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Congressional Republicans killed Donald Trump's bill because it wasn't cruel enough — and now it's apparently just right. Hundreds of thousands of Illinoisans could lose access to their health care. What's big and beautiful about that?

Incredible chart work. 🙏🏼 #90dealsIn90days

This seems like a big deal

The president of the U.S. appears to be improving his own health through access to great medical care and great medical science. That's what he gets. Simultaneously, his administration is doing so much to hurt regular Americans' opportunity to achieve those same good health outcomes the same way.

How's Donald Trump recognizing Mental Health Awareness Month? By cutting services for our veterans, for students, and for our most vulnerable. Make it make sense.

When your family can't afford dolls because tariffs have wrecked their spending power I just can't see that as a better life.

Pre-tariff price $19.99. Trump tariff price will $50 thanks to Donny Two Dolls.

Cognitive decline? What if Biden said “the thing you carry the babies around in”?

#DonnyTwoDolls 🧸

Donny 2 Dolls His Sopranos character name

It’s now part of the Congressional record. What a country, @parkerbutler.bsky.social 🇺🇸

Some business stories won’t get covered because there’s no ticker, no stock symbol. But as $UPS reminds us ..

Wow.

The President said of the U.S. economy: "We are a department store, and we set the price. I meet with the companies, and then I set a fair price, what I consider to be a fair price, and they can pay it, or they don't have to pay it." And then... I lost it.

REPUBLICAN MATH… Red states slash taxes, cut services because of less revenue than blue states like California have to make up for their shortfall.

These charges are so stupid. There was an ICE agent **in the elevator** with the defendant after he left the courtroom. But oh yeah, the state judge somehow obstructed ICE because she let the defendant leave the courtroom through a side entrance. The Trump DOJ is run by morons and thugs.

"Vacancies are now as high as 20% to 40% in some of the 122 weather forecast offices across the nation, leaving critical staff shortages and already causing a "degradation in services,"..." www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

This is what not giving up looks like.

On this day, April 14, 2025, the President of the United States openly defied the Supreme Court’s unanimous opinion of April 10, 2025, ordering him to “facilitate Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador

The goal post is always moving with Donald Trump. Businesses can't plan or create jobs if tariffs are on one day and off the next. Certainty and sanity must be restored.

"It's an extraordinary question to have to ask you, but do you think Donald Trump actually understands how international trade actually works."

Veterans getting fired, social security is at risk, and Elon is telling you what you don’t need in govt, all while he just got a $6billion space x contract today! He makes money on you!

I will pay any tariff for a framed copy of this

This isn’t just a Trump problem. This is a GOP enablers problem. The entire Republican Party is draining your 401k and raising your grocery prices.

In 1828, the "Tariff of Abominations" led to a populist uprising that put Andrew Jackson into the presidency In 1930, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff led to a populist uprising that put FDR into the presidency In 2025, Trump's tariffs will repeat history -- We the People will RISE UP

Wisconsin: not for sale

Wisconsin—ignore the polls & get your ass to the voting booth on Tuesday. Elon Musk is dumping millions to turn out a group that usually stays home—voters that the pollsters didn’t account for. Don’t let the richest man on Earth buy your state to serve his own interests. Show up and shut him down.👀

Warner: And the idea somehow, well, none of this was classified, but we can't talk about it here. You can't have it both ways.

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

Ron Johnson hasn't been holding town halls. So @indivisible.org Madison held one for him. Friday night. 500+ people. I'm about to ask them to help get out the vote for Susan Crawford.

There is literally no one in the department leadership that has any apparent regard for the rule of law. They are all signing onto statements of unprecedented assertion of unreviewable executive power. A band of outlaws has taken over the DOJ.

This past Saturday night, our government grabbed a legal U.S. resident, arrested him, is now detaining him, and is trying to quickly deport him. No charges. No trial. His wife, a U.S. citizen, doesn’t know where he is. This is what authoritarian regimes do. This shouldn’t happen here.

The Administration has temporarily suspended satellite imagery services to Ukraine after freezing weapons shipments and intelligence sharing. This is just empowering Russia. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Stop listening to dinosaurs. Stop paying the consultants that got us here. Stop asking for money instead of telling us what you’re going to do to fight back. The DC bubble has never been more glaring to me than ever. People out here are absolutely pissed and scared. Figure that out fast!

Trump didn't win 50% of the popular vote. The GOP has slim margins in both the House and Senate. His approval ratings are tanking. He does not have a mandate. Do not let him gaslight you into believing he is all powerful. He's not.

Medicaid covers... -40% of births nationwide -50% of kids with special needs -72 million people in total Remember this as Republicans move to gut the program to finance tax cuts that will overwhelmingly go to the richest 1% of Americans.  "Party of family values."

🚨URGENT: Special elections are coming up in Florida’s congressional districts FL-01 and FL-06. However, many Democrats got purged from voter rolls. Verify your status NOW—either online or in person. The deadline is March 3rd! Don’t let them silence you. Spread the word! 🗳️ registertovoteflorida.gov

🚨 NEW: Federal spending jumped to $710B from Jan. 21 to Feb. 20—$80B MORE than the same period last year under President Biden. Trump and DOGE aren’t cutting spending. They’re gutting services they don’t like and redirecting the cash to their oligarch buddies. Wake up.

(Bloomberg) - The Trump administration has canceled an upcoming meeting of the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory committee, a move that could complicate efforts to produce flu shots in time for the upcoming season. @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

No one had died of measles in America for ten years, until yesterday. That 2015 death in WA was preceded by a 12y period of no US deaths. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... HHS Secretary RFK Jr. says it’s “not unusual.” apnews.com/article/meas... It is unusual. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...

I believe we have breaking news in Inside Medicine. I spoke to a member of the FDA vaccine committee who confirmed that the meeting to decide the 2025-2026 flu shot composition was abruptly canceled today. My on-the-record Q&A with the FDA advisor: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-fda-...

As Sen. @jeffyarbro.bsky.social says — 25% of health care spending in Tennessee comes from MEDICAID, which all 8 @TNGOP Reps just voted to slash to cut taxes for rich people (and add trillions to the debt) But hey - at least @RepTimBurchett got to talk to Trump 🫤 — that’s one costly head-pat

Per @taracopp.bsky.social: “FAA staff fired over the weekend included personnel that worked radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance, among others. Hundreds were fired, just weeks after a fatal mid-air collision in DC killed 67.”

Illinois Governor JB Pritzker is definitely one of the good ones. Today he HAMMERED Trump with a detailed list of all the prices that are going up because of Trump's trade wars. Make sure everyone sees this.