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NPR @npr.org · 14/06/2025
Workers are "terrified" as immigration agents sweep farms, the president of United Farm Workers says, adding that Americans should think about the "human loss" as well as "crops rotting" in the fields.
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Americans will feel impact of immigration enforcement on farms, union president warns
Workers are "terrified" as immigration agents sweep farms, the president of United Farm Workers says, adding that Americans should think about the "human loss" as well as "crops rotting" in the fields
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Trump has pledged to restore Confederate names to military bases, even though it would violate a statute passed by Congress. These names belong to traitors who led a rebellion against America. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...
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Trump Says Army Bases Will Revert to Confederate Names
The move would reverse a yearslong effort to remove names and symbols honoring the Confederacy from the military.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Guards bar volunteers, reporters from Sacramento immigration court hearings www.sacbee.com/news/politic...
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Guards bar volunteers, reporters from Sacramento immigration court hearings
Federal authorities on Friday morning detained at least four more people attending hearings. “The fear that this is causing is real,” one immigration attorney said.
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CAP Action @americanprogressaction.org · 13/06/2025
@governorwalz.mn.gov: "The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you're overreacting."
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Dean Obeidallah @deanobeidallah.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
REMINDER: Netanyahu convinced Trump in 2018 to withdraw US from Iran nuclear deal that Obama and allies had negotiated. That Deal would've prevented Iran from getting a nuclear weapon. The death and destruction we're seeing now is 100% bc of Trump & Netanyahu www.timesofisrael.com/in-recording...
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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 14/06/2025
These aren’t just numbers. They’re families, seniors, and kids who rely on Medicaid every single day. Republicans just voted to cut this vital care—putting millions at risk. We should be strengthening Medicaid, not gutting it. 💬 Share this to stand up for health care that works for everyone.
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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 14/06/2025
“No hearing. No justice. Just vanished.” Andry came to the U.S. seeking asylum, but before he could plead his case, he was detained and sent to El Salvador without due process. His lawyers haven’t heard from him in THREE MONTHS. Join us in demanding Congress take action: hrc.im/BringThemBack
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MS NOW @ms.now · 14/06/2025
OPINION by @ezralevin.bsky.social, @officialmlk3.bsky.social and @arndreaking.bsky.social: "Trump is counting on our fear. We’re betting on our courage. Trump wants a crown, but we won’t bow. We will rise." READ MORE:
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The ‘No Kings’ mass mobilization debunks Trump’s biggest myth
While the president hosts a grand parade, we hold a parade of the people.
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
"My index finger.They [Russians] said, 'You don't need it anymore." This is a Ukrainian Defender from Sloviansk,Donetsk region, who was returned to #Ukraine during today's exchange. While in captivity,the Russians cut his index finger off, "justifying" this by saying that "he no longer needed it."
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14/06/2025
As Trump parades like a monarch, Americans are in the streets saying: No. We’re tracking the nationwide protests in real time. Follow our live coverage: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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As Trump throws himself a parade, watch protesters across America say, no kings
From coast to coast, Americans march with one message:
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 14/06/2025
I will provide an update on last night’s targeted shootings shortly: youtube.com/live/VHtHNAb...
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State officials provide update on overnight incidents in Brooklyn Park, Champlin
YouTube video by Minnesota Department of Public Safety
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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Trinity Amor @trinityamor.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Here’s the mood for today 😊 Stick together Move together Stay unified Protect each other Work together to make our point….WE WANT HIM GONE! We are happy and prosperous without him and his hate. Do NOT engage with them Do NOT be violent at all Rise up people ✊🏻
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MS NOW @ms.now · 14/06/2025
BREAKING: Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks after two state lawmakers were shot in what Walz called an "assassination attempt." www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 10/06/2025
The relationship between President Trump and California Gov. Gavin Newsom reached a near-breaking point Monday, as Trump said that he thought Newsom should be arrested, a claim that Newsom described as an unmistakable step toward authoritarianism. wapo.st/4l1LVyZ
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom says Trump is stepping toward authoritarianism
President Trump threatened California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s arrest, prompting Newsom to accuse Trump of taking a step toward authoritarianism.
