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GOP lawmakers aim to cut $880 billion from #Medicaid over a decade. The program covers 1 in 5 people in the US, including 1 in 3 with disabilities, and it already does so more cheaply than private insurance. Paul Shafer, Boston University and Nicole Huberfeld, Boston University #ACA #healthcare

Of course Speaker Mike Johnson is living in the $3.7 million DC home of an election-denying, policy-driving “evangelical pastor who has attacked the separation of church and state as ‘a delusional lie’ and called multinational institutions ‘demonic’”… www.propublica.org/article/mike...

This article might dampen your weekend mood, but it's a must read. The situation in the US government is already dire, but trying to comprehend what comes next is even more unsettling.

NEWS: The Trump administration has funneled Elon Musk's company $86 million out of NASA coffers since the inauguration - all while NASA now slashes 5 percent of its entire workforce.

Operatives working for Elon Musk’s DOGE appear to be editing the code of AutoRIF—software designed by the Defense Department that could assist in mass firings of federal workers, sources tell WIRED.

More than 20 civil service employees are resigning from Elon Musk’s DOGE, saying they refuse to “dismantle critical public services.”

Sen. Tina Smith said on X, the platform Elon Musk owns: “This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk. Except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick."

Last week: Correspondent @stevanzetti.bsky.social identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media, and courtroom observation.

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💥ATTENTION CDC💥 If terminated, you may have hrs before access is revoked. Please download (print to PDF) all employee docs asap including: eOPF file (esp SF50s), mypay (esp LES), benefeds, PMAS, termination email. Collect important website addresses and passwords for accounts accessed via PIV.

New: Tesla and SpaceX relied on work by undocumented immigrants while Elon Musk advocated for a border crackdown

After going quiet on bird flu, CDC scientists have published a report on its spread among veterinarians. The findings suggest a need for better surveillance.

After Raskin issued a harsh takedown of Musk, triggering a Twitter fight between the two, Raskin pressed further, asking Musk a simple question: As someone who supposedly works for the government now, will he submit to basic financial disclosure and conflict-of-interest rules?

Elon Musk is moving fast and breaking things that can’t afford to be broken.

Women, they’re coming for us.

Here's a PDF version of the CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism: 🔗 www.404media.co/heres-a-pdf-...

OPINION: "People from most declining democracies and republics throughout history must have felt something similar. I’ve read letters from pre-WWII Germans who moved from 'we’re worried' to 'we’re scared,'" Kimberly Griffin writes. https://buff.ly/3EcUw1B

Christian Mobley of Jonesboro, Arkansas, says local police ruined his livelihood through constant harassment and ticketing, which eventually cost him his job: report by @tayagraham.bsky.social & @ssmithjanis86.bsky.social

Hilarity. 😆😈 "When a murder of crows singles out a person as dangerous, its wrath can be alarming, and can be passed along beyond an individual crow’s life span of up to a dozen or so years, creating multi-generational grudges." The Star: Revenge of the Crows www.thestar.com.my/news/focus/2...

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The challenge with all privatization schemes is that the private sector doesn’t aspire to save the government money. Why should it?

BREAKING: Jimmy Carter, nation's longest-living former president, dies at 100

NEW: Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position. ⤵️

NEW: “Eat What You Kill” Hailed as a savior upon his arrival in Helena, Dr. Thomas C. Weiner became a favorite of patients and his hospital’s highest earner. As the myth surrounding the high-profile oncologist grew, so did the trail of patient harm and suspicious deaths. @davidmcswane.bsky.social

Mass deportation could create labor shortages across many parts of America's food supply chain, limiting harvesting and production capacity for farms, wholesalers, and other businesses, and raising prices for consumers. https://buff.ly/3Os6NB9

Democracy’s next great challenge – strengthening institutions to protect journalism [Advocacy Lab Content]