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📢1/5 After last week’s ACIP chaos, here’s a major but under-the-radar issue: The Supreme Court upheld Obamacare...but only by giving RFK Jr. new powers to control a key health panel that decides what insurers must cover. This risks politics overriding science—and public health. 🧵

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Republicans have no shame…

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The killing of firefighters in Idaho is more than tragedy...it’s a flashing red light. Targeted violence is spreading beyond politics...now striking those who serve. It signals an unraveling...where no uniform is safe...and no community is off-limits. We can't rest now. The work must continue.

submitted 2 hours ago • 104 comments

In Idaho, firefighters — those who run toward danger to protect others — were ambushed & killed. Tragic. We should not have to armor up to do our jobs — whether we’re firefighters, teachers, doctors, or public servants. We must refuse to accept a society where violence meets those who serve.

submitted 18 hours ago • 14 comments

Spend part of your holiday fighting to hold on to the freedom we normally celebrate on the 4th. This year we are under serious threat. No time to celebrate. We are under serious attack by our own federal government! We've got work to do!

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Take a minute to look at these increases to the ICE budget in the GOP mega bill. Take another minute to let it sink in. They're preparing a police state that will far exceed rounding up Spanish-speaking brown people.

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Love this.

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Not just talking about it, talking about shutting it down with a three day labor and economic blackout. This ends now. I'm not doing another blind scavenger hunt for WMDs that don't exist so we can steal a country's resources after stabbing them in the back. @thepeoplessickday.bsky.social

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“Alligator Alcatraz” will begin operations on Wednesday. This is your reminder that a prison without due process is a concentration camp.

submitted 1 day ago • 432 comments

Yeah. I don’t recommend it.

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

😡😡😡❗

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Call Blackburn & Hagerty and make them know you know

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GOP 2021: “The debt is out of control! GOP 2022: “the debt is out of control!” GOP 2023: “the debt is out of control GOP 2024: “the debt is out of control!” GOP 2025: ”let’s raise the debt ceiling $5 trillion!”

submitted 2 days ago • 273 comments

Cutting Medicaid means costs are shifted to providers. When patients lose coverage, they turn to ERs for care they can’t afford. Hospitals eat the cost, pass it on to insurers, and your premiums go up. Medicaid cuts mean a worse health care system for EVERYONE.

submitted 2 days ago • 54 comments

I sure as hell have noticed. How about you? 🤨

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1/7🧵 When You See Masked Individuals Detaining Someone, Document Relentlessly. Record everything. Get badge numbers, license plates, and van descriptions... if possible. *Stream in REAL-TIME so footage can’t be seized and erased. Videos must flood the internet before the spin machine activates

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Damn‼️ Federal agents blew a door off for this? Federal agents blasted their way into an LA home where Jenny Ramirez lives with her boyfriend and two kids. She heard the blast while checking on her 6-year-old, with her 1-year-old in her arms. Ramirez says everyone in the home is a U.S. citizen. 🧵

submitted 3 days ago • 3061 comments

Let’s stay vigilant as we continue to fight for our democracy

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This is a lie (as usual). While I disagree with the decision, IT LEAVES THE INJUNCTIONS OF THE BIRTHRIGHT EO IN PLACE, just narrows them to the plaintiffs. And it does not limit nationwide class actions, which will be filed to achieve the identical outcomes. The EO remains unconstitutional.

submitted 3 days ago • 446 comments

That’s right. Cut this lying lunatic off! Every self-respecting news network should cut Trump off and fact-check him in real time. MSNBC did it right!

submitted 2 days ago • 394 comments

MUST WATCH: Oceanside CA: Militarized DHS (HSI) smashed windows, assault rifles drawn, tossed flashbangs and sent drones into the apartment which had 2 kids inside. They then told neighbors they were going to use tear gas, and they’d probably be exposed. Please share widely. WTF

submitted 3 days ago • 917 comments

How can this be allowed to continue????

