This is bad. At least 9 county prosecutors in pro-Trump areas of Virginia have now openly declared that they won't enforce the assault weapons ban that the Dem state legislature recently passed.
It's a MAGA nullification movement.
New piece from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2114...
Over 17,000 kids in Maryland have lost SNAP assistance due to cuts in what Trump & Republicans call their "Big, Beautiful Bill." While it may be beautiful for the billionaires enjoying record tax cuts, kids are going hungry to save those billionaires money. Shameful.
www.cbpp.org/blog/sharp-d...
I attended American Diabetes Association conference in Boston in 2014 as a member of the press.
Fast forward 12 years and, shockingly, America has fallen to far-right thugs. Like the Nazis they’re modelled on, US fascists target academia & free speech.
Resistance is crucial.
demonstrative of the tension between the encroaching maga political appointees at the top and the public health workers/scientists/career feds who are under them but trying to do what they can
the "we'll all do carework" framing for the AI future is funny because it assumes the people who'd be good at carework are the same ones banking hard on automation replacing everything else. the Venn diagram of "excited to fire everyone" and "you'll be a nurse" is two separate circles.
"The study found that resettled refugees contribute $6 billion more to the U.S. economy than they take out. Per year.
The Trump administration did exactly what you’d expect: They suppressed the study, and then they lied about it."
