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So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

submitted 15 hours ago • 411 comments

RFK Jr looking to run up a big body count

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there is arguably less than zero journalistic value in covering the insane lies the Trump press team puts out, but for a lot of WHCA people, typing up press releases is the only thing they know how to do

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I suspect this is a HUGELY underestimated factor in radicalization. If you look at, say, QAnon boards, it’s not really folks looking for scapegoats for their dire material circumstances. It’s middle-class people with boring lives who want to imagine they’re in The Parallax View.

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Gregg is a former Marine and Forest Service ranger. He's saved the lives of hikers dangling off a cliff or going through cardiac arrest, and he's bravely fought forest fires to save small rural towns. 100% of his salary is paid by WA state. Elon fired him. Share his story.

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This is why you fight these cowards. The moment you stand up to them, they crumble. Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights. He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.

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Oldheads remember that bill clinton's first big scandal was firing the white house travel office staff because reporters liked all the improper freebies they got from them

submitted 11 days ago • 17 comments

Every Republican administration in the post-WWII era has committed crimes. Nixon got busted & punished for his. While he was in the midst of it, Roger Ailes came to his office & pitched him a RW media outlet. The explicit goal was to prevent the kind of social consensus that yields accountability.

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And right now Gov. Hochul is doing the, "Removing him would be a whole can of worms and set worrying precedents. And he is going to be voted out of office soon anyway so maybe we should just wait," thing. And if that sounds familiar it is because it is the story of the last 10 years.

submitted 11 days ago • 33 comments

Great job by Sumer from @seiuhcmnia.bsky.social and the rest of the testifiers

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Fantastic point. If you work in health care @seiuhcmnia.bsky.social would love to talk.

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Garrison McMurtrey the @dfl.org endorsed candidate won the special election for Ramsey Co Commisioner

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If you are an @seiuhcmnia.bsky.social member who works in a hospital, a clinic, a nursing home, or home care, this will take money out of your pocket

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in what meaningful way can we say that the constitution is in effect when an unelected and unaccountable billionaire is wielding state power to unilaterally cancel congressional appropriations?

submitted 16 days ago • 490 comments

ORGANIZING VICTORY!!! The Health Unit Coordinators at Park Nicollet Methodist Hospital voted by an overwhelming majority to join #SEIU Healthcare Minnesota and Iowa. Please join us to welcome these newest members to our union family!

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Just received this photo from a friend of a warehouse in Kinshasa. These are tuberculosis medications--ALREADY PAID FOR--that aren't being distributed due to the Trump Administration's stop work order. TB treatment is being interrupted in SO many patients around the world. What does that mean? (1/2)

submitted 19 days ago • 169 comments

MN’s newest #ProtectMedicaid champion @morrison4mn.bsky.social An OB/GYN doc knows the value of health care for mothers & babies

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Proud to meet w @angiecraigm.bsky.social She is a great #ProtectMedicaid champion. We talked about all of the healthcare jobs at stake in her district.

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Right-wing writer who called drag queens groomers arrested for child molestation: Aaron Craig Gleason, a former writer for The Federalist and Daily Wire — both right-wing news outlets — was arrested last month "for molesting a victim under the age of 12, according to Okaloosa, Florida jail…

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Just fished a powerful day in DC w/ @seiuhcmnia.bsky.social members who told their MN & IA Representatives that #MedicaidSavesLives

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This is a wonderful piece of writing. Always amusing when nitwit culture warriors like Kelly decry the “woke-ification” of pop culture staples that were always inclusive, political, and “woke.” open.substack.com/pub/ser1897/...

submitted 22 days ago • 6 comments

if the president’s lackeys can functionally seize control of treasury funds and dismantle a congressionally-created agency without consequence, it’s not that it’s a constitutional crisis as much as it means the constitution is vapor.

submitted 22 days ago • 134 comments

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

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My deep belief is all the billionaire freaks want the same thing - the freedom to be pedophiles

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waffle house just added new trump tax to egg sales www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/f...

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Convo with my friend from Hungary tonight who left after Orban’s election. She said “your head will spin with all the wild stuff they try to pull, new things every day, but don’t take your eyes off the money. It’s all about the money, and what they’re stealing, and for whom.”

submitted 23 days ago • 207 comments

The lawlessness is the point

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The men carrying out Musk's coup are Akash Bobba, Edward Coristine, Luke Farritor, Gautier Cole Killian, Gavin Kliger, and Ethan Shaotran. Make them famous. And, eventually, when possible, arrest them and charge them with multiple felonies. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 24 days ago • 819 comments

Trump and Musk's actions can overwhelm the reader. Important not to forget basic facts. If Musk illegally accessed federal employee records and tax and social security information and transferred them to a private device, he is vulnerable to prosecution and a multidecade sentence in federal prison.

submitted 24 days ago • 128 comments

Hedge funds are making a multi-billion-dollar gamble against the US economy, betting Donald Trump's presidency will result in a massive market crash that could devastate 401(k)s, pensions, and household savings across America. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

submitted 25 days ago • 105 comments

Catch up fast on Ken Martin with this colorful profile from @maxnesterak.bsky.social minnesotareformer.com/2025/01/30/k...

submitted 25 days ago • 8 comments

Dems should not allow anything to move in the House or Senate until this is dealt with. Dem have the power in both chambers to jam up the works, and they need to use it. That isn't a radical tactic, it's what the GOP has done for years for trivial matters. Unlike this, which is catastrophic.

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This was one week ago.

submitted 27 days ago • 24 comments

How to overstate the scale of power - hard and soft - as well as prosperity that is tied up in US dominance in the sciences. what they’re doing here is. Just lighting that on fire.

submitted 27 days ago • 17 comments

VP of SEIUHCMN&IA and LPN Kate Lynch getting ready to testify in MN Senate Commerce to share our union’s concern w/ SF333. We can't keep giving insurance co's a huge huge handout. Other states have them fund their own reinsurance programs and MN should be no different. #mnleg

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Elon Musk, who has not been elected or officially appointed to any office, successfully pushed the FAA Administrator to resign 9 days ago.

submitted 28 days ago • 161 comments

Always knew being in a union made your life better, but new study shows it makes your life longer.

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