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I'm on the Senate floor right now debating Trump's Big Ugly bill, and I really worry Americans do not fully realize just how bad it is. Please help get the word out. This is just SOME of what's in the bill (so far).

submitted 5 hours ago • 60 comments

Yikes! This bill is a disaster for Alaska. But most states have similar stories of a bleak future if this passes—especially red states. It doesn’t have to be this way. Call your Senators and urge them to #VoteNo 👀

submitted 9 hours ago • 180 comments

It’s so weird to watch Peter Thiel answer questions about his nefarious data company — he ends up quoting the Bible. It feels like such regression. Like the new dark ages. Like 10,000 years from now they will find pieces of our society and hypothesize on how we managed to have running water.

submitted 1 day ago • 187 comments

Here's a new development... Senator Mullin's (R-Ok) phone number (202) 224-4721 is now NOT taking messages. I can only speculate that rich donors and friends have given him all of the information that he feels is required & that he no longer wishes to hear from those he represents.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Please listen to Leigh. Check your coverage. If you are not on Medicaid, I guarantee that someone that you care about is. Call your reps! #OneV1 #ProudBlue #Pinks

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

A HUGE Danger:

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Every major health system in Louisiana is warning Speaker Mike Johnson and the rest of the state’s congressional delegation that the Senate GOP’s planned Medicaid cuts “would be historic in their devastation.”

submitted 2 days ago • 936 comments

The budget bill contains tens of billions to fund an army of 10,000 more ICE agents. This is a red alert moment for our democracy.

submitted 1 day ago • 1158 comments

Flood the phones now and early in the morning.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

“I represent 67,000 pediatricians, and let me be clear: this bill will devastate children’s health,” said Dr. Susan Kressly, President of @ameracadpeds.bsky.social “Kids are 22% of our population—but 100% of our future. We cannot afford to fail them.” Call your senators and demand a NO vote.

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

Your daily reminder that Congress DOES NOT HAVE TO CUT MEDICAID. It is a choice by the GOP. They want to cut spending for the poor to use the money to pay for a tax cut for the rich... Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and others.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Over 10M Americans would lose their healthcare under Trump’s Tax Scam — and that doesn’t include the millions more who would lose their coverage because of GOP cuts to the Affordable Care Act. They may vote within 24 hrs. Tell your friends who aren't paying attention. CALL (202) 224-3121 ⏰ 24/7!!

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Every timeline on #bluesky needs a happy #dog ... 😊

submitted 1 day ago • 240 comments

It's a woman and her kids asleep in their house it's not Osama bin Laden requiring seal team six🤨 👉🏼 Stephen Miller' ICE is terrorizing people with outrageously excessive force 👿👎🏾

submitted 2 days ago • 60 comments

ICE is now changing tactics and arresting people who have been granted asylum hearings. This is both a violation of US & international law that demands immediate attention from all New York elected officials & underscores the urgent need for legal service providers to be at all of these cases.

submitted 3 days ago • 249 comments

A win! Thank you to everyone who spoke out! After facing bipartisan resistance, the Senate Parliamentarian, ruled that Sen. Mike Lee’s proposal to sell off millions of acres of federal land cannot be included under reconciliation rules.

submitted 6 days ago • 925 comments

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

submitted 6 days ago • 1666 comments

I don't know what fired me up this morning but I'm on fire. @shannonrwatts.bsky.social I haven' t even read your book yet. Think what I can do when I do. #BeFearless #Firedup

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

RFK JR: We have not cut any clinical trials on Alzheimer's BARRAGAN: There was 35 and you guys have already cut 13 of them because of the funding. This was congressionally approved dollars on a bipartisan basis.

submitted 6 days ago • 428 comments

I found this out on LinkedIn from a post from Centene's CEO who attended. Do you think they are going to implement anything worthwhile or expand AI in denials?

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

🚨TOMORROW 7pm EDT Zoom call for Good Trouble Lives On July 17 National Day of Action. www.goodtroubleliveson.org Please join us! #NoKings #Pinks www.mobilize.us/john-lewis-a...

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

I wrote about the cruel farce that is Josh Hawley pretending to defend Medicaid & SNAP. Missouri’s failure to administer SNAP under current law is the subject of a 3 year lawsuit. Medicaid is also a mess. Hawley knows we can’t handle more red tape w/o dropping many more eligible people:

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

Damn—the Senate parliamentarian has ruled that a LOT of the reconciliation bill requires 60 votes to pass, including a massive assault on federal regulations and several heinous attacks on civil service protections. This effectively guts a big chunk of the bill. www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb...

submitted 7 days ago • 445 comments

Meidas Health for all!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Liz Cheney's Message to all of us is on point and on fire! A must read: open.substack.com/pub/robertre...

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Ah. So the major-media reporting telling us that the Israelis found "new intelligence" this April that required an immediate strike was a lie. Someone explain to me how that isn't what's newsworthy here. How that isn't the headline. But what do I know? I only taught journalism as a professor.

submitted 6 days ago • 31 comments

Not to rain on everyone’s ceasefire-not-ceasefire parade, but that wrecking ball of a big dumb bill is still working its way through the Senate and still launching an assault on women, wages, benefits, and the entire working class

submitted 7 days ago • 201 comments

If you are kidnapping your citizens with no due process to take away their freedom and trying to silence media, law firms, and universities for exercising free speech, you don't get to call yourself "Leader of the Free World."

submitted 7 days ago • 231 comments

Wow: ICE Has Deported at Least 70 U.S. Citizens

submitted 7 days ago • 757 comments

For 60 years, Head Start has transformed the lives of more than 40 million families. We're taking the Trump administration to court for attempting to gut this essential program.

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN is this ignorant regimes motto. Chaos follows them where ever the orange madman and his minions go.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: The DHS has issued a heightened terror threat for Americans. Good thing we have that 22 year old former gardener in charge of counterterrorism and DHS is busy with mass deportation. www.dhs.gov/ntas/advisor...

submitted 8 days ago • 883 comments

NEW: Anti-war protests erupt in cities across the US after Trump bombs Iran. Protests have been seen in Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati and outside the White House in DC. These are the current scenes in Times Square, NYC.

submitted 8 days ago • 31 comments

So @cnn.com (Sara Sidner) is discussing these arrests and asking her guests if this is political theatre from Democrats. WTF?

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

I don't think we're in a democracy anymore. Unmarked secret police kidnapping people off the street? A dictator mobilizing the military against civilians? Defying court orders? Ignoring due process? Arresting political opponents? Democracy has left the building. We CAN & MUST get it back, though.

submitted 10 days ago • 577 comments

But he Made Sure to Wave to No One!

submitted 13 days ago • 32 comments

that's a lot of people

submitted 16 days ago • 29 comments

Paris 🇫🇷 💥

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

That parade must have been rained out. I have yet to see anything on social media or the news. It's just No King Day coverage and the heartbreaking events in MN. We are America and we showed up. I went to our peaceful gathering in South St. Louis County.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I stayed up late illustrating something for no real reason. I definitely didn't give out a google drive link with a high res version of it among friends and family for printing purposes.

submitted 17 days ago • 59 comments

"A king does not BECOME a king until we bow down!” Rev. William Barber. DJT is not a king, don't bow down.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments