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DSquared75

@dsquared75.bsky.social
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#Healthcare, #Medicaid #Housing and #Disability Policy Wonk; House #Oversight Alum; #Mets fan; NOVA Democrat; California Berkeley alum; and lifelong student of #history. New around here!

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
New York City turned OUT. @handsoffnyc.bsky.social ✊❤️
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Tangerine Twit Troll @tangerinetwittroll.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Looks like the regime has put JD in charge of bullshit.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 11/01/2026
I think it’s important to point out: ICE does NOT have the same authority as a police officer. They do NOT have the power to enforce laws, only to engage in their specific tasks. IE: they don’t do traffic, etc. impeding traffic is not a penalty ICE can enforce against
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Federal Reserve @federalreserve.gov · 12/01/2026
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
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Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/01/2026
Auchincloss: "When you have a badge & gun and you are interacting with a citizen who has committed no crime, the onus of responsibility is on you to exercise good judgment. Nobody watching that video will buy the argument that he had no other resort other than to shoot her in the face 3 times."
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Lawrence Carter-Long @lcarterlong.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
ACCESS/ACCOUNTABILITY: 35 yrs after the #ADA, #disabled travelers show up to #inaccessible hotels & accommodations that don't exist. @nprjoeshapiro.bsky.social at @npr.org asked, investigated & reported. If this resonates with or shocks you pls read, share, demand better. www.npr.org/2025/12/24/n...
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35 years after ADA, people with disabilities still find hotels unaccommodating
AN NPR survey finds that people with disability still find hotels unaccommodating, even 35 years after passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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DSquared75 @dsquared75.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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Higher Obamacare Prices Become Public in a Dozen States
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DSquared75 @dsquared75.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
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Higher Obamacare Prices Become Public in a Dozen States
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2025
Khanna: "We have to understand how abnormal this is. You don't mock someone and put a video out about how they look. You don't ever mock people's ethnicity. How do you negotiate with that? And how have we made this normal?"
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Blue Virginia @bluevirginia.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
2025 GOP VA Lt. Gov. Nominee John Reid Argues with Wife of Federal Worker Over Trump’s Layoffs (Reid Doubles Down on the GOP's Response to Fired Workers: Update Your Resume) bluevirginia.us/2025/09/2025...
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Erik Halvorsen @erikhalvorsen.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
“Republicans Take Medicaid Support for Food and Housing From Fragile N.C. Residents” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/h...
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Fragile N.C. Residents Lose Medicaid Support for Food and Housing
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Abigail Spanberger @abigailspanberger.com · 29/09/2025
Housing. Healthcare. Energy. Three basic essentials that Virginians rely on every single day — but too many families struggle to afford. Making life more affordable in Virginia is my top priority — and on Day One, I’ll get to work to lower costs across the Commonwealth.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
This www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/09/2025
Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
"Members were unprepared, misunderstood or ignored key data and highlighted flawed or inconclusive research often trumpeted by vaccine critics." wapo.st/3I5qLSY
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Vaccine panel that limited covid shot scrutinized after chaotic meetings
Members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices showed a tenuous grasp of process and cited flawed research as they revisited covid, hepatitis B and MMRV shots.
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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Giving a bully your lunch money is only a temporary downpayment for future bullying. We ALL need to step up for the first amendment. By-the-way, for the record, this ex-Disney employee finds Jimmy Kimmel very talented and funny. mh
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/09/2025
There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.
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Abigail Spanberger @abigailspanberger.com · 19/09/2025
Virginia, you deserve a Governor who will put you first. I’m ready for the job.
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Abigail Spanberger @abigailspanberger.com · 19/09/2025
For some reason, Winsome Earle-Sears says Virginians should elect her to “keep a good thing going”... I have questions. Is she referring to Virginia’s rising unemployment rate? Higher costs? Health clinic closures? Virginia deserves better.
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Abigail Spanberger @abigailspanberger.com · 19/09/2025
My opponent is about to get on stage with Vivek Ramaswamy, one of the chief architects of DOGE — responsible for firing thousands of Virginia workers. Winsome Earle-Sears, this is shameful. Virginians deserve better.
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Abigail Spanberger @abigailspanberger.com · 20/09/2025
Our campaign is by and for Virginians — it’s why my focus is on lowering costs and making life easier across the Commonwealth. That’s how you put Virginia first.
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Abigail Spanberger @abigailspanberger.com · 20/09/2025
Yesterday was the first day of early voting in Virginia — and I was so excited to celebrate with so many of you across the Commonwealth! Here's how I spent Day 1 of early voting. 🗳️
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Disney/ABC did not wait for the FCC hammer to fall — they chose, instead, to obey in advance. But, even then, the corporate lackeys lacked the courage of their capitulation — failing to offer any explanation or defense of their surrender. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...
