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@lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com please cover Cory Booker’s closing remarks! Other media ignored and it was passionate and made me want to engage!!

And this is important because having the floor is everything these days

And @foxnews.com.web.brid.gy made fun of him and @msnbc.com and @cnn.com showed ads. This a moral moment and Booker was so clear about that. Where were the media?

Only Cspan2 covering

Why is MSNBC not covering Booker. Shame

I love that man!!!

Absolutely right but can you be specific?

The World Food Programme says it has just five days left of flour and two weeks left of other food supplies in Gaza.

Do any or you check out what Fox is covering? It’s an Alternate universe. Today it’s Marijuana moms and nothing about the Signal messaging

Doesn’t everyone know that Venmo default is public? Check yours.

I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

President Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday that will require proof of U.S. citizenship on election forms. The move is in an aggressive push to catch and combat voter fraud, which is exceedingly rare but constantly cited by Trump as a reason he lost the 2020 election. nyti.ms/3FHy1Ti

This Trump administration official was a key figure in the dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development — and will help set the agenda for the future of foreign aid.

Sen. Ossoff was awesome in the hearing today. We should all donate to him right now!!!

I don’t like the coach. I don’t like the way he talks to the players.

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

To all health care providers - the show Pitt in Max/HBO is incredibly accurate and mesmerizing @healthcare-global.bsky.social

According to CBO, Medicaid accounts for 93% of the spending under the jurisdiction of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, excluding Medicare. That committee is charged with coming up with at least $880 billion in spending cuts under the House budget resolution. www.cbo.gov/publication/...

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

NEW: “Kennedy paused a multimillion dollar project to create a new Covid-19 vaccine in pill form on Tuesday, and the Food and Drug Administration canceled an advisory committee meeting on updating next season’s flu vaccine.” newrepublic.com/post/192059/...

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

New from CDC (at least something is working) on Covid. For the first time, the LP.8.1 variant has taken the lead in the US, accounting for >40% of cases. The good news is current boosters work pretty well for inducing neutralizing antibodies against this variant www.thelancet.com/action/showP...

The more you know...

It will take years/decades before we can build back trust around the world

I hope the new head of the USPostal service maintains the incredibly good service we currently receive. After the Eaton Fire a postal worker called several times to be sure I was getting my mail!

The office that DOGE subsumed, the US Digital Service, actually *did* this during Medicaid unwinding: www.cms.gov/newsroom/pre... Somehow I don't think scaling that success is at the top of Elon's priority list.

Displaced residents find themselves at a crossroads. Will they shoulder months and years of painstaking rebuilding or cut their losses and leave their beloved communities behind.

To the media: stop Jumping thru every hoop T throws at you; when a political story breaks get into the field & talk to people it affects. No more two sided panels. There are not two sides here

Trump's plan to end the Ukraine War is exactly like his infrastructure deal and his health care plan. I call these 3 policies “Trump's wives.” Because none of them are ever actually going to come under him.

In case you were wondering why President-elect Trump’s plans to buy Greenland are likely to stay on ice, I have you covered (and have since 2019 when I wrote it). www.lawfaremedia.org/article/why-...

And you voted for someone who doesn’t know Medicaid is a federal-state program! He can deny conspiracy but he can’t deny ignorance. We saw it

Do it Dems!!

New: The largest medical A.I. randomized controlled trial yet performed, enrolling >100,000 women undergoing mammography screening The use of AI led to 29% higher detection of cancer, no increase of false positives, and reduced workload compared with radiologists w/o AI thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The USAID stuff is just preposterously dark. A tiny sliver of the government’s budget, literally saving thousands of lives, pulled from one day to the next out of pure indifferent cruelty.

USAID.gov is down. Why is this concerning? Trump has no legal authority to eliminate a congressionally funded independent agency. The work of USAID is vital, and if this can happen to them, it can happen to any of us.

The USAID website is offline. www.usaid.gov

This is one of the most uninformed opinions I have ever seen - with one of the most dangerous consequences for human beings around the world. About #USAID

It's so striking what's missing from the Make America Healthy Again slogans and ideas: health coverage.

Plasma protein and brain structural imaging evidence that SARS-CoV-2 is associated with greater brain β-amyloid pathology in older adults, particularly those hospitalized or with hypertension. nature.com/articles/s41... open-access

headlines from a week ago as an incident near DCA appears to be the deadliest aviation disaster in the US since 9/11 www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Thank you Chris Hayes for exposing the sirens call

This requires providers to clearly explain to cancer patients the trade offs between doing chemo or not