Riki Saltzman, PhD

More of
this! 👇🏼💙💙💙

Mine are going up--Medicare B; Medicare Advantage/United Healthcare up by 50% and benefits reduced. We cannot afford trad Medicare and a medical plan, which would cost hundreds of dollars more.

It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities. [Cartoon by Jesse Duquette]

Trump is saying the quiet part out loud: he sent a $20B taxpayer-financed bailout to help his far-right buddy Milei cling to power.

Meanwhile our government is shut down, public servants aren't getting paid & we're barreling toward a Trump-made health care crisis. Sounds like Argentina First to me.

There is a stink emanating from the House of Reps created by the refusal of Johnson to swear in Rep-Elect Adelita Grijalva. Very reminiscent of the stench that rose from the Senate in 2016 when McConnell refused to hold a hearing re Obama’s nominee for Supreme Court.Someone please file a law suit.

A revealingly creepy formulation by Speaker Johnson.

What does he mean by “they” are going to “descend” on “our” capital?

WE are going to assemble in OUR communities exercising OUR constitutional rights in defense of OUR nation.

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

Well, no. Fascism wasn't the issue in WWI.

If Congress shuts down and stops working, how will we be able to tell?

#reality #realnumbers

Lawrence: Could you give us your reaction to that video Trump posted tonight?

Jeffries: It's a disgusting video and we're going to continue to make clear: bigotry will get you nowhere. We are fighting to protect the health care of the American people

Our demented, racist, fascist-in-chief posted this.

No matter what they do, the Epstein Files will keep coming back up.

It’s like in the horror movies where somebody builds a house on a graveyard

Opinion | An Assault on Speech, Followed by Silence Readers discuss President Trump’s attacks on free speech. Also: Pentagon secrecy; a call to ex-presidents; medical advice from the president; mandatory friendliness.

“Mr. Trump’s effort to stifle dissent is blatantly illegal,” Harvey M. Berman writes in a letter to The Times. “Republicans in Congress have abdicated their responsibility to rein him in, essentially granting him license to do whatever he wants.”

We don't care about the Amelia Earhart files.

#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

Because they somehow forgot we fought fascists in WWII.

WWI, too.

#swearherin

Yeah anyways this whole thing was a hoax and right-wingers are deleting their viral posts about it from earlier today. Completely made up. Rinse repeat with a new one tomorrow.

About those meaningful donation asks...

31 year old Kirk's net worth
At time of his passing
Est to be $12M+rising

Owned 3 homes
1 worth $5M

An asinine ask
His family-financially fine
His organization will thrive+is not
Jimmy Kimmel's responsibility

ASK THE MURDERER'S GOP FAMILY
FOR $ - Sinclair

Trump administration sues New Hampshire, seven other states to access voter files • New Hampshire Bulletin The Trump administration’s Department of Justice is suing New Hampshire Secretary of State Dave Scanlan, arguing he is illegally withholding the state’s voter file from federal officials.

If you're state is refusing to turn over data you might want to call and thank your Governor and State AG. The eight states in addition to New Hampshire include:

California
Maine
Michigan
Minnesota
New York
Oregon
Pennsylvania

Some of us do.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Our problem isn't a lack of resources.

Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

Opinion | The Confusing Mess at the A.C.I.P. Vaccine Meeting We definitely need to restore America’s trust in vaccines, but the amateur hour A.C.I.P. display isn’t going to do it.

“When you set fire to institutional knowledge and quickly hire a bunch of people, some of whom have a history of vaccine skepticism, you get an ad hoc mess — not the ‘gold standard’ science Mr. Kennedy and his team keep promising,” Jessica Grose writes.