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Pharmacy benefit managers’ business practices have operated with little regulation, transparency, and accountability for far too long. Illinois is putting an end to that and leading the nation in bringing transparency to PBM drug pricing.

submitted 11 hours ago • 73 comments

Republican claims that cuts to Medicaid are about reducing fraud are flat out wrong and they know it. Protecting Medicaid isn’t a partisan issue. We’ve had letters from Republicans in the Washington state legislature saying don’t make these cuts.

submitted 10 hours ago • 11 comments

The 2024 Data Don't Lie: The only issue voters can clearly associate with the modern D Party is support for gay rights. That's it. Voters are 50/50 on which party is on SS and Medicare. Yes, really. That's why we need to leave pound them on the economy and critical programs like Medicaid.

submitted 14 days ago • 44 comments

Even with massive cuts to Medicaid & SNAP… even after slashing housing, and gutting public education… Republicans’ $3.7 trillion tax cuts still add $2.4 trillion to the deficit. Our kids & grandkids will have the GOP to thank for the economic train wreck they will be left with.

submitted 18 hours ago • 44 comments

🔝🔝🔝 Chicago protests at Federal courthouse ⬇️⬇️⬇️

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

#ResistanceEarth #BlueEarth Trump has declared a “national energy emergency,” asserting that the U.S. has an “inadequate and intermittent energy supply.” But most new gas pipeline capacity under development would go for LNG exports, not domestic energy needs. insideclimatenews.org/news/0206202...

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

For years we've heard from the right about "welfare queens" and other so-called "freeloaders" pulling one over on the government. But actually, it's the wealthy who are the real freeloaders — pulling one over on us all by skirting their taxes. Where is the outrage over that?

submitted 13 hours ago • 737 comments

NEW: ICE has quietly rescinded a policy requiring agents to ensure courthouse raids don't clash with state and local laws. WIRED detected the missing language in a superseding memo posted to ICE's website this week. by me and @dmehro.bsky.social:

submitted 10 hours ago • 79 comments

OUTRAGEOUS 🤯 Trump denying hurricane relief to North Carolina because voters there rejected his flawed endorsed candidate Mark Robinson and elected Democrat Josh Stein as their new Governor Get ready for it America: vengeful Trump will withhold disaster relief from your community too

submitted 12 hours ago • 36 comments

In a legal profession dedicated to specificity & definitions, SCOTUS used the vague & undefined word "facilitate". ⬇️

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Significant ruling by Judge Boasberg for men sent to CECOT prison. "The Government must facilitate the Class’s ability to seek habeas relief to contest their removal under the Act." Important moment for the rule of law and against government lawlessness. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 12 hours ago • 126 comments

Yikes! 🤢 Trump’s Bedminster golf club recently got slapped with 18 health violations and the lowest health grade in the entire county — scoring a 32 out of 100. Critical food safety risks, no soap at sinks, a household microwave in the kitchen, and more. 🔗 www.thedailybeast.com/president-do...

submitted 11 hours ago • 503 comments

Rep. Rosa DeLauro said, " I categorize impoundment as stealing. They are stealing these funds and the, the president knows even less about those two issues. So Russell Vought is at the center of this."

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

Rep. @repstansbury.bsky.social calls out Republicans for trying to take away our future: "You can not mortgage our future, we will stand up and fight for our planet, and we are not going back".

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BREAKING: Constituents are in body bags blocking their GOP Senators’ office doors in DC. Trump's spending will kill people by taking away our healthcare, our jobs, and food assistance — all so Elon Musk and Oil CEOs can get a big tax break.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

BREAKING: Joni Ernst’s defense of Trump’s spending bill is, ‘well, we are all going to die anyway.’ So constituents are lying down in body bags outside GOP Senators’ DC offices to show just what this bill is going to do to working people. It will kill us.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

There is a reason why this GOP-held Congress is the least productive in history. They don't know what the hell they are doing, and the Bills they do try to pass are shunned and despised by GOP and Dem citizens alike. Only the upper 10% are in favor of these abominations

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

Van Hollen: "I assume after yesterday you're no longer advocating people buy Tesla stock?" Lutnick: "A terrorist attack on a great American stock seemed to require a response." Van Hollen: "A Secretary of Commerce probably should not be offering suggestions on stock purchases."

submitted 17 hours ago • 130 comments

Donald Trump was going to take money out of grandma's Social Security check for decades-old student loans. We sounded the alarm. And he backed down—at least for now. We’re keeping up the fight.

submitted 13 hours ago • 36 comments

🚨CBO: House GOP budget bill to add $2.4 trillion to the deficit over 10 years. 10.9 million people to lose health insurance by 2034.

submitted 18 hours ago • 179 comments

Just saying but, a woman does not go to the ER to get an abortion. She goes to the ER because it’s a nonviable pregnancy that is endangering herself/fetus. To be denied this healthcare is killing the woman. Punishing her for a non viable pregnancy. It’s healthcare. It’s death if not treated!

