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Attacks on Medicaid are causing real harm to real people right here in New Hampshire. In Congress, I was a hard no on the biggest cuts to Medicaid in American history, and I am using every tool I have to protect the healthcare you and your family rely on.

Maine joins effort to crack down on illegal robocalls The Anti-Robocall Litigation Task Force is sending warning letters to 37 companies that officials say are responsible for a significant volume of fraudulent robocalls targeting people in Maine and nat...

“Robocalls are not just nuisance, they are a primary method for scammers to reach unwitting victims. While the scammers are often out of reach of the American legal system, the companies passing these calls through are not."

If by tariffs are working you mean taxes on American consumers and businesses, then sure

A ‘tropical’ disease is spreading in American wildlife This neglected tropical disease is no longer confined to the tropics. It’s here, in the United States, spreading silently in wildlife.

“In the heart of Illinois, while researching wildlife disease, I made a discovery that stunned me: More than half of the raccoons I sampled were infected with Trypanosoma cruzi, the parasite that causes Chagas’ disease… It’s here, in the United States, spreading silently in wildlife.”

Wealthy people don’t need Medicare or Medicaid to get all the healthcare they want for cancer, reproductive health, etc. But when they or a loved one develops an incurable disease, with no experimental treatments in the pipeline, they may wish that NIH/mRNA research hadn’t been defunded.

Hello journalists. If you report this you gotta say that under the Constitution he has no power to do it. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Researchers are investigating promising mRNA vaccines for pancreatic cancer, which currently has a five-year survival rate of just 13 percent. They’re also studying mRNA treatments for multiple other types of cancer, autoimmune disorders and genetic diseases such as sickle cell anemia.

E.P.A. Moves to Cancel $7 Billion in Grants for Solar Energy

It's alarming to see Trump’s EPA prepping to claw back $7 billion for affordable solar. People are already struggling with high prices—it's unacceptable that the administration is trying to make working families fork over more of their hard-earned dollars to pay their utility bills.

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From @thelancet.com" Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health. Plastics cause disease and death from infancy to old age and are responsible for health-related economic losses exceeding US$1·5 trillion annually.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

I only thanked Trump once in my lifetime for anything he did, and now he’s killing that one thing.
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A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.

Abortion bans mean more women nearly dying from miscarriages. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

@kairyssdal.bsky.social has been setting an example for broadcasters (public and private) and mainstream reporters in his strict "let's the cut the BS" insistence on truth.

All other broadcasters and (especially) headline writers: Follow his lead.

What We Lost When We Lost the Greatest Generation It's no coincidence that democracy is backsliding in the US exactly eighty years after the end of World War II.

We are losing the last of the generation who understand just how evil actual fascism is, how hard it is to rid the world of authoritarian governments once they’re established, and how hard it is to build a successful alternative. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/what-we-lo...

If ACA premium tax credits expire, it would be a disaster for working families who are already being squeezed by high prices.

Health coverage costs would skyrocket for 20 million Americans, and millions more would lose coverage altogether. We must act before it's too late.

Key decisions that will shape rural health fund Questions have already arisen about how the funds will be allocated — and how much they'll help rural providers.

Questions remain over what factors CMS will prioritize in state applications and how much it will actually benefit rural providers, Axios Pro's Victoria Knight has reported.

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Video New book uses oral history to tell story of the atomic bomb ABC News' chief global affairs correspondent Martha Raddatz speaks with author Garrett Graff about his new book on the atomic bomb during WWII ahead of the event’s 80th anniversary.

This week marks the 80th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—events so terrible that the central principle of geopolitics ever since has been to avoid using such weapons again. I spoke with ABC News's "This Week" about my new book & the bombs' legacy: abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/vid...

Important visit this morning to St. Joe's Hospital in Nashua with @repchrispappas.bsky.social.

HR1—the GOP’s Big, Brutal Budget—makes the biggest healthcare cuts in American history, putting unbelievable pressure on hospitals, with many risking closure. I’m fighting to prevent that from happening.

Also and while I’m at it — if you don’t say tariffs are taxes on US importers and consumers when citing the revenue the government celebrates that hey’ve brought in, you’re not credible.

This is wonderful quote about hard-won-knowledge point.

-Cocksure outsiders look at gov agency and say, "Oh, these people must be idiots. Just fire them and end the problems"

So too:
-People who have not had children look at a crying 2-year-old and say, "Oh, why don't they just tell him to behave"

Lessons from RomneyCare: Building a Health Safety Net? #CareTalk Laura Packard

Massachusetts is the home of RomneyCare, which originally inspired the Affordable Care Act. On #CareTalk live Alex Sheff of Health Care For All MA shares what we can learn about making health more affordable and available w/ me @healthcarevoices.org @mswmedia.com.

Let's be clear: President Trump's "trade deals" are not a win for America.

Tariffs—taxes paid for by Americans—remain higher than they were at the start of this senseless trade war, and it will cost working families more than $2,000 a year as a result.

Trump didn’t “call for” the head of the BLS to be fired. He *actually fired her. Let’s get it right, people.

one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules

We Can Save Public Radio and Television Viewers and listeners like us.

"No matter where I lived, I knew this was guaranteed because after moving into a new place, we’d plug in our old box television, adjust the shitty little antenna just so, and voila, like magic, there was PBS. It was free."

Federal food assistance program may slow cognitive decline, study suggests New research links receiving food assistance through SNAP to better brain health. Earlier this month, Trump enacted major cuts to the program.

Food insecurity “can lead to poor nutrition and chronic disease, and all of that can negatively impact the brain. So by improving access to nutrient-rich foods, SNAP may support brain health, reduce the stress and promote better health overall.”
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Pease civilian workers face layoffs amid National Guard cuts: Air safety concerns raised NH congressional leaders raise air safety concerns at Pease in face of civilian worker layoffs amid National Guard cuts.

More than half of the civilian employees at Pease are emergency personnel and air traffic controllers.

Proposed cuts could devastate the important role they play in supporting emergency services in the region, including at Portsmouth International Airport.

Zero Knowledge Proofs Alone Are Not a Digital ID Solution to Protecting User Privacy In the past few years, governments across the world have rolled out digital identification options, and now there are efforts encouraging online companies to implement identity and age verification re...

It is disappointing to see Google and others pushing zero-knowledge proofs (ZKPs) for age verification. As EFF points out, ZKPs aren't enough to protect our privacy, and without a federal privacy law, they're just more fuel for data brokers.

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