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This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.
June 22, 2025 at 12:26 AM
This is not about the merits of Iran’s nuclear program. No president has the authority to bomb another country that does not pose an imminent threat to the US without the approval of Congress. This is an unambiguous impeachable offense.
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#Republicans seem to believe being healthy is reserved for billionaires.
May 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
#Republicans seem to believe being healthy is reserved for billionaires.
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It's weird to me that so many of my neighbors voted to take away their own healthcare to give me a tax cut. They need their health care. I don't need a tax cut. Neither does anyone who makes more than me, either.
May 22, 2025 at 1:46 PM
It's weird to me that so many of my neighbors voted to take away their own healthcare to give me a tax cut. They need their health care. I don't need a tax cut. Neither does anyone who makes more than me, either.
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This is how the Republicans slash Medicare without telling us they’re slashing Medicare.
May 22, 2025 at 7:06 PM
This is how the Republicans slash Medicare without telling us they’re slashing Medicare.
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I want to be clear that despite all the “my bad” language, this writer appears to not at all actually understand what they did wrong. “I didn’t double check” is not the sin, YOU GOOFUS. If you can’t take the time to write a list of books people can read, pick another job, for crying out loud.
May 20, 2025 at 3:12 PM
I want to be clear that despite all the “my bad” language, this writer appears to not at all actually understand what they did wrong. “I didn’t double check” is not the sin, YOU GOOFUS. If you can’t take the time to write a list of books people can read, pick another job, for crying out loud.
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Local DC post for the day, but it's insane how successful the transit-oriented development around NoMA has been.
The station is now ~50% busier than it was in 2019, despite overall metro ridership still being down. This year, it's busier than Dupont Circle or Columbia Heights
The station is now ~50% busier than it was in 2019, despite overall metro ridership still being down. This year, it's busier than Dupont Circle or Columbia Heights
May 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Local DC post for the day, but it's insane how successful the transit-oriented development around NoMA has been.
The station is now ~50% busier than it was in 2019, despite overall metro ridership still being down. This year, it's busier than Dupont Circle or Columbia Heights
The station is now ~50% busier than it was in 2019, despite overall metro ridership still being down. This year, it's busier than Dupont Circle or Columbia Heights
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Donald Trump cut funding for cancer research by 31% in the first three months of his term.
This is an attack on every American family who has loved someone with cancer.
This is an attack on every American family who has loved someone with cancer.
May 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Donald Trump cut funding for cancer research by 31% in the first three months of his term.
This is an attack on every American family who has loved someone with cancer.
This is an attack on every American family who has loved someone with cancer.
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💡 Here’s the truth:
Medicaid work requirements ≠ responsibility
Medicaid work requirements = subsidies for companies that won’t pay fair wages
Medicaid work requirements ≠ responsibility
Medicaid work requirements = subsidies for companies that won’t pay fair wages
May 16, 2025 at 10:35 PM
💡 Here’s the truth:
Medicaid work requirements ≠ responsibility
Medicaid work requirements = subsidies for companies that won’t pay fair wages
Medicaid work requirements ≠ responsibility
Medicaid work requirements = subsidies for companies that won’t pay fair wages
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500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens.
Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.
Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.
May 16, 2025 at 6:04 PM
500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens.
Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.
Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant.
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This would be an expensive nightmare to practically implement, Libya is an active war zone with a current pop of only 7 million and in no shape to absorb refugees, and American-led ethnic cleansing should be flatly unacceptable
BREAKING: The Trump administration is working on a plan to permanently relocate up to 1 million Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Libya, five people with knowledge of the effort told NBC News.
Trump administration working on plan to move 1 million Palestinians to Libya
Details are murky and no final agreement has been reached, but the plan is under serious enough consideration that the administration has discussed it with Libyan leadership.
nbcnews.to
May 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
This would be an expensive nightmare to practically implement, Libya is an active war zone with a current pop of only 7 million and in no shape to absorb refugees, and American-led ethnic cleansing should be flatly unacceptable
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According to a study by Penn Wharton, Trump's "big, beautiful bill" that pays for tax breaks for the rich by cutting Medicaid leads to a $700 LOSS in income for the working class, a $1,000 LOSS in income for the poor & a $389,000 INCREASE for the top 0.1%.
We must defeat it.
We must defeat it.
May 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
According to a study by Penn Wharton, Trump's "big, beautiful bill" that pays for tax breaks for the rich by cutting Medicaid leads to a $700 LOSS in income for the working class, a $1,000 LOSS in income for the poor & a $389,000 INCREASE for the top 0.1%.
We must defeat it.
We must defeat it.
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April 9, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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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.
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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.
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I am once again begging everyone to be less stupid.
April 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I am once again begging everyone to be less stupid.
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Many HHS grants being cut go to rural communities across the country. They provide health care services where private industry has no interest.
The impact? It is becoming deadlier and deadlier to have a child in America.
None of this is necessary.
The impact? It is becoming deadlier and deadlier to have a child in America.
None of this is necessary.
Reproductive health clinics are losing federal funding — and conservative states will be hit hardest
The Trump administration’s cuts to Title X could disrupt medical services for close to a million people, predominantly low-income Americans.
19thnews.org
April 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Many HHS grants being cut go to rural communities across the country. They provide health care services where private industry has no interest.
The impact? It is becoming deadlier and deadlier to have a child in America.
None of this is necessary.
The impact? It is becoming deadlier and deadlier to have a child in America.
None of this is necessary.
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A new study, funded by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, suggests that health care systems can reduce suicides through patient screening, safety planning and mental health counseling. apnews.com/article/suic...
Suicides and attempts fall in health systems implementing the 'Zero Suicide Model,' study finds
A new study suggests that health care systems can reduce suicides through patient screening, safety planning and mental health counseling.
apnews.com
April 7, 2025 at 4:40 PM
A new study, funded by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health, suggests that health care systems can reduce suicides through patient screening, safety planning and mental health counseling. apnews.com/article/suic...
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When we set out to do this analysis, we hoped to build on an existing methodology to study severe complications in early pregnancy — but there wasn't one. So, in consultation with dozens of experts, @sophiechou.bsky.social, Lizzie Presser and I developed our own. Here's how we did it:
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
www.propublica.org
February 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
When we set out to do this analysis, we hoped to build on an existing methodology to study severe complications in early pregnancy — but there wasn't one. So, in consultation with dozens of experts, @sophiechou.bsky.social, Lizzie Presser and I developed our own. Here's how we did it: