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Young folk, did you know that the ACA got rid of something called Pre-Existing Conditions? Before the ACA, insurance companies could deny care or coverage because you had any number of conditions (even unrelated ones to what you needed care for), including simply being pregnant! Thanks Obama!

submitted 1 day ago • 90 comments

I heard Trump is selling spots for people to watch him tweet during his morning dump.

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DOGE has repeatedly failed to find evidence of widespread Social Security fraud. So why does the Trump regime keep bringing it up? It's part of a deliberate ploy to cut benefits — using the false pretext of "fraud" — and have Congress use the savings to give billionaires a giant tax cut.

submitted 21 hours ago • 141 comments

Swalwell: Hegseth is still the Secretary of Defense? This moron texts out our war plans, putting our soldiers at risk, and he’s not gone? Every one on that chat—they just fire off texts not knowing who is on the chat? They all should be fired if they don’t resign.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1250 comments

We need a new politics for a changing world. To some, that means cutting social security spending to invest in defence. But what if adapting to a multipolar world required us to give up on attempts to be a great power, and instead focus on meeting people’s needs? Read: substack.com/home/post/p-...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

OWNED reviewed alongside @chrislhayes.bsky.social SIRENS CALL at @irishtimes.com

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

The Trump regime and DOGE are rolling out this playbook to attack Social Security — one of the most popular and effective government programs. They're deliberately sabotaging it by firing SSA workers and cutting services. Why? Because they don't want it to work.

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Casar: There’s a debate happening about how we should respond to the oligarchy. Some say that we should just roll over and play dead. Others say we should stand and fight. Anybody here think we should roll over and play dead? Crowd: Nooo… chants “stand and fight”

submitted 2 days ago • 184 comments

Ignorance is the handmaiden of tyranny. That’s what’s really driving Trump’s attack on education and public knowledge.

submitted 3 days ago • 104 comments

The Trump regime's repeated attacks on "DEI," "wokeness," and the trans community have one clear purpose: If we are angry at each other, we don't look up to see how big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.

submitted 2 days ago • 197 comments

Truer words were never spoken.

submitted 4 days ago • 1680 comments

A Labour government. This from @theguardian.com.

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

Cutting the welfare state makes us poorer. Poorer people are more easily manipulated to believe it is migrants who have taken scarce resources.

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

Absolutely, I completely agree. Social Security generates $1.2 trillion each year. It's crucial that we begin developing retirement communities for lifelong contributors or address planning and resources. It would be inhumane to dismantle this system.

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Whoa: The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft got a spectacular view of Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) as it passed close to the Sun. Look at that enormous, splintered tail! This comet won't be seen again for another 600,000 years. 🧪🔭 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

submitted 3 days ago • 47 comments

Tyrants view educated citizens as their greatest enemy. Slaveholders stopped the enslaved from learning to read. Nazis burned books. Dictators censor media. That’s why Trump is attacking education, science, museums, and the arts – to prevent us from learning. It's Fascism 101.

submitted 4 days ago • 300 comments

Under the House GOP’s budget plan, the lowest-income taxpayers would see a LOSS of $1,125. The richest 0.1 percent of taxpayers, on the other hand, would see a more than $180,000 GAIN. This is trickle down economics on steroids.

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This is insane

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GEO Group, the private prison company and ICE contractor locking up migrants, is ignoring minimum wage law and resisting calls to pay detainees more than $1 for an entire day's work behind bars. www.propublica.org/article/geo-...

submitted 6 days ago • 158 comments

Cuts to Disability Services Are Part of a Class War open.substack.com/pub/elliotcr...

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