We don’t.

We are all experts at decoding the signs we see in other people. It’s a genetic, Darwinian survival skill. Ignore you gut at your peril.

And all the non-Medicaid people will lose their access to care, too. The few million who are directly affected are just an excuse to transfer their cost to the rest of us. Then Medicare will become “too expensive” and the next domino will fall or maybe EMTALA will be next.

Oh Rachel. This is the wrong lead. It’s not the few million people losing insurance that matters. Defunding this big piece of the healthcare system will reduce available care for all and increase costs for all - dollar for dollar. It multiplies the wealth transfer.

Star Wars Holocron on X: "California Governor Gavin Newsom’s office posts a video of Emperor Palpatine reciting Donald Trump’s Truth Social post about L.A. https://t.co/I5WiWwEZf8" / X California Governor Gavin Newsom’s office posts a video of Emperor Palpatine reciting Donald Trump’s Truth Social post about L.A. https://t.co/I5WiWwEZf8

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The Survival of Democracy Depends on Our Willingness to Fight Justice Riggs is right. We should not have to fight for democracy. But the reality is that we must.

We will not win the battle for democracy if those in the pro-democracy movement prize caution over taking risks. We cannot permit ourselves to be deterred by the defeats and public criticism that are inevitable along the long path of restoring democracy. Now is the time for fearless leadership.

Un immense livre en train d’être brûlé par des petits personnages avec marqué « I hope everyone realizes that scrubbing historical references from web sites is no different than burning books »

Good Night World

BREAKING: The Interior Dept just used a fake “energy emergency” to greenlight gas and mining projects on public lands.

It’s a lie. There is no energy emergency. This is a giveaway to big oil.

It’s called kleptocracy- it’s a real word.

I want a president who is tougher on Putin than he is on Harvard.

And how well did that work?

@maddow.msnbc.com

Rachel, didn’t anyone ever tell Musk that all his Tesla customers were Democrats? I.e., people who believe in climate change and buy EVs.

We are now at the point where Trump is judge, jury and jailer. If he declares someone is a criminal, they will be taken away by masked men, never to be seen again.

We cannot allow this to be normalized. American citizens will be next.

A prison whose detainees cannot leave by any means = a death camp.

A USA-sponsored death camp.

Trump's Jan 20 executive order may trigger the Insurrection Act on April 20 (Hitler’s birthday), which allows him to deploy military forces on the street to suppress civil disorder, rebellion or insurrection.
🚨 DEMAND to know what your representative is DOING to stop it!!🚨
#ImpeachTrump
#Resist

Trumps a terrorist

That’s not due process. Has everyone gone stupid? Or as Forest Gump said, “Stupid is as stupid does.”

Frost: I come from Florida. See, Project 2025 is Florida 2024. We’ve seen this, but we also know how to deal with it. When they disappear, a college student, you take to the streets. When they steal your Medicare, Social Security, and Medicaid, you take to the streets.

”[Trump] is running a crypto scam where he can receive millions of dollars anonymously. Meanwhile the DOJ has shut down the crypto investigations unit. Truly no corruption scheme like this in our history — at least out of the White House.”
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Ditto when you lose your job in a forced recession.

And to think we could have had a sane, serious government run by an intelligent person who would have acted in the best interests of Americans, and not Vladimir Putin.

"History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for."

Hakeem Jeffries Goes Off On The House Floor And Rips The Mask Off Republicans House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) called out Republicans for pulling a bait and switch on the American people, and called out the GOP's real agenda.

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RFK Jr. and the MAGA Death Trip The war on science is turning deadly

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sreenshot from the new york times reporting that Stanford University’s provost is talking about how the loss of funding from national institutes of health funding will cost the university $160 million. that’s not the way to get this changed — the people think “stanford is rich; no big deal.” leaders need to talk about what this will cost the public

for pity’s sake, I am BEGGING university leaders to stop framing this issue in terms of what this will cost the university. people dont care!

EXPLAIN WHAT THIS WILL COST THE PUBLIC: closed hospitals and clinics, skipped treatments, loss of access to experimental drugs, unemployment, recession

Great point.

Trump Administration Orders 'Catastrophic' Funding Cuts For Science Research Scientists and medical experts said the move to effectively slash NIH grants will interrupt research across the country.

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It's boggling to think that medical research is too expensive and stands in the way of tax cuts.

For the university and hospital administrators who thought repressing programs on racial and gender inequalities, suspending trans care, censoring truth on genocide, etc was going to stop Trump from attacking your federal funding, please confront how naive and cowardly you’ve been and change course.

Deep Cuts to Medical Research Funds Could Hobble University Budgets Grants from the National Institutes of Health come with additional money for overhead. Proposed funding cuts would leave colleges with large budget gaps.

Now under Trump, the NIH says it is cutting ~$9 billion in federal research grants supporting medical research ranging from cancer to Alzheimer's diseases.

“I think it’s going to destroy research universities in the short term, and I don’t know after that." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...