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A federal program to protect US cities against extreme heat has just evaporated
A federal program to protect US cities against extreme heat has just evaporated
NOAA's Center for Heat Resilient Communities would have helped local officials keep residents safe.
www.motherjones.com
June 9, 2025 at 1:15 PM
A federal program to protect US cities against extreme heat has just evaporated
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Don't read this if you're not ready to cry.
For years, Steward Health Care, a private equity-fueled for-profit chain with hospitals around the country, stiffed bills and slashed patient care while its top brass became multimillionaires. They shattered dozens of lives: bit.ly/455xC7O
For years, Steward Health Care, a private equity-fueled for-profit chain with hospitals around the country, stiffed bills and slashed patient care while its top brass became multimillionaires. They shattered dozens of lives: bit.ly/455xC7O
Wall Street gutted Steward Health Care. Patients paid the price.
One of America's biggest for-profit hospital operators is bankrupt, broken, and responsible for countless mistreated patients—thanks to its private equity overlords.
bit.ly
May 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Don't read this if you're not ready to cry.
For years, Steward Health Care, a private equity-fueled for-profit chain with hospitals around the country, stiffed bills and slashed patient care while its top brass became multimillionaires. They shattered dozens of lives: bit.ly/455xC7O
For years, Steward Health Care, a private equity-fueled for-profit chain with hospitals around the country, stiffed bills and slashed patient care while its top brass became multimillionaires. They shattered dozens of lives: bit.ly/455xC7O
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"What I'm seeing is a president who is more interested in the valuation of his memecoin than he is about people's 401ks. What I'm seeing is a president who, along with Howard Lutnick – he is self-dealing on crypto ... instead of worrying about the strength of the US dollar."
Rep. Jake Auchincloss
Rep. Jake Auchincloss
May 3, 2025 at 12:21 AM
"What I'm seeing is a president who is more interested in the valuation of his memecoin than he is about people's 401ks. What I'm seeing is a president who, along with Howard Lutnick – he is self-dealing on crypto ... instead of worrying about the strength of the US dollar."
Rep. Jake Auchincloss
Rep. Jake Auchincloss
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"After all these years in and around politics, I’d like to think I have a pretty strong stomach, but yesterday was sickening... This was not newsreel footage of two dictators meeting somewhere far away and long ago. This was yesterday. Here in the Oval Office."
www.thebulwark.com/p/two-dictat...
www.thebulwark.com/p/two-dictat...
Two Dictators Walk Into a Bar...
On yesterday’s sickening Oval Office summit.
www.thebulwark.com
April 15, 2025 at 1:44 PM
"After all these years in and around politics, I’d like to think I have a pretty strong stomach, but yesterday was sickening... This was not newsreel footage of two dictators meeting somewhere far away and long ago. This was yesterday. Here in the Oval Office."
www.thebulwark.com/p/two-dictat...
www.thebulwark.com/p/two-dictat...
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Congressional Republicans hope you aren’t focusing on their unpopular plans to slash taxes for billionaires and billionaire corporations while gutting health care for families.
So I don’t think they’d want you to share this story:
So I don’t think they’d want you to share this story:
Republicans pass Trump-backed tax plan that could drastically cut Medicaid
Republicans will now have to detail what specific programs they will cut, including potential changes to Medicaid.
www.businessinsider.com
April 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Congressional Republicans hope you aren’t focusing on their unpopular plans to slash taxes for billionaires and billionaire corporations while gutting health care for families.
So I don’t think they’d want you to share this story:
So I don’t think they’d want you to share this story:
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a friend sent me this one
April 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
a friend sent me this one
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Reminder: no matter how many times Republicans say otherwise, there is *no way* they can pay for their proposed tax cuts without gutting Medicaid and other programs that millions of people rely on.
Don't believe their lies for a second.
Don't believe their lies for a second.
April 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Reminder: no matter how many times Republicans say otherwise, there is *no way* they can pay for their proposed tax cuts without gutting Medicaid and other programs that millions of people rely on.
Don't believe their lies for a second.
Don't believe their lies for a second.
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Folks should understand Trump’s character by now. He loves supplication and side deals.
Murphy: "It's not designed as economic policy. It's designed as political policy. Because Trump gets really excited when people have to come to him, petition the king for relief. That's what he's doing with law firms, doing with universities. That may be what he's doing with businesses."
April 5, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Folks should understand Trump’s character by now. He loves supplication and side deals.
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This, right here, is why tariffs cause depressions.
My husband and I run a game store and after all the tariff announcements, he decided to write out kind of a "behind the scenes" of how we spend and spill it out for people who don't understand. He's had so many reactions and shares I wanted to bring it here, too.
April 5, 2025 at 5:58 AM
This, right here, is why tariffs cause depressions.
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The Strategic Petroleum Reserve has been handed over to a private company. In an oligarchy, control of national assets is privatized. The US DoE web site says this contract was awarded after a "rigorous competitive selection process". How stupid do they think we are?
oilprice.com/Latest-Energ...
oilprice.com/Latest-Energ...
DoE Hands the Keys to Strategic Crude Oil Stockpile to New Firm | OilPrice.com
The Department of Energy has awarded a new $1.4 billion contract to Strategic Storage Partners, LLC—hardly a household name—to manage the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
oilprice.com
April 4, 2025 at 7:32 AM
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve has been handed over to a private company. In an oligarchy, control of national assets is privatized. The US DoE web site says this contract was awarded after a "rigorous competitive selection process". How stupid do they think we are?
oilprice.com/Latest-Energ...
oilprice.com/Latest-Energ...
