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Some of the thousands of federal health workers Kennedy and DOGE purged last month had their layoff notices rescinded today. The Trump admin won’t say how many. Dems plan to grill Kennedy on the cuts in tmw’s hearings. www.politico.com/news/2025/05... with @sophiegardner.bsky.social

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What took you so long

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The people are not having it.

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Russian scientist imprisoned by ICE writes a beautiful essay. Such courage in the face of injustice.

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Medicaid: CBO releases preliminary estimates of House Budget reductions Proposal would lead to $912 billion in cuts over 10 yrs, $715 billion from health provisions. Proposal would raise uninsured by 13.7 million, including 8.6 million from new proposal timothymcbride.substack.com/p/medicaid-c...

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100% agree with this. We reported on how refugees, including many from Sudan, were becoming part of the fabric of Sioux Falls, SD. (One young woman from Darfur was head of ROTC at a local high school.) Same in Erie, Pa, with Bhutanese and others. Same in WI and MN and IA.

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"Faith Ministers are BLOCKING the entrance to the ICE Detention Center, Delaney Hall in New Jersey where Newark Mayor Ras Baraka was arrested last week." Posted by @scootercaster.com on "X" at 1:19 pm EDT

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Let's put this trade deal with China in perspective.

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New w/ @juliametraux.bsky.social —a look at the GOP's sweeping, brutal Medicaid cuts, which would eliminate access to pap smears, cancer screenings, and birth control for the more than 2 million people who get them per year at Planned Parenthood: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Scoop: As federal health agencies are gutted, Kyle Diamantas, a Florida attorney w/ a slim resume + no prior gov't experience, is the new head of food safety at @US_FDA. Turns out, he's Donald Trump Jr.'s hunting buddy, @vanityfair.com is reporting exclusively: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/f... /1

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One year after the deployment of ambient artificial intelligence scribes, the Permanente Medical Group reports rapid growth in physician usage, highly positive experiences among physician users, and positive to neutral experiences among patients. Learn more: nej.md/3QV4cRI #HealthCare

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‘White genocide’ is another explicitly white nationalist trope. It has been endorsed by the American Nazi Party, the Aryan Nations, Ian Smith’s regime in Rhodesia, David Duke, and Anders Behring Breivik, Richard Spencer, Alex Jones, and dozens of other open white supremacists.

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GOOLSBEE: “.. It is definitely less impactful stagflationarily than the path they were on .. Yet it’s three to five times higher than what it was before, so it is .. going to make growth slower and make prices rise.” @colbylsmith.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/b...

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"After just three short months of the Trump administration, we are contemplating the abdication of US leadership in oceanic and atmospheric science." from @thebulletin.org via @climatedesk.org

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Trump got Loomered.

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Elon Musk and his DOGE bros are slashing their way through the government. One program in their sites? SNAP. If you're sickened by the idea of the world's richest man making it harder for families to feed their kids, come join us at a #teslatakedown action.

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“Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing demagogues, and ending tyrants.” — Alexander Hamilton (1755/57–1804), The Federalist No. 1 (1787)

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Attorney General Bondi, the person who issued an opinion saying its fine for Trump to get a luxury plane as a gift from Qatar, used to get paid $115,000 a month as a lobbyist for Qatar x.com/grok/status/...

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See this? It's called a non-inferiority trial. It compares the new vaccine with the current vaccines to see if the new vaccine does better. This new vaccine did. Placebo-controlled trials are not needed to test most new vaccines. Demanding them will only reduce vaccine access. Which is the point.

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Just saying: This is corrupt beyond belief. www.cnbc.com/2025/05/11/t...

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Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker plans to sign an executive order preventing state agencies from obtaining or disclosing data that personally identifies people with autism, unless required for medical care or legal matters. “Every Illinoisan deserves ... the freedom to live without fear of surveillance.”

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Overseeing the presidential gift rules was among my duties as White House Ethics Czar -- so I know how it's supposed to work The gift of this plane to Trump is illegal & unconstitutional The AG & the WH Counsel oughtta be ashamed of themselves for allowing it abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru...

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Destroying the agency that brought us the internet, the SuperCollider and modern telescopes. Heading into the dark ages here

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Easily the most universally loved public executive in DC. Horrible.

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We’re intensifying spying on…Greenland. FFS 🤦🏻‍♀️ www.wsj.com/world/greenl...

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Spot-on story in @npr.org on how Medicaid cuts will impact the 9 million older adults and disabled people who rely on the program for long-term care - from unnecessary hospitalization and ER visits to institutionalization and even early death. @caringacross.org www.npr.org/2025/04/14/g...

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What's happening with these grants is much more complicated and mostly unknown. None of the NIH have been officially cancelled. The NIH was just ordered to stop paying. They got the Unis to enforce silence on their own campuses because they thought they were "negotiating" and cld get the funds back.

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You've lost another F/A-18?

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Drip, drip, drip ...

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NEW: TeleMessage, the Signal knockoff used by Mike Waltz and potentially other gov officials to archive group chats in plaintext, has suspended all services after it was hacked at least twice. @404media.co reported a hack last night; a different hacker also broke in and gave me evidence.

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I really encourage you to listen to this. This entire incident is chilling and crosses yet another line.

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Since this was published yesterday, NPR reports JAMA joins NEJM on the list of journals that confirms they’ve been sent threatening letters by Trump’s DOJ, ominously referencing their tax-exempt status in a bid to compel regime-friendly editorial choices. www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

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NEW: The little-known consulting firms that tell colleges what kind of aid and discounts to offer to each individual student. Whenever I explain this to people out loud, their jaws hit the floor. I finally wrote it down. Happy May 1 decision day to all who celebrate! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/b...

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Kennedy's HHS misrepresents vaccine testing and oversight, embracing antivaccine tropes in an effort to undermine confidence in vaccines (my summary, not the article's). wapo.st/3EM3SCa @laurenweberhp.bsky.social Rachel Roubein, Lena Sun, @carolynyjohnson.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com

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1/n I don’t understand the new Dept HHS assertion that childhood vaccines weren’t tested in placebo-controlled trials. That’s simply not true. I did a quick (non-exhaustive) PubMed search and they came up pretty quickly. For example here’s MMR

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this Q&A is a really great précis of both what’s wrong with RFK Jr.’s directives on autistic people and what could be right, strong recommend

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Microsoft drops law firm that made a deal with Trump, engaging a firm that is fighting his executive orders

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Fascinating and concerning

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Senator Angus King (I-ME) reaching to history to recall Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME) and her 1950 stand against what she called "Republican Fascists." (King does not hold Chase's seat; Senator Susan Collins (R) does.)

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This is not your ordinary TRO To understand the significance of the Southern District of Texas's ruling that Trump administration's claimed invocation of the #AlienEnemiesAct is unlawful, note: It's a permanent injunction. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Some terminated NIH grants on health equity are mysteriously being reinstated. Not because of appeals. Nobody knows why and NIH hasn't said. Check it out: www.chronicle.com/article/thes...

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We should be strengthening these lifelines, not starving them. In some towns and neighborhoods, #communityhealth centers are the only place people can get care. #CHCs

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AP's immigration reporter Tim Sullivan tells a beautiful story about a hard-working couple caught up in the confusion and fear rippling through immigrant communities in the Texas Panhandle. apnews.com/article/trum...

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🚨 BREAKING: I'm suing #RFKJr @ #HHS & #JayBhattacharya @ #NIH Canceling medical research grants threatens innovations benefiting ALL Americans, no matter your politics! 🇺🇸 Thanks to my lawyers @aclu.org @aclum.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org & @cspi.bsky.social Long 🧵 on why I'm suing 👇 1/

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Judge says Trump imprisonment of student is “not our proudest moment” as he frees him www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/n...

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👇🎯💯 No one, even at this late date, seems able to identify (or even interested in trying) a single policy/issue where Biden’s age/mental acuity affected actual policy or governance. Was there something that failed or didn’t get done because he was old? You’d think this would be the first question 🤷‍♂️

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So right!

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The architect of #NIH cuts is Russell Vought whose own daughter is alive today because of advances in treating cystic fibrosis, brought to us, to the Vought family, by NIH. 1/ www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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