Vivapdx
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Another important court ruling, this time regarding the illegality of the HHS layoffs
A preliminary injunction issued
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A preliminary injunction issued
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HHS layoffs were likely unlawful and must be halted, US judge says
A federal judge says that recent layoffs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services were likely unlawful and must be halted. U.S.
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July 1, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Another important court ruling, this time regarding the illegality of the HHS layoffs
A preliminary injunction issued
apnews.com/article/trum...
A preliminary injunction issued
apnews.com/article/trum...
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The Secretary of Health and Human Services testifying to Congress about how to make everyone healthy
July 1, 2025 at 8:55 PM
The Secretary of Health and Human Services testifying to Congress about how to make everyone healthy
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Hitler started with deportations and then quickly realized they were too expensive and moved to gas chambers.
I want you all to keep that in the front of your minds.
I want you all to keep that in the front of your minds.
REPORTER: Is the idea that if some illegal immigrants escapes, they get eaten by an alligator or a snake?
TRUMP: I guess that's the concept. This is not a nice business. I guess that's the concept.
TRUMP: I guess that's the concept. This is not a nice business. I guess that's the concept.
July 1, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Hitler started with deportations and then quickly realized they were too expensive and moved to gas chambers.
I want you all to keep that in the front of your minds.
I want you all to keep that in the front of your minds.
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as Republicans are poised to pass legislation stripping healthcare from more than 10 million Americans, all three major cable news networks are covering ... the Diddy trial
July 1, 2025 at 9:15 PM
as Republicans are poised to pass legislation stripping healthcare from more than 10 million Americans, all three major cable news networks are covering ... the Diddy trial
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I really don’t care about the Sean Combs trial, and I don’t need to know the verdict in real time.
The Senate just passed a bill that expands ICE into a no-shit unprecedented secret police force with more funding than the US Marines, and ALL OF THE CABLE NETWORKS are fixated on Sean Combs.
The Senate just passed a bill that expands ICE into a no-shit unprecedented secret police force with more funding than the US Marines, and ALL OF THE CABLE NETWORKS are fixated on Sean Combs.
July 1, 2025 at 9:22 PM
I really don’t care about the Sean Combs trial, and I don’t need to know the verdict in real time.
The Senate just passed a bill that expands ICE into a no-shit unprecedented secret police force with more funding than the US Marines, and ALL OF THE CABLE NETWORKS are fixated on Sean Combs.
The Senate just passed a bill that expands ICE into a no-shit unprecedented secret police force with more funding than the US Marines, and ALL OF THE CABLE NETWORKS are fixated on Sean Combs.
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Holy cow. A $35 copay for every dialysis treatment???
“New Copays: A $35-per-treatment copay for dialysis and CKD patients above the poverty line could cost dialysis patients over $5,000 annually.”
“New Copays: A $35-per-treatment copay for dialysis and CKD patients above the poverty line could cost dialysis patients over $5,000 annually.”
The so-called ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ that passed the Senate today is a giant leap backward for people living with kidney disease. NKF urges Congress to reject these harmful provisions. www.kidney.org/press-room/b...
Big Beautiful Bill is Downright Ugly for Kidney Patients
Tune in for the latest research and perspectives on kidney health from NKF.
www.kidney.org
July 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Holy cow. A $35 copay for every dialysis treatment???
“New Copays: A $35-per-treatment copay for dialysis and CKD patients above the poverty line could cost dialysis patients over $5,000 annually.”
“New Copays: A $35-per-treatment copay for dialysis and CKD patients above the poverty line could cost dialysis patients over $5,000 annually.”
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Even The New York Times won't put lipstick on this pig.
July 1, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Even The New York Times won't put lipstick on this pig.
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Dr. Coni: One patient had been receiving treatment with eye drops, but then I didn’t see her for months.. I wondered what had happened to her.
When she finally returned, she told me she had lost her Medicaid coverage and couldn’t afford her drops. As a result, she had gone blind in one eye.
When she finally returned, she told me she had lost her Medicaid coverage and couldn’t afford her drops. As a result, she had gone blind in one eye.