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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
This is why healthcare is too expensive. "Here’s a wild-but-true factoid: 10 of the 20 largest companies on the new Fortune 500 list derive profit from the 340B program. I guess you can’t throw off tens of billions of profits without titans of industry figuring out how to get their hands on it."
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CNN @cnn.com · 10/06/2025
JUST IN: President Donald Trump has authorized the deployment of 2,000 more National Guard troops to LA even as California sues to have his orders overturned.
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LA protests continue as California sues Trump administration: Live updates | CNN
California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Gov. Gavin Newsom are asking the court to set aside President Donald Trump’s “unlawful action” of federalizing the California National Guard amid protests in ...
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NBC4 Washington @nbcwashington.com · 10/06/2025
California is suing the Trump administration over the National Guard being deployed to L.A. Also on The News4 Rundown: preparations are underway for the military parade in D.C. and Capitals player T.J. Oshie announces his retirement.
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CA sues Trump administration over National Guard deployment: The News4 Rundown
California is suing the Trump administration over the National Guard being deployed to L.A. Also on The News4 Rundown: preparations are underway for the military parade in D.C. and Capitals player T.J...
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NPR @npr.org · 10/06/2025
Since taking office, President Trump has aggressively tried to reshape cultural institutions. Last month, he claimed he was firing the director of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.
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President Trump said he fired a Smithsonian museum director. Can he do that?
Since taking office, President Trump has aggressively tried to reshape cultural institutions. Last month, he claimed he was firing the director of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery.
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altNOAA 🇺🇸 @altnoaa.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Newsom says the National Guard troops are bored and having nothing to do. So, give them something to do. Surely the City of Los Angeles has toilets to clean, graffiti to remove, and other important jobs this government labor can be doing. Let’s not pay people to just stand around!
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
We really are sinking to new lows in this country on a daily basis. An official account of the US Dept of Defense is making political statements like this. Twitter Trolls speaking for the US military, & not one Republican in Congress will say a word because they are all cowards.
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Olga Lautman 🇺🇦 @olgalautman.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
I know everyone is occupied w authoritarian tactics of Trump sending marines & national guard to LA but wanted to show the hypocrisy of this lawless regime. Trump is installing a pardoned drug trafficker as deputy director of the federal Bureau of Prisons
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Former federal inmate pardoned by Trump tapped as Bureau of Prisons deputy director
Joshua J. Smith, a Tennessee businessman whom the president pardoned during his first term, now advocates for inmate rehabilitation.
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NPR @npr.org · 10/06/2025
Tariff collections are up sharply in the last 2 months. Congressional forecasters say tariffs could help reduce the federal debt, but they'll also lead to higher inflation and slower economic growth.
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Trump tariff revenue soars 78%. Who's paying them?
Tariff collections are up sharply in the last 2 months. Congressional forecasters say tariffs could help reduce the federal debt, but they'll also lead to higher inflation and slower economic growth.
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CNN @cnn.com · 10/06/2025
President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan argued that it was necessary to deploy hundreds of Marines to Los Angeles to quell immigration protests that are happening in the city – despite local officials saying it’s unclear why they are there or what they are doing.
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Trump’s border czar defends decision to deploy hundreds of Marines to quell LA protests | CNN Politics
President Donald Trump’s border czar Tom Homan argued Monday that it was necessary to deploy hundreds of Marines to Los Angeles to quell immigration protests that are happening in the city – despite l...
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HeatherTaylorDuCharme @npducharme.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
What can we do to support LA and California against Trump and militarizing the government against citizens?
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Jerry @jerrymercer.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Well he wants $1,000,000,000,000 to continue the violence. Immigration enforcement spending is already extreme.🩸This admin is diverting thousands of agents from other federal law enforcement agencies and much of the military to enforcing immigration and border law." www.cato.org/blog/deporta...
