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Dog lover, artist, hoping we get through this

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Opinion | What the SNAP fight is really about Food stamps are a way to feed hungry kids, not a political bargaining chip or an engine for growth.

Oh, please, lectures about how β€œno one should aspire for large segments of the population to depend on government handouts,” when billionaires get the biggest government handouts of all?

31.10.2025 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 277    πŸ” 88    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 6

"If we had a contingency fund."

You mean like this contingency fund the Trump Administration just deleted off their website? The one they are legally required to use to keep SNAP funded?
www.notus.org/trump-white-...

30.10.2025 16:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1956    πŸ” 799    πŸ’¬ 66    πŸ“Œ 16
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Patel's girlfriend performed at Penn State last weekend. A government jet arrived at State College Regional Airport, according to its FAA registration, with an address listing the FBI HQ. The plane then flew to Nashville, where his girlfriend lives.

All on the taxpayer’s dime.
trib.al/TBvPo7A

29.10.2025 22:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2813    πŸ” 1378    πŸ’¬ 209    πŸ“Œ 268

Even if the House was fully functional, they're in session for an avg of 147 days and out for 218.

Under Speaker Johnson, Congress has been in session only 12 of the last 97 days, and he still won't swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva.

These are the people who demand Work Requirements.😐

28.10.2025 16:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3979    πŸ” 1318    πŸ’¬ 72    πŸ“Œ 56

Your ability to eat should not depend on your productivity

Your ability to get healthcare should not depend on your productivity

Your ability to get housing should not depend on your productivity

Saying β€œbe more productive!” To those who are struggling devalues human life.

It aids fascism.

28.10.2025 04:29 β€” πŸ‘ 6615    πŸ” 2621    πŸ’¬ 97    πŸ“Œ 54
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Donald Trump is telling his DOJ to prosecute people involved in defeating him in 2020. He will claim the 2025 California referendum was fraudulent. He is going to try to impose voter ID and ban mail-in and early voting for 2026.

I will do everything I can in the courtroom and in public to stop him.

26.10.2025 21:25 β€” πŸ‘ 9907    πŸ” 3039    πŸ’¬ 428    πŸ“Œ 128
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They don’t even pretend to care. This is the only story. You can’t open the government if the House refuses to show up.

25.10.2025 22:07 β€” πŸ‘ 14918    πŸ” 4924    πŸ’¬ 967    πŸ“Œ 305

You can understand how Washington works today with just two numbers.

78% of Americans want the Affordable Care Act tax credits extended so premiums don’t double.

100% of House Republicans oppose it, because they want that money for their billionaire donors.

21.10.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 256    πŸ” 111    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 2

His wife had a serious illness under 50 that would bankrupt β€œmost people” without comprehensive health insurance.

20.10.2025 15:01 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A lot of centrist commentators who genuinely got worked up about the unforgivably insulting nature of "cling to guns and religion" or "basket of deplorables" are weirdly silent about Trump portraying himself as literally shitting on American cities

19.10.2025 02:42 β€” πŸ‘ 6277    πŸ” 1340    πŸ’¬ 67    πŸ“Œ 44

Open enrollment for ACA plans began yesterday in Idaho.

One couple got notice that their monthly premium next year would jump from $51 to $2,232 as subsidies expire.

25,000 Idahoans are expected to be priced out of coverage.

This is what's at stake in Trump's shutdown.

16.10.2025 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2908    πŸ” 1294    πŸ’¬ 175    πŸ“Œ 92
KFF graphic summarizing key facts about ACA Enhanced Premium Tax Credits. Highlights include a 114% increase in enrollments due to expanded tax credits. More than 90% of individual market ACA enrollees receive a tax credit; 24 million enrollees in 2025, and coverage details for middle-income families and farmers. Also notes an average $35 billion annual cost to extend these credits. Source: KFF Affordable Care Act analyses.

KFF graphic summarizing key facts about ACA Enhanced Premium Tax Credits. Highlights include a 114% increase in enrollments due to expanded tax credits. More than 90% of individual market ACA enrollees receive a tax credit; 24 million enrollees in 2025, and coverage details for middle-income families and farmers. Also notes an average $35 billion annual cost to extend these credits. Source: KFF Affordable Care Act analyses.

Get the key facts about the ACA’s enhanced premium tax credits at the center of the ongoing government shutdown.

16.10.2025 19:59 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 13    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The workers whose health care is most at stake in the government shutdown About 10 million small-business owners, employees and the self-employed are caught in the middle of the shutdown fight over the Affordable Care Act.

From manicurists and pedicurists to landscapers and funeral directors, freelancers, contractors, and small business workers will be devastated by the Republican health care crisis.

16.10.2025 17:22 β€” πŸ‘ 74    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Yup. Notably, neither Tom Homan nor anybody else in the Trump admin has outright denied that he took and kept the $50,000 in taxpayer money given to him by the FBI in their bribery scheme.

Every time they’re asked, they either pivot or attack the questioner. But they don’t deny it.