July 1, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Dr. Coni: One patient had been receiving treatment with eye drops, but then I didn’t see her for months.. I wondered what had happened to her.
When she finally returned, she told me she had lost her Medicaid coverage and couldn’t afford her drops. As a result, she had gone blind in one eye.
When she finally returned, she told me she had lost her Medicaid coverage and couldn’t afford her drops. As a result, she had gone blind in one eye.
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"They took hospitals and health care away from you so they could build concentration camps for immigrants."
I know that Medicare/ Medicaid is Democrats’ native language & what they’re happiest speaking but I’d love for SOME prominent person to try the line “they increased the debt limit by $5 trillion in order to triple size of ICE & make its detention center bigger than the whole federal prison system.”
July 2, 2025 at 12:31 AM
"They took hospitals and health care away from you so they could build concentration camps for immigrants."
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The name "Alligator Alcatraz" reminds us that America is currently run by adults who are like malicious, giggling children using magnifying glasses to burn ants.
July 2, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The name "Alligator Alcatraz" reminds us that America is currently run by adults who are like malicious, giggling children using magnifying glasses to burn ants.
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I continue to be struck by this language of “in accordance with the president’s priorities,” which treats the executive branch as an extension of the person of the president, and not a mechanism for instituting the will of Congress
July 2, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I continue to be struck by this language of “in accordance with the president’s priorities,” which treats the executive branch as an extension of the person of the president, and not a mechanism for instituting the will of Congress
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July 2, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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This is not in the bill. Just a total lie.
July 2, 2025 at 1:31 AM
This is not in the bill. Just a total lie.
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I can’t believe it and yet here’s the proof.
July 2, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I can’t believe it and yet here’s the proof.
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If I had said this last year, that Trump would try and deport US citizens in his first year, all Republicans and a nontrivial number of liberals and centrists would have attacked me for behind hyperbolic, and fear-mongering, and of having Trump Derangement Syndrome.
And yet:
And yet:
Trump calls for deporting US citizens: "We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that'll be the next job."
July 2, 2025 at 1:58 AM
If I had said this last year, that Trump would try and deport US citizens in his first year, all Republicans and a nontrivial number of liberals and centrists would have attacked me for behind hyperbolic, and fear-mongering, and of having Trump Derangement Syndrome.
And yet:
And yet:
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I watched a YouTube today with two retired NYC cops that were as cop as you can be interviewing Zohran Mamdani and they didn't say he was an antisemite the whole 30 minutes so apparently some members of the NYPD are to the left of Hakeem Jeffries lmao
Just heard Bill Kristol, former chief of staff for Dan Quayle, say he thinks ICE should be defunded and that the entire DHS should probably be disbanded, which puts him to the left of maybe the majority of elected Democrats. Truly wild times we’re living in.
July 2, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I watched a YouTube today with two retired NYC cops that were as cop as you can be interviewing Zohran Mamdani and they didn't say he was an antisemite the whole 30 minutes so apparently some members of the NYPD are to the left of Hakeem Jeffries lmao
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In October 2024, multiple top-tier media outlets told me their editors wouldn't approve stories on our Project 2025 modeling because Trump disavowed the plan.
And here we are.
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And here we are.
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This is exactly what Project 2025 proposed
Analysts called it "extreme" and "unlikely." Now, it's almost reality.
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July 2, 2025 at 2:43 AM
In October 2024, multiple top-tier media outlets told me their editors wouldn't approve stories on our Project 2025 modeling because Trump disavowed the plan.
And here we are.
heated.world/p/this-is-ex...
And here we are.
heated.world/p/this-is-ex...
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If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to
July 2, 2025 at 2:47 AM
If it took 8 days to build a massive concentration camp in Florida then it means they could build and house the homeless at any point but choose not to
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The Trump administration is currently holding hostage nearly $7B in federal funding for K-12 schools--funding that was supposed to be distributed yesterday.
