Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈

Meet the new American refugees fleeing across state lines for safety Americans have often moved between states for opportunities. Now they’re being forced to uproot themselves to escape hostile forces under Trump

A history teacher in New Hampshire had to leave his job and home, moving out of state for declaring he would teach the truth. I was reminded I had been to his home over a decade ago, when fighting for a high school “Sweeney Todd.” Sad and infuriating.

The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations The move — along with the CDC’s explanation — is a sign that the nation’s top public health agency may be falling in line under HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a longtime critic of vaccines.

This week, as the number of confirmed measles cases rose to 483, the CDC buried a report that would’ve stressed the importance of getting vaccinated.

The move was “not normal at all,” one agency staff member said.

By @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

Will you deny the millions on Medicaid with access to life saving mental health care? Because if you don't find the courage to take back the power our constitution gives to Congress, that is the outcome. We stood by you when you struggled. Will you stand by us?

Transgender Athletes Could Be At A Physical Disadvantage, New Research Shows An IOC-funded study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine earlier this month suggests transgender athletes could be at a physical disadvantage.

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When Amazon launched in 1995, there were 5,500 indie bookshops in the U.S., with 7,000 locations. By May of 2023, that number had decreased to 2,185 indies & 2,599 locations.

When you purchase audiobooks via Libro.fm vs. Audible, you directly support indie bookshops. Let's make that number grow ❤️

Dusting off my old Oxford English Dictionary and consulting carefully, I could not find "attack friends and submit to enemies" as a definition of the word "strength."

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

Congress: Save Medicaid Now Politicians are attempting to pass devastating cuts to Medicaid right now and we must act fast. Send a message telling your member of Congress to fight back now.

The House could vote next week on drastic cuts to Medicaid that would gut critical programs that protect the civil rights and dignity of millions of Americans — including people with disabilities.

Contact your member of Congress: No cuts to Medicaid.

After the only surviving child of our slain president publicly denounced said nephew as unfit for federal office. Nothing to see here...

How to Organize Our Way Out of the Trump-Musk Putsch By firing Gwynne Wilcox, Trump is hoping the Supreme Court will overrule 90 years of legal precedent and give him the authority to fire members of independent boards.

“Democrats seem to be waiting for Trump, Musk, and MAGA to naturally become unpopular, instead of working overtime to make them unpopular. We can’t wait. We need a unified, aggressive, and creative opposition in this country.”

Read more from @leahgreenberg.bsky.social and @ezralevin.bsky.social. 👇

🚨Trump & Musk are coming for your VA benefits. They’re coming for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid.

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60 MINUTES: “Utter nonsense. The most accountable aid agency in the world is USAID… DOGE fired their top 58 officials within an hour of arriving…”

This was never about efficiency.

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Image of seven of my books with Haymarket, Hope in the Dark (black), Whose Story Is This (violet), Men Explain Things to Me (blue), Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility, coedited with Thelma Young Lutunatabua and including 20 amazing writers from around the world (green), No Straight Road Takes You There (yellow), The Mother of All Questions (orange), and Call Them By Their True Names (red).

Happy Valentine's Day, especially to anyone who might identify with one of the letters in LGBTQ, particularly the day after someone Trumpy stripped the letter T and then the letter Q from the National Park Service website for Stonewall in New York City.

We don't back down. Ever. Be as courageous as you can.