Here's a montage of Trump talking about cutting Social Security and Medicare. It would be a shame if everybody shared this on Social Security's 90th birthday, today! #HandsOffOurSocialSecurity

The only crime I've been a victim of in Washington, DC, CAME AT THE HANDS OF A DONALD TRUMP SUPPORTER!!!

1/ How does a lie become “common sense” & eventually the law? Not by truth, but rather by coordination. Here’s how a fake claim goes from one think tank to local news, to churches, to Congress, to your uncle’s Facebook, until it feels like fact. #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue

I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.

Full clip of "Murphy To Secretary Of Homeland Security Kristi Noem: Your Department Is Out Of Control"

Another day of reminding everyone of Carl Sagan’s eerily accurate warning about the dangers of not being able to ask skeptical scientific questions to those in power or authority.

youtu.be/AREEE-jX3cs #sheldonwhitehouse May 5 | Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) takes to the Senate Floor to expose months of flat-out lies from Trump and Musk to degrade public confidence in Social Security.

#WorldPressFreedomDay 🔥 @froomkin.bsky.social

‘This Is What We Were Always Scared of’: DOGE Is Building a Surveillance State www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...

Watch this, and note how many of these errors were brought to light by the hard work of mainstream reporters, and how “outcry” from you led to reversals. The First Amendment is still at work. Don’t give up! Truth telling and protest remain our best hope.

Good reporting here. Student paper gets what the bigs have missed. White House is actually threatening to defund all of bostons major hospitals www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

“Coal in the US is now being economically outmatched by renewables to such an extent that it’s more expensive for 99% of the country’s coal-fired power plants to keep running than it is to build an entirely new solar or wind energy operation nearby, a new analysis has found.”

Important for all of us but especially journalists.

Do not normalize children dying from measles. Measles was previously eliminated in the US, thanks to vaccines. When children die from measles, it means that adults have catastrophically failed to protect them because they have rejected basic science.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die. Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

MMR vaccine doesn’t just prevent measles, mumps, and rubella. It also prevents RFK Jr. from showing up at your child’s funeral to exploit your grief at your most vulnerable moment.

You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

Thank you.

As near as I can tell, RFK Jr’s plan to Make America Healthy Again is to simply stop collecting any information on health. If there’s no data, the data can’t look bad, I guess?

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

Great essay by @dicktofel.bsky.social “Too often, we have left readers, listeners and viewers with the impression that government is riddled with corruption when corruption is actually the exception.” open.substack.com/pub/dicktofe...

One consequence of tolerating pseudoscience is that people die when its legitimatization becomes baked into our culture, health care systems, and institutions.

If you think what happened to Rumeysa Ozturk can't happen to you because you're a citizen and she's not, you are sorely mistaken. Ozturk was snatched off the street not for being a national security threat but for having a wrong opinion. If we don't put a stop to this, it's coming for all of us.

If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

🧵NEW: A CDC clone website is filled with false and misleading vaccine claims against a backdrop of false balance. The NGO (Children's Health Defense) led by the current HHS Secretary until December 2024 is hosting content for the CDC clone. infoepi.substack.com/p/cdc-clone...

Hmmm, was that second news alert a comment on the first?

This deserved a meme.

One of the reasons the GOP wins all the time is that they have a few very simple messages and they stick to them. They repeat them over and over. They don't say ANYTHING that might confuse their target audience. And they present a united front.

#journalists HJ25 is not only the best conference in journalism, it also offers financial support to help you get there. Today is the deadline to apply! healthjournalism.org/fellowships/

Hey everyone, the book that Facebook is trying to suppress is available from many booksellers. I just bought the audio version. Grab it while you can! Here’s a column about it: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/o...

Journalists! Check out this great new fellowship opportunity from @healthjournalism.org healthjournalism.org/fellowships/...

Some health systems are sending patients home to heal, using home visits and technology to monitor them. But these programs struggle to gain traction in a fiscal and regulatory netherworld. @kffhealthnews kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

"Whether it's because their federal government is withdrawing from the World Health Organization, cutting public services or attacking reproductive rights, health professionals in the U.S. have a good reason to be alarmed.” www.moosejawtoday.com/national-bus...

The "Do Not Associate" List How to stop helping MAGA spread their myths. Antonia Scatton https://open.substack.com/pub/reframingamerica/p/do-not-associate

Democratic Senator Chris Murphy on Mahmoud Khalil.

“The Trump administration is deleting taxpayer-funded data — information that Americans use to make sense of the world. In its absence, the president can paint the world as he pleases.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/int...

Dicks Sporting Goods is one of the good guys! 🏆

@gailwaldby.bsky.social prospect.org/health/2025-...

I got your waste, fraud, and abuse right here

Go to 17.22 on this podcast to hear Mark Blyth explain why government spending is not like your household budget and so much more we all need to understand today. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 30, the number is 100%.

Fascinating article from two researchers who have been studying right wing media with recommendations for how the left can/should build new media infrastructure to compete: jacobin.com/2025/03/left...

Marc Durocher needed rehab after his hip surgery. So he was surprised when the hospital asked him if he wanted to go home. He sure did, and his recovery points to a possible new future for health care. www.usnews.com/news/health-...

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

This is Winston Churchill visiting Washington DC to request assistance in the war against Germany. Notice he is wearing a "zip suit" and not a traditional suit. This was to honor the British troops--the same reason Zelensky dresses the way he does.

Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

If you're a woman and you want to die young as a result of healthcare at levels below most of Latin America, we have six states in the Deep South to recommend to you. Just wait until they cut Medicaid.

Important reading for journalists everywhere open.substack.com/pub/dicktofe...