TC Samples

FQHC Primary Care Psychologist, Momx4 (bio, foster2adopt) Exploring mental health, faith, parenting & the intersection of education, poverty, health, & justice.

[TC Samples @tarasamples]

America, healthcare shouldn't be a privilege of employment or zip code.

[April Ajoy @aprilajoyr]

Listen, it's fine if you, as an individual, don't think Mormons are Christian. Or if you don't think Catholics are Christians. Or Protestants. But the GOVERNMENT should not be deciding who is and isn't Christian and THAT is the problem with what the Pentagon did.

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

So let me get this straight:

When immigrants take jobs, it’s a national crisis.

When AI takes jobs, it’s innovation.

Can someone explain why we’re supposed to fear people willing to work, but celebrate technology designed to replace workers?

[TC Samples @tarasamples]

@asppb while Professional Counselors and Social Workers are cultivating an all licensed professionals multistate practice agreement, Psychologists must navigate months of waiting for the processing of our applications. This does not help our competitive position.

[TC Samples @tarasamples]

Who benefits from data collection stopped?

[Anna @AnnaDeMilanese]

Trump lässt 900 Tiefseesensoren aus dem Atlantik und Pazifik herausziehen – ein 370-Millionen-Dollar-Netzwerk das seit 2016 läuft.
Es sollte 30 Jahre laufen. Es wird nach 10 Jahren gestoppt. Was diese Sensoren messen: Meerestemperaturen. Strömungen. Salzgehalt. CO₂-Aufnahme. El-Niño-Früherkennung. AMOC – den Atlantischen Umwälzstrom der Europas Wetter reguliert. Ozeanograph Ed Dever: „Es ist ein lähmender Informationsverlust."

Project 2025 hatte das Netzwerk explizit als Quelle von „Klimaalarmismus" bezeichnet und seine Abschaltung gefordert.
Der Kongress hatte die Finanzierung zweimal gerettet.
Die NSF zog es trotzdem durch. Die Folgen werden Jahrzehnte dauern. Daten die wir nie mehr bekommen werden. 1/2
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[Acyn @Acyn]

Dr. Vin Gupta on new Medicaid changes: They know people are not going to be able to navigate the paperwork, the signatures, and the six-month recertification process.

So what’s going to happen? Those who are on the fringes of medical care, on the fringes of maintaining a basic quality of life from a health care perspective, are going to suffer. They’re going to suffer, and they’re basically guaranteeing that people will fall off the rolls and that many people will suffer—and likely die—because of this policy.

[Karen Kenyatta Russell🍀 @Karen_Russell]

Now I get it!

“The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.”

[Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia]

Today, Jon Ossoff offered an amendment to stop insurance companies from denying or delaying medically necessary care.

Republicans blocked it.

[Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf 🌏 🦣 @rahmstorf]

I'm afraid that this is why the US administration wants to shut down ocean observations: they don't want the people to know what is happening in our oceans, as it does not fit their ideology and the interests of their fossil fuel industry funders.

https://t.co/G1E5zXdyid

[TC Samples @tarasamples]

@focodereality Myrtle

[Michael T. Lester @MichaelTLester]

Yesterday I told you the government is pulling 900 ocean monitoring instruments out of the water.

Here is the part that should make every American angry, regardless of where you stand on climate.

Congress voted to fund this network. Not once. Twice. The Trump administration proposed cutting it by 80 percent in 2025. Congress restored the money. Proposed the same cut in 2026. Congress restored the money again.

So the administration labeled it a "descope" and ordered the instruments pulled anyway.

That is not a budget disagreement. That is an executive branch telling the legislative branch that its votes do not matter. The public paid for this infrastructure. Congress protected it. One office in Washington decided the public should not have it.

This is the pattern I document in 𝑾𝒆 𝑨𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒂𝒅 𝑮𝒖𝒚𝒔. It is not about left or right. It is about who decides what Americans are allowed to know about their own planet.

Who should make that call?

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Rep. Fletcher: The New World screwworm has been found in Texas. This flesh-eating parasite previously eradicated from the U.S. poses a huge threat to our cattle. Last March, the Trump administration fired more than 15,000 USDA employees and eliminated a program to contain the screwworm in Central America. The threat of New World screwworm is just one consequence of the Trump administration's reckless campaign to eliminate funding for government programs that Americans rely on.

[Matthew Cappucci @MatthewCappucci]

The lack of morning weather balloons launched across the western and central U.S. is having a real, tangible impact on degrading forecast quality.

We can't look at weather balloon data that doesn't exist. We can't pump nonexistent data into models. We can't rely as heavily on models that don't "know" what's happening above our heads.

Today's severe weather forecast is less certain because we don't have weather balloon data to confirm the strength of jet stream winds aloft.

This is extremely frustrating, and is the result of logistical, organizational, political and budgetary decisions.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

The Trump administration is DISMANTLING the network of buoys that help California monitor for major tsunamis and earthquakes.

Cool.

[TC Samples @tarasamples]

@KSPrior @iamfujimura I feel this deep in my bones

[Karen Swallow Prior (Notorious KSP) @KSPrior]

Most days now, I sit and marvel that for most of my life I simply assumed that people in leadership, particularly in the church, were by definition people of integrity, competence, consistency, and moral clarity.

I no longer assume.

[Tara Blume @tcblume]

Science gasps for breath. They are removing all the ocean monitors to understand changes in currents and climate, and the excuse is a master class in obfuscation & double speak . (1/2) https://t.co/vs782YbcI3

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

If the provision in the NDAA to integrate/synchronize the U.S. and Israeli militaries (section 224) makes it out of committee, I’ll offer an amendment to strip it from the bill on the floor.

We are a sovereign country.
https://t.co/HwvSXXxKlW

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 WOW.

Sen. Blumenthal says he was “shocked” after Republicans quietly inserted a provision giving ONLY U.S. senators the right to sue the federal government for constitutional violations.

Not ordinary Americans.

Just senators.

Think about how insane that is.

Lawmakers looked at government overreach and basically said:

“You know who really needs extra protection here?
Us.”

Meanwhile everyday Americans can allegedly be detained, surveilled, have records accessed, or rights violated…

and they get told:
“Good luck.”

The provision got killed after backlash.
But the fact it was inserted at all tells you everything.

[TC Samples @tarasamples]

Imagine being so audaciously self important that you hear a woman from a church you do not attend talking on a podcast about her church and you make a whole denominational constitutional amendment to stop it? Imagine thinking that was gospel honoring?