16.10.2025 16:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1166    πŸ” 319    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 12

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

15.10.2025 22:41 β€” πŸ‘ 10647    πŸ” 2860    πŸ’¬ 350    πŸ“Œ 111

There is simply no equivalent, not even close, of this anywhere on the center or far left. There is no β€˜both sides’ here, media.

14.10.2025 23:04 β€” πŸ‘ 3289    πŸ” 963    πŸ’¬ 131    πŸ“Œ 31

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

14.10.2025 19:47 β€” πŸ‘ 13916    πŸ” 4096    πŸ’¬ 461    πŸ“Œ 167
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The Right's Secret Plan to Help Billionaires Buy Elections J.D. Vance and other MAGA interests are working to get the Supreme Court to end restrictions on campaign-spending limits.

How two lawsuits could expand Citizens United, eliminate campaign donations restrictions, and turn America into a kleptocracy β€” and how this nightmare can be stopped.

13.10.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 667    πŸ” 388    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 7
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We need to talk about Russell Vought – But Properly Why certain mainstream outlets insist on sanitizing Vought as a devout β€œsmall government” conservative – and what actually animates his war against pluralistic democracy

Sunday reading:

I wrote about the aggrieved extremist who is currently firing thousands of federal workers and ravaging state capacity based on conspiratorial nonsense - and about mainstream media’s infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.

This week’s piece:

12.10.2025 13:08 β€” πŸ‘ 3758    πŸ” 1566    πŸ’¬ 82    πŸ“Œ 161

Brett Kavanaugh: β€œThe Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”

09.10.2025 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 2732    πŸ” 1197    πŸ’¬ 137    πŸ“Œ 50
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Opinion | Virginia’s attorney general sends a dangerous message to police The case of the young accountant, killed in an unwarranted shooting by U.S. Park Police in 2017, remains a study in law enforcement impunity.

Republican candidate for Attorney General, Jason Miyares, told police to not hesitate to shoot unarmed citizens if they feel angry, promising to protect the killers. Jay Jones and the Democratic ticket will protect us from this lawless regime.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

09.10.2025 14:23 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law.

A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.

We need to stand up together and speak up.

08.10.2025 21:31 β€” πŸ‘ 7924    πŸ” 2212    πŸ’¬ 230    πŸ“Œ 76
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If the National Governors Association chooses to remain silent, Illinois will have no choice but to withdraw from the organization.

We should be standing as one against the idea that Donald Trump can call up the National Guard against our will.

07.10.2025 18:16 β€” πŸ‘ 5911    πŸ” 1567    πŸ’¬ 184    πŸ“Œ 67
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Trump during the campaign: I never even heard of Project 2025, don’t know anything about it, don’t know who is involved.

Trump today:

02.10.2025 12:33 β€” πŸ‘ 5881    πŸ” 2349    πŸ’¬ 571    πŸ“Œ 198
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Mike Johnson continues to refuse to swear in a Democrat who won in a landslide.

01.10.2025 00:34 β€” πŸ‘ 9478    πŸ” 3510    πŸ’¬ 487    πŸ“Œ 227
Virginia: Breakout of ACA enrollment by House district

Virginia: Breakout of ACA enrollment by House district

Virginia: Impact of enhanced ACA tax credits expiring on net benchmark Silver plan premiums for various households

Virginia: Impact of enhanced ACA tax credits expiring on net benchmark Silver plan premiums for various households

5. #VIRGINIA ~410,000 ACA enrollees

🚨 HEADS UP, VA, YOU HAVE 35 DAYS... 🚨

Avg gross rate change: +21.1% (FINAL)
Avg gross 2026 premium: $592/mo
NET 2026 increase for 64-yr old couple earning $90K/yr if the enhanced tax credits expire: +236%

01.10.2025 01:21 β€” πŸ‘ 32    πŸ” 19    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2
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ACA Marketplace Premium Payments Would More than Double on Average Next Year if Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Expire | KFF KFF estimates that, if Congress allows the enhanced premium tax credits to expire at the end of this year, ACA Marketplace enrollees on average would see their premium payments more than double next y...

Democrats are fighting to stop your family’s health insurance premiums from doubling.

30.09.2025 23:40 β€” πŸ‘ 607    πŸ” 232    πŸ’¬ 23    πŸ“Œ 6

The president is lying

30.09.2025 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1757    πŸ” 287    πŸ’¬ 78    πŸ“Œ 19
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75% 🀬

I’m not alone, but we pay over $19K/year for insurance through the ACA for my daughter, my wife, and myself.

Like millions of other Americans, we are bracing ourselves to be priced out. We don’t need to just save healthcare. We need to make it better and affordable.
#DonaldTrumpsShutdown

30.09.2025 19:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2406    πŸ” 878    πŸ’¬ 165    πŸ“Œ 42
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Pritzker: "People of Illinois, we need your help. Get our your cell phones, record and narrate what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know that this is happening and that we won't stand for it."

29.09.2025 20:28 β€” πŸ‘ 33607    πŸ” 11000    πŸ’¬ 548    πŸ“Œ 506

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