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After cutting social security, we can’t imagine a more direct attack on senior citizens than this. Dementia is one of the biggest health challenges facing seniors (and their families) today.

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A shockingly straightforward headline from CNN: www.cnn.com/business/liv...

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People keep saying Senator Booker's filibuster was meaningless and people who were moved by it are naive and gullible but I lived and organized in a south where this record stood and slavery and Jim Crow cast a long shadow and I tell you Booker taking that record means something.

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Elon can’t buy us. We are NOT for sale, and neither is democracy. THANK YOU WISCONSIN!

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"There is nothing accidental about the destruction that narcissistic psychopaths, especially in power, inflict on the world. Destruction is coded in their character defect. It is not a question of IF a narcissistic psychopath in power will destroy his world, but how soon." — Elizabeth Mika in 2020

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NEW: @motherjones.com reports that one of the men renditioned to El Salvador is Neri Alvarado, who was working in Dallas as a baker. An ICE agent told him they were questioning all men with tattoos. Neri has an AUTISM AWARENESS TATTOO in honor of his 15-year-old brother with autism.

submitted 9 days ago • 699 comments

DOGE is crippling the Social Security Administration. SSA’s website crashed four times in 10 days and Americans who depend on Social Security have flooded congressional offices with angry phone calls. The AARP says it has been getting 2,000 calls a week.

submitted 10 days ago • 103 comments

Some are offering sanctuary to immigrants, others are ministering to families in different ways.

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Collins: Do you think someone should be fired over this? Buttigieg: Absolutely… if there’s not accountability for a screw up like this, especially from a president who used to fire people on television for sport, what are we even doing here..

submitted 11 days ago • 940 comments

Casar: You can quickly explain Doge with just two numbers. First: $8 million a day. That’s how much Elon Musk collects in federal government contracts. Second: $65 a day. That’s how much the average senior—someone who has worked their entire life—gets from Social Security.…

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“By targeting prominent voting rights attorney Marc Elias, along with unnamed lawyers who have worked on immigration cases, and threatening them with sanctions, President Trump is attempting to silence those who embody the mission and ideals of the legal profession.” www.aclu.org/press-releas...

submitted 13 days ago • 100 comments

Trump commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick, saying out loud, on camera, that Social Security recipients should accept missing a month's payment without complaint, and calling them criminals if they did complain, should be an inescapable political disaster. And maybe already is. youtu.be/aavEmJSqJVQ

submitted 13 days ago • 183 comments

It is a sad day for the legal industry. Paul Weiss, didn't just bend a knee, it set a new standard for shameful capitulation. This is a stain on the firm, every one of its partners, and the entire legal profession.

submitted 15 days ago • 2830 comments

I live on a fixed income. I have Lupus/chronicillnesses/disabilities & SUBSIST on Social Security Disability for over 18 years. I've survived cancer 2x. I DEPEND on MEDICARE/MEDICAID/SNAP. I’ll NEVER GIVE UP fighting for YOU until my last breath. I'm just 1 of MILLIONS of stories. 🙏💜 #SaveMedicaid

submitted 17 days ago • 297 comments

From interview of Lee Bollinger, 1st Amendment scholar who served as dean of @UMichLaw, president of @UMich, and president of Columbia University. www.chronicle.com/article/were...

submitted 20 days ago • 776 comments

The FBI is trying to criminalize Habitat for Humanity for receiving climate grants from the EPA. Yes, the nonprofit that builds houses for low-income people. This clearly demonstrates just how absurd and extreme the Trump regime has become. It's targeted harassment.

submitted 20 days ago • 387 comments

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away. They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

submitted 19 days ago • 630 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court GRANTS motion to HALT deportation under rarely invoked Alien Enemies Act of 1798. “A TRO is appropriate for the class members to prevent the removal of the class.” WOW. Planes in air must turn around. A huge win @democracyforward.org and @aclu.org.

submitted 20 days ago • 1065 comments

Thank you, biomedical research and the NIH

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BREAKING: Senate just UNANIMOUSLY restored $1.1 billion for DC local govt that was eliminated Why? Because Senators of BOTH parties work in DC - and most have homes there - and none of them want to be in a hellhole Now - try applying that same logic to THE REST OF THE COUNTRY

submitted 21 days ago • 427 comments

Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House. We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication. They own what happens next.

