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New data finds Americans are more likely to support labor unions over Big Business than at any time in the past 60 years. We are witnessing a historic rebirth of worker power. If you want a better life for you and your children, join or support a union.

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When Americans raised concerns about RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine views, he said he was "not gonna take away vaccines from anybody." But now he's taking them away from millions of mommas and babies. Vaccine recommendations should be based on science, not RFK Jr.'s political agenda.

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The effects of Covid in pregnancy are devastating and preventable by vaccination; now we have strong data from Penn Medicine that vaccines protect children and adolescents from long Covid

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“If every woman had a direwolf, men would be much sweeter.” George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5) #booksky

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Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" cuts Medicaid. Cuts to health care for babies and new moms. Cuts to heath care for seniors in nursing homes. Cuts to health care for rural hospitals. Cuts to health care for people with disabilities. Republicans in Congress approved these cuts.

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MIKE JOHNSON: We are not cutting Medicaid in this package. TAPPER: 1.4m people in Louisiana are on Medicaid. Is it your contention that if any of them lose benefits, it's bc they shouldn't have been receiving them? J: Yeah. Every district in America has people who are on the program who shouldn't.

submitted 4 days ago • 1191 comments

I hate being right that the goal of many Covid contrarians is to actually limit what Covid precautions, including vaccine access, that others can take. It's not about autonomy when you change who can get vaccines.

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Good grief, this is not good. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

submitted 6 days ago • 36 comments

Every independent analysis is clear: the budget bill passed early this morning by the House GOP will gut essential programs like Medicaid and SNAP for working Americans, and make the ultra-wealthy richer. We must do everything we can stop this bill in the Senate.

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Caregivers to disabled people and aging adults (who do not have certain health conditions) will not be able to get the Covid booster in the future under new rules, putting people they care for at risk. New from me at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Momnibus Act aims to improve maternal health nationally despite budget cuts | via @elishabrown.bsky.social #ksleg

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Headed to the library! #booksky #thingsthatmakemehappy

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156 Jewish orgs just told Congress: Don't cut SNAP & Medicaid. Our community is speaking with one voice against proposals that would slash food assistance for 42M Americans and healthcare for over 70M. Our tradition compels us to stand united for human dignity. #ProtectSNAP https://bit.ly/3F5SQb6

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

Yes, I'm pissed about the jumbo jet too. But this is actually the most important story today.

submitted 15 days ago • 635 comments

Sen. Cory Booker once again met the moment, standing with the incredible Little Lobbyists in D.C.—a group of children with disabilities & their families fighting to protect Medicaid. They’ve long led the charge, & Booker proudly stands with them. #DontMessWithMedicaid @littlelobbyists.com

submitted 17 days ago • 15 comments

Red food dye isn’t the number one killer of kids. Guns are…

submitted 17 days ago • 292 comments

“After school shootings, many Republicans try to shift the public conversation away from gun violence and toward mental health programs that might make mass shootings less likely. Student mental health grants had bipartisan support. “Trump is cutting them anyway.” www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 19 days ago • 194 comments

I spoke to an incredible gathering of Little Lobbyists in DC who gathered to push and lobby against Medicade cuts. They have long led the charge to protect healthcare and Medicaid—and I’m proud to stand with them against any attempt by this administration or its allies to undermine it.

submitted 19 days ago • 45 comments

I was scheduled for three events in 24 hours. This is number two! Over 100 people met at the Franklin County library in Union, Missouri. Rural Democrats are here. We’ve always been here.

submitted 19 days ago • 51 comments

Well, well, well. The Acting FEMA Administrator said eliminating FEMA wasn’t in the best interest of the American people — and guess what?!?! They FIRED him. I guess that’s what happens when you stand up to your power-hungry “boss”.

submitted 20 days ago • 484 comments

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

submitted 21 days ago • 637 comments

The U.S. is on track to have the worst whooping cough outbreak since 1948. Some regions are reporting that they are struggling to do contact tracing of cases because they are ALSO managing measles investigations. And, of course, funding cuts to public health have resulted in fewer resources.

