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Public health experts resisting harmful policies, fighting disinformation, and defending public health from within.
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Some nights we sign off with hope and inspiration.
Tonight, we sign off with anger and betrayal.
To the senators who caved... twice... May you have the night you deserve.
And to the rest of you...
Rage, rage against the dying of the light
Night, folks 💚
Tonight, we sign off with anger and betrayal.
To the senators who caved... twice... May you have the night you deserve.
And to the rest of you...
Rage, rage against the dying of the light
Night, folks 💚
November 11, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Some nights we sign off with hope and inspiration.
Tonight, we sign off with anger and betrayal.
To the senators who caved... twice... May you have the night you deserve.
And to the rest of you...
Rage, rage against the dying of the light
Night, folks 💚
Tonight, we sign off with anger and betrayal.
To the senators who caved... twice... May you have the night you deserve.
And to the rest of you...
Rage, rage against the dying of the light
Night, folks 💚
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Today we found out that @apha.org is awarding the 2025 Executive Director’s Citation Award to "Staff of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Current and In Exile."
We're not crying - you're crying.
www.apha.org/news-and-med...
We're not crying - you're crying.
www.apha.org/news-and-med...
APHA announces 2025 awards for excellence in public health
Every year, the American Public Health Association honors excellence in public health leadership and innovation, from state and local health officials to those speaking up for public health from the h...
www.apha.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Today we found out that @apha.org is awarding the 2025 Executive Director’s Citation Award to "Staff of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Current and In Exile."
We're not crying - you're crying.
www.apha.org/news-and-med...
We're not crying - you're crying.
www.apha.org/news-and-med...
Canada has lost its measles elimination status 😢 And with that, the only region of the world of eliminate measles - the Americas - goes with it
What is elimination and why does it matter?
Tl;dr: more work for already overstrained healthcare and public health systems
🧵👇
What is elimination and why does it matter?
Tl;dr: more work for already overstrained healthcare and public health systems
🧵👇
As expected, Canada has lost its measles-free status because of the long-running outbreak there. With it goes the #measles elimination status of the entire zone of the Americas, the only division of the #WHO to ever have achieved measles elimination. www.statnews.com/2025/11/10/m...
Canada loses measles elimination status — as does the entire Americas region
Canada has formally lost its measles elimination status, the country’s public health agency announced, triggering the loss of that status throughout all of the Americas.
www.statnews.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Canada has lost its measles elimination status 😢 And with that, the only region of the world of eliminate measles - the Americas - goes with it
What is elimination and why does it matter?
Tl;dr: more work for already overstrained healthcare and public health systems
🧵👇
What is elimination and why does it matter?
Tl;dr: more work for already overstrained healthcare and public health systems
🧵👇
November 10, 2025 at 10:44 PM
And then, once you have a semblance of zen...
🚨🚨🚨MOBILIZE🚨🚨🚨
Use your phones, emails, and socials to tell Senators Kaine, Rosen, and Shaheen that fed workers want them to HOLD THE LINE 💪
They're using federal workers as a reason to fold on shutdown negotiations
🚨🚨🚨MOBILIZE🚨🚨🚨
Use your phones, emails, and socials to tell Senators Kaine, Rosen, and Shaheen that fed workers want them to HOLD THE LINE 💪
They're using federal workers as a reason to fold on shutdown negotiations
Gutted by the Dems caving after the blue-wave wins of last week? Sick & tired of us snatching defeat from the jaws of victory? I hear you! Might I suggest you calm yourself, relax, take a deep, cleansing breath... then see if this photo of 2 pandas cuddling is of any help.
November 10, 2025 at 10:06 PM
And then, once you have a semblance of zen...
