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Pennie - PA's affordable insurance marketplace - would face a loss of 50% coverage loss if Republicans continue to pass Pres. Trump's so-called "big, beautiful bill"
That means HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of fewer working families will be able to afford to go to the doctor.
That means HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of fewer working families will be able to afford to go to the doctor.
May 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Pennie - PA's affordable insurance marketplace - would face a loss of 50% coverage loss if Republicans continue to pass Pres. Trump's so-called "big, beautiful bill"
That means HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of fewer working families will be able to afford to go to the doctor.
That means HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of fewer working families will be able to afford to go to the doctor.
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The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.
April 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.
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Not sure this strategy will pay off in November 2026 😬
Mackenzie should be defending Pennsylvania, not his DC bosses.
Mackenzie should be defending Pennsylvania, not his DC bosses.
April 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Not sure this strategy will pay off in November 2026 😬
Mackenzie should be defending Pennsylvania, not his DC bosses.
Mackenzie should be defending Pennsylvania, not his DC bosses.
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Just in case you missed this from Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker:
"Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face."
"Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face."
March 31, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Just in case you missed this from Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker:
"Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face."
"Bullies respond to one thing, and one thing only: a punch in the face."
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Erich Fromm, The Heart of Man (1964)
March 8, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Erich Fromm, The Heart of Man (1964)
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🚨Measles cases in the US surge 35% in ONE WEEK—now at 222 in 12 states.
We’re nearing last year’s TOTAL of 285, and it’s only March. Two deaths already, both unvaccinated. Texas is the epicenter with 198 cases.
The CDC’s weekly data lags, so the numbers are likely even higher.
We’re nearing last year’s TOTAL of 285, and it’s only March. Two deaths already, both unvaccinated. Texas is the epicenter with 198 cases.
The CDC’s weekly data lags, so the numbers are likely even higher.
March 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
🚨Measles cases in the US surge 35% in ONE WEEK—now at 222 in 12 states.
We’re nearing last year’s TOTAL of 285, and it’s only March. Two deaths already, both unvaccinated. Texas is the epicenter with 198 cases.
The CDC’s weekly data lags, so the numbers are likely even higher.
We’re nearing last year’s TOTAL of 285, and it’s only March. Two deaths already, both unvaccinated. Texas is the epicenter with 198 cases.
The CDC’s weekly data lags, so the numbers are likely even higher.
"I don’t think teachers that work in that school would feel so great that rather than make those investments into their children, they’re making it into this gentleman’s bank account.”
In one instance, a bonus of $20,000 after taxes for every month he continued to work - a “retention incentive.”
In one instance, a bonus of $20,000 after taxes for every month he continued to work - a “retention incentive.”
Over the last three years, the head of a small charter school network that serves fewer than 1,000 students has taken home up to $870,000 annually, a startling amount that appears to be the highest for any public school superintendent in Texas.
By @emsimani.bsky.social and Lexi Churchill
By @emsimani.bsky.social and Lexi Churchill
This Charter School Superintendent Makes $870,000. He Leads a District With 1,000 Students.
On paper, Salvador Cavazos earns less than $300,000 to run Valere Public Schools, a small Texas charter network. But taxpayers likely aren’t aware that in reality, his total pay makes him one of the…
propub.li
March 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
"I don’t think teachers that work in that school would feel so great that rather than make those investments into their children, they’re making it into this gentleman’s bank account.”
In one instance, a bonus of $20,000 after taxes for every month he continued to work - a “retention incentive.”
In one instance, a bonus of $20,000 after taxes for every month he continued to work - a “retention incentive.”
"The national-security system of the West is led by two men who cannot be trusted to defend America’s allies—and who deeply sympathize with the world’s most aggressive dictator.
Trump likes and admires bad people because he is himself a bad person."
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Trump likes and admires bad people because he is himself a bad person."
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
At Least Now We Know the Truth
It’s ugly, but necessary to face.
www.theatlantic.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:49 PM
"The national-security system of the West is led by two men who cannot be trusted to defend America’s allies—and who deeply sympathize with the world’s most aggressive dictator.
Trump likes and admires bad people because he is himself a bad person."
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Trump likes and admires bad people because he is himself a bad person."
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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Republicans are burning a century of global America leadership to the ground because they are afraid of Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
February 28, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Republicans are burning a century of global America leadership to the ground because they are afraid of Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
"After pillaging & gutting the US govt, the Western alliance & our relationship with Zelensky, Trump is thinking of himself as a king & cogitating on a third term.
With flaccid Democrats & craven Republicans, King Donald can pretty much do whatever he wants"
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/o...
With flaccid Democrats & craven Republicans, King Donald can pretty much do whatever he wants"
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/o...
