Mickie Morganfield @mickiedances.bsky.social

They knew their big ugly bill would steal your health care to fund billionaire tax breaks — hoping you wouldn’t find out! But Americans are rising up and fighting back, insisting that Republicans #CancelCutsToMedicaid

The Supreme Court has yet again given President Trump the go-ahead to oust the Democratic members of an important federal regulatory board. politico.com/news/2025/07/2…

bbc.com/news/world-us-… Seventeen Trump associates in contact with Russians or Wikileaks (Paul, Jared, Jr, Flynn, Sessions, George, Michael etc). 100+ face-to-face interactions, phone calls or electronic messages with Russians and Kremlin figures.

theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar… Remember the Adopt a Highway program? GOP budget is like that, except that at the end of it, the highways will all be worse, rural hospitals will close, and a man who doesn’t know your name will have six extra helicopters.

worldhistory.org/Pre-Colonial_N… Pre-Colonial North America is the period between the migration of the Paleo-Indians to the region between 40,000-14,000 years ago and contact between indigenous tribes and European colonists in the 16th century CE. Europeans were not Native to America.

epi.org/publication/tr… US businesses will employ 3.3M fewer immigrants and 2.6M fewer U.S.-born workers. U.S.-born construction employee numbers will drop 861,000. Immigrant hires by 1.4M. Child care employment will fall. U.S. Business revenue and profit will decline.

Trump’s deportations will destroy millions of jobs, particularly in construction and child care. epi.org/publication/... US businesses will employ 3.3M fewer immigrants and 2.6M fewer U.S.-born workers. US-born construction employee # will fall 861K. Immigrant hires by 1.4M.

theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/ne… . Lordy Lordy we are screwed again in #Louisiana #CancerAlley . @GreenARMY_La @risestjames @BucketBrigadeLA @SierraClubDelta @SierraClub

kiplinger.com/personal-finan… 1) One-fourth of the steel used in American production is imported. Tariffs will make domestically produced appliances, automobiles or cutlery more expensive. 2) If companies stocked up on items before tariffs, price hikes may be delayed.

Trump EPA Plans to End the Fight to Mitigate Climate Change nytimes.com/2025/07/22/cli… In a big win for polluters, Trump appointees scrub well-established fundamental scientific findings that greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane endanger human lives. No harm, no foul?

motherjones.com/politics/2016/… As a VIP guest at Trump’s Miss Universe 2013 held in Moscow, Tokhtakhounov hit the red carpet within minutes of Trump. A notorious crime lord who was a fugitive from American justice was a celebrity guest at Trump’s event.

vanityfair.com/news/story/ber… As my siblings and I grew up without a father, we were often reminded that he was assassinated while seeking to make the world a better place. There were more assassination attempts to come - assassination attempts on his reputation, on his character.

nytimes.com/2025/06/03/art… The Washington Kennedy Center’s budget for operation was $268M in 2024. About $125M of that came from earned revenue, such as ticket sales. Trump ousted financier David M. Rubenstein, the center’s chairman and largest donor @ $120,000,000.

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j… Kennedy Center after Trump Takeover: Reports show a 36% drop in subscription revenue for the upcoming season compared to prior year, from $4.4M to $2.8M. April and May saw a 50% total ticket sales drop from 2024.

abc7.com/post/jan-6-ins… On January 6, 2021 rioters answered Trump's call to arms and stormed the Capitol. Death and destruction followed. 140 Law Enforcement officers were hospitalized with severe, life altering injuries. Trump pardoned his rioters, as promised, in 2025.

theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar… This is the kind of comedy that’s legal now: the joke whose punch line you’re afraid to be. The kind of joke you have to take. Laugh, so they’ll know you’re one of them. Laugh, or he’ll kill you. Laugh, and maybe you won’t be next.

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/… John Durham Tried to give Trump what he wanted in his 4 year investigation. Durham charged three. Two were quickly acquitted. Third plead to a misstep. He did not deny that Russian intelligence agencies assisted Trump's 2016 campaign.

Everyone understands that rich people corrupt democracy with their campaign spending; why don't they understand that they undermine democracy with their media ownership? cepr.net/publications/e…