For realz

Words worthy of a billboard campaign. Stop trying to technofix absolutely everything already- you just can't.

Nothing left on the shelves at #RiteAiid but greeting cards and laxatives- make of that what you will.

The DOGE lackey that Elon Musk installed as Acting Commissioner of the Social Security Administration is making moves to fire HALF of the workforce at the Social Security Administration.

The SSA is already chronically understaffed, this mass firing would DEVASTATE Social Security.

"Today, absurdly and unfairly, a billionaire pays the same amount of money into Social Security as somebody who makes $176,000 a year." - @sanders.senate.gov

Bernie's Social Security Expansion Act would fix that, and use the money to protect + expand benefits!

exactly

Trump Administration’s Executive Order Threatens a Historic Settlement That Could Improve Black Maternal Healthcare - Ms. Magazine President Trump’s executive order banning decades of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices erodes the federal government’s ability to hold hospitals accountable for their treatment of Black…

The settlement agreement promotes diversity and equity efforts and is grounded in healthcare nondiscrimination protections—both of which are under threat by the new administration.

Don’t lose hope. Remember, Watergate took over two years to fully unravel from the initial break-in to Nixon’s resignation. Just like then and now, Americans are losing faith in their government. We are documenting every illegal action and will hold this administration and Elon Musk accountable.

Military says "Nah, we good," to orders that they discriminate against transgender servicemembers.

Add to this that Pete Hegseth got booed by military families, and we may be seeing something really importantly good happening, here.
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I sort of missed this had nearly 1k reposts/quotes (because I muted it). Here's the gist:

1) It's a lawsuit to say gender dysphoria is not a protected disability under 504 so please exclude it
2) But, say the GOP AGs, if you'd like to just dump 504, that'd be swell too. Even better really.

Now offline: Government resources about Long COVID as a disability - The Sick Times Several government resources about accommodations for people with Long COVID have become unavailable in the last week, following purges of government websites and datasets under the Trump administrati...

AskJan is apparently a service of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy.

They just deleted the accommodations page for #LongCOVID. The information is all on the Wayback, but it needs to be an official source for people to use it.

thesicktimes.org/2025/02/11/n...

Don't let Donald Trump and Elon Musk talk us out of democracy Trump and Musk are testing the limits, trying to sell America on being an authoritarian state — but they can’t do it unless we allow them to do so.

OK, I wrote my “who’s going to enforce it?” piece. It’s a lengthy read, trying to respond to a lot of questions I’ve gotten over the past three weeks, but it’s about democracy so I decided it was worth it to lay out in depth, with examples, what I’ve been talking about here and elsewhere.

No surprises there

YES

I hope the ramping Insinuations that M is de facto POTUS makes DT lose whatever mind he has left.

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

I have been meaning to get in touch with you though! Can I email your Berkeley address?

Same- trying to focus on those of us who are resisting! But it’s been an exhausting 2 weeks.

Good grief- NPR called what’s going on with #DOGE “extra-Constitutional.”

AI Can’t Solve Government Waste – and May Hurt Vulnerable Americans | TechPolicy.Press If you believe public institutions should actually serve the public, this is an unacceptable bait-and-switch, write Kevin De Liban and Alice Marwick.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT Gov is part of a drive to automate public service & admin using ungoverned, unaccountable AI systems. It will harm vulnerable people. Writing in Tech Policy Press in December, @alicetiara.bsky.social & @kevindeliban.bsky.social saw this coming. www.techpolicy.press/ai-cant-solv...

Elon Musk’s team has gotten access to the Treasury Department’s payments system.

Alternative headline:
"Billionaire Cabinet Pick of Billionaire President Gives Richest Man in the World Control of Your Retirement and Healthcare"
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

Statement On The 65th Anniversary Of The Sit-In Movement On this day, 65 years ago, February 1, 1960, the sit-in movement began, which led to the greatest civil rights movement in our country’s history.

I don’t think SNCC Legacy Project is on here yet but here is their statement on the 65th anniversary of the civil rights sit-in movement. Happy #BlackHistoryMonth

From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

I don’t think it’s hyperbolic to call this a coup- not comfortable w rhetorical invocations of war. Such attitudes got us into this mess. Why can’t humans just be chill?

General strikes are under utilized

#Eugenics on a global scale

Trump Administration Halts H.I.V. Drug Distribution in Poor Countries (Gift Article) PEPFAR’s computer systems also are being taken offline, a sign that the program may not return, as Republican critics had hoped.

BREAKING: The Trump administration has instructed organizations in other countries to stop disbursing HIV medications purchased with U.S. aid, even if the drugs have already been obtained and are sitting in local clinics.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...

so much badness

good lord- who does that?!