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Patients can’t afford delays. Neither can science.
Join us TODAY as advocates nationwide contact Congress to protect federal medical research funding that saves lives.
Act now → unitedforcures.org/day-of-action
#CuresCantWait
Join us TODAY as advocates nationwide contact Congress to protect federal medical research funding that saves lives.
Act now → unitedforcures.org/day-of-action
#CuresCantWait
Day of Action — United For Cures
unitedforcures.org
December 3, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Patients can’t afford delays. Neither can science.
Join us TODAY as advocates nationwide contact Congress to protect federal medical research funding that saves lives.
Act now → unitedforcures.org/day-of-action
#CuresCantWait
Join us TODAY as advocates nationwide contact Congress to protect federal medical research funding that saves lives.
Act now → unitedforcures.org/day-of-action
#CuresCantWait
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📢 On December 3, join us in a National Day of Action to protect lifesaving medical research.
Patients and families nationwide depend on NIH-funded breakthroughs.
Raise your voice with us ➜ bit.ly/3Kei8q6
#UnitedForCures #CuresCantWait
Patients and families nationwide depend on NIH-funded breakthroughs.
Raise your voice with us ➜ bit.ly/3Kei8q6
#UnitedForCures #CuresCantWait
Make Your Voice Heard!
Both the House of Representatives and the Senate have advanced draft spending bills that maintain federal funding for lifesaving...
bit.ly
November 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
📢 On December 3, join us in a National Day of Action to protect lifesaving medical research.
Patients and families nationwide depend on NIH-funded breakthroughs.
Raise your voice with us ➜ bit.ly/3Kei8q6
#UnitedForCures #CuresCantWait
Patients and families nationwide depend on NIH-funded breakthroughs.
Raise your voice with us ➜ bit.ly/3Kei8q6
#UnitedForCures #CuresCantWait
@natsound.bsky.social Once in a lifetime indeed. 👏👏👏
November 14, 2025 at 10:56 PM
@natsound.bsky.social Once in a lifetime indeed. 👏👏👏
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Just receieved this today from Florida Blue. This is for a Bronze plan. Our monthly premiums are going from $333 (2025) to $2300 in 2026.
October 20, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Just receieved this today from Florida Blue. This is for a Bronze plan. Our monthly premiums are going from $333 (2025) to $2300 in 2026.
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Believing cloud seeding caused the #Texasfloods but not believing in #climatechange is a fascinating take… 🤔🤔🤔
July 10, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Believing cloud seeding caused the #Texasfloods but not believing in #climatechange is a fascinating take… 🤔🤔🤔
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If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?
June 25, 2025 at 9:51 PM
If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?
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I am not an historian. But our nation's collective lack of historical proficiency has caught up to us.
June 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
I am not an historian. But our nation's collective lack of historical proficiency has caught up to us.
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Some Senate R's are trying to overturn CA's emissions standards even though the Parliamentarian said NO
It would be corrupt (& would destroy the filibuster)
I explained @velshimsnbc.bsky.social
It would be corrupt (& would destroy the filibuster)
I explained @velshimsnbc.bsky.social
May 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Some Senate R's are trying to overturn CA's emissions standards even though the Parliamentarian said NO
It would be corrupt (& would destroy the filibuster)
I explained @velshimsnbc.bsky.social
It would be corrupt (& would destroy the filibuster)
I explained @velshimsnbc.bsky.social
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The “fluoride removal” bit is a solution in search of a problem.
Fluoride levels in Florida are completely safe, help prevent cavities, and keep kids in school.
Where’s the evidence it’s been remotely harmful? There isn’t any.
No ethics, no morals, all smoke and mirrors.
Fluoride levels in Florida are completely safe, help prevent cavities, and keep kids in school.
Where’s the evidence it’s been remotely harmful? There isn’t any.
No ethics, no morals, all smoke and mirrors.
May 17, 2025 at 12:27 AM
The “fluoride removal” bit is a solution in search of a problem.
Fluoride levels in Florida are completely safe, help prevent cavities, and keep kids in school.
Where’s the evidence it’s been remotely harmful? There isn’t any.
No ethics, no morals, all smoke and mirrors.
Fluoride levels in Florida are completely safe, help prevent cavities, and keep kids in school.