🚨🚨🚨MOBILIZE🚨🚨🚨
Use your phones, emails, and socials to tell Senators Kaine, Rosen, and Shaheen that fed workers want them to HOLD THE LINE 💪
They're using federal workers as a reason to fold on shutdown negotiations
🚨🚨🚨MOBILIZE🚨🚨🚨
Use your phones, emails, and socials to tell Senators Kaine, Rosen, and Shaheen that fed workers want them to HOLD THE LINE 💪
They're using federal workers as a reason to fold on shutdown negotiations
Ok, yes, this is a public health–adjacent account -- but some of us are also literary nerds. And seeing Joyce Carol Oates roast Elon Musk on his own platform? Just what we needed on an otherwise sh**ty day.
Elon Musk gets roasted on his own platform by Joyce Carol Oates.
Like an ancient cyborg culling through the ruins of a post-apocalyptic planet (twitter, derogatory), Joyce Carol Oates recently fired her full-power death ray at aspiring trillionaire Elon Musk, wh…
lithub.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Ok, yes, this is a public health–adjacent account -- but some of us are also literary nerds. And seeing Joyce Carol Oates roast Elon Musk on his own platform? Just what we needed on an otherwise sh**ty day.
Say it louder for the folks in the back: Medicaid work requirements don’t work!
Check out some of our previous thread for more on why:
bsky.app/profile/altc...;
bsky.app/profile/altc...
Check out some of our previous thread for more on why:
bsky.app/profile/altc...;
bsky.app/profile/altc...
State Medicaid programs shared insights into the challenges they anticipate when implementing work requirements next year: https://on.kff.org/3LLhQHu
November 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Say it louder for the folks in the back: Medicaid work requirements don’t work!
Check out some of our previous thread for more on why:
bsky.app/profile/altc...;
bsky.app/profile/altc...
Check out some of our previous thread for more on why:
bsky.app/profile/altc...;
bsky.app/profile/altc...
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CDC, public health officials in several states, the Infant Botulism Treatment and Prevention Program, and FDA are investigating a multistate outbreak of infant botulism linked to recalled infant formula.
www.fda.gov/safety/recal...
www.fda.gov/safety/recal...
In Response to a Broader FDA Investigation, ByHeart Initiates a Voluntary Recall of Two Batches of Infant Formula
[New York, NY] – ByHeart, a next-generation baby nutrition company, announced today that, out of an abundance of caution, it has chosen to voluntarily recall two batches of ByHeart Whole Nutrition Inf...
www.fda.gov
November 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
CDC, public health officials in several states, the Infant Botulism Treatment and Prevention Program, and FDA are investigating a multistate outbreak of infant botulism linked to recalled infant formula.
www.fda.gov/safety/recal...
www.fda.gov/safety/recal...
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“I no longer can bear to be restrained by what judges can say publicly or do outside the courtroom,” Judge Mark L. Wolf writes on his decision to resign from the federal bench. “President Trump is using the law for partisan purposes”: https://theatln.tc/XgppPPfA
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
“I no longer can bear to be restrained by what judges can say publicly or do outside the courtroom,” Judge Mark L. Wolf writes on his decision to resign from the federal bench. “President Trump is using the law for partisan purposes”: https://theatln.tc/XgppPPfA
1/9 Lots to unpack here on teen sex ed in the U.S.
TL;DR: policies are inconsistent, federal funding is politicized, misinformation is rampant, and most teens still lack full info on contraception & sexual health 📉
A thread 🧵 www.kff.org/womens-healt...
@kff.org @kffhealthnews.org
TL;DR: policies are inconsistent, federal funding is politicized, misinformation is rampant, and most teens still lack full info on contraception & sexual health 📉
A thread 🧵 www.kff.org/womens-healt...
@kff.org @kffhealthnews.org
Sex Education Programs: Definitions, Funding, and Impact on Teen Sexual Health | KFF
This issue brief reviews the major sex education models and funding streams that are most commonly used, highlights state policies on sex education, and summarizes what is known about the impact of th...
www.kff.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
1/9 Lots to unpack here on teen sex ed in the U.S.
TL;DR: policies are inconsistent, federal funding is politicized, misinformation is rampant, and most teens still lack full info on contraception & sexual health 📉
A thread 🧵 www.kff.org/womens-healt...
@kff.org @kffhealthnews.org
TL;DR: policies are inconsistent, federal funding is politicized, misinformation is rampant, and most teens still lack full info on contraception & sexual health 📉
A thread 🧵 www.kff.org/womens-healt...
@kff.org @kffhealthnews.org
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I was tagged in this to see what I could find out on my side by @altcdc.altgov.info. 🧵🧵🧵 I want to first say that the ppl that were working on this worked on the weekend and past 10pm most nights without fucking pay! I am so proud of them!!! Yesterday HFP (human foods program) around 4pm confirmed…
🚨🚨 INFANT FORMULA RECALL 🚨🚨
Please share widely
👇
Please share widely
👇
ALERT: Baby Formula
13 cases of infant botulism reported from Aug through Nov 2025 coming in 10 states thus far. Please see web content for specifics on lot numbers and more.
Special shoutout to our friends and colleagues at CDC and FDA who got this out quickly all while not being paid.
13 cases of infant botulism reported from Aug through Nov 2025 coming in 10 states thus far. Please see web content for specifics on lot numbers and more.
Special shoutout to our friends and colleagues at CDC and FDA who got this out quickly all while not being paid.
November 10, 2025 at 5:28 PM
I was tagged in this to see what I could find out on my side by @altcdc.altgov.info. 🧵🧵🧵 I want to first say that the ppl that were working on this worked on the weekend and past 10pm most nights without fucking pay! I am so proud of them!!! Yesterday HFP (human foods program) around 4pm confirmed…
Mega🧵 CDC IGNORES URGENT EPI AID REQUESTS
1/9 🚨 Maine is facing the largest HIV outbreak in its history.
It asked CDC for help.
😡 CDC is ignoring the request.
This is not getting enough attention in the news — and it should be.
🔗👇
1/9 🚨 Maine is facing the largest HIV outbreak in its history.
It asked CDC for help.
😡 CDC is ignoring the request.
This is not getting enough attention in the news — and it should be.
🔗👇
Maine sought federal help amid its largest HIV outbreak in state history. It’s still waiting
After initially approving Penobscot County's request for CDC aid, the agency put it on hold. Meanwhile, the virus spreads.
web.archive.org
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Mega🧵 CDC IGNORES URGENT EPI AID REQUESTS
1/9 🚨 Maine is facing the largest HIV outbreak in its history.
It asked CDC for help.
😡 CDC is ignoring the request.
This is not getting enough attention in the news — and it should be.
🔗👇
1/9 🚨 Maine is facing the largest HIV outbreak in its history.
It asked CDC for help.
😡 CDC is ignoring the request.
This is not getting enough attention in the news — and it should be.
🔗👇
Reposting.
Cuz every day is Happy Pride in my life.
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Cuz every day is Happy Pride in my life.
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Reposting.
Cuz every day is Happy Pride in my life.
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Cuz every day is Happy Pride in my life.
🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
THE SUPREME COURT WON’T REVISIT GAY MARRIAGE
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
LOVE IS LOVE
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
LOVE WINS. AGAIN AND AGAIN.
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
(and a big fuck you to Kim Davis. Babe, it’s over. Go find another hobby. Buhbye)
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
LOVE IS LOVE
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
LOVE WINS. AGAIN AND AGAIN.
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
(and a big fuck you to Kim Davis. Babe, it’s over. Go find another hobby. Buhbye)
Supreme Court won't revisit landmark decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
Kim Davis asked the Supreme Court to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges appealing damages she owed a gay couple after she denied them a marriage license.
www.usatoday.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
THE SUPREME COURT WON’T REVISIT GAY MARRIAGE
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
LOVE IS LOVE
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
LOVE WINS. AGAIN AND AGAIN.
