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ICYMI: Georgia Touts Its Medicaid Experiment as a Success. The Numbers Tell a Different Story.

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FFS New York Times. They’re not *his generals. Unbelievable

submitted 19 hours ago • 188 comments

They fired a top Black general and are replacing him with a much less-qualified white general. They’re not hiding the racism.

submitted 11 hours ago • 194 comments

Please share this fact sheet on Ukraine with anyone who needs it understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

submitted 11 hours ago • 121 comments

“No amount of diplomatic palaver can paper over Russia’s record of kidnapping Ukrainian children, executing POWs, and targeting civilians.” www.thebulwark.com/p/we-are-neg...

submitted 9 hours ago • 50 comments

Exactly why I've been writing, podcasting, and damn near screaming about using the right language. The mainstream media is failing us SO badly right now. Stop. Calling. This. Shit. DEI. This is (re)segregation. This is racial purging. Cleansing Black people from positions of power.

submitted 19 hours ago • 44 comments

Fired Yosemite workers unfurl distress signal. www.sfchronicle.com/outdoors/art...

submitted 6 hours ago • 36 comments

This is the ultimate dick boss move from Musk - except he isn’t even the boss, he’s just a dick.

submitted 18 hours ago • 941 comments

Trump and the Republicans are taking your money the old-fashioned way: by stealing it

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If you read one thing today… www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

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If you’re wondering why I declined to talk to the NYTimes, then you haven’t been following my account for very long. They bear a direct responsibility for the current situation we find ourselves in, and I responded by laying out my position and that I would only talk to @jamellebouie.net

submitted 2 days ago • 1576 comments

It's a small thing, given all that is happening right now, but I HATE XFINITY WITH THE INTENSITY OF A THOUSAND SUNS!! Thanks for listening.

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Three updates: 1. The Justice Department has deleted a database tracking federal police misconduct. The database was first proposed in 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd.

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Tonight we proposed an amendment to ensure that the Republican budget doesn’t raise prescription drug costs for seniors on Medicare. And guess what? Republicans blocked it — just like they opposed us when we gave Medicare the power to lower drug prices.

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Senate Republicans just BLOCKED Sen. Ossoff’s amendment to protect children’s and maternal health care through Medicaid.

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Why is this so hard for news orgs? www.status.news/p/cbs-evenin...

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Republican Senators who voted for RFK Jr. have the best healthcare in the world, paid for by you. They don’t care about what’s going to happen to your kids, your parents, or you.

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🚨🚨🚨 THEY ARE GOING AFTER MEDICARE

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Now the Republicans are threatening each other. www.ajc.com/politics/kem...

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So if you criticize Elon Musk, Trump’s DOJ will send you this letter. Members of Congress must have the right to forcefully oppose the Trump Administration. I will not be silenced.

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Oh My God!

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Among the few Dems who are rising to the moment, @govpritzker.illinois.gov stands out. He's clear, strong, pulls no punches. Among others who are doing a strong job: @aoc.bsky.social tops a list that also includes @raskin.house.gov @schatz.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov @chrismurphyct.bsky.social.

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I don't think the Dems can stop the firings. But why aren't they proposing legislation that assures those that took the buyout get paid , and that all that are fired, get at least a year severance and health benefits? And any one with a health condition is covered the entire time they are sick?

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You want to read this piece. Thank you @brianbroome.bsky.social . I’m subscribing. open.substack.com/pub/bbromba/...

submitted 3 days ago • 32 comments

People who say the U.S. has never had gulags or programs are, once again, erasing Black people from American history.

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So, a rich white man basically tells everyone whose life is being decimated by trump, "You win some, you lose some." www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

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The Washington Post recently backed out of a deal with Common Cause and the Southern Poverty Law Center to run an ad calling for the firing of Elon Musk, a BNV partner reports. bit.ly/BNV-Politics #ElonMusk

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There are two people in Congress-the chairs of the Senate & House Appropriations Committees-who have enormous power over the illegal impoundment of funds appropriated by Congress, which is sowing chaos across the US. They need to be relentlessly contacted at their offices, in person and by phone. 1/

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The goal is racial segregation. Don’t be fooled into thinking otherwise. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

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And there it is: Pay or else www.wsj.com/business/med...

submitted 3 days ago • 70 comments

Part of the problem with newspaper journalism is that too many of the people in the mainstream media want to be in an MFA writing program. They want to be cute and clever and get praise from each other for a unique turn of phrase, when the job is telling people the fucking news.

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ICE prosecutor in Dallas runs white supremacist X account www.rawstory.com/ice/

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Wow: City of Clarksdale, Mississippi got a court order yesterday directing a newspaper to delete an editorial criticizing city officials -- without a hearing. Here's the TRO issuing the prior restraint:

submitted 4 days ago • 256 comments

I can't even.

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Donald Trump is a traitor. He’s a traitor to our country. When I first said that publicly a few years ago, it was pretty jarring. It isn’t jarring anymore. Not at all.

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AP is banned from WH events and all the other legacy journalists walk right in. If this was the 60s, we know who would have been with the Freedom Riders, and who would’ve been writing about them from a safe place. AP stands alone. Sad but true.

submitted 4 days ago • 1094 comments

above all else the current crop of republicans in congress are the most pathetic cowards to ever serve in washington www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"

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"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov

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DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

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I really don't understand why pundits don't understand this. MANY of you have better platforms than any Democrat this side of AOC. If you spend all your time whining (some more) about Democrats, then you are being just as feckless, you are giving the GOP just as much of a pass, as the Dems are.

submitted 4 days ago • 45 comments

www.military.com/daily-news/i...

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We wanted them to have healthcare and a high paying job and a planet to live on and freedom. They want us to suffer. The parties are not the same.

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Oh, look what normal countries do when a former president leads a far right coup attempt.

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