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mischa🌻 @mischamouse.bsky.social · 8h

I live in a Red district in California that has been gerrymandered all to hell. We have been trying to flip Blue forever. I'm guilty of being frustrated with Texas, but I totally understand your frustration too, it sounds exactly like my frustration. These are very fraught times.

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Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 8h

A Texas Democrat wrote the post (hi👋🏽). There are millions of us in this gerrymandered state, and we very much GAF about our kids.

Posts bashing Texans as a whole don’t help. Adding to voter apathy is uncool when every single vote counts.

We’re either united against this regime or we’re not. ✌🏽

a poster that says " don t mess with voting advocates "

Alt: Texas flag gif that says "don t mess with voting advocates”

media.tenor.com

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Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 16h

Sorry, is there a question here?

27 children died.

Close the goddam camps if you can’t comply with safety measures.

This isn’t the first time flash flooding in this zone has killed campers, just the most well known with the highest death toll.

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/10/t...

Texas youth camps say cost of implementing new safety requirements will force them to close

During a Friday state hearing, parents of July 4 flood victims said camps should prioritize the safety even if costs are high.

www.texastribune.org

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 15h

There’s a strategy many have guessed:
That the president’s seeking unrest.
It gets hard to avoid
If our health care’s destroyed;
One more system this dictator’s stressed.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Former Republican governors air concerns about Trump's National Guard moves

Sitting GOP governors, however, are much less eager to discuss the president's aggressive push to deploy federalized troops in cities and states run by Democrats.

www.nbcnews.com

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 15h

With the CDC science assault,
They find pill-popping babies at fault.
Lay absurdity bare;
If folks can’t afford care,
Let’s just grind all our sense to a halt.

www.pbs.org/newshour/hea...

Reupping unproven claims about Tylenol, Kennedy claims a link between circumcision and autism

During a meeting with President Donald Trump and the Cabinet, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. reiterated the connection, even while noting there was no medical proof to substantiate the claim.

www.pbs.org

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 15h

And if raising costs isn’t enough,
Think of research they’re looking to snuff.
RFK doesn’t care
That there’s knowledge to share;
Have diseases? You’ll have to be tough.

publichealth.gwu.edu/new-research...

New Research: Proposed CDC Budget Cuts Harm Public Health and State and Local Economies | Milken Institute School of Public Health | The George Washington University

Proposed FY26 CDC budget cuts could harm public health and undermine state and local economies, GW researchers report.

publichealth.gwu.edu

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 15h

In the face of the danger, the right
Is opposing your care with its fight.
The repubs’ seeming goal?
Population control,
With a side of political spite.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/p...

Obamacare premiums could more than double. Here’s why it matters in the shutdown battle | CNN Politics

At the center of the government shutdown conflict are the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsides that help Americans pay their monthly premiums.

www.cnn.com

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 15h

Now if ACA subsidies drop,
More affordable health care will stop.
When those premiums double,
A dangerous bubble
That’s building is likely to pop.

www.kff.org/topic/afford...

Affordable Care Act - Research and Data from KFF

Research and data on The Affordable Care Act from KFF, the leading health policy organization in the U.S.

www.kff.org

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 15h

Now for those who get sick when their poor,
It gets harder to walk through the door.
At the end of their rope,
Folks will suffer and hope
They can pick themselves up from the floor.

www.npr.org/sections/sho...

5 ways Trump's megabill will limit health care access

With spending cuts poised to hit medical providers, Medicaid recipients and Affordable Care Act enrollees, here's how the bill will affect health care access for millions in the U.S.

www.npr.org

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 15h

We’ve all heard of the Medicaid cuts,
And the doors that plan callously shuts.
It hurts more folks in need
Just to satisfy greed
Of the richest—like President Putz.

publichealth.berkeley.edu/articles/new...

What do the looming cuts to Medicaid really mean?

Health policy expert Will Dow breaks down the risks—and potential state-level response.

publichealth.berkeley.edu

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Jeff Roush @jeffroushwriting.bsky.social · 15h

Tonight’s #FridayLimericks watch the GOP’s ongoing assault on Americans’ health.
We have shutdown stakes coming more clear:
Whose insurance will soon disappear?
Repubs want to shift wealth,
At expense of our health,
To the donors their ilk hold most dear.

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"We just verified with the Congressional Budget Office and of the 13.7 MILLION Americans who will lose their health care because of the Republicans' tax-cuts-for-billionaires bill, exactly ZERO are undocumented immigrants!"
- REP. BRENDAN BOYLE
OCCUPY DEMOCRATS

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TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 14h

Ever ponder why the felon always screams that opposition protesters are fake & are being paid?
Here's why: everything is transactional for him. If he's not profiting,he's not doing it.
So he can't fathom that
protestors are unpaid volunteers.
More proof of his inhumanity
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 15h

Trump told AG Pam Bondi to prosecute Letitia James-calling her “guilty as hell”

When the US Attorney wouldn’t do it, he replaced that lawyer with his personal attorney

And despite the fact that career prosecutors refused go forward

The DOJ got an indictment anyway

THIS
IS
VINDICTIVE
PROSECUTION

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KSlatteryResist @kslatteryresist.bsky.social · 9h

I love this SO much 😁✌️

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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 1d

Trump is trying to deploy the National Guard to Oregon, claiming that the state is a battlefield and troops are needed to protect federal agents who are attempting to enforce immigration laws

Meanwhile, at the ICE facility in Portland, it’s

Cry “havoc” and let slip the axolotls of war

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TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 14h

More scenes from the front, in war-torn Portland! These terrorists must be stopped! 😊🐈‍⬛🦋
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

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TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 13h

Check out the Kavanaugh Stop. Full description and definition in the video.
Sound up! #KavanaughStop.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

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John Paul @johnpaulhi.bsky.social · 12h

This is exactly what this is. Trojan horses and such

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Visikarte 🎗️ @visitkarte.bsky.social · 12h

The shutdown is not about healthcare
It's about the possible end of our democracy

kurtkroemer.substack.com/p/the-shutdo...

The shutdown is not about healthcare

It's about the possible end of our democracy

kurtkroemer.substack.com

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Visikarte 🎗️ @visitkarte.bsky.social · 11h

I am referring to that insane purity policy of the leftist brogressives and ones she mentions here:

bsky.app/profile/shon...

Shontel @shontelmorris.bsky.social · 21h

I refuse to be diplomatic with these pro-Hamas-gressives.
They gladly fucked us over by refusing to vote for Harris & spend all their time trolling us.
Typical for the "Fuck you mom!" generation.
Shame we can't send all these MFers to Gaza or North Korea.

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Visikarte 🎗️ @visitkarte.bsky.social · 12h

The self proclaimed „progressives“ ARE what’s wrong with the modern Democratic Party.
Allying themselves with extreme worldview and terrorism isn’t a good look.
#USDemocracy is dying because of their purity tests and extremism.
#Voices4Victory are the sane voices.
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Democrats Still Have No Idea What Went Wrong

The party’s progressives seem to think the problem is not with their platform but with voters.

www.theatlantic.com

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Visikarte 🎗️ @visitkarte.bsky.social · 12h

What could possibly go wrong if you elect an alleged rapist into SCOTUS?

TommasinaResist⚜️🇨🇦🦋🐈‍⬛🇺🇦 @tommasinaresist.bsky.social · 13h

Check out the Kavanaugh Stop. Full description and definition in the video.
Sound up! #KavanaughStop.
#USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video: