Shoshanah in Alaska

Trump and the GOP don’t see children and families eating as an essential service.

Flaming emissions coming from an oil refinery smokestack backed by a clear blue sky. There is white text in a black box covering the left side of the image. It reads: Every time our leaders cave to the volatile, hazardous fossil fuel industry, Californians suffer for it. It’s time to speed the transition to clean energy and get off oil and gas for good.

"If state lawmakers needed a sign that their bill boosting oil drilling to appease refineries was ill-advised, they got it last Thursday night in the form of towering flames."

CBD's Christina Scaringe wrote a letter to the editor following the recent #ElSegundo refinery incident ➡️ lat.ms/4qhpM3l

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The GOP will leave open our National Parks to be trashed and plundered while taking away “essential services.”

The #BigLie insurrection 9 senators are upset 😭

Senator Dan Sullivan, Georgetown Law School ‘93, Alaska Attorney General 2009-2010 joining the I don’t know what phone tapping is club.

🤣 we were just talking about this with a guy we met from MO literally an hour ago! 🤣

Hey, nothing to worry about it. FEMA has Alaskans covered, right?

Northwest Alaska braces for coastal flooding The National Weather Service expects peak water levels of up to 9 feet above the normal high tide line on Wednesday afternoon.

The National Weather Service expects a storm this week to cause flooding along more than 400 miles of Northwest Alaska's coastline.

Water is expected to start rising tonight.

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The majority of Americas health care money is spent supporting corporate insurance and “administrators.” Other countries deliver better health care outcomes for less. That is the majority of the fraud, waste, and abuse. But I can see your perspective.

“Essential services” are supposed to stay open and funded in a shutdown. That’s why it’s called “essential.” But we know that nothing is essential to Republicans like health care and food for example.

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Insurance companies are where the majority of waste fraud and abuse happens. Providers are nominal in comparison. I was a primary care provider for 30 years and wouldn’t have a clue how to defraud an insurance company.

Absolutely literally!

Of course not.

She pretends that the paperwork is a breeze and this will actually work!

I have always said the lifelong goal of Murkowski is oil, gas, mining, and logging at the expense of everyone and everything else. Everything else is secondary.

And the overwhelming input was NO, but hey 🤷🏻‍♀️

🤣 here’s the continual lie about how we have such great environmental protections until it’s too late.

Geezus. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Exactly they are looking in the wrong place for “waste, fraud, and abuse.”

True. You usually have to submit your tax return.

If a Silver plan for 60-64 yo people goes up to $59k a year, that seems a bit much 🤦🏻‍♀️

This only applies to resource extraction. Definitely not blue state governors wanting American cities free of military invasion for example.

“Murkowski, “Many Republicans (at the expense of constituents and the balance of power) want to back their president.” “I get that.”

The president of elite few.

That’s not an answer.

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