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We’ve got a friend in Wisconsin who said she wasn’t worried about potential cuts to Medicaid because she and her 3 kids don’t need it - they’re on BadgerCare. She was stunned when I told her they were all on Medicaid. Protecting people from shame by renaming MA has definite downsides.

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Many Medicaid recipients do not know they receive it because Medicaid is called different things in different states. The public narrative of Medicaid focuses on a distant other, but 40% of US children and 60% of nursing home residents receive Medicaid. Just SOME of the names by state are below:

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NEW: A WIRED investigation reveals that Elon Musk’s Starlink is serving internet to scam compounds in Myanmar where tens of thousands of human beings are enslaved. By @mattburgess1.bsky.social: www.wired.com/story/starli...

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Earlier this month, Republican Rep. Bryan Donalds voted proxy to appear on Bill Maher in Los Angeles. Hollywood OK--new mom NO WAY! www.coloradopolitics.com/house-proxy-...

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It’s naive to think something could break the fever but millions of angry Boomers who can’t easily access their benefits just might make a dent.

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Top Dems from Ways and Means out with a statement on this: "Attacking the Social Security Administration’s ability to deliver benefits is an attack on the American people’s benefits."

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Yep. Just blocked these ... evildoers. Highly recommend.

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The new deputy director of the FBI recently said Trump should “set up a courtroom” in the White House and “just start making judicial decisions”

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The Musk lackey operating as Treasury's fiscal assistant secretary is still "currently" working as CEO of a software company. "...bosses are simultaneously running private companies while also running parts of the government that affect their businesses." By @telliotter.bsky.social

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The Army takes money out of junior troops' paychecks to pay for food at mess halls. Apparently, the service is pocketing a bunch of it and spending that money elsewhere. Story from @stevenbeynon.bsky.social

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woe to those trying to come at Hugh over this history!

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X owner Elon Musk and right-wing influencers are attempting to redefine "doxing" to include reporting the identities of government employees — information that is typically disclosable through public records requests and the reporting of which is protected by the First Amendment. [NYTimes]

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Meanwhile, (mostly) outside of Washington ... How did a drug rooted, like many, in seed money from the U.S. government — that is, American taxpayers — and spurred by the grassroots fundraising of desperate parents, end up costing $2 million? @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/zolg...

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As Congress prepares to slash Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act, here's Dan Boguslaw with details of their concierge medical service, the taxpayer-subsidized Office of the Attending Physician, which provides them top-notch emergency & primary care for a little over $50/month:

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Elon: “Btw, at PayPal, we had the detailed financial data of 100M+ people. Never once was it abused.” New York Department of Financial Services: PayPal paid a fine for failing to protect customers’ social security numbers three weeks ago.

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To no one's surprise, Trump was cheered by Chiefs and Eagles fans at Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans 🏈

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They had the coders design the commercials.

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The commercials are scaring me more than Tom Cruise face.

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Who's shopping for a phone plan?

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The VP of the USA is implying the executive branch is above and need not comply with judicial court orders. We’re in a very tough place: www.forbes.com/sites/alison...

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I think we might know where all the missing Dem ballots went This is Ethan Shaotran. He's one of Musk's DOGE takeover hackers 2 yrs ago he won the Berkeley AI Hackathon But in 2000 won the HackGT7 with a ballot altering program called BallotProof Here's the deep dive that he couldn't scrub....

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Russell Vought just told CFPB to shut down @rmac.bsky.social & @stacycowley.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...

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Georgia's state senate Republicans have proposed a law that would restrict access to the records of third-party contractors and partners of government agencies. That's Cop City. It's also private prisons. Medical service providers in jails. Airport contractors. More. www.legis.ga.gov/legislation/...

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I think it should be made clear at this point: If you're a federal employee, you should consider your work devices bugged. If you've logged into personal stuff on those devices, you should consider suspending or deleting the accounts you accessed.

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I contacted CYBERCOM the other day to ask about whether it was sending SECDEF recommendations on DOGE access. It said I should talk to SECDEF. SECDEF said I should talk to CYBERCOM. 🙃

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They're trying to silence the media because they don't want you to know what they're doing.

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Musk seems to indicate he will rehire the DOGE engineer who was fired for posts explicitly advocating racism, eugenics and hatred of immigrants, after Vance calls for his reinstatement and Trump agrees. x.com/elonmusk/sta...

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There is a simple solution to the CBS/Trump lawsuit. The Harris campaign should sue Fox and insist Fox release the unedited versions of all their many edited interviews with Trump.

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Fascinating, and disturbing, investigative piece by Greg Palast on voter suppression in 2024. www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-v...

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We explained last week that probationary employees, with scant federal protections, were first in line for mass firings. prospect.org/labor/2025-0...

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After our story over the weekend, we saw a large influx of new subscribers to our e-mail news alerts and weekly newsletter digests. We're working to activate everyone's subscription, but since we approve them manually, it will take a few days to process them all. Thank you for your patience.

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Never thought we'd think of the pandemic as the good times.

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