mjfrombuffalo
Cats, social welfare policy, child welfare, advocacy, social work, bad puns, and random things that tickle my fancy. #BillsMafia
- Reposted by mjfrombuffaloRealizing it's been 8 years since I posted this and crumbling into dust
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- Reposted by mjfrombuffaloThe NCI just shut down PDQ Updates for Health Professionals. One of the most trusted, evidence-based oncology resources—gone. Due to HHS restructuring and staff cuts. It’s not a joke. It’s a policy failure. #Oncology #NIH #NCI #EvidenceBasedMedicine #HealthPolicy #PDQ
- Reposted by mjfrombuffaloSINNERS is now the biggest Hollywood original movie of any kind at the box office since 2017 when Pixar's COCO came out. To find a live-action movie that made at least $200M domestic, we have to go back much further. This is truly bananas. www.slashfilm.com/1857902/sinn...
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- Guess he wants more brain worms
- Reposted by mjfrombuffaloDo you think RFK Jr is going to protect your kids when he’s swimming w/ his g-children in the sewage infested waters of the Potomac? “Swimming has been illegal in most of D.C.'s waterways since the 1970s, largely because of contamination from the District's aging sewer system ...” The Hill
- Reposted by mjfrombuffaloGet Musk the Hell Out of our Government.
- Reposted by mjfrombuffalo🚨BREAKING: Federal Court BLOCKS the Trump administration’s unlawful reorganization of the federal government. Congratulations to @democracyforward.org, their co-counsel and clients on their amazing work in securing this victory.
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- Reposted by mjfrombuffaloPope Leo's first sermon and, uh, his using the phrase "be ever more fully a city set upon a hill" and cf'ing it to Rev 21:10 instead of any of the others before saying "many baptized Christians" are "living in a state of practical atheism" is. Well. Shots fired! www.npr.org/2025/05/09/g...
- Reposted by mjfrombuffalo@npr.org EXCLUSIVE: The Department of Agriculture is demanding states hand over personal data of food assistance recipients — including Social Security numbers, addresses and, in at least one state, citizenship status, according to emails shared with NPR.
- Reposted by mjfrombuffalo<diligently updating the list of career paths on the university’s “Major in Mathematics!” poster>
- Reposted by mjfrombuffaloDEEP DISH COMMUNION WAFERS
- Reposted by mjfrombuffaloBREAKING: FEMA’s most senior official Cameron Hamilton has been FIRED and walked out of the building, an agency source confirms. He testified just yesterday that he didn’t think the agency should be eliminated, per Trump and DHS Sec. Kristi Noem’s wishes. Apparently the wrong answer.
- Reposted by mjfrombuffaloLove the lil flex when they realise they just became the most famous bird in the world.
- Reposted by mjfrombuffaloSomething I hope everyone covers this tomorrow notes is that...the President has no authority whatsoever to make trade deals without congress. None. Not even the pretext of one.
- New: Trump is expected to announce on Thursday that the US will strike a trade deal with the UK, according to a person familiar with the matter, the first agreement for the administration since it imposed sweeping tariffs against its trading partners last month @theguardian.com story TK
- Reposted by mjfrombuffalo“Elmo is open to full-time or freelance roles.”
- Reposted by mjfrombuffaloPer @thorbenson.bsky.social, I will now be calling her "the Vanna White of shitters"
- Reposted by mjfrombuffalohas anybody checked into this
- Reposted by mjfrombuffaloR's: We're going to cut Medicaid D's: People will lose their health insurance. R's: Liars! CBO: Actually, yeah, people will. A lot of people, in fact. Millions.
- Reposted by mjfrombuffaloDon’t look away. This is what Libya’s migrant detention facilities look like. This is what Trump is doing. Amnesty International called Libya’s migrant detention centers a “hellscape,” where beatings and sexual violence are rampant and there are many reports of trafficking and even slavery.
- Reposted by mjfrombuffaloNew: The U.S. is stepping up its intelligence-gathering efforts regarding Greenland, drawing America’s spying apparatus into President Trump’s campaign to take over the island. www.wsj.com/world/greenl...
