Hope Van Dyne

@HopeVanDyne@progressivecafe.social
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Democratic voter, organizer, and get out the vote volunteer. No birdsite links.

Pretty sure that if a Clinton, Obama, or Biden effectively hung a "for sale" sign on the White House lawn, the media would figure out a way to be outraged over it but apparently that's too much to ask for with Trump because god forbid they offend their sugar daddy.

As Trumps Monetize Presidency, Profits Outstrip Protests:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/25/us/politics/trump-money-plane-crypto.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

This is how you deal with oppression and authoritarianism: you start locally and in this case in your own workplace. I strongly support their decision to unionize and I hope they vote to institute it.

Kennedy Center Administrative Workers Attempting to Unionize:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/kennedy-center-administrative-workers-attempting-unionize-1236218428/

Kennedy Center Administrative Workers Reveal Unionization Push After Trump Overhaul

The group of staffers, from programming, marketing, development and other departments, is calling for “a return to ethical norms” and “freedom from partisan interference in programming.”

The Hollywood Reporter

I don't know any medical professionals who would agree with this. Vaccines work in two ways: by increasing your personal immunity to a virus and by creating a barrier for a virus to enter a community when enough individuals in that community are vaccinated, thereby protecting those who cannot be vaccinated for whatever reasons.

Insurance companies use federal recommendations. This will kill people.

RFK Jr. overrules his advisors, drops Covid shot recommendations:
https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/27/covid-shots-pregnant-women-children-recommendation-change-hhs-secretary-kennedy/

RFK Jr. rolls back Covid vaccine recommendations for healthy children, pregnant people

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that he has unilaterally struck the recommendation that healthy children and healthy pregnant people get Covid booster shots.

STAT

Run people who can win in your district. Contrary to what some people tell you, it’s not a one size fits all situation.

Sam Sutton defeats Republican Nachman Caller for New York state Senate seat:
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5310726-democrat-sam-sutton-wins-new-york-seat/

Both parties aren’t the same.

New Colorado trans rights protections signed into law by Jared Polis:
https://www.denverpost.com/2025/05/16/colorado-trans-rights-discrimination-bill-signing-jared-polis/

Transgender Coloradans receive new discrimination protections as Gov. Polis signs bill into law

Colorado law now explicitly protects transgender people from being “deadnamed” or misgendered in certain places under legislation signed into law Friday by Gov. Jared Polis.

The Denver Post

Biden judge win:

Judge blocks Trump's orders to dismantle the Education Department and fire employees:
https://apnews.com/article/education-department-shut-down-layoffs-576eef90c30fdaeb660f7f66644bad10

Judge blocks Trump administration's mass layoffs at the Education Department

A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order to shut down the Education Department and ordered the agency to reinstate employees who were fired in mass layoffs. U.S. District Judge Myong Joun in Boston granted a preliminary injunction Thursday stopping the Trump administration from carrying out two plans announced in March that sought to work toward Trump’s goal to dismantle the department. It marks a setback to one of the Republican president’s campaign promises.

AP News

What so many people fail to understand is that DEI made the pool of QUALIFIED applicants wider to include folks that have been typically and specifically left out of the opportunity to be considered for certain positions.

This made the process of hiring for a position like that stronger and better and the employee the best one available, which helps everyone.

This doesn’t.

Corporate America's retreat from DEI has cut thousands of jobs : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/27/nx-s1-5307319/dei-jobs-trump

Once again in America, a Black woman's body is being used outside of the control of her or her family by largely white political forces who are denying her not only control over her life but her eternal rest.

Georgia woman kept on life support for her baby is a horror | Opinion
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnists/2025/05/25/georgia-woman-brain-dead-pregnant-adriana-smith/83751213007/

A brain dead pregnant Georgia woman is a horror story. It's Republicans' fault. | Opinion

The GOP allowed this nightmare to happen because they refused to listen to medical professionals.

USA TODAY

The world is expected to experience more record temperatures over the next five years, with Arctic warming predicted at more than 3x's the global average, a new report by the UN weather agency said on Wednesday (5/28).

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) report indicates an 80% probability of at least 1 of the next 5 years experiencing record-breaking heat, with a strong likelihood of exceeding 1.5° above pre-industrial levels in average warming. #ClimateCrisis

https://www.asiaone.com/world/arctic-warming-seen-three-times-global-average-years-ahead-un-weather-agency-says

Scientists caution catastrophic event could be irreversible on human timescales: 'Very little ... gives us hope here'

Coastal communities face significantly increased risk due to a recent study revealing accelerating polar ice sheet melt.

#Climatechange #ClimateCrisis

https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/polar-ice-sheets-sea-level-rise-study/