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Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy

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Trump said the EPA under Lee Zeldin also plans to cut 65% of its workforce

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Pretty stunning for congressional Republicans to say that it is a “red line” for Congress to assert that the executive branch has to follow the laws that it passes.

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DOGE wants to cut 875 contracts that help cover medical services, fund cancer programs, recruit doctors and provide burial services to veterans www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Not sure complaining and ragging on reporters, who are being selectively excluded from covering the White House, is the best form of supporting journalism, Bluesky

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As point of comparison, the chief of the CIA’s operations directorate is PUBLIC RECORD

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There’s more gold stored in New York than Fort Knox

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Canada declares victory following the Four Nations all star hockey tournament

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In the seconds before a FedEx driver crashed into a Baldwin family, killing a man and his two children, police said he looked down at his phone 25 times. A dash camera showed he looked up at the road even less.

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No decision today on dismissing charges against NYC Mayor Eric Adams

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[email protected] responds to Trump ending federal funding for congestion pricing: "We are a nation of laws, not ruled by a king. The MTA has initiated legal proceedings in the Southern District of New York to preserve this critical program. We’ll see you in court.”

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www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Judge Ho wants to see Adams’s consent and will hold a hearing tomorrow.

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Today’s story on Emma and the face of NIH cuts, funding research into clinical trials and life-saving medication for infantile genetic disease

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If you’ll excuse me…

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New in Eric Adams criminal case: group of former US attorneys send letter to judge asking for OK to file a brief in support of factual inquiry re: dismissal request

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Gov. Hochul said she will meet with New York City leaders tomorrow on the future of Mayor Eric Adams.

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The proposed $50m in cuts to NIH funding would target research that developed the spinal muscular atrophy drug that saved Emma Larson’s life. Asked what message she would give to Trump and Musk, “Screw them,” she said. “They’re not experiencing it so they don’t know how dire the situation is.”

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The term Gulf of Mexico verifiably began appearing on navigational charts and official written records in 1550. As a regional geographic feature, it predates the entire existence of the United States by over two centuries.

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The LGBT Network is training candidates to run for local school and library boards

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In a statement, AP editor Julie Pace said the White House told the AP if it did not align its editorial standards with Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America, it would be barred from accessing Trump's executive order signing

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Never forget…

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Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year. 2022: $0 2021: $0 2020: $0 2019: $0 2018: $0 Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

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(Concerned dad with his hand on his hip) “Boy, it sure is coming down out there!”

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A federal court just blocked Elon Musk from interfering with the federal government’s payments system. There is power in fighting back. We won’t let up until this block is permanent.

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"The deleted profile associated with Elez, who was embedded in the Treasury Department to carry out efficiency measures, advocated repealing the Civil Rights Act and backed a 'eugenic immigration policy'" www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st...

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Change of plan - Schumer, who has been under pressure to do more to stand up to Trump, now urging Democratic Senators to vote against all nominees www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...

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Schumer said he supported the protests and spoke against Musk Tuesday in the Senate "Before our very eyes, an unelected shadow government is taking a hostile takeover of the federal government. DOGE is not a real government agency. It has no authority to shut programs down or ignore federal law."

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Protesters are rallying outside of Sen. Schumer and Sen. Gillibrand’s office in Melville, urging Democratic leadership to stand up to Trump’s executive orders and cabinet appointments.

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Hey it turns out we're getting rid of the CIA. "The Central Intelligence Agency offered buyouts to its entire workforce Tuesday, in what officials said is a bid to bring the agency in line with President Trump’s priorities, including targeting drug cartels." www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

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USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency

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JUST IN: Judge Lamberth has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing provisions of Trump executive order that would require moving transgender inmates from women's to men's prisons. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

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That never really matched with the Chiefs racist tomahawk chop chant anyway

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Nassau County to embed 10 detectives with ICE to arrest and deport immigrants accused of a crime

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A four-person flight crew. A lawyer eager to celebrate her 33rd birthday, seven hunting buddies, a Kansas farming couple, 28 people returning from an elite figure skating camp. These are many of the victims of the plane crash in Washington, D.C.

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. @maddow.msnbc.com featured Newsday’s lawsuit against Nassau County on her piece about eroding freedom of the press:

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We just published a 3,000 word feature on Elon Musk's incursion into the federal government. Gift link here: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

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Sheinbaum said this morning the troops she'd send to the border would be on top of personnel already there. Trump agreed to crack down on U.S. guns flowing south. The $900 million border plan that saved Canada today, in contrast, was announced in December www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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This is not just a "pause." It is an unlawful destruction now. Foreign aid is a cornerstone of national security with diplomacy and defense. USAID's work reaches 100s of millions worldwide and America will be harmed. Here are some of the lives at stake.

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An entire US agency was abolished this weekend without congressional authorization.

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Credit where due:

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(NYT) - More than 8,000 web pages across more than a dozen U.S. government websites have been taken down since Friday afternoon, a New York Times analysis has found .. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/u...

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“Assuming that Americans do not substitute higher-priced items and that consumers bear the cost entirely, Mr. Knightley said, the tariffs would translate to a $835 hit per person in the United States, or $3,342 for a family of four.” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

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What a nightmare. The crashed plane is reported to be an air ambulance—and multiple homes and cars are said to be on fire on the ground. (This is in NE Philly, near the Roosevelt Mall.)

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The CDC has stripped pages dedicated to LGBT, likely under a federal order:

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From @govkathyhochul.bsky.social ""Earlier today, a New York doctor was indicted in Louisiana for using telemedicine to prescribe abortion medication to a patient. That’s right: a doctor is being prosecuted for providing basic health care to her patient." NY passed laws protecting patients and docs.

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