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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), who has long railed against Big Pharma and pushed for lower drug prices, predicted that President Donald Trump’s executive order to reduce prescription drug costs will be thrown out in court. Follow live updates on Trump: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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"If Republicans want more babies, they should stop punishing the parents who already have them," writes James Myall of the Maine Center for Economic Policy. "Parents don’t need platitudes. They need paid leave, child care they can afford, and food on the table." mainemorningstar.com/2025/05/12/f...

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Future geologist will be puzzled by the layer of F-18s.

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You remember all that talk from Republicans saying we were lying about their plans to cut Medicaid? Well, we weren't lying. We knew it was always their plan to rip away Medicaid from millions of Americans.

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If I were a member of Congress I would have already introduced a bill prohibiting ICE agents from wearing face masks and requiring them to wear official identification at all times

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1/2 Just-dismissed Librarian of Congress, Dr. Carla Hayden, has a PhD from U Chicago, is in numerous scholarly societies, has wide acclaim. She is also first African-American to lead LoC. The dismissal note did not say "Dear Dr. Hayden" or "Dear Madame Librarian" or even "Dear Carla."

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Today I learned that the author of this 1977 op-ed was the most important college mentor for the current head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights Division.

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The president has covered the Oval Office in gold, is planning a massive military parade for his birthday, and is now accepting $400,000,000 luxury planes from foreign powers as personal presents. What the fuck are we doing here?

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FEMA will stop knocking on doors to provide aid to disaster survivors, per a memo obtained by WIRED this week. It comes as the agency is shifting responsibility for recovery efforts to local authorities. Oh, and it's hurricane preparedness week, btw.

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How many Republicans have spoken out against Trump's threat to suspend habeas corpus? How many Republicans have spoken out against Trump's "gift" from Qatar? How many Republicans--and other Republican-adjacent elites--put the Constitution above Trump? The sad answer: vanishingly close to zero.

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This has been the defining trait of my career over the last 20 years, working in tech. Everyone can see it now, because they’ve seen the corruption of the tech tycoons, but we had the first view of their venality, and watched as they ruined the lives of so many who raised the alarms about it.

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“yea honestly transit is gonna keep being fucked up” is just what you want to hear from the guy in charge of fixing it

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For Mother’s Day I talked to moms who are being put through hell because of the new administration’s policies. “I am aware of Project 2025 and their goals of getting women out of the workforce, and this really feels like part of it.” Read here:

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"The judge overseeing the case against the Defense Department's firing of transgender service members revealed that the military spends eight times more on erectile dysfunction medication than on gender affirming care." www.newsweek.com/us-military-...

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Growing up in the '70s I'd read about strongman rulers in far-off places like Asia or Africa who had billion-dollar Swiss bank accounts and mansions in the French Riviera while their citizens were mired in poverty, and wondered how that could be allowed to happen Now I know

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"The crowd chants 'Don’t take the mother!' over and over again as the daughter keeps trying to get back on the hood of the car. More Worcester cops arrive, all helping the ICE agents carry out their rotten senseless work." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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The Whole Entire Thing Is A Grift, volume sixteen thousand

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1) USPS did not lose $3.3b. It provided a service that cost $3.3b. The Pentagon loses you money, however, every time it accidentally yeets a fighter jet off the deck of a carrier

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Texas allows certain children to get married. Lawmakers may close that loophole.

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Oh. (While not surprising at all on one level…I think we must preserve some level of shock)

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I once met with a Missouri libertarian who was actively trying to defund public schools, and I asked how that would impact his own children. He has nine. He told me he homeschools them. I said you homeschool them? He said well, my wife… Yeah.

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I’m watching additional video and the woman in the red jacket at the ICE facility in Newark who tried to stop ICE from arresting Ras Baraka and was shoved and pushed and assaulted is my rep, LaMonica McIver. Abominable.

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JFC. An ankle monitor for writing an op ed!

