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Commentary: Study finds removing school mask mandates contributed to 22,000 U.S. COVID deaths in a year - Los Angeles Times
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Commentary: Study finds removing school mask mandates contributed to 22,000 U.S. COVID deaths in a year — Los Angeles Times
Critics of anti-pandemic measures prompted schools to end mask mandates, but doing so exposed millions to COVID infection, contributing to nearly 22,000 deaths.
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June 5, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Commentary: Study finds removing school mask mandates contributed to 22,000 U.S. COVID deaths in a year - Los Angeles Times
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Disgusting and heartbreaking
Marco Rubio said no one has died due to U.S. aid cuts. This mom disagrees - NPR
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Marco Rubio said no one has died due to U.S. aid cuts. This mom disagrees - NPR
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Marco Rubio said no one has died due to U.S. aid cuts. This mom disagrees — NPR
Mariam Mohammed says her younger son died when she could not get treatment for him at a U.S.-funded clinic that had temporarily closed. Researchers say there are many thousands of cases like his.
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May 29, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Disgusting and heartbreaking
Marco Rubio said no one has died due to U.S. aid cuts. This mom disagrees - NPR
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Marco Rubio said no one has died due to U.S. aid cuts. This mom disagrees - NPR
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A small team of researchers responsible for keeping clinicians up to date on contraception research has been cut. Doctors say they rely on the team's guidance when advising women about contraception.
After CDC cuts, doctors fear women will lose access to contraception research
A small team of researchers responsible for keeping clinicians up to date on contraception research has been cut. Doctors say they rely on the team's guidance when advising women about contraception.
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May 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
A small team of researchers responsible for keeping clinicians up to date on contraception research has been cut. Doctors say they rely on the team's guidance when advising women about contraception.
E. coli outbreak sickened more than 80 people, but details didn’t surface - The Washington Post
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E. coli outbreak sickened more than 80 people, but details didn’t surface — The Washington Post
Food safety inspections are being scaled back and the public was not notified after an investigation into E. coli contamination.
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May 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
E. coli outbreak sickened more than 80 people, but details didn’t surface - The Washington Post
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This really has to be one of the wildest things ever written on “official” letterhead.
May 6, 2025 at 6:59 PM
This really has to be one of the wildest things ever written on “official” letterhead.
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NEW: In agency after agency, the U.S. government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of policies.
By @alecmac.bsky.social
By @alecmac.bsky.social
Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More
By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose con...
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April 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
NEW: In agency after agency, the U.S. government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of policies.
By @alecmac.bsky.social
By @alecmac.bsky.social
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We are sending people to the Salvadoran gulag for nothing at all.
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ICE Took His Son From Their Bronx Home. Now His Son Is In Bukele's Mega-prison In El Salvador
Merwil Gutiérrez had no criminal record when ICE agents detained the 19-year-old outside his home. Now his father, Wilmer, is still searching for answers.
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April 17, 2025 at 2:17 PM
We are sending people to the Salvadoran gulag for nothing at all.
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Trump Admin Deports Teen With No Criminal Record to El Salvador Prison: Report - Rolling Stone
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Trump Admin Deports Teen With No Criminal Record to El Salvador Prison: Report — Rolling Stone
Merwil Gutiérrez’s father said ICE agents knew his son was not a target but arrested him anyway
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April 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Trump Admin Deports Teen With No Criminal Record to El Salvador Prison: Report - Rolling Stone
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“Our bad, can’t do anything about it now 🤷♀️”
This is what they are basically saying. Really, no one is safe here.
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This is what they are basically saying. Really, no one is safe here.
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An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison — The Atlantic
The Trump administration says that it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
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April 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
“Our bad, can’t do anything about it now 🤷♀️”
This is what they are basically saying. Really, no one is safe here.
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This is what they are basically saying. Really, no one is safe here.
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This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated.
The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations
The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.
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March 30, 2025 at 3:00 AM
This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated.
The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.