Where’s the evidence it’s been remotely harmful? There isn’t any.
No ethics, no morals, all smoke and mirrors.
They want to literally take food out of the mouths and stomachs of kids #SNAP www.politico.com/live-updates...
House Ag Republicans seek to push SNAP costs to states in megabill
The House Agriculture Committee on Monday revealed its plans to cut spending by punishing states with higher payment error rates.
www.politico.com
May 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
They want to literally take food out of the mouths and stomachs of kids #SNAP www.politico.com/live-updates...
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At a 24-hour vigil to protect Medicaid on the National Mall in Washington, DC, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) was to the point: to protect democracy, Medicaid has to be protected, too.
24-hour vigil to save Medicaid takes over National Mall
"This is a matter of life and death for millions of people," said Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin.
www.motherjones.com
May 7, 2025 at 7:48 PM
At a 24-hour vigil to protect Medicaid on the National Mall in Washington, DC, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) was to the point: to protect democracy, Medicaid has to be protected, too.
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Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 16, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
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This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
March 15, 2025 at 5:32 PM
This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH
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Take a moment today to read about a few of the young children whom Trump and Musk killed by shutting down USAID. The blame for these deaths falls on them.
There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
March 15, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Take a moment today to read about a few of the young children whom Trump and Musk killed by shutting down USAID. The blame for these deaths falls on them.
There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
There will be hundreds of thousands more dead kids before their lethal crusade against foreign aid ends. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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My Georgetown CCF colleague Andy Schneider explains how critics of #Medicaid are grossly exaggerating and wildly misrepresenting federal error measurement rates to justify massive Medicaid cuts: ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/03/13/m...
Medicaid Fraud: The Improper Use of Improper Payments
Welcome to another installment on the misuse of the Medicaid “improper payments” metric. This conversation began in 2018, then continued in 2020, 2022, and this year. For th…
ccf.georgetown.edu
March 13, 2025 at 10:21 PM
My Georgetown CCF colleague Andy Schneider explains how critics of #Medicaid are grossly exaggerating and wildly misrepresenting federal error measurement rates to justify massive Medicaid cuts: ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/03/13/m...
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"Rural hospital leaders in Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri and Texas who spoke to The Washington Post warned that the enormous cuts congressional Republicans are weighing could further destroy limited health-care access in rural America..."
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Republican Medicaid cuts could shutter rural hospitals, maternity care
Potential Medicaid cuts could devastate America’s teetering rural health-care system and jeopardize Republicans’ political power among rural voters.
www.washingtonpost.com
March 10, 2025 at 12:41 AM
"Rural hospital leaders in Arkansas, Colorado, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri and Texas who spoke to The Washington Post warned that the enormous cuts congressional Republicans are weighing could further destroy limited health-care access in rural America..."
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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"officials at the Dept. of HHS... have pressed staff at the agency to ignore court orders, according to nearly a dozen former and current NIH officials I spoke with. Even advice from NIH lawyers to resume business as usual was dismissed by the agency’s acting director, those officials said."
Inside the Collapse at the NIH
Administration officials pressured the NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.
www.theatlantic.com
February 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
"officials at the Dept. of HHS... have pressed staff at the agency to ignore court orders, according to nearly a dozen former and current NIH officials I spoke with. Even advice from NIH lawyers to resume business as usual was dismissed by the agency’s acting director, those officials said."
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I'll continue reupping my blog post about how the major #Medicaid cuts being proposed to hit the $880 billion cut target are the same cuts that were tried and failed in 2017 as part of ACA repeal. Then as now the intent is to gut Medicaid not somehow curb fraud: ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/02/24/s...
February 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I'll continue reupping my blog post about how the major #Medicaid cuts being proposed to hit the $880 billion cut target are the same cuts that were tried and failed in 2017 as part of ACA repeal. Then as now the intent is to gut Medicaid not somehow curb fraud: ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/02/24/s...
