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Dr. Katalin Karikó spent decades experimenting with mRNA. She was scoffed at, demoted, and eventually forced to retire. Then, she won a Nobel Prize. Her story is the first in our 10-episode series, “The Leap,” produced with the Hypothesis Fund.

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The Social Security Administration (per DOGE) instituted anti-fraud checks for benefit claims made over the phone. Only two out of over 110,000 claims had a high probability of fraud — a rate of .0018% But it slowed retirement claim processing by 25%. "Efficiency."

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There’s been lots of chatter about repealing taxation of Social Security benefits in the tax bill. Turns out Rs opted to increase the standard deduction for some seniors instead. Will this increase help lower- and middle-income retirees? Nope, and here’s why. 🧵

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Let me make this simple: 1) People have been fired - our economy & governmental services have been interrupted because of the firings. 2) The proposed budget includes - cuts to federal worker’s benefits, cuts to Medicaid, cuts to food assistance, & deep tax cuts for the RICH,

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Republicans wanted to use a bureaucratic trick to tell you their budget bill doesn’t cost anything or add to the deficit. But in reality, their tax cut for billionaires would cost $5.5 TRILLION. So I called them out.

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"India on Tuesday reiterated its rejection of US President Donald Trump's offer to mediate" Also, India says the US did not help broker the ceasefire timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/...

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Two senior intel officials concluded that the Venezuelan gov’t isn’t invading us. Tulsi Gabbard fired them: www.cnn.com/2025/05/14/p...

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Key discussion point: As Trump and his oligarchy enrich themselves it will become more difficult to dislodge them from power. This is why corruption matters. @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social and I discuss. Full episode avail on Substack, YouTube & wherever you get your podcasts. youtu.be/UJXdQXm4B24?...

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Rep. Julie Johnson to Noem: "Are you aware that ICE agent jackets are available on Etsy for $20? Anybody can throw a mask on and run around and terrorize people of color without any regard for the law because your agency does not have proper protocols to make sure your agents are clearly identified"

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WATCH: @alsobrooks.senate.gov explains to RFK Jr. his own aunt's legacy during a Senate hearing.

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Under court order, the government has released a nearly unredacted copy of the memorandum of understanding between the IRS and Homeland Security revealing how taxpayer data was shared for immigration enforcement.

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Somewhere around $6 of benefit for the economy for every $1 spent on SNAP. It’s one of best ROIs of government spending.

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According the The Guardian, "Some researchers say a new approach, which suppresses a particular part of the immune system rather than amplifying it, could be available in the next five years" Medsky.

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This is so lovely. Enjoy! youtu.be/H4mJ4rwYGTI?...

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Don’t look away. This is what Libya’s migrant detention facilities look like. This is what Trump is doing. Amnesty International called Libya’s migrant detention centers a “hellscape,” where beatings and sexual violence are rampant and there are many reports of trafficking and even slavery.

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Every parent knows that when your kids won't show you their homework, it's only because they've definitely done it, and they're protecting you from bursting with pride about their work. And that's why I'm confident that the White House has definitely made a bunch of terrific trade deals.

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If corporations can be people, why not rivers? Again, 🇨🇦 🙌

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Mitch McConnell is retiring after 40 years of working hard to make Kentucky one of the poorest, most under-educated, and unhealthy states in the US.

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We hadn’t won World War II by May 8th. I know because my family and I were still in an internment camp in Tule Lake, California.

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🇨🇦 we see you. And are envious.

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@andrewrsorkin.bsky.social It is a process - and a shakedown. #Democracy #Harvard #Shakedown

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‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’ One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.

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love to make america great again by essentially expelling the people that enrich our children’s lives

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This is a widely inaccurate & dangerous mischaracterization. The vaccine was developed in fetal cells obtained from two elective abortions in the early 1960s. There is not abortion debris floating around in the vaccine. And the Vatican has okayed its use. RFK Jr. is again spreading disinformation.

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I'd like retailers to post the cost of the tariff for items like they do taxes, shipping and other fees. I want to see all that on my receipt/order.

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How disappointing @theatlantic.com. Thought you were more aware and would not fall for that rhetoric.

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🇨🇦 Canada, please make a better choice than we did. #Canada

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@jenvcampbell.bsky.social Congratulations on Publication Day! My copy of #OwningIt is on the way. The video of some of the authors reading the opening of their stories is perfect. Everyone, check it out - it's what you need today: www.patreon.com/posts/127363... 💙📚

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Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

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BREAKING: The Interior Dept just used a fake “energy emergency” to greenlight gas and mining projects on public lands. It’s a lie. There is no energy emergency. This is a giveaway to big oil.

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The media demanded Biden personally solve a shortage of baby food formula and kept after him for weeks about it while Trump's FDA isn't even bothering to warn people about E. coli outbreaks and it won't even be a story by tomorrow.

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As destructive and capricious as these tariffs are they are arguably the greatest abuse of power in American history as 1) Trump has no authority to levy tariffs 2) they impact every person in the world.

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@justinwolfers.bsky.social teaches economics 101 at the University of Michigan. He wishes Trump attended. On this week's More To The Story, Wolfers discusses how Trump's tariff plan not only betrays the most basic laws of economics, but how it could very well tip the US into a recession:

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@repemilyrandall.bsky.social Thank you for forcing a vote on protecting public lands. Please keep at it. Our wild places are key to our survival and quality of life.

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Hi, I’m autistic and I’m the mayor of my city.

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Omg

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@cantwell.senate.gov Thank you for talking tariffs and taking action. #TariffsAreTaxes #TrumpInflation

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I look at close to 100 stories a week and even more outside of work. I’ve done this ten years. This is among the most horrific things I’ve ever read — testimony from dying children whose access to medicine has been cut off by the Trump administration. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

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A lawsuit over the Trump administration's infamous Houthi Signal group chat has revealed what steps departments took to preserve the messages—and how little they actually saved. www.wired.com/story/heres-...

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🧵 FACT CHECKING ELON MUSK: No — Social Security is not overrun with fraud. In fact, every Inspector General for 30 years has found fraud amounts to far less than even 1% of total benefits. www.brookings.edu/articles/dog...

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Never forget.

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Adding that I wrote about this move for @thebulwark.bsky.social and pointed out how Florida has required every sheriff and state agency to join 287g task force agreements. (So every Florida county has two 287g agreements -- task force and jail/ WSO). www.thebulwark.com/p/sheriff-ic...

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As a biologist, I'm appalled at pride the White House takes in willful ignorance. In yesterday's executive order about NPR and PBS, their first example of "the trash that passes for `news' at NPR and PBS" is the statement that "banana slugs are hermaphrodites." But this is unequivocal fact.

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When Andrew Tate was charged with rape and human trafficking, Trump intervened to fly him back to the US. When a working-class father of a disabled 5-year-old child was wrongfully deported and charged with NO crime, Trump refuses to lift a finger.

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