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A good example of how systemic policies negatively impact #Black communities & drive poor health outcomes for many. #SDOH Federal work shaped a Black middle class. Now it's destabilized by Trump's job cuts www.npr.org/2025/04/27/n... via @npr.org CC @hansilowang.bsky.social @drkrismarsh.bsky.social

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One thing about life… every action WILL cause a reaction.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

The egos of men.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Just a reminder that most of Trump's executive orders are nothing more than press releases. After he ordered the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to pull funding for NPR and PBS, the CPB responded that it is authorized and funded by Congress and is not subject to the president's authority.

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As a journalist girlie I wanna go...mostly for Jameela (lets be honest, I simp for Jameela) but I ain't got disposable income like that right now If others from #JournalistSky go, I'll live vicariously through you while doing agility exercises in the parking lot of the corporate office where I work

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“My MA plan still operates where I live but stopped including any hospitals within an hour’s drive in their network” isn’t a qualifying life event that lets people switch to Traditional Medicare and buy Medigap policies without underwriting. Maybe it should be.

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NEW: several new lawsuits against DHS/ICE allege the Trump admin. appears to be targeting Muslim, Arab, Middle Eastern, African or Asian students for deportation. One attorney representing students called the policy "a shadow travel ban." @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/04/08/t...

submitted 37 days ago • 2 comments

Gutting the IRS isn't “efficiency." It’s helping billionaires evade taxes, pure and simple.

submitted 37 days ago • 17 comments

Its a shame how many kids face being pulled from school, purportedly to be educated at home, only to be confined, indoctrinated and removed from society & the watchful eyes of teachers/mandated reporters and how many CPS reports are dismissed when evidence of abuse is RIGHT THERE Been there myself.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Not even Ivy League can protect you

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What happens to a region wherein every white truck is thought to be an undercover ICE vehicle? Where fear of deportation prompts parents to leave their kids at home, to not go to work, to stop attending church? And is fear the point? This amazing CalMatters story explores those themes vividly.

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State lawmakers have introduced at least a dozen proposals that would make it harder to confront local officials at public meetings, shield more information from the public and relax rules on financial reports. cal.news/3Y8NzWw 📝 Sameea Kamal & Yue Stella Yu 📸 Rahul Lal

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Breaking News: The IRS agreed to share information with ICE to help locate people for deportation, court records show. This is a fundamental change in the IRS, which had gained the trust of migrants and encouraged them to file their taxes.

submitted 37 days ago • 457 comments

A January operation in the central Californian city of Bakersfield saw dozens detained by border patrol agents operating more than 300 miles from the US southern border. Bellingcat worked with @evidentmedia.org and @calmatters.org to piece together the operation www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/04...

submitted 37 days ago • 8 comments

this is genuinely wild, they really put the protest coverage in fine print font newrepublic.com/article/1936...

submitted 37 days ago • 44 comments

Just in time for #MinorityHealthMonth25

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The Office of Research on Women's Health wasn't est. till 1990 & made it mandatory to include sex and gender differences in studies. The NIH Revitalization Act of 1993 mandated the inclusion of women and racial/ethnic minorities in clinical research funded by NIH. #DEI #minorityhealth #NIH #studies

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Reminder: We are not at war with Venezuela. The people deported are not enemies. The law in question should not apply. Among the most dangerous aspects of the SCOTUS ruling is the idea that the president and his people have the right to arbitrarily determine who our enemies are.

submitted 38 days ago • 318 comments

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

submitted 38 days ago • 527 comments

out: being someone’s emergency contact 💘 in: being someone’s emergency habeas filer 📃✍️

submitted 38 days ago • 51 comments

In 2021, Medicare Advantage insurers pulled in $33 billion by adding diagnosis codes to patients’ medical records. UnitedHealth Group took in 42% of that total on its own. “United is just coding a lot more.” @tarabannow.bsky.social reports: www.statnews.com/2025/04/07/m...

