Amkg
@amkg.bsky.social
History, science, environmental health advocate, APRN geriatrics, researcher, teacher, grandma. Voted blue straight thru 💙 Politics matter. No DMs.
We got SaveUSFS.org updated! L.L.Bean has joined the movement to protect the U.S. Forest Service. Welcome to the right side of history.
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...
Four million dollars. They’re cutting a program to test treatments for children with brain cancer to save four million dollars a year.
Pediatric Brain Cancer Trial Group to Be Phased Out
nytimes.com
ROGAN: “Yeah, he didn’t have an answer.” Joe Rogan & Dave Smith discuss how Trump couldn’t explain how the election was stolen from him when he was on Rogan’s podcast. (Because it wasn’t)
The unseen harvest: Pesticides, cancer and rural Missouri’s health crisis investigatemidwest.org/2025/08/18/t...
The unseen harvest: Pesticides, cancer and rural Missouri’s health crisis - Investigate Midwest
Unyielding is a University of Missouri School of Journalism project for Investigate Midwest. KENNETT, MO. — Nestled in Missouri’s Bootheel is the small town of Kennett, the Dunklin County seat. With j...
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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.
No sense can ever be made of this. It's about the money - NRA money. @amkg.bsky.social
Republicans say we don't have a gun problem, we have a mental health problem. So why give guns to the people that shouldn't have them?
King Midas of the Golden BigMacs 🍔 we know how that turned out...🤞🏼
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke by phone on Sunday with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, and the two leaders condemned Russia’s airstrikes on Azerbaijani energy facilities in Ukraine. meduza.io/en/news/2025...
Zelensky and Aliyev condemn Russian strikes on Azerbaijani energy facilities in Ukraine — Meduza
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held a phone call on Sunday with Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev, during which the two leaders condemned what Azerbaijan’s presidential office described…
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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🧵
Trump is declaring fake "emergencies" while reducing our ability to deal with real ones.
FEMA Employees Reassigned to ICE
Probationary employees who had been on paid leave were told to report to ICE within seven days or lose their jobs. It co
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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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#ICE are thieves and raiding businesses while vandalizing & destroying cameras and property
What happens if you don’t do background checks or training for thousands of people and you give them all total authority? ICE has been caught looting and destroying property at Pittsburgh restaurants. They even tried to break into the safes. They loaded food, supplies and equipment into vehicles /
Tim Cook pathetically kisses Trump's ass by pretending him with a "24 karat gold" gift
This is the equivalent of me announcing that "Andy Burge has reviewed Andrew Wiles's proof of Fermat's last theorem concluding it to be false" Kennedy has no scientific qualifications and is full blown idiotic conspiracy theorist. 2/2
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.