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I replied to this last night and I'm going to send one more slightly desperate post now. My ex is really terrified of this move and this fundraiser is basically the only carrot I have. Every dollar makes it easier for me to get my trans daughter to safety before puberty. gofund.me/8664c1dc

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“They are not bureaucrats, they are not the ‘deep state’"; these are the people that live next to you and work with your family members” amid mass firings, Everett Kelley reminds us who federal government workers are and the important work they do every day.

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It's been so run through pop culture as to seem almost corny, but I need you all to understand with the deepest seriousness available to you that the "First they came for..." thing was to prepare you for this exact moment

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They’re going to try and prosecute their political enemies

submitted 3 days ago • 2407 comments

the program of this has been to kill america's soft power, strangle high education (not once thinking about that the knock on effects of that alone are a recession), laying off tens of thousands of a federal employees and contractors, so they then also gut Medicaid for a tax cut

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"We're not going to touch Medicaid." -- The "king" two days ago. "I'm all for the House budget proposal which would cut $880 million from Medicaid." -- The "king" one day ago. It's all about the cruelty with these MAGA sycophants. www.fiercehealthcare.com/regulatory/m...

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The game is this. They're going to make the largest cuts to Medicaid ever. They're going to uninsure millions if not 10s of millions and they're going to say they're just adding work requirements. They'll kill thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, with paperwork. punchbowl.news/archive/2202...

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The House Republicans’ plan to cut Medicaid to pay for tax cuts for the rich would slash incomes for the bottom 40% See impact by state www.epi.org/blog/the-hou...

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Senate Democrats held a press briefing about potential cuts to Medicaid after President Donald Trump endorsed House Republicans' budget approach.

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⚡ KFF’s @robinr.bsky.social writes about how federal cuts to Medicaid have direct implications for state budgets ahead of this week’s National Governors Association meeting. #QuickTake on.kff.org/3EJZq6B

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It seems to me that if Musk has proof that millions of social security checks have gone out illegally to dead people, he should be presenting that evidence in front of a grand jury under oath tomorrow instead of shitposting it on social media. When can we do this under oath?

submitted 6 days ago • 695 comments

Lawrence: Because of Musk and Trump, for the first time Social Security payments are not guaranteed

submitted 6 days ago • 107 comments

Credit where it's due: it is helpful that a thoroughly corporate mainstream media outlet is able to draw the line from "Musk is spreading bullshit about fraud in Social Security" to "Trump and Musk are coming for your Social Security and this is them laying the groundwork"

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Elon Musk is making wild claims that #DOGE has found evidence of massive Social Security fraud.... The reality is that Musk's young engineers don't seem to be able to understand COBOL databases while Musk is misrepresenting the Social Security data www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 6 days ago • 137 comments

tRump is still spreading their lies about Social Security Benefits. No, Donald, 150-Year-Olds Aren’t Collecting Social Security Benefits www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

submitted 4 days ago • 92 comments

I assume at some point we are going to get to see actual hard proof submitted in a sworn affidavit, grand jury indictment, congressional testimony, etc that millions of people are defrauding trillions from Social Security? Or is it just going to be social media posts & TV hits?

submitted 4 days ago • 488 comments

Oh. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are lying about tens of millions of dead people collecting Social Security? Shocker. 🙄

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Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."

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Jon Ossoff warns GOP about Medicaid cuts: ‘Voters will be watching’ #gapol ajc.com/politics/pol...

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Steve Rattner on plans to cut spending, especially Medicaid

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Rep Amos is on FIRE about the GOP Tax Scam. "This is a betrayal. Full stop. This is not some social policy experiment. Real people will suffer. It is a betrayal of our seniors. It's a betrayal of our families. It is a betrayal of the middle class." #SocialSecurity #Medicaid #Medicare #SNAP

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Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 9 days ago • 2697 comments

elon musk is wrong more often than he is right, at least about government.

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Measles high infection rate is the reason we have not yet been able to eradicate it. That rate means you need a very high vaccination rate to prevent outbreaks. It is possible, but not with current levels of institutional distrust.

submitted 7 days ago • 448 comments

Musk’s staffers are accessing the heavily guarded Internal Revenue Service (IRS) system, which contains detailed financial information on every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit in the country.

submitted 7 days ago • 317 comments

The UK has a shadow cabinet - political positions within the party that isn’t in power - and so should we. Plus, we need weekly press briefings led by @petebuttigieg.bsky.social on the state of the union. Business-as-usual time is over.

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Ukraine has not received an invite to U.S.-Russia peace talks in Saudi Arabia. Sen. @reed.senate.gov calls the move “horrific for the Ukrainian people” and a repeat of Trump’s actions with Afghanistan.

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Dangers to come: A National Institutes of Health fellow reveals the harmful effects – at home and abroad – of Donald Trump’s purge of thousands of federal health agency employees.

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"Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, placing more than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and sexual and racial harassment on hold.” @propublica.org

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Since Inauguration Day, the Office for Civil Rights has only opened about 20 investigations focused on Trump’s priorities, placing more than 10,000 student complaints related to disability access and sexual and racial harassment on hold. www.propublica.org/article/depa...

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#disabled people are people and it’s a club we’ll all join at some point in life Let’s defend them and #section504 for both reasons. https://5calls.org/issue/section-504-texas-v-becerra/

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

This is not the way to help individuals!!! If this makes your blood boil, follow me. We are laying the groundwork for better disability care, veteran care, and just an all around better world. #changingtheworldonefamilyatatime

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People still out there fighting the good fight. You can try to erase history, but the truth is what the truth is. And the truth is: Trans folk fought tooth and nail at Stonewall, as they fight now. That moment in history never belonged to the government, and they can't erase it now.

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This move to try to erase transgender people from the Stonewall Monument is cruel, pathetic, and historically inaccurate. Trans New Yorkers played a critical role in the events at Stonewall and in the movement for equality that it inspired. apnews.com/article/ston...

submitted 9 days ago • 215 comments

1. On Friday, protests erupted at Stonewall National Monument, the historic site of the Stonewall uprisings that ignited the modern gay rights movement, in response to the National Park Service removing transgender people from the Stonewall Website. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 9 days ago • 34 comments

As a measles outbreak rages in west Texas & Republicans confirm anti-vax nutter RFK Jr to HHS, a reminder that measles wipes out the body's 'immunity memory' - the systemic, preventative response to past diseases & pathogens, from colds & flu to bacteria and viruses. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

submitted 9 days ago • 9 comments

WRECKonciliation is the perfect name... And for those in the back, while the GOP forces women to give birth, the TAX Scam is trying to take away healthcare coverage for 300,000 pregnant women in Texas alone. Hands Off My Medicaid!

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New: Elon Musk relied on undocumented workers to help build Tesla's gigafactory in Texas. He later propagated anti-immigrant sentiment to vault himself into political power alongside President Trump. Great reporting from @julialove.bsky.social (gift link 👇) www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

submitted 9 days ago • 20 comments

It is really short-sighted and stupid to be gutting public health and outbreak surveillance capacity right now: - H5N1 nationwide - uncontrolled - TB in Kansas - largest U.S outbreak - Measles in Texas - Expanding - Seasonal flu - Worst in 15 years - Pertussis - outbreaks in multiple states.

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One example (of thousands) where EIS was invaluable: 2023, a rare fungal outbreak at a paper mill infected workers CDC EIS helped trace the source, stop the outbreak, and informed future prevention efforts Now multiply that by 100+ responses every year #PublicHealth 🔗 www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

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