submitted 21 days ago • 6007 comments

SCOOP --> Trump's State Department quietly terminated a contract that was in the process of transferring evidence of Russian abductions of Ukrainian kids to European law enforcement, two sources familiar with the situation tell me. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/1927...

submitted 21 days ago • 375 comments

NEW: Here are the 10 “democratic” senators that voted to sell out veterans, the American people, and their colleagues in the House. Cortez Masto Durbin Fetterman Gillibrand Hassan King Peters Schatz Schumer Shaheen

submitted 21 days ago • 1617 comments

Yes. The answer is yes.

submitted 21 days ago • 1007 comments

Thank you @schiff.senate.gov

submitted 22 days ago • 17 comments

Do it! www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/p...

submitted 22 days ago • 194 comments

WTF, Chuck?!

submitted 22 days ago • 940 comments

I would like to address Schumer’s alarmist line that the courts will “stop” unless Democrats CAVE IN to Trump’s budget. As I’ve written repeatedly THE COURTS WILL NOT STOP TRUMP, NOR HAVE THEY. They’ve told him to turn the money back on ALREADY… HE HASN’T!!

submitted 22 days ago • 52 comments

IF SENATE DEMOCRATS ACCEPT THE GOP C/R — THEY ARE INSANE. THEY ARE SPINELESS PUSSYFOOTED PUTZS WHO ARE BEING PLAY AGAIN BY REPUBLICANS. COME ON DEMOCRATS GET SOME SPINE AND LEARN HOW TO MESSAGE SO THE WORLD UNDERSTANDS WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN!!!

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This is an attack on Medicaid, and anyone who votes on this budget this week is voting to cut Medicaid in America, and voting to gut healthcare for Medicare recipients in America.

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It should be very clear to every Senate Democrat that any vote for Cloture will also be considered a vote for the bill. People aren’t going to be tricked with procedural games. They know exactly what is going on. Defend Medicaid. Vote NO on Cloture. NO on bill.

submitted 23 days ago • 112 comments

🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave. Tell them: 1. Vote NO on Cloture AND 2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill. Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it. TODAY is the showdown. 🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121

submitted 23 days ago • 2697 comments

The Agriculture Department has axed two programs that gave schools and food banks money to buy food from local farms and ranchers, halting more than $1 billion in federal spending. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

submitted 25 days ago • 475 comments

Kudos to Senator Kelly—a former astronaut, veteran and man of honor who supports our democratic ally Ukraine—for pushing back against the arrogant buffoon Elon Musk who violates our laws and dares to call Kelly a traitor.

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Bernie Sanders: "I think this is a prelude not only to cutting benefits, but to privatizing Social Security ... why do you lie so much about Social Security? Why do you make it look like it's a broken system? The reason is to get people to lose faith in the system so you can give it over to Wall St"

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👏👏 🇫🇷 🇫🇷 🇫🇷 🇫🇷 🇫🇷

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In a world of Matts, be a Derek.

submitted 25 days ago • 470 comments

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social: They're out there saying 'we just passed a bill to eliminate taxes on tips & taxes on SS benefits.' NONE of that's in the bill. But they deny that they're cutting Medicaid. So they want credit for popular stuff that isn't in the bill but ignore the deeply unpopular stuff.

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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers at Stanford University have developed a dual-antibody treatment that remains effective against ALL SARS-CoV-2 variants by targeting a less-mutable part of the virus. This breakthrough could lead to longer-lasting therapies that OUTPACE viral evolution. 🧪🧵⬇️

submitted 26 days ago • 593 comments

#New: Huge crowd gathers for #StandUpForScience2025 rally in San Francisco:

submitted 28 days ago • 25 comments

Every time I read a story like this I recommit to be louder and more defiant.

submitted 29 days ago • 2282 comments

Never forget: the richest man on Earth admitted out loud, one week before the election, that he wanted to tank the economy if Trump won, and the media barely covered it. And now it's happening, all according to Elon's design. Congrats, everyone.

submitted 29 days ago • 16 comments

And Musk is calling the shots:

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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

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