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Wife, mother, Mimi, RN, Dem committee-person, thinker. PA politics, tales from the nurse files, occasional side-eye of an elder GenX-er. Still trying to make the world a better place. Resisting & persisting. #StandWithUkraine #SafeStaffing
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"The cause of death should not be Republican cruelty."

@nbcnews.com Are you going to cover the extraordinary occurrence of a meteorologist at one of your affiliates warning the public of the reduced accuracy of weather forecasting as a result of the policies of the current administration? @apnews.com @axios.com @reuters.com @msnbc.com @cnn.com

To our Government, Leave LGBTQ people the hell alone. Sincerely, The American Majority

Fund Care, Not Billionaires petition -- please share widely! 🩺

Especially if you’re a veteran, but even if not, I’d like you to consider joining me and @AdamKinzinger in Washington on Friday to rally for veterans, our oaths, and service. Here’s why I think you should come: (/1)

Man he really hates being called a taco, doesn’t he? Might even say he’s got a thin shell.

Tell Congress: Hands off Medicaid act.medicare4all.org/letter/congr...

Our country has a solemn duty to support our veterans. But their jobs, health care and VA services are under attack. Join veterans, military families, America’s unions and allies on June 6th as we fight for veterans' benefits, jobs and dignity. www.unite4veterans.org

Next time someone in Congress glibly dismisses your need for healthcare, remember that they have some of the best healthcare in the country. And it was paid for by YOU.

#NurseThreads 🩺⚕️✊

Maybe choosing someone who is one of your NY real estate investor pals with no diplomatic or military experience to be the special envoy to deal with Putin, who refuses to bring any help with him from the State Dept & uses Kremlin translators, wasn’t the best plan to end the war.

Yes!

Add these Union-made in America items to your grocery list for your summer picnics.✊ aflcio.org/barbecue

I am in PA & I put effort into getting him elected. Recent articles have left me concerned (as a clinician) & frustrated (as a Democrat). This one just makes me angry. If I publicly complained oh-woe-is-me I have to do the mundane parts of my job ... I'd be on the unemployment line way before 2028.

Our grifter-in-chief got his shady benefactors to pump nearly $150 million into his worthless meme coin. Now he’s hosting them for a fancy country club dinner. Meanwhile, moms are getting ready to lose healthcare and kids will have less food in the fridge. What a disgrace.

The Big MAGA Con: huge tax breaks for the wealthy, higher taxes for some taxpayers making less than $51K. Cuts in Medicaid and food stamps—so people who need the social safety net are screwed. And a big increase in deficits. The oligarchs win. MAGA is a lie. The US is weakened.

So if you suddenly try to break into Congress to murder the VP you've supported for 4 years because he won't break the law and the police shoot you, your family gets 5 million dollars? Do I have that right, humans?

Republicans crash the economy. Democrats save it. Repeat every 4-8 years.

#HealthCareHorrorStories from certified nursing assistant Angie. She has seen will happen if Medicaid is cut: seniors who will grow sick, may fall, and die if left without 24/7 nursing home care. Share your horror story: healthcarehorrorstories.org

Suozzi: They’re claiming the cuts will pay for themselves. But they won’t. And how do we know that? Because Republicans are putting an increase in the debt ceiling into this bill—allowing the president to borrow $4 trillion.

They will be tried for their crimes. And "I was just following orders" is not a get-out-of-jail-free card.

I am BEGGING you to get involved with your local Democratic Party, and to do it ASAP. Don't wait for the midterms to get here to get involved. Be plugged in and ready to get to work. We are less than 12 months away from the next election season.

Rep DeLauro reminds us that 9 million kids were poisoned by lead in Flint, MI. RFKJ cut the lead office.

Pete Buttigieg packed a town hall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa! Love to see him working with VoteVets!

A new formal resolution from Sen. Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) seeks a "sense of the Senate that Secretary of Health & Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr does not have the confidence of the Senate or the American people to faithfully carry out the duties of his office" www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 9% of voters support cuts to the home care that Medicaid covers.

First they advocated for states to stop mandating water flouridation, saying that kids could be prescribed supplements. Now we get to the real goal: banning flouride supplements. Because the dead-bear-dead-whale-swim-in-raw-sewage guy doesn't think your kids should have them. 😡

Jeffries: "Millions of people in this country are struggling to live paycheck to paycheck ... and Donald Trump is publicly defending accepting a $400 million flying palace from a close ally of Iran and Hamas? I mean, you can't make this stuff up."

Fulton County PA gave Trump *86* percent of its vote, now his Medicaid cuts threaten its one hospital, and may make it harder to get a nursing home bed. I asked its rep John Joyce on the other platform why he is making life harder on his constituents rather than easier, let’s see if he responds.

Keep your pizza - give nurses & patients safe staffing instead. #NurseSky

The New York Times’ senior political writers are going to semantically and condescendingly tsk-tsk the people pointing out obvious corruption eight up to the moment Trump sells New Jersey to Putin for 10 billion dollars.

I'm sounding the alarm on this Administration's attacks on Social Security. Western Pennsylvanians worked hard to earn these benefits over a lifetime of hard work. I'll keep fighting to protect them.

new from me for @wired.com : the EPA is moving to reorganize its scientific research office, which will likely kill off a small but crucial program devoted to studying the impacts of toxic chemicals—which has been a target of industry groups for years

From bio: "...accountability matters." 🤦‍♀️ Irony is dead. ☠️

Trump voters need to know that This. Is. A. Lie. They lied about tariffs all through the campaign, and they are still lying to you right now.

This cannot be a thing.

The first domino falls! Today Lehigh County, Pennsylvania became the first US pension fund to suspend new Tesla purchases in its actively managed funds 👏🍸🎉 #teslatakedown substack.com/home/post/p-...

Happy National Nurses Week!   Nurses — and other healthcare workers — devote their lives to our health and well-being. They deserve to be safe at work.   That’s why I introduced the Save Healthcare Workers Act.