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Harlow’s Musings @harlowsmusings.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
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Dan Diamond @ddiamond.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
inbox: BILL CASSIDY and BERNIE SANDERS are jointly asking RFK Jr to testify on today’s health department cuts
Chair Cassidy, Ranking Member Sanders Invite Sec. Kennedy to Future Hearing on HHS Reorganization

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Bernie Sanders (I-VT), ranking member of the HELP Committee, sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., inviting him to participate in a HELP Committee hearing on the reorganization of HHS.We write to invite you to testify on April 10, 2025, before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions at a hearing titled “An Update on the Restructuring of the Department of Health and Human Services.” The hearing will discuss your proposed reorganization of the Department of Health and Human Services. The hearing will begin at 10:00AM EDT in room 430 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

 

We are following up on the commitment you made during the confirmation process that as Secretary you would come before the HELP Committee on a quarterly basis, upon request of the Chair. Please submit a written statement of any length prior to the hearing for inclusion in the hearing record. Committee rules require witnesses to submit testimony at least 48 hours in advance of the hearing. At the hearing, you will be given five minutes to summarize your written testimony. Each Senator will then have five minutes to ask questions.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Economists at JPMorgan Chase said Monday that the risk of a recession had edged up to 40% from 30% owing to “extreme U.S. policies.”-Wall Street Journal
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Paul Dupuis @prdvt802.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
JUST IN: The UN has adopted Ukraine’s resolution condemning Russian aggression and demanding the immediate withdrawal of Putin’s forces, marking the war’s third anniversary. The U.S. joined Russia, North Korea, Belarus, and Hungary in opposing the resolution.
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Stand Up America @standupamerica.com · 23/02/2025
Governor Pritzker is right – we all have to do our part to protect our democracy.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 20/02/2025
Mitch McConnell announced that he will not run for reëlection next year. In 2020, @janemayer.bsky.social wrote about the political self-interest that has driven his career—and its consequences.
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How Mitch McConnell Became Trump’s Enabler-in-Chief
The Senate Majority Leader’s refusal to rein in the President is looking riskier than ever.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Fact check: No, Zelenskyy doesn't have 4% approval as Trump claims; it's over 50% abcnews.go.com/Internationa...
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Fact check: No, Zelenskyy doesn't have 4% approval as Trump claims; it's over 50%
President Donald Trump last night joined Russian President Vladimir Putin in claiming Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy lacks legitimacy.
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Stand Up America @standupamerica.com · 14/02/2025
Trump and House Republicans are trying to sneak through a dangerous bill that would block millions of American citizens from registering to vote...
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harborlass.bsky.social @harborlass.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
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Dr. Robert D. Bullard @drrobertbullard.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Trump Is Freezing Money for Clean Energy. Red States Have the Most to Lose. Roughly 80 percent of those investments are in Republican congressional districts, where they are creating a once-in-a-generation manufacturing boom. The New York Times | www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/c...
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Trump Is Freezing Money for Clean Energy. Red States Have the Most to Lose.
About 80 percent of manufacturing investments spurred by a Biden-era climate law have flowed to Republican districts. Efforts to stop federal payments are already causing pain.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
GOP Rep. Norman says Republicans are coming after Social Security next: “This is just the first agency. We’ve got many more to come, like Social Security”
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
NBC News obtained a letter from acting U.S. Attorney for SDNY Danielle Sassoon to AG Pam Bondi, written before Sassoon’s resignation, stating that Adams’ attorneys proposed “what amounted to a quid pro quo”—offering to help the Trump administration in exchange for dropping the criminal case
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irisbellesauvage.bsky.social @irisbellesauvage.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Kash Patel is dangerous & unqualified to be the Director of the FBI. Use @@standupamerica.bsky.social’s tool and urge your senators to reject his confirmation: act.standupamerica.com/letters/lett...
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Reject Kash Patel’s Nomination
Kash Patel is dangerous and unqualified. Tell the Senate to reject his nomination for FBI Director.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
NEW: The United States has reported its first outbreak of H5N9 bird flu in poultry on a duck farm in California. Perhaps this is not the best time to put an anti-vaxxer crackpot in charge of our public health agencies
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Image projected onto Tesla's factory in Berlin
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The Department of Justice has just DELETED its four-year-old webpage on the US Capitol riot investigations.
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tlf365.bsky.social @tlf365.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Sen. Susan Collins told reporters that she was concerned that the FBI’s background investigation report about Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth is said to have omitted relevant information thehill.com/homenews/sen...
