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This is an excellent, in-depth article on what leaving the Paris Climate agreement means for the US by @borenbears.bsky.social

One conclusion: "Several experts say the US will lose out on a trillion dollar plus renewable energy boom, leaving other countries like China to rule the green economy."

Here is a look at the "riots" in LA.....

"Who's got the power?

People Power."

Peaceful.

No National Guard or Marines needed.

#FreedomToDissent

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“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ But conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right.”

MLK Jr

martin luther king jr. is standing in front of a microphone giving a speech .

Alt: martin luther king jr. is standing in front of a microphone giving a speech .

Judge Amy Berman Jackson found a DC police intelligence officer guilty of funneling information to Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio.

"Mr. Lamond was convicted of three counts of making false statements to investigators and one count of obstruction of justice "

The nexus of law enforcement....

This is why RFK Jr. can not become HHS Secretary.

Discouraging vaccines will allow polio to creep back.

"Vaccination has scrubbed the virus from most of the planet, slashing the number of cases by more than 99.9 percent and preventing an estimated 20 million cases of paralysis."

For Women's History Month, may we all remember and summon the courage of Rachel Carson, who wrote Silent Spring to inform the world what DDT was doing to the songbirds, raptors,and by extension, us. While battling cancer, she stood her ground against savage attacks by the chemical industry...

🧵A legal scholar finds the killing by special forces of survivors in the Navy attack on an alleged drug boat to be a war crime and murder.

"the currently governing DOD Manual in Section 5.9 states clearly that persons “placed hors de combat may not be made the object of attack.” ...

A Dishonorable Strike

Indulging all assumptions in favor of the administration’s boat strikes, killing helpless men is murder

Undocumented workers pay nearly $100B year in state and federal taxes, including: "$25.7 billion in Social Security taxes, $6.4 billion in Medicare taxes, and $1.8 billion in unemployment insurance taxes in 2022."

Amount of services received for the payroll taxes paid?

0

itep.org/undocumented...

Tax Payments by Undocumented Immigrants

Undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022. Providing access to work authorization for undocumented immigrants would increase their tax contributions both be...

My brother and one of my best friends got squamous cell cancer in the throat and mouth due to HPV. If they had received the HPV vaccine as young men (then unavailable), most likely they would never have gotten cancer.

Vaccines work. Don't let these trumpers tell you otherwise.

Senator Murphy lays out exactly what is on the line.

"  There was a promise made to finance this tax cut with two trillion dollars of cuts to Medicaid and Medicare. Medicaid, poor kids, poor families, Medicare, seniors in this country."

Hands Off Our Medicaid!

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Privatizing the VA means putting our veterans' healthcare in the hands of corporations that prioritize profits over people. We can't let this happen!

They'll start with the VA, then move on to Medicare & Medicaid.

Save veterans' healthcare!!

Pete Hegseth's record is a recipe for disaster.

He led his National Guard squadron and small non-profits he resigned from in the wake of misconduct and alcohol abuse allegations.

The Department of Defense is the largest in the government, with 3.4M employees and a budget of $850B!

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Cuts to NSF expected to be at 50% reduction in force for an independent agency that fuels discovery and innovation.

"The NSF budget was $9B, or 0.13% of the total [budget]."

This is not about fiscal prudence. This is about killing universities.

nanoscale.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-...

ICE detained Arlit Maria Martinez on her way to work. 2 days later, her 15 yo son died of cancer. They wouldn't let her out to say goodbye. The family had planned to move back to Mexico prior to the cancer diagnosis but stayed for his treatment. Now, Mr Martinez has lost his wife to ICE & his son.

Teen dies of cancer days after mother arrested by ICE: ‘She’s never gonna see him’

The mother's family pleaded with federal officers for her release from custody to say her final goodbyes to her son, but their requests went unanswered.

Go to hud.gov and use the website feedback button to tell them the website is for all Americans and to take down this partisan propaganda.

#ThisIsTrumpsShutdown

Farmers sue USDA for removal of climate data pages.

“Farmers are on the front lines of climate change. Purging climate change web pages doesn’t make climate change go away. It just makes it harder for farmers to adapt.” -Jeff Stein, Eathjustice

www.motherjones.com/environment/...

Growers who rely on climate data sue USDA for cutting off access

“Farmers are on the front lines," says one attorney, and axing web pages "doesn’t make climate change go away.”

Speaker Mike Johnson is living in a house with a right-wing preacher, owned by a right-wing car dealer magnate who made his fourth wife watch films of him having sex with prostitutes to "train her."

But Johnson avers he never talks policy with Pastor Berger, who has not registered as a lobbyist.

My late wife battled ovarian and breast cancer successfully, only to die in an accident.

If the Affordable Care Act (ACA) had not been in place, we would have faced lifetime payment limits and possible denial of care for her breast cancer for which one drug alone was $100K/year
for treatment.

Black Americans truly brought democracy to America.

Remember this during Black History Month.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

America Wasn’t a Democracy, Until Black Americans Made It One (Gift Article)

Our founding ideals of liberty and equality were false when they were written. For generations, black Americans have fought to make them true.

Spot on. The First Amendment in on death watch right now. Ht @johnfugelsang.bsky.social

Linda McMahon as Secretary of Education makes sense given how her previous organization (WWE) took a keen interest in the welfare of young people.

69M married women could lose their voting rights if the SAVE Act is passed. Transgender individuals too.

Why? Absent a valid passport, you must present a birth certificate *with the same name as your registration* to be registered.

This is insane!

Hands Off Her Vote

Unfortunately, the Rolling Stone is correct: Trump fomented an insurrection, and by legal maneuvers and feckless Republican allies, he has gotten away with it.

www.removepaywall.com/search?url=h...

Climate change is fuelling a dropping of home insurance in areas ravaged by hurricanes, fires, and flooding.

Sen. Whitehouse: “The climate crisis that is coming our way is not just about polar bears, and it’s not just about green jobs...”