Amkg

@amkg.bsky.social

History, science, environmental health advocate, APRN geriatrics, researcher, teacher, grandma. Voted blue straight thru 💙 Politics matter. No DMs.

In 2017, the Trump administration had turnover in 2 cabinet positions & 35% of senior staff posts. In 2025, there have been no cabinet changes & 29% senior staff turnover. That’s still much higher than other recent administrations, according to a Brookings analysis. www.npr.org/2026/01/20/n...

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Doesn’t deploy federal troops to stop a Capitol invasion or save children from a Texas flood or clean up debris from a StL tornado. Deployed federal troops to disperse people in sleeping bags. Got it.

One perverse aspect of Trump calling up the D.C. National Guard while crime plummets to a 30-year-low: Trump REFUSED to call up the D.C. Guard on Jan. 6 to counter an insurrection that he himself incited. If Congress won't give D.C. statehood, at least give us control over our National Guard.

ICE slam head of local nurse into ground during arrest—she's a U.S. citizen & community volunteer. Agents charged at her so she dropped a poster——they claim she "attacked" them with that poster. Amanda Trebach is well known—and targeted in advance for false arrest—according to fellow volunteers.

NIGHTS OF BLUE SKIES DAY 9 AUGUST 2025 THESE HORRENDOUS TIMES TODAY, ICE GESTAPO RAMPANT . . TEXAS DEMOCRATS FIGHT . . STAND WITH ZELENSKYY Meet Rob Rodgers, an award-winning cartoonist of 20 plus years Pittsburgh Post Gazette FIRED for this cartoon This is what fascism looks like🧵

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Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, voted for cuts to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, but he’s also routed more than 800 of his constituents’ complaints to the agency — the most of any current lawmaker from either party, ProPublica found. By @joeljacobs.bsky.social

These GOP Lawmakers Referred Constituents to the CFPB for Help. Then They Voted to Gut the Agency.

Many of the same Republican lawmakers who have targeted the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau for cuts have collectively directed thousands of constituents’ complaints about banks, credit cards,…

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No, it's not only the US who will suffer from RFK Jr cancelling vaccine research. 1️⃣ You can't just instantly teleport research projects. Cancelling US projects slows global progress. 2️⃣ Preventing pandemics will always be a group project. The US is letting the team down & putting the world at risk.

BREAKING: The US government has just removed sections 9 and 10 of Article I of the US Constitution from their website. Note that sections 9 and 10 deal with: - Writ of Habeas Corpus - Congresses ability to control tariffs. See screenshot below: Notice that 9 and 10 are gone.