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NEW: I went inside one Texas county's data center boom—and backlash—to report on how the state GOP's data center divide will shape the next legislative session.
Bonus scooplet: I got into a local meeting with a state senator working to draft a data center bill.
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There's a broad problem among Americans who think about politics: We are all dismayed and grieving the slow loss of everything we were taught to believe made this a country worth caring about. An unaccountable strongman authoritarian as the American president is, in a very real way, unthinkable. 🧵
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In rural areas like Caldwell County, local Republican officials and citizens are scrambling to find ways to empower counties and slow AI-fueled development.
I wish academics would stop doing this insipid punditry. If people are acting like Nazis I'm going to call them Nazis!
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Mamdani being a huge coward when it comes to trans youth is genuinely enraging.
They will tell us with a straight face how hard it is. Do you know how hard it is for a trans youth who has had to move states and had 3 providers drop them and now has no options? Try that.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren urged the Defense Department to audit Express Scripts to determine if the pharmacy benefit manager is overcharging for prescriptions and steering military families to its own pharmacies.
Michael Hobbes
So many things going uncovered in most of 🇺🇸 mainstream media. If your only understanding of what is happening to Palestinians comes from them, you are missing a large majority of it. (Which is why their allies are gobbling up outlets and platforms)
“Cervical cancer elimination isn't just a public health objective. It's a moral imperative. No one should be diagnosed with or die from a cancer we have the ability to prevent."
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“I'll be honest, I didn't know what a Pap smear was for. I'm a college-educated woman and I consider myself fairly intelligent, but it had never occurred to me there was a reason that you're supposed to get those.”
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Mace also has bullied one of her House colleagues, who happens to transgender, arguing that her colleague shouldn’t be allowed the dabs bathroom that she uses
Once-forgotten diseases spiraling out of control.
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HPV vaccines allow nations & states to set deadlines for eliminating cervical cancer.
Alabama, which has long had some of the highest cervical cancer mortality rates in the country, is the first state to launch a program to eliminate the disease.
Part 3 in a three-part series: ow.ly/832L50Z9QQC
Alejandra Caraballo
1. In a move that is likely to be seen as capitulation to Trump, EITM can confirm that Mamdani's first ever trans direct care clinic will deny care to those under 19 years of age, the age from Trump's anti-trans EOs.
It is a far cry from his pledge to "use every tool" to fight capitulation.
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Express Scripts is the exclusive pharmacy benefit manager for Tricare, managing benefits for 9 million uniformed service members and retirees.
Rep. Nancy Mace’s loss in Tuesday’s South Carolina gubernatorial primary dealt a blunt defeat to a once rising GOP star, a politician who had basked in national attention during her dramatic political transformation.
The Washington Post
The congresswoman finished fifth in the state’s GOP gubernatorial primary, according to unofficial returns, solidly losing even her own home county and district.
