Susan Lauer

Because Donald Trump and MAGA decided to destroy Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act so they could give tax cuts to billionaires

17 million people will probably lose their health insurance

And it's likely that-as a result-51,000 Americans will die

PER
YEAR

Despicable

#TrumpsHealthCareShutdown

“When’s people lose their healthcare they die.” - Sen Mark Kelly
#TrumpsHealthcareShutdown

#TrumpsHealthcareShutdown is putting the lives of working class Americans at risk.

Speaker Johnson is a boldfaced liar. Republicans have done nothing to protect healthcare, rather they’ve tried repeatedly to dismantle the ACA. They hate it because it was initiated under Obama & they hate him more than they love hard working Americans.
#TrumpsHealthcareShutdown

“I’m most worried about the funds running out for both WIC and SNAP,” says @littlelobbyists.com mom Jodi, who lives in Pennsylvania.

“I know it probably won't happen... but it might.... for our family, we heavily rely on these programs to help our family out.”

#TrumpsHealthcareShutdown 2/3 🧵

All across America, families are being impacted by #TrumpsHealthcareShutdown — this is especially true for the parents and caregivers of medically complex and disabled children.

Here are some of their stories 1/3 🧵

Don’t be so hard on Republicans. They have “ideas” to fix healthcare: decrease demand by decreasing population (anti-vax, no access to care, make nutritious food and shelter too expensive).

You want a healthcare system that increases affordable access? Vote for Democrats.
#johnsonlies

BREAKING: Illinois has filed suit to block Trump's deployment of the military to Chicago.

storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

More guns than people…

Is it freedom or a national death cult that keeps growing?

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Are We About to Have Labor Camps in the United States of America? If you think that’s far-fetched, then you really haven’t been paying attention to what the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress have been up to lately.

Are We About to Have Labor Camps in the United States? Forty-five billion will build a lot of stuff. In 2023, the United States budgeted $12.8 billion to build new affordable housing. We’re about to spend nearly four times on detention centers what we spend on housing
newrepublic.com/article/1976...

Gov. Pritzker Statement on the Texas National Guard Being Deployed to Illinois CHICAGO – Today, Governor JB Pritzker released the following statement after the Illinois National Guard was informed that the Texas National...

If "states' rights" mean anything, they must include the right to not get invaded by another state in peacetime.

Americans everywhere: Speak up and stand against Trump's outrageous assaults on Illinois and Oregon.

gov-pritzker-newsroom.prezly.com/gov-pritzker...

Two things that really should not be for profit because of the inherent conflicts: prison systems and healthcare.

If profits rise when people die, there’s a serious problem.

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

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Keep taking videos of what ICE is doing. @govpritzker.illinois.gov is right, document what’s happening. This is why they hate journalists so much.

How does this make us greater or healthier?

In ruling that the government cannot deploy the National Guard in Portland

A federal judge finds that president Trump lied

“this Court concludes that the President did not have a ‘colorable basis’ to..federalize the National Guard..The President’s determination was simply untethered to the facts”

Get what @katiephang.bsky.social has and wear it October 18 #NoKingsDay

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(I love that she’s wearing my shirt 🤗)

Sometimes we have to try and try again if at first we don’t succeed. With each attempt we course correct.

After some of the biggest health care cuts in American history, Trump and his Republicans are now promoting one of the biggest health care cost increases in American history.

They can lie to our faces all they want, but that’s what the GOP's government shutdown is all about.

News today that ICE shot a woman is chilling. The videos online show that there are some abusive, masked thugs masquerading as law enforcement.

Nobody deserves this. The courts need to step in.

Opinion | What Chuck Schumer Can Learn From Bad Bunny

Don’t manipulate people with anger/fear. Listen, lead, and give them what they want: healthcare, law enforcement that doesn’t zip tie children, elected officials who do their jobs (Congress is supposed to have power of the purse/declare war - not the President.)

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/o...

Sanae Takaichi is set to become Japan’s first female prime minister. As of July 2025, 65 countries have had a woman serve as either president or prime minister. She makes it 66. Why is America so far behind with zero?? Let’s pass #ERA and elect a woman. Tell me who you’d support.

Right??? Remember when it seemed that it couldn’t be worse than the triumvirate of Bush/Cheney/Rove? Now we know we kid ourselves with any thought that surely there is a line they won’t cross, some constitutional value that means something real.

History repeats.

Now That Fascism is Here... Fascism isn’t coming to America; it’s here.

We cannot let the myth of American exceptionalism numb us into imagining we are above devolving into inhumanity.

We have every ingredient in place to become something historically monstrous.

It will happen here unless we refuse to allow it.

johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/now-that-f...