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"The evil Jew is funding the entire US left" is a piece of rank, obvious antisemitism that we have just collectively decided to accept in public, because IOKYR.

The Medicare Advantage ecosystem is changing, and patients are caught in the middle - The Boston Globe The popular plans covering tens of thousands of elderly Mass. residents are charging higher premiums, shrinking provider networks, and covering fewer drugs.

Tens of thousands of senior Massachusetts residents may find that Medicare Advantage plans are charging higher premiums, shrinking provider networks, covering fewer drugs, and offering fewer perks as Medicare’s open enrollment period gets underway.

Harris County Attorney @CDMenefee.bsky.social is running in the Special Election for Congress District TX18

He knows the values of service, hard work, and stands up for what’s right. Menefee is a fighter for the rights of the community

#LiveBlue #ResistanceUnited #ONEV1

Republicans own this shutdown and are directly responsible for hurting federal employees and their families.

The workers keeping our Social Security checks coming don’t stop getting bills. They’ve still got to pay rent, put food on the table, and fill their kids’ prescriptions.

Over 7M people marched Saturday in 2700 locations and no one broke windows, wiped feces on walls, stole laptops, or beat police with the American flag; as opposed to the couple thousand MAGAs who stormed the Capitol.

Championing democracy, free speech, and equality brings out the best in people🩷

One sign really caught my attention at the #NoKingsMarch. An autistic boy about 12 with grandma was holding a sign he made: “Tylenol doesn’t cause autism.” With a hand-drawn picture of a Tylenol bottle. He was chatting up people wearing inflatables, a T-Rex and a frog #Voices4Victory #ProudBlue

Can you imagine the outrage, the riots, if President Obama had done such a thing?!!

I cannot imagine the damage beyond repair of so many Americans if they think this gross stunt of Trump is funny, or in any way above reproach. Dumping on America, literally.

We have to undo EVERY SINGLE THING.

Criminal prosecution of all right-wing nuts has to be carried out in state courts so Trump cannot pardon his fellow freaks.

You know it’s bad when the Dept of Labor says immigration raids are “threatening the stability of domestic food production and prices for US consumers.”

@opinion.bloomberg.com #CPI
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What GOP Lawmakers Are Costing the US Economy to Avoid Funding Healthcare Trump administration officials have been parrotting a $15 billion-per-week figure to estimate...

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Cognitive Decline? Trump Whines About “Train to Hawaii” in Wild Rant Donald Trump invented a Democratic lawmaker who wanted to build a train to Hawaii.

Trump, a seemingly demented 79, invented a bizarre claim that Senator Mazie Hirono wants to build a railroad from the continental US to the archipelago.

Honestly I can never tell anymore if he's really this dumb and insane, or just making dumb stuff up as usual.

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Hey hey - sorry to interrupt the doom scroll but this thread by @altssa.altgov.info has critical info regarding your future application for SS benefits.
You're gonna want to get educated about the less than ethical changes King Trump has allowed to happen.

The Supreme Court appears ready to hobble a landmark civil-rights law. For Radio Atlantic, Hanna Rosin speaks with voting-rights activist Stacey Abrams about how the potential ruling might ensure "one-party rule” going forward. ⁠ https://theatln.tc/EhJHby2b
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A Government Shutdown for Loyalty, While Working Families Suffer I spent years working in this building, protecting the people who walk through these halls seeking solutions—yet all we get is political games at their expense.

"This isn’t just political posturing—it’s punishment. It’s retaliation against any American who dares to expect fairness or accountability."

HARRY DUNN/STANDING OUR GROUND
OCTOBER 16, 2025

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NEW: Federal courts are increasingly distrustful of the Trump administration, upending decades of assumptions that the Executive Branch approaches the courts in good faith. My observations in West Wing Playbook:

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No Kings As the president escalates his authoritarian power grab, the NO KINGS non-violent movement continues to rise stronger. We are united once again to remind the world: America has No Kings and the power ...

I would like to thank Mike Johnson, House Republican leadership, and Karoline Leavitt for all the free publicity this week promoting our rallies tomorrow. Find one near you here. www.nokings.org

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Froggie vs. ICE: The asymmetrical symbol of a failing authoritarian state.

You’ve seen the video.
An inflatable frog at a Portland protest.
Unarmed. Unbothered. Unapologetically absurd.
And ICE panics.

They fire pepper spray up a frog caricature's ass.

The frog wins.

While Americans lose their health care, Trump has increased his family’s net worth by $3 BILLION.

The President doesn’t care about suffering Americans.

He’s using his office to enrich himself.

Fuck you, MIKE.

My mother was in the hospital until yesterday, and I thought about healthcare a FUCKING LOT.

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES, you callow excuse for a vertebrate.

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

Justice Brett Kavanaugh: “If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen...they promptly let the individual go."

The reality: Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

A must read from the very talented @nicolefoy.bsky.social:

Today, I convened a group of former military generals and veterans to hear perspectives on deploying troops in American cities.

Their commitment is to our nation. That’s why they’re speaking out against what the President's doing as uncalled-for, unprecedented, and un-American.

truthout.org More Than 170 US Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents So Far This Year

More Than 170 US Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents So Far This Year

www.rawstory.com Massive conservative group takes Trump to court for 'cost-prohibitive' move for businesses

Massive conservative group takes Trump to court for 'cost-prohibitive' move for businesses

Remember all the people on the right bitching about how much money we’ve spent in Ukraine? Where are they now that we’re throwing $40B at Argentina and getting nothing in return while making deep cuts to services here?

Mike Johnson sent everyone home & refuses to talk to Democrats.

“There’s absolutely no reason for the House to be out of session,” said GOP Rep. Kevin Kiley.

He’s stalling Adelita Grivalja’s swearing in to avoid a vote on the Epstein files.

Most people get fired for not doing their job.

The most openly sociopathic Republicans are the self-proclaimed righteous Christians.

That was something I found consistently when working in Republican politics. The nastiest and dumbest ones were always the Bible thumpers.

The vertical white and red stripes of the Sons of Liberty Flag

Ahead of the #NoKings rally, a history lesson:

Pictured below is the flag of The Sons of Liberty, a group that operated for decades under British rule to make Good Trouble

The flag was made illegal so they flipped it sideways, and now it's part of the USA flag

"No Taxation Without Representation"

YouTube video by VoteVets Veterans on the Front Line: Sen. Tammy Duckworth

"They didn't sign up to be little toy soldiers in a political game."

Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a combat veteran, sounds the alarm on the politicization of our military. She spoke with our Tristeza Ordex about Trump's illegal deployments happening in Chicago & other American cities.

USAA has activated a no interest loan program for federal employees affected by the #GOPShutdown.
To see if you qualify, please visit USAA.

Ex-Supreme Court justice's stark warning omitted his role in creating crisis: analysts Ex-Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy issued a stark warning about democracy in his memoir that was released on Tuesday, but the warning fell on deaf ears for two Democratic analysts. David Sirota and Veronica Riccobene of The Lever pushed back against Kennedy's warnings in a new article on Tuesd...

Ex-Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy issued a stark warning about democracy in his memoir that was released on Tuesday, but the warning fell on deaf ears for two Democratic analysts.