Robin Shaffert
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Here's an angle on CASA I don't get: If Kavanaugh believes what he's saying -- that some major actions require a uniform nationwide SCOTUS preliminary ruling sooner rather than later -- shouldn't the Ct have expanded the question presented by the SG to address the merits, even on a stay posture?
June 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Here's an angle on CASA I don't get: If Kavanaugh believes what he's saying -- that some major actions require a uniform nationwide SCOTUS preliminary ruling sooner rather than later -- shouldn't the Ct have expanded the question presented by the SG to address the merits, even on a stay posture?
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Multiple Little Lobbyists families traveled to Washington, D.C., from across the country (Maggie and David traveled all the way from Alaska!) to deliver a simple message to their U.S. Senators:
DO NOT CUT A SINGLE DIME OFF #Medicaid!
Story via @nytimes.com
#ProtectMedicaid
DO NOT CUT A SINGLE DIME OFF #Medicaid!
Story via @nytimes.com
#ProtectMedicaid
‘Little Lobbyists’ Urge Senators to Oppose Trump’s Bill Cutting Medicaid
www.nytimes.com
June 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Multiple Little Lobbyists families traveled to Washington, D.C., from across the country (Maggie and David traveled all the way from Alaska!) to deliver a simple message to their U.S. Senators:
DO NOT CUT A SINGLE DIME OFF #Medicaid!
Story via @nytimes.com
#ProtectMedicaid
DO NOT CUT A SINGLE DIME OFF #Medicaid!
Story via @nytimes.com
#ProtectMedicaid
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Fantastic Alzheimer's research from MIT & Harvard. Funded by NIH. But wait, this is precisely the type of non-amyloid research that RFK told the Senate yesterday does not exist! Congress must overturn his outrageous NIH cuts for FY 25 & 26. #endalz
news.mit.edu/2025/scienti...
news.mit.edu/2025/scienti...
Scientists discover potential new targets for Alzheimer’s drugs
Using a computational strategy that allows them to combine information from many large datasets, MIT researchers have identified several new potential targets for Alzheimer’s disease.
news.mit.edu
May 21, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Fantastic Alzheimer's research from MIT & Harvard. Funded by NIH. But wait, this is precisely the type of non-amyloid research that RFK told the Senate yesterday does not exist! Congress must overturn his outrageous NIH cuts for FY 25 & 26. #endalz
news.mit.edu/2025/scienti...
news.mit.edu/2025/scienti...
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If one of these is your member of Congress, they just voted for a budget that could lead to 40 million Americans losing health coverage — to give a tax cut to the wealthy. Tell your representative: HANDS OFF MEDICAID!@housedemocrats.bsky.social @capaction.bsky.social #medicaid #congress #Republicans
February 26, 2025 at 6:15 PM
If one of these is your member of Congress, they just voted for a budget that could lead to 40 million Americans losing health coverage — to give a tax cut to the wealthy. Tell your representative: HANDS OFF MEDICAID!@housedemocrats.bsky.social @capaction.bsky.social #medicaid #congress #Republicans
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Reposting my mom's post on Medicaid and the last couple days our family has dealt with.
#HandsOffMedicaid #SaveMedicaid
#HandsOffMedicaid #SaveMedicaid
!["What do Medicaid dollars do? They save lives! This is our son, [redacted], fighting for his life in the ICU. Last night in the ER we weren't sure he was going to make it. Thanks to great care and MEDICAID, he is stable and we are optimistic that he will get thru this. How dare anyone think of risking his life to pay for tax cuts!" Below the words is a picture of my brother lying in a hospital bed on a ventilator.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:47qhn2n4i5e27stzfwax26jj/bafkreibejegiovpmawzh7i7xxfkvmab5zla4tdrpcb2htno7fwfmgctsji@jpeg)
February 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Reposting my mom's post on Medicaid and the last couple days our family has dealt with.
#HandsOffMedicaid #SaveMedicaid
#HandsOffMedicaid #SaveMedicaid
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Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published
I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know
I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know
February 26, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Massive encroachment by Bezos into The Washington Post’s opinion section - makes clear dissenting views will not be published
I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know
I still have not felt encroachment on my journalism on the news side, but if Bezos tries interfering with the news side I will be quitting immediately and letting you know
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Trump 2.0 is taking down entire websites in its attempt to memory hole efforts to bring diversity & equity to the government workforce.
This piece from @lisalsong.bsky.social shows how the Trump's anti-DEI purge is also making more targeted excisions of important historical facts & context:
This piece from @lisalsong.bsky.social shows how the Trump's anti-DEI purge is also making more targeted excisions of important historical facts & context:
The Rewriting of a Pioneering Female Astronomer’s Legacy Shows How Far Trump’s DEI Purge Will Go
The federal webpage for an observatory named for the late astronomer Vera Rubin was edited to omit any recognition of the fact that science remains a male-dominated field or that the observatory was w...
www.propublica.org
February 1, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Trump 2.0 is taking down entire websites in its attempt to memory hole efforts to bring diversity & equity to the government workforce.
This piece from @lisalsong.bsky.social shows how the Trump's anti-DEI purge is also making more targeted excisions of important historical facts & context:
This piece from @lisalsong.bsky.social shows how the Trump's anti-DEI purge is also making more targeted excisions of important historical facts & context:
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This pleases me (gift):
"I had only one advantage: I’m a historian. One of the true gifts of studying the humanities is not the content we learn in school, but that we develop the skills to learn what we need to know when life takes unexpected turns. So like a proper nerd, I made a reading list."
"I had only one advantage: I’m a historian. One of the true gifts of studying the humanities is not the content we learn in school, but that we develop the skills to learn what we need to know when life takes unexpected turns. So like a proper nerd, I made a reading list."
On RFK Jr., vaccines and my son with autism and Down syndrome
Knowledge is the vaccine for ignorance and fear. But RFK Jr. just wants to let the fever burn.
www.startribune.com
December 19, 2024 at 2:06 AM
This pleases me (gift):
"I had only one advantage: I’m a historian. One of the true gifts of studying the humanities is not the content we learn in school, but that we develop the skills to learn what we need to know when life takes unexpected turns. So like a proper nerd, I made a reading list."
"I had only one advantage: I’m a historian. One of the true gifts of studying the humanities is not the content we learn in school, but that we develop the skills to learn what we need to know when life takes unexpected turns. So like a proper nerd, I made a reading list."
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