Here's a state by state thread of the 338 rural hospitals across the country that are at risk of closing or cutting services if Republicans pass their Big Ugly Bill. 🧵 Alaska’s rural hospitals at risk:

Providence Valdez Medical Center
Providence Seward Medical & Care Center
Prov. Kodiak Island Medical Center
Cordova Community Medical Center
Ketchikan Medical Center

I am proud to announce my progressive priorities for clean energy deployment and community engagement. We must come together to ensure that any proposal centers justice and does not perpetuate more harm to the frontline communities who have already suffered the most. By passing the IRA we have already taken the first step toward unleashing a clean energy revolution. With this funding for environmental justice and NEPA implementation, we have made the largest investment in climate and clean energy in history.

I am so glad that we finally passed an end-of-year spending package that keeps essential government services running while making major investments to improve the health, safety, resiliency, and prosperity of millions of people in Massachusetts and across the nation. This package writes into law significant progress in my continued efforts to safeguard coastal communities from the threats posed by climate change and funds critical research to shed light on the adverse impacts of media and technology on the development of young people.

Last night, I was easily impersonated and the account was quickly verified. Safeguards like blue checks let users be smart, critical consumers of news and information in Twitter’s global town square. Truth can’t be put on sale for $8. washingtonpost.com/technology/202… Here are both accounts side by side with verification:

The Supreme Court’s decision in West Virginia v. EPA lets polluters turn back the clock on fifty years of reduced pollution and improved air quality all across the country. The result of this dangerous decision is an EPA that is undermined in its ability to protect the public. We cannot sit by as a captured, illegitimate, and far-right Supreme Court majority eviscerates the authorities that the government has had for decades to address greenhouse gas pollution from fossil fuels and prevent climate chaos.

I'm on the Senate floor to oppose an increase to our already-bloated defense budget. The greatest adversary we face is not a foreign army, navy, or air force – it is the threats of the climate crisis, pandemics, and nuclear weapons. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1… I’ve introduced an amendment to the NDAA to redirect just 1% of our military budget toward global climate action and resilience for developing countries.

Our best weapon against variants is still vaccines. While we must take every measure to protect ourselves at home, to crush the pandemic we also have to get the global population vaccinated. We can and must do both. Here’s how we should approach that challenge. THREAD: We have to do everything we can to increase international vaccine production. That includes waiving IP rights and securing technology transfer to enable countries to manufacture vaccines locally and address inequity among the world’s poorest nations. 2/5

Today is a day of remembrance for sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, and neighbors.
markey.senate.gov/news/press-rel… We remember the nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives in New York City, Arlington, and Shanksville. We also mourn and remember the nearly 7,000 United States service members, and hundreds of thousands of civilians, who lost their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq since 9/11.

When there was no path, Doris Bunte charted one. When there was no example, Doris Bunte became one. When there was no choice, Doris Bunte made history.
bostonglobe.com/2021/02/16/met… Doris Bunte was a fearless pioneer in the Massachusetts State House who never wavered in her commitment to the principles she believed in – justice, integrity, access to opportunity. When we served together in the State House, she was counsel, inspiration, and friend.

The coronavirus phase 3 stimulus plan must put American families and workers first. But the plan released by Republicans prioritizes the interests of corporations and shareholders. Here are my priorities as I fight for a package that won’t sell out working people. THREAD: First and foremost, ordinary Americans need direct, immediate, financial assistance. That means far more than the $600 proposed for low-income people. And we need paid sick leave, a moratorium on mortgage payments and evictions, and relief for renters.

Today, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C Circuit issued an opinion on the FCC’s repeal of #NetNeutrality that leaves the future of the free and open internet in question.



The decision is mixed, but it does three things. THREAD:

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1179074752390029312

1: It allows states across the county to pass their own net neutrality laws. That’s a big win. We will undoubtedly see activists and organizers across the country push their states to enact strong net neutrality rules. I look forward to standing with them in this fight.

Today’s ICE raids are designed for peak cruelty: tear families apart, stoke fear in immigrant communities & throw more people into already overcrowded facilities. Here’s Trump’s vicious manufactured cycle to criminalize immigrants & push an overcrowded system to a breaking point: 1) Refuse to use alternatives to detention programs to release from ICE facilities, create overcrowding
2) Refuse to release on recognizance from CBP facilities at the border, create overcrowding

Rafa is 3. He lives in Boston, is learning to read, and loves going to the @MuseumOfScience. He’s also one of the 130 million Americans with a pre-existing condition who rely on the Affordable Care Act’s protections. But the Trump admin is trying to strip away those protections. Rafa was born with chronic kidney disease and severe bladder issues and spent his first 5 weeks at @BostonChildrens. After a tough fight and a kidney donation from his father, Rafa’s condition is manageable. But he will always have a pre-existing condition.

An FTC investigation into YouTube’s treatment of children online is long overdue. It is no secret that kids flock to YouTube every day, but the company has yet to take the necessary steps to protect its youngest users.
washingtonpost.com/technology/201… In November 2018, I asked FTC Chairman Joseph Simons specifically about YouTube’s potential violation of the Children’s Online Privacy and Protection Act. Watch:

We must open our eyes to the insidious #WebofDeceit that the Koch brothers, in alliance with the Trump administration, are weaving to promote an anti-science, anti-consumer, and anti-renewable energy agenda. Just last week, the Koch brothers bragged to donors in a report that they were responsible for @realDonaldTrump’s policies: repealing the Clean Power Plan, attacking public lands, leaving the Paris Climate Accord and tax giveaways to #BigOil.

More than a year into the Trump administration, we still don’t have:
-a U.S. ambassador to South Korea
-a confirmed assistant secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
-a Special Envoy for North Korean Human Rights Issues
-a Sanctions Coordinator Despite his recent announcement that he would accept a meeting with Kim Jong Un, @realDonaldTrump has systematically undermined the effectiveness of the very agency – the U.S. Department of State – that he will need to make talks successful.