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SEN. BOOKER KICKS OFF LENGTHY FILIBUSTER TO PROTEST TRUMP REGIME “I rise tonight with the intention of disrupting the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able…1/

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Proposed cuts to foreign aid could result in millions of HIV deaths and soaring rates of global HIV infections, new modelling study in The Lancet HIV estimates. Explore the data 👉 tinyurl.com/5hud9dxm #MedSky

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RFK Jr's move to eliminate the Administration for Community Living, which helps disabled & aging people stay at home instead of being institutionalized, is disastrous. I'm never done shouting about what my mom's institutionalization took from her & from us (so here's my @teenvogue.com piece again).

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JUST IN: The FDA’s top vaccine official, Dr. Peter Marks, has been pushed out. In his resignation letter, he slams RFK Jr. for rejecting “truth and transparency” and pushing “misinformation and lies.” Marks warns of an “unprecedented assault on scientific truth.”

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🚨 BREAKING: Long COVID research grants rescinded earlier this week have been restored, according to researchers & patient reps. Advocates organized quickly yesterday in response to the news, helping reverse the decision. Exclusive in @thesicktimes.bsky.social thesicktimes.org/2025/03/28/u...

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A lot of applause at the Garcia Town Hall after he says: We have to stand up in this moment against that type of tyranny and those types of attacks.

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This doesn't look good, folks www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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This speaks volumes: Yale professors, Timothy Snyder, a historian of totalitarianism and the author of "On Tyranny," and Jason Stanley, a philosopher and the author of "How Fascism Works", move to Canada. leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2025/03... munkschool.utoronto.ca/person/timot...

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“The U.S. urgently needs a strong alternative to the government public health guidance it has relied on in the past. I urge public health experts to come together to…provide independent, trustworthy sources of information on…public health matters”. This is why we founded Defend Public Health.

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Pritzker: The question I ask is: if you’re willing to hand the keys to Europe over to Putin, what’s next? How does the US retain its leadership in the world when he’s essentially retreating to our own borders? He’s even made enemies of the Canadians—I can’t imagine anything more telling than that.

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#MedSky Is there anyone out there that cares?

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🔥 WATCH LIVE: AOC and Bernie Sanders hold MASSIVE Fighting Oligarchy rally in Denver

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A US-born citizen was walking near Chicago in January. ICE snatched him off the street, handcuffed him, threw into a van. His wallet, which contained his ID, was confiscated. He was detained for 10 hours before being released without a record of what occurred. immigrantjustice.org/sites/defaul...

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This was me and @sunny-rae1.bsky.social talking about how #COVID can affect the heart and the brain by damaging blood vessels. As a result, #LongCovid also manifests as a vascular disease for many people. Thank you for covering, @peteuk7.bsky.social!

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“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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New Republic: “The Pandemic Never Ended” “Five years later, there are still no approved treatments for long Covid” “I am considered a mild case, yet my life is forever changed” newrepublic.com/article/1927...

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The Trump administration is planning to cancel its lease at a government laboratory in Hawaii, a site where scientists support key observations of surging greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere, according to a list obtained by Democratic members of Congress and shared with The Post.

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“A fungus, Candida Auris, is drawing attention from health care professionals across the nation due to rapid spread & resistance to treatment” We need to talk about what repeat covid infections are doing to the immune system The rise in fungal & other opportunistic infections shouldn’t be ignored

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Trump nominee Dr. Oz once told governors that the uninsured “don’t have the right to health,” but should be given “a way of crawling back out of the abyss” with “15-minute physicals” provided by the government “in a festival like setting.”

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Inauguration stock index

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Materials on the Arlington National Cemetery website highlighting the graves of Black and female service members have vanished. The cemetery, which is operated by the Army, said it was working to restore the content. Among the obscured pages was material about civil rights.

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Everything is tied back to disability. When people are dehumanized, many do what they can to tie it to disability somehow and make it so that they don't get treated with decency. "That person is mentally ill." "They are lazy." "They're stupid." By fighting ableism, you're fighting dehumanization.

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Jeffries: We understand that people are anxious, scared, concerned, and upset at the state of affairs as a result of the unleashing of extremism by the Trump administration.. We hear you, we see you, and most importantly, we are committed to making life better for you.

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New cohort study of 12,276 people: Female sex associated with 31% increased risk of #LongCovid - the risk was highest in the 40-55 age group of non-menopausal females jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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A pro-inflammatory protein panel signature that accurately identified Long Covid in kids compared with controls www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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I need you to understand that the attack on NIH is part of a eugenics strategy that you all helped empower by effectively cutting disabled people out of society when you abandoned COVID precautions.

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Tonight, Joe Biden will give a speech touting his successes, and in many ways he did an admirable job. But he never left the alternate reality of the establishment, and protected “norms and institutions” instead of us. I wrote about it. Please subscribe. www.mind-war.com/p/bidens-alt...

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