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Deborah Nicholas MD
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Anesthesiologist. Retired. PLOS: Trump's EOs on science/medicine – https://theplosblog.plos.org/2025/02/plos-statement-on-recent-us-executive-orders-and-scientific-integrity/ Header: Santa Fe, NM Profile pic: Atropa Belladonna, Gabriel von Max
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Dems began shutdown for one reason: ACA subsidies.
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
Dems planning to cave tonight without ACA subsidies.

'Trump and his lackeys aren’t worried about the human costs of the shutdown, just ways to increase political pressure. This is consistent with how Trump operates in general —he only knows how to destroy stuff.'
newrepublic.com/article/2028...
Trump Has One Mission: To Make Your Life Hell
Tuesday’s elections should have been a wake-up call for Republicans. Instead, the administration is responding in the only way it knows how: causing more misery for millions of Americans.
newrepublic.com
Santa Fe's 17th Cranksgiving food drive to benefit the Food Depot.
According to organizers, there was an uptick in participants this year with 150 cyclists early registrations raising enough funds alongside sponsors for two tons of turkeys.
How long will we let him continue?
'Trump treat(s) federal funds as his personal property that he could use to extort political opponents or reward political allies.'
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
The Mafia Presidency
Trump is saying, essentially, If you don’t want to get hurt, you’ll do what I say.
www.theatlantic.com
Raging because his economic tariff bludgeon, usurped from Congress, might be stricken by SCOTUS. Sad!
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The past 24 hours really exposed the Republicans’ non-plan on health care. Since they were unable to repeal the ACA, they intend to make health insurance premiums skyrocket so people can’t afford health care, which will ultimately make emergency rooms their primary care doctors.
She's playing the long (hopefully not too long) game.

She wants an order from the First Circuit upholding the trial court. That would give the liberal minority a foothold to argue the Supreme Court should do so as well. A strategic stay to increase chance of fully restarting SNAP benefits.
about a third of the program has also become a way of insuring that America’s morbidly rich billionaires get even richer on the taxpayer’s dime

employers know that if employees can get SNAP, Medicaid, and TANF benefits even when they’re working full time, they’ll keep wages low and profits high
A third of the people on SNAP work a regular job, and 70 percent of them work full-time. 👀

'what started out as programs to help the unemployed or disabled people have now become billion dollar subsidies for morbidly rich employers and their massive corporations'
hartmannreport.com/p/the-snap-s...
The SNAP Scam: How Billionaires and Politicians Built a Welfare System for the Rich
Behind the rhetoric about ‘lazy freeloaders’ lies a stunning truth: America’s largest corporations depend on food stamps to prop up their low-wage empires...
hartmannreport.com
‘When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.’ – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Trump advocates one party rule forever. AKA AUTOCRACY.
Trump on ending the filibuster: "If we do it, we will never lose the midterms and we will never lose a general election ... it would be impossible to lose an election."
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Democrats asked for ONE THING today to reopen the govt: Keep health insurance subsidies where they are at now for one year. That is IT. Nothing else.

Republicans said no.

So all the lies they tell every day about things Dems are asking for is BS.
Republicans OWN this shutdown.
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Panic much? Need to pass legislation to suppress the vote?
Fucking bigot and christofascist.
She believes in the sanctity of traditional Christian marriage.
Water on the brain.
"Trump seems to have no idea how the U.S. economy works, given that the country could just print more money if being “liquid” is really the main concern (it shouldn’t be)."
newrepublic.com/post/202860/...
Trump Claims America Has to Remain Very “Liquid” in Bizarre Rant
Donald Trump says it’s more important to be “liquid” than it is to feed millions of hungry Americans.
newrepublic.com
Same.
Went to the grocery store today.

Like always, I had to show my ID, produce my long form birth certificate, and undergo a retinal scan before I could buy anything.

Just like Trump said.
Sandwich Guy found "not guilty" of baloney assault charge. 🥪
Okay, so I did it. In honor of Sandwich Guy, on what should be the last day of his trial, I figured out the chords. And so, with apologies to the late and great Bob Marley, I banged out this quick and (very) rough rendition of "I Threw the Sandwich." 🤣
Knows nothing, does nothing, and is annoyed by the med emergency right in front of him during his big announcement. No wonder his sister refused to allow him to speak at her funeral. Narcissists 6-7.
incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty