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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2h

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 1h

Justice Alito devotes an entire chapter of his new book to the emergency docket—and to responding to people like me (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”). As I explain over at “One First,” it … didn’t go well: www.stevevladeck.com/p/256-so-une...

In the pre-publication galleys to his new book, So Ordered: An Originalist’s View of the Constitution, the Court, and Our Country, Justice Alito spelled my last name inconsistently. This is, I suspect, the pettiest possible point on which to open in discussing a Supreme Court justice’s new memoir, and I would never have mentioned it except for the fact that inconsistency turns out to be the organizing feature of the chapter in which I (“the most prolific academic critic of the emergency docket”) repeatedly appear.

The central inconsistency of Chapter 8, which is devoted to the emergency docket, is structural: Rather than tackle the subject holistically (as one might expect in a book), Alito mashed together the speech he gave five years ago at Notre Dame Law School with a “postscript.” The former was deeply flawed even at the time (among lots of other things, Alito repeatedly insisted that there was “nothing new” about the Court’s behavior on emergency applications during the first Trump administration and COVID); and the latter tries to move the goalposts away from the specific phenomena to which critics like me have actually objected.

The result is to leave readers with a disjointed, inaccurate, and misleading sense of what the debate is even about—to say nothing of how the Court’s own behavior since September 2021 (including Alito’s) has only further undermined the already-flawed claims Alito made back then. Somewhere between the galleys of Alito’s book and the final product (which hits bookstores today), someone apparently figured out that my last name should be spelled the same way (and correctly!) throughout. The other, more significant inconsistencies were, apparently, harder to fix.

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Christos Argyropoulos MD, PhD, FASN 🇺🇸 0kale/acc @christosargyrop.bsky.social · 10h

I bought these drives 1.5 - 2 years ago, inflation is real

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 9h

NEW: Rep. Beatty is challenging the Kennedy Center's invocation of the qualified "presidential communications privilege" in refusing to turn over a vast array of communications with Trump & even documents "touching on" Trump communications during discovery. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

When Defendants filed their motion to vacate the preliminary injunction and for summary
judgment, they initially relied on evidence of what Trump told Defendant Matthew Floca. See,
e.g., Defs.'s Mem. in Supp. of Mot. 4, ECF 88-1; Defs.'s Statement of Undisputed Material Facts 14, ECF No. 89-2; see also Suppl. Decl. Charles Matthew Floca 1 6, ECF No. 29-3. But after
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Plaintiff served written discovery, the Department of Justice pivoted to a sweeping claim of
presidential communications privilege to bar any inquiry into those communications, or indeed
into any inputs and instructions the Kennedy Center's staff received from its board chair. The
Department now refuses to provide any documents held by the Kennedy Center even touching on
communications between the Chairman and management and intends to block all inquiry into those
communications in depositions. Plaintiff does not bring this motion lightly. The Department's sweeping assertion of privilege, however, appears to be unprecedented. Donald Trump is the chair of a non-profit corporation's board, and his decisions and directions lie at the heart of that board's
actions which, in turn, are the subject matter of this case. Allowing Defendants to hide behind this unwarranted assertion of privilege would obstruct the search for the truth, frustrate the Court's discovery order, and undermine public confidence in these important proceedings.

Having appointed himself to the Kennedy Center's board and having assumed the office
of Chair, Donald Trump undertook the obligations placed on him by the Center's organic statute
to safeguard and protect this sacred memorial to a fallen President. Trustee and board chair are
not roles that must be performed by the President of the United States and, indeed, never have been
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in the Center's history before now. Nor are the staff at the Kennedy Center anything like the close presidential advisers whose conversations executive privilege protects. The Court should not
permit Defendants to evade accountability as trustees by abusing a privilege constructed for other
purposes, not the chairmanship of this non-profit entity. Plaintiff therefore respectfully requests the Court compel the production of responsive documents and written production Defendants improperly withheld.

