“Hundreds of people on Monday protested the termination of the Susquehanna County Library’s administrator and demanded for the protection of LGBTQ+ books.”
Month: January 2025
Don’t listen to bad advice on civic engagement.
If you want to engage in democracy, consider carefully about where you get advice.
Donald Trump has repeatedly wrong economic advisor Kevin Hassett working on bird flu.
Kevin Hassett is an economist with a history of being way wrong. At a press briefing, the Trump administration spokesperson Karoline Leavitt explicitly blamed the egg prices on the Biden administration’s Department of Agriculture quote “directing the mass killing of 100 million chickens.” Of course this was because of avian influenza and the threat posed […]
Gaslighting & manufacturing normal to minimize concerns is not the right direction to go in.
The coverage of threats by the media and the statements from community leaders are an exercise in elite panic, and that’s certainly not what we need.
Trump & Elon downsizing the government.
Trump administration offers all federal workers Elon Musk Twitter styled job buyout framed as a way to avoid Return To Office mandates.
Trump administration attempts to impound appropriations under the responsibility of Congress.
The odd memo out of the White House that started freezing access to Medicaid portals and threatened to shut down daycares is some pretty wild overreach…
Bizarre RFKJR confirmation hearing.
RFKJr is a terrible anti-vaxxer. But there are so many other problems as well with him taking over the entirety of the federal healthcare in the US. The threat can’t be overstated.
No social media platform is a safe space – people need to diversify.
I’ve been saying this for years, that people are foolish if there’s only one social media platform where they say something or publish important information. But even among the people who’ve heard me, most have never listened to me. I think mainly because people fall in love with a platform, they are habit forming. They […]
I didn’t know Stepford Christian Katie Brit and so-called Democrat John Fetterman are close friends.
I wonder if the group chat is on Telegram.
The media landscape needs an overhaul.
Did you know that the U.S. Postal service acted as a subsidized news delivery service in the 1800s America?
There is no system that you can just adopt and then set it and forget it.
There’s no political perpetual motion machine. Society will never work like a crock pot.
Deregulation is another way of saying buyer beware.
I’ve also heard it said a few times that it should just be called “re-regulation” because in fact what so-called deregulation does is just switch the regulation from protecting consumers to protecting bad actors.
Tax prep company lobbying to get Donald Trump to kill IRS Direct File.
Nearly 30 House Republicans are asking President-elect Donald Trump to stop the IRS free tax filing service, Direct File, on day one of his new administration.
Trump administration hides critical health and safety information from the public.
Why is the Trump administration locking down public safety information from the federal health agencies?
AI search is not a search engine, it’s just dysfunctional.
We should not be forced to use this stuff in order to access information on the internet.
Trump quits the US from WHO like he’s cancelling his country club membership.
Membership in the WHO isn’t like giving to some sketch non-profit charity in order to get tax favour.
Tiktok is dead, long live tiktok.
All the platforms with their black box manipulative algorithms are problematic.
Elected representatives care about what their constituents say.
No matter the issue, you are always best off contacting your own elected representatives.
David Lynch deserved better public health, just as we all do.
The lack of strong public health and remote options robbed the rest of us of David Lynch’s last years.
Trump HUD nominee mega-pastor Scott Turner thinks housing assistance can be compared to slavery.
This is obviously not someone who even thinks things through before they speak in public, or maybe ever.
Your voice does matter.
Though it may seem that things will keep going, and Trump nominees will pass into the administration, it’s still important to register their unpopularity with your elected officials so that this is at the forefront of their understanding — that there is widespread opposition.