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This is incredibly cool: if you search for a condition that’s affected your family, the site returns stats on how much NIH has done for that disease, *and* a contact form for reaching out to tell your Members of Congress why you want to see them defend NIH.

Pass it on!
April 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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BREAKING: A federal judge finds Trump’s order banning transgender people from getting accurate passports is likely unconstitutional.

The court ordered the State Department to allow correct gender markers for our clients as we continue to argue until this order is blocked for everyone.
April 18, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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BREAKING: Early this morning in a 7-2 ruling, the Supreme Court temporarily blocked the deportation of any Venezuelan men held in the Bluebonnet Detention Center in northern Texas under the Alien Enemies Act.

We'll keep fighting to defend due process.
April 19, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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A Trump administration document, cited by news reports, proposes eliminating funding for Head Start, which is dedicated to early child care services. An advocate says the move would be "catastrophic."
Head Start advocates brace for possibility of Trump eliminating funding
A Trump administration document, cited by news reports, proposes eliminating funding for Head Start, which is dedicated to early child care services. An advocate says the move would be "catastrophic."
www.npr.org
April 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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BREAKING: A court ruled that our case challenging Rümeysa Öztürk's unlawful detention should move forward in Vermont, instead of Louisiana, and that ICE must transfer her there.

Nobody should be shipped to a detention facility halfway across the country for writing an op-ed.
April 18, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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🚨SCOOP🚨: DOGE is building a master database at DHS that could track and surveil immigrants.

They are already cross-referencing immigration data with data from SSA, IRS, and voting records from at least Pennsylvania and Florida, sources tell me.
www.wired.com/story/doge-c...
DOGE Is Building a Master Database to Surveil and Track Immigrants
DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.
www.wired.com
April 18, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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If it can happen to Rümeysa Öztürk, it can happen to anyone.

Rümeysa must be released now.
Tufts student detained for writing op-ed denied bail by US immigration judge
Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk was seized in Massachusetts by plainclothes agents and spirited to Louisiana detention center
www.theguardian.com
April 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Key reporting from @nickmiroff.bsky.social:

Trump is waaay behind on his deportation goals.

So officials want to enlist private contractors and deputize thousands of sheriffs and local police officers to start deporting people in their towns: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
We’re About to Find Out What Mass Deportation Really Looks Like
The Trump administration’s campaign to remove millions of people from the United States could soon be supercharged by Congress.
www.theatlantic.com
April 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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The president told a Central American dictator to build five more massive slave labor camps to hold US citizens.
April 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Ideas aren't illegal.
People aren’t illegal.

And if ICE tries to intimidate people from freely expressing themselves, it's our job to stop it.
April 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Read Dr. Noor Abdalla's letter to her husband Mahmoud Khalil one month into his unlawful detainment by ICE for his political advocacy.

We will keep fighting until our client Mahmoud is home.
Letter to My Husband, Mahmoud Khalil | ACLU
As she prepares to welcome her first child with husband Mahmoud Khalil, Dr. Noor Abdalla writes to her husband one month after he was unlawfully detained for exercising his free speech rights.
www.aclu.org
April 9, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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BREAKING: We filed an emergency lawsuit in a Texas federal court against the Trump administration to stop removals under the Alien Enemies Act.
April 9, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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CNN's David Culver reports from outside El Salvador's Center for Terrorism Confinement, better known as Cecot, after touring the mega-prison. It's where over 275 migrants deported from the US are being held.

Culver's full reporting from El Salvador's Cecot mega-prison is only on CNN. cnn.it/4loZMAu
April 8, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Orange Monday: The global stock market is collapsing.

🇭🇰 Hong Kong -13.6%
🇹🇼 Taiwan -9.6%
🇯🇵 Japan -9.5%
🇮🇹 Italy -8.4%
🇸🇬 Singapore -8%
🇸🇪 Sweden -7%
🇨🇳 China -7%
🇨🇭 Switzerland -7%
🇩🇪 Germany -6.8%
🇪🇸 Spain -6.4%
🇳🇱 Netherlands -6.2%
🇦🇺 Australia -6.2%
🇫🇷 France -6.1%
🇬🇧 UK -5.2%

#OrangeMonday #TrumpTariffs
April 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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The circuit breakers are based on the S&P 500.

7% off for the day, 15-minute break

13% off, another 15-minute break

20% off, markets close
www.nasdaq.com/articles/mar...
April 6, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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turns out the United States was an incredible moneymaking engine that ran on wokeness
April 4, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Dems should start with the premise that Rs *can* be pressured to buck Trump on tariffs. Do *not* assume it's hopeless. Hound them relentlessly: Rs and Trump are hiking your prices to fund tax cuts for the rich. Take it to red areas.

@normornstein.bsky.social and me:

newrepublic.com/article/1936...
April 4, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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President Trump is using federal funding to coerce our public schools to comply with his agenda.

Schools should not be a political battleground.
Trump Administration Threatens to Withhold Funds From Public Schools (Gift Article)
State education officials will be required to verify that they have eliminated all programs that promote diversity, equity and inclusion that the administration deems unlawful, according to a new memo...
www.nytimes.com
April 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Reflexive cynicism aside, this is the kind of political theater I've been wishing Democrats would engage in FOR YEARS. Good. Good. Good. Good. Watch it. Reward it. Let them know you want more of it.
Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
www.youtube.com
April 1, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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REP. BRYAN STEIL: It shouldn't be lost on your viewers that George Soros has poured millions of dollars in

BOLDUAN: I looked up the numbers. Soros has donated $2 million. By comparison, Elon Musk has donated more than $19 million.
April 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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BREAKING: A federal court ruled that Alabama cannot prosecute people for helping others travel across state lines to access abortion care.

This is a win for our freedom of speech and our right to travel freely.
April 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Protecting our democracy is up to all of us.
Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance
Ordinary people have more power than they know.
newrepublic.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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🚨🚨 @booker.senate.gov has been on the Senate floor for 13+ hours, lifting up the voices of Americans who are being harmed by the Trump admin in this moment of crisis.

Thank you, Senator Booker for your principled advocacy, and for fighting for all of us.
April 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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I’m on my way to hold the floor with @booker.senate.gov and spotlight how Trump's lawlessness is hurting families in Oregon and nationwide. Tune in.
U.S. Senate: Floor Proceedings
Floor Activity
www.senate.gov
April 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Cory Booker has been filibustering on the Senate floor for 12 hours and still going, protesting Trump’s trampling of the constitution.
meidasnews.com/news/cory-bo...
Cory Booker Delivering Marathon Floor Speech to Protest Trump Administration
Booker filibustering in the Senate to stand up for a "country in crisis"
meidasnews.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:23 AM