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There are 32m small businesses in the USA
April 5, 2025 at 1:22 AM
There are 32m small businesses in the USA
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Please share!!! This is getting ridiculous—they just can’t accept a loss. Please help spread the word to North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted.
April 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Please share!!! This is getting ridiculous—they just can’t accept a loss. Please help spread the word to North Carolina. The North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision that over 60,000 votes cast in last year’s closely contested state Supreme Court race must be verified and recounted.
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The whole point is to ruin farms…a fire sale on farmland that can be sold to corporate farms who can pollute the water and air with impunity.
There will be no one left in these communities to demand these corporations be regulated or pay taxes.
There will be no one left in these communities to demand these corporations be regulated or pay taxes.
Any farmers out there that can speak to whether they can get info for planting season ? Or loans to help them get through this ?
Are federal offices open to even process loan requests ?
Are federal offices open to even process loan requests ?
April 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The whole point is to ruin farms…a fire sale on farmland that can be sold to corporate farms who can pollute the water and air with impunity.
There will be no one left in these communities to demand these corporations be regulated or pay taxes.
There will be no one left in these communities to demand these corporations be regulated or pay taxes.
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It's not a bad idea to go to the local Walmart or big box retailer and buy lots of consumables now. From toothpaste to soap, anything you can find storage space for, buy before they have to replenish inventory.
Even if it's made in the USA , they will jack up the price and blame it on tariffs.
Even if it's made in the USA , they will jack up the price and blame it on tariffs.
April 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
It's not a bad idea to go to the local Walmart or big box retailer and buy lots of consumables now. From toothpaste to soap, anything you can find storage space for, buy before they have to replenish inventory.
Even if it's made in the USA , they will jack up the price and blame it on tariffs.
Even if it's made in the USA , they will jack up the price and blame it on tariffs.
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Wow. Just wow. How Trump set the tariff rates. This is blithering, staggering, mind-boggling, jaw-cracking, gums-bleeding stupidity.
April 2, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Wow. Just wow. How Trump set the tariff rates. This is blithering, staggering, mind-boggling, jaw-cracking, gums-bleeding stupidity.
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Welcome to Donald Trump’s America, where First Amendment lawyers find themselves compelled to advise people that they have no First Amendment rights.
I don’t think I’m going to be sleeping very well for *checks notes* the rest of this administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/n...
March 12, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Welcome to Donald Trump’s America, where First Amendment lawyers find themselves compelled to advise people that they have no First Amendment rights.
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Healthy food from local farmers for kids being cut by Trump and Musk seems on brand www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks
States have been notified that they will not receive 2025 funding for schools to buy food from nearby farms.
www.politico.com
March 11, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Healthy food from local farmers for kids being cut by Trump and Musk seems on brand www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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It would be a real shame if y'all shared this online, printed out a few and hung up all around the Eastern Shore of Maryland. 😉
March 9, 2025 at 2:21 AM
It would be a real shame if y'all shared this online, printed out a few and hung up all around the Eastern Shore of Maryland. 😉
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And now this…👇
Angry yet?!
This. Once. Great. Country. Is. Weeping. ✨
Angry yet?!
This. Once. Great. Country. Is. Weeping. ✨
March 4, 2025 at 11:54 AM
And now this…👇
Angry yet?!
This. Once. Great. Country. Is. Weeping. ✨
Angry yet?!
This. Once. Great. Country. Is. Weeping. ✨
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This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start
Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.
Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.
More accurate, fewer words;
"There are plenty of contractors going under".
A friend furloughed 75% of staff (furlough w/paying for health insurance for three months), 50% exec pay cut, 25% rest of staff to keep as many people w/salary.
PS: Wasn't 18F a government office, not a contractor.
"There are plenty of contractors going under".
A friend furloughed 75% of staff (furlough w/paying for health insurance for three months), 50% exec pay cut, 25% rest of staff to keep as many people w/salary.
PS: Wasn't 18F a government office, not a contractor.
March 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This is a bigger issue than people realize. Not just jobs lost. But their families losing benefits. Landlords losing tenants. Cities and towns losing revenue. This is how recessions start
Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.
Ready Fire Aim is no way to govern.
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The president urged the Fox News reporter to give him a good review: “Lawrence, say we did a great job, please. OK? Say it was unbelievable!”
Trump Caught on Hot Mic Telling Reporter to Say He Did ‘Great Job’
Trump bantered with Lawrence Jones as he and other media members filed out of the White House.
www.thedailybeast.com
February 27, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The president urged the Fox News reporter to give him a good review: “Lawrence, say we did a great job, please. OK? Say it was unbelievable!”
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“I’m not going to reveal the name of that individual from this podium.” 🇺🇸
@mediaitenews.bsky.social
www.mediaite.com/news/im-not-...
@mediaitenews.bsky.social
www.mediaite.com/news/im-not-...
Who Runs DOGE? Trump Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt Won't Say
White House Secretary Karoline Leavitt again refused to produce the name of the person running the Department of Government Efficiency.
www.mediaite.com
February 25, 2025 at 7:34 PM
“I’m not going to reveal the name of that individual from this podium.” 🇺🇸
@mediaitenews.bsky.social
www.mediaite.com/news/im-not-...
@mediaitenews.bsky.social
www.mediaite.com/news/im-not-...
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The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.
February 3, 2025 at 6:17 AM
The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.