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Deportations to Add Almost $1 Trillion in Costs to the “Big Beautiful Bill”
Properly considered, the actual cost of H.R. 1’s immigration enforcement spending is nearly $1 trillion more than the CBO estimates. When seen in the context of the overall costs of the bill, mass dep...
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Jeff Tiedrich @jefftiedrich.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
from today's post, about Donny Convict's bloodthirsty spite-fueled police-state clusterfuck in Los Angeles. please read the whole thing, thanks! link is here: bit.ly/43AfmSZ (and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)
let’s be clear: Preznit Fuckwit needed a distraction. his tariff scheme went tits-up. everyone’s laughing at Taco Donny. Putin’s ignoring him. no one’s impressed with his vulgar flying bordello. his ‘big beautiful bill’ is a big beautiful clusterfuck. DOGE is a bust. his bromance with the Space Nazi has gone fuckity-bye.

the Mad King had to come up with something, anything, to make him feel better about his own worthless, failing self — and so he decided to go full fascist.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 10/06/2025
BREAKING: California sues Trump, accusing him of illegally taking control of the state’s National Guard to suppress protests. The lawsuit calls Trump's move unprecedented, unlawful and unconstitutional. From: @yuniorarivas.bsky.social
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California Sues Trump Over “Unlawful” National Guard Takeover
Read more here.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
“… the closest this nation has come to such a definition of rebellion was when Mr. Trump’s own supporters (whom he incited, then mostly pardoned) sacked the U.S. Capitol in 2021.” ❌👑 Meet us in the streets Saturday. NoKings.org #50501Movement #FiftyFiftyOne #NoKings #PeoplesMovement #June14
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Live news, investigations, opinion, photos and video by the journalists of The New York Times from more than 150 countries around the world. Subscribe for coverage of U.S. and international news, poli...
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Trump invoked a rarely used provision that allows for the deployment of the Nat Guard if there is a rebellion against the U.S. gov. @nytimes.com: “No such rebellion is underway. …Americans in cities routinely cause more property damage after their sports teams win or lose.”
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 09/06/2025
ICYMI: The DOJ issued a formal warning to Wisconsin’s elections board, accusing it of violating federal law and threatening to withhold election funds. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ Threatens Wisconsin Elections Commission with Funding Cutoff Over Alleged Voting Law Violation
Read more here.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 09/06/2025
While calm reigned for much of the day, tensions flared anew in the afternoon as authorities lobbed tear gas at a growing crowd of protesters gathered by the Edward R. Roybal Federal Building, which houses an immigration detention center near the city’s downtown core. Read more here:
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L.A. protesters clash with officers as National Guard presence draws pushback
The Guard’s arrival marks a potentially volatile phase in Trump’s push to ramp up deportations and in his contentious relationship with state and local authorities.
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 09/06/2025
British photographer Nick Stern said he was hit with a 14mm high-velocity "sponge bullet" in his thigh while he was covering a stand-off between protestors and law enforcement in L.A.
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Almost 60 arrested in L.A. so far, police say
At least 56 people were arrested in Los Angeles over the weekend, police said. Capt.
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HeatherTaylorDuCharme @npducharme.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
His goal is to spend the constitution. He's as un-American as Putin.
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CatDaMaMa @catdamama.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
NBC Interview with Gavin Newsom. He lays it on the line and slams Trump on everything from the illegal take over of the national guard to tariffs and is not holding back. This is how Dems need to handle Trump.
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'Tom, arrest me. Let's go.': Gov. Gavin Newsom responds to Trump border czar's threat
In an exclusive interview with NBC News' Jacob Soboroff, California Governor Gavin Newsom said that President Trump "has created the conditions" surrounding the Los Angeles protests. The governor went...
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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 09/06/2025
Sen. Bernie Sanders on Trump's 'big, beautiful bill': They are doing this so they can give $600 billion in tax breaks to the top 1% and $400 billion in tax breaks to large, profitable corporations. This bill is an outrage—and the American people have to stand up and fight back.