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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 17h

Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children: Paxton is targeting pediatricians alleging a grand conspiracy to protect children from disease. via @by-cjewett.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/h...

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Texas Pediatricians Face Paxton Investigations for Vaccinating Children

Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general and Republican Senate candidate, has alleged a sprawling profit-driven conspiracy. Pediatricians say the accusations are an attempt at intimidation.

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 17h

Just a reminder: Tillis persuaded the woman Hegseth allegedly raped to come forward with her story, and told her that if she did, it would sink the nomination. She did. At great risk to herself. Tillis then cast the deciding vote for Hegseth. Because he’s a goddamned coward.

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Outgoing Sen. Tillis regrets pivotal vote for Hegseth: ‘He’s an actor. He’s not a manager’

Outgoing Sen. Thom Tillis spoke to MS NOW about regretting his vote to confirm Pete Hegseth and his strained relationship with Trump.

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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 17h

Mumps in a sports team: not an anti-vaccine issue. The measles and rubella components of MMR protect most people for life, but the mumps component wanes. It likelyl protects from complications, but not disease; a booster is recommended in outbreaks. sports.yahoo.com/articles/san...

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San Diego State mumps outbreak: What we know about 17 Aztecs football players out vs. Texas State

San Diego State opens Pac-12 play against Texas State on Saturday night severely short-handed while dealing with an unusual mumps outbreak blamed on anti-vaccination movement.

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 17h

Judge Stadtmueller, a Reagan appointee in Wisconsin, orders the release of an ICE detainee in part because of the "systemic rigging of bond hearings against detainees." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

“.. The U.S. is enduring its worst year for measles since 1991 ..” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/meas...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17h

In Austin, a 9-year-old watched ICE detain and drive away with his mother, leaving community members to scramble to find him care. Senate Republicans just blocked a bill that would bar ICE from making arrests at school bus stops. Their cruelty is endless.

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'It Has to Stop': Community Members Condemn ICE Arrests at Bus Stops After GOP Blocks Bill to Protect Kids | Common Dreams

Republicans in the US Senate blocked a bill to protect school bus stops from ICE arrests, leading to outrage in Pennsylv

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Brain Scans of 24 People With Long COVID Reveal Signs of Injury to Dopamine Neurons" A small Canadian study of 24 people with Long COVID found signs that dopamine-releasing neurons may be damaged. Those with bigger changes had worse memory, slower movement and less motivation.

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Brain Scans of 24 People With Long COVID Reveal Signs of Injury to Dopamine Neurons

Scientists have discovered a distinct change in the brains of people with long COVID that might explain some of the illness's most debilitating symptoms.

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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

These Republicans are completely unhinged. It sounds like Shasta County is full of them; this one padlocked ballots in a room & "ordered subordinates to destroy the keys." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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An election chief lost. Then he padlocked the ballots and called the FBI.

Shasta County, California, where election doubts run so deep that some don’t trust results even when their choice prevails, offers a glimpse of what happens when distrust in voting systems takes root.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Blumenthal: Tether is a crypto company that has a stablecoin known as USDT, and it is the major means of Iran avoiding and evading sanctions. What we’ve also exposed is that Cantor Fitzgerald has a major financial tie. Cantor Fitzgerald was owned by Howard Lutnick. It’s still run by his family.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The Trump administration is carrying out wide-scale family separations, far more than in the first Trump term. @caitlindickerson.bsky.social reports. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSXN...

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A ‘MASSIVE CRISIS IS UNFOLDING’: The hidden family separations happening under Trump’s second term

YouTube video by MS NOW

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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I’m trying to imagine what kind of meltdown would be overtaking Fox News tonight if these homepage-leading headlines were published while a Democratic president was in power.

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U.S. Rushes to Withdraw Bombers From U.K. Air Base After New Threats The move came with unusual speed, following
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The withdrawal came amid security concerns around the base where several suspects were arrested last week in connection with a suspected plot.

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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026

A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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A Reckoning in Springfield

A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.

