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Understaffed nursing homes rely on an immigrant workforce. Cuts to Medicaid and a tough immigration policy amount to a double whammy for the long-term care industry.

submitted 3 days ago • 28 comments

I can’t speak for every city, but here in LA, ICE bounty hunters aren’t going after gang members. They’re hunting the vulnerable: gardeners, street vendors, day laborers. Easy money, no risk. Folks need to stop pretending this is about crime. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social—thank you for your words.

submitted 6 days ago • 1268 comments

Well yes. That’s how you get low taxes. You starve the beast to cheaply torture the disabled. Texas is illegally keeping people with disabilities in nursing homes, federal judge rules www.texastribune.org/2025/06/20/t...

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Welcome to the First American Reich👇

submitted 8 days ago • 14 comments

I think you are lying

submitted 11 days ago • 554 comments

I assure you, none of them are mine.

submitted 10 days ago • 256 comments

I wrote this four days ago. Today, they arrested the NYC Comptroller.

submitted 12 days ago • 499 comments

🚨🧵 Trump’s Honeymoon is Over and Everyone Hates Elon open.substack.com/pub/thecycle...

submitted 16 days ago • 9 comments

“A mannequin simulating a child crossing the street .. was crushed over and over again by a Tesla equipped with a self-driving feature on Thursday — safety advocates' latest warning .. as it prepares to launch robotaxis on Austin roads.” @houstonchronicle.com $TSLA www.chron.com/culture/arti...

submitted 16 days ago • 47 comments

“.. the bottom 30% of households would come out worse off ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

submitted 17 days ago • 49 comments

Folks, CBO estimate of the distributional effect of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is out: www.cbo.gov/system/files... It's grotesque

submitted 17 days ago • 37 comments

🔥 There it is. 🔥 #WSJ www.wsj.com/opinion/chin...

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

".. rejected requests for .. Iowa, Mississippi, Missouri and Oklahoma last week .." @bloomberg.com #FEMA www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 18 days ago • 70 comments

“.. If we have the military being pre-emptively deployed throughout the country to effectively police protests, that is the hallmark of authoritarian rule." @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

submitted 19 days ago • 22 comments

“.. The resolution is nonbinding but suggests that evangelicals have long-term ambitions to dismantle an institution that many Americans now accept as a basic right.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...

submitted 19 days ago • 36 comments

“Trump is using military forces to stop a protest — I want y'all to consider what kind of government it appears to be when every time we exercise our democratic right to protest, the military is deployed against us.” Doechii at the #BETAwards

submitted 20 days ago • 205 comments

“As I have repeatedly said, this is not about the man, it's about his constitutional rights—and the rights of all. The Administration will now have to make its case in the court of law, as it should have all along," says U.S. Sen. Chris Van Hollen.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I loathe Musk as much as anyone else but for a sitting president to openly threaten a private citizen over what political donations he or she chooses to make is a reminder of how authoritarian this country is becoming by the day - by the hour even!

submitted 22 days ago • 209 comments

“I knew it was you, Fredo. You broke my heart.” 💔

submitted 23 days ago • 75 comments

This seems important from Jake Sherman

submitted 25 days ago • 473 comments

More information on this despicable case here: thehill.com/homenews/sta...

submitted 25 days ago • 156 comments

This is pretty devastating. Lutnick admits that tariffs were never about reciprocity, eliminating foreign trade barriers, or negotiating better deals. They just don't like international trade. Period. He even says about imports: "we don't want other people making them."

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Day 52. 🇺🇸

submitted 27 days ago • 270 comments

Day 47 🇺🇸

submitted 32 days ago • 93 comments

I am certain that we will not hear about deficits and debt ever again from Republicans who are about to vote for a bill that adds more debt to a country’s balance sheet than any piece of legislation in the history of the human race.

submitted 38 days ago • 153 comments

“.. He then spent the next hour urging Republicans to unite behind the most budget-busting legislation in modern U.S. history.” @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/05/21/t...

submitted 39 days ago • 12 comments

Yeah that tracks. 🤡 @ryanlcooper.com itep.org/analysis-of-...

submitted 39 days ago • 26 comments

In prosecuting a sitting Congresswoman for doing her job, the Trump administration has crossed a red line. Democracy Docket will publish my thoughts on that development in a few minutes. Subscribe now. newsletters.democracydocket.com/member-meblu...

submitted 40 days ago • 49 comments

The GOP says they’re going after “fraud and abuse” in Medicaid, but what they’re really doing is cutting hundreds of billions of dollars from a program that delivers care to the poorest Americans.

submitted 47 days ago • 474 comments

🚨BREAKING: Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs (D) was sworn in Tuesday after a six-month legal battle against Republican Judge Jefferson Griffin, who sought to overturn the results of the 2024 election. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

submitted 47 days ago • 244 comments

Stephen Miller serves a deranged authoritarian who thinks he is all powerful and can do whatever he wants. He is wrong. Our job as lawyers is to stand up to him and defeat him in court. I, for one, will never bow down or seek a deal with Trump. I will stand tall and fight.

submitted 51 days ago • 285 comments

Yeah, we see how this works.

submitted 58 days ago • 6 comments

Pope Francis spent his life advocating on behalf of those with the least in our world. Trump is allowing 25 million in Sudan alone to face starvation so he can give a tax break to billionaires. Attending the funeral is an affront to decency. Also, how much is he paying Mel to go?

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Researchers and advocates have pushed back at what they consider inaccurate and stigmatizing comments made by the health secretary, and note the causes of autism are complex.

submitted 74 days ago • 264 comments

From last year’s $DJT 8-K:

submitted 85 days ago • 67 comments

Massive props to Stephanie Ruhle, one of the only anchors out there actually covering the markets and the economy with the depth, attention, and urgency it deserves. She is sounding the alarm, and we should all pay attention.

submitted 79 days ago • 8 comments

Today House Republicans, cheered on by the richest person on Earth, passed a budget framework that will cut support for the poorest people in our country. All while cutting taxes for corporations and the wealthy, and massively increasing the deficit.

submitted 80 days ago • 438 comments

This is super smart Steve. Wish I had thought of it first ! Stocks have been crushed. The next trump move is uncertain. Best move ? Buy back stock. No question about it

submitted 86 days ago • 416 comments

Tough language from JPMorgan tonight: “.. we view the full implementation of these policies as a substantial macro economic shock not currently incorporated in our forecasts. .. these policies, if sustained, would likely push the US and global economy into recession this year.”

submitted 88 days ago • 253 comments

james surowiecki has discovered where the completely fabricated trump tariff rate has come from for each country "...for every country, they just took our trade deficit with that country and divided it by the country's exports to us."

submitted 88 days ago • 466 comments

Trump's executive order tonight has illegally cancelled union contracts for 67% of the federal workforce & 75% of unionized federal employees — roughly 700,000 union workers This may be the single biggest attack on the labor movement in American history

submitted 94 days ago • 298 comments

The Dept of Education supplements state resources for the 7.5 million students in this country with disabilities. Do all the Trump-voting parents of special needs kids understand what he’s doing to them? Do they understand what he is doing to their kids? Do they??

submitted 101 days ago • 658 comments

Mike Flynn, who pushed for Trump to declare martial law and seize dictatorial power after losing reelection in 2020, is now on the board of West Point.

submitted 104 days ago • 138 comments