Boston declares itself a pro-trans sanctuary city amid GOP’s escalating attacks
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/03/boston-declares-itself-a-pro-trans-sanctuary-city-amid-gops-escalating-anti-trans-attacks/
Boston won't comply w. anti-LGBTQ+ fed. orders
* decision comes w. some risk. 
#USpol #Boston #LGBTQ #SanctuaryCity #TransLivesMatter
#Trump #fascism #Christofascism #transgenocide
While nothing here is breaking news, I found it helpful to see an economist enumerate in clear language all the many ways the Trump/Musk administration is making a mess of the economy.
For example: “All in all, the unanticipated illegal DOGE attack on the public sector is the clearest current danger to the economy, which is saying a lot given the other bad policy efforts underway.”
Reason #257834 not to visit the US
'A routine traffic stop in Ohio turned into a bizarre loyalty test for a Halifax-based folk duo last week. The Celtic-music sisters Cassie and Maggie say they were on a short American tour when they were pulled over for distracted driving by two highway patrol officers who separated the siblings and asked them each if they preferred Canada to the United States.'
#Words & #Facts have lost all meaning
Via Marisa Kabas
#Trump plans to issue an #ExecutiveOrder designating #fentanyl as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction," per copy of EO reviewed by Kabas. Source at #State speculates purpose is to designate #cartels as #terrorist orgs/justify #military ops in #Mexico / #Canada.
#law #geopolitics #USpol #ForeignPolicy #WMD #war #idiocracy #kakistocracy #insanity
https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-fentanyl-weapon-of-mass-destruction-executive-order-draft-scoop
“By firing skilled human workers & replacing them w/spicy autocomplete, Musk is assuming his final form as both…kind of boss who can be conned into replacing you w/a defective chatbot *&* as…fast-talking sales rep who cons your boss. Musk is transforming key government functions into high-speed error-generating machines whose human minders are only the payroll to take the fall for the coming tsunami of robot fuckups.”
Judge rules DOGE's USAID dismantling likely violates the Constitution
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews
https://apnews.com/article/usaid-federal-judge-trump-administration-bdc919a5d98eda5ab72a32fdfe2f147d
"The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say."
Unfortunately, this news isn't from the Onion. RFK Jr is anti: science & vaccine.
#GOPDeathCult #Health #PublicHealth #Science #PublicSafety #H5N1 #HHS #RFKJR #Trump #LetItRip #Resist #USPol
The Trump admin has canceled funding for an ongoing 30-year, nationwide study tracking patients with prediabetes & diabetes.
Investigators working on the landmark Diabetes Prevention Program found out last week that the NIH has halted funding for the project
The #NIH has canceled funding for a landmark diabetes study — at a time when #RFKJr/ #MAHA mvt is focused on addressing chronic diseases, incl. diabetes.
Can I get a "trust, but verify?"
Wall Street should have known better than to trust Donald Trump
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-wall-street-economy-stock-market-rcna196759
The Guardian: Germany investigates after national with green card arrested at US border
Berlin checking if US immigration policy has changed after Fabian Schmidt becomes third German to be detained
"Berlin is investigating whether US immigration policy has changed, after a German national who is a permanent US resident was detained and “violently interrogated” by US border officials....His mother, Astrid Senior, told the Boston-headquartered public broadcaster WGBH news that her son had been “violently interrogated” at Boston’s Logan airport for hours, stripped naked and put in a cold shower by two officials."
Update. "Don’t wait out four hard years: speak truth to power"
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00791-z
"More scholars must push back. The idea that scientists can keep doing what they know must be done to incorporate #DEI into their work while adjusting terms to fit the demands of bigoted autocrats bent on hobbling science is to whistle loudly past a graveyard of avoidable error, continued financial cuts and censorship. That diversity matters to science is a truth — albeit one that has only recently begun to be accepted and applied…Genomics has established that different groups of people respond differently to drugs and vaccines. The individuals recruited to and participating in clinical trials must be representative of those who will use those treatments in real life…Social scientists are well aware that understanding behaviour and implementing desired change requires studying populations besides white, Western, university psychology students."
Driving a Tesla is now the equivalent of wearing a Gestapo uniform and goose stepping. Don't.
