Just in time for the 2026-2027 vaccines, a new review shows that COVID19 vaccination significantly reduces the risk of severe illness and hospitalization across all age groups, including kids. Pregnant women were also protected, as were their babies. Don’t forget to schedule your vaccination!

COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness and Safety for the 2026-2027 Respiratory Season

This Special Communication aims to identify and summarize the most recently published evidence evaluating the effectiveness and safety of US-licensed COVID-19 vaccines and report on the epidemiology o...

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NEW: The federal prosecutor who charged ICE agent Christian Castro for lying about shooting Sosa-Celia has now been FIRED. He objected to the DoJ stopping him from charging a civil rights violation. And now he’s fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-min...

Federal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources say

A federal prosecutor in Minnesota who was investigating an ICE officer for possible civil rights crimes has been fired, four sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.

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They just got back from 5 more weeks off, after multiple other very long vacations. They never work.

“Remember, the Constitution doesn’t begin with, ‘I, the president.’ It begins with, ‘We, the people.’ ” —Gloria Steinem at the 2017 Women’s March

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Trump’s DHS is using an obscure law to secretly snoop on journalists, non-profits and unions: ‘It’s outrageous’

Even after judges rejected the same ploy, the Trump administration is going directly to social media and telecommunications companies

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There’s no legitimate purpose for ICE to have this information. There are a ton of nefarious ones, though.

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🚨 NEW: ICE Plans to Pay $5 Million to Create National Voting Database: As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database. @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/ice-pl...

Six lawless radicals on the Supreme Court let this happen. And they let it happen because they *wanted* it to happen. They will be damned by history.

It’s not even debatable anymore. He’s Trumpshit insane.

EXCLUSIVE: The latest filing in my Epstein Files lawsuit against Todd Blanche scathingly calls him out for his continued violation of the law as well as court orders. Why Blanche is so desperate to keep the truth from getting revealed to the public: youtu.be/8jja7i_8cR8?...

🚨AG Blanche SCRAMBLES as SCATHING NEW Filing In MY Epstein Lawsuit BLOWS UP His Defense!!

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how i be getting around in my car now that Apple Maps and Google Maps are dead to me

Those of us who professionally track U.S. political news will tell you that the Overton Window is moving faster and faster from normalcy and stability. Each day multiple members of the Trump regime are saying and doing things that would have been inconceivable even 24 months ago.

A reminder for Corporate Democrats: New research from Yale found that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. It's no surprise why the majority of Americans — including 90% of Democratic voters — support it.

This is a blank check for a lawless, dangerous white supremacist organization to show up at any polling place at any time and just mumble something about "we're looking for a guy" as they chase off—with the deliberate implication and specter of violence—as many nonwhite registered voters as they can

Trump homeland security chief says ICE agents could be sent to polling places - AOL

Markwayne Mullin says officers could be deployed ‘if there is a threat to that polling place or we’re serving a warrant’

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Tell EVERYONEu know to write down this website and hand it to your mail carrier, and any mail carrier you may pass when out and about your town. Urge he/she to contact those lawyers on how to file a whistleblower complaint: whistlebloweraid.org Today's USPS whistleblower is repped by them. SHARE!

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The decimation of our federal agencies has upended the lives of our nation's civil servants. These are the people who oversee food safety, public health, and much more. The squalor of this moment is bringing us back to basics — and reminding us of what our priorities should be.

I wish more folks saw and recognized this obvious fact.

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Still wondering why people are fed up with the system?

Still waiting for evidence that Mitch McConnell is alive.

The Paramount-Warner Bros. merger could cost Los Angeles County nearly 4,500 film and TV jobs over the next three years. It could also result in $2.78 BILLION in lost economic value. This merger is only good for the billionaire owners and their shareholders — not workers.

Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger Will Cost 4,500 L.A. Production Jobs, Report Finds

A report commissioned by L.A. County finds that the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger will cost 4,500 production jobs over t

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A promising young student at Wright walked straight into interstate traffic in an apparent suicide. This happened after the young Haitian was fitted with an ankle monitor by DHS and threatened with deportation back to Haiti. He was only 20. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/u...

Haitian Student, Despondent Over Ankle Monitor, Dies in Apparent Suicide

The 20-year-old was fitted with a tracking device under a Trump administrative initiative targeting Haitians in Springfield, Ohio.

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Kamlager-Dove on Speaker Johnson: I know he’s got to get ready for this gaslighting convention that they have next week in Dallas. I’m just going to ask Grindr to make sure you are at capacity because Republicans are coming to a town near you.

They have every intention of rigging this election and trying to steal it And these are the same people who spent a decade falsely claiming elections are rigged It's the biggest, longest con in U.S. political history, and the whole country is its victim

USPS whistleblower describes new plans for voting by mail hidden from the public | CNN Politics

The US Postal Service effort to develop a sweeping new system for verifying mail ballots has invited a host of IT concerns among agency officials, with some describing the process internally as a “sh*...

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This is why you can't have healthcare. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/ice-buy-robot-dogs-immigration-enforcement-rcna594897

ICE plans to buy robot ‘dogs’ for some immigration enforcement operations

The doglike robots are equipped with cameras and sensors that can detect chemicals and would be used in situations that

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Thank you to the USPS whistleblower. May your courage be contagious.

I want to strengthen my last statement—this *is* an election-rigging scheme. And the fact that there was a conspiracy in the executive branch to hide it makes it likely this constitutes a Criminal Conspiracy to Commit Election Fraud headed by Donald Trump.

Postal Service plans may keep voters from getting ballots, whistleblower says

An anonymous federal official warns that a rushed USPS portal tied to Trump’s mail-voting order could reject large batches of ballots before the midterms.

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When they nuke Iran and Jesus don't come back And your son's still gay and there's no cheap gas When the vengeance of nations finally comes to port Will you be bitchin' 'bout men playin' women's sports I get weary I get nervous They hired a clown we got the whole damn circus

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If Nancy Pelosi had repeatedly told reporters she had no idea what was going on around her, the coverage would have been unsparing and vicious.

🚨 TEXAS: THEY’RE TRYING TO CLOSE 92 ELECTION DAY POLLING PLACES Tarrant County officials are set to vote TODAY on cutting Election Day voting locations from 316 to 224, nearly 1 in 3 polling places gone. Civil rights groups warn the cuts could disproportionately burden Black, Latino & Asian voters

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