Sandy McClellan

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

The man running the agency responsible for 340 million Americans' health arrives at 10am, leaves by 4pm, skips his own division chief meetings, and when he does show up - scrolls his phone and gets described by colleagues as "checked out."

Ebola is spreading. Six Americans already exposed. He has not briefed himself with CDC scientists. His response to a reporter asking if he was worried: "Yeah, we're working on it."

The CDC is being run by a health economist with no public health experience who already has another full-time job running NIH. Half of the 27 NIH institutes have no permanent director. The top FDA drug regulator got fired in May - Kennedy found out after it happened.
When measles killed two children in Texas, the CDC official leading the response asked repeatedly to brief Kennedy. He was rebuffed every time.

The person actually running HHS operations is a longtime personal adviser whose policy spreadsheet - more than 50 items - is hidden from the department's own policy team. When Kennedy gets asked a question, his standing answer is "just run that by Stefanie."

This is not a management philosophy. This is a vacancy wearing a title.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

Donald Trump's policies are accelerating Social Security’s insolvency.

Here’s a common-sense solution:

My bill would fund Social Security for the next 75 YEARS by making the wealthy pay their fair share — and EXPAND benefits at the same time.

It’s time to act.

[VoteVets @votevets]

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Republicans just BLOCKED Sen. Richard Blumenthal's attempt to get Veterans their retirement pay WITHOUT cutting disability benefits. Republicans will write blank checks to the military, then penny pinch when it's time to support our Vets.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Imagine an underwater Grand Canyon where corals have been growing since before the United States was founded. 🐠

Plunged in total darkness. Untouched. Protected.

Until one signature changed everything.

On February 6, 2026, that's exactly what happened.

The Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument is bigger than Yellowstone.

Its submarine canyons drop into depths we're still mapping. There are sea creatures here science hasn't even named yet.

It’s underwater mountains — millions of years old, rise from the ocean floor, drawing sperm whales and endangered right whales from miles away.

The cold-water corals living here? Some have been growing for over a thousand years. A trawl net destroys them in seconds. They don't grow back in our lifetimes.

The monument was created in 2016 for one reason — to keep this ecosystem off limits from exactly this kind of destruction.

It worked. Until February.

One person. One signature. Zero public input. No congressional vote. No comment period. Just a proclamation — and a thousand-year-old ecosystem lost its protection overnight.

Proclamation 11009 — "Unleashing American Commercial Fishing in the Atlantic"— erased the ban overnight. Trawl gear, dredges, otter nets. Now permitted inside monument boundaries.

And here's the part that should make you angry — this administration tried this exact move in 2020. Conservation groups sued. They won. Biden restored protections.

Now we're back here.

How many more monuments have to lose their protections before Congress does something? 🐠

#DemsUnited

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

This one hits hard.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Dan Rather's right. Every story run by CBS and Bari Weiss next fall should have an asterisk superimposed: "This story was approved by Donald Trump." When a fascist authoritarian regime's in charge of what the American people should know, the country has gone full banana republic.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

It’s wild that a few missiles from Iran is getting more attention in media than Israel bombing Lebanon 3,500 times or the burning—by Israeli invaders “settlers”—of a village that is home to the oldest living Christian community in the world, where Jesus Christ once walked.

Both are a violation of international law, but focusing on only one side is not journalism.

[MM  @adgirlMM]

If your bank forced you to legally put a certain amount of your paycheck every payday for 30 years into a savings account for your "retirement," didn't give you interest, then when you were getting ready to retire, said "we're only going to give you 70% of your money back, because we can't afford to pay you the full amount."

Would you accept that?
Vote every Republican out.

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Dear @SecRollins: You keep getting fact checked for your lies. It’s your Administration that cut the Screwworm programs.

Also, the life cycle of a Screwworm is 14 to 54 days. The trump Administration has been in office over 500 days.

If you can’t stop lying, you need to resign.

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

The Southern Poverty Law Center has spent decades fighting racist extremism in America. Today, it’s under attack by MAGA and Todd Blanche.

