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The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.
September 4, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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AAP’s latest immunization schedule is rooted in pediatric science and clinical care, and includes recommendations that will help children build the strongest immune defense against respiratory illnesses, like the flu, COVID-19 and RSV. Learn more by visiting our website.
www.aap.org
August 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time
June 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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War kills people, and those it doesn’t kill, end up carrying a heavy burden of trauma.

Americans do not want war and they certainly do not want politicians who cheer it on.

The politicians don’t go to war, the working class does.

We must center humanity and stand against war.
June 22, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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an adult summer reading program with stickers and prizes and someone to ooh and ahh at my "finished" list would probably fix me
June 21, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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"I think you caved. I don't think you showed the fight this party needs right now, because you're playing by a rulebook where the other party has thrown that rulebook away" -- here's the full clip of Sunny Hostin confronting Schumer today on The View
March 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.
March 18, 2025 at 4:51 AM
“Many cuts to the Department of Education, whether they are determined through the use of AI models or human decision-making,” Aboulafia says, “will have a disproportionate and significant impact on students with disabilities.”
Department of Education plays a crucial role in making sure disabled kids receive the same access to education across states, and distributes funding for the needed accommodations.
Elon Musk's use of AI to slash education spending could put disabled students at risk
It may also "raise serious security questions given the sensitivity of the data."
www.motherjones.com
February 7, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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At the newsletter right now:

The Trump administration has scrubbed information about HIPAA protections for reproductive rights from the Department of Health and Human Services website.
Breaking: Trump is Scrubbing HIPAA Info off HHS Website
The White House is deleting information on reproductive health privacy and discrimination at pharmacies
jessica.substack.com
February 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Boston residents - you can vote for what community initiatives you want the city to fund this spring. Kids ages 11+ can vote too!

participate.budget.boston.gov/boston-pb-20...
Boston PB | OPB
Come and take part in deciding how to spend funding on improving our city!
participate.budget.boston.gov
February 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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It's totally fucking NUTS that we went 16 years without airline fatalities, and less than 2 weeks into trump's presidency we have planes crashing and falling out of the sky.

All while they're forcing top FAA and FBI folks to resign.

Nothing to see here, right? 🙄
February 1, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.

I'm trying to save them.

You can find the deleted docs at cdcguidelines.com - I'll be adding more over the weekend.
Download CDC Guidelines Removed By The Trump Admin
The Trump administration is scrubbing the CDC’s website of documents on reproductive rights issues, sexual health, intimate partner violence, and more.
CDCGuidelines.com
February 1, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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Warren: "He can stand there, smile at you and say, 'anybody can vaccinate their kids who wants to,' but he literally could bankrupt the vaccines manufacturers with the power he will have. And since he's got a financial incentive to do that, we cannot trust him in that job."
January 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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We say that people don't notice constitutional regime collapse because it comes on too slowly but I'm not sure how much faster it could be happening; we are literally at concentration camps on day 9.
January 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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The House Introduces Bill to Ban Abortion Nationwide.

Remember when Trump said he wasn’t going to implement a total abortion ban? Yeah, well here’s the bill proposing a nationwide abortion ban.

Just another egregious LIE to add to the long list of lies from this corrupt administration.
January 29, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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Heads up.
Here is something you can do right now
January 30, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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January 24, 2025 at 2:11 AM