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One thing I really think needs to be hammered into “libertarians” & other right wing freaks is the cost of helping other people is almost always less than the cost of not helping them. Because we live in a society & we are all connected & you are SO MUCH CLOSER to being sick and poor than you think!

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1 of 21/ Body Language and Behavior Analysis No. 4776: AOC questions RFK Jr regarding Healthcare Insurance Companies Defrauding the Government $80 Billion – Nonverbal and Emotional Intelligence

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Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance

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I expect that consumer-facing AI programs will continue to improve and they may become much more useful tools for everyday life in the future. But I think it was a disastrous mistake that today’s models were taught to be convincing before they were taught to be right.

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Clade II Mpox Infections Among Cruise Ship Passengers and Crew Members — United States, 2024

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[💯unnecessary] "troops in LA to cost Americans at least $134m". Recently, all of NIH's "CREID" Centers were cut because they were deemed "unsafe". Those centers would have helped pandemic-proof the US for five+ years. For <$100M. But, sure, send in the troops. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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The administration is taking money from research and public health that protects Americans, and instead is spending it on using the military to enact violence against Americans and suppress our Constitutional rights. If the former doesn’t bother you, the latter sure as hell should.

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A lot of really smart people said Dr. Jay Bhattacharya was qualified, competent, and the perfect guy to head the NIH. We now have some data points on his performance and I invite them to tell us all how right they were. My latest. sciencebasedmedicine.org/go-ahead/

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The #SCIMaP team announces a major update: an analysis of the economic impacts of the White House's NIH FY26 budget. Bottom-line, we estimate $46B in total economic loss, 202K lost jobs, and impacts in communities nationwide. Interactive map and shareable report: scienceimpacts.org/fy26 a 🧵

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One bonus of Mamdani winning is demonstration of how ranked choice can WORK after the Adams debacle.

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During a House budget hearing today, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made several inaccurate remarks on Alzheimer’s and the current state of research. Read our statement ➡️ bit.ly/4niDZLw. The Association is committed to our bipartisan work to ensure progress in Alzheimer's research continues.

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Kennedy is wrong on vaccines - either deceived or lying, either way, he is a disaster about to happen. www.facebook.com/reel/1638534...

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Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspaper.

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BREAKING: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel accepts a ceasefire and that it has achieved war goals against Iran. Follow AP's live updates.

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It’s never too late to start masking again. Covid isn’t over. Measles is spreading rapidly. We’ve got anti-vaxxers in charge if public health. There’s a huge community of support here if you want to learn more about respirators. You won’t be the lone masker, I promise!

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This is pretty bad www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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The American people were lied to about Vietnam, with tragic consequences. The American people were lied to about Iraq, with tragic consequences. The American people are being lied to again today. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.

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Trump’s attack against Iran is illegal and immoral. And any leader who tells you otherwise is lying to you.

submitted 3 days ago • 398 comments

"Marco Rubio has the tortured look of a man whose parents fled Cuba to give him a life free of dictatorship - only to have him prop up a dictator in America." -US Democratic Socialists (fb page)

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“I feel like I’m dying” “I feel like I’ve been lied to” The words of an anti-vax chiropractor who become seriously ill with measles and spread it to his kids, who then also became seriously ill. All four kids were hospitalized. You were lied to. And you wanted to believe that lie.

submitted 3 days ago • 294 comments

How about adding: Restore separation of church and state. Ban public funding of private and religious schools.

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Darn straight!! Vote the all out!! Traitors!!

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I asked Google Gemini to do research on all available information about the attacks on the Iranian nuclear facilities by the US and what kind of damages that has been done to them. I've made a post about the report, and it is also available with sources as a download(pdf). It's an interesting read.

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It’s sad that our Senator has so little respect for the judicial process, and doesn’t understand that people are innocent until proven guilty in this country. Making her our governor would be a damn shame.

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More #gunviolence abcnews.go.com/US/security-...

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What have we become? And how do we make it stop? 😢

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Gutting the National Institutes of Health - which was the greatest biomedical research organization in the world - to turn it into a right wing man’s grievance-based podcasting studio

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This thread is very much worth reading, all the way through.

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Why am I so unimpressed by these strikes? Israel and the US have failed to target significant elements of Iran's nuclear materials and production infrastructure. RISING LION and MIDNIGHT HAMMER are tactically brilliant, but may turn out to be strategic failures. 🧵 1/17

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This is the kind of excessive force case DOJ routinely prosecutes. They should open an investigation here, based on the misconduct not the victims status.

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The divides among Republicans on this sick budget bill are so deep, & the cuts so politically toxic, that we have a real shot at flipping 4 R votes! Can you volunteer 2 hours June 23-26 to connect at-risk Medicaid recipients directly to their GOP senators? 🔥🔥💙 www.mobilize.us/moveon/event...

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Immigrants sent to notorious prison in El Salvador without a hearing have no way out. www.huffpost.com/entry/cecot-... Trump Administration Erasing Cases Of People It Sent To El Salvador | HuffPost Latest News

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For five long years I have tried to tell people who refuse to listen that people I know have continued to die or become disabled by long covid and also sadly my friend with long Covid died before Christmas. I have been repeating like a parrot and it falls on deaf ears and people don’t want to hear 🧵

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Good news/bad news on the GOP budget bill: The attempt to make it harder to sue the Govt by making litigants post huge bonds ruled out of bounds for reconciliation. 👍 But the provision seeking to stop states from regulating AI can be passed on party-line vote. 👎 www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

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Could just one mainstream media outlet say the Iran strikes were unconstitutional and an abuse of his powers?

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🌍🌡️ More extreme summer weather for Europe? A new study finds that climate change is widening the range of the summer North Atlantic Oscillation – increasing the chances of both heatwaves and floods in Europe. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s43... #ClimateChange #ExtremeWeather #SciComm 🧪

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Good description. cosmosmagazine.com/news/life-in... 🧪

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If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

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I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

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The worst part about #BombingIran is that Republicans are trying to force through the #OBBB, which will end #Medicaid, and Democracy as we know it. They're distracting us from a REALLY, REALLY BAD thing, with another really really bad thing. We can multitask. Light up those lines. (202) 224-3121

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We are now at war with Iran Put aside whether Trump conducting air strikes was legal or not Because only Congress can declare war-as if the Constitution matters any more This imprudent action against the world's foremost sponsor of terrorism will get Americans killed apple.news/ANU0-CBO2QA2...

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A Trump/GWB comparison "making the rounds is arguably unfair—to George W. Bush. The 43rd president made similar claims about unilateral power, but he ultimately got congressional authorization for his disastrous war of choice." Trump simply ignores the Constitution [Gene Healy, @cato.org]

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Lord save us from Christians who didn’t do the reading.

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I have an entire chapter in my book Corporatocracy about convict leasing which was exactly identical to this. 📚⚖️👇🏾

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