- Reposted by mjfrombuffalodarth you know what happened
- Reposted by mjfrombuffaloHodgson was like, "Yo, Hadrian!"
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- Why do the world leaders sit for these silly things? They know there will be bald-faced lies and insults right in front of them, and they not only agree to these "press opportunities" but they don't storm out or forcefully respond to what they knew ahead of time was likely. (Except Zelensky)
- Reposted by mjfrombuffaloalso you all need to see this, because this is something I don't think *anybody* could predict for where this ad goes
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- Reposted by mjfrombuffaloThread>> This is the kind of labor Trump means when he says "make America great Again." He thinks America was greatest during the Gilded Age Robber Baron years.
- Reposted by mjfrombuffaloWell, I had an interesting Sunday night, how 'bout you?
- Reposted by mjfrombuffaloICYMI: A conservative legal group made up of Trump allies is suing Chief Justice John Roberts in a bid to bring two key judicial bodies under presidential control. Legal experts warn this would harm the courts’ independence. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
- Reposted by mjfrombuffaloA modest request: In reports about Trump's endless, lawless exec orders, maybe point out that he *does not have* legal power to do these things. Trump did not "make it official" or "make good" on this bullying, as @semafor.com contends. He has ZERO official power to do this. King Canute dept.
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- Reposted by mjfrombuffaloThey literally did the Onion article. Agents posted up outside her hospital room.
- If you see this, post your getaway vehicle
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- Reposted by mjfrombuffalo"One had to do something. One never has the right to just sit there and do nothing." What a woman. ♥️ www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/w...
- Reposted by mjfrombuffaloBreaking - super lawyer Abbe Lowell starts his own firm. Will represent people targeted by Trump including Letitia James, Mark Zaid and Miles Taylor. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
- Reposted by mjfrombuffalothis is criminal
- #NeverForget people like me, who worked at Ground Zero for two months following 9/11. Or my neighbor, whose lungs are scarred from her evacuation from her job in one of the towers.
- Reposted by mjfrombuffaloI know there's a lot going on, but I would like to highlight that Mike Johnson slipped language into an otherwise routine House procedural vote yesterday that now blocks Democrats from forcing an investigation into Pete Hegseth’s Signal scandal, through October.
- Reposted by mjfrombuffalo“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic
- Reposted by mjfrombuffaloCongress says it's antisemitic to say Jesus wouldn't approve of killing Palestinian children but not antisemitic to say Jews killed Jesus
- SCOOP: The Antisemitism Awareness Act — up for vote in Senate committee tomorrow — now has a religious liberty clause to protect ‘Jews killed Jesus’ statements by Christian conservatives. New added language in the bill clarifies First Amendment protections. More ⬇️ forward.com/fast-forward...
- Reposted by mjfrombuffaloSB 2880 out of Texas has the goal to wipe information about abortion pills from the internet. It is carefully designed to scare people into silence and will chill free speech.
- Reposted by mjfrombuffaloOverheard: “William Henry Harrison had a better first 100 days, and he spent 70 of them dead.”
- Reposted by mjfrombuffaloStocks have fallen by more over the first hundred days of the Trump admin than any but Nixon and Ford in the modern era. But let me put that in more directly human terms...
- Reposted by mjfrombuffaloSCOOP: The Antisemitism Awareness Act — up for vote in Senate committee tomorrow — now has a religious liberty clause to protect ‘Jews killed Jesus’ statements by Christian conservatives. New added language in the bill clarifies First Amendment protections. More ⬇️ forward.com/fast-forward...
- Reposted by mjfrombuffaloPlease highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...
- So I'm old enough to remember when the American flag was not linked directly to one party. Then post-9/11, somehow the Democrats allowed the GOP to take over the symbols of country and patriotism as they ginned up support for war. (1/)
- It's not a fashion trend, #BrokenTimes. It's white christian nationalism. A Hot Accessory, at the Intersection of Faith and Culture www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/s...
- Reposted by mjfrombuffaloTrump becomes the first American president to lose a Canadian election
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- Reposted by mjfrombuffaloBREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda. Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them. I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.
