Alan Cohen

🚨 NEW: Planned Parenthood just scored a major win — a federal judge granted a temporary injunction allowing its clinics to KEEP receiving Medicaid funding for non-abortion care, despite GOP attempts to gut it in their sham tax law. The right came for healthcare. The courts hit back.

BREAKING: Scientists are staging a “science fair” in the lobby of a Congressional building to tell elected officials about the critical knowledge the US will lose because their research grants have been canceled.

I SURVIVED READING BANNED BOOKS ALL I GOT WAS SMARTER AND MORE EMPATHETIC

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An illustration featuring a leopard shark, bat ray, and the California state marine fish: the garibaldi. They are swimming next to giant kelp and illustrated on a vibrant blue background.

A lil tribute to the kelp forests along the California coast 🌊✨

What does it say about you if you elect an asshole to run your country? Nothing good, that's for sure.

How did ICE break the bank? Congress should ask the budget director

ICE is, by one estimate, on track to be $1 billion over budget.

If you are wondering how agencies are allowed to spend money they don’t have, the answer is simple: They are not.

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The Senate parliamentarian has OK'd GOP language stripping Medicaid funding for reproductive health care clinics like Planned Parenthood in the "BBB." It pains me that this is being talked about as if it's about abortion b/c this is about NON-ABORTION care like life-saving pap smears and STD tests.

Trump’s budget bill is a disaster for public health.

It’s the biggest cut to health care in history.

12 million people will lose health insurance.

Hundreds of hospitals will close.

1 in 4 nursing homes will close.

Millions more families won’t have enough food.

Lisa Murkowski and Bill Cassidy are beyond despicable. They will be responsible for thousands of deaths.

This bill is a declaration of war on American families. It's the largest transfer of wealth in history from poor and middle-class Americans to the ultrawealthy, a wishlist made by the most awful people in the world.

MAGA Will Devastate Rural America Trump’s policies will hit the American heartland hard, very hard

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The collapse of American support for mRNA vaccines

My comments with Bundle www.bundle.app/en/finance/m...

130 million dollars to bring thousands of troops to deal with this big of a problem? Make it make sense.
(The tiny red circle is the area of the protests!)

Never EVER trust two criminal megalomaniacs. Don’t take anything on face value. This very public “fight” could be a coverup/distraction from the heist of the century or something equally diabolical. Keep your eyes on their hands.

'Neglected tropical diseases' now face even more neglect U.S. aid cuts could jeopardize the supply of donated drugs that are hailed for their effectiveness in combating neglected diseases like river blindness, schistosomiasis and trachoma.

My interview with @npr.org and long history with neglected tropical diseases

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Screenshot of the Covid wastewater data tracking showing an 8% daily increase in cases with viral concentration levels high

FYI Bay Area folks- Covid levels are High in the wastewater in both Palo Alto and San Jose. It’s probably the new variant that’s been spreading. Now is a great time to mask up, test before events, ventilate the spaces you’re in, and talk to people before you meet to make sure you’re being safer.

From the Epstein files. Here’s DJT.

You caused this nightmare
You elected them

Very Well Said….
Let’s Do This!😊💙

The Congressional Budget Office said the sweeping Republican bill to cut taxes and slash federal programs would add $2.4 trillion to the national debt over the next 10 years. Fewer services for the American people, but yet more debt.

This 5% increase from the 8,873 incidents documented in 2023 demonstrates that elevated antisemitism has become a persistent reality for American Jewish communities rather than a temporary spike in the months immediately after the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.