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Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: Australia 0 Canada 0 Denmark 0 Finland 0 France 0 Germany 0 Iceland 0 Ireland 0 Italy 0 Japan 0 Netherlands 0 Norway 0 Portugal 0 Spain 0 Sweden 0 UK 0 United States 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

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Trump’s pending USPS executive order could potentially allow his administration to make mail voting more difficult.

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Arctic Sea Ice Melt Exposes US to New Threat https://twp.ai/4imMiU

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Groups across the country have received letters notifying them that their grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities have been canceled, raising alarms about serious harm to museums, historical sites, and a wide range of community projects.

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#Resist in numbers too large to ignore! April 5! open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

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The Trump administration is firing 3,500 employees at the Food and Drug Administration. That's the agency responsible for making sure the formula you're feeding your baby is safe and the pacemaker your grandmother needs is effective.

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We deserved some good news!

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Cory Booker is 23 hours in and somehow seems to be gaining strength

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Here’s an update on the guy in charge of finding fraud in our government.

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A Blueprint for Resisting Trump Education Cuts? Chicago Teachers Reach "Powerful" Tentative Contract

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Urge senators to join @booker.senate.gov’s filibuster. Here is a link to those senators’ Bluesky accounts: go.bsky.app/8yg3c1B

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Would be nice to have a judicial system that takes issues like this seriously and cares about democracy. See also Brazil. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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America has never been subject to this level of authoritarianism, and quite frankly, sheer incompetence. Out of the ashes, this moment should radicalize us to embark on an era of new reform — of our economy, our democracy, and our commitment to social justice and the law.

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You have to see this. PoliticsGirl and her husband teamed up with the brilliant Timothy Snyder (author of On Tyranny) and the legendary John Lithgow to create something truly powerful. It’s important, it’s urgent—and it needs to be shared far and wide.

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Hey NBC and Seth Meyers, y’all need to book the largest possible venue in D.C. on April 26th and do a competing fundraiser and comedy show that actually celebrates the First Amendment. Televise it. Make Amber Ruffin the central act. Send a message that free speech is non-negotiable.

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lying is bad youtube.com/shorts/f_AQD...

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Walter Cronkite: “We can be certain that the first target of the demagogues is to destroy the effectiveness of the free press that prevents them from doing their dirty deeds in the dark corners that they would prefer.”

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Wisconsin residents are receiving text messages from a (202) D.C. area code, falsely urging them not to vote in the upcoming election. These messages are not legitimate.

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If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

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I have a new book out today, the Portable Feminist Reader. I hope you check it out. audacity.substack.com/p/new-book-o...

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Today, I am calling on Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and other top officials in the Trump administration to resign immediately due to their reckless and unlawful disclosure of national security secrets. Their actions have put our country at risk, and immediate accountability is necessary

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Democrats can quickly and forcefully address this national security scandal with one of their most powerful tools: Congressional Oversight. These powers include privileged impeachment motions, requests for GAO investigations, congressional letters, and formal or informal hearings.

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🚨 Join the ACLU for a virtual town hall on Wednesday, March 26, at 4 PM ET, featuring Senator Chris Murphy (CT) & Joy Reid, alongside ACLU experts #MomSky

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Bynum: What they’re trying to do is keep people suspicious of education and keep people undereducated. An educated populace can challenge its government, and they don’t want that.

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The Trump regime's repeated attacks on "DEI," "wokeness," and the trans community have one clear purpose: If we are angry at each other, we don't look up to see how big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.

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Man who raped women, defrauded people who paid his scam charitable trust & university, incited the desecration of our Capitol, defrauded banks, obstructed justice, and failed to pay taxes on his father's big estate--without any consequences--wants you punished if you light up one unoccupied car.

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