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Republicans snuck an amendment into this bill to ban Affordable Care Act insurance plans from covering abortion care. This is part of their play for a national abortion ban, in the middle of the night, and ripping healthcare away from millions.

submitted 15 days ago • 54 comments

THIS WEEK: House Republicans are deciding how many families and senior citizens they’ll kick off Medicaid, SNAP, early education, and countless other programs that working families rely on — all to fund tax breaks for billionaires. Call your representative NOW if you live in a GOP district.

submitted 24 days ago • 21 comments

This isn't hypothetical. The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.

submitted 34 days ago • 984 comments

Your kids get a max of two toys and then grow up to work in the same factory as their father and grandfather screwing in tiny screws. It’s called The American Dream.

submitted 36 days ago • 1966 comments

When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients. (Published Oct. 2024)

submitted 38 days ago • 83 comments

WE MOVE!!

submitted 39 days ago • 32 comments

Lots of people I know that were furious about kids having to wear masks are real quiet about a two year old citizen being wrongfully deported

submitted 41 days ago • 445 comments

Intuit donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration. He's now planning to end the free IRS Direct File program. Apple donated $1M. Trump exempted most of Apple’s imports from tariffs. Coinbase donated $1M. Trump’s SEC dropped a major lawsuit against them. See how this works?

submitted 45 days ago • 218 comments

“Some books are prosciutto, and don’t you forget it.”

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment. By @tchristianmiller.bsky.social

submitted 52 days ago • 50 comments

Pouring out a little liquor today for the handful of women astronauts who survived years of onerous training, men, and men only to have the press make Katy Perry their equal.

submitted 52 days ago • 25 comments

Elon Musk now admits his Department of Government Efficiency will produce only 15% of the savings it promised. But even that estimate is inflated with errors and guesswork. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...

submitted 53 days ago • 262 comments

WHAT DO THESE GENIUSES THINK WILL HAPPEN TO MANUFACTURING JOBS IN THIS COUNTRY IF THERE IS A RECESSION !?!?!?!?!?!!?

submitted 55 days ago • 2378 comments

Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration. So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives. So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory

submitted 56 days ago • 3594 comments

The CDC's cruise ship inspectors have been laid off, as well as agency's head epidemiologist for investigating cruise ship outbreaks That baffled health officials since this program is paid for by cruise ship fees, not taxpayer dollars www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

submitted 56 days ago • 484 comments

After massive public backlash, the Social Security Administration is rolling back its disastrous cuts to phone services. This is a huge victory for the public against DOGE's rampage. Keep up the fight.

submitted 56 days ago • 642 comments

The 10% tariff alone is a $2500 per household annual tax hike!

submitted 57 days ago • 880 comments

Members of Congress should never be allowed to trade stocks. Period.

submitted 57 days ago • 855 comments

Insurers’ denial rates are a critical measure of how reliably they pay for customers’ care. But they remain mostly secret to the public. Federal and state regulators have done little to change that. (Published 2023 w/ @capitolforum.bsky.social)

submitted 57 days ago • 13 comments

The top five egg producers own roughly half of all U.S. laying hens. The biggest of those corporations is Cal-Maine, which just announced quarterly profits of $509 million — more than 3x what it made a year ago. Corporate concentration + bird flu = a price-hiking free for all.

submitted 57 days ago • 661 comments

BREAKING: NYC First Deputy Mayor Randy Mastro signed an executive order Tuesday allowing ICE to reestablish an office on Rikers Island, rolling back a 2014 provision of the city’s sanctuary protections.

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: Yesterday, the Justice Department sent armed marshals to warn former U.S. pardon attorney Liz Oyer not to disclose internal DOJ information during her Senate testimony. Today, Oyer is speaking out to condemn the DOJ’s actions and defend the rule of law.

submitted 59 days ago • 543 comments

SCOOP: DOGE is hosting a “hackathon” in DC next week with the goal of building one “mega API” for accessing all IRS data. Palantir has been brought up as a potential partner. www.wired.com/story/doge-h...

submitted 61 days ago • 230 comments

Our 2024 annual report is a testament to our mission of using the moral force of investigative journalism to spur reform. We chronicle abuses of power and betrayals of public trust because we believe that people, armed with the facts, will confront injustice and try to make things better.

submitted 61 days ago • 2 comments

March saw the third-highest number of layoffs in U.S. history, and 80% of them were caused by DOGE This was before the tariffs It's just...unbelievable

submitted 64 days ago • 555 comments

The same people in DC who got us into this mess are not going to be the ones to get us out of it. Today I'm announcing my campaign for U.S. Senate. Because we don't have a minute to wait.

submitted 64 days ago • 922 comments

Please reporters and editors. I’m begging you!

submitted 64 days ago • 309 comments

👋🏾 Hey underrepresented folks in tech! Do you have a blog, podcast, course or youtube channel that folks in tech should know about? Please share it. I'm looking for content to share in @diversifytech.com's newsletter. Thank you!

submitted 64 days ago • 13 comments

Cory Booker is the first vegan to talk for 24 hours straight about something other than being a vegan.

submitted 65 days ago • 70 comments

R.I.P. Val Kilmer

submitted 65 days ago • 10 comments

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submitted 65 days ago • 764 comments

“DOGE won’t just fall short of Musk’s deficit-reduction goals. It will, in all probability, increase the deficit,” Jonathan Chait writes. Are the deficit-reduction efforts just a pretext for ideological warfare?

submitted 69 days ago • 38 comments

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

submitted 84 days ago • 3609 comments

If you have thoughts about everything that’s been going on in our government these last few weeks, don’t forget to let your representatives know about it — www.house.gov/representati...

submitted 122 days ago • 5 comments

This week I received a handful of rejections to jobs I applied to 5-6 months ago and I have all sorts of feelings about it… (I’ve been employed for nearly 3 months now)

submitted 168 days ago • 0 comments