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Update: The White House is already backing down on this. Keep calling your reps. Keep pressuring them. Along with your reps, the white house phone number is (202) 456-1111. Use 5calls.org to get all your reps in one place along with a guide. www.nysun.com/article/whit...

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Lawmakers in the House are considering a budget resolution that would include significant cuts in Medicaid spending, a change that could have significant implications for hospitals. Explore Medicaid’s role for hospitals and other key hospital facts: on.kff.org/4hNOOCh

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4 ex-Dem grifters who all came to realize the Dems weren't gullible enough.

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US consumer sentiment dropped more than expected in February to a 15-month low and inflation expectations rocketed as households worried that President Donald Trump's plans for steep and broad-based tariffs would eat into their purchasing power reut.rs/41gv4Aq

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House budget plan call for cuts to Medicaid, thousands of workers fired from HHS, measles outbreak, and more. @jrovner is joined by @alicemiranda.bsky.social, @joannekenen.bsky.social, and @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social on #WTHealth to discuss: kffhealthnews.org/news/podcast...

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I suspect we won’t be seeing many more town halls with elected Republicans.

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The right wing woman is not insincere in her politics, but she is tactical: she believes that sexual and reproductive service to right wing men will earn her their protection, affection, and material support. She is wrong.

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For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...

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A randomized, controlled trial of telemedicine management of atrial fibrillation (AF) in rural regions showed a marked reduction of the composite of cardiovascular death, stroke, heart failure, hospitalization and AF related ER visits www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Patel was one of the producers on the recorded version of the “Star-Spangled Banner” sung by defendants jailed in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. And now: head of the FBI. minnesotareformer.com/2025/02/20/r...

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Medicaid estate recovery has the government going after the estates of people after they die to squeeze as much money out of them as possible, sometimes with ludicrously huge bills.

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Every ten minutes here is like: - Trump doubles student debt - Musk now has keys to your house and is in your bathroom doing plumbing drugs - Three planes just crashed - Trump signs EO making women illegal - Face-melted Nazi from Indiana Jones now in charge of CIA - Meteor not arriving fast enough

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I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

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New on MSNBC: Pete Hegseth is considering firing a slate of military generals and flag officers as early as this week, according to two defense officials and three congressional officials.

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REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

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Trump went to the South this weekend. Not to visit flood victims in Kentucky, but to have his security drive him around a race track. He doesn’t give a shit about you or your needs. He’s on a vanity tour for the next four years.

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"While Trump retains the ceremonial position of Head of State, signing executive orders with flourish and basking in symbolic pageantry, Musk has effectively become Head of Government, wielding unprecedented control over federal agencies."

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🚨🏛️𝐓𝐎𝐌𝐎𝐑𝐑𝐎𝐖🏛️🚨 SAVE OUR SERVICES – STOP MUSK While a billionaire ransacks our public services, the Federal Unionists Network is standing up and fighting back to say: • NO cuts to vital services! • NO mass layoffs! • END the funding freeze! Join FUN and allies at an action near you: bit.ly/SOSaction

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Trump issues new executive order: Only the president can speak for “what the law is” It was fun doing democracy with you.

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BREAKING — USDA says it accidentally fired officials working to combat bird flu and says it’s trying to rehire them www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog... by @allansmith.bsky.social

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The Health Resources and Services Administration at HHS provides funding for HIV/AIDs care, maternal health, and community health centers. Today some employees arrived at work to find their access revoked. Terminated without even being notified. Total number affected unknown. @alt-hhs.bsky.social

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A friend from the VA just sent this and asked me to share. PMDB is Prevention and Management of Disruptive Behavior in the workplace. THIS is the real war against women: being forced to say there are only 2 genders but not being allowed to mention 96% of violence is perpetrated by men.

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Trump’s fascists really don’t want you to see or share this video from Rep. @aoc.bsky.social’s Know Your Rights webinar.

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Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI

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Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore

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The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

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This commission statement refers to people with Autism, ADHD, asthma, auto-immune disease, and chronic illness as a “dire threat to the American people and our way of life”. This is a manifesto against disability. This is the language of eugenics.

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It's annoying how clearly this is going to play out. They gut the FAA. Therefore, the FAA can't do its job well because it was gutted. Therefore, they say "The FAA sucks, we have to privatize it." which is what Project 2025 wants to do. They're manufacturing the crises for their end goal.

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I'm excited to announce a special sneak preview screening of VIRULENT:THE VACCINE WAR! For 10 days you can watch the film before it's released on PBS April 7th! The film explores the history/consequences of vaccine hesitancy/denial & features interviews w/ RFK Jr. & Dr. Paul Offit! LINK BELOW👇

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The UK has a shadow cabinet - political positions within the party that isn’t in power - and so should we. Plus, we need weekly press briefings led by @petebuttigieg.bsky.social on the state of the union. Business-as-usual time is over.

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Copying from elsewhere but a wonderful analysis of winning for MAGA!

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You won’t see it on their social media feeds. But this week in Longboat Key, Florida, far away from the prying eyes of their constituents, access to the upper echelons of the Ohio House will be on the auction block. Today’s Rooster is free for all: www.rooster.info/p/plagues-up...

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Since the Washington Post didn't want you to see the anti-Musk ad with your newspaper, please check out this website and share it around www.commoncause.org/work/fire-el...

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Park Rangers in #NJ were fired on Friday by Musk and minions.

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Trump is wasting our money for his propaganda. Where is DOGE?

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Since 1492, they've come after us. They've come after our lands, our water, our mothers, sisters ... our children. Here they come again. My latest for @thenation.com.

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