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Another five have signed on: Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Wisconsin

I’m not doing predictions this year but I do strongly predict that this is going to be a very sparsely attended JPM Health, given security concerns amongst health care execs. Hearing first & secondhand about cancellations.

US federal lobbying disclosure forms reveal how Meta, with a team of 14 directly employed lobbyists, led efforts to block the passage of KOSA in Congress (@ruthreader / Politico) politico.com/news/2024/12/2… techmeme.com/241226/p13#a24… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

DeepSeek's quick rise to prominence comes after OpenAI suspended services to China and Hong Kong last summer. Radio Free Asia rfa.org/english/china/…

The Senate Commerce Committee advanced the Kids Off Social Media Act, a bill that would ban kids under 13 from having social media accounts. This is part of a broader effort by committee chair Ted Cruz to take up more kids online safety legislation.

After Texas banned abortion, dozens more pregnant and postpartum women died in Texas hospitals than had in pre-pandemic years, which ProPublica used as a baseline to avoid COVID-19-related distortions. propublica.org/article/texas-…

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NEW w/ Ruth: HHS is eliminating offices that work on minority health, HIV and STIs. HIV experts called it a "decimation" that will cost the government much more over time than any short-term savings. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/0…

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Rumors, group chats, clandestine spreadsheets: here's how federal health agency workers are struggling to take stock of this week's mass purge by RFK Jr. (and brace for another) amid an information blackout politico.com/news/2025/04/0… 🌸 Chelsea Cirruzzo Ruth

Trump, in a swearing in ceremony for his new CMS Administrator Mehmet Oz, calls it the "Centers for Medicine and Medicaid Services"

After lobbying US Congress to shelve the Senate-passed KOSA bill in 2024, Meta has now made headway in lobbying for an app store age-verification bill (@ruthreader / Politico) politico.com/news/2025/04/2… techmeme.com/250420/p7#a250… x.com/Techmeme/statu…

Popping in from vacation for a scoop: Less than four years out of high school, Peter Bowman-Davis is the acting chief AI officer at the Department of Health and Human Services. The Yale undergrad was recently a fellow at Andreessen Horowitz subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025/0…

Last year @PENGuild became one of the first unions to win AI protections in a contract. Now, we're going to enforce them. Read it here wired.com/story/politico…