If you don’t like being called a hate group, use your own speech to explain why—don’t get the government to bring a counterfeit criminal prosecution against one of America’s leading civil rights groups.

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

Trump froze Medicare enrollments for home health and hospice providers — immediately, no warning.

Seniors and disabled Americans needing care at home are now blocked from getting it.

They call it “anti-fraud.”
We call it what it is: abandonment.

#TrumpMakesUsSick

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Holy sh*t, Leader Jeffries skewers trump and the GOP for "literally stealing food from the mouths of hungry children, veterans, and seniors" with the Big Ugly Bill, giving ICE $140B dollar blank check.

Jeffries just voted NO on giving ICE more.
This is the leadership we need.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Watch as @RepZoeLofgren just eviscerated House Republicans and Donald Trump:

"These lunatics that Donald Trump unleashed back onto America's streets are prepared to go to war for him again. They're violent, they're hate-filled, and they have a president who will not hold them accountable for violating the law. He's pardoned them, he says he wants to give them taxpayer money to reward them. That's the threat we need to be discussing."

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

REP. BACON: President Trump wants to negotiate settlement between Ukraine and Russia, acting like referee in boxing match, but that’s not the case. There’s good versus evil here.

Russia invading Ukraine, bombing cities every night. America should be unashamedly on the right side — the side of democracy, the side of Ukraine, country that wants to align with us.

Russia hates us. Putin hates United States, hates what we stand for. I don’t know why President Trump can’t see that.

I’ve waited year and a half in this Congress to get something done on Ukraine, and we’ve done nothing.

There have been no votes, no policies from the leadership here or from President to support a country that is fighting for its life.

I agree that Ukraine has the upper hand right now, but Russia is bombing those cities every night, and we should be there to help them defend against these ballistic missile attacks.

Actions speak louder than words.

[Covie @covie_93]

A FIFA referee has spent more time in federal custody for being Somali than anybody on epstein's list who raped kids.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Scientists at Trump’s EPA say they are being told to make chemical risks “disappear on paper.” Not to study or manage them, but to make them vanish.

When a safety test on a household chemical shows danger, supervisors reportedly ask to keep shrinking the scenario until the poison looks safe.

They have reassigned senior scientists to paperwork and handed life-and-death risk assessments to staff with less experience. They have installed former chemical industry lobbyists to run the very offices that are supposed to regulate the chemical industry.

A gift to industry, paid for with your family’s health.

They are even throwing out research on how certain chemicals hit certain communities harder, calling decades of established science “DEI.”

You can make risk disappear on paper.

The cancer does not disappear.

The birth defects do not disappear.

The infertility does not disappear.

The kids drinking the water and getting sick do not disappear.

The EPA exists to protect people, not to protect the profit margins of the people poisoning them.

Every American deserves to know what is happening. #TrumpMakesUsSick

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[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

Inflation is growing worse, and the president is fixated on all the wrong things - building a ballroom, making himself immune from audits, and waging a war he started without a plan to end it.

Where is the Republican plan to make life more affordable in America?

[Tara Bella @Tarasworld21]

A MESSAGE TO ALL SANE REPUBLICANS:
He pardoned 1,600 violent criminals.
You said nothing.
He bulldozed the East Wing.
You said nothing.
He interfered with the release of the Epstein files. You said nothing.
He took over the Kennedy Center and renamed it after himself. You said nothing.
He accepted a $400 million airplane as a personal gift. You said nothing.
He threatened Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Greenland, Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil. You said nothing.
He tariffed just about everyone but Russia, causing inflation and instability worldwide. You said nothing.
He attacked a nation during mediated negotiations. You said nothing.
His ill-conceived war killed 175 children on day one. You said nothing.
He alienated and insulted our allies. You said nothing.
His ICE Army terrorized and murdered U.S. citizens. You said nothing.
He committed murder on the high seas. You said nothing.
He co-opted the Justice Department and directed it to prosecute his political enemies. You said nothing.

It’s time to start talking.
By Christina Lorey

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Many people still don’t realize that literacy isn’t just about being able to read. It’s about being able to comprehend, evaluate, and apply the information in front of you. The gap between the two is becoming increasingly alarming.