Carole Leclair

@sweetoldmetis.bsky.social

Manitoba Métis, Retired Indigenous Studies Professor, honours all our relatives. Impossible to ignore politics. Decompress with pets.

An animal shelter is working to safely capture a cat spotted with what appears to be red dye or paint covering its fur.

The cut would impact both disabled adults who live with low-income family members and older SSI recipients who live with their adult children on tight budgets. As many as 400,000 people could have their support cut or eliminated, per SSA estimates. (Published April)

The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families

A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities who...

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The 2024 mortality data is out. The states not voting consistently voting for Democrats had 367,184 age 20-64 deaths. If the had Democrat voting state death rates that would have been292,681 or 94,503, 24.9% fewer. 🧪💡

Today the Islamic Republic of Iran essentially declared that Donald Trump is too mentally deranged and pathologically deceitful to negotiate with... so they won't. And you know what? They're right. That's a normal, rational, adult position. So why don't we see it inside the US?

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GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy says Donald J. Trump’s executive order on vaccines is “wrong.” “I’m a doctor. This executive order is wrong. The President does not have the expertise to make these changes. Vaccines are overwhelmingly safe. Vaccines are effective. Vaccines DO NOT cause autism.”

“I’m a doctor. This executive order is wrong. The President does not have the expertise to make these changes. 

Vaccines are overwhelmingly safe. Vaccines are effective. Vaccines DO NOT cause autism. 

Breaking up vaccines will mean children have to get more shots to get the same protection, not fewer shots. It will increase hesitancy and make children less safe.

Parents should listen to their child’s pediatrician about vaccines rather than listening to an inaccurate executive order. This is so wrong”

No one should be shocked about the orange felon deliberately cutting funding for National Parks in order to illegally diverting over $400M to fund his destructive ego boost vanity projects at the bulldozed White House. Once a thieving fraud always a thieving fraud. I hate him.