Senate Approves Trump’s Bid to Cancel Foreign Aid and Public Broadcast Funds

Gift article. THIS IS WHY YOU VOTE DOWN-TICKET. Show up and vote in 2026. Vote for Senate and House in 2028 even if you leave pres blank. The Senate voted 51-48 to legalize Trump's slashing of USAID and public broadcasting. VOTE FOR SENATE AND HOUSE EVERY TIME. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/u...

Columbia University formally notified its accreditation "may be in jeopardy." Read the letter. This comes on the heels of the Education Department claiming the university had violated antidiscrimination laws.

Columbia University acted to appease Trump. Now the Trump Administration is challenging its accreditation www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news... Forget ideology fora moment. There is no point making deals that will not be honored.

AI guzzles fuel and fresh water. I'm confident the engineers could solve this problem if properly incentivized, but they have not solved it yet.

Let it never be said I keep my thoughts to myself.

A shame the army couldn't have an event that was about them. They actually planned a more modest celebration of the 250th, but Trump changed it to a parade on his birthday.

I keep picturing #KermittheFrog doing an awareness spot for #chytridiomycosis and I don't know if it'd be satire or the most effective wildlife conservation spot ever.

Last Nov, on the first day of early voting, the place was packed to the gills! The parking lot was so full that I'd have gone faster if I'd walked. One guy drove for an hour to come vote. Today, on primary day, the place was near empty. Americans, the #primaryelection is where the action is!

Voters Head to the Polls in Key Primaries for New Jersey Governor

Voters Head to the Polls in Key Primaries for New Jersey Governor www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/n...

I wonder if it really was his son who punched him. Good on little X, punching a Nazi at age five.

Hooray! Full Moon June is so motivating!

I feel like my roommate let her abusive ex back into our apartment and now he and his loser friends are breaking all my stuff.

A New Trend in Global Elections: The Anti-Trump Bump In voting in Canada and Australia, right-wing parties that borrowed from the MAGA playbook were punished. Elsewhere, President Trump is having a more complex impact.

A New Trend in Global Elections: The Anti-Trump Bump www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/w... Trump has inspired Australian and Canadian voters and the South Korean Constitutional Court to uphold democracy. Someone kindly tell him he's done.

On one hand, I'm glad to see so many Trump voters are capable of taking in new information and changing their minds proportionately, but I am frustrated because it is NOT new information. What even I can say about #DonaldTrump is that he was very open about what he planned to do if reelected.

I typed "-ai" at the end of my Google query and it still wasted fuel giving me an #AIOverview. How do I tell Google to take no for an answer?

Trump Asks Stefanik to Withdraw Bid to Be U.N. Ambassador The president said he wanted the New York Republican to stay in Congress to bolster the party’s slim House margin and protect her seat.

Drat. Looks like he figured it out: Trump Asks Stefanik to Withdraw Bid to Be U.N. Ambassador www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/u...

United at the Capitol today. Don’t stop fighting!🐝🐝

EVERY SUNDAY- Noon-1 pm Minnesota State Capitol. Join them!! A couple of small non-partisan groups have independently started to to rally at the Saint Paul capitol each Sunday from noon till 1 PM protesting the current administrations policies and practices. Spread the word!

Wonderful day at the Minnesota State Capitol! Great turnout for the #InternationalWomen’sDay march!!
@lwvminnesota.bsky.social organized and our local St Croix Valley @indivisible.org group was there!

#thisiswhatdemocracylookslike

WV Women’s Day March yesterday! 300+ in attendance 💙✊💛

#InternationalWomensDay #Morristown

#SCOTUS just ruled that Trump can't freeze $2 billion in USAID's money, but I don't know if it means the workers are re-hired: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p... Dissent reads, "One judge shouldn't decide that this money goes out." One judge didn't. CONGRESS did.

The #StateoftheUnion speech was less depressing than the cheers.

Would the tri-state equivalent of "#JDVance skis in his jeans" be "JD Vance puts catsup on good pasta"? #InternationalWomensDay

At Supreme Court, Mexico to Offer Culprit for Cartel Violence: Gun Makers The dispute focuses on whether Mexico can hold U.S. manufacturers liable for gun violence and comes amid rising tensions between the countries.

At Supreme Court, Mexico to Offer Culprit for Cartel Violence: Gun Makers www.nytimes.com/2025/03/03/u...

Judge Rules Trump Can’t Fire Head of Federal Watchdog Agency Without Cause A federal judge said that the president’s efforts to remove Hampton Dellinger, who leads the Office of Special Counsel, were unlawful.

Judge Rules Trump Can’t Fire Head of Federal Watchdog Agency Without Cause www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/u... Dellinger will stay at his post, says Judge Amy Berman Jackson.

21 DOGE staffers resign, saying they won't help 'dismantle' public services Twenty-one members of the United States DOGE Service have resigned, they said in an anonymous letter, citing DOGE's ongoing work dramatically reshaping the federal government.

21 #DOGE staffers quit rather than help Musk trash the government: www.npr.org/2025/02/25/n...

We should support these three law professors from Harvard and Columbia for telling the Supreme Court to protect the independence of America's banking system from presidential interference in #BessentvDellinger. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24...

Thousands Protest on Presidents’ Day, Calling Trump a Tyrant ‘King’ Protesters opposing broad swaths of President Trump’s agenda took the streets across the country, including outside the U.S. Capitol.

Thousands Gather on Presidents’ Day to Call Trump a Tyrant www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/u...

Is THAT why the #Duolingo Owl had X's for eyes this week! #LastWeekTonight (But John should be learning Hungarian, amirite?)