Congress must act: Stop the Forest Service workforce dismantlement Tens of thousands of U.S. Forest Service employees represented by the National Federation of Federal Employees (NFFE-IAM) are urging members of Congress to oppose the Trump administration's announced ...

Stop the "reorganization" of this agency, which calls for relocating the headquarters to Utah and closing 57 research facilities and 9 regional offices. actionnetwork.org/letters/cong...

Maddow: How is Jared Kushner's role in the U.S. attacking Iran not more of a show-stopping scandal?

Some thoughts about the President of the United States speaking about ending a civilization. The president speaks genocide. Anyone who has been involved in that conversation or associated actions would be complicit. And so we too must speak. Not only about crimes, but about their legal punishment.

Graphic with the text "Action Alert: AAS urges advocacy against proposed cuts to science in President's Budget Request"

The President's Budget Request proposes a 47% cut to NASA Science, a 55% cut to NSF, and a 13% cut to the DOE Office of Science. AAS President Dr. Dara Norman sent a call to action to AAS members via email today. Urge your members of Congress to reject these cuts now! aas.org/reject-2027-...

Russell Vought has once again proposed eliminating lifesaving utility assistance for our most vulnerable neighbors.

This, at a time when dangerous, fossil fuel-intensified heat has already arrived and bills are skyrocketing due to AI data centers and Trump's devastating war on Iran.

The US Department of War Crimes.

Why President Trump is targeting federal workers | Federal News Network John Yochelson, the former president of the Council on Competitiveness, says the career workforce is an unwelcome check on the risks the White House is taking.

Federal workers provide important checks on presidential power, often lending decades of experience and advice to political appointees. Their primary role is mitigating risk. This is why Trump is targeting us.

federalnewsnetwork.com/commentary/2...

Bar chart showing the change in the number of providers — social workers, psychologists and psychiatrists — from the third quarter of 2023 to the end of 2025 on the x-axis and the number of providers from negative 400 to 800 on the y-axis. The trend starts with a peak of about 700 social workers and around 200 psychologists added in the third quarter of 2023, followed by a steady decline across all groups, dropping below zero by the first quarter of 2025 with social worker losses eventually dipping around 400.

The VA lost about 700 social workers and 500 psychologists and psychiatrists over the course of 2025 — a significant change for an agency that was adding mental health staffers nearly every month leading up to Trump’s return to office.

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Action Item...Action Item...Action Item

Time to comment on the Framework for the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan

grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

Comments due by May 16, 2026

Nose hockey!! 🤣🤣

Look what’s happening to taxpayer dollars allocated by congress for medical research.

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A short Bluetorial on plots of NIH application success rates as a function of percentile.

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Wow, the Dem primary turnout among Hispanic voters in Texas is going to be giving the GOP sweats for the next 8 months.

Take Zapata County - turnout in the Dem primary there yesterday was 143% the total number of votes Harris won in the 2024 general election. That's wild.

The Trump regime has abandoned the constitution:

- declared war without Congressional authorization

- ignoring multiple court orders

- impounding Congressional authorized funds

- ignoring the freedom of speech and assembly

It’s a lawless regime that has no legitimacy.

#Pinks #ProudBlue

True that the money was spent, not true that no cuts happened.

HISTORICAL NASA DOCUMENTS ARE BEING ILLEGALLY PURGED FROM THE GODDARD SPACE LIBRARY. DEMAND THAT CONGRESS SAVE THEM BY VISITING THE LINK IN OUR BIO OR BY SEARCHING tr.ee/save-nasa

The 2026 budget directive tells NASA to protect the Goddard Space Library, not following the directive is illegal. Visit the link in our bio or search tr.ee/save-nasa to contact your rep. and urge that they make NASA follow the budget directive.

#NASA
#savenasa
#space
#science

Robert F. Kennedy Jr @RobertKennedyJr: The herbicide Glyphosate is one of the likely culprits in America's chronic disease epidemic. Much more widely used here than in Europe. Shockingly, much of our exposure comes from its use as a desiccant on wheat, not as an herbicide. From there it goes straight into our bodies. My USDA will ban that practice. 7:39 PM Jun 14, 2024 RFK JR WAS AGAINST GLYPHOSATE, BUT THEN HE WASN'T. Kennedy defends Trump glyphosate order; MAHA erupts as midterms approach RFK Jr. Supports Trump Push to Ramp Up Glyphosate Output, Angering MAHA Backers

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Georgia! A letter of reprimand?! I think you can do better.

COVID-19 vaccination status during pregnancy and preeclampsia risk: the pandemic-era cohort of the INTERCOVID consortium COVID-19 vaccination with a booster reduces the odds of PE by 30% approaching 60% reduction among women with pre-existing morbidities.

Remember when RFK Jr. unilaterally decided that COVID19 vaccines should no longer be recommended during pregnancy?

Well, COVID19 increases the risk of preeclampsia.

And it turns out that getting boosted, either before or during pregnancy, significantly reduces the risk of preeclampsia.

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.

We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

Watch the whole thing for some small insight into the damage caused by DOGE.

www.youtube.com/live/6dPHWdd...

And even the ones who DO give can’t match public funding. Most philanthropy relies on publicly funded infrastructure.

MAHA

@altfda.altgov.info challenged us to list #5Things that each of us Alts think have caused the most damage in our agencies over the past year. Each of the five items is chock full of sub-items…adding up to far more “things.” Here goes.

True, check for yourself:

www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

Just Say No! To the Save Act! While on one hand, Trump and R’s are working to pass the Save Act, on the other hand they are working to shut down ways for people to get the documents they will need to prove citizenship. www.newsweek.com/state-depart...

ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.

Trump cut Medicaid & SNAP so he could use that money to warehouse millions of people who, according to DHS’s own numbers, pose no threat to public safety.

It's inhumane & a waste of your taxpayer money.

We need to claw back these funds & put an end to their prison camps.