submitted 22 days ago • 91 comments

“Any human face is a claim on you, because you can't help but understand the singularity of it, the courage and loneliness of it. But this is truest of the face of an infant. I consider that to be one kind of vision, as mystical as any.” - Marilynne Robinson, Gilead #booksky

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Frank Bisignano has made clear he will not stop Trump and Musk’s Social Security chaos. Today, we’re voting on his nomination. For every American who counts on Social Security, I’m a NO.

submitted 23 days ago • 67 comments

As we recognize Mental Health Awareness month, I’m deeply concerned about cuts to mental health services that support the most vulnerable among us. We must all continue to look out for and support one another.

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A LOT of people do not want to hear it but in the United States at least, food has never been safer to eat, not to mention tastier

submitted 28 days ago • 349 comments

Sen. Ossoff: Who out there in the American public is sitting at home demanding that we shut down cancer research and Alzheimer's research?

submitted 29 days ago • 646 comments

This administration wants families to have more children yet is cutting the programs that provide crucial services to support the very children they would have! Make it make sense!

submitted 30 days ago • 150 comments

Sunday inspiration… John Lewis never folded. Neither will we. They want our light out. Keep it blazing.

submitted 32 days ago • 158 comments

COURAGE. STRENGTH. INSPIRATION. Joseph Peters has autism and lives independently in Hackensack, New Jersey. He lives in his own apartment, assisted by an aide. Medicaid is absolutely vital to Joseph. Cuts of any kind would be utterly devastating to Joseph’s quality of life, and to the…

submitted 32 days ago • 103 comments

What happens when the wealthy pay their fair share in taxes like everyone else? We can invest in a stronger, fairer America — where every kid has a quality education and families aren’t bankrupted by one medical diagnosis.

submitted 33 days ago • 453 comments

Two disability-focused state organizations, Disability Rights New Jersey and Disability Rights Arkansas, have paused services due to not receiving federal funds. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

submitted 33 days ago • 3 comments

It was always a myth…

submitted 33 days ago • 122 comments

i often see things that make me say "this is the most Boston thing I have ever seen in my life" but i think this one might have swept them all

submitted 39 days ago • 63 comments

Like post offices, libraries are vital community resources. So of course, DOGE has cut funding for them nationwide. TAKE ACTION to save your local library on #NationalLibraryWeek! PHYSICALLY visit your library. Get a free library card. You can check out digital books from local libraries online. 📕

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The Librarians is a must-see documentary about the recent history of book banning in the US

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"It was eight last week, 50 now," said Hayden Nguyen, the co-chair of SJP at ASU and a sophomore studying business policy and management. "We don't know where it's going to be next week, and we need to build a really strong movement." www.statepress.com/article/2025...

submitted 48 days ago • 104 comments

yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

submitted 48 days ago • 834 comments

Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration. So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives. So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory

submitted 48 days ago • 3601 comments

It's long past time to ban insider trading in Congress.

submitted 49 days ago • 1228 comments

Well, this certainly sounds like an unmitigated disaster. Never been a fan of school vouchers myself. #EduSky #AcademicSky

submitted 56 days ago • 23 comments

Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...

submitted 57 days ago • 335 comments

Today is the day I cried. The destruction of HHS and the CDC; the failson in charge of it all; the overwhelming loss of so many brilliant, dedicated people; the cruelty and disrespect with which it was done. Tomorrow is the day this profound sorrow renews my motivation.

submitted 57 days ago • 68 comments

“I promise you, (John Lewis) that I will do everything possible to make you proud.” —Cory Booker

submitted 57 days ago • 59 comments

18 hours and 45 minutes in, and Cory Booker is still going strong! 🔥

submitted 58 days ago • 841 comments

my roses are starting to bloom!

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This 5th grader got a standing ovation from over 700 constituents for her pointed question to Republican Darrell Issa’s empty chair at the Indivisible town hall this past Sunday.

submitted 61 days ago • 135 comments