Annie Hiding-Poorly

This is a wonky process but BIG news regarding the Republican budget bill: My staff successfully got multiple provisions removed from the bill. Two key wins: 1) Medicaid provider tax. Striking this means Republicans have to backtrack on hundreds of billions in Medicaid cuts.

The Trump and Elon breakup would be pretty funny to watch if I didn't know how much is on the line here: 10 million people could lose Medicaid and 2 million kids could lose food assistance.

Don't let this drama distract you from what matters.

Misleading and False Vaccine Claims from the MAHA Report Misleading and False Vaccine Claims from the MAHA Report “Since 1986 the average child, by one year of age, has gone from 3 injections to 29.” Overall, the vaccine schedule has expanded by 1-2 vaccin...

If you came across the MAHA report, here are some examples of how it misleads readers, reflecting old, debunked anti-vaccine tropes.

"Misleading and False Vaccine Claims from the MAHA Report"
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Amazing. UHC shareholders are suing because after the CEO shooting, the company was “no longer willing” to use “aggressive, anti-consumer tactics” to generate the profits they were promised.

A gift from the content gods.

I am outraged by the unjust arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka earlier this afternoon outside of Delaney Hall in Newark.

I am calling for his immediate release by federal law enforcement.

Approval ratings don’t matter if they have no intentions to hold free & fair elections.

Social Security website keeps crashing, as DOGE demands cuts to IT staff The worsening problems come as Elon Musk’s DOGE team pushes for more cuts at the agency, including in the department that oversees the website.

The Social Security system is crashing, locking senior citizens out for long stretches nearly every day. And Trump's solution is to lay off 1000 more workers and slash the IT budget by 50%.

Start asking if the purpose is to crash our economy and society. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Yesterday was incredible. The official count is in — 5.2 million people joined the #HandsOff protest nationwide. So many are asking: what’s next? Mark your calendars: 4/19 is the next nationwide day of protest.

A woman stands with her back turned to us in a large crowd, holding up a handmade cardboard sign that reads “Democracy dies on the couch.”

Caught this one today in New Orleans. Get out there, people!

Photos from Boston, New York, Chicago, Portland, San Francisco, San Diego, Idaho, Utah, Oakland

#HandsOff

Portland OR Hands Off Rally

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING
#handsoff

Just learned about this at ACP annual meeting this morning. SO disappointing, but not surprising.

An important point getting overlooked:

When NIH cancels "diversity" grants (e.g., diversity supplements, Fs, Ks, etc), they aren't canceling the grants based on *what* the grant studies.

They're cancelling them based on *who* is doing the research. And that disallowed "who" is anyone not white.

The CDC Has Been Gutted Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.

www.wired.com/story/cdc-gu...

Scientist speaks out after NIH terminates grants including study of LGBTQ+ teens' mental health Dr. Brittany Charlton is speaking out after the NIH terminated all of her grants studying how discriminatory laws impact mental health among LGBTQ+ teens.

ICYMI Last week we lost ALL of our NIH funding. Here is some of the LGBTQ health equity research that NIH funding has supported. A thread ⬇️
#LGBTQ #HealthEquity #PublicHealth

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