Epi_lady (Amy)

Picture of DOGE guy Nate Cavanaugh

Screenshot of my DOGE letter “Dr. Joseph Rezek Dear NEH Grantee, This letter provides notice that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) is terminating your federal grant (Grant Application No. FEL29509824) effective April 3, 2025, in accordance with the termination clause in your Grant Agreement. Your grant no longer effectuates the agency's needs and priorities and conditions of the Grant Agreement and is subject to termination due to several reasonable causes, as outlined in 2CFR§200.340. For instance, NEH has reasonable cause to terminate your grant in light of the fact that the NEH is repurposing its funding allocations in a new direction in furtherance of the President's agenda. The President's February 19, 2025 executive order mandates that the NEH eliminate all non-statutorily required activities and functions. See Commencing the Reduction of the Federal Bureaucracy, E.O. 14217 (Feb. 19, 2025). Your grant's immediate termination is necessary to safeguard the interests of the federal government, including its fiscal priorities. Any objections or appeals to this termination will be managed in strict accordance with the President's Executive Orders,

Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below

excited to #StandUpForScience in #Seattle

Full recall list:
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Food Recall Alert of a *ton* of fried rice, ramen, yakitori, and dumpling products, sold at Trader Joe's and Kroger, primarily, for potential glass contamination. Link to PDF with the entire list in the comments. Includes some with best-by dates that have not passed.

#FoodRecall for a *ton* of #friedrice, #ramen, #yakitori, and #dumplings, sold at #TraderJoe's & others, for potential glass contamination. Link to PDF with the entire list in the comments. Includes some with best-by dates that have not passed.

Flyer for a fundraiser for people who are detained and separated from their pets.

Kirkland or Redmond or Seattle area people: event to support pets separated from the detained #ice #pets #redmond

JUST IN: A federal judge in Oregon has barred ICE from conducting warrantless arrests without probable cause in the state, saying the agency's "dragnets" have flouted "clear and undisputed" law. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

CNN reporting that the strikes on Iran tonight are joint US and Israeli strikes.

Which means Donald Trump should be impeached for a third time.

What he has done tonight is illegal under the US constitution and the UN charter.

The kid who is comatose has a mother who wouldn't choose differently either "who knows what goes in the vaccine"
But she doesn't know all of what is going into her kid now, does she?

Could have been avoided.

South Carolina seeks non-CDC reinforcements to contain growing measles outbreak A dozen public health experts are arriving in South Carolina to help the state contain the largest U.S. measles outbreak in more than 30 years, but they're not coming from the Centers for Disease Cont...

South Carolina has requested urgent assistance with handling the measles outbreak there.

They did not request it from RFK Jr.’s moribund CDC, but rather the CDC Foundation, which is a nonprofit that is independent of the U.S. government.

RFK Jr. continues to do NOTHING about this outbreak.

I have an ethnic last name. I know it's spam when I get non-English emails in the language with which the name is most associated LOL

Almost 1000 cases this year, not even through the first two months. More than 20 people have been hospitalized in S Carolina although it's hard to know how many bc their hospitals aren't required to report inpatient cases.
Please vaccinate. It isn't worth the risk of encephalitis or death.

Oppose Politically-Motivated Public Health Funding Cuts ⭑ 5 Calls The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has instructed the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) to claw back $600 million in public …

Oppose Politically-Motivated Public Health Funding Cuts!
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How it feels about the #EpsteinFiles

Can someone take action now, please?

The "Princess Bride" meme showing a still from the movie. The text says "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

"Exonerated" 🤣

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#Trump #Epstein #EpsteinClass

Pfizer External Research & Grants Announces a New Education RFP in Invasive Mold Infections 🧪

Of potential interest to the #IACC community:

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Even this is a massive understatement of the actual costs, since all of those things require advance planning, paperwork, and (in some cases) scheduling document retrievals (often only possible during work hours). The cost doesn't have to be high in dollars to be a prohibitive tax on voters.

