Krista Barbour

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Donald Trump just started a war and is plotting to steal the 2026 election. Meanwhile, his buddy David Ellison just won control of CNN.

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it’s so rare to hear US politicians say something compassionate and human like this

The U.S. military is not any president’s plaything. The Constitution puts the responsibility on Congress alone to decide whether and when to take on the profound costs of war.

Donate to Support She Got Game: Celebrate Female Athletes, organized by Flavor Flav Flavor Flav, the legendary rapper and Hollywood personality, has long been… Flavor Flav needs your support for Support She Got Game: Celebrate Female Athletes

Many of y’all asked how you can support and donate to our female athletes and the celebrations,,, so I created a Go Fund Me. I’m hopeful this can have an impact beyond the weekend and help those that represent the best of the US

gofund.me/140322128

No real IRB approval *and* it was “routed straight from the director’s office to grant management officials who approved it, a process that took only 10 days. An ordinary grant review process can take upward of a year.”

The Heritage Foundation's Plan to Keep Women Uneducated, Pregnant and Subservient The Heritage Foundation published "Saving America by Saving the Family: A Foundation for the Next 250 Years." Goodbye women's rights.

Contemporary US pronatalism, of which the Heritage Foundation is the most powerful player, is blatantly sexist and racist and fueled by Christian Nationalism.

This isn’t an exaggeration - it’s explicitly spelled out in their plan to “save America by saving the family.”

Texas U.S. citizen was fatally shot by an immigration agent last year during a stop, new records show The death of Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, would mark the earliest of at least six deadly shootings by federal officers since the start of the Trump administration's nationwide immigration crackdown.

Our government shot & killed an American citizen during a stop last year. We’re only finding out about it now. Where’s the outrage ⁦‪from Senators Cornyn‬⁩ & ⁦‪Cruz‬⁩ ? This is their constituent.
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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

A retired British primary school administrator with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

What I Saw at a Maternity Ward in Kenya After the U.S. Cut Off Food and Foreign Aid Photographs tell a story of two mothers determined to help their babies gain enough weight to leave the hospital — only to face little to no food again.

A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive.

One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy.

Another collapsed and had seizures during labor.

(Published Dec. 2025)

16 NIH Institutes Have No Permanent Directors Former NIH institute director calls vacancies a slower version of feared purge

16 NIH Institutes Have No Permanent Directors
— Former NIH institute director calls vacancies a slower version of a feared purge.
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A UNC Health clinic in Pittsboro is changing how patients access mental health care — offering same-day support during primary care visits, with no referral delays.

The integrated model is already improving engagement and access across NC.

Read more: www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2026/02/10/f...

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Chlorine Dioxide, Raw Camel Milk: The FDA No Longer Warns Against These and Other Ineffective Autism Treatments The FDA has taken down a webpage warning about therapies and products making “false claims” of treating autism. It’s part of a series of actions the agency has taken under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...

www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

“[DHS] is expanding its efforts to identify Americans who oppose Immigration and Customs Enforcement by sending tech companies legal requests for the names, email addresses, telephone numbers and other identifying data behind social media accounts that track or criticize the agency.”

Trump administration is erasing history and science at national parks, lawsuit argues Conservation and historical organizations sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over National Park Service policies that the groups say erase history and science from America's national parks.

Conservation and historical organizations sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over National Park Service policies that the groups say erase history and science from America's national parks. n.pr/3Oir8w9

Weaponizing the FDA Against Vaccines By rejecting Moderna’s application for an mRNA influenza vaccine, RFK Jr.’s FDA is advancing his anti-vaccine agenda.

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A closer look at the FDA's recent kill shot against an mRNA influenza vaccine.

It continues. Resist and unsubscribe.

People are boycotting Amazon, Google, Netflix, more. Here's why In part, the big tech boycott intends to protest ongoing ICE operations in the U.S. What to know about the 'Resist and Unsubscribe' boycott.

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NYU Professor Urges Tech Boycott To Pressure Trump Scott Galloway, the outspoken marketing professor from New York University’s Stern School of Business, has never been shy about his views on power, technology,…

This is a coin-operated president.

Rivian finds a way to shine even as the EV market struggles in the dark Rivian shocked the market with strong earnings results last week, proving itself an outlier in the electric vehicle market, which has been struggling with the end of government subsidies and coolin…

Rivian finds a way to shine even as the EV market struggles in the dark

This week at Democracy Docket: The worst voter suppression bill ever passed, and an FBI raid built on conspiracy theories When the U.S. House passed the SAVE Act last year, historians told us it was Congress' worst attack on voting rights ever. Well, this week the House approved an even worse one.

When the U.S. House passed the SAVE Act last year, historians told us it was Congress’ worst attack on voting rights ever. Well, this week the House approved an even worse one. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

@barackobama.bsky.social praises those who protest ICE "with the truth and with cameras and with peaceful protest and with shining a light on the behavior that, in the past, we've seen in authoritarian countries and dictatorships, but we have not seen in America."

I was diagnosed with locally advanced colon cancer at age 46, one small step from metastatic cancer. At the time, screening started at age 50 and I had no known family history.

Colon cancer (and other cancers) are increasingly common at younger ages. Get checked out. Get more time.

Troop 6000

It’s once again Girl Scout cookie season so it’s time for me remind everyone to please consider buying from NYC’s Girl Scout Troop 6000, which is entirely made up of girls living in NYC homeless shelters 🙏❤️

DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE A sweeping boycott has begun — targeting tech giants who participants believe are enabling President Trump and his immigration crackdown.

A sweeping boycott has begun — targeting tech giants who participants believe are enabling President Trump and his immigration crackdown.

North Carolina cut voting sites at nation’s largest HBCU. Students are suing The board cut the sites weeks before the state’s 2026 primary election.

Students voices are being drowned out by the racist NC government who by the way have not passed a state budget in two years.

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Moderna’s Flu Shot Ordeal Hurts Innovation — and Public Health The Food and Drug Administration’s recent decision to turn away Moderna’s application for a new flu shot for older Americans is a troubling development in health officials’ piecemeal dismantling of th...

For my latest @opinion.bloomberg.com, wrote about FDA's disastrous decision--or, really, it seems Vinay Prasad's singular choice--to turn away Moderna's flu vaccine application without a review. The problem is much bigger than this one vaccine. (🎁 link):

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