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carolinefich.bsky.social @carolinefich.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
“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...
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Opinion | The $1.3-Million-a-Minute War
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carolinefich.bsky.social @carolinefich.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Trump Sues I.R.S. Over Tax Data Leak, Demanding $10 Billion www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/u... oh the irony!
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Trump Sues I.R.S. Over Tax Data Leak, Demanding $10 Billion
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carolinefich.bsky.social @carolinefich.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
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.
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Stocks Post Biggest Drop in Months as Tensions Over Greenland Mount
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carolinefich.bsky.social @carolinefich.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
“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”
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Joan Alker @joanalker1.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
😱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…
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
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.*
motherjones.com
Top prosecutor spoke at event attended by January 6 seditionists who are appealing their convictions
US Attorney Ed Martin compared January 6 rioters to Japanese Americans interned during World War II.
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carolinefich.bsky.social @carolinefich.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
“Officials say their actions will make the country safer and preserve the country’s values.” The Statue of Liberty begs to differ
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carolinefich.bsky.social @carolinefich.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
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?
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Trump Administration Aims to Strip More Foreign-Born Americans of Citizenship
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carolinefich.bsky.social @carolinefich.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
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)
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Trump Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center
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carolinefich.bsky.social @carolinefich.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
U.S. Strikes 3 More Boats in Eastern Pacific, Killing 8 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u.... These murders have to stop. #notinmyname
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U.S. Strikes 3 More Boats in Eastern Pacific, Killing 8
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carolinefich.bsky.social @carolinefich.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
The War on ‘Wokeness’ Comes to the U.S. Mint www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u.... Just shameful.
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The War on ‘Wokeness’ Comes to the U.S. Mint
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carolinefich.bsky.social @carolinefich.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
DHS inks contract with Boeing to create its own fleet of 737 jets for deportations How do I #boycott #Boeing?
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carolinefich.bsky.social @carolinefich.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
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...
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When Washington fails expecting mothers, Philadelphia shows a better way | Opinion
The Philly Joy program provides pregnant individuals with cash payments of $1,000 a month during pregnancy and the first 12 months postpartum.
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carolinefich.bsky.social @carolinefich.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
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.
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carolinefich.bsky.social @carolinefich.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
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
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190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on why Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
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.
independent.co.uk
Trump administration announces another strike on alleged drug-carrying boat, in the Pacific Ocean
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says in a social media post the U.S. military conducted its eighth strike against an alleged drug vessel
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carolinefich.bsky.social @carolinefich.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
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.
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America Needs a Mass Movement—Now
Without one, America may sink into autocracy for decades.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 19/09/2025
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-...
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Elon Musk should buy a introductory data course
I am not revealing any trade secrets by telling you that Elon Musk's public persona is unserious. He obviously has some business acumen; he remains in control of a number of corporations that are not ...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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.
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carolinefich.bsky.social @carolinefich.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Nice to see younger people coming to their senses.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 16/09/2025
Trump's approval rating and favorability by age. www.pbump.net/o/tracking-h...
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carolinefich.bsky.social @carolinefich.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
The hypocrisy of this administration is hard to take.
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
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
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
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.
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
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
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SIREN @siren-ucsf.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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....
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🦋Dr. Natalia🕊🌻🪬 @solnatamd.medsky.social · 10/06/2025
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.
chicagobusiness.com
AMA opposes RFK Jr.'s dismantling of vaccine panel, seeks Senate investigation
Delegates resolved that the nation's largest doctors group will advocate in support of the longstanding ACIP structure.
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KFF Health News @kffhealthnews.org · 30/05/2025
“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.
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Feds Chop Enforcement Staff and Halt Rules Meant To Curb Black Lung in Coal Miners - KFF Health News
The Trump administration has paused implementation of a rule limiting miners’ exposure to airborne silica dust days after a federal court agreed to put it on hold to hear an industry challenge. The pr...
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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
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...
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.
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carolinefich.bsky.social @carolinefich.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
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
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Bay Area biotech company cuts 55 jobs, blames Trump-era funding reductions
Bay Area biotech company Eikon Therapeutics is laying off 55 workers, citing Trump-era funding cuts and a slowing biotech market.
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carolinefich.bsky.social @carolinefich.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Bill Gates wants to give his wealth to moms. Make it cash. #ubi #gi #globalhealth
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carolinefich.bsky.social @carolinefich.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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?
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carolinefich.bsky.social @carolinefich.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
MAGA Maoism is spreading through the populist right “white-collar ambition is seen not as a step forward, but as a fall into decadence.”
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
👇🎯 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.
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carolinefich.bsky.social @carolinefich.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
So many inanities in this convo I dont know whether to laugh or cry www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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RFK Jr.'s Adviser Torches 'Utterly Failed' Health Care System
Calley Means is co-piloting Kennedy’s overhaul of HHS and he makes no apologies for sweeping cuts to agency's bureaucracy.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 07/04/2025
HE’S TALKING ABOUT HIS F*CKING GOLF GAME AS AMERICANS ARE LOSING EVERYTHING
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carolinefich.bsky.social @carolinefich.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Great crowd in San Francisco for #handsoff #resistance #indivisible
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
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):
NCCDPHP
Division of Reproductive Health
Division of Population Health 
   BCSB 
   EPI branch
   Prevention Research Translation Branch
Office of Smoking and Health  

NCHHSTP
Division of TB elimination
-Communication, Education, and Behavioral Studies Branch 
PBEMB
 
GLOBAL 
Division of HIV and TB 
Communications Branch
SPIN
SPICE
PBEMB
MCHB
HIDMSB
EHSRB
Scientific Integrity Branch

NCEH 
Division of Environmental Science/Practice Asthma and Air Quality branch 
















NCIRD 
ISD/Partnerships 

NIOSH 
Miner safety 
Health effects lab division 
Respiratory health division 

NCBDDD
Office of the Director 
Disability Health 

NCIPC 
Division of Violence Prevention
Division of Injury Prevention 
OD
Office of Health Equity

OCOO
Office of Human Resources
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carolinefich.bsky.social @carolinefich.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Great anti #elon protest today in SF #fireelon #tesla #notnormal #indivisible
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carolinefich.bsky.social @carolinefich.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
So petty. Sign of a small man. A mural of Tony Fauci was meant to inspire staff. Then NIH took it down.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 13/03/2025
Trump v. Biden v. Trump s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...
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carolinefich.bsky.social @carolinefich.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
So shortsighted. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/h...
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Federal Agency Dedicated to Mental Illness and Addiction Faces Huge Cuts (Gift Article)
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration has already closed offices and could see staff numbers reduced by 50 percent.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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-...
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HHS Is Shuttering Offices That Fight Billing Fraud And Help Police Nursing Homes
The plan is to close six of 10 regional counsel offices, whose portfolio includes everything from nursing home safety to Head Start standards.
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Bend the Arc Jewish Action: South Jersey @btasj.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
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”
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
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...
vox.com
Killing PEPFAR means killing millions of people
All to save 0.08 percent of the budget.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
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.
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Senator Alex Padilla @padilla.senate.gov · 10/03/2025
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.
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9iners.bsky.social @9iners.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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