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
(and a big fuck you to Kim Davis. Babe, it’s over. Go find another hobby. Buhbye)
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
LOVE IS LOVE
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
LOVE WINS. AGAIN AND AGAIN.
🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈
(and a big fuck you to Kim Davis. Babe, it’s over. Go find another hobby. Buhbye)
We want this #shutdown to end as much as anyone, but giving in to promises of a future vote on ACA subsidies is weak sauce. The House pen won’t even allow it and we can do this shutdown dance again in January. 😩
Senators, don’t make all this pain for nothing. Be bold. HOLD. THE. LINE.
More here:
Senators, don’t make all this pain for nothing. Be bold. HOLD. THE. LINE.
More here:
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
We want this #shutdown to end as much as anyone, but giving in to promises of a future vote on ACA subsidies is weak sauce. The House pen won’t even allow it and we can do this shutdown dance again in January. 😩
Senators, don’t make all this pain for nothing. Be bold. HOLD. THE. LINE.
More here:
Senators, don’t make all this pain for nothing. Be bold. HOLD. THE. LINE.
More here:
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Shut us down for good reason.
Open back up without any of those reasons having been fixed.
You want us to have confidence in you?
You want us to think YOU can lead US?
Don’t get me wrong, it’s good to have a chance to be back.. but our pain produced nothing in return.
Open back up without any of those reasons having been fixed.
You want us to have confidence in you?
You want us to think YOU can lead US?
Don’t get me wrong, it’s good to have a chance to be back.. but our pain produced nothing in return.
November 10, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Shut us down for good reason.
Open back up without any of those reasons having been fixed.
You want us to have confidence in you?
You want us to think YOU can lead US?
Don’t get me wrong, it’s good to have a chance to be back.. but our pain produced nothing in return.
Open back up without any of those reasons having been fixed.
You want us to have confidence in you?
You want us to think YOU can lead US?
Don’t get me wrong, it’s good to have a chance to be back.. but our pain produced nothing in return.
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New @motherjones.com: Florida's attorney general filed a $350 million lawsuit against Planned Parenthood this week, alleging deceptive marketing practices over claims that abortion pills are safer than Tylenol,
It's just the latest in the anti-abortion right's all-out attack against abortion pills:
It's just the latest in the anti-abortion right's all-out attack against abortion pills:
Florida takes on Planned Parenthood
Attorney General James Uthmeier filed a $350 million lawsuit alleging deceptive marketing practices over claims that medication abortion is safer than Tylenol.
www.motherjones.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:18 PM
New @motherjones.com: Florida's attorney general filed a $350 million lawsuit against Planned Parenthood this week, alleging deceptive marketing practices over claims that abortion pills are safer than Tylenol,
It's just the latest in the anti-abortion right's all-out attack against abortion pills:
It's just the latest in the anti-abortion right's all-out attack against abortion pills:
📨What did you do last week?
To: House Speaker Johnson
Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager.
Please do not send any classified information, links, or attachments.
Deadline is Monday, 11:59pmEST
👉Failure to respond = resignation
To: House Speaker Johnson
Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager.
Please do not send any classified information, links, or attachments.
Deadline is Monday, 11:59pmEST
👉Failure to respond = resignation
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
📨What did you do last week?
To: House Speaker Johnson
Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager.
Please do not send any classified information, links, or attachments.
Deadline is Monday, 11:59pmEST
👉Failure to respond = resignation
To: House Speaker Johnson
Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager.
Please do not send any classified information, links, or attachments.
Deadline is Monday, 11:59pmEST
👉Failure to respond = resignation
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the thing that upsets me about this the most is that Dems had all the momentum, republicans were reeling, and we were getting intra-GOP fighting over the filibuster, all while voters were blaming republicans for their incompetence
this destroys all of this. just a total gut punch
this destroys all of this. just a total gut punch
November 10, 2025 at 5:06 AM
the thing that upsets me about this the most is that Dems had all the momentum, republicans were reeling, and we were getting intra-GOP fighting over the filibuster, all while voters were blaming republicans for their incompetence
this destroys all of this. just a total gut punch
this destroys all of this. just a total gut punch
These are the Senators who voted to end the Shutdown in exchange for…. um… an empty promise? (Hint: Rs haven’t been great at pinky promises lately)
👏 BUT to all the Democratic senators who held the line - call them tomorrow to thank them!
