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Importing Argentine Beef is a Loss for Ranchers and Consumers By Nikki GronliOct. 23, 2025 Photo property of Nikki Gronli. Cattle ranchers across the nation are right to raise the alarm over President Trump’s plan to import Argentine beef into the U.S.And you kn...

Cattle ranchers across the nation are right to raise the alarm over President Trump’s plan to important Argentine beef into the U.S.

And you know what? It should alarm consumers too.

Opinion | Six surgeons general: It’s our duty to warn the nation about RFK Jr. We took an oath to declare dangers when we found them. We’re doing that again today.

"Secretary Kennedy is entitled to his views. But he is not entitled to put people’s health at risk. He has rejected science, misled the public and compromised the health of Americans." wapo.st/3VTALll

#publichealth #health #science

🚨 League of Women Voters of Utah v. Utah State Legislature Learn more.

🚨BREAKING: Utah Supreme Court REJECTS Republican legislatures’ motion to continue using existing congressional map. Lawmakers must present a new, fair map by Sept. 25. www.democracydocket.com/cases/utah-c...

Pritzker: It appears they are amassing ICE officers… It’s been reported that about 300 officers are planning to come in and do what they did in LA — terrorize neighborhoods and cause mayhem. Their plan is to create enough chaos on the ground that troops will have to be called in

Ossoff: He never should have been confirmed by the senate and he needs to resign. It is one thing to be a skeptic or a reformer. It is quite another to be a fool…

ICYMI: watch this highlight reel from RFK Jr’s Senate hearings yesterday. What you heard is real. He was completely unhinged and disconnected from reality.

It’s clear, Kennedy is dangerous and should never have been confirmed.

Spencer Kuvin, Epstein's victims' lawyer, says the FBI interviewed 40+ girls, some just 14, and prepared a 54-count indictment. Then came the secret plea deal that let Epstein walk. Those interviews are in the files. Kuvin says Alan Dershowitz scoured the girls' MySpace pages to smear them as liars.

Trump reportedly called Norwegian minister ‘out of the blue’ to ask about Nobel prize US president told Norway’s finance minister he wants the Nobel peace prize, according to the Norwegian press

Of course.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

🍽 Noticing that dinner costs more than usual? It’s not just you — 79% of Americans say grocery prices are rising, according to our recent survey.

Check out this powerful site from @unrigoureconomy.bsky.social to see what’s really going on: dontinflateourplates.com

Virginia business, health care leaders press for renewal of ACA tax credits • Virginia Mercury About 400,000 Virginians purchase health insurance through the state’s exchange, and some of those people qualify for and use the enhanced premium tax credits. First created in 2021 and extended in 20...

100,000 Virginians could lose their health insurance due to costs as out-of-pocket premiums rise 30% to 50% when ACA enhanced tax credits expire at the end of this year. 

I’m cosponsoring legislation with @underwood.house.gov to make those tax credits permanent. Read more in @virginiamercury.com ⬇️

My law firm is currently litigating 48 voting and election cases in 23 states including 7 redistricting cases in AL, GA, LA, NC TX, & WI.

A family opened a town’s first bookstore. A bathroom bill is driving them away. The Phelans ran the only bookstore in Vermillion, South Dakota. They sold it and moved after a new law would’ve required their daughter to use a boy’s bathroom.

The Phelans ran the only bookstore in Vermillion, South Dakota.

But after the state passed a measure preventing transgender young people like their daughter from using girls’ bathrooms, they sold it and moved away.

Where are the hard-working Americans who screamed, “They’re stealing our jobs”?

You’re getting your wish. Immigrant workers aren’t showing up, and farm owners are hiring.

Inslee: If you need more energy, the dumbest thing you can do is disallow access to wind, solar, and advanced batteries—three of the most productive ways of producing new energy. And yet, that’s exactly what he’s done.

“The president cut your health care so he could build himself a golden ballroom” is a pretty easy message to sell

And here I was thinking the way to solve hunger was food.

Someone working for minimum wage in Iowa would need to put two hours of work to make meatloaf, mashed potatoes, and gravy for their family.

The price of 1 lb of ground beef is now higher than the federal minimum hourly wage…

The landlord gutting America’s hospitals Medical Properties Trust buys up hospitals and then leases them back to health care systems. Dozens of its hospitals have gone belly up.

One reason so many American hospitals are struggling? Investors buy them up, then suck them dry, charging such high rents that services are gutted.
Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Rasmus Jarlov on Twitter writes: "There is nothing to celebrate. Moving from average tariffs of less than 2% on trade between the USA and Europe to 15% under today’s deal will inevitably lead to inflation. Almost everything will become more expensive in both Europe and the USA, and we will all be worse off. The economic illiteracy in the White House is doing serious damage to the West." Stylish Skunk replies: "I have a feeling you have 0 idea what you're talking about. In fact I know you do." Rasmus Jarlov responds: "Of course. I am former minister of trade in Denmark and you are an anonymous Twitter profile. You probably know a lot more than me. For sure."

lol

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Kennedy to oust care task force, WSJ reports; HHS says no decision yet U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is planning to remove all the members of an advisory panel that determines what cancer screenings and other preventive health measures insurers must cover, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.

RFK Jr. plans to fire all 16 members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force calling them too “woke”. The panel sets free coverage rules for cancer screenings & more. A key meeting was quietly canceled.

BREAKING: We just subpoenaed the Epstein files.

As a survivor of sexual assault, I know the pain & trauma survivors carry. This subpoena is a massive victory for every survivor who has ever been silenced, dismissed, or harmed.

Bondi must release the files immediately. We demand accountability.

Thomas Massie wants to release the Epstein files. Trump is attacking him.

Let’s just take a moment to thank Donald Jr for his clear eyed, and steadfast determination to get answers with Epstein. He says to ask ourselves DAILY what SCUM would be against disclosure and truth? Hmmm….

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

Make no mistake: Some things that Trump and crew did in the past 48 hours, like Gabbard's claim about Obama, Trump posting a video of Obama being dragged to a jail cell, and referring the Fed Chair to the DOJ, are all troubling.

BUT: Trump wants you to stop talking about the Epstein files. Don't.

Reposting this and a few other things for no particular reason today. Maybe I’ll do it tomorrow and the next day, too.