Sen. Alex Padilla: "We will hold this administration accountable."

Sen. Padilla pushed to ground, handcuffed for demanding DHS not lie Forcibly removing a sitting US senator, as they opposed the president's immigration policy, is a part of a broader slide.

A DHS spokesperson defended the detainment, accusing Sen. Padilla of failing to properly identify himself during Sec. Kristi Noem's press conference.

But multiple videos show Padilla clearly identifying himself as a senator.

NOAA just fired us, again 🤡

Retroactive to February 🤡

We are hearing reports that, now that both preliminary injunctions are stayed, the Department of Commerce has started re-terminating probationary employees. Updates to the blog about these developments soon.

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Okay guess I’m “no one” because I can count? Any chance the White House wants to hire a fact checker while they lay us all off? ☠️

Wyoming Senators Demand 50 Million Acres of Federal Land. It's Part of a Coordinated Land-Grab by Western States A group of Wyoming senators are demanding Congress hand over all federal lands and mineral rights within the state.

🦬‼️While the immediate threats to our Constitution continue, Wyoming is quietly trying to seize ALL federal land within the state except Yellowstone.

"It’s about money. They don’t care about all that surface acreage that is so important to many of us as sportsmen."

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Update: They were removed from our reviewer assignments completely. I'm so sorry to all those graduate students. Anonymous to protect the identity of the NIH employee I spoke to...I am on study section next month to discuss F awards. We were just instructed to put the F31-Diversity applications on the bottom of our priority list for review because there is a chance we may not be able to review them. My heart is breaking for the grad students and their mentors that put so much work into these just for them to be disqualified and thrown out.

Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

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