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Following deeply troubling reporting that UnitedHealth Medicare DisAdvantage plans pay nursing homes to deny necessary hospital care, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and I are pressing the Justice Department to investigate this potential rampant fraud, waste, and abuse endangering residents.

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So many levels of wrong

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Newsom: "Arrest me. Let's just get it over with, tough guy. I don't give a damn ... Tom, arrest me. Let's go."

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Despite protests already being managed by the Los Angeles Police Department, President Trump is escalating the situation by threatening to deploy roughly 500 active-duty Marines to the streets of Los Angeles. Los Angeles: Remain peaceful. Don’t fall into the trap that extremists are hoping for.

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Tell Senators Capito and Justice to Protect Programs That Help West Virginians Meet Their Basic Needs. Call Senator Shelly Moore Capito (202)-224-6472 Senator Jim Justice (202)-224-3954

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Booker: "We have a president who did nothing as people stormed our Capitol, & then when those people who viciously beat police & led to some of their deaths - therefore cop killers - were convicted, he pardoned them. So for him to be talking about responsive law enforcement is hypocritical at best"

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"The Supreme Court, on Friday, for now gave the DOGE team launched by Elon Musk unfettered access to information collected by the Social Security Administration, data that includes Social Security numbers, medical and mental health records, and family court information."

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Justices Grant DOGE Access to Social Security Data and Let the Team Shield Records www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/u...

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Ditto.

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The federal government is taking over the California National Guard and deploying 2,000 soldiers in Los Angeles — not because there is a shortage of law enforcement, but because they want a spectacle. Don't give them one. Never use violence. Speak out peacefully.

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West Virginia is warning that women who have a miscarriage could be charged with a crime unless they contact local police. Every woman in WV should call 911 every time they have a period. Gum up the system with malicious compliance. www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/h...

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A new Yale & Penn study finds the Republican Big Ugly Bill would cause 51,000 preventable DEATHS every year by gutting healthcare and food aid. That’s not policy—it’s mass cruelty. This isn’t a budget. It’s a disgusting abomination.

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Republicans don’t want you to notice — but buried in their cruel bill is a quiet repeal of the ACA. Millions could lose healthcare. We stopped this before. We must stop it again.

submitted 3 days ago • 89 comments

I’m going to argue it’s a damning combination of lack of access to quality health care, generational poverty, and the never ending drug epidemic.

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westvirginiawatch.com/2025/06/05/w... Watching, waiting and wondering about West Virginia's teacher shortage • West Virginia Watch

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You will soon see a hike in your cell phone bill, as the West Virginia Public Service Commission announced on Thursday that cell phone bills will go up 10.2 percent on July 1.

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200 coal miners to be laid off wvmetronews.com/2025/06/03/w...

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Stoking fear about immigrants, raiding schools and hospitals, and mass deporting people whose labor makes our country prosper is not only a betrayal of our values—it’s also a recipe for economic disaster. The real threat workers face? Corporate greed.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Cruelty is the point.

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A recent study found that for every $1 invested in the National Weather Service, it produces $73 in value to Americans. Not only is the NWS a life-saving government resource, it's actually quite efficient.

submitted 5 days ago • 354 comments

Guess who is going to pay for the tariffs?

submitted 5 days ago • 485 comments

I started putting together the data that made this graph to try to explain West Virginia's high death rate. After organizing data from 1968 through 2023 I found that there were only eight years where they were not highest. See more by clicking ALT. 🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Demography #Population

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Only 16 out of 134 of West Virginia’s legislators are women—12 in the House of Delegates and 4 in the Senate—the lowest percentage of female lawmakers in any U.S. state. If you’re wondering why some of these laws sound like they were written by people who’ve never met a uterus—now you know.

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It’s been around since 1983.

submitted 11 days ago • 1587 comments

RFK Jr. LIES AGAIN: After promising not to make vaccines difficult to get or to discourage people from getting vaccinated, RFK Jr. confirms Covid vaccines will no longer be available for "healthy" pregnant women and children. No one from the CDC is in this video and no questions are answered. 1/

submitted 13 days ago • 106 comments

Today the Supreme Court cleared the way for the federal government to transfer thousands of acres of national forestland including a Native American sacred site, to Resolution Copper a mining company owned by Rio Tinto and BHP. The land holds deep spiritual significance for the Western Apache tribe.

submitted 13 days ago • 1718 comments

The Congressional Republicans’ bill takes away health care and makes it harder to afford groceries, all to give massive tax breaks to the wealthiest Americans. It’s not a big, beautiful bill. It’s a big betrayal of the middle class.

submitted 16 days ago • 24 comments

Wonder how many people Trump is negotiating foreign policy and tariffs with, that have children and other relatives going to Harvard and other Ivy League schools ?

submitted 17 days ago • 888 comments

This is from The Atlantic. This is exactly how Democrats should message Trump‘s bill. 👇🏻

submitted 18 days ago • 193 comments

Outraged and heartbroken by the news of two young people killed last night in DC in a targeted act of antisemitic violence. This is the opposite of advancing justice and peace - it only furthers the violence, pain, and loss - and such hatred must be firmly rejected by all.

submitted 18 days ago • 882 comments

Boyle: We just verified with the congressional budget office and of 13.7 million Americans who will lose their health care because of their bill, exactly zero are undocumented immigrants

submitted 19 days ago • 372 comments

If the GOP Tax Scheme is so beautiful, then why are they voting on it in the wee hours of the morning? Maybe because it’s irredeemably ugly and cruel.

submitted 19 days ago • 360 comments

I introduced an amendment to the tax package to restore the Affordable Connectivity Program - a lifeline for 23 million families who struggle with high internet costs. We’ve made progress in closing the digital divide, and it’s time to finish the job.

submitted 19 days ago • 20 comments

In 2023, global fossil fuel subsidies reached $1.1 trillion - about 1% of global GDP. Redirecting just a portion of this could fund nearly half of the annual investment needed for a clean energy transition. However, many subsidies disproportionately benefit the wealthy, while low-income... 1/2

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House GOP is holding a hearing on their tax bill at 1:00 AM because they don't want us to know about their scheme to strip 13.7 million people of health coverage & they think no one will stay awake for it. I’ll be there, testifying & offering amendments to protect our families.

submitted 20 days ago • 1236 comments

When you attack Medicaid, rural hospitals suffer. We need to be doing more to protect and expand access to care in Virginia’s rural communities. This Republican tax bill will do the opposite.

submitted 21 days ago • 24 comments

"Some National Weather Service offices, including Jackson, no longer have overnight staff from midnight to 7AM. All three Kentucky offices - Jackson, Paducah and Louisville - are short-staffed. There is no meteorologist in charge at any of the three offices..." www.kentucky.com/news/state/k...

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This is what oligarchy is about. While planning massive cuts to Medicaid, the Republicans are proposing to provide another $235 billion in tax breaks to the top 0.2% of households through an increase in the estate tax exemption. The very rich get richer. The poor lose health care. Outrageous.

submitted 30 days ago • 116 comments

Shots fired, Neil.

submitted 33 days ago • 552 comments

NEW: Minnesota’s graduation rate just reached the highest level on record. Two years ago, we made the single-largest investment in public schools in state history. Today, we’re seeing the results.

submitted 33 days ago • 598 comments