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you know all of this is to make sure there won't be any elections in 26 or 28, right?

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1

CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1

Trickle-down economics was always a sham.

Nothing has ever trickled down.

A Democratic Party with any spirit would stage a press conference every single day to present Donald Trump with one sarcastic award after another.

The Dennis Hastert Award for Enabling Pedophilia
The Richard Nixon Memorial Trophy for Lawlessness
The Blue Ribbon for Setting a Record Federal Deficit

Holy shit, this is amazing

Jeffries: "When you look at that Declaration of Independence, the second part of it, it reads like an indictment against an out of control king ... they were fed up with Project 1775. So they implemented Project 1776."

Nobody said it would be easy, but Republicans found a way to cut taxes for the rich while taking away your healthcare. A story of true heroism.

Say it!

Baltimore residents are mobilizing to protect their immigrant neighbors from ICE On June 11, as the sun bore down on an uncomfortably hot afternoon in Baltimore, four neighbors met under the shade of a tree on Ellerslie Avenue, a quiet road that divides Waverly from Ednor Gardens....

As the Senate moves to boost #ICE funding by $45 billion, for @baltimorebeat.bsky.social I reported on how Baltimore residents are responding by going door to door, building neighborhood defense networks to protect their neighbors. baltimorebeat.com/baltimore-re...

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

McGovern: Listen to this quote from Murkowski who just caved and voted for this. "My hope is that the house is going to look at this and recognize we are not there yet." 

If you really believe that, why the hell did you vote for the bill?

This agenda directs harm on the very people the President and many Republicans say they are trying to help.

154,000 people in Kentucky would lose health coverage and become uninsured under the Republican health agenda.

243,000 people in Louisiana would lose health coverage and become uninsured under the Republican health agenda.

41,000 people in Maine would lose health coverage and become uninsured under the Republican health agenda.

210,000 people in Maryland would lose health coverage and become uninsured under the Republican health agenda.

Millions of people would lose health coverage and become uninsured under the Republican health agenda, including:
📍154,000 people in Kentucky
📍243,000 people in Louisiana
📍41,000 people in Maine
📍210,000 people in Maryland

Policymakers should protect people’s health care, not cut it.

Every cut that the government makes to social services is effectively a tax on women. Because they're the ones who will be expected to fill in the gaps.

Today's Supreme Court decision does not opine on the constitutionality of Trump's assault on birthright citizenship. It is limited to the question of universal injunctions. But its ruling on that front is MASSIVE—a huge blow to plaintiffs and judges trying to block Trump's most lawless policies.

Today, we remember Tamir Elijah Rice on what would have been his 23rd birthday.

He was only 12 when his life was taken by a #Cleveland police officer. His killing was one of many that sparked the #BLM Movement.

#TheMarchContinues

Yes, the US is marching down path to autocracy familiar to countries around the world; this too is a recognizable part of a playbook. But fear is a goal we don't have to buy into. This is security theater in 1 town. It's bad. It's not martial law. Keep doing what you can do. /end

SNAP Is Linked With Improved Health Outcomes and Lower Health Care Costs | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities A substantial body of research links the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the nation’s most important anti-hunger program, with lower health care costs and improved health...

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Republicans want you to pay more for less Donald Trump's policies are punishing the poor, rewarding the rich, inflating prices, and shrinking revenues. And for what?

This is a really excellent overview of the GOP's recent budget proposal bill with compelling visuals that show us the current administration's economic vision for the US: "You pay more for less."

Thank you, @gelliottmorris.com

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/republican...

House Republicans passed their bill that’d rip health insurance from millions and take food assistance away from millions including households with kids as young as 7 in the largest Medicaid and SNAP cuts in history - while giving giant tax cuts to the rich.

Thread on the next steps of the process.

It would also be by far the largest SNAP cuts in history, ripping food assistance away from millions, including households with children as young as seven years old.

bar graph showing medicaid cuts rising over time up to 12-14% by 2034

This bill would cause so much additional suffering. It would be by far the largest Medicaid cuts in history, kicking millions off their health insurance and condemning thousands of those people each year to die due to lack of coverage.

(note the House-passed version is actually worse than this)

This right here. WATCH and share.

Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

Trump Has Cut Science Funding in the U.S. to Its Lowest Level in Decades. The lag in funding extends to almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... via @upshot.nytimes.com

CBO estimates that the combined effect of Republican Medicaid proposals, allowing enhanced ACA premium tax credits to expire, and President Trump’s proposed ACA rules would increase the number of uninsured by 13.7 million. That would take us back to close to pre-ACA levels.

This is the right approach — speak to them as you would an especially stupid child, spell out their crimes and your contempt clearly.

I think we should be really unflinching clear about this. If they would chase you off Sesame Street that’s on you.

2008; learned about grad school and research, decided it was my thing

2012; started MS

2018; finished PhD

2018-Sept 2024; postdoc, soft $ PI positions

Sept; offered dream job, fed research scientist

Dec; offer rescinded a week before start

May '25; federal research killed.

...fuck man

Maryland’s Van Hollen stepped up to Trump — and into the national spotlight The Trump administration has so far denied a unanimous U.S Supreme Court order to facilitate Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s return, and the president has called Chris Van Hollen a “fake” and a “grandstander” ...

Sen. Chris Van Hollen said he really had no idea how his trip to El Salvador would be received. And it didn’t matter to him. He’d already decided to go regardless. He said defending Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s legal rights was just the right thing to do. tinyurl.com/5xe8wc8t

"The staff of a program that helps millions of poor families keep the electricity on, in part so that babies don’t die from extreme heat or cold, have all been fired. The federal office that oversees the enforcement of child support payments has been hollowed out."