Dr. Flowers @AlliFlowers@talkedabout.social

Employees of #HHS and its agencies who are being fired — RIF'd — started to receive termination notices today starting at 5 am. Big swaths of the #CDC appear to have been cut. Developing story.
https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/hhs-layoffs-start-under-rfk-jr-trump-administration/

The WSJ reported last week #RFKJr’s #HHS planned an immediate freeze of $27.5M in #FamilyPlanning grants for groups including #PlannedParenthood.

PPFA says >300 #health centers are in the #TitleX network & Title X-funded centers received >1.5M visits in 2023.

The loss of funding will mean that “cancers go undetected, access to #BirthControl is severely reduced, & the nation’s #STI crisis worsens,” said Alexis McGill Johnson, PPFA president.

#ReproductiveHealthcare #ReproductiveRights #law

#Trump admin to cut funds to #PlannedParenthood

The #nonprofit said that 9 of its affiliates received notice that funding would be withheld under a program known as #TitleX, which has supported #healthcare services for the #poor since 1970.

#FamilyPlanning #ReproductiveHealthcare #ReproductiveRights #MaternalMortality #CancerScreenings #BirthControl #AbortionIsHealthcare #law #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-administration-freeze-family-planning-funds-planned-parenthood-2025-04-01/

Admitting (or claiming) they can’t bring him home proves just how much of a paper tiger these turds are.

Trump administration concedes Maryland father from El Salvador was mistakenly deported and sent to mega prison #Politics https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/politics/maryland-father-mistakenly-deported-el-salvador-prison/index.html

#meme #memes #funny #politics #jesus #measles #transathletes

BREAKING: Judge Myron Thompson declares Alabama A.G. Steve Marshall's threatened abortion-fund prosecutions unconstitutional.

Yellowhammer Fund and healthcare providers sued; Thompson ruled that Marshall violated the right to travel and the First Amendment with his threats.

Tonight, at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/alabama-yellowhammer-fund-final-judgment

Cory Booker is throwing down—filibustering & standing up to Trump’s authoritarian overreach.

This is what we need—Dems who disrupt, resist, and fight back. Booker’s stand is a rallying cry for all of us to demand better.

Watch here 👉 https://www.youtube.com/live/v2utlMxAwtE

#congress #senate #resist #usa

👉 SS payments ▶️ Musk go-between payment App$$$ ▶️ SS recipients

Chris Norlund:
"massive conflict of interest...

Musk just had his company XAI buy X...and... he wants to do a payments app over there… essentially like a banking thing, he also made a deal with Visa recently, and now... he's… getting his hands on data over social security payments.

... they also talk about privatizing everything... it's pretty obvious what's going on"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP4aNfLRjbA

#News #Democracy #Trump ElonMusk

I'm going to cradle your face gently in both my hands when I say this because I need you to hear me.

If only citizens have the right to due process, then nobody has the right to due process.

Because once you're in custody on some trumped up charges, all it takes is for them to say you're not a citizen. And then you don't have the right to due process to prove them wrong. So I'm going to say it again.

If ONLY citizens have due process, then NOBODY has due process.

#IMLS staff put on *administrative leave*

The Institute of #Museum & #Library Services has placed its entire staff on administrative leave.

The IMLS is a relatively small federal agency, with around 70 employees, that awards grant funding to #museums & #libraries across the country.

#Trump #Musk #DOGE #idiocracy #USpol
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/31/nx-s1-5334415/doge-institute-of-museum-and-library-services

I have a (what I believe to be a pretty simple) project for a graphic artist / designer. I want to pay for it. It is a sign for a protest. Anyone know of someone with time this week?

Boosts greatly appreciated

There'll be a plaintiffs' news conference tomorrow morning at the National Press Club in Washington regarding the lawsuit by VOA journalists, labor unions and others against the US Agency for Global Media, acting USAGM director Victor Morales and the agency's special adviser, Kari Lake.

“Top Officials Placed on Leave After Denying DOGE Access to Federal Payroll Systems DOGE demanded full access to a US Department of the Interior system that handles even the Supreme Court's paychecks. When top staff asked questions, they were put on leave” www.wired.com/story/doge-a...

Top Officials Placed on Leave ...

There's no reason to ever assume that Trump is joking.

Hell, there's no documented evidence that he has ever laughed unless it was laughing at someone. He does not joke. He's not capable of that type of normal human behavior.

There are no self-made billionaires. We gotta shut that myth down.

Vladimir Putin offers political asylum to Marine Le Pen https://www.byteseu.com/881113/ #France

Illinois returned nearly 1,500 acres of stolen land to the state’s first federally recognised tribe. Correcting a “historic injustice,” the land once belonged to Chief Shab-eh-nay of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation but was seized and sold by the U.S. when the chief was visiting relatives.

Reminder: Trump was on the path to getting the due process Le Pen just did (which also took years, even w/o Presidential immunity) until John Roberts intervened. John Roberts was singularly responsible for delay, John Roberts was key vote that created 2 more years of delay.