Opinion | Fail, Caesar!
www.nytimes.com
February 25, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"After pillaging & gutting the US govt, the Western alliance & our relationship with Zelensky, Trump is thinking of himself as a king & cogitating on a third term.
With flaccid Democrats & craven Republicans, King Donald can pretty much do whatever he wants"
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/o...
With flaccid Democrats & craven Republicans, King Donald can pretty much do whatever he wants"
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/o...
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Maddow tries to shake Jeffries into meeting the moment: "Policy doesn't feel like the main convo…we are in the middle of a Ketamine-fueled autocratic power grab rendering Congress irrelevant, making the rule of law an afterthought if not a joke”:
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGe93bq...
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGe93bq...
February 25, 2025 at 5:24 AM
Maddow tries to shake Jeffries into meeting the moment: "Policy doesn't feel like the main convo…we are in the middle of a Ketamine-fueled autocratic power grab rendering Congress irrelevant, making the rule of law an afterthought if not a joke”:
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGe93bq...
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGe93bq...
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Murphy: "There's no separation between the Kremlin & the White House right now. The White House is a full-time Kremlin propaganda operation..there's a real probability American troops are going to have fight abroad to protect the global world order & our allies & perhaps American sovereignty itself"
February 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Murphy: "There's no separation between the Kremlin & the White House right now. The White House is a full-time Kremlin propaganda operation..there's a real probability American troops are going to have fight abroad to protect the global world order & our allies & perhaps American sovereignty itself"
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Here’s a description of the rejected ad. Does anyone have the actual copy? It should be disseminated widely.
February 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Here’s a description of the rejected ad. Does anyone have the actual copy? It should be disseminated widely.
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Now why would Trump fire election security experts? www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
US Homeland Security says election security personnel placed on leave
The Department of Homeland Security, as part of an evaluation of its election security mission, said on Tuesday that personnel focused on misinformation, disinformation and foreign influence operations aimed at U.S. elections have been placed on administrative leave.
www.reuters.com
February 12, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Now why would Trump fire election security experts? www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
"Once an autocracy gains power, it will come for many of the people who quite rationally tried to safeguard themselves & their businesses.
Had they withheld obedience in advance, the autocracy that controls almost every aspect of their lives.."couldnt have been built.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...
Had they withheld obedience in advance, the autocracy that controls almost every aspect of their lives.."couldnt have been built.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...
Opinion | The Chilling Consequences of Going Along With Trump (Gift Article)
The voluntarily surrender of the public’s power is how autocracies are built.
www.nytimes.com
February 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
"Once an autocracy gains power, it will come for many of the people who quite rationally tried to safeguard themselves & their businesses.
Had they withheld obedience in advance, the autocracy that controls almost every aspect of their lives.."couldnt have been built.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...
Had they withheld obedience in advance, the autocracy that controls almost every aspect of their lives.."couldnt have been built.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...
"A future in which no one but the rich owns their own homes, where insurance is a luxury good, and where renters pay a monthly toll to large private equity landowners who may be better suited to manage that risk."
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/o...
Opinion | That Giant Sucking Sound? It’s Climate Change Devouring Your Home’s Value. (Gift Article)
A new analysis predicts an extraordinary reversal in housing fortunes for Americans.
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 7:45 PM
"A future in which no one but the rich owns their own homes, where insurance is a luxury good, and where renters pay a monthly toll to large private equity landowners who may be better suited to manage that risk."
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/o...
Didn't take PA AG Dave Sunday long after taking his oath to side with the big corporate water profiteers at the expense of PA ratepayers.
"What you got was essentially significant amounts of real tangible harm to ratepayers without any benefit to ratepayers."
www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/01...
"What you got was essentially significant amounts of real tangible harm to ratepayers without any benefit to ratepayers."
www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/01...
Have Pa. ratepayers finally scored a win against ‘Big Water’ and the PUC?
Pa.’s Commonwealth Court recently ruled on the side of ratepayers in a major Office of Consumer Advocate case against the Public Utilities Commission and Aqua.
whyy.org
February 6, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Didn't take PA AG Dave Sunday long after taking his oath to side with the big corporate water profiteers at the expense of PA ratepayers.
"What you got was essentially significant amounts of real tangible harm to ratepayers without any benefit to ratepayers."
www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/01...
"What you got was essentially significant amounts of real tangible harm to ratepayers without any benefit to ratepayers."
www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/01...
We are utterly unprepared for a world in which perhaps the scarcest resource will be people.
The panic abt migration is really a panic abt the future — & abt progress.
Econ growth is downstream from something more impt yet intangible: the human desire for flourishing
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/o...
The panic abt migration is really a panic abt the future — & abt progress.
Econ growth is downstream from something more impt yet intangible: the human desire for flourishing
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/o...
