What About the State of Health? - KFF Health News Health care got barely a mention in President Trump’s State of the Union address. Ahead of the midterms, the Trump administration has presented few concrete plans to address what Americans say is the ...

After urging Republicans to make health care a central issue in midterm campaigns, Pres. Trump gave the issue only passing mention in his record-long State of the Union speech.

“Trump doesn’t really care that much about health care. He finds it complicated," says @sherylnyt.bsky.social🎧⤵️

After DEMANDING that Hillary Clinton's testimony on the Epstein scandal be held behind closed doors, and even threatening her with contempt for her insistence that reporters be allowed in, the GOP has been sending out photos and info to far-right influencers.

Hypocrisy is the GOP brand.

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

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this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities

Trump ties Greenland takeover bid to Nobel Prize in text to Norway leader Trump’s push to take over Greenland and unleash a trade war with European nations has sparked the greatest transatlantic crisis in generations.

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YouTube video by FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul Jesse Ventura on Minneapolis ICE shooting: 'We're a 3rd world country now'

Jesse Ventura may be radical in some of his views but he is a true patriot. I'll stand behind Ventura any day.
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Tony Campolo exposed this in Christians 40 years ago. Far more concerned about “bad” words than the loss of human life. Not even close.

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The Legislature needs to declare EMS an 'essential service' for Idahoans • Idaho Capital Sun This would be a critical step to committing state resources to supporting struggling first-responder units, write guest columnists John Osborn, Marie Osborn and Paul Anderson.

"Are you having chest pain? Your child can’t breathe? Call 9-1-1. But, who will respond? In Idaho, first-responder units are struggling."

That’s how bad things are

He thought he was too old to be an EMT. At 76, he’s saved countless lives. A moped injury left Ed Levien vulnerable and grateful to strangers for their help. That led him to his second, and most meaningful, act — as an EMT.

Idaho also has a large number of volunteer EMTs, who give hours of their time to help their communities. True heroes, all of them! wapo.st/40KAcNJ

Insanity…

It's often presented as a kind of conformity or groupthink to "trust the experts," but you do in fact need to do this to have a functioning society!

What is the alternative? Every person researches every single issue of public concern themselves?

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This house is a whole vibe. So cute! Love the use of cabinet shelves on the patio. (I'm not a Realtor. Not my house. I'm just someone who browses the new listings.)

A big Trump administration cutback went nearly unnoticed About 32,000 low-paid AmeriCorps members lost their positions in April, gutting some health clinics, food pantries and other human service organizations.

"Despite its low profile, AmeriCorps has had steady support among Democrats and Republicans. Leaders from both parties have historically viewed the program as an effective way to strengthen communities."

Official CBO analysis confirms the obvious: House Republican tax and budget bill isn't shared sacrifice.

It makes poor people poorer and rich people richer. It does this by cutting health care & nutrition to help finance tax cuts skewed to the wealthy.

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Cost-cutting tactics The secret bonuses were just one of many maneuvers UnitedHealth devised to track and cut expenses in its nursing home initiative. Internal emails show, for example, that UnitedHealth supervisors gave their teams “budgets” showing how many hospital admissions they had “left” to use up on nursing home patients. The company also monitored nursing homes that had smaller numbers of patients with “do not resuscitate” – or DNR – and “do not intubate” orders in their files. Without such orders, patients are in line for certain life-saving treatments that might lead to costly hospital stays. Two current and three former UnitedHealth nurse practitioners told the Guardian that UnitedHealth managers pressed nurse practitioners to persuade Medicare Advantage members to change their “code status” to DNR even when patients had clearly expressed a desire that all available treatments be used to keep them alive.

UnitedHealth secretly pressured nurses to change patients' records to include DNRs (Do Not Resuscitate) without their consent, so those patients would die instead of being saved with medical interventions that could cost UnitedHealth money.

This is murder.

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So the guy who is chain-sawing his way through the federal government and firing people willy-nilly to save the taxpayers a buck or two is also the CEO of an electric car company that wouldn't be able to stay in business without a steady diet of massive tax subsidies. Do I have that right?

Today House Republicans, cheered on by the richest person on Earth, passed a budget framework that will cut support for the poorest people in our country.

All while cutting taxes for corporations and the wealthy, and massively increasing the deficit.

An Idaho lawmaker made a joke of deleting records. It’s legal, but should it be? • Idaho Capital Sun Rep. Barbara Ehardt, R-Idaho Falls, said she had received text messages from people “at the universities” who supported Senate Bill 1198.

Wild story by @ryansuppe.bsky.social:

Rep. Barbara Ehardt, an Idaho Falls Republican who has long opposed DEI, said she had received text messages from people “at the universities” who supported Senate Bill 1198.

“I’m gonna delete (them),” Ehardt said with a laugh. #idleg #idpol

America. Where women can die from a miscarriage and kids can die from measles.

Republicans: after years of whining about dark-money billionaires puppeteering our political system, what do you have to say about Elon Musk buying the Presidency - and now the Wisconsin Supreme Court?

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Elbows up, Canada.