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Nutrition warning labels work - but not because they influence consumers. They work because they influence food companies. h/t @statnews.com
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1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS
Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows
How did the city do it?
Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue
Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows
How did the city do it?
Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue
The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year
This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.
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July 16, 2025 at 1:14 PM
1. We interrupt this programming for some LEGITIMATELY GOOD NEWS
Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows
How did the city do it?
Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue
Violent crime in Baltimore has PLUMMETED to historic lows
How did the city do it?
Baltimore adopted a comprehensive set of "woke" policies, treating violence as a public health issue
July 7, 2025 at 12:42 PM
KBJ is a fucking national treasure, and don’t you forget it. If we make it through as a democracy, we’ll be reading about her heroism in the history books
#resist
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/05/n...
#resist
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson makes herself heard, prompting a rebuke - The Boston Globe
Despite writing the fewest majority opinions, her voice resonated nonetheless, in an unusually large number of concurring and dissenting opinions, more than 20 in all.
www.bostonglobe.com
July 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
KBJ is a fucking national treasure, and don’t you forget it. If we make it through as a democracy, we’ll be reading about her heroism in the history books
#resist
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/05/n...
#resist
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/05/n...
“When organizations work together ... they share the costs of defiance. The government cannot attack everyone all at once. When the costs of defiance are shared, they become easier for individuals to bear.”
#resist #organize #nokings
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
#resist #organize #nokings
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The New Authoritarianism
This isn’t single-party rule, but it’s not democracy either.
www.theatlantic.com
June 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
“When organizations work together ... they share the costs of defiance. The government cannot attack everyone all at once. When the costs of defiance are shared, they become easier for individuals to bear.”
#resist #organize #nokings
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#resist #organize #nokings
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More guns --> more deaths (DUH)
tl;dr: "There were 6,029 excess pediatric firearm deaths in states with the most permissive gun laws compared with -55 excess deaths in states with strict laws."
www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/g...
tl;dr: "There were 6,029 excess pediatric firearm deaths in states with the most permissive gun laws compared with -55 excess deaths in states with strict laws."
www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/g...
More Kids Are Dying From Firearms in States With Less Restrictive Gun Laws
Excess mortality observed after 2010 Supreme Court decision applied Second Amendment to states
www.medpagetoday.com
June 11, 2025 at 4:15 PM
More guns --> more deaths (DUH)
tl;dr: "There were 6,029 excess pediatric firearm deaths in states with the most permissive gun laws compared with -55 excess deaths in states with strict laws."
www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/g...
tl;dr: "There were 6,029 excess pediatric firearm deaths in states with the most permissive gun laws compared with -55 excess deaths in states with strict laws."
www.medpagetoday.com/pediatrics/g...
Work requirements for health care do only one thing well: Ensure that fewer people get health care.
#whatreallyworks
www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
#whatreallyworks
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Georgia's Experience Raises Red Flags for Medicaid Work Requirement Nationwide
Applicants and beneficiaries have faced technical glitches
www.medpagetoday.com
June 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Work requirements for health care do only one thing well: Ensure that fewer people get health care.
#whatreallyworks
www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
#whatreallyworks
www.medpagetoday.com/publichealth...
It would be terrible if the FBI tip line got flooded with useful info like "my cat is probably the one who ate that snack you left on the table" and "Jimmy Hoffa is the one who's responsible. You people need to track him down"
#resist
thehill.com/policy/healt...
#resist
thehill.com/policy/healt...
June 3, 2025 at 1:55 PM
It would be terrible if the FBI tip line got flooded with useful info like "my cat is probably the one who ate that snack you left on the table" and "Jimmy Hoffa is the one who's responsible. You people need to track him down"
#resist
thehill.com/policy/healt...
#resist
thehill.com/policy/healt...
Administration goals: Punish people we don't like. Kill science and education, because they say things that make us look stupid.
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
Trump administration moves to cut $100 million in federal contracts for Harvard
The government already has canceled more than $2.6 billion in federal research grants for the Ivy League school.
apnews.com
May 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Administration goals: Punish people we don't like. Kill science and education, because they say things that make us look stupid.
apnews.com/article/trum...
apnews.com/article/trum...
Another major administration goal: Grifting
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/27/n...
