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80% of Americans want Medicaid spending to hold steady or increase. 4 out of 10 Trump voters say Medicaid has been important to them personally, or to their families. www.kff.org/medicaid/pol...

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Local rallies today across the country. Find an action near you: action.womensmarch.com/local Hoping that many men will be out there in support of women. #WomensLivesMatter #WomenAreNotProperty #WomensMarch

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Yes, logging dries out land, making it more flammable. by Oliver Milman “Trump’s exact approach, telling communities that logging will stop fires, is responsible for numerous towns being destroyed by fires, and hundreds of lives lost,” Hanson said. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Federal government agencies have flagged hundreds of words to limit or avoid, including clean energy, climate crisis, climate science, environmental quality, and pollution. These words literally refer to the quality of our life support system on Earth.

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17 States & DC are in the CDC 'high' range for COVlD transmission. 1 in 110 people are estimated to be actively infectious, per the PMC model. Much of the U.S. is seeing moderate transmission that is steady or gradually declining on the back end of the 10th wave.

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Who else has told their members of Congress to keep their hands off our Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid? If you haven’t yet, do it here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

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The people most informed about Covid continue to take serious multi-layered precautions in 2025. Covid is airborne, lingers in the air like smoke, infects much of the population annually, and increases the cumulative risk of serious health problems through reinfections.

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"A nightmare scenario would be… a pathogen that attacks our frontal lobes & changes our personalities, making us less likely to get along, reach a consensus, & understand others' points of view… The nightmare may be real and taking shape in #COVID19." www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/underst...

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Animal protection groups and resources: www.thegreenspotlight.com/2020/07/anim... #animals #wildlife #pets #animalrights

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The FAA is halting flights into Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Palm Beach and Orlando airports because of "falling space debris” after the failed launch of SpaceX's Starship, CNN reports.

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SSA is in complete chaos. Buried in this article is a service worker noting that "the phone never stops ringing" and retirement claims aren't being processed. Hard to overstate the significance of that. End goal is to privatize the agency. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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The American Medical Association is urging the public to get vaccinated against the measles: "Measles is extremely contagious and can cause life-threatening illness. There is no cure or specific antiviral treatment for measles. Vaccination remains the best defense against measles infection."

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"The Nordic countries are ahead of us." What Finland Can Teach Us about Preparing for Disasters via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

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BREAKING: Job losses spiked a whopping 245% in February. This is higher than any month since July 2020 (the middle of pandemic) and the highest in any February since the Great Recession of 2009.

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Today in science news. 💊 @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

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“Those nasty Canadians are ripping us off and are controlled by Mexican cartels. They’re poisoning us with fentanyl and need to become the 51st state or they will pay a high price” is a belief that literally ZERO Americans had six weeks ago. It’s entirely invented from scratch.

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Shockingly, housing people in apartments is less expensive than housing them in emergency departments, jails, and sobering centers. True everywhere in the world

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Not being able to talk to a real person at the Social Security Administration when you need help or your local office closing due to staffing cuts is a benefit cut—point blank. Elon needs to get his hands OFF Social Security. Repost if you agree. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Sustainable Land Use, Land Conservation, and Rewilding: An index of posts thegreenspotlight.com/2025/02/land...

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I keep hearing Republicans claim their budget doesn't cut Medicaid. We all know that's a lie — so I asked the nonpartisan CBO to look into it. Their analysis confirms it: the Republican budget delivers the largest Medicaid cuts in history to pay for giveaways to billionaires.

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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

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Today’s news: -US pulls intel support from Ukraine (Russia’s request) -US will negotiate w/Hamas -Trade war: US, Can, Mex, China -Macron debates nuclear use -Germany suggests preparing for war now -China breaches US Treasury systems -Disease outbreaks in Africa (DRC) & 6 S.America countries.

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The idea the president alone can levy taxes on a whim and spend it as he pleases without any congressional approval is the kind of thing so beyond the pale it's not unconstitutional, it's anti-constitutional. It is overturning in starkest terms the central rallying cry of the American Revolution.

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The Texas measles outbreak is scarier than it looks. People who recover from the virus lose much of their immune memory, including protection acquired from earlier infections & vaccinations. This leaves kids at risk of mumps, rubella or other childhood illnesses again www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/o...

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Are you on #SocialSecurity? Former Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley: “Ultimately, you’re going to see the system collapse and an interruption of benefits... I believe you will see that within the next 30 to 90 days.... people should start saving now." www.cnbc.com/2025/03/01/d...

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The Fed thinks things are going to get rocky fast. The GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth in the first quarter of 2025 is -2.8 percent as of March 3. Two weeks ago, it stood above 2 percent. Government cuts and tariffs are rapidly impacting the economy. www.atlantafed.org/cqer/researc...

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"Researchers are concerned that the findings could be early warning signs of a future surge in cases of dementia and other neurodegenerative conditions, prolonging #Covid19 ’s societal, economic, and health burden." www.bloomberg.com/explainers/d...

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NEW SCOOP: Some staffers at Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency are drawing robust taxpayer-funded salaries from the federal agencies they are slashing and burning, WIRED has learned. ⬇️ Here's how much they're making:

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ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh. This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...

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NEW: One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, internal memos estimated. The USAID programs were cut anyway. By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social

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People should be calling this what it is, which is a crypto bailout. They're cutting cancer research so they can bailout rich, degenerate gamblers bsky.app/profile/ronf...

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Sustainable Land Use, Land Conservation, and Rewilding: An index of posts thegreenspotlight.com/2025/02/land...

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NEWS: The USAID official put on leave for disseminating two memos about Rubio's failure to push through life-saving foreign aid was in the process of writing a THIRD memo when fired. We obtained it. It's far more alarming than the first two. www.thebulwark.com/p/what-a-wee...

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1. The Trump administration has crippled cancer and Alzheimer's research by imposing a freeze on all government credit cards at NIH. An NIH source with direct knowledge tell Popular Information that scientific research has ground to halt because necessary supplies can no longer be purchased.

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TO ME, this is the MOST important news of the day, because it affects 71.6 million Americans. Some for whom, Social Security is their ONLY source of income. It's not gaining much traction with media, so please pass along to others. www.cnbc.com/2025/03/01/d...

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"Many researchers now argue that allowing tropical forests to regenerate naturally is the most cost-effective way to repair deforested areas. Research helps scientists figure out if and when interventions are useful." Good story by Ruth Kamnitzner news.mongabay.com/2025/02/an-e...

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Elon Musk said DOGE made a mistake by cutting USAID’s Ebola prevention but it had been “restored.” That’s not true, current and former officials told me and @johnphudson.bsky.social. “There have been no efforts to ‘turn on’” Ebola prevention, said Nidhi Bouri, who oversaw team until January.

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Laughing Kremlin Insiders Say Trump Has Given Putin Greenlight to Expand the War My latest for @thedailybeast.bsky.social: www.thedailybeast.com/laughing-kre...

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If Republicans make massive cuts to Medicaid, it will impact all aspects of our health care system. Millions of kids will lose coverage, hospital and insurance rates will soar and nursing homes will shut down. All this in order to give huge tax breaks to billionaires. NO CUTS TO MEDICAID.

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Can confirm. Former USAID here, and I’ve been approached twice in the last 30 days.

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Formerly anti-vax parents on how they changed their minds: ‘I really made a mistake’ www.theguardian.com/global/2025/...

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Gutting Alzheimer's research. First reported more than a week ago -- and as yet, this has not been undone. Republicans appear to have not said a word about it. abcnews.go.com/Politics/tru... See also... newrepublic.com/article/1917... See also... www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

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