Heard of the paperwork trap? The biggest source for cost savings related to the work requirement added to Medicare eligibility isn’t eliminating benefits for those not working. It creates a bureaucratic hurdle for those eligible for benefits. We are intentionally leaving the most needy behind.

When I got a PhD in nineteenth-century political history, I really, truly never imagined I would have to find a way to explain to readers what an eggplant emoji means. (Wired reported more Signalgate Venmo accounts.) I yearn for the day when I can write about good, clean fun like tax policy again.

The Trump admin says it's "currently evaluating whether to invoke the state secrets privilege" for answers to some questions about the immigrant flights a federal judge ordered them to produce, privately to him, by noon today.

Here are the questions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump is slowing healthcare research.
www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/dire...

#ProudBlue

So, ICE admits they deported people with NO criminal history under the 1798 Aliens Enemies Act, which was illegal declared by Trump.

If this doesn’t scare you, then you aren’t paying attention & are willfully ignorant.

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Important.

Musk’s status as a “special government employee” limits him to 130 days in the executive branch. However, despite working daily—documented by his own X posts—they claim he only works one day a week, effectively stretching his limit to 130 weeks. This needs to be brought to Congress—please share.

“He’s not capable of playing 4 dimensional chess, or chess, or checkers, or tic tac toe. He’s eating the pieces”. There is no plan-just action to feed his unbridled ego.

There's such a tone of sadness to the CBC reporting right now. Adrienne Arsenault says, “I feel like the whole country, all of us, are getting both a history lesson and a politics lesson and an economics lesson and a lesson in heartache.”