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Trump pardoned tax cheat after mother attended $1 million dinner - The Boston Globe
Paul Walczak’s pardon application cited his mother’s support for the president, including raising millions of dollars and a connection to a plot to publicize a Biden family diary.
www.bostonglobe.com
May 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Another major administration goal: Grifting
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/27/n...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/27/n...
Money is the most important thing in the world.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
RFK Jr.’s Cuts to Anti-Tobacco Agencies Slammed by Health Groups
Recent cutbacks at the Department of Health and Human Services will hurt, or even reverse, decades of progress in reducing the use of addictive tobacco products, more than 80 public health organizatio...
www.bloomberg.com
May 28, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Money is the most important thing in the world.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Because that way the weak ones will die off faster
www.propublica.org/article/trib...
www.propublica.org/article/trib...
Trump Pledged to “Make America Healthy Again,” Then Cut a Program Many Tribes Rely on for Healthy Food
The USDA has ended a program that dozens of tribal food banks say has helped them provide fresh, locally produced food that is important to their traditions and cultures.
www.propublica.org
May 28, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Because that way the weak ones will die off faster
www.propublica.org/article/trib...
www.propublica.org/article/trib...
Censorship and projection - two of this administration's great strengths
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals
The health secretary said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet are in bed with pharma.
www.politico.com
May 28, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Censorship and projection - two of this administration's great strengths
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
www.politico.com/news/2025/05...
Because that way the weak ones will die off faster www.npr.org/sections/sho...
RFK Jr. says COVID shots no longer recommended for kids, pregnant women
Health Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. announced that CDC recommendations for COVID vaccines will no longer include healthy pregnant women and healthy children.
www.npr.org
May 28, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Because that way the weak ones will die off faster www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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At a time when equity and justice are under attack from the most powerful office in the United States, spaces rooted in real community and solidarity are more important than ever. The Gordon Parks Foundation Gala offered just that, placing the spotlight on storytelling and activism through the arts.
The Gordon Parks Foundation Gala Celebrated the Enduring Power of Storytelling
Honoring Bethann Hardison, Rashid Johnson, Anna Wintour, and Ambassador Andrew Young, the gala placed the spotlight on storytelling and activism through the arts.
www.teenvogue.com
May 23, 2025 at 5:36 PM
At a time when equity and justice are under attack from the most powerful office in the United States, spaces rooted in real community and solidarity are more important than ever. The Gordon Parks Foundation Gala offered just that, placing the spotlight on storytelling and activism through the arts.
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Updated estimate from @budgetmodel.bsky.social on the bill that ultimately passed the House yesterday. Average person in bottom quintile gets 15% poorer next year. Average person in top 0.1% get 3% (~$400,000) richer budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2025/...
May 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Updated estimate from @budgetmodel.bsky.social on the bill that ultimately passed the House yesterday. Average person in bottom quintile gets 15% poorer next year. Average person in top 0.1% get 3% (~$400,000) richer budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2025/...
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House budget bill would lead bottom income quintile to lose ~4% of their income on average ($800), but top percentile would see their incomes rise 4% (nearly $70,000).
If tariffs remain in place, the overall impact on families would be even more regressive.
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/dis...
If tariffs remain in place, the overall impact on families would be even more regressive.
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/dis...
Distributional Effects of Selected Provisions of the House Reconciliation Bill (Preliminary)
budgetlab.yale.edu
May 19, 2025 at 10:41 PM
House budget bill would lead bottom income quintile to lose ~4% of their income on average ($800), but top percentile would see their incomes rise 4% (nearly $70,000).
If tariffs remain in place, the overall impact on families would be even more regressive.
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/dis...
If tariffs remain in place, the overall impact on families would be even more regressive.
budgetlab.yale.edu/research/dis...
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Beyond trust, this kind of local news coverage is also how you build civic engagement that gets people to vote, volunteer, and run for stuff. If we want to actually repair the damage being done right now, we'll need this kind of engagement.
(This is why I'm so bullish on the "left-leaning people of means should invest heavily in local news, then mostly report on seemingly apolitical items of local interest to build trust" theory of What's To Come.)
May 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Beyond trust, this kind of local news coverage is also how you build civic engagement that gets people to vote, volunteer, and run for stuff. If we want to actually repair the damage being done right now, we'll need this kind of engagement.
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Hey folks, I have a HUGE request from the Trevor Project and would appreciate help getting the word out.
Trevor is now recruiting for it's 2025 National Youth Survey. They need people 13-24, LGBTQ+, in the United States to take it.