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Kimmel, Kinzinger, and MAGA's State-Sponsored Cancel Culture
ABC obeys in advance
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John Collins @logicallyjc.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
This is so messed up.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2025
Wow- Cassidy says that "I understand that Sen Mullin implied there was a recording of the meeting between Dr Monarez and Sec Kennedy. I will note that if materials have been provided to Mullin, they are official committee records...if it does not exist, I ask Mullin to retract his line of questions"
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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
the mass resignations at cdc are because insane people are going to force the cdc to say vaccines cause autism
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 17/08/2025
Late last night I mapped crime rates for cities in OH, SC and WV to show how often they exceeded the rate in DC — where those states’ governors are sending National Guard troops to “combat crime.” www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...
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More people in Ohio need protection from violent crime than there are people in D.C.
Governors of three states — Ohio, South Carolina and West Virginia — are sending members of their state National Guards to D.C. to … well, theoretically to combat crime but, if the past week is any in...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
If you’re under any illusions about what an authoritarian personality cult the GOP has become, they’re not hiding it:
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Katherine Clark @whipkclark.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Donald Trump told Americans he would never come after Medicaid. Then, he signed a Big Ugly Law that cuts it by over $900B to give tax cuts to billionaires. You deserve better than this betrayal.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Women dressed in Handmaid regalia follow GOP Congressman Rep. Mike Flood NEBRASKA (R)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
I enjoyed chatting with Stephen Colbert on "The Late Show." My thoughts on how we save our democracy are the same today as when we last spoke on "The Colbert Report" in 2010. We must get big money out of politics.
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Melissa Jo Peltier @melissjpeltier.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
This is pure Nazism. They’re taking away crisis intervention. They’re not setting up new mental health hospitals…”other appropriate facilities” means something very different.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Blanche’s meeting with G. Maxwell stinks of a cover-up I’ll discuss the meeting, plus the work done today @democracydefendersfund.org in support of Mr. Rengel, who was wrongfully & inhumanely disappeared to CECOT, tonight on @msnbc.com at 6pm ET We’re pursuing accountability on all fronts! — TN
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‘I Want to Clear My Name’: Deported Migrant Takes First Step to Sue the U.S.
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Politico @politico.com · 09/07/2025
The GOP blew past debt warnings as they pushed the megabill forward. The markets have noticed.
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Wall Street’s debt warnings went unheeded as GOP pushed megabill forward
Treasury bond yields have crept up as market watchers openly wonder if either party is capable of improving the nation's fiscal trajectory.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Congrats everyone, we now have 35% tariffs on Canada for no apparent reason
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
It’s been five days since floods in Texas killed at least 111 people and FEMA’s Acting Administrator David Richardson still hasn’t made a single public or internal statement.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
CEO pay is up 1,085% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 24%.  Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 24/06/2025
Don’t need to worry about diversity when only the 1% can afford secondary education!
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a man in a leather jacket is making a funny face while looking at the camera .
Alt: a man is tapping the side of his head while smirking at the camera like he knows something we don’t
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Touché.
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DSquared75 @dsquared75.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
37 minutes left to vote in Virginia's Democratic Primary. I voted, and you can too!
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DSquared75 @dsquared75.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Shame on @abc and @disney for shuttering and silencing @fivethirtyeight.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy
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DSquared75 @dsquared75.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
What does ABC mean then when they claim they will continue to lead on data journalism if they are firing all staff?
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 28/05/2025
The people of Missouri made it very clear: They wanted abortion rights (at least until fetal viability). Alas, the Missouri Supreme Court doesn’t seem to be inclined to listen.
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Missouri Supreme Court defies voters, halts abortions in the state
Despite passage of a constitutional amendment last fall, the ping-pong battle over "reproductive freedom" continues.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 28/05/2025
Breaking News: A judge said the government should release Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist employed by Harvard University, saying U.S. customs had “no factual or legal basis” for revoking her visa.
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Judge Finds Government Acted Illegally in Russian Scientist Case
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Kaitlin Is Just Getting Started @gothamgirlblue.com · 28/05/2025
At the core of the counterargument to Trumpism is the ideal that we are all in this together. There is no one who deserves neglect or suffering from the government because of their political views. Not even if they voted for the suffering of others.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
This is so infuriating because we already know the answer: *We had a public-private partnership that created Free File. It is a bad product because the private actors did not want real competition. *Direct File was far better which is why it was killed! donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-ta...
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How the tax preparation industry killed free e-filing
The private capture and monetization of a public service
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 17/05/2025
Good morning to everyone except those who are part of the fake, very not real agency DOGE named after a memecoin because the govt is run by dorks
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The Secretary of Health doesn't want to give advice on health and doesn't feel like it's his place to tell people whether vaccines are good or bad. What does he imagine his job to be?
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