Anti-vaccine sentiment is now a load-bearing plank in the Republican platform. Democrats haven’t budged on the need for school vaccine requirements since 2019. Republicans have consumed so much disinformation that their support has declined by 27% since then.

I'm just going to leave this here. The thread and/or the report should be read in full. Thread: x.com/ellim992/sta... Report: whistleblower.org/wp-content/u...

I've been involved lately in policy work regarding PFAS. All local water sources are above state action levels, so we prioritize lower-contaminated sources and turn higher-contaminated sources off until needed. We tell people not to worry—and we're wrong to do that. 🧵

🚨 HEY #MISSISSIPPI: You may not have expanded Medicaid under the ACA, but 338,000 of you (11.5% of your total population!) gonna see your health insurance premiums SKYROCKET starting in January 2026 if Republicans allow IRA subsidies to expire.

Population doomers are bad at math. The only population crisis the U.S. is facing was caused by Boomers not having enough kids (while cutting their own taxes). Newsflash: Gen X and Millennial women have never fallen below replacement fertility— but Boomers never reached it. /🧵

The number of profoundly disabled kids is actually decreasing. RFK Jr. is misusing surveillance on autism to promote cruel conspiracy theories. What's worse is the CDC failed to look at public data—special education placement. This isn't an epidemic, it's a change in classification. /🧵

Trump is going to create chaos for borrowers & students by breaking government like an angry toddler. This is a clear violation of education & appropriations law. To say nothing of his plans to cut SBA staff by over 40% while asking them to now manage ALL federal student loans.

Federal Agencies have made these beautiful annual data books with tables, charts, and their legislative authority since the start of our country— but they just sit and molder online now while people look at tiktok and think-tank blogs. Journalists aren't even using them! 🧵/

Heritage started the "autopen" bs when they posted the Federal Register and acted like these were supposed to be wet signatures— it's been a reproduction on every presidential document since Nixon. They actually believe people are stupid enough to fall for this, unfortunately POTUS did. 🧵/

One day he’s telling us that tariffs are amazing because they will bring lots of new jobs to the US and raise so much money we won’t have to pay income tax, then the next day he’s telling us we aren’t doing them because people were nice to him on the phone.

6/ "Patriotic education" replaces real history. 📌 Slavery? “Not so bad.” 📌 Civil rights? “Ancient history.” 📌 Climate change? “A hoax.” With no federal standards, states rewrite history to fit their ideology. Propaganda wins. Facts die. #EducationHungerGames H/t @ellielikesdata.bsky.social

5/ Higher education becomes a luxury.
📌 Pell Grants? Gone. Poor students are locked out
📌 Student loans? Privatized. Interest rates skyrocket
📌 Tuition? Triples. College is now a gated privilege Only the rich get degrees. The rest get lifelong debt or no future. #EducationHungerGames

4/ Title IX is gone. Schools no longer have to protect students from: 📌 Harassment & assault—predators thrive 📌 Discrimination—women & LGBTQ+ students lose rights 📌 Unequal funding—girls' sports teams vanish This isn’t about “freedom.” It’s about erasing protections. #EducationHungerGames

3/ They said vouchers would “save” education. They lied. 📌 Vouchers don’t cover full tuition—low-income kids are locked out 📌 Public schools hold bake sales for survival 📌 Private schools pick & choose students—many deny LGBTQ+ & disabled kids This is by design. #EducationHungerGames

2/ The DOE is gone. Education is now a brutal free-for-all: 📌 Rural schools collapse, students stranded 📌 Disabled students lose protections, no IEPs 📌 Colleges hike tuition, only the rich afford degrees 📌 Public schools starve while private schools thrive #EducationHungerGames

1/ 🚨BREAKING: Imagine Trump abolishes the Dept of Ed. & smirks: "Let the Education Games begin." Millions of students & teachers must now fight for survival as public education collapses & the rich watch from their skyboxes. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue youtu.be/LSTY37WEQsg

We put our bodies on the line in protest, politicians put bills in the hopper. THIS is what I was want: Congress needs to fight until they're dragged out, leaving scratchmarks on the lectern. Don't let Elon's algorithm convince you they're not working— they are, but we need more.

Great chat with Digital Warrior today! Thanks for having me on!

🔥 TODAY 2 PM PST! @EllieLikesData is breaking down threats to truth on The Slow Burn. From TikTok bans to tax fraud to public health lies, learn how disinfo is shaping our world—and how we can stop it. 📺 Watch live: www.youtube.com/live/Ock43gZ... #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

We are about to lose 1/4 of the Affordable Care Act. Trump repealed EO 14009, in which Biden instructed the IRS to fix the 'family glitch'. That fix allowed 5 million people to purchase marketplace health plans, mostly married mothers of young children— including me. 1/

New White House website: "The Department of Justice will seek the death penalty as the appropriate punishment ... for illegal migrants who maim Americans." The Eighth Amendment requires punishment be proportionate to the crime committed. This is blatantly unconstitutional.

TikTok wasn’t banned overnight. Years before Rep. Mike Gallagher (R) introduced the latest bill and resigned to take a job with Peter Thiel at Palantir, the app was used by the Trump admin to play games with Gen Z —👇 🧵/

DOGE is going to tell you they cut a total of 56% of Department of Education spending, with the biggest 50.1% cut occurring when they "take office". Why? Because the $276 billion dollar Education Stabilization Fund (ESF) from COVID finally dried up. They will have done nothing.

19% of the Federal Spending is on Medicaid. In case you wondered where DOGE was gonna find that $2 trillion dollars, it would require taking away healthcare for 72,288,385 Americans. That includes 40% of US children and 10% of seniors.

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International affairs spending— including humanitarian aid (food), military assistance, diplomacy, and development— is just about 1% of the federal budget. Ukraine and Israel/Gaza added a temporary ~0.3% bump. Even so, it’s at a historic low. So why is it such a talking point?

Debt on a Log: Rather than paying taxes, the wealthy now use their tax-cut savings to buy U.S. debt. In return, we pay them back with interest — on money they could’ve just paid in taxes to begin with, that we could've spent on universal healthcare, children, and education.

It’s a bit bigger of a difference than that.

Final Note: These people get billions of dollars from the Department of Ed. $51 billion to private colleges with no regulations on what they do with your tax dollars! But they ran on cutting the $15 billion in Special Ed funding and $17 Billion in literacy funding? 10/

@mattbuford.bsky.social have you set up a system to get notified of SPR mentions on here? 😂

Council for National Policy, the group directing Heritage Foundation and Project 2025 priorities, is heavily involved in Christian higher ed. Taking a look at the money these schools get in Federal Aid from the Department of Ed —They're not about to end the cash grab. /🧵

Trump's "Border Czar" appointmnet, Tom Homan, is a Heritage Foundation Fellow and Project 2025 writer. He says asylum seekers awaiting an immigration court hearing are "illegal aliens", and wants to end US asylum. Homan created the family separation policy, and said "the cruelty is the point".

do people like it here? Does it pull you in the way Twitter used to? Losing hours without noticing? Unfortunately, that might be the only way to stay competitive in building another narrative space. I guess I'll find out!