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Social Security Goes After Overpayments, Reversing Biden Policy The Social Security Administration will resume withholding full benefits from senior citizens who have received overpayments, reversing a Biden policy, in an effort to recoup $7 billion over the next ...

The Social Security Administration will withhold full benefits from seniors who received overpayments, a policy critics call "clawback cruelty"

@aoc.bsky.social: "They're saying cut $880 billion from the Energy & Commerce Committee. I sit on that committee. Almost the entire budget that Energy & Commerce explores is Medicaid and Medicare. There is no way they can make their math square without enormous and devastating cuts to Medicaid."

I do my own research. Literally

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Burlington, Vermont

an archival black and white photograph of the KKK marching in Washington DC with the capitol behind them

In light of everything happening, I wrote about how the KKK in the 1920s felt unstoppable, about the people that fought against them anyway, and about how fascism always fails. dansinker.com/posts/202…

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social why are you not posting on here first ? You have some great things to say. You are trying some great things. Yet you post on X where 100pct of the replies are meaningless and hateful.

It's not all roses here, but the engagement has depth and real convos happen

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

Report: RFK Jr. Planning to Remove Advisors on Vaccine Committee Meanwhile, the CDC postponed a meeting of its Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices

What we heard this week 🧵 #Medsky

"We knew he was lying when he said he was not going to touch this group in particular." -- Georges Benjamin, MD, of @aphapublichealth.bsky.social, discussing the possibility that #RFK Jr. might remove some advisors on #ACIP.
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Today marks 3 years since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Instead of siding with our allies and long-standing values, this Administration is cozying up to Putin. It’s shameful. Freedom and democracy worldwide are at stake.

“This is our documentary moment” @janefonda.com

A conceptual illustration of worried scientists at computers. Hedline reads: I'm an NIH-funded researcher, drowning in uncertainty

"How do you strategize around an unpredictable funding landscape?" #ScienceWorkingLife https://scim.ag/4gPIkBz

I haven’t seen this action by #SAEM posted for discussion yet.

Are journals and societies also adjusting or retracting prior research to reflect an executive branch policy « to recognize two sexes, male and female »? Where does it stop?

#medsky #emedsky #emergencymedicine #meded #acep #aaem

1/ The medical community is fighting back! In the Doctors for America lawsuit in DC, a judge has just ordered that at least for now, HHS, CDC, & FDA must restore public health webpages taken down. by midnight tonight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The AMA has a YouTube page where you can catch up on all the fun, ongoing TB & bird flu outbreaks, since the CDC is no longer allowed to do that: youtube.com/watch?v=HlPB...

PLEASE SHARE.

The CFPB was dismantled over the weekend, with all activities suspended, its funding reduced to zero, and its headquarters temporarily closed—removing a crucial layer of oversight for consumer-facing financial companies. Staff members ordered to cease all ‘supervision and examination activities.

Thou shalt not spend millions on Super Bowl ads about Jesus when you could’ve used it to feed the hungry.

“This is a reckless attack on science, innovation, and the generations of people who stand to benefit from NIH investments in our collective public health. As a global hub for higher education and cutting-edge research, this will be especially harmful for the Massachusetts 7th and will quite literally rob people of their lives, threaten thousands of jobs, and curtail the progress we’ve made in improving health outcomes. "My team and I are talking to hospitals and institutions that stand to be impacted imminently here in the Massachusetts 7th. I can’t emphasize enough the harm this would cause and urge the Administration to immediately change course.”

Trump's attack on NIH funding is a reckless attack on science, innovation, and the people who depend on them.

It will gut critical research, kill jobs, and put lives at risk—especially in the #MA7, a global hub for cutting-edge research.

My full statement:

Trump Has Disturbing Response to DOGE’s Massive Overreach of Power Donald Trump admitted that Elon Musk’s agency has access to too much sensitive data.

Trump appeared completely unbothered by the massive intrusion on the privacy of U.S. citizens—in fact, he seemed to suggest it was the fault of government agencies for not better concealing this information from Musk’s goons.

Elon Musk and Donald Trump are now ordering the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop protecting consumers from unfair fees, fraud, and scams.

They have cut off funding to the agency.

Colin Kaepernick taking a knee.

This Super Bowl Sunday, here's a reminder of what real courage looks like.

At least 200,000 protesters rally in Munich against far-right AfD ahead of German election More than 200,000 protesters have demonstrated in Munich against far-right extremism ahead of the German general election.

The world in 2025.

Hundreds of thousands of Germans oppose neo-fascism.

The top aide to the president of the United States supports it.

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At least $12 *trillion* from global oligarchs is hidden offshore in secret tax havens worldwide. And it is headquartered right here in the USA.

Instead of cutting lifesaving programs like the VA, Medicaid, and food stamps, we should be cracking down on tax havens for the ultra-rich.

The least humane religionists are often those who've shelved their Bibles or Qurans.

Christianity Today's editor-in-chief warns that US evangelical Christianity is lurching so far to the right that it's considering Jesus' teachings "weak."

How can a Christian eschew Christ himself?

We help each other around here.🫶
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We want to see you FIGHTING, and stop behaving as if this deranged administration is normal!!! Please, the country needs you, democracy is almost certain to die, and you guys bring the debate team when republicans are fighting with knives!!

This vote on RFK Jr just another proof that republicans don't care if your children will die from preventable diseases.

We're living George Orwell's 1984: IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.

Oh look, the former president of Russia and top Putin ally Dmitry Medevev is totally onboard with Musk and Trump’s plans for USAID.