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Medicaid is the largest health insurance provider for disabled Americans. For some, it helps maintain dignity and autonomy, and for others it is the difference between life and death.

Under the Trump budget plan just passed by Congress, a staggering 70% of House Republicans would personally financially benefit from extending major tax loopholes. More money for them, paid for by cuts to YOUR benefits.

When government officials spread misinformation about autism, autistic people suffer.

An autistic, nonverbal teenage boy who was shot repeatedly by Idaho police from the other side of a chain-link fence while he was holding a knife died after being removed from life support, his family said.

"The fact that no one is questioning his mental acuity or fitness to serve is beyond wild to me, right?" said Representative Jasmine Crockett on MSNBC. She is 100% correct.

The Supreme Court has unanimously ruled the Trump regime must facilitate the return of a Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador. How lawless do your actions have to be for even Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito to rule against them?

I'm fighting every day to protect Medicaid. But it's going to take all of us. Call your members of Congress. Share your stories. Tell your friends to do the same. We have to stop this GOP attack on our healthcare.

I am honored to have been welcomed to a local clinic for Medicaid Day of Action. Medicaid is vital for millions of families, children, seniors, & underserved communities. We should prioritize preventative care and get vaccinated for a healthier future. #MedicaidDayofAction

You can't make this up, but not surprised he's doing this. SMH. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

This "Trump the dealmaker" nonsense has to stop! It not only parrots what is basically regime propaganda, perpetuating a mythical fabrication Trump has cultivated for himself, but also completely obscures what is actually going on here: The U.S. president fully siding with a foreign autocrat.

"Until this weekend..." www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

These are e most important #s for the Dems. They should be tracking all local media and influencers in these states and reposting it everywhere The economic pain tariffs can indlict on red states need to be talked about more than anything else right now. It will flip voters.

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Sen. Kim: Appreciate yr Bluesky postings. Please + Bluesky links to yr web site. Get Bluesky same treatment as Elon Musk’s X/Twitter. Rep. McIver (NJ) has added links. Senators below also. @kim.senate.gov #BlueSkyEqual-Mar31 bsky.app/profile/grow... #BlueSkyButton #BSKY-NJ-K

Chuck Schumer was damned if he did and damned if he didn't. Eventually the wheel of karma will turn again in the favor of sensible people, but God, am I tired of waiting.

How about instead of elevating a third-party that has no federal infrastructure whatsoever, we elevate the Democrats who ARE fighting and speak for us? 

Trump’s attempt to deport Mahmoud Khalil is part of a much broader, even unprecedented, assault on the First Amendment. Rachel Goodman and Shalini Goel Agarwal explain:

11 out of 260 Democrats is 4%. we’re really going to throw out the whole party because of 4%???? I get that you’re angry today and so am I, but I’m angry at 4% not the other 249 (which is only the Dems at federal level. It’s not even 0.1% of all elected Dems.)

Some of our elected reps voted in ways we disagree with. These people, who know Washington better than we do, chose between horrible and horrific because they thought one option was better than the other. Maybe they are wrong. It doesn’t mean weak, spineless, or bad faith. It was a hard decision.

The Trump White House is attacking the First Amendment on at least 10 different fronts. @rachelegoodman.bsky.social and @shalinigoelagarwal.bsky.social lay out the White House’s broader goal. www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/the-white-...

Let's not lose the narrative here. Republicans ditched a bipartisan funding effort that was almost ready. Republicans brought a funding bill to the floor 4 days before a government shutdown. Republicans passed the bill that will hurt people.

Elon Musk's DOGE wants to take Social Security benefits away from 170,000 people — many of them disabled children. Disgusting.

Shameful!!! 😔

Today

Please like this post if you're as tired of "winning" as I am. #IncompetentKrasnov

The cuts to the Department of Education are cruel and illegal. This department provides vital services and funding to schools of all levels in all 50 states that are now in jeopardy.