They dismantled the one agency that was focused exclusively on helping average Americans being abused by banks and fraudulent lenders. It was their first priority. I had a great chat with former director of CFPB Director @choprausa.bsky.social on On Democracy on @MeidasTouch this week. (1/2)

In Connecticut, the health care advocate office — whose services are free — has been able to resolve or overturn insurance denials in the patient’s favor about 80% of the time. Check to see if your state has a similar consumer assistance program:

Fact check:

The art of ordering and culling your possessions before you die should extend to your documents, photos, and digital accounts.

Trump administration quietly canceled the nation’s largest solar project - CNN

So I did at least 2.4 buttloads of research on this video that no one is going to watch, but I thought I'd share it anyway. If you feel like the economy is in a recession, even if the numbers say we aren't, you're not wrong. The numbers are. Here's why: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NDG...

A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos." factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....

After the Missouri GOP passed a new gerrymander at the expense of Black voters, over 2,400 Missourians gathered together to collect 106,000 signatures to veto the measure. However, the state is doing everything in its power to stop them. https://bit.ly/47fy2rH

Again, it is a full-blown federal felony crime for anyone in the White House or Executive Office of the President to order tax investigations into anyone. And it's not just a crime to DO it, it's even a federal crime for an employee not to REPORT such an order to the Treasury Inspector General.

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything. It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in. Long thread.

All of this, in violation of the Constitution.

Researchers Alarmed to Discover Satellites Broadcasting Unencrypted Military Secrets

Sweden is tracking a Russian Kilo-class diesel-electric submarine that entered the Baltic Sea yesterday. It was detected in the Kattegat Strait between Sweden and Denmark and is now being shadowed by Swedish jets and naval vessels. The submarine surfaced off the coast of France a few days ago.

They're doing the same in Palestine...

Open AI is currently building a data center in Texas that will require roughly the equivalent of the power the Hoover Dam produces to operate. Last week the Whitehouse killed a renewable energy project that was going to produce as much powers as three Hoover Dams. None of this makes any sense.

Months before catastrophic floods swept through an Alaska Native village on Sunday, the Trump administration canceled a $20 million grant meant to protect the community from extreme flooding. At the time, the EPA administrator said he was eliminating "wasteful DEI and Environmental Justice grants."

Nearly all state funding for Missouri school vouchers used for religious schools

How does motivation shape learning and memory? In a new review w @ralisonadcock.bsky.social, we propose that under different motivational ‘moods', neuromodulators set distinct neural contexts to determine information processing and memory formation. doi.org/10.1146/annu... #psychscisky #neuroskyence

NEW: Following public outcry, the Department of Education has reversed its decision to cut funding for students who have both hearing and vision loss, opting instead to reroute grants to an organization that will provide funding to these students.

FYI

We are getting poorer

@raskin.house.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @chuckschumer.com @whitehouse.senate.gov @adamschiff.bsky.social

I shit you not, Trump took Harriet Tubman OFF the National Parks Underground Railroad memorial and instead centered it around White people. Read it yourself!! 👇👇 apple.news/Aspm2lJFkRnu...

The people who want violent protests to happen are Trump, Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Pete Hegseth, Tom Homan, and other senior appointees in his admin. They are doing everything they possibly can to provoke people to violence and it is obvious that is what they hope for daily.

The firehose of easily disprovable lies from Trump and his allies continues to get worse each month, with one statement after another completely untethered from reality, which is why it is so important for them to take ownership and control of media platforms & intimidate others.

“I spent three nights and three days in federal custody. During that time, I was never told what I was charged with, was not allowed to shower despite being covered in tear gas and pepper spray, had no phone call to my family, and no access to an attorney.” - George Retes, U.S. citizen and veteran.

“CDC is over. It was killed. This administration only knows how to break things. They have made America at risk for outbreaks and attacks by nefarious players. People should be scared,” said Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

A 15 year old boy with autism went missing earlier this week He was selling fruit with his family in Springbranch when he disappeared They filed a missing person’s report & begged the public to help find him Turns out he was in a Houston ICE detention facility They kidnapped a disabled child!

Thank SCOTUS & Justice Brett Kavanaugh for approving racial profiling, concurring that a person's ethnicity could be a "relevant factor" for agents to consider.

Border Patrol & ICE operating under Trump regime directives have repeatedly attacked and detained US citizens violating their civil rights and human rights. Regime agents have also been caught falsifying reports, destroying evidence to cover up their actions. #3E 🧵

So.... what is everyone watching this evening? Moi? Just the best classic horror actor ever! Mr. Vincent Price.

The correct response to Republicans widely depicting the coming protests as terrorism is to go out and protest. Each person should get 10 more people to do so. If Republicans are going to hint at violent state responses to legitimate protest, the only answer is bigger numbers.

RIFed: National Center for Immunization & Respiratory Diseases (NCIRD), Office of Director OD sets tone for the rest of the center, determine priorities, review high profile science, etc NCIRD focuses: Flu. Whooping cough. Polio. Covid. Meningitis. Yeah, you want this center to fully function 🤯

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Anther reason to like Bob Ross, may he rest in peace.

I don’t think we can call it “pedocon *theory*” anymore, the evidence is in, the hypothesis has been proven, the peer reviews are in

“The new company is founded by Scott Leiendecker, a onetime St. Louis Republican election director who founded an election technology company that's broadly used by election officials.”

For today’s lesson: This is ANTIFA legend Audie Murphy.. Seen by many as the “1st ambassador of Anti-Fascists” He was the most decorated soldier EVER to fight in WW2, he earned 33 medals, the Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, Silver Star & 3 Purple Hearts. Today, he’d be a terrorist..

The US is canceling a huge solar project in Nevada, the latest effort by President Donald Trump to limit renewable energy development

Trump’s “plan” to lower drug prices? Let his son cash in.

More than 1.3 million Missourians receive health insurance benefits through the Medicaid program.

Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials. I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.

The GOP tax bill cut $137B in rural Medicaid funding, and then added in $50B in rural hospital funding to try to compensate. Rural hospitals have already been closing for years. My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart