@iowabiologist
Naturalist humanist practicing equality, justice.🧘🏻♀️Student of Plum Village, ecology, heirloom Poblanos, indigenous wisdom & progressive governance. Wld leave Iowa if I had $. ⚖️🇺🇸🪶🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🤜🏾🤛🏼🗽🌎♿️
Rachel Maddow: “The U.S. economy under Trump lost 92,000 jobs last month — over the past year, while Trump's been in office, the country has lost nearly 100,000 manufacturing jobs—
Gas prices have now spiked as high as they've ever been while he’s been president — with the worst still to come”
MS NOW confirms: Far-right activist Ed Martin is facing an ethics investigation from the D.C. Bar.
The Office of Disciplinary Counsel — the enforcement arm for the local DC Bar — alleges that Martin violated ethics rules in early 2025 by making threats against Georgetown University Law Center.
When a US missile killed 160 children, president shits-a-lot claimed Iran stole the missile and fired at the school. When asked why he was the only one making this claim, he said "because I just don't know enough about it".
Go ahead. See if you can make this make sense.
(Source: RB Hubbell)
Who would have guessed that the legal system in America was so fragile that a single crazy president could ignore the whole thing, from the Constitution right down to state laws?
Why does the Supreme Court and Congress let this demented moron act like the dictator of a banana republic?
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics. It’s the root of all evil in Washington.
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This…
Elizabeth Warren: "I am a hard no on a supplemental. This is not a war the American people want us to engage in. This is not a war that makes us safer ... No. No more money. The only thing Congress has the power to do is to stop actions like this through the power of the purse."
Hey Trump!
Mass starvation & economic collapse is NOT CONSIDERED FRIENDLY.
CUBANS HAVE NO ENERGY FOR LIGHTS, cooking, transportation.
No fuel for airlines & tourism which means no more work (100% certainty) .
trump is adding to the crimes against humanity that the castro regime began.
Trump thinks starving out the people of Cuba -with his illegal embargo against all oil for Cuba, who now have no food or medicine, no fuel, no transportation, no electricity, no airline service for mail or tourists, no Justice & no free speech- Trump calls this is a friendly takeover! 😭😠
Trump: "Maybe we'll have a friendly takeover of Cuba. We could very well end up having a friendly takeover of Cuba."
If you have time to read only one news article about tonight's state of the union before the speech, I think this piece by Glenn Kessler should be it:
www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
And again: the People who need Medicaid will be suffering while Trump’s fraudulent administration appears to be going after Providers.
Mmsfm 😠
Bs. The current regime is retaliating against the poorest Americans again.
The cut in funding punishes the patients who need medicine and healthcare services the most.
Icymi 😠
Poor Minnesotans.
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Elderly & children;
entire families;
disabled and
low-income.
Another fascist attack against
We the People.
🚨 NEW @ms.now: Last night POTUS said he was tasking JD Vance w/ "waging a war on fraud."
Seems he's picking his first battle today, announcing the temporary halting of $259 million in Medicaid funding to Minnesota due to unsubstantiated fraud claims. ⤵️
Critics concerned as Casey Means, aligned with RFK Jr on vaccine stance, does not have active medical licence
Jamieson Greer warns tariffs may climb from 10% after Trump imposed global levy amid US supreme court setback
In a sit-down with the @us.theguardian.com at the @defiance.org counter-SOTU event in DC last night, Robert De Niro reflects on the political similarities from the Vietnam war era and today, calls Trump a "lunatic", and says "we have to push back". Take a listen:
Study finds participants saw reduction in depressive symptoms as researchers welcome ‘promising’ results
The price of cattle has increased, but only marginally, while prices at the grocery store have soared.
McDonald’s and other food industry players accuse the big beef packers of collusion and price-gouging, while the packers deny these allegations.
Co-published with @thefern.org:
Nobel laureate Richard Axel announced resignation as co-director of Columbia University’s neuroscience institute
States call move an illegal threat to public health and argue CDC puts children’s lives at risk with new guidance
“With the departure of AAG Slater, it appears there are no longer any principled antitrust experts left to guard the antitrust division from this cascade of corruption,” the letter said. “The leadership vacuum is occurring just as the antitrust division is handling historic cases.”
I ❤️Jaime Raskin
Aliya Rahman, who was dragged out of her car in January by agents, arrested for ‘refusing to obey orders’ to sit down
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Communism in Cuba would have ended or evolved by now if the US had stopped its aggressive policies towards it. If anything, it's the US which has allowed authoritarianism to flourish by keeping the Island in a perpetual siege.
Mexican ships arrive in Cuba
MENU THE WHITE HOUSE SEARCH States Code, it is hereby ordered: X in T Section 1. Background. In Executive Order 14193 of February 1, 2025 (Imposing Duties To Address the Flow of Illicit Drugs Across Our Northern Border), as amended; Executive Order 14194 of February 1, 2025 (Imposing Duties To Address the Situation at Our Southern Border), as amended; Executive Order 14195 of February 1, 2025 (Imposing Duties To Address the Synthetic Opioid Supply Chain in the People's Republic of China), as amended; Executive Order 14245 of March 24, 2025 (Imposing Tariffs on Countries Importing Venezuelan Oil); Executive Order 14257 of April 2, 2025 (Regulating Imports With a Reciprocal Tariff To Rectify Trade Practices That Contribute to Large and Persistent Annual United States Goods Trade Deficits), as amended; Executive Order 14323 of July 30, 2025 (Addressing Threats to the United States by the Government of Brazil), as amended: Executive Order 14329 of August 6, 2025 (Addressing Threats to the United States by the Government of the Russian Federation), as amended; Executive Order 14380 of January 29, 2026 (Addressing Threats to the United States by the Government of Cuba); and Executive Order 14382 of February 6, 2026 (Addressing Threats to the United States by the Government of Iran), I declared or described national emergencies with respect to unusual and extraordinary threats to the national security, foreign policy, or economy of the United States and took actions to deal with those threats, including by imposing, pursuant to IEEPA, additional ad valorem duties on certain imports of certain foreign trading partners. X JOIN NOW In light of recent events, the additional ad valorem duties imposed pursuant to IEEPA in Executive Order 14193, as amended: Executive Order 14194, as amended: Executive Order 14195, as amended; Executive Order 14245; Executive Order 14257, as amended: Executive Order 14323, as amended; Executive Order 14329, as amended; Executive Order 14380 and Ex…
Mexico rejects illegal US sanctions on Cuba, sends humanitarian aid, and has resumed talks on when to restart oil transports to the island, a direct challenge to US piracy in the region.