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nothing good has ever come from presenting disabled and sick people as a literal threat to the nation

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Cuts to SNAP would not just affect Americans enrolled in the program but would also pull the rug out from under grocers, farmers, and the broader economy. New analysis identifies the 27,000 retailers that would be at higher risk of financial hardship following cuts:

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Abducted Tufts PhD student Öztürk headed back to Vermont (unless the Supreme Court gets involved), 2nd circuit says. My writeup for @cambridgeday.com: www.cambridgeday.com/2025/05/07/o... For background, see this thread, already in progress: bsky.app/profile/john...

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HAPPENING NOW: Rümeysa Öztürk appears remotely for her bail hearing in Vermont federal court! 🧵

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Federal agents' seemingly universal adoption of neck gaiters worn just below the eyes like they're robbing the railroad is emblematic of this time in the US

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staffers are still cleaning up the Kristi Noem mess after she got gutted/filleted by @chrismurphyct.bsky.social this is A MOMENT. #MustWatch 🧢 @trumpfile.org

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The US Embassy in Stockholm threatened the city that any contractors fire their DEI employees. Stockholm blew them off: “If the U.S.A. terminates its acquaintance with the City Planning Office, the embassy will have a hard time with building permits." www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

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BREAKING—Fabian Schmidt, the German man with legal permanent residency who was detained for no apparent reason and violently interrogated at Boston’s Logan Airport in March, was RELEASED from prison yesterday and the case against him has been DISMISSED, a source familiar with the situation tells me.

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Before the Trump administration took office, we revealed Russell Vought’s plan to demonize civil servants and “put them in trauma.” Since then, we've doubled down on our coverage of government agencies and federal policy. If you have information you can share, here's how you can get in touch.

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May 8, 2025

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While every new administration identifies its own grantmaking priorities, they rarely terminate existing grants midstream. Doing so ends up wasting taxpayer money that has already been spent.

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“I will be resigning after this semester from my tenured position at West Point after 13 years on the faculty,” Graham Parsons writes. “I am ashamed to be associated with the academy in its current form.”

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BREAKING: FEMA’s most senior official Cameron Hamilton has been FIRED and walked out of the building, an agency source confirms. He testified just yesterday that he didn’t think the agency should be eliminated, per Trump and DHS Sec. Kristi Noem’s wishes. Apparently the wrong answer.

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection has quietly rescinded policies designed to protect the most vulnerable people in its custody, including mothers, infants, and the elderly: www.wired.com/story/cbp-re...

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Moisturize me!!

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I have written many healthcare stories, but never before have I written about my own health. I decided to do so after learning one of my drugs costs nearly $1,000 a pill and just 25 cents to make. What I found was an incredible story of discovery and exploitation. www.propublica.org/article/revl...

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At which point she will have spent nearly two months behind bars for the crime of writing an op-ed.

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the fundamental disconnect between the manosphere and reality is that they are incapable of understanding that this is - according to every woman I’ve ever met - the sexiest thing a man has ever done

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OPINION — "The potential elimination of Head Start would represent a setback to decades of progress in advancing equitable access to high-quality services that support child and family well-being," Crossman writes.

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The national guidance arrives at a time of a long-standing debate among Vermonters over what are best practices for the health of the forests in the state. #vtpoli

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Trump's own team is stockpiling supplies before his tariffs make prices skyrocket and shelves are left empty. Yet he’s gaslighting Americans by saying prices won't go up. And worse, he tells us we need to sacrifice our bank accounts so the super rich can get even richer. Infuriating.

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A conservative legal group with ties to Trump is suing Chief Justice Roberts, claiming two key court bodies should be controlled by the president. Legal experts say it’s a threat to judicial independence. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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I tell my students this when they tell me about using AI. If you're using AI to do a thing, soon no one will get paid to do that thing. Also, I tell them that AI is hella stupid and they're much smarter and much more creative than AI.

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Tariffs on Chinese goods are making it more expensive to raise children in the United States, driving up prices and threatening shortages of critical baby gear at a time when household budgets are already under strain.

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Whenever I see this kind of story about Trump's America, I think of Lincoln: "When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy."

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