gardenofsimple

Make it viral.

My adult sons however went from 0 to 763/month with a 5600 deductible.

I'm a teacher and make nothing but ours is close to that. 250 for family coverage and 1200 deductible. Yay unions.

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Sen Dems: OK, we'll vote to open the government if all promise to give us a vote on health-care in the future.
Sen Repubs: (to each other "omg this is like taking candy from a baby") Yes deal!!!
Sen Dems: You guys promise? We are trusting you
Sen Repubs: Would we ever lie to you 😉

Yes, this. 1000% this. Everyday the feeling of utterhekplessness grows. The protests help me feel connection, but I'm still seeing purity politics on social media. The left is their own worst enemies and in the meantime the administration is (nearly literally) shitting on the American people.

It looks even worse by video 😢

When your neighbor on the left is being dragged away by masked men and your neighbor on the right can't get an X-ray for their child, be sure to quickly explain that "both parties are the same" and whatnot.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

What, exactly, are we celebrating tomorrow?

Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy?

Our new concentration camps?

Our dying economy?

Our ditching due process?

Our corruption?

Our broken legislature?

Our corrupt SCOTUS?

Our ridiculous buffoon president? #FourthOfJuly

The popo pepper sprayed a sin bather in a a Georges Seurat painting

LAPD out there like

Trump's deportation force is currently holding three times as many people at Krome as their capacity. Two of the detainees have died. Reportedly more than 40 women are being held at this all-male facility. Reports of lack of water and food, unsanitary conditions and medical neglect.

Modern day Nazis in America.

My ancestors taught me to freeze my flour, refrigerate my butter, wash my eggs before I crack them, and never buy meat that is pre-seasoned.

I guess they prepared me for a country that doesn’t test the quality of milk…

Mahmoud Khalil’s Son Arrives After ICE Refuses to Let Him Attend Birth (Gift Article) Mr. Khalil, a permanent resident detained in Louisiana, had requested a monitored furlough for the birth. His request was denied in less than an hour.

NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife gave birth to their child without him after ICE denied their request to let him be present.

“This was a purposeful decision by ICE to make me, Mahmoud, and our son suffer,” Dr. Abdalla said. “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud."

This

Pope Sends Deputy to Lecture Vance on Compassion at Vatican Vance had an “an exchange of opinions” with Cardinal Pietro Parolin that touched on migration, the Vatican said.

"Pope Francis skipped the Vatican’s official meeting with Vice President JD Vance Saturday, instead having his No. 2 give the vice president a lecture on compassion, according to a Vatican statement."

We are nearing the end.

They aren't lies, necessarily. Autistic people who won't work or pay taxes or play baseball or go to college or live independently DO exist. But you don't need to do any of those things to have a life of value.

I also have a degree and certification in students with disabilities. I'm well versed on learning disabilities and autism.

I'm also autistic. My grandson is non verbal and extremely high needs. The kinds of autistic people he's talking about DO exist. I'm not saying I agree with anything he wants to do about it, but social media discourse likes to ignore the very real struggles of high needs autism.

I'm talking about autism. Level 3, non verbal autism. There are autistic people out there that will not live alone. I'm not sure where you got learning disabilities from in what I said.

Yes, I think that's exactly where it's going. They aren't "productive" members of society.
Some of the first people the n*zis went after were disabled children, they took them right from their school and institutionalized them.

Let's say he's right (bc he is) and some autistic people won't ever hold jobs, or toilet independently, or speak. It's not helpful to say not all autistics. What is helpful is to recognize the very real attack on profoundly disabled people that this is setting up.

My point is people are quick to dismiss his words because of personal success stories, and like usual, the very real struggles of profound autism are overlooked. Please note that I am not defending him, it's very N*ziesque, but the quickness in which I hear "not all autistics" is frustrating.