By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social
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Text messages with a bad opinion of our dictator. That is all it took for a French scientist to be barred from entry.
Text messages with a bad opinion of our dictator. That is all it took for a French scientist to be barred from entry.
French scientist denied US entry after phone messages critical of Trump found — Guardian US
France’s research minister said the scientist was traveling to Houston for a conference when his phone was searched
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March 20, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Text messages with a bad opinion of our dictator. That is all it took for a French scientist to be barred from entry.
Text messages with a bad opinion of our dictator. That is all it took for a French scientist to be barred from entry.
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Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.
Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency
One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos…
propub.li
March 10, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.
Neo-Nazi group plots rebuild as Trump’s FBI chief takes helm, audio reveals - The Guardian
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Neo-Nazi group plots rebuild as Trump’s FBI chief takes helm, audio reveals — Guardian US
Exclusive: Terrorist group the Base appears defiant as new administration aims to deprioritize threat from far right
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February 25, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Neo-Nazi group plots rebuild as Trump’s FBI chief takes helm, audio reveals - The Guardian
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DOGE’s Millions: As Musk and Trump Gut Government, Their Ax-Cutting Agency Gets Cash Infusion - ProPublica
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DOGE’s Millions: As Musk and Trump Gut Government, Their Ax-Cutting Agency Gets Cash Infusion — ProPublica
The Department of Government Efficiency is funded — and acts — like a federal agency. But the White House has shielded DOGE from the rules that govern such agencies, ProPublica found as it examines th...
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February 22, 2025 at 4:52 PM
DOGE’s Millions: As Musk and Trump Gut Government, Their Ax-Cutting Agency Gets Cash Infusion - ProPublica
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People experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves.
We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position.
We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position.
If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life
Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds…
propub.li
February 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
People experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves.
We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position.
We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position.
"Our analysis showed that patients who were admitted while their fetus was still believed to have a heartbeat were far more likely to develop sepsis."
Needless and preventable. Abortion is still healthcare.
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Needless and preventable. Abortion is still healthcare.
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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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February 20, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"Our analysis showed that patients who were admitted while their fetus was still believed to have a heartbeat were far more likely to develop sepsis."
Needless and preventable. Abortion is still healthcare.
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Needless and preventable. Abortion is still healthcare.
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Thank you @propublica.org for doing the work the state should be doing, instead of hiding what is happening because of a draconian abortion ban.
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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...
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February 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Thank you @propublica.org for doing the work the state should be doing, instead of hiding what is happening because of a draconian abortion ban.
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My office is hearing reports that the Trump administration’s purges include firing veterans who have served our country for years.
Our veterans deserve better.
If you've been impacted, call congress: (202) 224-3121
And share your story:
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Our veterans deserve better.
If you've been impacted, call congress: (202) 224-3121
And share your story:
www.veterans.senate.gov/contact-rank...
Contact Ranking Member
www.veterans.senate.gov
February 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
My office is hearing reports that the Trump administration’s purges include firing veterans who have served our country for years.
Our veterans deserve better.
If you've been impacted, call congress: (202) 224-3121
And share your story:
www.veterans.senate.gov/contact-rank...
Our veterans deserve better.
If you've been impacted, call congress: (202) 224-3121
And share your story:
www.veterans.senate.gov/contact-rank...
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Missouri's AG Andrew Bailey is suing Starbucks, arguing that its workforce is too "female" and "non-white" and as a result Missouri consumers “pay higher prices and wait longer for goods and services" because its workforce is "less qualified"
This is a brazenly racist and sexist lawsuit.
This is a brazenly racist and sexist lawsuit.
February 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Missouri's AG Andrew Bailey is suing Starbucks, arguing that its workforce is too "female" and "non-white" and as a result Missouri consumers “pay higher prices and wait longer for goods and services" because its workforce is "less qualified"
This is a brazenly racist and sexist lawsuit.
This is a brazenly racist and sexist lawsuit.