This research is critical to LGBTQ+ rights.
Take it here:
Trevor is now recruiting for it's 2025 National Youth Survey. They need people 13-24, LGBTQ+, in the United States to take it.
This research is critical to LGBTQ+ rights.
Take it here:
To proceed to the survey, please check off the box and click the button below.
trevorredcap.trvr.org
May 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Hey folks, I have a HUGE request from the Trevor Project and would appreciate help getting the word out.
Trevor is now recruiting for it's 2025 National Youth Survey. They need people 13-24, LGBTQ+, in the United States to take it.
This research is critical to LGBTQ+ rights.
Take it here:
Trevor is now recruiting for it's 2025 National Youth Survey. They need people 13-24, LGBTQ+, in the United States to take it.
This research is critical to LGBTQ+ rights.
Take it here:
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Get in, skeeters. We're going to save democracy. Seriiously. Join the extraordinary resistance researcher Erica Chenoweth, former Kamala Harris policy advisor Ami Fields-Meyer, and me. June 11 at noon. Registration is free. We're going to let you know what's happening and what you can do.
Concentration Camps and the Machinery of Repression: Lessons for Saving Democracy – Ash Center
Governments throughout history have used detention as a tool to silence dissent, isolate marginalized groups, and punish with impunity – often targeting people based on race, status, or supposed affil...
ash.harvard.edu
May 23, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Get in, skeeters. We're going to save democracy. Seriiously. Join the extraordinary resistance researcher Erica Chenoweth, former Kamala Harris policy advisor Ami Fields-Meyer, and me. June 11 at noon. Registration is free. We're going to let you know what's happening and what you can do.
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This is a very good thread, and highlights how important it’s going to be for us to work at the state and local level to mitigate some of the disaster Republicans are forcing on this nation.
hi, folks!
is calling federal electeds to ask them not to pass shitty legislation not doing it for you? i get it.
how about helping to bring about positive change that would materially help thousands of trans people? and that's actually possible?
do you know about washington state's HB 1971?🧵
is calling federal electeds to ask them not to pass shitty legislation not doing it for you? i get it.
how about helping to bring about positive change that would materially help thousands of trans people? and that's actually possible?
do you know about washington state's HB 1971?🧵
Washington State Just Made Stocking Up on Hormones Much Easier
On Wednesday, the Washington State Senate passed HB 1971, a first of its kind bill from House Rep. Nicole Macri that compels insurance companies in the state to cover up to a year’s supply of ho...
www.thestranger.com
May 22, 2025 at 3:09 PM
This is a very good thread, and highlights how important it’s going to be for us to work at the state and local level to mitigate some of the disaster Republicans are forcing on this nation.
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This passed 215-214. We're going to lose our healthcare because 3 senior Dems have died this year. We lost Roe because Ginsburg didn't retire. We lost the election because Joe ran for reelection.
Our country is being destroyed because geriatric Dems can't retire and let go of power.
Our country is being destroyed because geriatric Dems can't retire and let go of power.
The Republican-passed “big beautiful bill” takes away health insurance coverage from ALL transgender people, regardless of age.
HRC President Kelley Robinson calls it "cruel."
www.advocate.com/politics/ant...
HRC President Kelley Robinson calls it "cruel."
www.advocate.com/politics/ant...
BREAKING: Republicans pass ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ stripping transgender Americans of health care
The Human Rights Campaign called the bill "cruel."
www.advocate.com
May 22, 2025 at 2:13 PM
This passed 215-214. We're going to lose our healthcare because 3 senior Dems have died this year. We lost Roe because Ginsburg didn't retire. We lost the election because Joe ran for reelection.
Our country is being destroyed because geriatric Dems can't retire and let go of power.
Our country is being destroyed because geriatric Dems can't retire and let go of power.
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Speaker Pro Tempore: It is important for the decorum of the institution for you to do the same.
Jeffries: Every time I'm interrupted, it's going to add another 15 minutes to my remarks
Jeffries: Every time I'm interrupted, it's going to add another 15 minutes to my remarks
May 22, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Speaker Pro Tempore: It is important for the decorum of the institution for you to do the same.
Jeffries: Every time I'm interrupted, it's going to add another 15 minutes to my remarks
Jeffries: Every time I'm interrupted, it's going to add another 15 minutes to my remarks
