Geri Kahn

YouTube video by More Perfect Union We Uncovered the Scheme Keeping Grocery Prices High

@moreperfectunion.bsky.social Walmart's lower prices are part of an illegal scheme. youtu.be/odhVF_xLIQA We pay more when laws meant to protect us are ignored. But this is the time of the master grifter. We will need to put a stop to it all.-

Sadly too true !

UnitedHealthcare has 2,964 subsidiaries. Break up this veridical monopoly ! Break up Big Medicine ! It adds cost but not good care.

the federal government demolished the Minneapolis economy

Inside Trump’s ICE Concentration Camps “This system is designed to punish, not protect”

The most comprehensive report you will read on the concentration camps, deaths, abuse, and profiteers: contrarian.substack.com/p/inside-tru...

NO KINGS Chicago · No Kings On March 28th, we will rise up, take to the streets, and say it loud: no thrones, no crowns, no kings–Hands off Chicago and hands off our democracy. We’re not watching history happen—we’re making it. ...

❌️👑 On March 28th, we will rise up, take to the streets, and say it loud: no thrones, no crowns, no kings – hands off Chicago and hands off our democracy. We’re not watching history happen—we’re making it.

🗓📍 Sat March 28th, 1:30 pm, Grant Park/Butler Field. Info ⤵️

The US Food and Drug Administration’s Regulation of Mifepristone This qualitative analysis uses information from US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request to characterize the FDA’s decision-making with res...

"The documents we examined underscore the repeated regulatory finding by FDA scientists that mifepristone’s safety is well-characterized, serious adverse events have rarely occurred, and best-practice guidelines address major risks." In-person dispensing not needed. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The conservative Tax Foundation reported that Trump’s tariffs “amount to an average tax increase per US household of $1,000 in 2025 and $1,300 in 2026.” That is the biggest tax hike as a percentage of GDP since 1993; it also lowered GDP by .5%.(from The Contrarian today)

i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.

Wow.

For Ofelia Written by, Patti Vasquez

They are building private concentration camps with our taxes.
ICE has purchased at least seven warehouses across Arizona, Georgia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Texas, some exceeding a million square feet. The detained population has gone from 40,000 to over 75,000. substack.com/app-link/pos...

This is what DHS SHOULD be focused on FEMA is needed all over the country. Instead they are focused on abducting folks who have been working in the US for decades and building concentration camps.

Stand up For Science National Day of Action · Indivisible Chicago Science is for everyone–and benefits everyone. We are the majority, and we cannot stay silent. Over the past year, the Trump administration has been stripping science for parts, just as they are ero...

🔬🪧 Sat. March 7th, 1:00 pm, Chicago's Federal Plaza - join us as we raise our voices. The Trump regime has been stripping science for parts, just as they're eroding the democratic norms that make science, research, and inquiry possible. Bring your friends and #StandUpForScience!#TakeBackOurScience

Private Prison Companies’ Enormous Windfall: Who Stands to Gain as ICE Expands For years private prison companies have been an important partner for ICE as the government carries out its immigration agenda.

We need to claw back money from DHS ! Call your Senators and Representatives hold strong on no money for DHS.
Our tax dollars are going to create concentration camps here in the USA and enrich private companies in this evil. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

Talking Again with Jon Gruber Immigration, healthcare, and the fate of seniors in America

Which do we prefer- a good homecare program for seniors and disabled or the ravages of ICE?
The ICE budget is about $80 billion a year. Gruber estimates we could provide a universal home care program that’s very reasonable for about $40 billion a year. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/talking-ag...

Homan declares that federal agents have murdered enough people, destroyed enough lives, and terrorized enough communities. ❌️🧊

Swamp Stink with Lutnick being the purveyor to Trump

Matthew Moroun met Monday with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick who called Trump .
Then Trump tweeted his block on the bridge.
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Thank you @senatorwarren.substack.com.web.brid.gy for the Break Up Big Medicine Act . Pointing the way once again as you did with the Consumer Protection Board. And you are even getting some GOP to support. Who knows where this will lead !

CALL YOUR SENATORS VOTE NO ON "SAVE ACT"The only three major countries in the world that use “voter fraud” as an excuse to make it harder for minorities and women to vote are Hungary, Russia, and, now, the United States.(T. Hartmann) @durbin.senate.gov@duckworth.senate.gov

Don't be fooled by different names—all these voter suppression bills have the same goal: block millions of eligible Americans from voting.

It's a coordinated attack on our democracy while they ignore real problems.

#StopTheSaveAct social.demcast.com/s/V0fHxfjb

The SAVE Act is a voter suppression bill, masquerading as “fraud prevention.”

The GOP is using this bill as a Trojan horse to restrict voting rights and maintain their hold on power.

Call (202) 224-3121 ＆ tell your MOC to #StopTheSaveAct

social.demcast.com/s/gzhQUDEu

Call your electeds STOP the "SAVE ACT".
The SAVE Act is Trump’s power grab in legislative garb.
The bill would require Americans to produce a passport or a birth certificate to register and thus to vote. Brennan Center research shows that 21 million people lack ready access to these documents.

One of the voter suppression moves by MAGA that we need to oppose.

Obviously designed to limit care:
In 2024, Medicare Advantage insurers denied 4.1 million of the 53 million prior authorization requests- 7.7%. Just 11.5% of all denials were appealed , but in the vast majority of those cases, (80.7%) the initial denial was overturned, similar to previous years.

Just in the past few months in Minnesota, there have been as many ICE employees arrested for sex trafficking as there's been people executed by ICE agents

Four corporations (Amazon, Alphabet/Google, Meta/Facebook, and Tesla) collectively made $315 billion in U.S. profits in 2025, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy. They paid 4.9% of that in federal corporate income taxes. Tesla paid exactly zero. (Thx@pattivasquez.bsky.social)

Thank you Nick Anderson "Connect the Dots" from Pen Strokes

Days after TrumpRx launched, drug-pricing watchers noted a significant number of prescription medications offered through the direct-to-consumer platform were already available through cheaper generic competitors. And remember purchases made via Trump Rx do NOT count towards insurance deductables.

The Misleading Chart That Killed the ACA Subsidies GOP leaders cited data from a Trump-aligned think tank to argue the ACA is “unaffordable”. Health economists say the numbers were spun and the full story tells the opposite.

"failure by Congress to extend the ACA subsidies shows that the right’s deceptive spin-doctoring is working, for now.... (but will change)....once the voodoo economics ....... is swamped by the tide of horror stories about soaring out-of-pocket costs for regular folks" substack.com/app-link/pos...

We need to maintain outrage that workers are not paid a living wage. Change IT !
Among the people in Chicago living in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program households who are 22 or older, 47% are employed but need government support to help buy groceries, according to 2024 U.S. Census .(WBEZ)