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And yes, if you HAPPEN to *also* feel like chipping in $5.50 or $55 (or whatever) to *me* to support my efforts, you can do that as well.
(I'm not a PAC, and unlike many of them, not one dime of what I raise for Dem candidates/party committees goes to me).
secure.actblue.com/donate/gabam...
(I'm not a PAC, and unlike many of them, not one dime of what I raise for Dem candidates/party committees goes to me).
secure.actblue.com/donate/gabam...
Support my work at Blue26.org!
It takes a ton of work to maintain my Dem fundraising project. Support my efforts by chipping in to Gaba Media today!
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June 27, 2025 at 9:57 PM
And yes, if you HAPPEN to *also* feel like chipping in $5.50 or $55 (or whatever) to *me* to support my efforts, you can do that as well.
(I'm not a PAC, and unlike many of them, not one dime of what I raise for Dem candidates/party committees goes to me).
secure.actblue.com/donate/gabam...
(I'm not a PAC, and unlike many of them, not one dime of what I raise for Dem candidates/party committees goes to me).
secure.actblue.com/donate/gabam...
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The FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to continue sending drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants that the agency had banned. @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/fda-...
Threat in Your Medicine Cabinet: The FDA’s Gamble on America’s Drugs
A ProPublica investigation found that for more than a decade, the FDA gave substandard factories banned from the United States a special pass to keep sending drugs to an unsuspecting public.
www.propublica.org
June 17, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to continue sending drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants that the agency had banned. @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/fda-...
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They also didn't bother to actually check the page itself where it clearly states where donations go:
--In districts with a specific candidate listed, it goes to that candidate
--In districts w/"TBD" listed, it goes to whoever the eventual nominee ends up being.
secure.actblue.com/donate/house...
--In districts with a specific candidate listed, it goes to that candidate
--In districts w/"TBD" listed, it goes to whoever the eventual nominee ends up being.
secure.actblue.com/donate/house...
Chip in!
Show your support with a contribution.
secure.actblue.com
May 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
They also didn't bother to actually check the page itself where it clearly states where donations go:
--In districts with a specific candidate listed, it goes to that candidate
--In districts w/"TBD" listed, it goes to whoever the eventual nominee ends up being.
secure.actblue.com/donate/house...
--In districts with a specific candidate listed, it goes to that candidate
--In districts w/"TBD" listed, it goes to whoever the eventual nominee ends up being.
secure.actblue.com/donate/house...
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You don't have to take my word for it. ActBlue itself TELLS YOU EXACTLY WHERE DONATIONS GO, both in the default "even split" mode as well as the "customize amounts" mode.
This isn't complicated.
This isn't complicated.
May 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
You don't have to take my word for it. ActBlue itself TELLS YOU EXACTLY WHERE DONATIONS GO, both in the default "even split" mode as well as the "customize amounts" mode.
This isn't complicated.
This isn't complicated.
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Which news outlet is actually informing its readers about what happened?
May 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Which news outlet is actually informing its readers about what happened?
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My take on the consequences of the media's "original sin."
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May 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
My take on the consequences of the media's "original sin."
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The Trump administration has lied so often and egregiously that outlets CANNOT frame their headlines around what they say.
They need to look at video and witness evidence, write their headlines from that, and then include admin statements at the end with fact checks.
www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/p...
They need to look at video and witness evidence, write their headlines from that, and then include admin statements at the end with fact checks.
www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/p...
Homeland Security Dept. accuses lawmakers of ‘storming’ an ICE facility despite oversight laws saying they could be there | CNN Politics
The battle over immigration came to a dramatic head Friday afternoon when Democratic lawmakers faced off with Homeland Security Department officers as they tried to visit a Newark, New Jersey Immigrat...
www.cnn.com
May 11, 2025 at 3:49 AM
The Trump administration has lied so often and egregiously that outlets CANNOT frame their headlines around what they say.
They need to look at video and witness evidence, write their headlines from that, and then include admin statements at the end with fact checks.
www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/p...
They need to look at video and witness evidence, write their headlines from that, and then include admin statements at the end with fact checks.
www.cnn.com/2025/05/10/p...
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It's important to:
a) understand the ways in which many health-related systems - admittedly, far from perfect! - are actively getting worse.
b) SHARE this information, far & wide.
a) understand the ways in which many health-related systems - admittedly, far from perfect! - are actively getting worse.
b) SHARE this information, far & wide.
April 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
It's important to:
a) understand the ways in which many health-related systems - admittedly, far from perfect! - are actively getting worse.
b) SHARE this information, far & wide.
a) understand the ways in which many health-related systems - admittedly, far from perfect! - are actively getting worse.
b) SHARE this information, far & wide.