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

ah, yes, the ole “keep a habeas petition in your pocket just in case you get disappeared” theory of due process

submitted 38 days ago • 172 comments

roberts et al have divined the Actual Intent of the constitution, which is to allow the government to exercise nearly unaccountable power to strip people of their rights. it is why we fought the revolution!

submitted 38 days ago • 394 comments

They’re so authentically concerned about the debt and waste that he’s… raising the military budget to $1 Trillion 🤷🏼‍♂️🫤🤑

submitted 38 days ago • 418 comments

It's insane to me that some people can lose millions of dollars basically gambling on the stock market and it effects their standard of living zero percent, while other people are dying because they can't afford their prescription medications.

submitted 37 days ago • 11 comments

State sanctioned theft is still theft. I always knew this would transform into a shameless property grab – straight out the Na$i handbook

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Going to keep saying: a society that wants to keep its basic functioning has to discourage lying. rewarding it instead is suicidal

submitted 37 days ago • 54 comments

Sending anyone from this country to a foreign gulag, particularly without a court hearing, should rightfully end a presidency. Full stop.

submitted 38 days ago • 550 comments

A GOP-controlled state appeals court ruled last week that over 65,000 lawful votes cast in North Carolina's Supreme Court race can be thrown out — potentially handing the race to the Republican candidate. This is what stealing an election actually looks like.

submitted 38 days ago • 169 comments

PPE face masks, soju, korean sunscreen, WeRuva-brand wet cat food (mid-east feast to be more specific), and Kokomen spicy chicken ramen. Anything else I can get on facebook marketplace from the community <3

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BREAKING — The family abducted by ICE is returning home, per email from Sackets Harbor Superintendent:

submitted 38 days ago • 185 comments

GA been reeling, but soon we all will be with CISA cuts looming. We been known the Big Lie about a "stolen" election would lead to increased voter suppression but to begin in Georgia is a BOLD move. It's giving cyclical Jim Crow-era type policy 💩 S.B. 202 is a farce, as is the ensuing lawsuit.

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Trump officials admitted to an “administrative error” when they deported Abrego Garcia — a legal resident with no criminal record. A judge ordered Garcia be returned, but Trump is fighting it in court. Garcia now sits in a prison in El Salvador. The cruelty is staggering.

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New FDA Commissioner Marty Makary signed off on ousting top vaccine official Peter Marks soon after being secretly sworn in as agency head. Makary and RFK Jr. jointly agreed to push him out — and more leadership changes are likely on deck. w/ @davidlim.bsky.social: www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

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Maybe the focus should be less on installing Septa buses with AI (questionable ethics and security bcuz who got the code & who got the data?) and more on making sure Septa drivers are safe in the line of work, that bicyclists & pedestrians are safe & buses r timely www.inquirer.com/transportati...

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big shadow docket decision coming: can the us government exile you to a torture prison overseas vs no it can't

submitted 38 days ago • 363 comments

The Fourth Circuit is famously succinct. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Reminder that (a) the current share of U.S. workers in the public sector (working for government agencies) is at historic lows (b) It was not until the 'post'-Civil Rights era, when Black workers gained footing in public sector jobs, policymakers began to frame public sector workers as "waste"

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With the #HousingCrisis at the forefront of the public's attention, and homelessness at an all time high, it doesn't make sense to cut funding to housing programs that work & have the stats to back it up. Not to mention the 50 ppl currently housed: what about [email protected]

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VICTORY!!! It’s always sweet to kick oil and gas corporate ass!!! Along with super allies, @foodandwater.bsky.social @nypirg.bsky.social @weact4ej.bsky.social, @nychange.bsky.social got this law enacted. Expected, but still: Great great news 🧵

submitted 57 days ago • 3 comments

Reminder: 2025 is a major election year. There are ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND open seats up for election this year across 45 states. Don’t agonize. Get organized.

submitted 57 days ago • 13 comments

So Congress establishes and funds an independent organization (USIP), has it report to the Article I branch—not the Article II executive, and lays out in law how its board is to be set up and run. Then the executive says “nah forget all that, we’re taking over by fiat” and Congress … doesn’t care?

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“An anti-constitutional act is one that rejects the basic premises of constitutionalism. It rejects the premise that sovereignty lies with the people, that ours is a government of limited and enumerated powers and that the officers of that government are bound by law”

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