How many times does the administration need to violate the constitution before people realize we no longer have a legitimate government?
More winning against Loser Trump and drug-addled Musk.
People have exposed Trump and Musk's plan to destroy Social Security. https://popular.info/p/exclusive-memo-details-trump-plan
TNR reminds us - Trump and his administration are truly mad. https://newrepublic.com/article/192786/trump-tariffs-insane-method-madness
Missed this. Chuck Edwards, A Musk-loving Republican, heckled at his town hall. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/14/north-carolina-town-hall-chuck-edwards/
France is happy to take in American Scientists. https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/14/france_us_science_offer/
An analysis of why Europe should form a defense pact with Canada. https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6688143
Canada's liberals widen their lead. Thanks Trump! https://globalnews.ca/news/11086378/mark-carney-liberals-lead-conservatives-ipsos/
People across the world rally to stop the Putin-loving traitors Musk and Trump and their GOP enablers. More to come!
Want to know who's fighting back? Here's the people to follow. https://www.theroot.com/judges-politicians-who-arent-backing-down-from-trump-a-1851770512
MSNBC reminds Trump we're in charge, not him. https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/mass-protests-donald-trump-remind-people-hold-power-rcna196622
Vote Vets goes after Musk and Trump. They got the vets angry. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL_6LpDeEw4
Ninth Circuit rejects Trump bid to stay firing of federal workers. https://www.courthousenews.com/ninth-circuit-rejects-trump-bid-to-stay-firing-of-federal-workers/
When JOHN ROBERTS is on our side (for once) . . . https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-18/us-chief-justice-calls-impeaching-judges-over-rulings-improper
"Some might feel like saying, we fucking warned you, but I won’t. Just this cautionary note…
If you’re one of the >42M borrowers with fed student loan debt, now is a good time to check your payment portal."
-C Webb
“What Trump is doing on student loans is literally going to crash the economy" -Rooker
Another TikToker took to the platform to describe her husband’s dramatic 10x payment increase—from $500 a month to close to $5,000.
#Trumpcession #StudentLoans #USPol
https://fortune.com/2025/03/17/millennials-student-loan-payments-skyrocket-donald-trump-administration-changes-department-of-education/
Elon's Exploding Rockets Are 100% Wasteful Corruption
They cost taxpayers $$$ Billions.
They will never work.
It's one massive scam.
https://www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/starship-was-doomed-from-the-beginning
Update. "#DOGE order leads to journal cancellations by U.S. agricultural library"
https://www.science.org/content/article/doge-order-leads-journal-cancellations-u-s-agricultural-library
"The #USDA on Friday told staff members it has canceled subscriptions carried by its National Agricultural Library as part of a drive by President Donald #Trump’s administration to cut federal spending. The move appears to drop nearly 400 of the library’s roughly 2000 journals, including many prominent in various agricultural subfields —but curiously none from the world’s three largest scientific publishers, all of which are #ForProfit. USDA staff members depicted the move as hasty, indiscriminate slashing…Studies of journal subscription fees indicate that on average, scientific #SocietyPublishers charge less than such for-profit companies."
PS: (1) Of course the best ag research should be #OpenAccess. But that's a goal, not the current reality, and while we work for that goal, policymaking agencies still need access the best research. (2) If efficiency requires budget cuts, why focus the cuts on journals from #nonprofit #publishers, which on average are lower in price and higher in quality?
Update. #Trump Administration Aims to Eliminate #EPA’s Scientific Research Arm"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/climate/trump-eliminates-epa-science.html
"The Environmental Protection Agency plans to eliminate its scientific research arm, firing as many as 1,155 chemists, biologists, toxicologists and other scientists, according to documents reviewed by Democrats on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology…The EPA’s plan… calls for dissolving the agency’s largest department, the Office of Research and Development, and purging up to 75 percent of the people who work there. The remaining staff members would be placed elsewhere within the EPA…Rep. Zoe Lofgren [D-CA],…the top Democrat on the science committee, said that without the Office of Research and Development, the EPA would not be able to meet its legal obligation to use the “best available science” when writing regulations and considering policy. She also said that the office was created by congressional statute and that dissolving it would be illegal."