👏 BUT to all the Democratic senators who held the line - call them tomorrow to thank them!
If Chuck Schumer was a stronger leader, he would have been able to convince most of these senators to hold the line.
I’m terribly disappointed in him.
I’m terribly disappointed in him.
November 10, 2025 at 3:10 AM
These are the Senators who voted to end the Shutdown in exchange for…. um… an empty promise? (Hint: Rs haven’t been great at pinky promises lately)
👏 BUT to all the Democratic senators who held the line - call them tomorrow to thank them!
👏 BUT to all the Democratic senators who held the line - call them tomorrow to thank them!
Within the agreement to end the shutdown:
🗳️ A promise to vote about extending healthcare subsidies (Repulican promises…🙄)
✅ Rehiring feds who were fired during the shutdown
💲Backpay for feds (already a law mandating that)
❓Prevent some future firings in any agency until at least 1/30/2026 (?)
🗳️ A promise to vote about extending healthcare subsidies (Repulican promises…🙄)
✅ Rehiring feds who were fired during the shutdown
💲Backpay for feds (already a law mandating that)
❓Prevent some future firings in any agency until at least 1/30/2026 (?)
This is not a deal — it's an empty promise.
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families.
Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Senate reaches deal on ending the shutdown
Democrats are coalescing around a bipartisan agreement to fund the government.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Within the agreement to end the shutdown:
🗳️ A promise to vote about extending healthcare subsidies (Repulican promises…🙄)
✅ Rehiring feds who were fired during the shutdown
💲Backpay for feds (already a law mandating that)
❓Prevent some future firings in any agency until at least 1/30/2026 (?)
🗳️ A promise to vote about extending healthcare subsidies (Repulican promises…🙄)
✅ Rehiring feds who were fired during the shutdown
💲Backpay for feds (already a law mandating that)
❓Prevent some future firings in any agency until at least 1/30/2026 (?)
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
These are the senators at risk of caving.
Please call them - especially if you live in their state. Please tell them to not cave until you get guarantees on healthcare. (Not just empty promises from Rs)
What was the point in all this if Dems cave now without any guarantees?
Please call them - especially if you live in their state. Please tell them to not cave until you get guarantees on healthcare. (Not just empty promises from Rs)
What was the point in all this if Dems cave now without any guarantees?
Chuck Schumer and friends. #DoNotCave Red alert. Call these Senators.
November 10, 2025 at 1:54 AM
These are the senators at risk of caving.
Please call them - especially if you live in their state. Please tell them to not cave until you get guarantees on healthcare. (Not just empty promises from Rs)
What was the point in all this if Dems cave now without any guarantees?
Please call them - especially if you live in their state. Please tell them to not cave until you get guarantees on healthcare. (Not just empty promises from Rs)
What was the point in all this if Dems cave now without any guarantees?
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Friends,
CALL YOUR SENATORS RIGHT NOW
Whatever state you are in, call YOUR Senators. No deal without healthcare.
(202) 224-3121
☎️☎️☎️☎️🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
CALL YOUR SENATORS RIGHT NOW
Whatever state you are in, call YOUR Senators. No deal without healthcare.
(202) 224-3121
☎️☎️☎️☎️🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
November 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Friends,
CALL YOUR SENATORS RIGHT NOW
Whatever state you are in, call YOUR Senators. No deal without healthcare.
(202) 224-3121
☎️☎️☎️☎️🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
CALL YOUR SENATORS RIGHT NOW
Whatever state you are in, call YOUR Senators. No deal without healthcare.
(202) 224-3121
☎️☎️☎️☎️🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