They've stolen $80M from Wisconsin students and teachers alone. How much have they stolen from your state?
www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
They've stolen $80M from Wisconsin students and teachers alone. How much have they stolen from your state?
www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
See How Much School Funding Trump Is Holding Back From Your State
The administration is holding back nearly $7 billion for English learners, after-school programs, professional development, and more.
www.edweek.org
July 2, 2025 at 11:27 AM
The Trump administration is currently holding hostage nearly $7B in federal funding for K-12 schools--funding that was supposed to be distributed yesterday.
They've stolen $80M from Wisconsin students and teachers alone. How much have they stolen from your state?
www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
They've stolen $80M from Wisconsin students and teachers alone. How much have they stolen from your state?
www.edweek.org/policy-polit...
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The bill eliminates the $200 registration fee for gun silencers, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns & other easily concealable guns (that actually goes towards registering, background checks, etc)
It adds fees for dialysis patients to be able to receive necessary treatment to stay alive
It adds fees for dialysis patients to be able to receive necessary treatment to stay alive
$35 per treatment co-pay for dialysis.
$105 a week just to stay alive.
Irredeemable country.
$105 a week just to stay alive.
Irredeemable country.
The so-called ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ that passed the Senate today is a giant leap backward for people living with kidney disease. NKF urges Congress to reject these harmful provisions. www.kidney.org/press-room/b...
July 2, 2025 at 11:57 AM
The bill eliminates the $200 registration fee for gun silencers, short-barreled rifles, short-barreled shotguns & other easily concealable guns (that actually goes towards registering, background checks, etc)
It adds fees for dialysis patients to be able to receive necessary treatment to stay alive
It adds fees for dialysis patients to be able to receive necessary treatment to stay alive
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I feel like people are forgetting the Trump administration stripped hundreds of thousands of people of legal status and work permits. That is probably playing a measurable role in this.
July 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I feel like people are forgetting the Trump administration stripped hundreds of thousands of people of legal status and work permits. That is probably playing a measurable role in this.
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McGovern: "For those Republicans who think it's okay to give Jeff Bezos a tax cut and at the same time cut food benefits for struggling families, let me say clearly: We don't share the same values... I believe there's a special place in hell for people who take food away from veterans, seniors..."
July 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
McGovern: "For those Republicans who think it's okay to give Jeff Bezos a tax cut and at the same time cut food benefits for struggling families, let me say clearly: We don't share the same values... I believe there's a special place in hell for people who take food away from veterans, seniors..."
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“One mother, she said, told her she was giving her children high doses of vitamin A to ward off measles, based on an article posted by Children's Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group (founded) by RFK Jr.”
Vitamin A does not prevent measles and excessive supplementation can be harmful to children.
Vitamin A does not prevent measles and excessive supplementation can be harmful to children.
Doctors are having to beg parents to care enough about their children to get them vaccinated and save their lives.
Doctors push back as parents embrace Kennedy and vitamin A in Texas measles outbreak
Dr. Ana Montanez working overtime in Lubbock to contact vaccine-hesitant parents, explaining the grave risks posed by a disease that most American families have never seen, and one that can be prevented through immunization.
www.reuters.com
March 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM
“One mother, she said, told her she was giving her children high doses of vitamin A to ward off measles, based on an article posted by Children's Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group (founded) by RFK Jr.”
Vitamin A does not prevent measles and excessive supplementation can be harmful to children.
Vitamin A does not prevent measles and excessive supplementation can be harmful to children.
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Just FYI, Tom argued for universal welfare, abolition, public education, state-sponsored pre/post-natal care, family subsidies, & retirement for workers at 50 w/state pensions that would double at 60.
He also considered the American revolution a failure, co-opted by self-serving, landowning elites.
He also considered the American revolution a failure, co-opted by self-serving, landowning elites.
March 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Just FYI, Tom argued for universal welfare, abolition, public education, state-sponsored pre/post-natal care, family subsidies, & retirement for workers at 50 w/state pensions that would double at 60.
He also considered the American revolution a failure, co-opted by self-serving, landowning elites.
He also considered the American revolution a failure, co-opted by self-serving, landowning elites.