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They say they worry about insurance jobs, but there are transition plans, so it’s clear it’s about insurance profit.

Some UH people do back single payer “for all who want it” or a “public option”. These are very different things from the M4All legislation, but also much better than the ACA.

That’s the drafted legislation. Of course it can change, but it’s a red flag for it not to be a policy objective by a candidate (Mills/Pete/many others).

Ignorance of M4All legislation or dishonesty. The UH people want to keep private insurance. M4All doesn’t allow it when duplicative.

conservative groups regularly misrepresent democratic political positions. their base won’t know the difference, and honestly most democrats won’t either. if only their descriptions were accurate! M4ALL is very specific, and the Universal Healthcare crowd wants to subsidize the current system.

www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

That’s not true wrt M4ALL. The bill explicitly makes it unlawful for private insurers to sell coverage that duplicates benefits provided by the government. That’s why UH people are fundamentally different. Mills wants to increase government expenditures to prop up the system and insurance profit.

“Universal healthcare” is centrist coded language and a rhetorical shield used to preserve for-profit insurance while appearing progressive. Mills’s approach is a red flag because it further increases public resources to make the private insurance model palatable vs eliminating corporate welfare.

She isn’t for medicare for all, unlike Platner, and that’s a very significant policy red flag.

What percentage of Americans do all the Senate Democrats plus Murkowski & Collins represent

I would like to see this information included in every report of a Senate vote, the same way journos eventually established the norm of reporting the party of the president who appointed federal judges.

We Might Just Need to Draft Jon Stewart 2028 will be here before you know it, and the Democrats’ options are looking pretty terrible. But all they need is a semi-normal person who understands the real problems facing the country. It might b...

2028 will be here before you know it, and the Democrats’ options are looking pretty terrible. But all they need is a semi-normal person who understands the real problems facing the country. It might be time to consider an unorthodox option.

www.currentaffairs.org/news/we-migh...

That centrist dude is how we got here, and if we don’t offer something more meaningful than restoration of what was, we will be back here again.

Bovino: “ICE are the victims”

Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs, Study Finds New research contradicts President Trump’s claim that foreigners are footing the bill.

Wait, we needed a study to know that?

Politics Yet to regain the majority, Democrats would need to run more competitively among White voters without a four-year college degree — the mostly widely accepted definition of the working class — than they typically have done in the Trump era.

it’s just so crazy to see it happen in real time

🔥Greenland politician: “Trump doesn’t know about Greenlandic people. We don’t value💰/Kardashian lips/fake boobs… we won’t give up free health care & education… 🇺🇸are so greedy they’re trying to shoot their friends… Trump surrounds himself with white power— our rights would probably be taken away.”

Conservative Christians clutching their pearls at people of conscience disrupting a worship gathering to call out hypocrisy and abuses of power remind us again that they have no interest in emulating Jesus or reading the Gospels.

He literally turned the tables over, dummies...

Thanks for a well written piece. Barron may have recently ventured even further from the gospels, but he has been a reactionary partisan as long as I’ve been aware of his existence. And he epitomizes the “American reactionary” of which Pope Francis spoke.

Kissinger…

Opinion | Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Unhappiness

America ranking 32nd in overall quality of life has to sting because of how utterly unnecessary it is

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/o...

The U.S.-Born Unemployment Rate Rose After Trump Reduced Immigration Government data show the Trump administration’s policies reducing the number of foreign-born workers did not help U.S.-born workers in 2025.

Turns out, the politics of employment is never a zero-sum game.

it's so funny watching Walsh (a self-proclaimed Catholic) not realize that IHL literally came out of medieval-era natural law

Blue-collar employment was rising under Biden-Harris and is declining under Trump-Vance.

I've experienced this in person too, and it's surprised and confused me, but I think you've nailed the explanation. Being attacked from the left is not so easy to dismiss and elicits a strong emotional reaction.

My quick theory on this is when they’re on twitter they get to feel like the good guys, the sensible ones. When they’re on here, they’re reminded they’re not.

Exercise left to the reader: without calculating, note the statistical outlier.

Rousseau has a good critique of this thinking in his Discourse on Inequality. While you see these as meaningfully distinct, he expresses compassion for both as victims of the system, and unfortunate and predictable byproducts. They are more similar than you realize if you can remove the judgement.

And the most common and effective shared demands are based in self interest.

Rousseau had compassion for both effects. Even those you dismiss as selfish are victims of the system.

"Words they don’t use: illegal, war, coup, international law, violation, sovereignty.

This is how you normalize imperialism."
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Barron reflects many, and possibly most, American Catholics. Francis said as much calling them reactionaries.