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.

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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.

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Happy Birthday #CesarChavez! Together we can continue his life’s work of organizing farm workers. Make your donation today. ufw.org/chavezmarch2025 or paypal.com/paypalme/ufw... #WeFeedYou

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. 💚
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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 ☀️