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For the Love of Missy @missybbbobtail.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Thanks @loudouncats.bsky.social for an amazing event. (It is still going strong if you want to head out to Vanish Brewery in Lucketts before 4:00 today) The vendors were amazing & the raffle basket over the top! Fingers crossed I win one. Also met the sweethearts hoping to get adopted.

Cats up for adoption through LC3. They’re adoption fees have been sponsored

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Five-byline alert: 🚨 “.. In the last hours of Kristi Noem’s tenure as the homeland security secretary, her agency delivered a windfall to one of her political donors by buying five airplanes from the man’s firm at a substantial markup ..” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/04/u...

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.com · 04/10/2026

Wow I missed this last month From DHS: "Get off our roads, you don't know how to drive Mr. Singh." They deleted it, but still. We must root every one of these noxious racist fucks out of our government.

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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

An estimated 2.3 million new cancer cases globally in 2024 were linked to infections. HALF WERE VACCINE PREVENTABLE (Hep B and HPV) Read more from the study spkl.io/61877pZ9S

Figure: Age-standardised incidence rates of infection-attributable cancers per 100,000 person-years in 2024 for the six infectious agents with the most attributable cases.

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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It’s funny whenever my husband and I go out to dinner because the straight servers are always like “will this be separate checks guys?” and the gay servers just squint and point their finger back and forth at us until one of us nods

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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

There Has Been Another Vaccine-Preventable Disease Death: An unvaccinated child died from Hib in Montana. Hib has been coming back, harming and killing children. It's dangerous - and vaccine preventable, explains @aboutpediatrics.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/stopanti...

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There Has Been Another Vaccine-Preventable Disease Death

An unvaccinated child who died because they were sick with Hib, which can be prevented with a vaccine that has been around since 1987.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Ossoff: The money that they took from you when they slashed Medicaid and defunded hospitals and nursing homes—They’re taking that money to buy corrupt, taxpayer-funded political ads on national television to try to promote the failed and broken president…

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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Third measles infection tied to train trip reported in Franklin County, Missouri; person traveled by train, but not subsequent infections yet (though there still could be). www.stlpr.org/health-scien...

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Third measles infection tied to train trip reported in Franklin County; officials not alarmed

The Franklin County resident is the third confirmed case of measles tied to the train journey.

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Here is Makary saying Lyme was released from a lab by Nazi scientists.

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Makary claims Nazi scientists released Lyme as a bioweapon

YouTube video by Jonathan Howard

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More Questions than Nine Four-Year Olds @toddcolorado.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Details — like not knowing the Senate is not in session for a month — are often left out of MSM articles, when one could argue that detail *is* the story. I think this would get clicks: “President appears to be unaware Congress is in recess”

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 03/10/2026

NYT: The Trump administration’s talks with Russia about ending the war in Ukraine have expanded to include a multibillion-dollar oil deal that would benefit Middle Eastern business executives with ties to the two main U.S. negotiators, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner.

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Please please please stop making a big deal out of the G7 reserves release. Yes, it’s 100 million barrels over 4 months. We - the planet - use 100 million barrels of crude every…single…day. Almost literally a drop in the bucket.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

“.. The layoffs — occurring just three days before President Donald Trump’s rally on Saturday at a nearby high school — were large enough to basically erase an entire year of job growth in the greater Dayton, Ohio, area.” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/trum...

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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

ICE violated nearly 100 court orders in 1 month—now DOJ is attacking the MN federal judges who spoke out @ngertner.bsky.social, @rwpusa.bsky.social, Matthew Seligman & I authored a joint op-ed standing up for judicial independence Full op-ed @ContrarianNews.org 👇 -TN

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We Object! DOJ’s Latest Attack on our Heroic Federal Judges

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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

WOMAN FILES FLORIDA LAWSUIT ACCUSING TRUMP OF 1997 RAPE A woman has filed a civil complaint in Palm Beach County, Florida, accusing Donald Trump of raping her in a Florida hotel in 1997 while Jeffrey Epstein was present. #TheCityBrief

