Helen Santoro

BREAKING: A CDC panel voted to push back the first dose of the safe & effective hepatitis B vaccine.

This is a tragedy in the making.

This unfounded change to the childhood vaccine schedule will only lead to entirely preventable disease outbreaks in the years ahead.

For the first time a U.S. county is making their guaranteed income program permanent.

The Cook County Board of Commissioners has unanimously approved $7.5 million to continue its guaranteed income program.

Each month over 3,000 households will get an unconditional $500.

Dem. Senator Gallego's Leaked Texts Echo Far-Right Gender Panic And Misogyny Last week, Democratic Senator Ruben Gallego's texts leaked, where he lamented that Democratic "women look like men and men look like women."

1. Over Thanksgiving, texts from Dem. Sen Ruben Gallego leaked where he repeats far-right talking points on masculinity, lamenting that Democratic women "look like men."

Using far-right gender-panic rhetoric will not ingratiate the Democratic Party towards men.

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College Student Is Deported During Trip Home for Thanksgiving

Abolish ICE, prosecute their agents.

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someone attended the Bari Weiss School of Having Principles

Please come to our next event! It was a great time.

A brick entrance gate to a university campus, with people walking inside on a sunny autumn day. On the pavement in front of the gate, a message is written in large yellow chalk letters that reads, “Nick Fuentes is right about Israel.” Fallen leaves are scattered across the ground.

Spotted at Harvard today. Not great at all at how this nazi is being mainstreamed and normalized. This shit is absolutely not welcomed here. Used water from my water bottle to erase part of it.

Federal judge hands CHOP victory in its fight to protect medical records of transgender children U.S. District Court Judge Mark A. Kearney sided with Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and denied the bulk of the Department of Justice's subpoena seeking patient records.

News to watch: A federal judge in Philadelphia has blocked President Trump’s administration from obtaining the private medical records of youth who sought gender-affirming care at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Newly unsealed internal communications from Meta reveal senior staff saying Instagram is a drug and "We’re basically pushers."

The new court filing reveals Meta staff allegedly worked for years to obscure the social media platform’s potential dangers from parents and children.

two weeks apart

truly.

I hate that in local news, sometimes the most common type of disability story will be the very, VERY rare cases of disability fraud.

Disabled people live interesting lives and are impacted by so many things, yet the focus is on these rare events.

omg sabrina the solo poly issue on queer dating sites is real. I just want my one little person and we'll make a little home together with a vegetable garden <3

I got a 6/8....so not even a true LeverMind! Who can beat me??

Vaccines Do Not Cause Autism, No Matter What The CDC Website Now Says | Defector On Nov. 19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—a name that feels increasingly misleading, given Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s track record of sowing outbreaks of infectious diseases—quietly upda...

wrote about this shitbag again
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My legal team will be in federal court in North Carolina today fighting against the state's unconstitutional redrawn congressional map. Before you listen to those in the GOP who say we can't win, ask Texas how that worked out for them.

I want to take a moment to thank the entire Elias Law Group team who worked on the Texas redistricting case as well as our fearless clients. The thirteen Black and Latino voters we represented stood up to challenge Texas's unprecedented mid-decade redistricting. We all ow them a debt of gratitude.

Detransition is key to politicians’ anti-trans agenda. But what is it really like? The 19th spoke with two detransitioners who feel harmed and used by the Trump administration, which has positioned itself as a protector of those who detransition.

Detransition is being used as political fodder by the Trump admin and its allies to support extreme anti-trans policies.

In the process, the reality of detransition is lost. For our new series, I spoke with detransitioners who feel harmed by the Trump admin. Their stories are complex and important.

The Epstein stuff is always so amazing to me because it's like "yes he was a sex criminal but if you can get past that, he was also an avowed eugenicist"

Shutdown Deal Kills Food Safety Rules After lobbyists spent big on the Trump administration and Democratic defectors, the government funding bill cut food-contamination rules and limited ultraprocessed-food research.

If you have stomach issues or diarrhea in the near future blame the senators who slipped these provisions into the funding bill to reopen the government.

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Crazy find by @freddy-brewster.bsky.social @lukewgoldstein.bsky.social. Give it a read!

No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards"

Bernie Sanders has said in the Senate after Susan Collins reportedly laughed about the new funding bill:

“If this bill passes, certain groups will see their premiums triple. When you remove healthcare from 15 million people, 50,000 Americans will die who didn’t have to. Do you think that’s funny?”

BREAKING: Supreme Court rejects bid to overturn same-sex marriage rights

Taking the (few) wins when and where we can on this timeline

Instead of a drinking game, what if for every time you contact your government representative to not settle on the government shutdown you donate $5 to your local food bank (assuming you aren't poor).

You’ve Already Paid $6 Billion For Weight-Loss Drugs You Can’t Afford U.S. taxpayers spent billions developing Ozempic-type diabetes and weight-loss drugs — now those drugs’ markups could bankrupt the U.S. health care system.

INVESTIGATION: American taxpayers already spent $6 billion to develop GLP-1 drugs, and then pharma lobbyists bought enough politicians to make sure drug companies were allowed to charge Americans the world’s highest prices for those drugs that we already paid for.

This is how corruption works 👇

SCOTUS Rules Against Trans People's Passport Gender Markers In Shadow Docket Ruling The administration has previously indicated it could revoke some trans people's passports if it got this ruling.

1. In a major shadow docket ruling from the Supreme Court, the court has ruled against trans people's passports, giving a stay to the Trump administration.

The admin has previously indicated it intend to revoke some passports if it got this ruling.

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BREAKING: The US Trump administration must fully fund SNAP food benefits by this Friday, a US Federal judge has ruled per Reuters

That includes Peggy Kelly right here in Longmont, CO who lost in a landslide! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