@marynugent.bsky.social
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Yesterday’s oral argument included a lot of misleading and downright fake claims. We need to challenge those false narratives bc it’s putting kids at risk. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Conversion therapy isn't real. Junk science that harms LGBTQ youth should be banned. | Opinion
Conversion therapy has long been debunked. Now the Supreme Court may render bans against it unlawful, paving the way for countless kids to be harmed.
www.usatoday.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Yesterday’s oral argument included a lot of misleading and downright fake claims. We need to challenge those false narratives bc it’s putting kids at risk. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Important read about the dangerous moves by the Trump administration and Supreme Court, written by my smart friend @hvnorrisphd.bsky.social www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Conversion therapy isn't real. Junk science that harms LGBTQ youth should be banned. | Opinion
Conversion therapy has long been debunked. Now the Supreme Court may render bans against it unlawful, paving the way for countless kids to be harmed.
www.usatoday.com
October 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Important read about the dangerous moves by the Trump administration and Supreme Court, written by my smart friend @hvnorrisphd.bsky.social www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort
Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.
www.politico.com
June 25, 2025 at 1:59 PM
This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...
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This from Abe Foxman is very important. “As a [Holocaust] survivor, my antenna quivers when I see books being banned, when I see people being abducted in the streets, when I see government trying to dictate what universities should teach and whom they should teach.“ jewishinsider.com/2025/04/abe-...
Abe Foxman criticizes Trump administration in Holocaust Remembrance Day speech
The former ADL director said he is ‘troubled’ by the ‘demonizing’ of immigrants and attacks on universities
jewishinsider.com
April 23, 2025 at 11:07 PM
This from Abe Foxman is very important. “As a [Holocaust] survivor, my antenna quivers when I see books being banned, when I see people being abducted in the streets, when I see government trying to dictate what universities should teach and whom they should teach.“ jewishinsider.com/2025/04/abe-...
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On the eve of Passover and the start of Holy Week.
Let’s call destroying Head Start what it is.
Immoral.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
Let’s call destroying Head Start what it is.
Immoral.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
Exclusive: Trump budget proposal would fully eliminate Head Start
The White House's budget proposes eliminating Head Start, an early childhood education program that provides services to low-income families.
www.usatoday.com
April 12, 2025 at 1:46 AM
On the eve of Passover and the start of Holy Week.
Let’s call destroying Head Start what it is.
Immoral.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
Let’s call destroying Head Start what it is.
Immoral.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
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Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"
April 1, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"
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"There's a room here in the Senate named after Strom Thurmond... I'm here despite his speech, I'm here because as powerful as he was, the people were more powerful." -Cory Booker as he eclipses Thurmond's record for the longest filibuster in US history.
April 1, 2025 at 11:19 PM
"There's a room here in the Senate named after Strom Thurmond... I'm here despite his speech, I'm here because as powerful as he was, the people were more powerful." -Cory Booker as he eclipses Thurmond's record for the longest filibuster in US history.
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“These first two months have been much more aggressively authoritarian than almost any other comparable case I know of democratic backsliding,” said Steven Levitsky, a Harvard political scientist and coauthor of “How Democracies Die” and “Competitive Authoritarianism” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...
‘This Is Worse’: Trump’s Judicial Defiance Veers Beyond the Autocrat Playbook
The president’s escalating conflict with federal courts is even more aggressive than what happened in countries like Hungary and Turkey, experts say.
www.nytimes.com
March 20, 2025 at 8:08 PM
“These first two months have been much more aggressively authoritarian than almost any other comparable case I know of democratic backsliding,” said Steven Levitsky, a Harvard political scientist and coauthor of “How Democracies Die” and “Competitive Authoritarianism” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...
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far from me to second guess levitsky on this, but ... we don't know if it will work yet www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...
March 20, 2025 at 8:21 PM
far from me to second guess levitsky on this, but ... we don't know if it will work yet www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...
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The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children.
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
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This is deeply illegal, violating appropriations law, authorizations law, and the Impoundment Control Act.
It is also deeply immoral, condemning people to die.
It is also deeply immoral, condemning people to die.
March 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
This is deeply illegal, violating appropriations law, authorizations law, and the Impoundment Control Act.
It is also deeply immoral, condemning people to die.
It is also deeply immoral, condemning people to die.
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Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
January 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde to Trump: "I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender people in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives ... and the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals"
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In Washington, D.C., a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.
How D.C. tackled a child care crunch through a tax hike on the rich
In Washington, D.C., a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.
www.npr.org
December 13, 2024 at 8:16 PM
In Washington, D.C., a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.