mcktreacy
@mcktreacy.bsky.social
Blue through and through. Veteran. Ohio State. Cal State. Married in WA. "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace and this single reflection, well applied, is sufficient to awaken every man to duty. —Thomas Paine
NEW: In March the White House released an FY27 budget request that zeroed out the National Science Foundation's directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). For months it was unclear what would happen. Now, with FY26 over, the damage to SBE is coming to light. My reporting:
‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research
Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year
science.org
WATCH: All U.S. bombers deployed to RAF Fairford in England have been pulled out and returned to their home stations in the United States as potential Iranian threats raise base security concerns across Europe. Read more about the withdrawal and threats here: www.stripes.com/branches/air...
Good God
Nancy Levine Stearns@nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · last wk.🚨NEW by me: New ICE facility for unaccompanied migrant kids is about to open in Louisiana. While ICE is sanitizing optics, calling it the "Alexandria Family Staging Center," lawmakers and child advocates are raising the roof warning of child trafficking risks. www.thequeenzone.com/new-ice-faci...
It goes on and on and on and on…
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · last wk.Endless corruption.
it is very cool to have the livelihood of every creative person on earth obliterated by people who don’t understand what art is for
Dan of the Year@downwithdan.bsky.social · 2w agoWhen you have no concept of how people engage with music
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 18-year-old Arya Satheesh from Ireland has developed a plant-based plastic that can biodegrade and release an enzyme that helps break down other plastic waste. A plastic that could actually help clean up plastic waste.
It really is striking how many authoritarian states have ended up in this exact same place, where the leader seizes control of scientific inquiry. Lysenkoism in the Soviet Union, Aryan Physics in the Third Reich, Great Leap Forward (also related to Lysenko) in China.
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · 3w agoLysenkoism lives. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...
Huge turnout at the Kennedy Center tonight! 💚✊ Thank you!
Every single day, we should hear Dems in ads, calling out every way this regime and GOP are destroying our country, our democracy. Flood the airwaves with ad after ad, article after article
Oversight Dems@oversightdemocrats.bsky.social · 3w ago"The Trump family has turned the presidency into a side hustle." Watch @menefee.house.gov name names while he calls out the Trump administration's rampant corruption. Oversight Dems will hold them accountable.
He craves media attention. Every single news outlet should stand with these networks and stop the press. Imagine no reporters showing up anywhere. Also - every reporter should’ve and should be standing up every time he attacks women reporters.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 3w agoBREAKING: MS NOW says it has been denied White House access.
"The lawmakers who created our tariff authorities never dreamed a president would try to stitch them into a patchwork quilt to smother global trade. Today’s Congress has no such excuse. That they just handed him yet another suite of broad tariff powers is insane." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...
Congress to Trump: MORE TARIFFS, PLEASE!
Oh, sorry, “sanctions.”
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Indeed, We The People Should Be Getting The Same Healthcare And Paid Leave As McTurtle.......🐢
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
JUST IN: Attorneys for Rep. Joyce Beatty asked for an emergency hearing after a staffer was denied access to the Kennedy Center and told it was closed to the public. www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
Kennedy Center Closed
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The EPA will test America's drinking water for abortion medication & birth control—caving to a years-long pressure campaign from anti-abortion extremists.
BREAKING: EPA Will Test Drinking Water for Abortion Pills & Contraception
The federal agency just caved to years of anti-abortion pressure
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Indeed he is. His story: The Red Bandana, A Life. A Choice. A Legacy. By: Tom Rinaldi
4fuxake@blueheartedly1.bsky.social · last mo.A true hero 💔👇
This, and why the heck aren’t they asking the same tough questions as she continues to do?
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last mo.To every reporter who stands there as Trump shouts down one of your (almost always female) colleagues with insults and bullying behavior without standing up for them -- you know the rest of us can see and hear you, right?
A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear. - Khalil Gibran
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Trump claims he was basically lifted out of the rubble on 9/11: "Two fireman, big strong guys, they grabbed me under the arms -- 'got to get our of here!' -- and they literally lifted me up, and they started running with me."
DHC and ICE makes themselves look as bad as they truly are
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.Markwayne Mullin: "The Democrats throw out all these fearmongels to try to make ICE and President Trump's administration look as worse as possible" 🥴
CDC removed two measles deaths in Pennsylvania from a national database just days after Health Secretary RFK Jr. publicly disputed whether state officials had properly classified the cases. https://www.notus.org/healthcare/rfk-cdc-scrubs-two-pennsylvania-measles-deaths-from-website
CDC Scrubs Two Pennsylvania Measles Deaths From Its Website
The two deaths had been scrutinized by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who suggested they had been wrongly classified or even fabricated.
notus.org
“firm In a letter shared first with MS NOW, Rep. Jamie Raskin says 1789 Capital’s investments have been timed with “almost clairvoyant accuracy" since the president’s son joined as a partner.”
House Democrats open investigation into Donald Trump Jr.’s venture capital firm
In a letter shared first with MS NOW, Rep. Jamie Raskin says 1789 Capital’s investments have been timed with “almost clairvoyant accuracy" since the president’s son joined as a partner.
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