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4. Cuts to FDA staff are now affecting the accuracy of drug databases that doctors & others rely on to be aware of safety & manufacturing issues.
www.axios.com/2025/04/24/f...
www.axios.com/2025/04/24/f...
Key FDA drug data goes missing amid DOGE cuts
Health professionals have been left flying blind on basic questions like where a drug was made.
www.axios.com
April 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
4. Cuts to FDA staff are now affecting the accuracy of drug databases that doctors & others rely on to be aware of safety & manufacturing issues.
www.axios.com/2025/04/24/f...
www.axios.com/2025/04/24/f...
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3. An increasing number of health journals - including the flagship New England J of Medicine - have received strange letters asking them to talk about how they support viewpoint diversity and ensure scientific quality. (PS: There's a whole peer review process.)
www.statnews.com/2025/04/23/n...
www.statnews.com/2025/04/23/n...
New England Journal of Medicine gets swept up in U.S. attorney inquiry into alleged bias
Last week, at least one scientific journal received a letter from a top U.S. attorney asking it to respond to alleged bias. Now, NEJM has received a similar inquiry as well.
www.statnews.com
April 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
3. An increasing number of health journals - including the flagship New England J of Medicine - have received strange letters asking them to talk about how they support viewpoint diversity and ensure scientific quality. (PS: There's a whole peer review process.)
www.statnews.com/2025/04/23/n...
www.statnews.com/2025/04/23/n...
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2. Effective community violence intervention programming (funded through a bipartisan safer communities bill) has been suddenly cut, mid-stream.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
US Justice Department cancels hundreds of grants for police, crime victims
The U.S. Justice Department has canceled hundreds of ongoing grants that funded everything from services for mental health care for police officers to support programs for victims of crime and sexual assault, according to internal records and four people familiar with the matter.
www.reuters.com
April 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
2. Effective community violence intervention programming (funded through a bipartisan safer communities bill) has been suddenly cut, mid-stream.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
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⚠️ A few important pieces of health news this week:
1. The longest-running longitudinal study of women's health (which has helped us figure out how to prevent cancer, reduce osteoporosis, reduce perimenopause symptoms, and more) has essentially been shuttered.
www.npr.org/2025/04/23/n...
1. The longest-running longitudinal study of women's health (which has helped us figure out how to prevent cancer, reduce osteoporosis, reduce perimenopause symptoms, and more) has essentially been shuttered.
www.npr.org/2025/04/23/n...
Funding cut for landmark study of women's health
The Women's Health Initiative, begun in the 1990s, has made many important discoveries. Now funding to collect more research data will end in September.
www.npr.org
April 24, 2025 at 2:44 PM
⚠️ A few important pieces of health news this week:
1. The longest-running longitudinal study of women's health (which has helped us figure out how to prevent cancer, reduce osteoporosis, reduce perimenopause symptoms, and more) has essentially been shuttered.
www.npr.org/2025/04/23/n...
1. The longest-running longitudinal study of women's health (which has helped us figure out how to prevent cancer, reduce osteoporosis, reduce perimenopause symptoms, and more) has essentially been shuttered.
www.npr.org/2025/04/23/n...
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This is major and brazen abuse of power than not even Richard Nixon could imagine. It deserves major condonation.
President Trump has personally ordered the Justice Department to open an investigation of Democrats' primary ways for raising donations.
It is the third time he has personally ordered an open-ended criminal investigation, each against a perceived political foe.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
It is the third time he has personally ordered an open-ended criminal investigation, each against a perceived political foe.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
April 25, 2025 at 3:19 AM
This is major and brazen abuse of power than not even Richard Nixon could imagine. It deserves major condonation.
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reporting on this has really got to get better about communicating the magnitude of the breach here. if you read the nyt article with minimal context, you would have no sense that this was watergate-level impeachable misconduct
President Trump has personally ordered the Justice Department to open an investigation of Democrats' primary ways for raising donations.
It is the third time he has personally ordered an open-ended criminal investigation, each against a perceived political foe.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
It is the third time he has personally ordered an open-ended criminal investigation, each against a perceived political foe.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
April 25, 2025 at 1:26 AM
reporting on this has really got to get better about communicating the magnitude of the breach here. if you read the nyt article with minimal context, you would have no sense that this was watergate-level impeachable misconduct
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Egg prices hit a record high in March.
Supply has been strained due to bird flu. Meanwhile, the biggest egg producers are raking in huge profits.
How is Trump responding?
Supply has been strained due to bird flu. Meanwhile, the biggest egg producers are raking in huge profits.
How is Trump responding?
April 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Egg prices hit a record high in March.
Supply has been strained due to bird flu. Meanwhile, the biggest egg producers are raking in huge profits.
How is Trump responding?
