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We did it on the Epstein petition, and we can do it again for healthcare:
Tell Congress: Support discharge petition to force vote on ACA tax credits
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
November 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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“It’s horrifying, it’s embarrassing, it’s scary, it’s heartbreaking—it’s all of those things."

@kieraevebutler.bsky.social spoke with five CDC staffers on Thursday and Friday to gauge their reactions to the announcement.
“Embarrassing” and “horrifying”: CDC workers describe the new vaccines and autism page
"The best way I can put it is it feels like we're on a hijacked airplane."
www.motherjones.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Hiring freezes and staff shortages mean private citizens are now feeding endangered tadpoles, cleaning outhouses, and maintaining trails.

From our friends at @highcountrynews.org:
Federal budget cuts are forcing volunteers to clean national forest toilets
Hiring freezes and staff shortages mean private citizens are now feeding endangered tadpoles, cleaning outhouses, and maintaining trails.
www.motherjones.com
August 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “If the United States abandons mRNA, it will not simply be forfeiting a public health advantage. It will be ceding a strategic asset,” writes Rick Bright, the former director of BARDA, a U.S. pandemic response agency.
Opinion | America Is Giving Up a Lifesaving Medical Breakthrough: mRNA
Giving up on mRNA is a dangerous decision.
nyti.ms
August 18, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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As someone who has lived my whole adult life in cities deemed “dangerous”—NYC, NOLA, and SF—I think a lot about how dense cities require patience, calm, and tolerance in the midst of social difference, which are of course exactly the civic virtues that the right resents being told to cultivate.
August 12, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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Jamie Raskin is a national treasure.
Raskin: The lowest 100 day approval rating since polling began. He controlled the agenda. He controlled the House, the Senate— he’s got everything going for him and his numbers are in the gutter
May 1, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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100 DAYS...of lying, grifting, lawbreaking, division, incompetence, ignorance, illegal deportations, self-aggrandizement, vulgarity, self-pity, cruelty, ignoring the Supreme Court & due process while attacking: the Media, Universities, Law Firms, the Courts & Journalists.

1362 Days to go...
April 29, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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The U.S. capacity for health and humanitarian impact has been largely dismantled, leading to severe consequences for people abroad. Now, with the defunding of universities, the destruction will have severe consequences for people here as well.
The Cost of Defunding Harvard
If you or someone you love has cancer, cardiovascular disease, dementia, Parkinson’s disease, or diabetes, you have likely benefitted from the university’s federally funded discoveries in care and tre...
www.newyorker.com
April 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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The co-founder of Instagram Kevin Systrom testified on Tuesday in a landmark federal antitrust trial that his startup was starved of resources after Meta bought it because Mark Zuckerberg, the chief executive, was afraid of the success of the photo-sharing app.
At Meta Trial, Instagram Co-Founder Says Startup Was Denied Resources
Kevin Systrom said during testimony in a landmark antitrust trial that he believed Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, viewed Instagram as a threat.
www.nytimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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ICE is unlawfully detaining Mahmoud Khalil and Rümeysa Öztürk over a thousand miles away from their families and communities, simply for their political advocacy.

We went to Louisiana with members of Congress to demand answers.
Congressional delegation visits Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk in Louisiana detention centers | CNN
A delegation of congressional members traveled to Louisiana Tuesday to demand the release of Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk and inspect conditions at the two Immigration and Customs Enforcement det...
www.cnn.com
April 23, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Proud of my family at the Madison, WI, RISE UP protest today. Time to delete DOGE and reprioritize Americans’ health, wellbeing, education, and security.
April 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM