It’s hard for many people to see the importance of what CDC does because when it succeeds, there isn’t an outbreak. Your neighbor doesn’t overdose. Your cousin stops smoking or your child doesn’t start. Your grandmother doesn’t develop cancer. Cuts to this work would put us all

Pretty wild considering the Medicaid work requirement is expected by CBO to result in ~5 million more uninsured, most of whom the empirical research suggests are likely to be working or otherwise technically exempt from the policy. All without having any impact on employment.

This is the big one: Kennedy is firing the entire #ACIP in a move he says is needed to restore confidence in vaccines. "It scares me to think of what’s ahead,” Mike Osterholm of CIDRAP told me. statnews.com/2025/06/09/rfk…

Unless you’re in the top 10% of earners, Trump’s policies make you poorer: the “big beautiful bill” and Trump’s tariffs will leave the bottom 90% of Americans with fewer resources.

If they can handcuff a U.S. Senator for asking a question, imagine what they will do to you.

This is a watershed moment. Sen Padilla getting thrown to the ground and handcuffed. Trump admitting his deportations are targeting hard-working people that are contributing to the US economy. Trump sending troops into a US city that even local law enforcement didn't ask for. It

1. Trump's tax cuts overwhelmingly help the rich 2. His spending cuts are targeted at the poor 3. Tariffs cost the poor a larger share of their income Roll these three regressive policies together and you get the largest redistribution from poor to rich in American history.

I'm not sure the public fully appreciates the impact of the deportation regime, which is about to get worse. thebulwark.com/p/the-shock-an…

This is a travesty and a nightmare. The US was a founder of @Gavi. It lowers vaccine costs for the world, has vaccinated 1B children, and averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year -- and RFK Jr will be personally responsible.

The Republican playbook of getting into office, transferring an insane amount of wealth to rich people, and then blaming them next administration for the debt and income inequality is so incredible because it just keeps working

Republicans just pulled an all-nighter to pass a budget that will: -strip healthcare away from 17 million Americans -take food assistance away from 3 million Americans -eliminate school meal access for 18+ million kids -send energy costs soaring -add $3.3 trillion to national

Man cutting vital food assistance for 5 million Americans hasn't heard the word "groceries" in awhile.

“Congress is about to impose massive harm on tens of millions of Americans,” Jonathan Chait writes, “in order to benefit a handful of other Americans who least need the help. The bill almost seems designed to generate a political backlash”: theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

This Jonathan Chait piece in The Atlantic really captures the politics and consequences of the course Republicans have decided to take with their One Big Beautiful Bill which may truly be one of cruelest and most politically fraught bills ever passed. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

Tell us why

Ronald Reagan

This is game over. Across multiple issue areas. Just a complete loss across the board. A loss for America, a loss for almost every American, egregious policies set in stone that will take decades to reverse if they can ever be reversed at all.

There isn't a bigger nonconformist pursuit than skateboarding. Yet even it has succumbed to private equity, destroying leading brands & structures that kept the scene thriving & local. I look at a new report on this cursed financialization: prospect.org/economy/2025-0…

It is stunning to watch the Administration of a President elected to lower prices pull every policy lever imaginable to raise prices.

I refuse to believe that this stuff doesn't matter to a lot of voters