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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 6h

Millions of Americans will experience "premium shock" when their insurance premiums double or even quadruple in the coming year. @neeratanden.bsky.social explains the health care battle at the center of this shutdown.

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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 9h

Latinas often work in industries with positive employment growth, but their wages haven't kept up. Full-time, year round #Trabajadoras earn just 58 cents per dollar of white, non-Hispanic men resulting in >$33k/year lost to the #WageGap. #LatinaEqualPay https://ow.ly/Iht150X8Bv2

The gender wage gap for full-time, year-round workers expanded significantly in 2024 and is wider for women of color

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Sara Estep (she/her) @saraestep.bsky.social · 1d

New from Kyle Ross and me, breaking down the budget and staffing issues in FY26 dollars. The BLS needs experienced nonpartisan leadership, and adequate funding to restore trust and ensure accuracy.

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Real funding for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) has been declining for years

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Cathleen Kelly @cmkelly.bsky.social · 1d

The Senate Committee on Finance has found that the Trump Administration is waging war on cancer research...

Jill Rosenthal @jillrose.bsky.social · 1d

CAP adds how the Trump administration is weakening pollution limits and stripping away clean energy incentives, causing over 400 fossil-fuel-fired power plants to run more and emit more cancer-causing pollution. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

The Trump Administration’s Attack on Environmental Protections Will Increase Cancer-Causing Pollution

The Trump administration’s plan to torpedo air pollution limits and cancer prevention programs while ripping away health care and cancer treatment and canceling clean energy investments will increase ...

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Jill Rosenthal @jillrose.bsky.social · 1d

New memo points to the Trump administration's assault on cancer research, access to care, and affordable treatments. www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

Trump and Robert Kennedy Are Waging War Against Americans with Cancer | The United States Senate Committee on Finance

Trump and Robert Kennedy Are Waging War Against Americans with Cancer

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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 2d

It’s easy to feel like the sky is falling with the Trump administration's historic, unprecedented assault on clean, cheap energy.

But there’s reason for hope. We’re making progress on climate and clean energy in states all across the country.

Long thread of wins you may have missed this year 🧵👇

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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 6d

📈 Health care premiums are spiking in Virginia, Idaho, and Georgia.

💸 Virginia Beach: +$1,295/month
💸 Boise: +$1,472/month
💸 Fulton County: +$2,064/month

These numbers don’t lie—and families are paying the price.

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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 2d

In just the past year, electricity prices have jumped more than twice the rate of inflation—and this is only the beginning. The Trump administration should be protecting our wallets, not paying off his billionaire buddies.

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The Daily Hayley @thedailyhayley.bsky.social · 2d

Today is the first day of the 2025-2026 Supreme Court term and we just released our major new report on religion at the Roberts Court: www.americanprogress.org/article/how-...

How the Supreme Court Is Dismantling the Separation of Church and State

Chief Justice John Roberts’ court is actively eroding the separation of church and state, breaking with centuries of First Amendment jurisprudence.

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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 5d

Your health coverage is at the center of this shutdown fight. @emily-gee.bsky.social explains what's at stake:

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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 6d

It’s happening again ‼️ The Trump administration is trying to open up 88 million acres of public lands to development—threatening America’s oldest forests, risking wildlife habitats, and endangering drinking water for millions of people.

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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 7d

"We hold an awful lot of agency to change what the court does." @justinlevitt.bsky.social on the inevitable and necessary SCOTUS reforms:

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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 7d

The Trump administration is eliminating the data on food insecurity in America instead of putting food in the bellies of hungry kids.

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Kennedy Andara @kennedyandara.bsky.social · 7d

We wrote this before the shutdown but the analysis is still just as important. Healthcare workers, who are mostly women, are the backbone of our economy, but Trump's attacks on health care and repubs refusal to extend the ACA tax credits threaten the industry
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What To Know Before September’s Jobs Day Report: Falling Wages and Stalling Employment Growth

In August, women held up the economy while their wages faltered in industries such as health care. Will the September Employment Situation report show more of the same?

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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 10d

By using their authority to define what corporations are—and what powers they hold—states can end the era of corporate and dark money in U.S. politics. CAP's @thmoore.bsky.social explains: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

A photo collage of multiple hundred-dollar bills with a blue and white text box laid over it. The text says, "Americans from across the political spectrum overwhelmingly oppose Citizens United and would like to rid the U.S. political system of corporate and dark money." A highlighted blue section says, "Voters and the state legislators they elect have the power to do it." Below the text is a link, "LEARN MORE AT AMERICANPROGRESS.ORG."

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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 11d

The Trump administration is taking steps to sell out and sell off public lands—like Minnesota's Boundary Waters— to the benefit of corporate insiders. We must protect our public lands. #NationalPublicLandsDay

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Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 14d

Donald Trump promised lower costs. Instead, his policies are hiking energy prices and squeezing working families.

While billionaires and fossil fuel companies reap the rewards, Trump is dismantling clean energy projects while Americans are left paying more just to keep the lights on.

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Cathleen Kelly @cmkelly.bsky.social · 13d

Are you worried about the Trump administration's policies that threaten our beloved public lands? These smart Vermonters urge us to speak out against these bad policies and work together to build support for new ideas to protect our nation's precious places. vtdigger.org/2025/09/24/s...

Opinion — Shelby Semmes and Drew McConville: How Vermonters can lead as Washington backslides on conservation

Here in Vermont, we know access to nature is more than a nicety. We have a responsibility to speak out and make progress from the ground up.

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Cathleen Kelly @cmkelly.bsky.social · 14d

Its SICKENING and HORRIFYING that this is what our country has become under the Trump regime!!

Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 15d

Miami Herald: Two-Thirds of Immigrants Held at “Alligator Alcatraz” in July Have Disappeared

In immigration news, hundreds of people who were once detained at the troubled immigration jail in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” have disappeared.

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Center for American Progress @americanprogress.bsky.social · 15d

Think dark money in politics is unstoppable? Think again. CAP's @thmoore.bsky.social explains how states have the power to make Citizens United irrelevant: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

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CAP Action @americanprogressaction.org · 22d

Millions of Americans are struggling to access booster shots—because Trump appointed a conspiracy theorist as our Secretary of Health.

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Cathleen Kelly @cmkelly.bsky.social · 15d

Despite its "Make America Healthy Again" claims the Trump administration is doing the opposite of what Americans want by working to weaken lifesaving pollution limits. While this boosts polluters’ profits it will increase preventable cancer & other diseases. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

The Trump Administration’s Attack on Environmental Protections Will Increase Cancer-Causing Pollution

The Trump administration’s plan to torpedo air pollution limits and cancer prevention programs while ripping away health care and cancer treatment and canceling clean energy investments will increase ...

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Cathleen Kelly @cmkelly.bsky.social · 15d

86% of Americans want corporate polluters to be held accountable to keep them from unleashing toxic chemicals into the air we breathe and the water we drink, 1/2: navigatorresearch.org/maha-america...

MAHA: Americans and Health and Wellness

Polling report on the latest perceptions of health and wellness in the United States.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 15d

People came from all over the world. They have serious problems to solve.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Trump to the UN: "I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell."

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Cathleen Kelly @cmkelly.bsky.social · 16d

Americans agree that corporate polluters must be held accountable to stop them from pouring toxic chemicals into the air we breathe & water we drink, but the Trump administration is giving polluters a free. www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

The Trump Administration’s Attack on Environmental Protections Will Increase Cancer-Causing Pollution

The Trump administration’s plan to torpedo air pollution limits and cancer prevention programs while ripping away health care and cancer treatment and canceling clean energy investments will increase ...

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