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Collins: ‘Troubling’ that Hegseth FBI report omitted key information
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) told reporters Wednesday that she was concerned that the FBI’s background investigation report about secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth is said to have omitted r…
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Ope! The bill would make it “unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo.” www.wlbt.com/2025/01/22/m...
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Mississippi politician files ‘Contraception Begins at Erection Act’
"People can get up in arms and call it absurd but I can’t say that bothers me.”
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 23/01/2025
The bishop who pleaded at the inaugural prayer service for President Trump to “have mercy” defends her sermon.
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Whenever I start to feel anxious I immediately have another coffee and scroll through the worst news imaginable on my phone and omg it does not help at all
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Mike Johnson Let a Terrorist Roam the Capitol Yesterday www.emptywheel.net/2025/01/23/m...
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Mike Johnson Let a Terrorist Roam the Capitol Yesterday - emptywheel
Mike Johnson let seditionist and terrorist Stewart Rhodes -- whose judgment was commuted but not pardoned -- wander around the scene of the crime yesterday, all while complaining that Bishop Budde's c...
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irisbellesauvage.bsky.social @irisbellesauvage.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Kash Patel is dangerous & unqualified to be the Director of the FBI. Use @@standupamerica.bsky.social’s tool and urge your senators to reject his confirmation: act.standupamerica.com/letters/lett...
act.standupamerica.com
Reject Kash Patel’s Nomination
Kash Patel is dangerous and unqualified. Tell the Senate to reject his nomination for FBI Director.
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irisbellesauvage.bsky.social @irisbellesauvage.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Kash Patel is dangerous & unqualified to be the Director of the FBI. Use @@standupamerica.bsky.social’s tool and urge your senators to reject his confirmation: act.standupamerica.com/letters/lett...
act.standupamerica.com
Reject Kash Patel’s Nomination
Kash Patel is dangerous and unqualified. Tell the Senate to reject his nomination for FBI Director.
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Undervalued Vagina MD (she/her)🦄 @undervaluedvagina.medsky.social · 21/01/2025
The Revolution Will Not be Televised -take more Polaroids, take pictures with film - put an actual pen to actual paper - talk to people in person - preserve banned books and science books - participate in community gardens - run for office or school board in your town
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
CARTOON OF THE DAY
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
New reports about Pete Hegseth have surfaced, saying that he was so abusive toward his second wife that she once hid in a closet from him.
NY Times: Hegseth Ex-Sister-in-Law Tells Senators He Was 'Abusive' to Second WifePhoto of Pete Hegseth, a white middle-aged man with brown hair.
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irisbellesauvage.bsky.social @irisbellesauvage.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Bravo Leafs subreddit, reddit NFL #reddit #redditnfl mashable.com/article/spor...
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Reddit sports mods, users calling for a ban on X links in posts
In response to Elon Musk's salute, sports subreddits are looking to move away from X.
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irisbellesauvage.bsky.social @irisbellesauvage.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Bravo Leafs subreddit, reddit NFL #reddit #redditnfl mashable.com/article/spor...
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Reddit sports mods, users calling for a ban on X links in posts
In response to Elon Musk's salute, sports subreddits are looking to move away from X.
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Trump has just rescinded President Biden’s Executive Order to lower prescription drug costs for Americans on Medicare and Medicaid.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
No matter where you fall on the TikTok ban, the President undoing by “executive order” a law passed by Congress and upheld unanimously by the Supreme Court is an unconstitutional abuse of power.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
When will they finally realize that Trump doesn’t give a shit about them!?
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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Literally cashing in on the presidency
An image featuring Donald Trump with a headline from The New York Times discussing ethical concerns regarding his new cryptocurrency token.
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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 19/12/2024
The fact that I know more about Fani Willis’ and Nathan Wade’s relationship than I do about the crimes committed by Ginni Thomas and Clarence Thomas shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
People who've never been dependent on a paycheck should not get to decide how long you can go without yours.
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Melissa @nitenitemelissa.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
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This Today @thistoday.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Trump shitted himself in the newly renovated Notre Dame Cathedral in France.
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Bobby Angelini 🇨🇦🇺🇸 @bobbyangelini.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
At the opening of the Notre Dame Cathedral, French Prime Minister Michel Barnier, has no problem showing an already isolated looking Trump exactly what he thinks of him. 😄
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💙❤️💙Mia💙❤️💙 @mommamia.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Religion was fabricated to control the masses and answer questions for which they had no answers. Now it’s simply a justification for hatred, division, and violence.
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