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Are we going to stand with the richest Americans or working people? That's the fundamental question in this fight.

I’m sticking with hardworking Americans.

Talarico: if you read the new testament, Jesus doesn't spend most of his time preaching or teaching or even praying. He spends most of his time healing the sick.

Right now, we have politicians in congress with Christ follower in their Twitter bio, but they are kicking the sick off their health care

YouTube video by Senator Bernie Sanders Where We Are With the Government Shutdown | Sen. Bernie Sanders

I'm asking YOU:

What will a doubling of health care premiums mean for your family?

What it will mean if you're one of the 15 million being thrown off their health care?

Please comment below or submit a story here: tinyurl.com/3rbdfdmz

The death of the premature baby born after their mother contracted measles highlights the danger of more and more people refusing vaccines.

An individual is contagious 4 days before the rash appears.

Imagine a child with measles at a daycare full of babies too young to be vaccinated.

Hubert Humphrey said the moral test of government isn’t how it treats the healthy, but how it treats the sick, the elderly, and people with disabilities.

As I said today on the Senate floor, we are facing a moral test. This isn’t about blame. It’s about Americans’ health care.

Sanders: I am not a great fan of the affordable care act. I believe in medicare for all. I think that health care is a human right, but I will be damned if I'm going to see people in Vermont and around this country see a doubling in their premiums.

My office will continue to aggressively prosecute fraud and protect taxpayer dollars, especially within the ESA program.

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Let the Quest for the Historical Mary Begin–At Last! “The Lost Mary unfolds in five radical claims. . . . Together these arguments are Tabor’s attempt to rescue Mary from pious abstraction and revolutionize our picture of her as one of the most conse…

Let the Quest for the Historical Mary Begin--At Last! jamestabor.com/let-the-ques... #booksky

Thank you from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

Today is the last day for CPB staff. A team remains to sustain operations at a reduced scale until all obligations are fulfilled. This is a challenging moment for us. Our departing colleagues strengthened the impact of public media & made a profound difference in the lives of the American people. 😥

Diagnosis: Debt - KFF Health News Featured Stories Debt At A Glance Tell Us About Your Medical Debt Have you been forced into debt because of a medical or dental bill? Have you had to make any changes in your life because of such debt...

More than 100 million people in America — 41% of adults — are saddled with medical bills they can't pay.

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The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.

Trump’s Corruption Gives Democrats A Shot At A Unifying Message Progressives and moderates alike are signing on to a new pledge to “unrig” Washington.

Today, we launched our Unrig Washington campaign, a bold new standard for Democrats to show voters that as a party we're serious about cleaning up Washington.

So far, 83 Democratic candidates and Members of Congress have joined this campaign.

Text reads: "New year. New mayor. Bend the Arc: Jewish Action endorses Zohran Mamdani for Mayor of New York City." The graphic is colorful and features a picture of Mamdani against a rendering of buildings in New York City.

New year ✨

New mayor ✨

We, the nation’s largest domestic focused progressive Jewish advocacy organization, announce our first ever mayoral endorsement today:

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for New York City Mayor.

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Medicare for All - "That's socialism!"

Social Security - "That's socialism!"

Debt free education - "That's socialism!"

Universal childcare - "That's socialism!"

Bailing out a failed libertarian austerity agenda in Argentina...

"That's just how it is."

Empowerment Scholarship mom: Time to rein in ESAs as thousands in the disabilities community are facing service cuts for their children Senate Majority Leader John Kavanagh says reductions are needed for a program that has grown 66% in funding over the past three years.

Disabled kids and their parents are losing home care and life-skills support while ESA dollars are spent buying diamond rings and Kenmore appliances. Outrageous. Arizona needs ESA guardrails now.

www.12news.com/article/news...

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.

In case there’s any interest in what ACTUAL psychiatric physicians have to say about autism, vaccines, acetaminophen, and Leucovorin.

Can we stop playing MAGA games with children’s health?

www.psychiatry.org/news-room/ne...

We must not allow the federal government to strip Arizona's forests and wilderness of their protections. This is a public land grab by greedy corporate interests—and I plan to stand in the way.

Press Release: www.azag.gov/press-releas...

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

BREAKING: A court ruled that ICE can no longer detain immigrants in abusive conditions at 26 Federal Plaza while our case continues.

This ruling requires ICE to provide people detained at the facility access to hygiene products, sleeping mats, and free, confidential calls to their lawyers.

former CDC official Dr. Houry: "I first learned that the secretary had changed our CDC covid vaccine guidance on an X social media post. CDC scientists have still not seen the scientific data or justification for this change. That is not gold standard science."

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." –Justice Louis Brandeis

Words spoken many years ago that are just as relevant today.

We must continue the fight to get big money out of politics.

Starting November 1st, New Mexico will become the first state to offer free universal childcare to all its residents.

It's expected to save families over $12,000 per child annually.

This is a huge step forward — and a reminder that we have the power to fix the system.

I’m tired of being pitted against my neighbor.

I’m tired of being told to hate my neighbor.

People across the political spectrum are hungry for a new kind of politics.

Gerrymandering is a form of voter suppression.

Voters in gerrymandered states find out quickly that their vote doesn’t count toward their representation, so they become apathetic.

When you live in a gerrymandered state, you can’t just vote better.

That’s the point of gerrymandering. To take away your vote and voice. To silence you.

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice.

It doesn't have to be this way.