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The latest Supreme Court case targeting the ACA comes from a longtime anti-gay activist
The Latest Supreme Court case targeting the ACA comes from a longtime anti-gay activist
Steven Hotze has spent years trying to dismantle Obamacare and fight LGBTQ rights.
www.motherjones.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Does no one remember the Swill Milk Scandal? 8000 babies died in New York State in one year. EIGHT THOUSAND BABIES.

They don't want us to learn history. Or science. Then it's easier to get away with cutting consumer protections to increase their profit margins by selling contaminated food.
Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.
April 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Next week I'm returning to New York to play 2 sold out nights at the biggest indoor theatre in the world. Can't wait. #Mortality
April 20, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Omg. This just in. Another Signal group chat scandal, reported by @nytimes.com
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
New report: Trump administration just got hit with another Signal chat scandal.
The New York Times reported that the Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared sensitive attack plans in a second group chat.
www.motherjones.com
April 20, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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(1,2) With the Supreme Court stepping in to stop deportations & the legal notion of Due Process coming up, it got me thinking about gun laws. I remember when we passed Red Flag laws in Florida & how important it was to Republicans to have a due process clause in that law. They cared about due
April 19, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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April 2, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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March 28, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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Republicans are caught up in the semantics of "war plan" because it didn't include latitudes and longitudes
March 27, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Hi, so this is also eugenics. Everything Musk and Trump and RFK Jr are doing is eugenics. It is designed to kill the elderly, children, disabled folks, folks in poverty, and sicken and weaken everyone else. Please understand that suffering and death is the point.
All of us are endangered by alarming Trump interference in important UT research & elsewhere. After his groundbreaking COVID vaccine success, Dr. Jason McLellan’s funding to develop meds for multiple viruses is being cut.

Taking “a break” from infectious disease research means more people die.
H.H.S. Scraps Studies of Vaccines and Treatments for Future Pandemics
Federal officials cited the end of the Covid-19 pandemic in halting the research. But much of the work was focused on preventing outbreaks of other pathogens.
www.nytimes.com
March 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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They are rightfully worried her R+9 district will flip to a Dem because the backlash against Musk and Trump is overwhelming. Good job folks!
Senate Foreign Relations Chair Risch says the White House is pulling Stefanik nomination
March 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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🚨 NOMINATION PULLED

Trump announces he is pulling Elise Stefanik's nomination to be ambassador to the United Nations.

The White House was concerned about the Republicans' slim majority in the House.
March 27, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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RFK Jr.'s remaking of HHS entered a new phase today when officials announced 10,000 more layoffs and the dismantling of the Administration for Community Living, which oversees vital programs for disabled and aging people.
"A sicker America": RFK Jr.'s HHS will lay off 10,000 staff
Staff and experts fear the massive cuts will kneecap the agency's ability to fulfill its mission.
www.motherjones.com
March 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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if ever there was a time to throw your (much vaunted!) weight around, this is it...

www.aarp.org/politics-soc...
5 Ways AARP Is Fighting for Social Security
We're mobilizing our members, calling for answers and opposing harmful customer-service cuts
www.aarp.org
March 27, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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FBI, Congress, all the government entities that should be all over signal chat scandal are doing little or nothing. there is a lawsuit by a oversight group seeking records, but not a real ubstitute. Looking forward to discussing on @cnn.com w/ #borissanchez & @biannagolodryga.bsky.social at 3 PM ET
March 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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More than 130,000 government pages have gone dark in a purge that one scientist likened to a “digital book burning.” A group of librarians and archivists is fighting back.
The Volunteer Data Hoarders Resisting Trump’s Purge
Can librarians and guerrilla archivists save the country’s files from DOGE?
www.newyorker.com
March 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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We now have massive swaths of rural America deemed news deserts.

While Trump’s national popular-vote margin was just under 1.5%, his margin in news deserts was massive. Trump won 91% of news desert counties by an average of 54 percentage points.

My god...
jesspiper.substack.com/p/news-deserts
News Deserts
Don't confuse them with new desserts...one is sweet and the other is contributing to political polarization.
jesspiper.substack.com
March 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Law firm Paul, Weiss thinks it’s more important to protect their profits than protect our legal system. Yesterday, Rise & Resist protested at their NYC office.
You can do it too! They have offices in L.A., San Francisco, D.C., Wilmington, and around the world. Make “Coward” signs and get out there!
March 26, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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private lawsuit v. Hegseth et al goes to record keeping obligations & ability to maneuver Signal so messages disappear, which may have been point. Lawsuit seeks order to preserve. Assigned to....Judge Boasberg. Looking forward to discussing on @msnbc.com w/ @aliciamenendez.bsky.social at 5:20 PM ET.
March 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Donald Trump makes time to throw Elon Musk a car show on the White House lawn but not to be briefed on four dead American soldiers.

Outrageous.
Trump is completely oblivious that 4 US troops died in Lithuania
March 26, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Local Indivisible member was abducted by ICE in Washington. If you're in the state, please elevate this thread to your electeds and ask for their help in getting his release.
We are heartbroken and outraged to learn that Alfredo "Lelo" Juarez was violently detained by ICE while dropping his partner off at work. He is reportedly being held at a private detention facility in Tacoma, Washington. 🧵
ICE arrests WA farmworker activist in Sedro-Woolley
Alfredo "Lelo" Juarez, 25, has organized on behalf of farmworkers' rights in Washington state since he was 14 years old.
www.seattletimes.com
March 27, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Here's my breakdown from today's virtual town hall with @joyannreid.bsky.social and @chrismurphyct.bsky.social and hosted by the @aclu.org. So many good and important topics were covered.
I went to a virtual Town Hall with Joy Reid and Senator Murphy
YouTube video by Parkrose Permaculture
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March 27, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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"Elon Musk’s aerospace company SpaceX allows investors from China to buy stakes in the company as long as the funds are routed through the Cayman Islands or other offshore secrecy hubs, according to previously unreported court records..."

www.propublica.org/article/elon...
How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China
As a U.S. military contractor, SpaceX sees allowing Chinese ownership as fraught. But it will allow the investment if it comes through secrecy hubs like the Cayman Islands, court records say. “It is c...
www.propublica.org
March 27, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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I am no conspiracy theorist, but it really feels like they are trying to destroy our country from within. Health care, public schools, universities, research, law firms, federal workers, the environment are all getting the axe. What was it again that it made America great?
Exclusive | RFK Jr. Plans 10,000 Job Cuts in Major Restructuring of Health Department
The changes would reshape the nation’s health agencies and close regional offices.
www.wsj.com
March 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT!

If in the market for a new car, buy it now. These Trump tariffs are coming, and the average price of a new car will go up $4,000 - $5,000 per car. So much for working to reduce inflation.
www.msn.com/en-us/money/...
MSN
www.msn.com
March 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM