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Jillian Elliott

@jillianelliott.bsky.social
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Former nonprofit professional. Current community organizer. I love my family, friends, animals, books, music, and democracy.

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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Trump ended enhanced assistance toward Medicare Part D plans and his CMS introduced new burdensome prior authorization to traditional Medicare through WISeR. Arsonists don’t deserve credit for putting out part of the fire they started.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
There's a new wave of Democratic ads across the country that are somehow brutally partisan and incredibly effective and it's going to take some time for me to get used to this?
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Seriously, unless you're going to call me a "scientist" for helping my son with his class volcano project and call me a "physician" because I applied a band-aid successfully, please please PLEASE stop calling any random crank who shits out a book about the past a "historian"
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SABUCH @sabuch.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When you think your vote doesn’t count remember this story. #VoteForTurek he drags his wheelchair up stairs to talk to his constituents.  He won his previous vote by… 6 votes. So get your asses out there and #VOTE!  youtube.com/watch?v=pk9z...
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Blue Wave On the Prairie? w/ Josh Turek | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
YouTube video by The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
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Pocket News 📰 @jeanpocket.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today before Senate.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The most useless form of news is “CEO says.” Can this tool actually do what it says or is the company just trying to profit off fear?
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Imagine saying, “Wait, this person has been carrying auto insurance all year but hasn’t filed claims? Obvious fraud!”
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Ken Paxton lied to his own staff. That's why they reported him to the FBI. He lied to his friends. It's why he was indicted for investment fraud. He lied to his own party. It's why they impeached him for bribery. Watch: youtu.be/vzr1VgpzYpI?...
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James Talarico RIPS INTO Ken Paxton’s corruption on LIVE TV
YouTube video by James Talarico
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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As a disability advocate I’m heartbroken by this. Please for the love of everything you hold dear, vote blue in November. Republican policies, their shenanigans and their hand picked court jesters are harming the most vulnerable amongst us. Check your registration! Register! Get out the VOTE!
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
BREAKING WaPo: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson just slammed the Supreme Court's use of its "emergency docket" — suggesting the court has misused the process in allowing the Trump admin to move forward with a host of controversial policies while challenges play out in lower court.
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Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson criticizes Supreme Court’s use of emergency docket
In a public appearance, Jackson said the high court’s use of the emergency docket was “problematic” and called for more restraint from her colleagues when using it.
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Mark DeSaulnier @repmarkdesaulnier.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Lifesaving scientific research should not be dictated by the party occupying the White House. Congress has already blocked Trump’s proposal to cut biomedical research spending once and we must stand united against this new illegal attack on NIH research funding. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/s...
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White House Moves to Take Control of N.I.H. Grants (Gift Article)
Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
What a line from Warren Buffett this morning: “Be kind, and the world is better off. I'm not sure that the world will be better off if I'm richer." [applause] 🙏🏼
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 12/09/2026
There is a clear cycle of corruption between the Trump administration and the companies that run his for-profit detention centers.   Delaney Hall must be shut down for good.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
JUST IN: A federal judge concludes that DHS leaders arbitrarily decided to cut FEMA staff by 50% even though it damaged the agency's ability to fulfill its mission — and leaders hid their comms about it on auto-delete Signal chains. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Counterpoint to all of this bullshit: Abolish ICE.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
In my latest @msnowreports.bsky.social article, I discuss the ways that the not-so-beautiful bill will reshape the broader financialization of health in ways that have not generated sufficient attention — whether private equity, consolidation, or ending key health services www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
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Opinion | The bill for Trump’s Medicaid cuts is coming due — for everyone
Though much attention has centered on the closure of rural hospitals, quieter transformations could reshape healthcare for publicly and privately insured patients alike.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
NEW EPISODE: Less than two months before Election Day, I lay out Donald Trump's blueprint to rig the 2026 midterms. Watch and share. youtu.be/fpRs4GoF378?...
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Trump's Blueprint to Rig the Midterms is Already in Motion
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Darth Empath @jhatman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A human can only survive 2-7 days without clean water, whereas we can survive in perpetuity without datacenters. Choose wisely.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Help the Internet Archive, which is saving a lot of the data being purged/censored by the Trump Administration (and so much more).....
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Wolf Hour @wolfhour.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"No business which depends for existence on paying less than living wages to its workers has any right to continue in this country. By living wages I mean more than a bare subsistence level - I mean the wages of decent living." .. (Franklin. D. Roosevelt) ..(cartoon Nick Anderson)
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Prioritizing erectile dysfunction research over addressing infant mortality, cancer screenings, and suicide prevention tells you basically everything you need to know about this administration's health priorities.
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Bruce Wilson @brucewilson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Trump Pentagon is trying to steal NIH funds for "research to develop treatments or cures for infectious diseases such as influenza, malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, Ebola, and other dangerous pathogens." They want to steal the $ to pay for Trump's idiotic war on Iran.
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Jillian Elliott @jillianelliott.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“Women have two choices: Either she’s a feminist or a masochist.” ~Gloria Steinem
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A big problem we face is that most Republicans view anyone with a differing political view as a threat to America, an enemy, whereas most Democrats are under the delusion that such Republicans are just political opponents...and not the threat to America they really are.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Not only will this result in the discarding of legitimate ballots, but it will exacerbate the health divide in participation and, in turn, representation. Not only do healthy people already vote at a higher rate, but people with illnesses and disabilities are more likely to rely on vote-by-mail.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
It's worth noting that this isn't a random number but a goal that would simply restore the court to an earlier norm in which there's one justice for each of the judicial circuits. We used to have nine, we now have thirteen. The people defending the current setup have the tougher case to make here.
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David Rothkopf @djrothkopf.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Trump, empowered by SCOTUS, entered office convinced he could do insider trading, sell pardons and favors, take bribes, steal and openly flout the law. Now, with the prospect of investigations looming, he is growing ever more fearful that he miscalculated.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Two thirds of California’s 22nd are on Medicaid, which Davis Valadeo voted to decimate. This is a district to watch in November.
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Jillian Elliott @jillianelliott.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Partisan Operatives Wrote a Census Report. Nobody Signed It.
YouTube video by Platypus Economics with Justin Wolfers
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Jillian Elliott @jillianelliott.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Beautiful thread.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
♥️
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/08/2026
Ossoff: "I have zero interest in running for president in 2028, and frankly zero interest in the 2028 fantasy football right now ... these midterms are the whole ballgame ... I don't know that we have a free and fair election in 2028 unless we restore checks and balances in these 2026 midterms."
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Michele Dotson 🇺🇸🫶🏾⚖️🗳📬🇺🇦✌🏾🦾 @michelesgreenbook.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Connecting the climate crisis dots that Trump and his Republican regime are desperately trying to erase as they enthusiastically favor oil and gas over green energy and prioritize AI data centers over environmental conservation. Climate.gov becomes Climate.us. www.marinebio.org/the-scientis...
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The Scientists Who Built Climate.gov Just Rebuilt It. They Called It Climate.us. | MarineBio Conservation Society
On June 24, 2025, the Trump administration redirected Climate.gov, NOAA's flagship public climate information website, to a government page where the data is technically present but, in the words of t...
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Aaron Fritschner @fritschner.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Video of an ICE agent pulling a gun on a wife and mother, who is a US citizen born and raised in the area, near Bailey's Crossroads in Northern Virginia yesterday. Chillingly, they claimed she “almost ran them over” until she told them she had video proving that was a lie.
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
“The idea wasn’t just to retroactively protect ‘the babies of slaves’; it was to prospectively forestall future efforts to deny citizenship based on whatever other non-sovereignty-based criteria might be politically popular in any given moment.” Me on why Trump’s new EO is *still* unconstitutional:
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243. Birthright Citizenship, Redux
President Trump's new attempt to cabin birthright citizenship is a lot narrower than the one the Supreme Court struck down in June. Its key provisions are still unconstitutional.
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Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Elon Musk is funding an Alaska ballot initiative that would repeal the top-4 ranked-choice voting system … and “eliminate campaign finance laws that enable Alaska voters to know when big spenders like Musk give money to Alaska campaigns.”
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Yikes. Women accounted for all of the job losses and all of the labor force decline in July, according to @nwlc.org
WASHINGTON — Women accounted for 100 percent of the decline in the labor force in July, according to a National Women’s Law Center jobs analysis of monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That brings the total net number of women who have left the labor force since January this year to 845,000. In comparison, there are 406,000 fewer men in the labor force now than in January. 

