I don't get Medicaid.
I’m not on food stamps.
I rely on no Social Safety nets.
But I still believe in FULLY funding these programs.
Why?
Because I'm not a cruel ruthless selfish piece of shit.
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Louisiana’s worst whooping cough outbreak in decades: 387 cases, 2 infant deaths.
After Surgeon General Ralph Abraham paused vaccine promotion, cases surged and the public was left in the dark.
Antivaxx politics cost lives.
Nice article from @rosemarywestwood.bsky.social
I’m not going to lose healthcare.
I’m not going to lose SNAP.
I’m not going to lose HUD.
But I’m heartbroken that people who need a little hand will lose help.
I’d much rather my tax $ go to lend a hand.
What pisses me off it’s going to a billionaire’s golf trips and retrofitting a “gift” jet.
Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 79th day out of the last 91.
The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.
It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.
The amount of love, community, and fellowship I saw during the first No Kings was incredible. I can only assume and hope this one will be the same.
I’ve never been into baseball, but my grandma was a huge mariners fan. So I’m jumping on the bandwagon for her. She would have loved this season and all the love for Cal.
As more info comes in this needs to be said: if it wasn’t some left wing radical that did it, and it appears it wasn’t, there need to be massive pushback because they are STILL pretending it’s some culture war and it is only in their own minds
Dangerous times
A lot more states are offering paid parental leave and NM just made daycare free! Still a long way to go before we have good parental leave, but it’s much better than it was 10 years ago.
THE TSUNAMI IS STILL COMING TOWARD HAWAII! Ocean buoys are registering tide changes right this minute! STAY IN YOUR SAFE SPACE. Just because the water didn't rush up over the beach at 7:17pm on the dot doesn't mean it's not going to.
Do NOT be a moron!
It’s a genocide, possibly the greatest moral catastrophe of our time, and the flippant unwillingness to grapple with it is an egregious failure of intellect in addition to a chilling abdication of honor.
John Lewis walked, bled, and lived for justice.
Five years since his passing, we honor him the only way we know how:
By refusing to stay silent and getting in more Good Trouble.
Then he told his dad, “I think about baby brother a lot.”
My heart exploded.
Tonight, my 3 year old noticed my 2 week old was crying, correctly identified it as a hunger cry, went into the kitchen, pulled his stool up to the fridge & got a bottle out.
Then he brought it outside and started feeding the baby. All before Dad had a chance to go do the same.
America has no kings, no crowns, and we will not bow down to a wannabe dictator.
Today is about freedom, democracy, and justice.
Happy Independence Day.
Take your 15 min and be sad, mad, scared, outraged. Heck, take today if you need to. But do not give up. Do not abandon our children, our future, our nation.
Maybe now folks will have the appetite for a general strike. We must plan and organize and recruit in earnest. We all have work to do now.
“Pro-life”
49 of 53 Republican senators back: killing 40,000 per year by ending accesses to healthcare, funding ICE more than most militaries to create police state, raising taxes on working families while giving billionaires tax cut, adding trillions in debt.
I worked at Planned Parenthood.
They diagnose cancers while still treatable. They help women decide what birth control works for them. They help those working through mental health challenges.
Defunding them just harms people who already struggle to find places to get care.
Unfortunately, I agree. So, if you’re thinking “I can’t wait until the midterms…” well..”they are not planning on having elections!”
The Dems will literally try ANYTHING other than moving to the left.
I genuinely cannot believe how many Democrats are spending their energy on destroying Mamdani when the GOP is trying to turn ICE into a full on secret police by drastically raising their budget
I’m about to go to the Senate floor to talk about how the GOP’s proposed budget will sell out the American people. Watch here:
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
Remember Collins and Murkowski could have stopped this. People who lose healthcare coverage will die because of them
2.977 people died on 9/11.
The daily quote for ICE is 3000.
I think putting it in terms like that puts it into perspective.
They want one 9/11 every day.
My girl Sydney wants you to stay in this world. She says your story is worth existing and sharing.
Crazy how Corey Booker stood up for 24 hours, people got all wound up that maybe the dems were gonna get off their asses, just to have them shift in their seats, continually lame observers, allowing all of this to continue.
We are living in precarious times.
It's Saturday, so you may not realize, but you should know Republicans are RACING to pass the LARGEST cuts to health care and nutrition assistance in our country's HISTORY
All to pass TRILLIONS in tax giveaways for billionaires who don't need it.
Senators must vote NO.