The blue wave is coming November 3. Get out and rock the vote! 🌊🌊🌊
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We're all paying the price after Republicans increased the cost of living - look no further than an order at Waffle House.
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If you follow me, you know I strongly support women’s health and greater funding investment in science. So a few thoughts on yesterday’s White House announcement.
icymi, Trump unveiled a new women’s health division at NIH as though the federal government had never prioritized this work before.
In fact NIH’s Office of Research on Women’s Health has existed since 1990.
His executive order also revokes President Biden’s 2023 women’s health research initiative and his 2024 order advancing it.
I was serving in the White House when those efforts began and can say that there was - and remains - an enormous amount to do. Biden called on Congress to invest $12 billion in women’s health research and made concrete funding announcements: in October 2024, ARPA-H announced more than $110 million for 23 teams tackling neglected conditions affecting women.
Let’s not forget that this same administration has done incredible damage to the scientific systems over the past year and a half which has included terminating grants supporting women’s health research, including work on uterine fibroids and pregnancy risks.
But most notably this announcement comes without specifying any NEW research funding commitment, which is what women’s health so desperately needs.
I am absolutely supportive of a spotlight on women’s health but not another rebrand 😭
First Lady Melania Trump Champions New U.S. Women’s Health Initiative whitehouse.gov/briefings-sta…
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You know who did pass the bar exam? First Lady #MichelleObama, Justice #KetanjiBrownJackson, VP #KamalaHarris, and Congresswoman #JasmineCrockett.
#DEI doesn’t lower the bar. It exposes those who can’t reach it.
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I realize why I dont like Hocevar.
We live in a world where respect, decency, and traditional values have been completely discarded. People just do what they want without regard for anyone else. I hate it.
Hocevar is the NASCAR manifestation of that.
If the kid could just own it and apologize...even then I'd say, let him be what he wants to be on track. But the fact he does it and REFUSES to own it, that is just not OK.
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Many thanks to Brian Krassenstein!
“The weirdest thing about leaving America is realizing how much of America is just a sales pitch.
You spend your whole life hearing “greatest country on Earth,” then you go overseas and see clean trains, safer streets, affordable medicine, cities where people can walk without playing Frogger with an SUV, and workers who take vacations without acting like they committed treason.
And then you come home.
You come home to potholes, medical debt, school shooting drills, $17 airport sandwiches, people living in tents under highways, politicians wearing flag pins (or worse, gun pins) while doing absolutely nothing for the people standing in food bank lines, and billionaires being treated like they’re the fragile ones.
And somehow we’re all supposed to stand there, hand over heart, and pretend this is normal.
I don’t hate America. I hate what America has been taught to tolerate.
I hate that we call basic things “radical.” Healthcare? Radical. Paid leave? Radical. Clean air? Radical. Kids not getting shot in math class? Somehow political.
Meanwhile, the loudest “patriots” are usually the same people telling struggling Americans to shut up, stop complaining, and be grateful.
Grateful for what? A flag doesn’t pay rent. A bald eagle doesn’t cover insulin. Fireworks don’t fix bridges. And chanting “USA” doesn’t make a broken system less broken.
America has incredible people. That’s the tragedy. The people are better than the system they’ve been forced to defend.
So no, I’m not going to call America the greatest country on Earth just because it has the best marketing department.
Real patriotism isn’t pretending the country is perfect.
Real patriotism is being angry that it isn’t”
- Brian Krassenstein
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Every year on or right before 9/11, we show this video to our students. It’s not only powerful story-telling, it’s a reminder to a younger generation about how life altering 9/11 was for those of us who lived it. It’s only 10 min #themanintheredbandana
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They are never going to give you $9,000 to stay home with your kids. Just like you never got your DOGE check, tariff refund, cheaper groceries, $2 gas, a healthcare plan, or 600% off prescriptions.
At some point, being this gullible becomes a fucking choice.
🎾🎾Shelton vs. Alcaraz🎾🎾 Who needs sleep tonight?? #USOpen #ArthurAsheStadium #TheCityThatNeverSleeps
Anyone feeling like you’re in The Handmaid’s Tale…or, maybe, 1940’s Germany????
Editor in Chief of Stars and Stripes Erik Slavin speaks out after he was fired by the Pentagon today: "They said that I was insubordinate for responding to a hypothetical about censorship and saying it was a red line... I reaffirmed what the law says, what the DOD regs say, which is that Stars and Stripes is meant to be free of news management and censorship."
