Happy Earth Day Baby Elephant Linh May debut National Zoo DC
#EarthDay #babyelephants #becerraforca #USDemocracy

CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits The report, which had cleared the agency’s scientific-review process, had been delayed. It now won’t be published at all, people familiar with the decision told The Post.

SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2
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Dance against DOGE sign with a few dancers

A beautiful Saturday in DC — come mambo with us on M St in Georgetown — Dance for Democracy, Dance against DOGE. Saturdays 11-1

How Iran Won the Meme Wars While Donald Trump panders to MAGA, Iranian satire is reaching a global audience.

The old/new world: www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Gonna hijack this for a minute to hype the Buffalo selection I made up at Bookshop.org. It is a nonprofit and proceeds benefit indie booksellers and BuffaloResearch. No need to spend your book budget on Bezos.

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I said this before and I will say it again: if you have a disputed status, do not fly at all, the Mobile Fortify database used by ICE and CPB, is built on the pre-existing TSA database. And if I were the Democrats: I would refuse to appropriate DHS through regular order until 2028.

Longtime Immigration Court Interpreter Arrested by ICE at South Texas Airport The state’s only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years.

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

Waste Pickers Built the Recycling Economy. Now They're Being Cast Aside. Failing to integrate waste pickers into India's Extended Producer Responsibility framework risks making recycling initiatives mere greenwashing: environmental goals achieved through the erasure and di...

Great article on the recycling and circular economy, with a focus on India, good examples from Brazil and india, and how focus on "modern" approaches leads us astray. www.theindiaforum.in/caste/waste-...

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Cartoon by Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

When you add it all up, the collapse in immigration looks like this: a decline of roughly 50K for illegal (even including the people arrested and not released) and a decline of about 132K for legal. Over 70% of the cut in immigration has come from LEGAL immigration.

Here is what Democracy Docket is tracking:

Active Voting Rights Cases: 158
Active Redistricting Cases: 45
Active Anti-Voting Cases: 84
Active Pro-Voting Cases: 71
Active DOJ Lawsuits: 31

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Call 202-224-3121 and ask Trump's Republican co-conspirators that question. Without their willingness to enable the Trump crime spree, he would not be able to rip us off, or get away with raping children.

TAKE ACTION IN JUST A FEW CLICKS Tell Our Governors: Stop Sharing Our Data with ICE • Takes less than two minutes States are allowing ICE to access our personal information from a data network connected to our state DMVs. ICE is tracking peaceful protestors using DMV data just because they've expressed opposition to ICE's operations. Send a message to your governor and tell them to stop sharing our data with ICE. MESSAGE YOUR GOVERNOR: democracyactioncenter.org/nolCEdata

ICE is tracking peaceful protestors using DMV data just because they’ve expressed opposition to ICE’s operations.

Send a message to your governor and tell them to stop sharing our data with ICE.

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RALLY at the Courthouse - No Camps in MD! In response to growing community protest, on February 23, Maryland’s Attorney General filed a lawsuit to block ICE’s plan to convert a 825,000-square-foot warehouse outside Hagerstown, which it purcha...

Reminder! On Wednesday, April 15, Maryland's landmark lawsuit against ICE's plan to convert a warehouse outside Hagerstown into a concentration camp will be heard in federal court in Baltimore. Join us for a rally, interfaith vigil, and march.🍃
actionnetwork.org/events/save-...

The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

The United States is being murdered, and it’s an inside job. Every department, every branch, every bureau and function of the federal government is being fatally corrupted or altogether dismantled or disabled. All this is common knowledge...

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AP publishes a good multi-state rundown on pushback all over the country against plans for huge Trump prison camps:

apnews.com/article/immi...

This is genuinely worth watching.

(With every caveat about brutality of regime, etc. Point is they are so far ahead of US admin in use of *English-language* social media.)

Federal government implosion.

Martin Gugino, peace activist from Buffalo NY, has passed away of natural causes at the age of 81.

RIP, warrior.

We must abolish the monstrous institutions he bravely opposed

Save D.C. Golf From Donald Trump The city’s courses are not meant for the elite. They’re meant for the people. The president is trying to change that.

This is not just about golf; it's about how we as a society value our shared public spaces. And it’s about the need for us to preserve those spaces precisely so that they are not just the playgrounds of the elite and the privileged.

Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA The Trump administration is quietly trying to build medical dossiers on all federal employees. Their prescriptions. Therapy appointments. Abortion records. For millions of people (and their families). They won’t say how they’ll use it. But I can venture a guess. Quote CBS News @CBSNews · 9h The Office of Personnel Management is asking insurers that cover federal employees and retirees to hand over details about their medical visits, their pharmacy claims, and more. https://cbsn.ws/4tBfdJ7

This seems bad.

DC’s highly qualified workers can’t find jobs: ‘What is happening?’ Washington DC has the highest unemployment rate in the US

Yep. The situation is grim. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

It’s Election Day.

If you run into any issues voting — questions about your polling place, problems at the polls, anything at all — call 888-730-5816 immediately.

Every vote counts. Make sure yours does. #GA14

We do now know the NSF is proceeding with dissolving the Social and Behavioral Sciences Division. Congress might reverse it, but it is now already underway. YOU CAN NO LONGER SUBMIT FUNDING PROPOSALS TO SBE. Program officers are being moved to different parts of the agency. Call your Congress member

For your citing purposes, U.S. law incorporation of the prohibition against genocide: 18 U.S.C § 1091; U.S. law incorporation of the prohibition against wantonly destroying infrastructure 18 U.S.C § 2441 which incorporates by reference Geneva Convention IV art. 147.

stop the war on Iran, 6 p.m. rally at White House on April 7 pm

Protest outside White House tonight (Tuesday, April 7) at 6 p.m.

Trump threats cause dilemma for US officers: disobey orders or commit war crimes Legal experts say attacking Iran’s infrastructure would constitute a war crime – but would military officers be held responsible?

The Guardian with the lead you should be reading everywhere: “Donald Trump’s threats to carry out mass bombing of civilian infrastructure in Iran present US military officers with a dilemma: disobey orders or help commit war crimes.” www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr...

Sorry, America, but as a democracy we own the actions of our leader. We may despise Trump. But his actions are on us, will be associated with us by history and the world. Our democratic and institutional failures have put a genocidal monster on the world stage.