It's past midnight, and Senate Republicans are voting NO against every Democratic-led amendment to PROTECT HEALTH CARE for our families.

Pay close attention: Republicans are working to push kids off Medicaid to pass MORE tax cuts for billionaires.

For the love of NOAA🩵 and EPA💚 A Valentine’s Day note to my favorite federal agencies.

open.substack.com/pub/ayanaeli...

The Devastating Impact of Trump 2.0 on U.S. Farmers The fallout begins...

My take on what's happening since Trump took office in agriculture. Please share!
farmergeorgiewrites.substack.com/p/the-devast...

Freezing US foreign aid will result in humanitarian disaster The loss of services supported by USAID will affect millions of the world’s most vulnerable people.

We urge the US government to halt the ad hoc waiver system and allow for all critical humanitarian and medical assistance to continue as the administration reviews its foreign assistance priorities.

www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/freez... #AidSky

This is what global leadership looks like.

ourworldindata.org/grapher/fore...

Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.

Cutting aid, President John F. Kennedy noted, “would be disastrous and, in the long run, more expensive.” He added: “Our own security would be endangered and our prosperity imperiled.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/o...

'They attack disabled, migrants, travellers, homeless - next they attack you"
Spotted in Liverpool, UK

😳

NOAA Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’ An internal email obtained by WIRED shows that NOAA workers received orders to pause “ALL INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENTS.”

By definition, numerical weather models require international data. The atmosphere knows no geopolitical boundaries: any model that begins and ends at its country’s border is unable to generate reliable predictions until after a weather system crosses its boundaries. Which defeats the purpose!

Mo, with always-perfect timing, pops a squat in the background.

I’ve been thinking about you Gene. Hang in there 🫤

Don't Believe Him Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 02/02/2025 · 14m

A somewhat heartening perspective from Ezra Klein: Tr*mp is just flooding the zone and hoping we’ll become overwhelmed, disheartened, and start to believe he actually has the power he hopes for. Let’s not give him his wish.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

bsky.app/profile/rbre...

Experts tell us the best way to help LA's fire victims right now Aid organizations say money is generally more helpful in the short-term than items or volunteering.

laist.com/news/climate...

Please add me! Thank you ☺️

My dogs (Tosh, left, and her uncle, Fergus, right) under a blue sky on the Oregon coast seems like a good first post here.