Connor Lillis, MPA

Hope starts here!

The Trump admin has instructed federal health agencies — including the FDA, CDC, and NIH — to pause all external communications, such as health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites and social media posts. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump signs sweeping order on death penalty, compels attorney general to help ensure states have lethal injection drugs.

Gen. Milley on his pardon: "My family and I are deeply grateful for the President's action today. After 43 years of faithful service in uniform to our Nation … I do not wish to spend whatever remaining time the Lord grants me fighting those who unjustly might seek retribution for perceived slights."

Okay I know the @mta.info is always complaining about money, but has anyone thought about having them TURN DOWN THE HEAT ON THE TRAINS DURING WINTER. It can be 70 instead of 80, y’all will save a pretty penny, and we wont have to SWEAT.

This is a strategic move for Biden because it would be held up in the courts for years.

This doctor’s letter to United Heathcare for denying nausea medication to a child on chemotherapy.

Scientists are reporting that it would take just a single mutation in the version of bird flu that has swept through U.S. cattle herds to produce a virus adept at latching on to human cells, a much simpler step than previously imagined.

Has anyone told Trump and his friends about the OceanGate tours of the Titanic? I hear they're so fun!

It makes me so angry that this brilliant exceptionally qualified woman could’ve been our next President yet many people chose a disgusting piece of shit criminal instead.

Texas and Georgia are blocking the review and release of information on the deaths of pregnant women from abortion bans. The GOP knows the stories of pregnant women dying preventable deaths sounds bad. So they're making sure you never hear about them.

“Don’t feed the trolls” also extends to bad opinion pieces in papers of record. They run them bc people react to them the most. If we stop linking to bad columns and instead post thinkers we find valuable (& generate convo around it), incentives change. It’s not easy and takes constant practice!

In Korea…citizens are literally outside the assembly walls blocking the military from entering and helping legislators scale the walls to go vote.

Good. It’s horrific how other platforms abused their reach to strangle local, independent, and national outlets alike. I WANT to see news and actual vetted work and I WANT journalists to get rewarded for it. Because I want to live in a thinking human world over some AI generated slop dystopia

This is my plaintive cry: make your own cranberry sauce. www.allrecipes.com/recipe/13459...

I. JUST. WANT. THE. RECIPE. I. DON'T. WANT. FOUR. PAGES. OF. STORY. ABOUT. HOW. THIS. WAS. YOUR. AUNT. LINDA'S. FAVORITE. DISH. ON. WINTER. ESCAPES. TO. THE. MOUNTAINS.

Mexico’s president responded angrily to President-elect Donald Trump’s pledge to impose a 25 percent tariff on its products if the country didn’t curb the flow of irregular migrants and fentanyl, warning that the penalties would only wind up causing inflation and unemployment in the United States.

Breaking News: California will give rebates to eligible residents if President-elect Trump ends a $7,500 electric vehicle tax credit, Gov. Gavin Newsom said.

Why take the MTA on the weekend when you could crawl somewhere faster? @mtainfo.bsky.social

Nothing quite beats sitting at a stop for 10 minutes 🤷🏻‍♂️

Just another day with the @mtainfo.bsky.social running like shit

Y’all seriously voted for everything to just suck more.

The party who is "concerned about the safety of children" are also unsure if they should hold a child sex trafficker accountable.

I see making boisterous claims that can be discredited with a google search did not stay on Twitter.

There have been dozens and dozens of congressional reps who have spoke out publicly and on the floor of the house. You can find this with a simple google search.

Anyone check in on Christian Smalls, who voted for Jill Stein?

SpaceX and Amazon are asking the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to find the National Labor Relations Board unconstitutional. The federal agency is tasked with enforcing workers' right to organize.

Hydropower is the world’s most widely used form of renewable energy, propelling development in South America, parts of China and India, and much of sub-Saharan Africa. But over the past two years, a wave of extreme droughts has wrought havoc on this critical energy supply.

Millions of people might lose or drop their health coverage when a Biden-era expansion of ACA subsidies expires next year.

NEW: Months after suspending congestion pricing, Gov. Kathy Hochul puts it back on track Thursday, adding motorist will begin paying a once-daily $9 toll on Jan. 5.

As much as I'm in favor of 'defusing' tensions between the US & Iran, what on earth is a private citizen, a billionaire GOP donor, the owner of Twitter!, doing meeting with Iranian diplomats? The same guy who claims to want government transparency?

Update from a city that actually builds housing:

A new CDC report shows at least 16,000 lives were saved over a 12-month period. Experts say the U.S. is experiencing the biggest drop in fatal overdoses seen since the opioid crisis began in the 90s.

I regret to inform you that I do sometimes judge a book by its cover.