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Washington Post, Natasha Sarin, on very likely deaths due to this BB bill if it passes & is enacted: To take the most conservative of … three research teams work suggests this uptick in the uninsured population will translate to about 100,000 more avoidable deaths over the next decade.

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Laura Reston, Deputy Editorial Director, NY Time, Intro to article by Arlie Russell Hochchild: … something that Democratic elected officials sometimes overlook:

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Excerpt from Ruth Ben-Ghiat: The real problem, for the Trump regime in the making, is that Americans are turning out in large numbers to defend the vulnerable by exercising their right to free assembly and protest.

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[How can a country function decently when this is how a major component of its health care system works, or fails to work, in this way?] Headline & opening, The Lever UnitedHealth Group’s investors were profiting from its high denial rates. Now, they’re suing to ensure that doesn’t change.

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From Heather Cox Richardson, 6/5/25: Andy Craig, who studies election law and policy, noted today that “[m]ass deportation and immigration enforcement in the interior requires a police state, and the more of that you want, the more obviously it will look and act like a police state.”

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From Remapping Debate: Congressional Republicans have proposed making deep cuts to Medicaid, the joint federal and state program that provides health insurance and other benefits to low-income Americans.

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Those super wealthy authoritarians who believe the recently late philosopher Alastair MacIntyre is their guy, might want to consider these words from him (quoted by George Sciaballa in a Nation article from 5/2/23):

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Inflation was not high under Biden during 2024. Prices were still high for some products & services, but inflation had come way down (the consumer price index was at 2.9 from Dec. 2023-Dec. 24). (Many commentators continued to talk of high inflation during this period & about this period even now.)

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Excerpts from The Hill, Imran Khalid: The sputtering auction of long-term debt, a financial instrument once deemed near-sacred by global investors, signals … an erosion of faith not just in fiscal management, but in the very political coherence of the United States.

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Some hosts of news programs may also be hosts in the epidemiological sense — carriers of disease. And as Laura Marris states in her book with Alice Kaplan, States of Plague: Reading Albert Camus in A Pandemic, “you can’t inoculate yourself against something if you don’t recognize it as a disease.”

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Katherine Stewart (in conversation with Greg Sargent on The Daily Blast): “… the remarkable fact about all the law breaking, frankly, is how little the administration has done to cover its tracks.

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Do some of the Democrats considering a run for the nomination for the 2028 presidential election think they’re doing themselves and/or the party any good by castigating Democrats as weak, woke, toxic, and the like?

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L. Rafael Reif, Foreign Affairs, America’s Coming Brain Drain: Since World War II, the United States has regularly created and commercialized groundbreaking technologies. But that success should not be taken for granted.

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A very strong post (the audio) from Heather Cox Richardson that makes clear how bad things are and how much worse we’re headed for in various respects: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

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An article by David Brooks worth considering: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/o...

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Secretary Noem of the Department of Homeland Security on habeas corpus at Senate hearing: USA Today: "Habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country," Noem told a Senate committee on May 20, in a response to a senator's question.

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We live in a country where many leaders of major companies & organizations feel they’d better do what the current administration wants or they will experience serious trouble & pain. This is not liberal capitalist democracy; it’s not even capitalism with a respect for productive free market forces.

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From the Washington Post: “Federal judge rules Trump lacked the authority to dismantle the U.S. Institute of Peace/ Administration officials & members of … Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service … seized the privately owned headquarters of the U.S. Institute of Peace in March & removed its leaders.

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