Lesley Russell Wolpe
@LRussellWolpe
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Biased political junkie here. Follow me over where the skies are blue for health policy issues, hiking & skiing photos, and the joys of life.
Sydney 🇦🇺 & Keystone 🇺🇸
Joined December 2011
In asserting control over D.C. police force, deploying National Guard troops & federal agents, Trump has named removing homeless encampments as a top priority. If only he brought this level of urgency to preventing people from becoming homeless!
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Cuts to vital programs threaten to put even more people on the street.
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RT @NEJM: How is the role of the CDC, which the Trump administration is making extreme reductions to, important not just for the U.S. publi….
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RT @sbg1: After Trump’s two summits, it’s clear he still believes he has some kind of special relationship with Putin that will magically c….
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Inflation hits the “wars solved by Trump” sector - 2 days ago it was only 6 wars solved!.
Trump: I called Putin yesterday. I have a good relationship with him. I solved 7 wars. I thought this would be an easy one, but it turned out to be the toughest… I hope President Putin is going to be good. If he’s not, that’s going to be a rough situation. And I hope President
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Trump’s delusions!.
More Trump: “I’ve settled 6 Wars in 6 months, one of them a possible Nuclear disaster… Despite all of my lightweight and very jealous critics, I’ll get it done — I always do!!!”
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RT @TheAtlantic: Trump’s militarization of D.C. is escalating without any practical objective and no end point, @GrahamDavidA argues in The….
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The president has opened the door to a permanent military occupation of the nation’s capital—and maybe other cities too.
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RT @charlesornstein: In his first term, President Trump framed mental health as a national crisis, His second administration has paused rul….
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The president, who has framed mental health as a national crisis, paused rules to hold insurers accountable for unlawfully denying coverage. And Congress cut funding to the agency that enforces...
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RT @CroakeyNews: @MelissaSweetDr @AHPA_AU "Too often, health is seen as a cost, something to be managed rather than invested in. But we can….
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Introduction by Croakey: Readers have until 25 July to make submissions to the Federal Government’s productivity summit, which appears to
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RT @NewYorker: No former leader of the Justice Department has been as willing as Pam Bondi to cede its independence from the White House. I….
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Donald Trump now has the Attorney General he always wanted—an ally willing to harness the law to enable his agenda.
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Is her nose growing?.
Bondi: "Our law enforcement officers are telling us that people are coming up to them on the street, they said a lot of people are walking by, whispering, saying 'thank you thank you thank you.'"
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RT @RubenGallego: Our soldiers deployed overseas vote by mail. They put their lives on the line for us, but Trump doesn’t think they deserv….
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RT @RickABright: mRNA vaccines saved millions of lives during #COVID_19 and remain our fastest tool against future outbreaks. Yet the U.S.….
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Giving up on mRNA is a dangerous decision.
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RT @washingtonpost: Roughly 650,000 people in North Carolina have signed up for Medicaid since the legislature expanded it 18 months ago.….
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Medicaid cuts under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act are forcing states such as North Carolina to grapple with the long-term finances of the insurance program.
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Trump’s face!.
Merz: I can't imagine that the next meeting would take place without a ceasefire. So let's work on that and let's try to put pressure on Russia, because the credibility of this efforts, these efforts we are undertaking today are depending on at least a ceasefire from the
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And more gold - on the fire screen!.
Doocy asks Zelenskyy an insanely loaded question: "Are you prepared to keep sending Ukrainian troops to their deaths for another couple years, or are you going to agree to redraw the maps?"
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RT @hissgoescobra: This honorary flyover that Trump did for Putin cost, for the B-2 stealth bomber alone, cost $2,080,000. We spent $2 mill….
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RT @SenAlexPadilla: Article I, Section 4. Elections are set by states and Congress, not the president. Only wannabe dictators try to sile….
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