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Ages 0-4 are the most important, emotionally & intellectually, in human development. Yet, in the US, we have a very high rate of childhood poverty and a broken child care system. Congratulations to New Mexico for leading the way forward for high quality, free child care. Other states must follow.

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Someone to watch

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So true

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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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Why? Just tragic for these service members

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Republicans in Congress are looking for cuts to Medicaid to help offset the costs of extending tax cuts. But the leading plans would increase the share of Americans who are uninsured, a review by the Congressional Budget Office estimated.

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My son uses Medicaid. He is a physically and cognitively disabled child. I am a single mom with two jobs. Not surprised we are the first people the GOP comes to for a handout when billionaires don't want to pay their taxes: House G.O.P. Floats Medicaid Cuts and More to Finance Trump’s Huge Agenda

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Hey Paul Weiss associates—meet your new pro bono clients. It’s ok, the Skadden associates are getting the coal companies.

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Houthis appear to be eating our lunch. Why no coverage? Only BBC covering

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The Trump Administration Is Preparing to Send American Allies to Their Deaths

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So sad to see the owners of CBS, a news organization whose correspondents have risked their lives covering wars, upheavals and dictators abroad, knuckle under to authoritarianism at home. CBS journalists deserve better from their bosses. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/b...

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Trump's EPA has rolled back regulations governing clean air, water, wildlife, and toxic chemicals. It's estimated that these moves could result in 200,000 premature deaths by 2050. Your Earth Day reminder that Donald Trump is a danger to our planet and our health.

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State Department unveils massive overhaul of agency, 15 percent staff reduction Source: pbs.org

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Donald Trump made nearly $240M off of inauguration donations from billionaires & corporations—and we have no idea where the money is going.

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FYI rabbis and cantors who are alums of Brown University are organizing, asking the university not to capitulate to Trump's weaponization of antisemitism on the path to destroying higher ed and the diversity and freedoms that should accompany it. Glad to be one of them.

submitted 25 days ago • 18 comments

Once on vacation I had to drive an hour to an FBI field office just to find a secure phone to call into a White House meeting. Pete Hegseth is an amateurish mockery to anyone who ever actually took security seriously and needs to go.

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And gutting the endangered species act. Habitat no longer matters. 😖

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The degree to which Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s interests are intertwined is unprecedented—and ultimately unsustainable. Great article. Can't wait for the breakup of the bromance. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

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Why? Gratuitous destruction of the planet

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Trump Opens a Huge Marine Protected Zone to Commercial Fishing

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Trump Threatens to Block International Students Unless Harvard Shares Student Data

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"Unusual Machines said: “We have no reason to believe that Don Jr. breached his non-disclosure agreement...” "Dominari did not respond to a request for comment on whether it imposed any such conditions on Trump Jr or Eric Trump..." www.ft.com/content/1d9e...

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Trump ends promising cancer research. USA! USA! “Two patients’ treatments using the experimental therapy had to be delayed because NIH’s capacity to make personalized cell therapies has been slowed by the firing of highly skilled staff..." www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

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I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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There’s been a lot to be upset about in the last few months. But as an American, this truly disgusts me. The USA’s closest ally now is a guy who calls himself the “coolest dictator” — this Oval Office meeting is like a huge F.U. to the judicial branch and the Supreme Court’s 9-0 decision

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"Because of the PEPFAR funding freeze, she found that an adult life will be lost every 3 minutes and a child will die every 31 minutes."

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State tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’

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We have work to do:

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He just testified all morning about the reasons why the tariff policy was going to make America great. Then he checked his phone and realized everything he just said was canceled on Truth Social.

submitted 36 days ago • 1406 comments

Idiot on BBC saying the felon’s back down was all part of a grand strategy 🤮

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"The world has changed" #EconSky #TradeWar

submitted 36 days ago • 38 comments

Where is the money going to come from for this ridiculous parade?

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if I'm understanding correctly, there is an extremely small, but non-zero, chance the U.S. financial system collapses today www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

submitted 36 days ago • 114 comments

President Trump has frozen billions of dollars in federal funds in an attempt to rid higher education of what he calls its woke ideology. Our reporter spoke to the president of Princeton University, Christopher L. Eisgruber, who has vowed to fight. Listen to "The Daily."

submitted 36 days ago • 53 comments

Zelensky: We have their documents, even credit cards. They are citizens of China. I believe the United States of America needs to pay more attention to what is happening today. #standwithukraine

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in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list

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This morning the DC circuit court of appeals voted 7-4 to reinstate Cathy Harris and Gwynne Wilcox to their posts on the MSPB and NLRB.

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#ICYMI: Speaker Mike Johnson lives in a $3.7 million D.C. townhouse with evangelical pastor Steve Berger, who has attacked the separation of church and state as “a delusional lie." Berger's project: ministering to members of Congress so that what “they learn is then translated into policy.”

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BREAKING: In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court allows Trump to use the Alien Enemies Act for deportations. Sotomayor, who dissented, warns “the Court should not reward the Government’s efforts to erode the rule of law.” From: @jaknutson.bsky.social

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Israel has embraced "Gazafication" of the West Bank -- applying the toolbox of war to the West Bank. Here's my reporting from Tulkarem: 40,000 are homeless and a 23-year-old woman was shot dead while eight months pregnant, all with an assist from the US. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/o...

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