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JFC
We do NOT want to have a season of unvaccinated influenza. The flu is a lot worse than a cold and thousands die in the US every year from it
We do NOT want to have a season of unvaccinated influenza. The flu is a lot worse than a cold and thousands die in the US every year from it
Breaking: FDA's March meeting to select flu shot strains for 2025-2026 season has been canceled per email sent to committee members, a VRBPAC member told me. drug companies need about 6 months leeway to make shots in time for fall vax campaigns. #healthpolicy
February 27, 2025 at 12:42 AM
JFC
We do NOT want to have a season of unvaccinated influenza. The flu is a lot worse than a cold and thousands die in the US every year from it
We do NOT want to have a season of unvaccinated influenza. The flu is a lot worse than a cold and thousands die in the US every year from it
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Lynn Dekleva, a lobbyist, once led an aggressive effort by an industry group to block regulations on formaldehyde, a cancer-causing chemical. Now she’s in a senior role at the Environmental Protection Agency.
She Lobbied for Formaldehyde. Now She’s at E.P.A. Approving New Chemicals.
Lynn Dekleva, who recently took a senior role at the agency, once led an aggressive effort by industry to block regulations on formaldehyde.
www.nytimes.com
February 27, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Lynn Dekleva, a lobbyist, once led an aggressive effort by an industry group to block regulations on formaldehyde, a cancer-causing chemical. Now she’s in a senior role at the Environmental Protection Agency.
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With House passage of its budget resolution and its requirement of at least $880b in #Medicaid cuts, here again is my writeup from January of all of the deeply damaging Medicaid proposals under consideration to meet that target amount of cuts: ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/01/20/h...
House Budget Committee Circulates New Detailed List of Budget Reconciliation Options Including Draconian Medicaid Cuts Within House Republican Caucus
On Friday, January 17, Politico and other news outlets reported that the House Budget Committee distributed to the House Republican Caucus a new 50-page list of mandatory spending and tax proposals…
ccf.georgetown.edu
February 26, 2025 at 2:24 AM
With House passage of its budget resolution and its requirement of at least $880b in #Medicaid cuts, here again is my writeup from January of all of the deeply damaging Medicaid proposals under consideration to meet that target amount of cuts: ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/01/20/h...
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Just an FYI: Medicaid fraud is rarely perpetrated by beneficiaries. The fraudsters are almost always the doctors and CEO's that administer Medicaid. For example: when a doctor charges the government $600 for an $8 breast pump and pockets the cash and the third party administrator takes a cut.
February 26, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Just an FYI: Medicaid fraud is rarely perpetrated by beneficiaries. The fraudsters are almost always the doctors and CEO's that administer Medicaid. For example: when a doctor charges the government $600 for an $8 breast pump and pockets the cash and the third party administrator takes a cut.
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RFK JR on Measles Outbreaks just now: "It is not unusual. There are measles outbreaks every year."
It is actually very unusual. This is the first Measles death in the US in 10 years.
It is actually very unusual. This is the first Measles death in the US in 10 years.
February 26, 2025 at 6:16 PM
RFK JR on Measles Outbreaks just now: "It is not unusual. There are measles outbreaks every year."
It is actually very unusual. This is the first Measles death in the US in 10 years.
It is actually very unusual. This is the first Measles death in the US in 10 years.
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From unified patient groups on #Medicaid cuts: “Our organizations strongly oppose the House budget resolution, which requires massive cuts that can only be achieved by decimating the Medicaid program...." www.lung.org/media/press-...
February 24, 2025 at 10:25 PM
From unified patient groups on #Medicaid cuts: “Our organizations strongly oppose the House budget resolution, which requires massive cuts that can only be achieved by decimating the Medicaid program...." www.lung.org/media/press-...
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Per @taracopp.bsky.social:
“FAA staff fired over the weekend included personnel that worked radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance, among others. Hundreds were fired, just weeks after a fatal mid-air collision in DC killed 67.”
“FAA staff fired over the weekend included personnel that worked radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance, among others. Hundreds were fired, just weeks after a fatal mid-air collision in DC killed 67.”
Trump begins firings of FAA air traffic control staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash
The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a fatal mid-air collision in Washi...
apnews.com
February 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Per @taracopp.bsky.social:
“FAA staff fired over the weekend included personnel that worked radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance, among others. Hundreds were fired, just weeks after a fatal mid-air collision in DC killed 67.”
“FAA staff fired over the weekend included personnel that worked radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance, among others. Hundreds were fired, just weeks after a fatal mid-air collision in DC killed 67.”