Opinion | Something Extraordinary Is Happening All Over the World (Gift Article)
Migration is central to our politics and our world, but nobody really understands it.
www.nytimes.com
February 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We are utterly unprepared for a world in which perhaps the scarcest resource will be people.
The panic abt migration is really a panic abt the future — & abt progress.
Econ growth is downstream from something more impt yet intangible: the human desire for flourishing
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/o...
The panic abt migration is really a panic abt the future — & abt progress.
Econ growth is downstream from something more impt yet intangible: the human desire for flourishing
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/o...
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“The controller who was handling helicopters in the airport’s vicinity Wednesday night was also instructing planes that were landing and departing from its runways. Those jobs typically are assigned to two controllers, rather than one.”
Staffing was ‘not normal’ at airport tower, according to a preliminary F.A.A. report.
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2025 at 7:56 PM
“The controller who was handling helicopters in the airport’s vicinity Wednesday night was also instructing planes that were landing and departing from its runways. Those jobs typically are assigned to two controllers, rather than one.”
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"The chaos isn’t accidental—it’s strategic and the point. In Trump’s second term, as he floats a third, what might seem like disconnected acts of governance are deliberate steps toward consolidating power."
Strategic Chaos Is The Point
The chaos isn’t accidental—it’s strategic and the point.
olgalautman.substack.com
January 28, 2025 at 10:51 PM
"The chaos isn’t accidental—it’s strategic and the point. In Trump’s second term, as he floats a third, what might seem like disconnected acts of governance are deliberate steps toward consolidating power."
Difference b/w welcoming immigration & trying to suppress it is difference b/w Houston & Birmingham.
Houston area’s pop has quadrupled.
Birmingham has lost pop in every decade since 1960. It is a city of unfilled spaces — vacant lots, parking lots — & of open jobs.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o...
Opinion | A Big Idea to Solve America’s Immigration Mess (Gift Article)
Fixing America’s broken immigration system starts with acknowledging that the United States needs more people.
www.nytimes.com
January 15, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Difference b/w welcoming immigration & trying to suppress it is difference b/w Houston & Birmingham.
Houston area’s pop has quadrupled.
Birmingham has lost pop in every decade since 1960. It is a city of unfilled spaces — vacant lots, parking lots — & of open jobs.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/10/o...
Iowa generated 61% of its electricity from wind and solar. It has one of the lowest electricity rates in the US.
56% of SD's power is generated by wind turbines.
TX generated 120 million MW hours from wind alone, nearly matching NY's output from all sources.
news.bloomberglaw.com/energy/this-...
56% of SD's power is generated by wind turbines.
TX generated 120 million MW hours from wind alone, nearly matching NY's output from all sources.
news.bloomberglaw.com/energy/this-...
This Red State Is a Global Clean-Power Paragon: Mark Gongloff
If you’re looking for a paragon of the renewable-energy transition, you won’t find it in most of Europe or anywhere in China or even in California. It’s a Midwestern US state known more for ethanol th...
news.bloomberglaw.com
January 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Iowa generated 61% of its electricity from wind and solar. It has one of the lowest electricity rates in the US.
56% of SD's power is generated by wind turbines.
TX generated 120 million MW hours from wind alone, nearly matching NY's output from all sources.
news.bloomberglaw.com/energy/this-...
56% of SD's power is generated by wind turbines.
TX generated 120 million MW hours from wind alone, nearly matching NY's output from all sources.
news.bloomberglaw.com/energy/this-...
Maybe if they stayed in-session, they would be forced to fix societal problems?
This broken branch's only output is brinkmanship & avoidance at a high cost.
#legislativemalpractice
@pahousedems.com @pasenate.com @pasenategop.bsky.social @pahousegop.bsky.social
www.spotlightpa.org/news/2024/12...
This broken branch's only output is brinkmanship & avoidance at a high cost.
#legislativemalpractice
@pahousedems.com @pasenate.com @pasenategop.bsky.social @pahousegop.bsky.social
www.spotlightpa.org/news/2024/12...
Partisan divide made passing laws tricky for Pa. lawmakers
A divided PA House and Senate made deadlock common last session, but laws on education funding, health care, and business tax credits still passed.
www.spotlightpa.org
December 30, 2024 at 9:39 PM
Maybe if they stayed in-session, they would be forced to fix societal problems?
This broken branch's only output is brinkmanship & avoidance at a high cost.
#legislativemalpractice
@pahousedems.com @pasenate.com @pasenategop.bsky.social @pahousegop.bsky.social
www.spotlightpa.org/news/2024/12...
This broken branch's only output is brinkmanship & avoidance at a high cost.
#legislativemalpractice
@pahousedems.com @pasenate.com @pasenategop.bsky.social @pahousegop.bsky.social
www.spotlightpa.org/news/2024/12...