Senior Fellow @amprog. Former White House Office of Management and Budget. Adjunct Professor of Law. Opinions my own.

Washington DC
Joined October 2011
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Omg this is a duo for the ages!! I love these two together!!! 🔥
Pete Buttigieg is campaigning with Ossoff and indicting Collins and Trump for their corruption
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As turnout in Texas nears 3 million votes, Hispanic turnout is now exceeding presidential levels. More Hispanics have voted than did at this point in the 2024 presidential election. What's driving this huge increase? Young voters.
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“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama
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.@jamestalarico is out with his closing ad of the #TXSen race:
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This is remarkable.
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This is significant.
As turnout in Texas nears 3 million votes, Hispanic turnout is now exceeding presidential levels. More Hispanics have voted than did at this point in the 2024 presidential election. What's driving this huge increase? Young voters.
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In fact, Trump betrayed MAHA: 🚨no action on ultra-processed food 🚨unprecedented corporate capture and bias in scientific bodies 🚨truly pitiful action on FDA loophole for food ingredients 🚨opposing right to sue pesticide manufacturers 🚨approving PFAS pesticides @TheVinoMom @thefoodbabe @GlyphosateGirl @zenhoneycutt @MomsRising
There’s predictable deluge of stories talking down the MAHA movement. We should not lose perspective: MAHA has been one of the most successful and fastest growing political movements in modern American history. In two years, the Overton window of what is acceptable discourse has radically shifted: dangers of ultraprocessed food as an epochal health issue, corporate capture of health institutions, vaccine injury, the central importance of the chronic disease crisis - these are all now prominent and central paradigms in how major institutions think about health that were thrust into discussion by this movement and aren’t going away. DC moves incrementally and slow. That is not an excuse, it is a fact. But given this, policies that have been unthinkable two years ago (flipped food pyramid, landmark food safety reform, soda off snap, psychedelic pathways, vaccine schedule reforms). Despite a relentless effort by protectors of the status quo to smear the movement in the media, these policies are among the most widely supported issues in American politics. Outside of politics, there is a sledgehammer coming to traditional medicine with the wave of personalized health services that patients are demanding - this isn’t going back in the box. Americans are dramatically changing to healthier habits - as evidenced by record growth in real food purchases last year. The majority of moms are asking more questions about vaccines and other pharmaceutical products that pediatricians harangue to them are safe and effective. I can say with certainty that boardrooms do not see MAHA as a failing movement - they see these issues as the most disruptive social force their companies have ever encountered. On the issues where advocates feel progress is slow, the Trump admin has been consciously and deliberately encouraging discussion and debate on these topics (as evidenced by the MAHA report - which is the bravest document released by the government in modern times and consciously invited scrutiny of disruptive topics and the government itself). Culture is not going back, and that is a historic accomplishment of the Trump admin. It is a fact that both parties have stunted dialogue on these issues for decades and have done almost nothing to address the root cause of disease. The union of President Trump and RFK is a pre-eminent reason this movement is where it is. This is not to say the diverse MAHA movement should not continue advocating or expressing disappointment. There are civilizational stakes here and millions of Americans are still dying needlessly because of the orgy of corruption that underlies our food and health incentives. But we should also NOT let the media talk this movement down - or imply that it hasn’t been one of the most successful coalitions in American history in changing culture and policy - and that is also just getting started.
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I ate whatever the fuck I wanted when Biden was president.
RFK Jr. suggests Americans can more easily afford groceries if they start eating liver instead of beef: "Most of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive. You can buy liver or the cheap cuts."
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RFK Jr. suggests Americans can more easily afford groceries if they start eating liver instead of beef: "Most of the cheap cuts of meat are very inexpensive. You can buy liver or the cheap cuts."
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quite the statement from Anthropic's head of security
Replying to @hinapansari
yes. it was always going to be this way. we tried to warn the world.
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We need to get corporate and political influence out of the White House and agencies. More than 80% of Americans want stricter regulation of chemicals, food additives, and pesticides. @amprog
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🦗🦗🦗🦗🦗
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Dang she cooked him
You know it’s bad when the moderator has to save him.
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The biggest headline is actually his stunned silence followed by a confused "the policies have failed?"
the biggest headline here is Meuser says the Iran war has not gone as planned.
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No. I’m not “scapegoating” AIPAC. You support Trump's illegal war in Iran. Americans don’t. You want taxpayers to spend billions funding the Israeli government. Americans don’t. Your super PAC is spending $9 million to defeat Abdul because he opposes your agenda. Unacceptable.
AIPAC is why your fantasy football team stinks. AIPAC is why the weather is bad. AIPAC is why you need an app to park. Say NO to Bernie’s obsessive scapegoating. YES to an America that works with our ally to create U.S. jobs, keep America safe, and promote democratic values.
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Hello 911 I’d like to report a murder
You know it’s bad when the moderator has to save him.
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