A total of 165,000 women, aged 20 and over, left the labor force last month — meaning they are neither working nor looking for work — while men's labor force participation was unchanged. Overall, the economy lost 23,000 jobs in July. Women accounted for all of these losses, losing 32,000 jobs, while men gained 9,000 jobs. Women make up 50.1% of the workforce.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
SNAP has an outstanding ROI: every dollar we invest in SNAP generates $1.54 in economic activity. With SNAP cuts, people can’t continue to support these local grocers, so local businesses suffer. Everyone loses.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
James Talarico: 50 years ago, a corporate lawyer named Lewis Powell circulated a memo around DC — a blueprint for how corporations could amass political power, reverse the gains of the Great Society and the New Deal, and rig the system for themselves. And it worked.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The so-called president of the United States is a massive money launderer and cut off by the bank that discovered it. Yet the story barely registers with the legacy media. What a disgrace.
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
NEW: Amid AG confirmation battle, Todd Blanche assured anti-abortion activists that he's working to make Dobbs 'permanent in every single state.' Admin will act 'soon' to limit mail-order abortion drugs. w/ @alicemiranda.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
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Blanche assures anti-abortion supporters that Dobbs will be ‘permanent in every single state’
The acting attorney general made the remarks during a private call with faith leaders.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The news story about Donald Trump being desperate for immunity for tax fraud & the news story about Donald Trump being kicked to the curb by Capital One for widespread money laundering are RELATED.
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Jillian Elliott @jillianelliott.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
We owe so much to farm workers. The least we can do is to protect them, make sure they are fairly compensated (how much of the rising prices actually get to workers?), and treat them with gratitude and kindness.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
On Tuesday, the Trump Admin announced they were ending the Medicare Part D subsidy program. Touching the third rail of politics is a heckuva strategy going into midterms (part D open enrollment starts 10/15). My latest analysis for @msnowreports.bsky.social. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
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Opinion | Trump’s Medicare change comes at a curious time
Less than three weeks before the midterm elections, America’s most reliable voting bloc will receive notice of higher healthcare costs.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
For a brief moment, there was Congressional and governmental support to ensure that children didn't face deportation alone. Then the Trump administration moved to gut the programs, and tens of thousands of kids who have lawyers now may lose them, while hundreds of thousands more go without counsel.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
It has been a real treat to get to chat with the Senate Finance Democrats about what my book Coverage Denied found on health insurance barriers and how to mitigate them. Today, they released a Request for Information on private insurance reform, citing my work! www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele @drdragases.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
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AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29/07/2026
Peter Navarro: "I had a million doses of hydroxychloroquine in warehouses as the defense policy coordinator that I was trying to distribute to hospitals. And Fauci got the FDA stop me from doing that."
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