Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
https://t.co/rMiUit9y0U
Oh and if you're wondering,
Here's just one randomized placebo controlled trial of the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine
From Denmark
Yes, a placebo arm was used
Yes, they assessed safety
No there were no safety signals
Yes, MMR vaccine is safe
https://t.co/uMAIJoK37w
The failed Kroger-Albertsons merger—blocked in court this week—offers the clearest proof yet that the antitrust movement is breaking through. This win may be the last hurrah of Lina Khan’s FTC, but it won't be the last victory for the movement she leads:
https://t.co/DkVJtzdt0J
Montana, Nevada, Arizona, and Missouri voted for a woman's right to choose while simultaneously voting for the guy who stripped them of that right. Wild times.
If this goes the way it seems to be going, a plea: Hold the recriminations. The important thing will be figuring out how to fight the climate of repression, which will begin via preemptive obedience long before the government formally changes hands
The deal we made to bring home wrongfully detained Americans would not have been possible without our allies.
They stepped up and stood by us.
So for anyone who questions whether allies matter, today is a powerful example of why it’s vital to have friends in this world.
NEWS: Senate Republicans just blocked our bipartisan tax deal to once again expand the Child Tax Credit—a lifeline for working families that cut child poverty nearly in half when Democrats last expanded it in 2021.
Don't listen to what they say. Watch what they do.
When he was a teenager, @EddieGibbsNY killed a man, he says, in self-defense. Now, as a state Assemblyman, he works to help the currently and formerly incarcerated. This is a story about remorse, atonement and second acts: https://t.co/CYlBDW2OE8
If you haven't read the book Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause, by @Ty_Seidule , you should. It helps to understand the Big Lie.
“The horrible sights I have witnessed on this field I can never describe. No blaze of glory, that flashes around the magnificent triumphs of war, can ever atone for the unwritten & unutterable horrors of the scene of carnage.”
~Brig. Gen. James A. Garfield on Shiloh’s aftermath.
Republicans want to completely privatize Medicare.
Deep in Project 2025, which conservatives hope to implement if Trump wins, is a call to “make Medicare Advantage the default enrollment option.”
Medicare Advantage means privatized Medicare.
https://t.co/L9JnS5mz4t
The issue here is pretty simple
It is awful to be uninsured in America
That's just true
Many states like Massachusetts have achieved near universal coverage
But in many other states -- Obamacare is the best path to getting insurance
And people are signing up. As they should
Thanks to President Biden’s infrastructure bill, remote locations on the Navajo Nation reservation are receiving electricity and broadband — for the first time, EVER.