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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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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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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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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
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! 🙌
🎙️ 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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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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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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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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March 30, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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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:
March 4, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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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...
February 15, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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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.
Best start believing in constitutional crisis, we're in one
February 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM