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A Clash Over a Promotion Puts Hegseth at Odds With His Generals

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Opinion | James Carville: My Fix for the Constipated, Leaderless and Confused Democrats

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US health policy: the Senate must act During his confirmation hearings, Robert F Kennedy Jr, now Head of US Health and Human Services (HHS), gave repeated reassurances to senators concerned about his credentials and beliefs. He promised t...

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Current State of Reproductive Health Access This Viewpoint examines US states’ attempts to address the consequences of abortion bans by clarifying them in various ways, a form of legislative interference that further limits access to reproducti...

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Opinion | Trump’s Politicized F.B.I. Has Made Americans Less Safe

Stick this in your MAGA pipe and choke on it!

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Opinion | How to Wreck the Nation’s Health, by the Numbers (Gift Article) The administration's cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services are going to do irreparable harm to the nation’s health.

"The ripple effects of the havoc at health agencies will eventually reach you."

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Opinion | Trump Might Take the U.S. to War. Where Are Schumer and Jeffries?

Schumer and Jeffries are complicit by their silence, and AWOL from their responsibilities and commitments.

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The Most Dangerous Corporation in America Friends,

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Scenes From a Vigil for Victims of the Minnesota Shooting

My neighbors.

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The potential impact of the Trump administration policies on health research in the USA For more than 80 years, the US Government has invested in biomedical, clinical, and public health research, making it a world leader in science and cutting-edge advances in health. These discoveries l...

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World Bank Forecast Underscores Cost of U.S. Trade War

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Bethesda Declaration — STAND UP FOR SCIENCE Support NIH Staff Now!

NIH scientists stand united.

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Opinion | Trump Calling Troops Into Los Angeles Is the Real Emergency

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Sunday thought Time for non-violent civil disobedience

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Here are the nearly 2,500 medical research grants canceled or delayed by Trump (Gift Article) Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.

READ THIS...

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Opinion | Joni Ernst Tries to Go MAGA

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Trump’s Vicious Attack on the American Mind He wants America to be ignorant because ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny

Knowledge is power...

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May 31, 2025 “I would like to speak briefly and simply about a serious national condition,” Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine told her colleagues on June 1, 1950.

CoryBooker said “the problem today we have to repent for is not just the vitriolic words and violent actions of the bad people, but also the appalling silence and inaction of the good people. This is the time Americans have to step up and let their voices be heard.”
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May 27, 2025 Political scientist Adam Bonica noted last Friday that Trump and the administration suffered a 96% loss rate in federal courts in the month of May.

“Every authoritarian who successfully destroyed judicial independence did so because civil society failed to unite in time,” Bonica writes. “The key difference? Whether people mobilized.”

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With Trump having literally ‘sold the farm’ with his China tariff fiasco, farmers and ranchers will regrettably have decreased demand from China - they have filled their needs by products from other countries.

The moment due process rights are applied selectively, rights become privileges and the Constitution is no longer in effect for anyone.

Veterans know about trust - how trust is given and how trust is earned.

Our nation continues to face a crisis of trust - and all of us can and must take action to change that.

This!

Go Sox!

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Video: How Trump’s Cuts Are Stifling L.G.B.T.Q. Health Research The Trump administration has systematically stripped funding from research into the health of L.G.B.T.Q. people. Benjamin Mueller, a reporter covering health and medicine for The New York Times, descr...

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This isn't hypothetical.

The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.