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democracy is a practice.
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I spoke to CNN about how demoralizing it was to watch Stanford leadership stay silent while contrarians on campus launched unscientific attacks to stifle Stanford researchers. Now, those attacks have gone nationwide and much of MAHA leadership have ties to Stanford.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/p...
The Trump-MAHA-Stanford nexus of US health policy | CNN Politics
In early 2022, Stanford medical student Santiago Sanchez set out to organize a campus debate with Jay Bhattacharya — a professor at the university whose outspoken denunciations of pandemic lockdowns m...
www.cnn.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
November 10, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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THIS IS THE WAY Oscar Isaac.
November 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
can we have an opposition party that doesn't stick its neck out for senate republicans
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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13) I think Dem leadership still suffers from frame drag. They think it's the 90s. Trump is dismantling the powers of Congress. They have to rise to that moment and demand big things.

Vought is expanding the playing field to thinks off the table. Dems need to do the same.

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November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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MSNBC reported Schumer's office felt that the longer that shutdown went on, the more likely it was that people would start to blame the Dems.

My kingdom for Democrats that don't govern out of fear. I've said it before and I'll say it again: The American people are far braver than their reps.
November 10, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Enough is enough. Contact your Democratic senators TODAY and tell them to call for Senator Schumer to step aside as Minority Leader. We desperately need new leadership in the Democratic Party.
CALL NOW: Tell Your Democratic Senator It's Time for Chuck Schumer to Step Aside
indivisible.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
retire, chuck
November 10, 2025 at 5:24 AM
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just to clarify (and kevin knows this so don’t @ him) call no matter who your senators are. the caucus will pay attention to backlash
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.

If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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I'm in CA and used language that was like "we aren't falling for the trick where you have just enough vote yes so everyone else can say no. You're ALL responsible for this"
November 9, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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For my N. Hemisphere friends:

This weekend would be an absolutely brilliant time to get your flu and covid shots. You will get a massive protective antibody surge right as holiday socializing is ramping up flu and covid activity.

15 minutes at the pharmacy could save you a week of misery.
November 7, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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reminder David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel both went on the record to Politico to say they were fine with this, either knowing the result would be mass death of children or being too dumb to know. Decide for yourself what’s worse!
November 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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We need to demand war crimes tribunals when we take back power.
The AP tracked down details of some of the people killed in President Trump's military strikes on drug smugglers he describes as narco-terrorists.

They were, with one exception, not high-level criminals. One was a fisherman. One was a bus driver; another a taxi driver.

apnews.com/article/trum...
November 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Hundreds of thousands of people, dead because of a decision made by the world's richest man
November 7, 2025 at 12:20 PM
we’re going to remember this as the admin that fought desperately, pathetically, to hurt as may people as they could
November 7, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Independent of what PAHO ends up deciding, we don’t deserve elimination status given the state of things. Still, progress is rarely monotonic. Measles can be eliminated if we decide it’s worth eliminating.
PAHO meets this week to decide if we’ve lost measles elimination status. I warned in this interview that we’re marching toward that threshold—and getting this close signals widening vaccination gaps and eroding public health capacity.

🔗 www.scientificamerican.com/article/meas...

#Vaccines #Measles
North America May Soon No Longer Be Officially Measles-Free, Experts Say
A meeting of the Pan American Health Organization this week will address the resurgence of measles in the Americas
www.scientificamerican.com
November 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Sean Dunn, aka DC Sandwich Guy, speaks outside court after his not guilty verdict:

“I am so happy that justice prevails in spite of everything….

“That night I believe I was protecting the rights of immigrants…

Every life matters, no matter where you came from, no matter how you got here…”
November 6, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Hero jury saves democracy gone a-rye
Jury nullification is good and it's a good sign for America's path out of authoritarianism that juries are recognizing their power to nullify.
November 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
wait I got one! trump tried to end democracy - the American people soured, tho
November 6, 2025 at 8:16 PM
aw man the sandwich pictures (and puns!) are making me hungry
November 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Update: today, 16.8 million people should have *full* SNAP benefits for November. They don't.

Most states don't issue SNAP all at once. Some distribute SNAP up to the 28th day.

This masks the scale of the problem: 42 million worrying about hunger in the richest country on earth.

🛟 🥗 🩺📊 #econsky
November 6, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Oh oops did we say the whole thing out loud? Our bad
November 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM