Liz LG

Psychiatric NP, mom, gardener, recovering academic law librarian.

[Liz LG @RealLizzyG]

I still can’t believe this complete moron is in charge.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump: "We're also going to be demanding the drug companies, with respect to a certain situation -- the autism -- that they make their doses in 20% shots. So you have shot 1, shot 2, shot 3, shot 4, shot 5 ... I think you're gonna see a massive reduction in autism"

[Liz LG @RealLizzyG]

@dayunbao I’ve worked in multiple hospitals around the U.S., and the percentage of immigrants working as nurses and physicians is quite high everywhere. If our idiot leader had his way and kicked them all out, health care would collapse.

[Liz LG @RealLizzyG]

@mrosenbloom4 @JoyceWhiteVance Yes. Stupid, cruel, short sighted, self destructive, and worse.

[Liz LG @RealLizzyG]

Not the obituary I wanted to read today 😢

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

The time Dolly Parton and Kermit jammed to Sly and the Family Stone.

This is always how I will remember her.

[Liz LG @RealLizzyG]

Can someone make sure @DavidCCrowley sees this?

[Andrew Curran @AndrewCurran_]

The National Republican Senatorial Committee sent a private memo yesterday to US AI companies warning them that the GOP is on the verge of losing Ohio over data centers, and unless something is done to improve public perception, political support will collapse nationwide.

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Hello Madison, WI….you’re beautiful!

[Liz LG @RealLizzyG]

The cruelty is the point. The sheer stupidity and wastefulness of it all probably doesn’t even occur to anyone in the MAGA cult.

[Samantha Power @SamanthaJPower]

Starting in early 2025, Elon Musk and the Trump administration began terminating USAID's programs and firing its staff — with Musk himself boasting about "feeding it into the woodchipper." One year ago today, USAID was officially dissolved, its remaining programs haphazardly folded into the State Department. Amid all the lies and misinformation that have followed, some facts about what has actually been lost:

• USAID saved more than 3 million lives a year at a cost of less than $10/month per American. That is what was destroyed. On purpose.
• According to Boston University's Global Impact Counter — which tracked deaths attributable to the cuts until it stopped operations in February 2026 — an estimated 781,000 people died preventable deaths in the first year, including 518,000 children.
• Global child mortality (the number of children who die before their fifth birthday) rose in 2025 for the first time in 35+ years — by 200,000 additional deaths.
• USAID's 50-country disease surveillance network — the system that cut outbreak response times from 2 weeks to 48 hours — is gone. We are now watching an unprecedented Ebola outbreak unfold in real time — with the highest first-month caseload and death rate in modern history.
• Programs reaching 93 million women and children were cut 92%. TB programs cut 56%. Water and sanitation cut 86%. Over 2,000 health facilities permanently closed.
• 25 million fewer people received humanitarian assistance in 2025. The overall humanitarian budget was slashed 74% — from $14.1 billion to $3.7 billion.
• 363 million people face acute hunger in 2026. The famine early-warning system that would have seen it coming went dark for five months.
• $1.7 billion in democracy and governance funding (election monitoring, anti-corruption work, support for independent media and civil society) was terminated.
• 360+ independent media outlets lost funding. Hundreds of legal clinics closed.
• Far from saving money, the Trump administration itself has already said the dismantlement will cost taxpayers at least $19.2 billion in cancellation fees, severance, and penalties. That's more than half of USAID's annual budget — spent on destruction and closeout, not support for vulnerable people.
• American farmers, universities, and businesses are among the casualties too. USAID partnered with more than 3,500 U.S. companies and maintained 17 university-based research labs. Its work with U.S.-based contractors and the private sector generated hundreds of thousands of American jobs and multiplied the return on every dollar spent. Those markets and partnerships are gone.

[Cricket's Ghost @CricketsGh0st]

@DanRShafer @Joshn4d Please, Minnesota my Wisconsin.

[Liz LG @RealLizzyG]

It’s as if they wake up each morning and ask, what can I do to make the world worse off?

https://t.co/nDxcNSwcJd via @NYTimes

[Liz LG @RealLizzyG]

We just keep shooting ourselves in the foot so hard

[Nick Davidov @Nick_Davidov]

The biggest bullshit move by DHS in its history. So everyone on a O1 or H1B visa would have to stop working legally in the US, go back to their country and wait for years of backlog? This includes top scientists in our universities, founders of billion dollar companies (at least 3 just in our portfolio would be affected by the way). And if we look at individual countries it becomes even more bs. Indians would have to wait decades. Russians don’t have anywhere to go (there is no US embassy in Russia, hello?).

This is the worst imaginable way to disrupt important work for the country and pretend you’re fighting some loophole.

[Liz LG @RealLizzyG]

@atrupar Are the auto plants in the room with us right now? 🤔

[Liz LG @RealLizzyG]

@timpac @north0fnorth North shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota. Looks like Shovel Point in Tettegouche State Park.

[Liz LG @RealLizzyG]

@michaeldweiss It’s reassuring to learn I’m not the only one who found Forrest Gump offensively bad.

[Liz LG @RealLizzyG]

@kar_nels @eric_hontz We were on track to get it here in Wisconsin about 15 years ago but evil Scott Walker turned down the federal funding and killed the plan. Plan has been revived, might happen in about five years or so.

[Liz LG @RealLizzyG]

Someday that’ll be us

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Favorite video from last night’s celebrations in Budapest dropped

Here is Zsolt Hegedus….leading candidate to become the new Health Minister of Hungary…..this is what defeating a dictator looks like!

[Bridget Phetasy @BridgetPhetasy]

I am in awe of this collection. Binging it. Sending it to all my friends. The most punk rock thing to happen online in decades.

[Liz LG @RealLizzyG]

@kayleefabulous But the Empty Bottle is still a good bet

[Liz LG @RealLizzyG]

@kayleefabulous The Fireside Bowl in the 1990’s was a favorite Logan Square dive bar with lots of great punk rock shows. I think it’s just a clean bowling alley now 😢

[Liz LG @RealLizzyG]

@nickwoj98 @gordon_benz It’s not cheap. Housing isn’t NYC or SF expensive but it’s a lot more than you might expect in a Midwestern college town.

[Liz LG @RealLizzyG]

This is one of the most Baltimore things I’ve seen, ever.

[Matt Post @mjpost]

Nothing surprises me on the Gwynns Falls Trail.