Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary who became one of television's most honored journalists, has died at 91.
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Bill Moyers, the former White House press secretary who became one of television's most honored journalists, has died at 91.
NEW: Millions of low-income Americans could lose access to food stamps or see reductions in their monthly benefits as a result of House Republicans’ newly adopted tax bill, according to an analysis released Thursday from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/u...
The Social Security Administration has already cut 7,000 jobs.
As a result, its website is crashing. Phone lines are overwhelmed. Beneficiaries can't get service.
What is DOGE recommending now? More layoffs.
Let it be known that Trump is effectively cutting Social Security.
A headline over a photo of the Environmental Protection Agency building reads: "The EPA's New Mission Doesn't Appear to Include Protecting the Environment." Photo by Stefani Reynolds/The New York Times.
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency said his agency’s mission was to make buying cars, heating homes and running businesses cheaper — not to protect the environment. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/c...
Robert Morris, the founder of a Texas megachurch and a former faith adviser to the Trump White House, was indicted Wednesday on charges that he molested a girl over several years in the 1980s, the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office said.
Millionaires stop paying into Social Security today.
That’s because they've now made $176,100, and hit the contributions cap.
Billionaires made that much about an hour into the year.
Elon Musk did in just 15 minutes.
Tax the rich. Scrap the cap.
A card reads: "These Words Are Disappearing in the New Trump Administration." A long list of words follows, including: biologically female; biologically male; BIPOC; Black; breastfeed + people; clean energy; climate crisis; climate science; commercial sex worker; community diversity; community equity; confirmation bias; cultural competence; cultural differences; cultural heritage; cultural sensitivity; culturally appropriate; culturally responsive; DEI; equity; feminism; genders.
Agencies within the Trump administration have flagged hundreds of words to limit or avoid, according to a compilation of government documents. These terms appeared in government memos, in official and unofficial agency guidance and in other documents. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.
Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
Hundreds of fired civil servants at NOAA provided seafood safety, hurricane and snowstorm forecasts, and critical climate science.
This week we gathered at their HQ to tell Trump and Elon Musk: we believe in facts, science and truth. Hands off NOAA!
Extending the Trump tax cuts for the next 10 years would add roughly $4 trillion to the deficit.
Remember this the next time Republicans try paying for them with cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
The "party of fiscal responsibility" is full of it.
A recent analysis found that when Trump imposed tariffs during his first term, companies who contributed to Republicans were more likely to be granted tariff exemptions.
Trump's corporate donors won't shoulder the cost of his trade wars.
It's crony capitalism at its worst.
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has deleted hundreds more claims from its mistake-plagued “wall of receipts,” erasing $4 billion in additional savings that the group said it had made for U.S. taxpayers.
He is incompetent
The same week that Elon Musk baselessly called Social Security a "Ponzi scheme," his co-president Donald Trump announced that he wants to create a national crypto reserve.
This could result in taxpayer dollars being used to prop up an actual Ponzi scheme.
Hello?
"Jobs were also eliminated at the National Hurricane Center and Storm Prediction Center... and the tsunami warning centers in Alaska and Hawaii..."
www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
Yall better be both sharing the Stand up for Science posts /and/ figuring out how to get your butt to one of them!
@standupforscience.bsky.social
Actions of a Dictator
The putrid connections between great wealth and great power are now on display for all to see. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/feb/27/america-billionaires-bezos-zuckerberg-musk
That’s right. 🇺🇦
Elon Musk called Social Security a "ponzi scheme." This is absolute rubbish. Social Security has paid every benefit owed to every eligible American for 85 years. Perhaps the bigger "ponzi scheme" is the $38 billion spent by taxpayers to prop up his corporations?
RFK Jr. Vows To Make Measles Deaths So Common They Won’t Be Upsetting Anymore
theonion.com/rfk-jr-...
As Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Republicans in Congress work to slash critical Medicaid funding, I convened a panel of health care practitioners and Medicaid recipients who explain why this program is a life-or-death necessity for millions—and critical to Maryland.
We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
Hundreds of NOAA employees are being fired by Trump and DOGE.
The National Weather Service, which is part of NOAA, provides life saving weather forecasting in the US.
A study found that for every $1 invested in NWS, it produces $73 in value to Americans.
Again, this isn't about efficiency.
He should lick longer after kissing his ass
DOGE recommended firing workers at:
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