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Protect Our Care @protectourcare.org · 09/06/2025
Bernie Sanders: If the Republicans were serious about cutting health care costs, you don't throw people off of Medicaid or Medicare. You have the guts to take on the insurance companies who are ripping off the American people every single day. 🔥
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 09/06/2025
The chaos that unfolded in LA over the weekend was sparked by ICE raids at workplaces, a controversial policy that appears designed to appease the Trump administration’s desire to increase the number of deportations at all costs.
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The ICE policy that set off chaos in LA
Workplace immigration raids are back—even if they could cripple the US workforce.
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Morning Joe @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
'Arrest me': Gov. Gavin Newsom pushes back against threats of arrest by Trump administration www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMW8...
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'Arrest me': Gov. Gavin Newsom pushes back against threats of arrest by Trump administration
YouTube video by MSNBC
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 09/06/2025
The trend has translated into an emphasis on family-friendly benefits like parental leave and health care coverage, as well as protections against sexual harassment.
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More Black and Latina women are leading unions — and transforming how they work
The trend has translated into an emphasis on family-friendly benefits like parental leave and health care coverage, as well as protections against sexual harassment.
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Morning Joe @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
UPDATE: California Gov. Gavin Newsom is filing a lawsuit this morning challenging Trump’s National Guard deployment to L.A., calling it “illegal and unconstitutional.” “Tom, arrest me,” Newsom told @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social. “Let’s go.” www.msnbc.com/morning-joe/...
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Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
NEW: Trump Administration Proposes Cutting Tribal College Funds by Nearly 90% @mattkrupnick.bsky.social
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Trump Wants to Cut Tribal College Funding by Nearly 90%, Putting Them at Risk of Closing
ProPublica found that Congress was underfunding tribal colleges by a quarter-billion dollars per year. Rather than fixing the problem, proposed federal funding cuts unveiled this week would devastate ...
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Ken Martin @kenmartin.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Elon is a joke — and megalomaniac. And yes, the Trump-GOP budget is an abomination. Just ask the 14 million Americans whose health care is at risk.
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
🚨 Techno-fascist billionaire Peter Thiel is building the surveillance state of Trump’s dreams. His company Palantir is now working with Trump’s regime to track ALL Americans using AI. This isn’t sci-fi. It’s happening. And Thiel HATES when you talk about it. So talk about it. #50501Movement
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24Hours Ukraine @24hoursukraine.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Good night, dear friends. It’s 00:25 here in Ukraine. Today we had three times air raid alerts. It was a stressful day. I’ve got a headache now and need some rest. See you tomorrow. ❤️Zelenskyy and his wife Olena in a bomb shelter with children who just received the Future of Ukraine awards.
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Herb Scribner @herbscribner.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
President Trump has called on Congress to defund PBS and NPR --The government is facing lawsuits from both public broadcasting giants over an executive order with the same aim. www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...
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Trump asks Congress to defund PBS and NPR
The Trump administration formally requested a rescission of funds for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, seeking to halt federal funding to PBS and NPR.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 03/06/2025
Speaker Johnson says there's “a moral component” to Trump's "big, beautiful" bill. Really?   Is it “moral” to cut nutrition assistance for hungry kids?   Is it “moral” to eliminate health care for 13.7 million Americans so the 1% gets a $664 billion tax break? I don’t think so.
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Morality & Trump's "Big, Beautiful Bill" | Sen. Bernie Sanders
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Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar.com · 03/06/2025
Hiring meteorologists because you laid off too many of them… Guess they were pretty essential? This chaos is dangerous. www.cnn.com/2025/06/02/w...
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National Weather Service adding around 125 new hires after laying off hundreds | CNN
The new hires would not make up for all the personnel lost in the Trump administration’s cutbacks, but could reduce the number of offices that need to cut back on 24/7 operations.
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 03/06/2025
Nearly 14 MILLION people are estimated to lose their health insurance under Republicans' “big beautiful bill.” That's like everyone in: Wyoming Vermont Alaska North Dakota Montana Maine New Hampshire Hawaii West Virginia Idaho and Nebraska COMBINED.
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