughts on Elon from the past week to OPM at HR@opm.gov.
BRAVO to Maine Governor Janet Mills for slapping petty tyrant trump in the face with her calmly defiant "see you in court." THIS IS HOW IT'S DONE. 🔥🔥🔥
Parkersburg, West Virginia today: www.wtap.com/2025/02/11/d...
it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit
Hi, I’m Dr. Suzanne Simard, & I’ve dedicated my life to studying the deep, interconnected relationships that shape our forests. My research and creation of The Mother Tree Project have worked to amplify the world where trees, plants, & fungi communicate & support each other. 🌎🌲
Where are you in this photo!? The understory is so gorgeous!!
Article I says Congress makes laws and has power of the purse. Article II requires POTUS to faithfully execute laws. Refusing to execute laws so he can usurp Congress’s budgetary authority is unconstitutional. A self-respecting Congress would do a veto-proof resolution, and if necessary, impeach.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...
Christian Nationalist at the Pentagon: Pete Hegseth's Calvinist Sect Embraces Confederacy, Crusades
www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/p...
No state has a longer, more profit-driven history of contracting prisoners out to private companies than Alabama. With a sprawling labor system that dates back more than 150 years — it has constructed a template for the commercialization of mass incarceration. apnews.com/article/pris...
AOC: “Oh, I don’t think we’re witnessing the START of an oligarchy. I think we are fully here.” 🇺🇸
Reminder: Our Social Security cards don’t have our gender marker but our SSA personnel records do, so it is something trans folks either need to take care of or at least verify that it’s correct. We shouldn’t have to be stressing out but it’s the card we’re dealt. www.acluva.org/post-electio...
The key takeaway is that the world’s richest man got what he wanted; stripped our cancer funding for kids, killed reforms to bring down drugs prices and caps on investment in China. Trump on the other hand demanded a debt ceiling raise and got nothing.
“This does not seem like an unbeatable colossus at all. This seems like a pretty weak leader who is hemorrhaging political capital,” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on Trump failing to secure his one demand in the spending fight.