Supply has been strained due to bird flu. Meanwhile, the biggest egg producers are raking in huge profits.
How is Trump responding?
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🚨Attention Members of the DC Bar🚨
Ballots went out today for key positions in the DC bar. Please vote for:
Diane Seltzer for President
Amanda Molina for Treasurer
Note: Seltzer is running against Pam Bondi's brother.
Get your ballot and vote ASAP.
Ballots went out today for key positions in the DC bar. Please vote for:
Diane Seltzer for President
Amanda Molina for Treasurer
Note: Seltzer is running against Pam Bondi's brother.
Get your ballot and vote ASAP.
April 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
🚨Attention Members of the DC Bar🚨
Ballots went out today for key positions in the DC bar. Please vote for:
Diane Seltzer for President
Amanda Molina for Treasurer
Note: Seltzer is running against Pam Bondi's brother.
Get your ballot and vote ASAP.
Ballots went out today for key positions in the DC bar. Please vote for:
Diane Seltzer for President
Amanda Molina for Treasurer
Note: Seltzer is running against Pam Bondi's brother.
Get your ballot and vote ASAP.
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What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
April 14, 2025 at 5:31 PM
What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
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These are important images to be passed around.
These faces should be associated with these headlines.
In addition to their covid misinformation, they now have this on their resume.
Make sure everyone knows that.
These faces should be associated with these headlines.
In addition to their covid misinformation, they now have this on their resume.
Make sure everyone knows that.
April 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
These are important images to be passed around.
These faces should be associated with these headlines.
In addition to their covid misinformation, they now have this on their resume.
Make sure everyone knows that.
These faces should be associated with these headlines.
In addition to their covid misinformation, they now have this on their resume.
Make sure everyone knows that.
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Another federal agency gone. This one tracks patient outcomes in hospitals. medical mistakes, and patient safety. RIP
“Data gathered by AHRQ provides much of what is known about hospitalizations for motor accidents, measles, and thousands of other medical issues."
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
“Data gathered by AHRQ provides much of what is known about hospitalizations for motor accidents, measles, and thousands of other medical issues."
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
What’s Lost: Trump Whacks Tiny Agency That Works To Make the Nation's Health Care Safer - KFF Health News
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has helped improve health care safety in a country where thousands die of medical errors each year. It was effectively dissolved Tuesday.
kffhealthnews.org
April 6, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Another federal agency gone. This one tracks patient outcomes in hospitals. medical mistakes, and patient safety. RIP
“Data gathered by AHRQ provides much of what is known about hospitalizations for motor accidents, measles, and thousands of other medical issues."
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
“Data gathered by AHRQ provides much of what is known about hospitalizations for motor accidents, measles, and thousands of other medical issues."
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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Gearing up mRNA vaccines ("tolerogenic") to prevent autoimmune diseases, vital science that is currently under irrational and reckless attack
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Generation of tolerogenic antigen-presenting cells in vivo via the delivery of mRNA encoding PDL1 within lipid nanoparticles - Nature Biomedical Engineering
Therapeutic tolerogenic antigen-presenting cells can be generated in vivo by delivering, via lipid nanoparticles, mRNA coding for the inhibitory protein programmed death ligand 1, as shown in mouse mo...
www.nature.com
March 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Gearing up mRNA vaccines ("tolerogenic") to prevent autoimmune diseases, vital science that is currently under irrational and reckless attack
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...
My Open Letter to Elon Musk
From Marc | Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” This is my response.
www.democracydocket.com
March 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Elon Musk recently posted on his site that another lawyer and I are “undermining civilization.” He goes on to ask if we suffered childhood trauma and concludes by suggesting we are suffering from “generational trauma.” This is my response. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/my-o...
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The ACA was cool because before the ACA EVERY SINGLE CHILD WITH CANCER hit their annual and lifetime limits almost immediately and were denied insurance for the rest of their lives and after the ACA that’s illegal.
The ACA was cool because before the ACA you could hit your lifetime maximum before you were a month old and be denied insurance for the rest of your life and after the ACA that’s illegal.
March 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The ACA was cool because before the ACA EVERY SINGLE CHILD WITH CANCER hit their annual and lifetime limits almost immediately and were denied insurance for the rest of their lives and after the ACA that’s illegal.
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On March 3rd TPM launched its annual March membership drive with an absurdly high goal of adding 2,500 new members this month. We are now 37 sign ups short of that goal. If you value our team and the importance of independent media we hope you'll join us! talkingpointsmemo.com/memberships?...
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March 22, 2025 at 4:30 PM
On March 3rd TPM launched its annual March membership drive with an absurdly high goal of adding 2,500 new members this month. We are now 37 sign ups short of that goal. If you value our team and the importance of independent media we hope you'll join us! talkingpointsmemo.com/memberships?...