Oh, please, lectures about how βno one should aspire for large segments of the population to depend on government handouts,β when billionaires get the biggest government handouts of all?
31.10.2025 19:05 β π 277 π 88 π¬ 17 π 6@fancyfern.bsky.social
Dog lover, artist, hoping we get through this
Oh, please, lectures about how βno one should aspire for large segments of the population to depend on government handouts,β when billionaires get the biggest government handouts of all?
31.10.2025 19:05 β π 277 π 88 π¬ 17 π 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-...
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 taxpayerβs dime.
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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.π
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 βbe more productive!β To those who are struggling devalues human life. 
It aids fascism.
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.
They donβt even pretend to care. This is the only story. You canβt open the government if the House refuses to show up.
25.10.2025 22:07 β π 14918 π 4924 π¬ 967 π 305You can understand how Washington works today with just two numbers.
78% of Americans want the Affordable Care Act tax credits extended so premiums donβt double.
100% of House Republicans oppose it, because they want that money for their billionaire donors.
His wife had a serious illness under 50 that would bankrupt βmost peopleβ without comprehensive health insurance.
20.10.2025 15:01 β π 11 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0A 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 π 6277 π 1340 π¬ 67 π 44Open 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.
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 ACAβs enhanced premium tax credits at the center of the ongoing government shutdown.
16.10.2025 19:59 β π 15 π 13 π¬ 0 π 0From 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 π 74 π 22 π¬ 2 π 0Yup. 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 theyβre asked, they either pivot or attack the questioner. But they donβt deny it.
would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute
15.10.2025 22:41 β π 10647 π 2860 π¬ 350 π 111There is simply no equivalent, not even close, of this anywhere on the center or far left. There is no βboth sidesβ here, media.
14.10.2025 23:04 β π 3289 π 963 π¬ 131 π 31Unless 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 justβ¦mass murder.
14.10.2025 19:47 β π 13916 π 4096 π¬ 461 π 167How 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 π 667 π 388 π¬ 23 π 7Sunday 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 mediaβs infuriating tendency to sanitize Russell Vought and the regime he serves.
This weekβs piece:
Brett Kavanaugh: βThe Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops β¦β
09.10.2025 19:45 β π 2732 π 1197 π¬ 137 π 50Republican  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...
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.
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.
Trump during the campaign: I never even heard of Project 2025, donβt know anything about it, donβt know who is involved. 
Trump today:
Mike Johnson continues to refuse to swear in a Democrat who won in a landslide.
01.10.2025 00:34 β π 9478 π 3510 π¬ 487 π 227Virginia: Breakout of ACA enrollment by House district
Virginia: Impact of enhanced ACA tax credits expiring on net benchmark Silver plan premiums for various households
5. #VIRGINIA ~410,000 ACA enrollees
π¨ HEADS UP, VA, YOU HAVE 35 DAYS... π¨
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%
Democrats are fighting to stop your familyβs health insurance premiums from doubling.
30.09.2025 23:40 β π 607 π 232 π¬ 23 π 6The president is lying
30.09.2025 21:24 β π 1757 π 287 π¬ 78 π 1975% π€¬
Iβm 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 donβt need to just save healthcare. We need to make it better and affordable.
#DonaldTrumpsShutdown
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."
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