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison.

Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water.

Our priorities are so fucked.

The Letter of the Law, and the Law in Practice Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. If I recall correctly, the original news peg for a live Kicker recording about threats to the free press was a raid on the home of Hannah Natanson, a Washington Post reporter. By the time Amanda Darrach, The Kicker’s producer, and I were finalizing logistics for the event, which took place in CJR’s office, two independent journalists—Don Lemon and Georgia Fort—had been arrested for covering a protest in Minneapolis. A few days before we recorded, the Post eliminated three hundred–plus jobs. Suffice it to say, I had plenty to talk about. I also had dream guests with whom to talk about it all. David Enrich, a deputy investigations editor at the New York Times, wrote the excellent 2025 book Murder the Truth about efforts to overturn the media law precedent set by New York Times v. Sullivan in 1964. Jameel Jaffer, the executive director of Columbia’s Knight First Amendment Institute, has been involved in litigating dozens of crucial cases on press freedom. In wrapping up the interview, I said I had about seven hundred more questions for them; in retrospect, that may have been an undercount. Recording live also meant the rare chance...

The Letter of the Law, and the Law in Practice
->Columbia Journalism Review | More on "Press freedom and media threats" at BigEarthData.ai

Request a screening of The Second Trauma - The Second Trauma Watch the trailer About the film This 25-minute documentary shows the effects of episodic gun violence reporting on survivors and co-victims. The documentary offers solutions on how we can do better…

This 25-minute documentary shows the effects of episodic gun violence reporting on survivors and co-victims. The documentary offers solutions on how we can do better to shift the narrative to a public health focus and give power back to the community to advocate for their safety.

Trump Defends $1.3 Trillion Savings, Denies Risk to Public Health President Trump dismissed concerns that his proposed $1.3 trillion in savings could harm public health or the environment, telling Americans “don’t worry about it” and claiming the underlying programs...

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More bold faced lies from a sadist.

It's hard to know what to say as this is quite depressing since no one in the legislature seems to care

Justin Ling: In the face of horror in Tumbler Ridge, these are the questions we need to be asking Van Rootselaar was the target of abuse by a prominent American right winger.

I spent yesterday combing through the social media history of Jesse Van Rootselaar, the 18-year-old responsible for a mass shooting at a B.C. school.

It doesn't explain why the shooting occurred. But it hints at how it might have been prevented.
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An incredible FOUR MILLION DOLLARS will be distributed to worthy charities bc of the #P4A2026 and there's still time to vote who will get the funds! If you, like us, are looking for some #Tuberculosis fighting causes to support, here are some you can vote for (& you can vote multiple times):
#TBSky

Card saying you must have a p-value of at least 0.05 because I fail to reject you

Still one of my all-time favorite #Valentines #MathHumor #DadJoke

Roses are red,
data is clear—
underfund health prevention
and the costs reappear.

#publichealrh #fundpublichealth #prevention #valentines

An orange cat and a tortie cat sitting on a lap with a red blanket.

My lap last night; my two rarely cuddle each other, and the tortie rarely cuddles me, but I got an early #Valentine and early #caturday treat. #catsofbluesky

This is harmful and ridiculous, not to mention executive overreach. These funds were appropriated by Congress.

Four states sue Trump administration over cuts to public health funding Four Democratic-led states filed a lawsuit on Wednesday that seeks to block the Trump administration from terminating $600 million in public health funding.

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Illinois AG sues to prevent Trump admin. from cutting $600M in public health funds from 4 states Illinois' attorney general is suing to block the Trump administration from cutting public health funding. Among the $600 million in cuts would be a $5.2 million program at Lurie Children's Hospital.

Donald Trump is stripping critical public health funding with one goal in mind: harming states he doesn’t like.

It’s a slap in the face to Illinoisans.

We will not stand by idly as Trump illegally cancels the Congressionally-allocated funding we are owed.