Very bad for Obamacare program and health care. Most people who need Obamacare for health insurance cannot afford the premiums without subsidies. People will go without coverage and remaining people will see premiums go up. People will end up in the ER, which can't really handle more patients.

I would not say the voicemails I just left for Wyden and Merkley were particularly charming or articulate but I do think my panic was clear, as a freelancer who only has access to healthcare at all because the ACA exists

Been wondering the same about the winter weather and ICE/BP activity.

Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542

Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224

King (ME) 202 224-5344

Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324

Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152

Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521

Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841

Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451

Masto (NV) 202 224-3542

Warner (VA) 202 224-2023

Seriously: calling Schumer is very cathartic. I may do it again.

Obamacare doesn't work without the premium subsidies! You know better!

I mean I just couldn’t have predicted they’d cave in this particular fashion because it’s so fucking stupid. FSAs!?!

@booker.senate.gov @hassan.senate.gov @fetterman.senate.gov @shaheen.senate.gov @ossoff.senate.gov
NO, NO, NO. You can't give in on the Obamacare subsidies! Hold Strong! Be Brave!

Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.

“We’re going to help Americans with their ACA premiums by sending everyone a paper bag of ripe bananas.”

Masked ICE agents put damper on Oak Park Girl Scout food drive: ‘It’s heartbreaking as a mom’ Federal immigration agents were confronted in Oak Park on Saturday morning by residents blowing whistles as local Girl Scouts collect food for local pantries, rattling some girls and their parents.

Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.

"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

I’ve never seen an American elected official fight so hard to starve people.

Someone holds up a sign with American flags on it that says "Protect our First Amendment rights - freedom of speech for all." They're in a crowd with other protestors.

The First Amendment protects all of us.

We’ll never give up on fighting for this constitutional freedom.

📸 Allison Shelley
📍 DC

“Let them eat cake” walked so that “don’t let them eat under any circumstances” could run I guess??? This is cartoonishly evil!!

They’re gonna send Stephen Miller out to do a full-on Grinch on SNAP recipients, snatching up cans of Hoo hash and whatnot.

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Why I Am Resigning A federal judge explains his reasoning for leaving the bench.

Judge Mark Wolf resigns from the District Court of Massachusetts and writes why in a powerful piece in the Atlantic.

One thing he doesn’t mention in his list of reasons but I’m sure is a factor:

Erez Reuveni was one of his law clerks.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Heard he was retiring but did not realize his reasons. Not surprised to learn his reasons now based on his judicial career.

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Donald Trump and @jd-vance-1.bsky.social's refusal to provide SNAP benefits to Americans in need isn't just illegal — it's immoral.

You may not use SNAP, but I guessing you know someone who does! #MomSky

As millions face the first lapse in SNAP benefits in U.S. history, one group has been frozen out entirely: Ukrainian war refugees.

All Rise News viewed some of the letters refugees received before the suspension with little public attention.

Full story www.allrisenews.com/p/ukrainian-...

bsky.app/profile/vaxt...

Trump administration demands states ‘undo’ work to send full food stamps - The Boston Globe The Trump administration told states that they must "immediately undo" any actions to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families, in a late-night Saturday memo.

I knew the feds were going to do this. Now the states and the recipients are in a pickle.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/09/n...

A Reagan-appointed judge has quit the bench so he can speak out against assaults on the rule of law (he is a senior judge so it doesn’t create a vacancy):
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

250 years ago, Boston was besieged, hungry, and desperate - The Boston Globe Living in Boston during much of that siege — from April 19, 1775, to March 17, 1776 — meant being a prisoner in the town.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/09/m...

The “I-don’t-want-to-hear-about-the-affordability” line (like the ballroom renderings, the Gatsby party, the feces/fighter jet video) must be like catnip for the oppo research archivists.

Trump is not well. Not fit to serve.

Trump is not fit to serve. Lack of judgment and cognitive abilities.