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Doctors concerned after WV lawmakers change newborn care standard that prevents blindness in babies • West Virginia Watch West Virginia law mandates that medical professionals treat newborns’ eyes with an ointment meant to prevent potentially blindness.

Newborns in West Virginia automatically receive eye ointment after birth to prevent medical pink eye, which can cause blindness. A bill approved by the Senate and House of Delegates repeals that medical mandate, reports @amelianews.bsky.social.

"House Republicans, in the middle of a financial crisis, when Donald Trump is ruining our alliances...the thing that the House Republicans spent time on is to try to disenfranchise millions of voters."

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Mike Johnson Reveals How He’ll Fund Trump’s Budget Cuts The House speaker has a cruel plan now that he’s passed the budget.

House Republicans have approved the budget which extends Trump’s 2017 tax cuts for corporations and billionaires, adding an estimated $6.8 trillion to the deficit.

Mike Johnson's solution is "returning work requirements" which could strip upwards of 36 million Americans of their health coverage.

New Social Security rules will create hurdles for millions of seniors, report finds A new report from a left-leaning Center on Budget and Policy Priorities finds that upcoming changes to Social Security will amount to a "45-mile trip for some 6 million seniors."

Americans seeking retirement or survivor benefits from the Social Security Administration will no longer be able to apply over the phone, starting next week.

South Sudan cholera patients died walking to clinic after US cut aid, charity says Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after U.S. aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said on Wednesday.

Eight people in South Sudan, including five children, died on a three-hour walk to seek medical treatment for cholera after US aid cuts forced local health services to close, the UK-based charity Save the Children said reut.rs/3E9kB27

Sen. Jim Banks told a laid off U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) employee who approached him that they “probably deserved it” and they “seem like a clown.”

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.

NEW: 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.

Exclusive: Democrats ask SEC to preserve records related to Trump’s crypto business, probing conflicts A pair of top Democratic lawmakers asked the U.S. securities regulator on Wednesday to preserve records related to President Donald Trump’s crypto venture World Liberty Financial and posed questions about potential conflicts of interest.

Exclusive: A pair of top Democratic lawmakers asked the US securities regulator to preserve records related to President Trump’s crypto venture World Liberty Financial and posed questions about potential conflicts of interest reut.rs/41TonWn

Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration's latest firing blitz.

NEW: The doctor behind breakthrough Parkinson’s research was among the scientists purged from the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency. www.wired.com/story/doctor...

Sen. Cory Booker Breaks Segregationist Strom Thurmond's Record U.S. Sen. Cory Booker broke a record set 68 years ago by then-Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, a segregationist, in 1957.

In a 25-hour speech decrying what he described as Trump's "grave" threats to democracy, U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, a Black man from New Jersey, gave the longest U.S. Senate floor speech in U.S. history—smashing the record Dixiecrat Sen. Strom Thurmond set with his 1957 anti-civil rights filibuster.

All previous presidents knew how to handle military operations... except these clowns. And mango mussolini wasn't even present, as commander in chief! Who's running this show!

The ReThugs want us dumbed down like them.

Measles Cases in Kansas May Be Linked to Texas Outbreak State health officials worry that declining vaccination rates have left many communities vulnerable nationwide.

Measles cases in Kansas more than doubled in the last week, bringing the tally to 20, while another outbreak in Ohio has sickened 10 people, local public health officials reported on Wednesday.

Health officials have worried that a Texas measles outbreak may be seeding others.

When Your Threat Model Is Being a Moron No phone, no app, no encryption can protect you from yourself if you send the information you’re trying to hide directly to someone you don’t want to have it.

When your threat model is being a moron

No phone, no app, no encryption can protect you from yourself if you send the information you’re trying to hide directly to someone you don’t want to have it.

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Annotated Text From Leaked Signal Group Chat With Top Trump Officials The chat’s contents, which were obtained by The Atlantic after its editor in chief was added to the Signal group, provide a revealing look at private conversations between top Trump administration off...

Excerpts of a Signal chat published by The Atlantic provide a rare and revealing look at the private conversations of top Trump administration officials as they weighed plans for U.S. strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen.

Here are some excerpts from the chat.

Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public A WIRED review shows national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.

SCOOP: A WIRED review of public data shows that national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.

The inside story of how a journalist was sent White House war plans Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic, said he was mistakenly added to a group chat with U.S. national security leaders about imminent military strikes on Yemen.

Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor of The Atlantic, said he was mistakenly added to a group chat with U.S. national security leaders about imminent military strikes on Yemen.

Walz: "The idea that the secretary of education would not know what IDEA is -- individuals with disability in education act -- that's like your mechanic not knowing how to put air in your tire. And she's in charge of this nation's education progress. It is catastrophic."

SpaceX's Starship explodes in space, again raining debris over Caribbean The back-to-back mishaps indicate serious setbacks for a program Elon Musk has sought to speed up this year.

SpaceX's Starship spacecraft tumbled and exploded in space minutes after lifting off from Texas, ending an attempt to deploy mock satellites in the second consecutive failure this year for Elon Musk's Mars rocket program reut.rs/3DuE1xS

Social Security Checks Could Stop Going Out by April, Ex-Head Warns The former Social Security commissioner said the system could “collapse,” causing disruptions in payments within “30 to 90 days.”

They are coming for social security.

Shameless.

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, but only if they pay me 5 million dollars for my instant-citizenship Gold Card.💰” -Comrade Krasnov
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DOGE's savings page fixed old mistakes — and added new ones An NPR review of new data added to DOGE's "wall of receipts" finds the group quietly changed previous errors, added new ones and still has little verified savings to show for its work.

An NPR review of new data added to DOGE's "wall of receipts" finds the group quietly changed previous errors, added new ones and still has little verified savings to show for its work.

Musk claims DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort. Officials disagree. USAID’s initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said.

Elon Musk said DOGE made a mistake by cutting USAID’s Ebola prevention but it had been “restored.”

That’s not true, current and former officials told me and @johnphudson.bsky.social.

“There have been no efforts to ‘turn on’” Ebola prevention, said Nidhi Bouri, who oversaw team until January.

Moderation against tyranny is the wrong choice It's obvious that the goal of this tyrannous Trump administration is to break government and democracy. There won’t be any 'going back.' We need to do the best we can to move beyond the frozen…

LeMay: It's obvious that the goal of this tyrannous Trump administration is to break government and democracy.

We need to do the best we can to move beyond the frozen horror, and get to doing the work to protect democracy here and abroad with all allies we can find.

Trump has canceled Biden's ethics rules. Critics call it the opposite of 'drain the swamp' Donald Trump took office eight years ago pledging to “drain the swamp” of the dominance of Washington influence peddlers.

Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees.

Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law

Time to do things that make him react to you.
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I’ve been targeted for death in a bomb threat received at the Principles First Summit where I spoke today. To be clear, I’ve been threatened by far more capable people during my career. It won’t stop my advocacy for democracy and the Constitution: x.com/Acosta/statu...

Thousands in Midwestern GOP Districts Attend Sanders' First Stops on Tour to Fight Oligarchy | Common Dreams Senator Bernie Sanders is on a mission to fight oligarchy and empower the people. With a powerful message against Trumpism and billionaire influence, he's rallying Americans to stand up for democracy....

This is really smart by @sanders.senate.gov Go to republican districts and push voters to pressure their republican reps.

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Nukes and now this. What a fucking calamity.