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ProPublica found that some of the largest health insurers have created a playbook that prevents people from getting the mental health care they need. Join us tomorrow, Feb. 20 at 4 p.m. ET for a virtual conversation as we discuss barriers to care. RSVP: https://propub.li/4k4GYWm

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“I’m trying to understand what the disincentive is from turning the Oval Office into the seat of criminal activity in this country,” Jackson said.

There have been MASSIVE protests this week across the country. If you took any videos or photos from the protests, or have seen great videos or photos of them online, post them below! Let's show the world that the pro-democracy community is just getting started!

to call this a clown show is unfair to clowns. pure madness. like playing russian roulette with a machine gun. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...

If you want to understand Trump's approach you need to understand the concept of "Gorilla Dust." When threatened, gorillas kick up dust to make themselves appear bigger. Trump wants everyone to think he is strong, instead he is trying to mask his weakness www.messageboxnews.com/p/dont-fall-...

The Office of Personnel Management, now overseen by Elon Musk, just issued a memo to all heads of federal agencies ordering a startling change in the status of CIOs. It signals Musk's potential move to take over the IT of the entire federal government.

"LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Arab Americans for Trump, a group that played a key role in Donald Trump’s voter outreach to the Arab American community is changing its name after the president said that the U.S. would 'take over' the Gaza Strip..." apnews.com/article/arab...

Jeff Bezos’s $10 billion climate and biodiversity fund has halted its funding of one of the world’s most important climate certification organizations, amid broader concerns US billionaires are “bowing down to Trump” and his anti-climate action rhetoric. from @theguardian.com via @climatedesk.org

“Donald Trump wants a fight. Milley should give him the type of fight a Green Beret would offer in a situation where he was outmanned, outmatched and outgunned, facing a superior force with no hope of evasion or extraction.” steveschmidt.substack.com/p/revenge-is...

“What Trump and his arrogant posse share in common is the belief that since they hold power and possess money that they are brilliant, and that brilliance and power are the same thing as knowledge.” steveschmidt.substack.com/p/the-man-wh...

“We just should all understand that finding the truth is necessary to fight back, and that there are two types of propaganda lies: lies of commission and lies of omission.” steveschmidt.substack.com/p/corruption...

After yesterday's tragic plane crash over the Potomac River, Donald Trump was quick to place the blame on DEI hires in the government. I look at Trump's statements about the crash and explain why none of it is based in reality. youtu.be/-0JeFLQvlF4

"Trump's military deportation flight to Guatemala on Monday likely cost at least $4,675 per migrant... more than five times the $853 cost of a one-way first class ticket on American Airlines from El Paso, Texas, the departure point for the flight..." www.reuters.com/world/americ...

When you do unpopular things ….

Asking tough questions is how you deal with politicians. Finding solutions is how you deal with voters

Justin Trudeau responds:

Another week, another Friday night massacre. Interim US Attorney Ed Martin -- an election denialist and champion of pardons for J6 offenders-- sends letter arriving just before 5 pm firing dozens of prosecutors who worked on the January 6 prosecutions. Breathtaking corruption and pettiness.

There’s been a kind of…fashion of late to view anti-Trump libs as lame and cringe and just annoying, aesthetically. I remember this exact same aesthetic judgment in the run-up to the Iraq war. The earnest libs were right then and they’re right now.

🧵 THREAD: Trump and Rubio have arrested the international humanitarian aid system and forced lifesaving aid programs to completely halt operations — despite an announcement earlier in the week claiming they had changed course. 1/

The expert consensus is that tariffs will drive up prices for American companies and, in turn, consumers.

January 31, 2025