Congratulations to the 2025 GRAMMY winners! Billy Strings and Sierra Ferrell were both past Folk Alliance Official Showcase Artists; one of the producers on Trail of Flowers, Gary Paczosa, is a former FAI board member; Ruthie Foster hosted our International Folk Music Awards in the past. Kudos!

Brutal but accurate. And this is how #history will write about what is going on now. #USA #politics #authoritarianism

The Democrats who voted to confirm Bessent who also happen to be on Bluesky:

@corybooker.com
@cantwell.senate.gov
@fetterman.senate.gov
@gallego.senate.gov
@kaine.senate.gov
@markwarner.bsky.social

Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury’s Payments System Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.

President Musk is now effectively in control of the US goverment’s personnel and money. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

Welp, here we fucking go. This is how they’re gonna do the abortion pill ban:

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CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately. The surprise decision is focused on the U.S.

NEW—CDC officially ordered by Trump WH to cease working with the @WHO, effective immediately. This is the first time in almost 77 years since WHO’s founding after World War 2. This is a dark day for America and the world.

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⚠️PFAS IS BACK—recall the EPA plan to ban dangerous forever chemicals from drinking water ➡️Well, Trump WH just cancelled it… once again allowing big corporations to discharge PFAS into rivers. PFAS cause cancers & many diseases. Does this make American healthy again?

A recent leaked House Republican plan calls for $2.5 TRILLION in mandatory spending cuts. They want to pay for tax cuts for billionaires by gutting health care and food for at-risk seniors and children.

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Columbus Ohio. No one is safe.

Poster for Haunted. Two Indigenous ghosts are scared. There is an eerie house in the background with pink light spilling out the windows.

Tickets are now available for Haunted, an NNPN Rolling World Premiere written and directed by Tara Moses, performing January 24 – February 15 at the Boston Public Library!

Learn more and get tickets at companyone.org/haunted

So happy to share this with you! A free, all ages event Saturday, February 1 @ 3 - 6 pm @ the
North American Indian Center Of Boston!!!

Leonard Peltier has been pardoned!!! #leonardpeltier #leonardpeltierpardon

A Free Leonard Peltier poster

2- I’m getting breaking news right now that the Israeli forces are opening fire at people who past the checkpoint and who were on their way to Gaza City. Dozens are wounded.

100%!

Reclaiming “Red Wing” with Wampanoag Singer-Songwriter Thea Hopkins on the Folklife Today Podcast | Folklife Today The latest episode of the Folklife Today podcast features award-winning singer-songwriter Thea Hopkins, a member of the Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe of Martha’s Vineyard. Thea took the Archive Challenge, ...

So happy to share this with you during Native American Heritage Month! #nativeamericanheritagemonth #werestillhere #indigenouswomen

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You are entirely welcome:) My pleasure!

"Since 1970, Native Americans have gathered at noon on Cole's Hill in Plymouth to commemorate a National Day of Mourning on the US Thanksgiving holiday. Many Native Americans do not celebrate the arrival of the pilgrims and other European settlers. /1

Reminder that it is Native American Heritage Month!

A beautiful gathering at the Northeast Regional Folk Alliance this past weekend! The power of song and community! #nerfa

Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths In a letter, the state’s public health commissioner said the action was taken because “confidential information provided to the Maternal Mortality Review Committee was inappropriately shared with outs...

Georgia officials have dismissed all members of the state's Maternal Mortality Review Committee, which is charged with investigating deaths of pregnant women, in response to ProPublica's reporting on the deaths of Amber Thurman and Candi Miller.

Sigh! Nice to be in a welcoming space!