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"Spain reaches epidemic levels of respiratory infections due to rise in Covid-19 cases" 21 Sep - 27 Sep 2026 • Total ARIs: 478.2 / 100k • COVID Cases: 119.2 / 100k • COVID Positivity: 27.2% • COVID Hospitalisations: 1.7 / 100k • XFG Variant: 55% • Weekly Mortality (MoMo): 8,137 (7,705 expected)

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Spain reaches epidemic levels of respiratory infections due to rise in Covid-19 cases | Sur in English

The number of cases of coronavirus, flu and bronchiolitis stands at 478, above the 400-case threshold that marks the start of an epidemic

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🚨BREAKING: Tarrant County voters filed an emergency lawsuit Friday accusing Republican county officials of intentionally making it harder for Black and Hispanic residents to vote by eliminating dozens of Election Day polling places. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Tarrant County voters sue to block GOP polling site cuts targeting minority voters

The lawsuit comes a month after the GOP-controlled Tarrant County Commissioners Court approved the cuts in a 3-2 vote despite intense opposition from residents and the court’s two Democratic commissio...

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The NY Times says it’s “not clear“ why Trump is using taxpayer funds and not money from his super PAC for his self-glorifying ads. But it’s clear to me. It’s because HE‘S A CROOK.

It was not clear why taxpayer funds, and not money from the super PAC, were used for the spots.

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Jan Kirsch, M.D., M.P.H. @drjanicekirsch.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Thanks, Roadkill Robert The MMR [measles, mumps, and rubella] vaccine, administered over two doses, boosts a person’s immune system and  provides 97% lifetime protection. www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/meas...

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Measles milestones: US closes in on 4,000 cases as Pennsylvania nears 1,000

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The presumptions of good faith and of regularity are made up court creations that fly in the face of commonsense and the structure of the Constitution. It should be a priority for Democrats and progressives to undo both. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Court upholds Tennessee’s GOP gerrymander, saying lawmakers deserve ‘presumption of good faith’

A federal court dismissed a lawsuit challenging a gerrymandered map adopted by Tennessee Republicans that eliminated what was the state’s one Black-majority congressional district, based in Memphis.

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

While Putin's missiles fell on Ukraine, Washington quietly pulled $52 million from NATO allies on Russia's doorstep. No speech. No vote. Just a letter to Congress. www.jackhopkinsnow.com

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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

NEW EPISODE: Weeks before the midterms, election deniers on Georgia's election board quietly asked Trump's DOJ to intervene. I break down the excuses in the letter and why it fits Trump's long obsession with controlling how Georgia's votes are counted. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwoR...

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Trump is Coming for Georgia's Vote Count

YouTube video by Democracy Docket

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"Paxton left about 730 workdays blank on his official calendars and took over 275 out-of-state trips to places such as the California wine country, Caribbean resorts and European tourism hot spots. The travel cost TX taxpayers a minimum of $1.9 million to cover expenses ... by his security detail."

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Inside Ken Paxton's jet-setting lifestyle: California wineries, European hot spots and ski resorts

When Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton launched his campaign for Senate last year, he skipped the local pageantry.

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Ali Velshi @velshi.com · 02/10/2026

Trump's "trapped in a fantasy world" where "he is doing a great job, he's fantastic, the economy's great," says John Harwood. "His psychological disfigurement will not allow him to feel the voters' pain."

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“.. Tech payrolls have fallen to the lowest level since December 2020.” - Schwab

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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The Keynote Speaker at the Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in March, folks.

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J. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Out of sight, out of mind - the Trump regime is trying to erase disabled people. "With this redesign, roughly 25,000 households will receive a mailed questionnaire — a slight drop from past surveys....The proposed changes include reducing 482 questions to 150... 🧵 www.statnews.com/2026/10/01/c...

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As CDC redesigns annual health survey, it removes questions about disabilities

Proposed changes to the federal government’s health survey would undercount Americans with disabilities, advocates say.

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