submitted 15 hours ago • 7 comments

NEW: A group of minority voters in Tarrant County, Texas file a lawsuit accusing local GOP officials of racial gerrymandering, a day after they approved a new map to shrink the voting power of Black and brown residents. From: @jenrice.bsky.social‬

submitted 13 hours ago • 9 comments

Autocrats "will propose shocking laws to provoke your outrage. You will focus on fighting them, so they will seemingly back off, giving you a false sense of victory. In the meantime they will push through less “flashy” legislation, slowly dismantling democracy." verfassungsblog.de/the-authorit...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

The DNC will park a taco truck nearby the Republican National Committee's headquarters with a graphic of Trump in a chicken suit and the "Trump Always Chickens Out" slogan. The truck will be there between noon and 2pm on Tuesday and will actually serve free tacos, said a DNC spokesperson

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The press secretary inadvertently admitted that President Trump (having failed to make any actual trade deals) has resorted to sending a "letter to all of our trading partners just to give them a friendly reminder that the deadline is coming up." https://trib.al/A99DKC8

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

NJ Governor Phil Murphy has announced that New Jersey is joining the 'High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People', a movement to permanently protect 30% of land by 2030... In practice, the Garden State is already there. We have protected 31% of the state's land area. www.nj.gov/governor/new...

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

A military occupation by ICE

submitted 1 day ago • 334 comments

Russell Vought: "Impoundment, which is also a possibility. We are dusting off muscle memory that existed for 200 years before President Nixon in the 1970s and Congress acted to try to take away the president's ability to spend less." (Impoundment is literally illegal.)

submitted 1 day ago • 233 comments

"Then we got into politics and all of a sudden [banks] wouldn't take your call. You couldn't get financing. We were de-banked and what I realized, and my brother realized 'cause we were the recipients of every subpoena imaginable, was that, you know what? So we got into crypto out of necessity" ⬇️

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Every year, from June 1 to November 30, Rhode Island faces the Atlantic hurricane season with more frequent storms and disruption. If the President was really concerned about “merit” he would have hired a FEMA director who knows what hurricane season is and how it can hurt Americans.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

In arguing against having a Dept of Education, Sen Markwayne Mullin asks: “What was we ranked in 1979?” What was we ranked…

submitted 1 day ago • 257 comments

Reed: I’m not a great mathematician but I think you were talking about a trillion dollars. I believe 1.5 billion times ten is 15 billion. McMahon: I think the cut is 1.2 billion Reed: That would be 12 billion not a trillion McMahon: Okay

submitted 1 day ago • 532 comments

#NeptunesCurse "Legend says that when every ship is christened, its name goes into a ‘Ledger of the deep’ maintained by Neptune (or Poseidon) himself. Renaming a ship or boat means you are trying to slip something past the gods and you will be punished for your deviousness." Pete Hegseth = hubris

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Fmr. Chief, Capital Seige Section at the DOJ, Greg Rosen just said this about the damage created by the January 6th pardons: "The underlying message of the pardons, and the expressive nature of the pardons, is that political violence is acceptable, particularly if it's done for a specific purpose."

submitted 1 day ago • 72 comments

I've known about Yarvin for many years, but only proximally. He had a reputation of being an intellectual Sith Lord, basically evil but like really fucking smart. Finding out he's like an enormous tool this whole time really makes me consider the role of vibes.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Belly up to the trough ⬇️

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☢️☠️☣️ ☠️☣️☣️ MAGA-lite "He urged Democrats to declare “independence from liberal and progressive interest groups that prevent Democrats from thinking clearly about how to win” He penned a post-election strategy memo that called for “a complete rejection of race- and group-based identity politics.”" ☣️☠️☢️

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In keeping with Pete Hegseth’s other failures as El Taco Gordo’s SecDef, he is ordering the renaming of Naval Vessels which, if you know anything about that, doesn’t bode well for those onboard. #NeptunesCurse

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

We’re waiting, JD.

submitted 1 day ago • 238 comments

Can’t believe they’re so bored that they got to the “rename the boats” stage of white nationalist governance.

submitted 1 day ago • 106 comments

Lee Jae-myung, South Korea’s new president, left school at 13 to work in factories and suffered an injury that left him with a disability. He then started studying at night to become a human rights lawyer. He now leads the country. 🇰🇷❤️ #HumanRights #Democracy

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MURRAY: Will you allocate the $220m for literacy programs that Congress appropriated? McMAHON: We're looking at the unallocated dollars to determine which of those programs we can best spend on MURRAY: Those funds were appropriated. It looks to me like the dept is illegally impounding funding

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PRO PUBLICA: Of the 238 men sent to an El Salvador mega prison, only 6 had prior violent crime convictions. 0 were on the gang member list. 130 had no criminal history. 32 had minor offenses. All 238 thought they were being sent back to Venezuela. www.instagram.com/p/DKcjM7FPhz...

submitted 1 day ago • 404 comments

#ProudBlue We need new, young leaders who are willing & able to fight! Rep. Crockett has proven she’s up to the task - she deserves to be the Ranking Member on the Oversight Committee.

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Remember when this pic of Elián González was a national scandal instead of a daily occurrence?

submitted 1 day ago • 515 comments

Prof Neil Buchanan explains how the brain drain of scholars (including himself) from the U.S. will not simply benefit the recipient countries and harm the U.S.--although it will--but, by basic economic principles, make the world as a whole worse off. 👇

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Due process is fundamental to America. This should not be up for debate.

submitted 1 day ago • 85 comments