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Monday. #mondayvibes

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The Breakthrough Type 1 Diabetes community was out in force at today’s summit — from experts to leading researchers and many dealing with the disease. I’ll continue to stand up in Congress to push back against Trump’s cuts to NIH that would prevent pioneering, life-changing remedies.

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Psst…those 1950s manufacturing jobs Trump loves so much? They were good jobs because they were UNION jobs. Oh...and taxes on corporations and the rich were much higher. Trump’s agenda won’t bring back the “Golden Age.” It’ll make the rich richer at everyone else's expense.

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Trump poses as the Pope in full holy garments and gets a pass. Obama puts on a tan suit and they lose their frigging minds. See how that works?

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Why I am on #bluesky in a nutshell

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102 pages of straight fire from Judge Beryl Howell storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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For over 40 years, AIDS Project RI has led with compassion in its advocacy and activism. At today’s Run/Walk for Life, community members came together to remember both loss and progress — while reaffirming the need to protect federal funding for HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment programs.

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🖋️✏️ Handwriting beats typing for learning to read 🧠📚 A new study found that 5-year-olds learned letters and words better through handwriting than typing – with stronger results in writing, naming, and decoding tasks. 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #SciComm #Literacy 🧪

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I like telling authoritarians where to shove it in multiple languages

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You really have to be a special kind of evil to rip $1 BILLION from school mental health and anti-violence programs—because they dared to be inclusive. Trump isn’t saving kids—he’s sacrificing them to push his hateful agenda.

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Cal-Maine, the biggest egg producer, has been accused of using bird flu as cover to jack up prices and triple its profits from a year ago. It also received $22M in federal aid. While you're getting gouged at the grocery store, your tax dollars are subsidizing corporate greed.

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Do you know how much CEO pay has skyrocketed since 1978? 100%? 500%? Try 1,085% Meanwhile, the $7.25/hr fed. minimum wage hasn't budged in 15 years and the tipped min. wage has been $2.13/hr since 1991. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

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“Let them eat cake.”

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In the 100 days since Trump assumed office, grocery store prices are at record highs: 🍳Eggs — $6.23 a dozen 🥩Beef — $5.79 per pound ☕️Coffee — $7.39 per pound Trump’s unhinged tariff plan is jacking up costs for Americans and driving our economy into a ditch.

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Why can’t all elected Democrats get into one room together and decide what the messaging will be about certain topics? And keep hammering on it during every interview or town hall? Example: calling the tariffs a “national sales tax on the American people” that “demolishes businesses”? #democrats

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All people residing in the U.S. — documented or undocumented — are supposed to have access to the courts and due process. The Trump regime arresting Judge Hannah Dugan for defending those rights puts us in very dangerous territory.

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Trump's 100 Days: -Grocery prices ⬆️ -Stock market ⬇️ -Layoffs spiking 205% -Children with cancer deported -Consumer & worker protections gutted -Diseases spreading -Federal funding illegally frozen -$26M+ spent on golf -The world's richest man lining his pockets at our expense

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Trump’s massive national sales taxes on most goods, imposed unilaterally by executive order, will pay for everything so you will pay no income taxes. Amazing!

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Make Contaminated Food Great Again?

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Welcome to the Trump Tax

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I generally do not recommend reading YouTube comments if you want to live a sane and happy life. But I continue to be fascinated with the comments on Pete Buttigieg's Flagrant interview:

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Warnock: I hear people attack poor people and act like it’s a crime to be poor, rather than to recognize it’s criminal for so many people to be poor. They do all of this in the name of Jesus… Jesus is the biggest victim of identity theft in the United States

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NEW: Crowd now growing at the Capitol where Cory Booker and Hakeem Jeffries are staging a sit-in on the steps. Is this building into something? If you’re in DC, they’re encouraging folk to come down there & support. #Resist (📸 Sen. Brian Schatz)

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Today @booker.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social are holding a sit in on the steps of the Capitol building to discuss our current moral moment in America. I’m joining them in solidarity with the Rhode Islanders at risk from these dangerous Republican budget cuts.

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100 billionaire families spent $2.6 billion in the 2024 election. 70% of these donations went to Republicans. Now, Republicans in Congress are gearing up to slash essential programs to pay for another round of tax cuts for the rich. This is what oligarchy looks like.

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The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

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People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

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Manufacturing employs 11m, tourism 12m. #richkid #amateur

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The IRS launched its own tax filing program that allowed taxpayers to file taxes for free. Tax prep companies like Intuit lobbied for years to stop the IRS from doing this. Intuit donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration. Now Trump is gutting the program. Hello?

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Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.

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Springtime!

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Trump signed an executive order that will delay Medicare price negotiations for a range of prescription drugs. This will raise the price of life-saving medicine for millions of seniors and cost taxpayers money. It's a big win for Big Pharma. A "new Golden Age" for whom?

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More of this. So much more of this.

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If you're a reporter in a White House press briefing as the spokesperson for the government asserts flatly that Kilmar Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang who's guilty of human trafficking and you sit there silently without shouting out "PROVE IT!" I'd like to invite you to go fuck yourself.

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I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.

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Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

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I can't emphasize enough that the most important thing journalists can do right now is publish exactly this kind of article

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Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

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I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you. The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.

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