Horrific—certainly the opposite of pro-family or pro-life given the critical importance of human milk and parental care in the health outcomes of preemies. Moms post-c-section often depend on a partner to get to the hospital & help care for preemies remaining in the NICU. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

About 8 in 10 Americans who re-enrolled in Affordable Care Act marketplace coverage say their health care costs are higher this year, including about half who say their costs are "a lot" higher, according to a survey from the health care research nonprofit KFF. https://to.pbs.org/47HpDOI

Even the doctors? Trump’s Immigration Policy Sidelines Foreign Doctors Amid Shortage www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/u...

A travesty: Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/c...

Trump Slashed Science Funding. Now the U.S. Could Face a Costly Brain Drain. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/04/b...

War Will Push U.S. Inflation Above 4% This Year, O.E.C.D. Says www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/b...

Pro-life

Pregnant in ICE Detention: Handcuffs and Pleas for Medical Care www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

Officials say an Afghan immigrant whose family said had worked with U.S. forces in his home country died at a Texas hospital after having been detained by immigration authorities.

Things are not okay.

War in the Middle East Threatens Global Food Production www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/b...

How are exporters in Asia trying to withstand the turmoil caused by U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs? Hear from Indonesian palm oil exporters, Malaysian electronics and electrical manufacturers, Vietnam’s seafood and shipping companies, and more. trib.al/FynYjj9

NEW: The Trump administration took steps late Friday to try to delay the legal proceedings on tariff refunds by as much as four months www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/b...

On food assistance, we updated a paper explaining the benefits of SNAP’s broad-based categorical eligibility policy, which allows states to broaden SNAP eligibility and better support millions of people, as the Trump Administration seeks to eliminate it: www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

We’re moving from one phase of illegal, erratic trade policy — to a new phase of illegal, erratic trade policy. @nationalreview.bsky.social #Section122 www.nationalreview.com/corner/trump...

"A Government Tariff Refund Bait and Switch" www.wsj.com/opinion/a-go... This x 10000:

“The historic ruling is critically important beyond its implications for current trade policy,” argues Douglas Irwin, an economics professor, in a guest essay

The US clean energy manufacturing investment bust really is dramatic, and not slowing down. Great investment tracker maintained by @jayturner.bsky.social and students. www.the-big-green-machine.com/post-trump-s...

The Dow was at 43,488 when Trump took office. It just hit 50,000. So if you had invested $43,488 in the US, you would now have $50,000. But if you had invested the same amount in the rest of the world, you would now be worth $60,000. Lemme do a expla-youtube-nation www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYL5...

AOC: "I think we have to recognize that we are in a new day and in a new time. But that does not mean that the majority of Americans are ready to walk away from a rules-based order, and that we're ready to walk away from our commitment to democracy."

The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%. (Published May 2025)

2025 could be year decades of US tobacco control was reversed, say experts - The Lancet Respiratory Medicine www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

With fewer international visitors coming to the U.S. and the company’s streaming unit firing on all cylinders, Disney contemplates a day when its U.S. theme parks aren’t the company’s biggest growth driver.

NYT analysis confirms Pretti’s gun was gone by the time they shot him to death. 10 shots. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

Gentle reminder that there is still an alternative, anytime Congress chooses to take it: www.npr.org/2024/02/04/1...

This is not pro-life or pro-law&order, or even pro-border-security.

I’ve reached out to both Gov. Walz and Sen. Klobuchar following the latest shooting involving federal agents in Minnesota. Marylanders have witnessed this cruelty in our own communities – during a school drop-off in Salisbury and in Glen Burnie on Christmas Eve. These are not isolated incidents.

The ICE operations in the Twin Cities are also affecting children who are caught up in the surge of personnel and detentions. https://to.pbs.org/4jXF7TO

US states that follow suit are actually protecting ALL Americans. Because the federal government will not. thehill.com/homenews/sta...

"For more than 75 years, the fondest dream of Russian strategy has been to divide Western Europe from the U.S. and break the NATO alliance. "That is now a possibility as President Trump presses his campaign to capture Greenland." -- The WSJ editorial page. 🎁 link www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

Section 1250A of the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, a law that passed with broad bipartisan support, explicitly prohibits Trump for suspending or terminating US participation in NATO. Nor can he denounce NATO. Nor can he withdraw from it.

Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, a stable financial system... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "

Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

A policy choice: Chinese Universities Surge in Global Rankings as U.S. Schools Slip www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/u...

An updated CRS report on "Presidential 2025 Tariff Actions: Timeline and Status" is now available. Incudes sections on: - U.S. Tariff Actions Since January 20, 2025 - Bilateral Framework Agreements - Foreign Retaliation to U.S. Tariff Actions

“It is a bizarre, dangerous and self-wounding approach that cannot help the US or its monetary system….that doesn’t for a second justify using the Department of Justice and the law to bully the institution or a public servant.” www.bloomberg.com/opinion/news...

Some countries that have prosecuted or threatened to prosecute central bankers for the purpose of political intimidation or punishment for monetary policy decisions: Argentina, Russia, Turkey, Venezuela and Zimbabwe.

Attempting to criminalize the actions of an independent public servant, Fed Chair Jay Powell, for the sin of acting independently is an outrage. It's bad economics, bad politics, bad for the rule of law, bad for the public sector, bad for American credibility and bad for Americans.

I believe and support Chair Powell’s statement. www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

Good news! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/10/s...

How does the Farm Bill align with these dietary recommendations from HHS?

Nonfarm payroll employment estimates @philadelphiafed.bsky.social #Econsky econbrowser.com/archives/202...

EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected. Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43

... Now @worldbank001.bsky.social economists should draw lessons on the prerequisites for effective IP from the East Asian countries' success -- tech education; formal business-govt fora; postal savings equivalent for digital era; a well-paid civil service, more.....

“They’re going to bring back suffering and death.” — www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/h...

New Joint Economic Committee @jecdems.bsky.social analysis: "In just 10 months the average American family has already paid nearly $1,200 in tariff costs, with the costs climbing steadily since the beginning of President Trump’s second term." More: www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cach...

I hope the American Academy of Pediatrics will continue to stand up for children’s health. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u...