Cindy Becker

Online disaster response. Retired Nurse. Dogs. Cats. Music. Peace. Compassion. Truth. - @Threads: cindybecker 💙💕

[ProPublica @propublica]

The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead.

Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations.
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[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

No nation, no society, and no international order can call itself just and humane if it measures its success solely by power or prosperity while neglecting those who live at the margins. Indeed, Christ’s love for the least and the forgotten compels us to reject every form of selfishness that leaves the poor and the vulnerable invisible.

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

Making yourself feel powerful by sending special forces to arrest a 94 year old former leader of an island nation impoverished by U.S. sanctions doesn't exactly suggest a strong, self-confident and ascendant superpower.

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

No president has ever used the federal government to advance his own personal interests and those of his family and allies as expansively and openly as Trump has. https://t.co/51Kfi70LJ2

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

I wrote this about Vance five years ago. "Instead of a truth-teller in his own community, Vance as a candidate has become a contemptible and cringe-inducing clown. His attempts at authenticity are so grating because they are so blatantly artificial."

https://t.co/Ft53MB7sz1

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

The American West just saw its earliest snow meltout in the modern record (since ~1980).

In California, the average snow-monitoring site melted out 43 days earlier than normal.

A brutal year for a region already stuck in its worst megadrought in at least 1,200 years.

[Liz Oyer @lawyeroyer]

More details have trickled out about Trump’s $1.8B taxpayer-funded slush fund. Here’s a rundown of what we know. https://t.co/9yOOIErTmr

[Liz Oyer @lawyeroyer]

Trump’s settlement with DOJ is even worse than we knew. A secret add-on to the agreement was revealed today. It is an unconscionable betrayal of the American people by the president and Acting Attorney General. https://t.co/Djt16SAtvk

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Ossoff: "The president apparently promised pardons for the entire WH staff, which I guess is the kind of thing you do when you run the WH like a casino. Now, maybe the West Wing is too busy placing Kashi and Polymarket bets on the war to care, but American are getting hurt ... in Donald Trump’s America, the rich get tax cuts, the well-connected get stock tips, and everybody else makes sacrifices."

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🎥 CNN: JD Vance has become the most unpopular Vice President in the history of the United States!

🔹 Polls show Vance's popularity has dropped by 21% since the start of the term in 2025, and compared to other Vice Presidents in recent history, he holds the worst rating at this stage of a term, with a score of -18.

[Lili Bayer @liliebayer]

Scenes from Budapest tonight.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Japan's Sakurajima volcano has erupted.

[CHP Truckee @CHP_Truckee]

Well… this escalated quickly. ❄️
I-80 eastbound traffic is currently being held at Alta due to multiple spin-outs over Donner Summit. I-80 westbound is also being held at the Nevada State Line and in Truckee. There is no estimated time of reopening.

(04/12/26 at 2:05pm)

[Magyar Péter (Ne féljetek) @magyarpeterMP]

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has just called to congratulate us on our victory.

[Alaska Earthquake Center @AKearthquake]

There was a magnitude 5.3 earthquake just after noon today, south of King Cove. It was about 15 miles deep, and has not yet been reported felt. If you're interested in more information or would like to report that you felt it, visit the event page: https://t.co/TwLiz5w284

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Hundreds of millions of people throughout the world are immersed in extreme poverty. Yet, disproportionate wealth remains in the hands of a few. It is an unjust scenario, in the face of which we cannot fail to question ourselves and commit to change things. There is no lack of resources at the root of disparities, but the need to address solvable problems related to a more equitable distribution of wealth, to be achieved with moral sense and honesty.

[Marin IJ @marinij]

On this twelfth anniversary of Eva’s passing,the Ghilotti Family & friends pause in remembrance of our beloved Eva, and all the good she did during the course of her lifetime. In honoring her, we would like to once again share the… https://t.co/3s2VpIFlFo

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

I spent all day today wondering if the sitting President of the United States would use nuclear weapons on a country of 90 million people—the vast majority of whom he claims to be liberating—just because he’s angry over that totalitarian regime thoroughly embarrassing him over his unnecessary, illegal, and disastrous war of choice.

Just as our country was waking up to go to our jobs and take our kids to school and run errands and do all the typical things that need to be done on a Tuesday morning, Trump dangled this threat:

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again. I don’t want that to happen, but it probably will.”

He threatened nuclear strikes because he isn’t getting his way in a war that never should have been escalated in the first place.

I spent all day talking to colleagues and friends about what this could mean and wondering what needs to be done to put a stop to this because—surprise—we take it seriously when a deeply unstable person with the power to launch nuclear weapons claims he will do so.

I wondered why so many people in politics and media are apparently unaware that POTUS has sole authority over the launch of nuclear weapons and does not need clearance from Congress or the courts—even for a preemptive strike—and the only thing standing between Trump and that decision are his military commanders maybe, hopefully—who the hell is certain anymore—refusing that order.

I watched as too many journalists—so fearful are they of offending their Access Daddy and his acolytes—pretended that this threat reflective of a brain-addled, narcissistic sociopath was another political parlor game to be navigated with musings on what Democrats should be doing while Republicans are running the whole goddamn show.

I watched as yet more journalists chirped about their bullshit phone calls with Trump, which were, per usual, entirely neutered of meaningful substance.

I watched as so much of the left side of the American political spectrum bickered and bitched with each other and were at each other’s throats over what should be done while we’re out of power, just as Trump was betting and hoping we would.

I wondered if tonight would be the beginning of a broader war with nuclear weapons that would throw the world into violent chaos from which we’d never recover.

You ask me if I’m relieved over this supposed “two-week ceasefire” as Trump yet again postpones his ultimatums, manipulates markets to enrich himself and his cronies, and needlessly scares the shit out of the American people and the world?

No, I am not relieved. I am angry. I am enraged. The thoughts going through my head at this very moment cannot be uttered.

This is not sustainable. We should not have to live in perpetual fear like this.

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Link to full essay available here for easier sharing: https://t.co/GT2pzqiHFt

[Daniel Swain @Weather_West]

Since there's, uh, absolutely nothing else going on in the world right now, you might consider reading this late evening blog update on a potential NorCal thunderstorm outbreak over the next few days and a chaotic Pacific-wide weather pattern this April.👀 https://t.co/xFHxJnZTLE

[NWS Bay Area 🌉 @NWSBayArea]

⛈️An incoming system brings rain to the region beginning Thursday and lasting through the weekend. Isolated to scattered thunderstorms are possible through the period. When thunder roars, go indoors! See a flash, dash inside! #CAwx