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Who is against these policies? Are people so far gone that they prefer their taxes pay for corporate welfare and massive pointless bombs over education and transportation?

submitted 3 days ago • 247 comments

I’m choked up seeing this—it’s shameful. Iranian refugees got snatched by “immigration agents” dressed like bounty hunters in West LA’s Sawtelle neighborhood. We’re really about to send them back to a country we just bombed? A regime known for jailing, torturing, and killing its own people?

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NEWS: Kenneth Chesebro, "architect" of the 2020 fake electors plot who pleaded to criminal charges in Georgia, has been disbarred from the practice of law in New York, per order issued today by New York appellate court.

submitted 4 days ago • 669 comments

Inflation has increased. Grocery prices have increased. People are having difficulty making ends meet. Now we have this huge Big Ugly Bill that’s going to cut health care for millions of Americans in service of tax breaks for billionaires. Calling on Republican Senators to vote it down.

submitted 4 days ago • 27 comments

Iwo Jima. We bombed the hell out of Mt.Suribachi for days. The dead Marines on the beach showed how ineffective it was.

submitted 4 days ago • 988 comments

There is no honor in their actions.

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Democratic leadership...why is no one investigating Blackwater or Erik Prince? He’s openly talking on big podcasts...months ago about building a private force to help Trump with mass deportations. Why the silence?

submitted 4 days ago • 75 comments

Budzinski: Families making over $700,000 a year will see a boost of $12,000 almost entirely from tax cuts. Shockingly, households making $23,000 a year or less are set to lose about $1600 a year, mostly due to deep cuts to Medicaid and food assistance

submitted 4 days ago • 927 comments

Murray to Vought: This should be a yes or no. What I hear is all kind of word salad to make sure you are letting us know that you intend to do things that are outside the intent of the law.

submitted 5 days ago • 265 comments

“The soft power suicide of the U.S. will be incomprehensible to future historians who will be dumbfounded in their attempts to explain why the global leader voluntarily wrecked one of its greatest national assets...” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...

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If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

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They are arresting Americans in wheelchairs at the Capitol who are voicing support for Medicaid

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This won’t succeed but it is not normal. This is very dangerous. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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It is completely unacceptable that the Administration is unwilling to brief Congress on the strikes in Iran. We have to make sure this regime never acquires a nuclear weapon. At the same time, the Constitution means what it says. Only Congress has the power to declare war.

submitted 6 days ago • 87 comments

You know you’ve lost when you pretend to negotiate a ceasefire for a war that you instigated and wanted and then pretend to be angry that no one agrees to your fake ceasefire.

submitted 6 days ago • 323 comments

This is a bone-chilling account of what one witness reports Bove and others are doing to the rule of law. (Ignore the milquetoast headline and focus on the substance). Justice Dept. Leader Suggested Violating Court Orders, Whistle-Blower Says www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...

submitted 6 days ago • 105 comments

Ted Cruz just said Mr. Abrego has been charged with Human Trafficking. Cruz proclaims "I read every word of that indictment!" Apparently not, because Abrego was not charged with human trafficking. I hope this comes up in a motion to dismiss the charges.

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FEMA funds are now going to fund concentration camps in the everglades instead of helping people after a natural disaster. Seems all the rightwing conspiracy theories about FEMA building camps was projection all along.

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“I promise you, it would have been a war crime.” that’s what Alejandro Barranco told me what would have happened if he treated a detainee when he was deployed to Afghanistan with the Marines like federal agents treated his father.

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June 24, 2025 heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-24-2025

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I thought I saw an Iranian sleeper cell in masks, camo and assault rifles kidnap people from a job site and thrown them into a van, then I realized it was ICE.

submitted 6 days ago • 467 comments

I know it is easy to get distracted with all the horrors going down every day, but don't forget that yesterday, the bribe-takin' US Supreme Court put its seal of approval on gratuitous human trafficking. These are evil times.

submitted 6 days ago • 460 comments