“We can cough up the cash when there’s political will, such as to drop bombs halfway around the world. But where is the political will to get people health care or education, to build rather than to destroy?” The $1.3-Million-a-Minute War www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/o...

Trump Sues I.R.S. Over Tax Data Leak, Demanding $10 Billion www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u... oh the irony!

Stocks Post Biggest Drop in Months as Tensions Over Greenland Mount www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/b.... How depressing that to think that this is probably the only thing that may keep Trump from making good on his threats to invade Greenland.

“Two people close to the White House previously told The Post that Trump was not willing to support Machado because she accepted the Peace Prize. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today”

😱YIKES New guidance from the Trump Administration's CMS cites Secretarial discretion to DROP mandatory state reporting of immunization rates for children + pregnant adults covered by Medicaid/CHIP This is close to 1/2 the children in the US and more than 40% of births medicaid.gov/federal-policy…

I wrote a lot about Ed Martin last year, but this was my favorite piece. Martin went to Florida (on a work day!) to attend a fundraiser with J6ers who were still appealing their cases *with his office.*

“Officials say their actions will make the country safer and preserve the country’s values.” The Statue of Liberty begs to differ

Trump Administration Aims to Strip More Foreign-Born Americans of Citizenship www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/u... One horror after another. Will their cruelty and racism know any bounds?

Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/c... More shameful destruction from the administration. This is the time for the .001% to put their billions to good use for something that is actually needed (as opposed to AI)

U.S. Strikes 3 More Boats in Eastern Pacific, Killing 8 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u.... These murders have to stop. #notinmyname

The War on ‘Wokeness’ Comes to the U.S. Mint www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u.... Just shameful.

DHS inks contract with Boeing to create its own fleet of 737 jets for deportations How do I #boycott #Boeing?

Great piece from Dr. Ali Groves about the health benefits of reducing financial stress during pregnancy through #cashassistance. #basicincome #maternalhealth #sdoh www.pennlive.com/opinion/2025...

I think this is a complete misreading of the situation. This was the best possible outcome: they stood firm for the longest shutdown in history but ended it when the harm to the most vulnerable people in our society became too much, showing that contrary to Rs and Trump they actually care.

www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-w... Really helpful explanation of why Justice Jackson issued a stay of a lower court ruling requiring the federal administration to pay out full SNAP benefits immediately

Trump has now murdered 34 people in international waters. No one has any idea if any were criminals, and of course it doesn't matter, because it was a war crime to kill even a single one of them. Drug trafficking is a felony, but it's not a violent crime and isn't punishable by summary execution.

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc... “If a movement seeks only to please its own radicals, it fails. If it uses action to change the narrative and persuade the mainstream, it has a good chance of success.” Time for mass movement everyone.

Elon Musk shared one of the worst charts I've ever seen, so I decided to write about it. www.pbump.net/o/elon-musk-...

It's probably not ideal for the nation that the way the government works is the attorney general goes on shows and podcasts and then the real lawyers have to figure out if there's any law there before writing up a walk-back statement that she can post the next day.

Nice to see younger people coming to their senses.

Trump's approval rating and favorability by age. www.pbump.net/o/tracking-h...

The hypocrisy of this administration is hard to take.

The raid was last week. “…as for stops of those individuals who are legally in the country, the questioning in those circumstances is typically brief, and those individuals may promptly go free..” -Justice Kavanaugh

Has the State Department ever warned a group of people not to mock something? I don’t mean telling State Department employees to be diplomatic, I mean threatening nonemployees with state punishment if they make jokes, bad taste or otherwise. That’s Putin, Xi, Erdogan stuff.

BREAKING: Federal court blocks and limits most of Florida law targeting school library books. The only constitutional application is its "harmful to minors" provision, which limits obscene material that had already been banned from school libraries. More to come at Law Dork: www.lawdork.com

Survey finds smaller non-profits are less likely to participate in CalAIM. Dive into these findings in the latest article by @carolinefich.bsky.social & colleagues in BMC Public Health. 📚Read it here: bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

The AMA's House of Delegates has adopted an emergency resolution opposing RFK Jr.'s move to gut the federal vaccine advisory council. The nation's top doctors association will seek a U.S. Senate investigation of his action, as well as alternate vaccine advice from elsewhere to invest in.

“People are dying from a dust-related disease that’s 100% preventable, and we’re not using all the things we could use to help prevent their disease and save their lives,” said one West Virginia doctor in reaction to the Trump administration’s pause of new dust protections for miners.

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Bay Area biotech company cuts 55 jobs, blames Trump-era funding reductions www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article... Impacts of cuts to science are widening. #trump #nih #sciencesaveslives #handsoff

Bill Gates wants to give his wealth to moms. Make it cash. #ubi #gi #globalhealth

Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump’s proposed health cuts Trump budget would cut HHS by a third, including NIH by 40% and CDC by 33% because who needs health?

MAGA Maoism is spreading through the populist right “white-collar ambition is seen not as a step forward, but as a fall into decadence.”

👇🎯 We are having trouble using proper terminology because it requires us to fully accept exactly what has happened to our country & wrestle with the fact that every single one of our elected representatives in Congress is violating their oaths of office by not immediately impeaching & removing him.

A blockbuster study from Irene Papanicolas and colleagues linking wealth to mortality. - At every US wealth level., mortality rates were higher than Europe's - The wealthiest Americans have a survival rate similar to the poorest northern/western Europeans www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

So many inanities in this convo I dont know whether to laugh or cry www.politico.com/news/magazin...

HE’S TALKING ABOUT HIS F*CKING GOLF GAME AS AMERICANS ARE LOSING EVERYTHING

Great crowd in San Francisco for #handsoff #resistance #indivisible

New — Here is a running list of Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) offices that have either been fully eliminated or gutted into non-functionality as a result of today's mass firings (provided to me directly by a CDC staffer):

Great anti #elon protest today in SF #fireelon #tesla #notnormal #indivisible

So petty. Sign of a small man. A mural of Tony Fauci was meant to inspire staff. Then NIH took it down.

Trump v. Biden v. Trump s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...

So shortsighted. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/h...

The Trump/Musk/RFK administration is getting rid of many of my terrific former OGC staff. This is really an outrage. All it will do is make hospital patients and nursing home residents less safe -- and, ironically, make it harder for HHS to collect money it's owed. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

To be absolutely, 100% clear, THIS is something that ends in “then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak out”

There is no getting around it. #Trump #Musk #Vought #Rubio will kill millions with this move. #PEPFAR is a program, which formerly had deep #bipartisan support, broad involvement of #faith communities and others. And they've killed it. And they will kill #millions. www.vox.com/future-perfe...

UPDATE—Mahmoud's attorney says they do NOT know where he is. They were first told he was sent to an ICE facility in Elizabeth, NJ. But when his 8-month-pregnant wife tried to visit him, she was told he's not there. They've received reports he may be sent as far away as Louisiana.

The single biggest contributor to our national debt in recent decades? Trump’s tax cuts from his first term. And now he wants a $4.5 trillion tax cut for billionaires paid for by cutting YOUR Medicaid and Social Security.