Trump reportedly wants to eliminate funding for Head Start programs. These programs provide educational and nutritional support to our poorest children. Meanwhile, Trump is pushing for more tax cuts for the rich and a record breaking $1 trillion Pentagon budget. Hello?

This month has brought a shower of new podcasts for your playlist. The NPR One team gathered a few returning favorites as well as some fresh releases from across public media.

🚨 Still not getting the attention it deserves: Critical systems behind Medicare, Medicaid, and more—programs that serve over 150 million Americans—are at risk of collapse. Wired article explains how mass layoffs in HHS IT + cybersecurity leave our health infrastructure dangerously exposed. 🧵

The IRS’ plans to share sensitive taxpayer data with ICE has wrought chaos and concern through the agency.

Hungary shows us the endgame of autocratic populism: poverty and corruption www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Lesson #13 from @timothysnyder.bsky.social: Practice Corporeal Politics. "Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them." Watch this. Then join us outside nationwide on April 5th: handsoff2025.com. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

Are all government accounts on X just troll accounts now? This is from the official House Foreign Affairs Committee—the same committee responsible for foreign aid, global HIV/AIDS policy, security assistance, and national security. This is how they choose to represent themselves.

More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

We’ve faced a ridiculous amount of lies that there’s no structural or systemic racism in America. This book documents the scale of the racial wealth gap, how it happens, & reasons why this is a terrible burden for everyone who cares about equality and justice. www.americaamerica.news/p/plundering...

Good morning! Hope you had time to unplug & recharge. No updates on CDC RIFs—leadership is still in the dark (or plays that way). Reminder: the uncertainty & cruelty aren’t accidental—just ask Russ "Trauma Queen" Vought. Take care of yourselves & each other. 💚 🔗 www.propublica.org/article/vide...

Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.

U.S. President Donald Trump eliminated seven federal agencies, including USAGM, which oversees Radio Free Europe. The move seeks to effectively end over 70 years of work launched to promote democracy and counter propaganda in authoritarian countries.

Academic freedom in America needs to be defended. Here’s how | Jan-Werner Müller

The complaint contains the most comprehensive factual and legal analysis of Musk/DOGE's actions I've seen to date. Read the filing here: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Free-market advocates assemble coalition, at Trump’s request, to push tax cuts

Busted: 'Impartial' judicial candidate tells right wingers he’ll be ‘support network’ for Trump

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

“Transgender mice” brought to you by the Ministry of Truth

If a university spokesperson was doing this it would be national news, and used as justification for the federal government to defund the university. The truth is that antisemitism is just one of the excuses they are using to justify destroying independent institutions.

Some of the antisemitic conspiracy theories and associations the Pentagon’s new deputy press secretary, Kingsley Wilson, has amplified online: 🔎 Long-debunked lies about Leo Frank 🔎 Great Replacement theory 🔎 Celebrating Christian nationalism 🔎 Praising Germany's far-right AfD party

I know this is absurd, but the propaganda works in because of the absurdity rather than in spite of it. While this quote is about antisemitism, it readily applies to most forms of bigotry.

On Friday, we Stand Up for Science in locations Nationwide (& internationally!) to support science as a public good that benefits everyone. Join us! Visit www.standupforscience2025.org for more information & other ways to get involved ☀️

Trump’s Sec of Agriculture Brooke Rollins says the solution to high egg prices for Americans is to get some chickens and raise them in your backyard.

I’m the dairy farmer running in the special election to replace Elise Stefanik in New York’s 21st Congressional District. Can you repost this, give me a follow, and help spread the word?

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has deleted hundreds more claims from its mistake-plagued “wall of receipts,” erasing $4 billion in additional savings that the group said it had made for U.S. taxpayers.

the good folks at @haymarketbooks.org are releasing a paperback version of Reconsidering Reparations, April 1st, with a beautiful new cover courtesy of Steve Leard. some dismal parts of the latter chapters have aged unfortunately well - but look forward to discussions about it in today's context

“Trump’s order will unleash the chain saws and bulldozers on our federal forests.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/c...

Just wondering … Why are these funds still holding investments in TSLA / Tesla? Public Employees' Retirement Association (PERA) Cal Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) Cal State Teachers' Retirement System (CalSTRS) NY State Common Retirement Fund Canada Pension Plan #teslatakedown

We need to keep the Wisconsin Supreme Court out of MAGA hands. Indivisibles across the state are organizing to protect the liberal majority on their highest court — and they could use your help. Chip in to support this GOTV work to elect Susan Crawford on April 1: secure.actblue.com/donate/scowi...

NEW: USAID's acting asst administrator, Nick Enrich, has been placed on leave after sharing a memo detailing how political appointees have "wholly prevented" staff from continuing life saving aid.

Headed home from the meeting of medical school pediatric chairs - many of them also Chief Medical Officers for children’s hospitals. so much at stake for the health of children- all children

Zelensky's words won't leave my thoughts. 20,000 children abducted. Had their names and identities changed. "De-Ukrainianized". Folks, that's the straight up black and white text definition of "genocide". Look it up.

A few years ago Britain was spending 0.7% of its GNP on international assistance. Now the plan is 0.3%. Meanwhile, USAID is being gutted. Beyond the suffering this will cause, the decline of western aid will help China and Russia expand their influence. www.economist.com/britain/2025...

Hundreds of workers at the CDC. More than 1,000 at the NIH. Scores of staffers at the FDA. Trump’s purge of federal employees includes those doing lifesaving work. Many of them expressed fear at what would happen to the projects they left behind. By @anniewaldman.bsky.social & @deldeib.bsky.social

This reckless decision will cost lives. NWS is a lifeline for families from hurricanes & severe storms. It provides crucial local forecasts we use every day. Slashing its workforce cripples its ability to protect communities. My neighbors deserve better—this is an outright attack on public safety.

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

Republicans in West Virginia want to amend the state's constitution to declare that the Bible is a "divinely inspired, inerrant foundational document for our society and government." This is what Christian Nationalism looks like. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/wv-republi...

I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

No more work-from-home, government workers, except for Kash Patel, who will run the FBI from Las Vegas www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

5Calls.org is a slick App you can download to help you make 5 calls to elected officials each and every day. If you want to be an over achiever, please call more! They update with information daily. Once you download the App (it is free but you can donate to help fund it) you simply…

Please look up the influenza epidemic of 1918-19 to understand that the CDC not selecting strains for next year’s vaccines sets the stage for a public health calamity that will, without doubt and at bare minimum, catastrophically and directly impact people you know. This is a five alarm fire.

In red states, GOP lawmakers revive an "incredibly regressive" push to treat abortion as murder: In more than 10 states, Republican lawmakers have proposed treating people who obtain abortions as murderers

Trump's transgender military ban document was just released. They're immediately separating service members, and some WILL have to pay back bonuses they received at enlistment. This is textbook erasure and it's beyond cruel. Let's see if any politicians will stand up for our community.

NYT article that discusses Trump's and Russel Vought's plan to have SCOTUS fully endorse the Unitary Executive theory, which would grant the President full control over all independent administrative agencies and the right to overrule the decisions, or even fire without cause... 1/3 archive.ph/8ptpF