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Florida Surgeon General Admits He Banned Vaccine Mandates Based on Vibes

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After his announcement this week that he would seek to eliminate “all vaccine mandates,” Florida’s surgeon general, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, made one thing clear: This decision was based on no science, just vibes. In an interview on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday morning, Ladapo told host Jake Tapper that officials did not undertake […]

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RFK Jr.’s Enemies List Just Got a Lot Longer

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It hasn’t been a great week for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. On Saturday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vt.), ranking member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, authored an op-ed in the New York Times calling for Kennedy to resign, as my colleague Inae Oh wrote. The next day, nine former directors of the […]

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Trump’s Mental Health Plan: Defund, Incarcerate, Disappear

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When President Donald Trump tries to defend his mass deportation agenda, he claims, without evidence, that immigrants are entering the United States from “mental institutions and insane asylums.”  When he wants to insult people—like Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Mo.), or former Vice President Kamala Harris—he calls them “low IQ,” “deranged,” and […]

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Michigan AG Warns Capitulating to Trump’s Trans Health Care Ban May Be Illegal

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State attorneys general will play a decisive role in halting preemptive compliance with Trump’s anti-trans threats.

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Why Rehab Often Fuels Relapse Instead of Recovery

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The opioid crisis has been a quiet, deadly presence in America for a quarter-century now. Since 1999, it’s killed more than 800,000 people in the US. That’s more than the number of Americans who died in the Civil War. But in the background, another crisis has been simmering: the often-lawless patchwork of treatment centers and […]

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Trump Admin Memo Bars Federal Health Plans From Covering Gender-Affirming Care

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The memo also mandates that insurers cover “faith-based counseling,” otherwise known as conversion therapy.

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RFK Jr. Is Getting Personal Authority Over Who to Kick Off Medicaid

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Freddie Elmore hasn’t worked for around 20 years. Now, he’s trying to figure out how, and if, he can return to the workforce—not because he thinks he can do so while managing his health, but because he is concerned that he will lose Medicaid. To retain Medicaid coverage, Elmore, who lives with disorders including central […]

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Is Assisted Suicide About Autonomy or Coercion? A New Film Asks Hard Questions.

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Truthout speaks to filmmaker Reid Davenport about assisted suicide, Medicaid cuts, and the fight for disabled lives.

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Choose Your Child or Choose Recovery: The Impossible Decision Facing Addicted Mothers

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This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project,  a nonprofit news organization covering the US criminal justice system. April Lee was still functional in her opioid addiction, still walking her kids to school in Philadelphia, preparing her infant daughter’s bottles, when a sexual assault sent her teetering over the edge. She had been drugged at a […]

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Anti-Abortion Playbook, Flipped: Arkansas Abortion Fund Opens Its Own “Crisis Pregnancy Center”

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For nine years, Karen Musick stood outside the Little Rock Family Planning Services clinic in Arkansas, protecting women arriving for their abortion appointments from anti-abortion protesters who regularly gathered there. After retiring from her job as a loan specialist with the Small Business Administration, Musick was filled with purpose as a clinic escort volunteer. “I […]

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