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I have a huge request for my readers: Trump's tax and spending bill will be moving through the Senate. Senators can invoke the Byrd Rule to try to remove the anti-trans Medicaid ban and EHB changes. You can find and call your senator here and ask them to do that. Please share as well.

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Leaving Matsuyama, Japan, last week

The budget deficit for each president is shown in the graph below. The Democratic presidents each reduced the budget deficit as a % of GDP and GOP presidents each increased the deficit Which party is better for the economy?

Start every day with this reality: EVERY HOUSE SEAT and 33 Senate seats are up for election in 2026. THAT must be the focus. Let’s get disciplined. #LeaveNoPowerOnTheTable ballotpedia.org/United_State...

Utah legislators commissioned a study to go with their 2023 ban on gender-affirming pediatric care. Now they're trying to ignore the results.

I want COVID boosters

“If everyone had emitted like the bottom 50 percent of the global population, the world would have seen minimal additional warming since 1990.” from @theguardian.com via @climatedesk.org

Moderna’s Super-Vaccine for Flu and Covid Works—Now Politics Could Sink It https://gizmodo.com/modernas-super-vaccine-for-flu-and-covid-works-now-politics-could-sink-it-2000599293

Yesterday, Robert Prevost asked everyone to start calling him by a different name. And they did. No outrage or shaming over this request. See how easy it is to honor other people's benign wishes?

"'People that age die,' the strategist added. 'You have to think about the job a little bit differently when the stakes are this high.'" @lauren-egan.bsky.social on David Hogg and the latest incarnation of the age debate in the Democratic party: www.thebulwark.com/p/democrats-...

Gorgeous. Reminds me of back home.

This

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He's the cleverest otter I know!

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court was not for sale.

y’all are wild

Me, every Friday evening.

March 11, 2025:

Elon fires hundreds of Twitter employees and Twitter goes down. Elon fires air traffic controllers and planes go down. Elon goes on a DOGE rampage and the stock market goes down. Elon regulates his own SpaceX and its starships go down. I'm sensing a pattern.