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bradheath.bsky.social
At least three of President Trump’s Cabinet members call multiple homes their primary residences on mortgages.

www.propublica.org/article/trum...
September 4, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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petebuttigieg.bsky.social
RFK Jr. and the Trump administration are canceling vaccine development for bird flu and other dangerous diseases - an action which puts us and our kids in danger.
RFK Jr. cuts $500 million in mRNA vaccine contracts, dealing major blow to promising area of research
The cuts add to mounting evidence that Kennedy is pursuing an aggressive anti-vaccine agenda.
www.nbcnews.com
August 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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theatlantic.com
The rapid decline of American science has few precedents in history, argues @rossandersen.bsky.social. We are witnessing an unparalleled act of self-sabotage:
How Scientific Empires End
And what it means for America
bit.ly
August 1, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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crampell.bsky.social
The Trump administration has dealt a sharp blow to work on H.I.V. vaccines, terminating a $258 million program whose work was instrumental to the search for a vaccine. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/h...
Trump Administration Ends Program Critical to Search for an H.I.V. Vaccine
www.nytimes.com
June 10, 2025 at 12:39 AM
laurakohn-care.bsky.social
It was a joy to talk with Georgia Goldburn of CERCLE about partnering to bring CARE to Connecticut. The state just made exciting new investments in its child care sector! 🙌
wnhhlp.bsky.social wnhhlp.bsky.social @wnhhlp.bsky.social · Jun 9
🎙️ Just published a new episode of Inside Voices, Community Conversations:: “CARE REIT - Rethinking Investment in Early Education”. Have a listen:
“CARE REIT - Rethinking Investment in Early Education”
Listen to this episode of Inside Voices, Community Conversations:
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June 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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mollytaft.com
one young person told me: “I want people to know about what they did to Americorps. For many of us, this was our way to pay for college, to get away from home, to figure out what to do with our lives, it was a big step. And they just ripped it out from under us without even a 2-week’s notice.”
April 16, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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kjephd.bsky.social
New Mexico made child care free for most families. Believe it or not, the good thing is good.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line
The state, which has long ranked worst in the US for child wellbeing, became the first and only in the country to offer free childcare to a majority of families
www.theguardian.com
April 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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cnn.com
As preventable infections like measles threaten to become endemic again in the US, researchers whose government grants were recently terminated are warning about the consequences of throttling studies looking at ways to increase vaccination.
‘The lives of individuals in the US are at stake,’ researchers warn after HHS cancels hundreds of vaccine grants | CNN
As preventable infections like measles threaten to become endemic again in the US, researchers whose government grants were recently terminated are warning about the consequences of throttling studies...
www.cnn.com
March 31, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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drjackbrown.bsky.social
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” George Orwell 1984
March 30, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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marisakabas.bsky.social
SCOOP: Now that Linda McMahon is confirmed/sworn in as secretary, Trump will be imminently issuing an executive order eliminating the Department of Education.

I’ve obtained a draft of an email that McMahon will be sending to staff re: the EO and the department’s “final mission”.

Here is a portion:
After President Trump's inauguration last month, he has steadily signed a slate of executive orders to keep these education promises: combatting critical race theory, DEl, gender ideology extremism, and discrimination in admissions. President Trump has also been focused on eliminating wasteful bureaucracy and harmful programs in the federal government. To that end, today he signed [Executive Order XYZ, entitled "Eliminating the Department of Education,] which has given us a clear and final mission. We are to identify which of the Department's functions, programs, and offices are not mandated by statute, and eliminate them. This reorganization will impact staff, budgets, reporting, and more —and in coming months, we will determine how it can be accomplished with minimal delay and disruption. The President further tasked us with creating a plan to reallocate and reassign functions of the Department of Education that would be more effectively managed by other agencies. This plan will offer Congress a road map toward fulfilling the expectations of the President and the American people. The new vision—which I hope each of you will embrace going forward—can be expressed as four main convictions: Parents are the primary decision makers in their children's education. Students deserve to be protected from physical violence, racial discrimination, medical tyranny, and gender extremism ideology on campus. Postsecondary education should be a path to a well-paying career aligned with workforce needs. Taxpayer-funded education should refocus on meaningful learning: proficiency in math, reading, and core subjects, and patriotism in American history and civics. As we move to reduce the Department's middleman role in education, these four convictions must guide us toward conscientious and pragmatic action. The elimination of bureaucracy should free us, not limit us, in our pursuit of these goals Removing red tape and bureaucratic barriers will empower parents to make th
March 4, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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ericcolumbus.bsky.social
A grim scene this afternoon as Emil Bove faced down lawyers from DOJ’s Public Integrity Section.

One said it was “not anything any of us ever expected to see in America.”

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
At his meeting with the remaining members of the public integrity section on Friday, Bove said that he and Bondi wanted two people in the unit to sign a motion asking the judge to dismiss the Adams case, and that their jobs would depend on it, according to multiple people briefed on the session who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss it. Those not in the building participated by calling in on a conference line, two of the people said. Bove left the group alone to discuss how its members wished to proceed, saying he wanted an answer quickly, the people briefed on the matter said. One attorney present told a colleague at Justice that the discussion was “gut-wrenching” and “not anything any of us ever expected to see in America,” the colleague told The Washington Post. At first, the lawyers agreed they would all resign rather than endorse the dismissal of the Adams corruption case, two people briefed on the session said. But then Sullivan, who is nearing retirement, proposed that he could sign the motion, to avoid a mass firing of prosecutors and allow his colleagues time to seek jobs elsewhere, these people said. The group agreed to accept Sullivan’s offer. But some were upset, believing that their section could still face retaliation and that it would be more principled for everyone to refuse to seek to drop the charges.
February 15, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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gtconway.bsky.social
Correct. A crisis in which the actual elected president affirmatively seeks to dispense with the Constitution and laws he swore to preserve, protect, and defend, and has ceded control of critical executive functions to an unsupervised and unelected oligarch who has become his master.
atherton.bsky.social Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · Feb 2
Best start believing in constitutional crisis, we're in one
February 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM