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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
On this day in 1994, the Clinton administration's heathcare reform plan was declared "dead" by Congress. Over 30 years later, the US is still the only industrialized country without universal healthcare. This should be a national outrage.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 09/09/2026
Even the crickets were embarrassed.
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Matt McNeil Show @mattmcneilshow.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Political Cartoon of the Year!
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Winning campaign slogan here if anyone wants it.
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Relax, bread department
Grocery store sign of bagel that reads: pick your own. Part of the sign is obscured to look like it reads: fuck your own
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/01/2026
Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment. Here’s what experts say you need to know.
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This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.
When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 23/12/2025
Republicans refused to renew ACA subsidies. Premiums will spike, and millions will lose coverage. Meanwhile in Japan, universal health care is taken for granted—and it works. @citizencohn.bsky.social shows what a better system looks like, and what America is choosing to give up.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Only in America!
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High Plains Voter @highplainsvoter.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Everyone should read this paper, especially in light of the FDA’s new attacks on science and vaccines as reported today in the Washington Post.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
“I had hemophilia for nearly five decades. I went to Philadelphia and had a 45-minute infusion, and my hemophilia was gone.” Genes-> Medicine nature.com/articles/s41...
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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 19/11/2025
Yale & Penn found that literally tens of thousands of people will die because of the Trump Administration’s cuts to healthcare. I will never stop fighting for a right to quality, affordable care for every American. ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res...
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House Bill Seen Causing 51,000 Preventable Deaths Annually
Health care scientists warm the “One Big Beautiful Bill” will strip health insurance from millions and cause thousands of preventable deaths annually
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Ivan the K ™ @ivanthek.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: THE DEFINITIVE AMERICAN METAPHOR
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
We were actually getting somewhere, too. 😞 @sbmitche.bsky.social www.library.hbs.edu/working-know...
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
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stevemmills.bsky.social @stevemmills.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
NEW: If you've ever fought with your health insurer -- and, let's be honest, who hasn't? -- then this explainer on external reviews from @deldeib.bsky.social of @propublica.org will surely help you. www.propublica.org/article/heal...
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This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It.
When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Just gonna keep tapping the sign* *𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦
He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.
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Askme @askme99.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I miss my 50-year streak of not knowing who the Secretary of Health is or anything about them.
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NPR @npr.org · 18/09/2025
Susan Monarez says RFK Jr. told her to commit to decisions in advance, without reviewing evidence and to dismiss vaccine experts.
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Ousted CDC director testifies she was fired for resisting pressure from RFK Jr.
Susan Monarez says RFK Jr. told her to commit to decisions in advance, without reviewing evidence and to dismiss vaccine experts.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2025
BALDWIN: We're left wondering who's advising Kennedy or if his own conspiracy theories are enough to dictate who can get a vaccine. Did you ever brief him? HOURY: No B: You were chief medical officer at CDC. Would you say it's harmful to the public if he's not informed by experts? H: Very much so
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Josie Glausiusz @josiegz.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
On the Trump administration's cruel disbanding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium: my op-ed @statnews.com My 12-year-old son died from brain cancer. This research would have helped children like him www.statnews.com/2025/09/15/p...
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The Trump admin’s cruel disbanding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium
My 12-year-old son died from brain cancer. The defunding of the Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium will deny treatments to children like him.
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Larry Levitt @larrylevitt.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
The effect on premiums if enhanced ACA tax credits expire is confusing. Average out-of-pocket premiums would increase by over 75% with smaller tax credits. Total premiums charged by insurers would also increase 4 percentage points more than expected as healthier people drop coverage.
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Mike Royce @mikeroyce.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
extremely funny
JOBS, JOBS, JOBS: Explosive Job Growth in March as Trump Economy Booms
The White House April 4,2025JOBS BOOM: More Americans Working for Higher Pay
The White House May 2,2025June Boom: Jobs Report Shows the Economy
Continues to Soar Under President Trump
The White House July 3, 2025BLS Has Lengthy History of Inaccuracies, Incompetence
The White House August 1, 2025
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction 🧪 From Edward Tufte & graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d...
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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
I wrote about Trumpian culture, the Liver King, scams, frauds, corruption—and the new structural economic and political incentives that have caused us to enter a new era of inequality dominated by hucksters, which I call: The Grifted Age. www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-grifte...
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The Grifted Age
Move over Gilded Age. In the 21st century, hucksters and swindlers are exploiting mass stupidity and conspiratorial thinking—and getting filthy rich in the process. Why is this happening?
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Brian Klaas @brianklaas.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Early reports of a school shooting this morning at Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis (I was baptized at the church there). As always: it's the guns. The US is the only country in the world that politically tolerates and legally ensures the routine mass slaughter of its own citizens.
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It's the Guns.
America is the only rich democracy that features the routine mass slaughter of its citizens with guns. Why does this happen? The data show a really clear picture: It's the guns. Yes, it's that simple.
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Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
It's time to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr from government before he kills us all
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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 28/08/2025
Are vaccines safe? Let's ask this guy who sounds like a dying refrigerator compressor
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 28/08/2025
RFK Jr. will kill Americans, sure as death. You have the GOP to thank you for that.
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They Don't Care
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
There can’t be any gun restrictions because we have to protect against federal government tyranny, and if kids get shot we just have to live with it. Also the President can send troops to cities because the federal government can do whatever it wants. These two ideas are consistent and reasonable.
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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Dr. Michael Osterholm cuts to the chase on why cutting mRNA research funding is such a dangerous idea.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
“Trump calls our trade deficits a ‘50 year emergency’ — that’s an oxymoron… I have a chronic, incurable trade deficit with my barber. I buy a haircut from her, she buys nothing from me.” Conservative George Will clowns Trump’s trade war, says Congress has abandoned their duties
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Fiona "Fi" Webster 🌎🌍🌏 @fiona-webster22.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
1/ Wow—a devastating column by Michael Bloomberg, on his namesake Bloomberg News, about RFK Jr. No pay wall.
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RFK Jr. Is Making America Sick Again. Republicans Need a Cure
GOP lawmakers will pay dearly — in lives and votes — for not reining in a peddler of junk science and anti-vax conspiracies.
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Anthony Michael Kreis @anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
The Supreme Court should preserve the status quo until legal questions are resolved and explain the disposition of cases for the public. They are abdicating basic principles of equity and failing to fulfill their institutional role. They aren’t pretending to try. There isn’t even the veneer of law.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
This is really well described, and since it’s REALLY important these days (trade deficits, tariffs, trade wars and how stupid Trump and his people are about the economy), you should definitely watch it, and definitely share it. Every single repost does some real good.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Torres: If the bill is so popular, why are the cuts largely delayed until after the midterm election? And if the bill surgically targets fraud, waste and abuse, why is it necessary to set up a $50 billion stabilization fund for rural hospitals?
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Brian Beutler @brianbeutler.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
“This is Trumpcare. And Trumpcare means 15 to 17 million Americans more not having coverage. It means rural hospitals closing across this country. And when you decimate a critical leg of the health care stool, you are impacting all patients who will see higher premiums, see longer wait times.”
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'I think it's bulls---': Dem Rep. slams GOP spin on tax bill
Democratic Congresswoman Sarah McBride slams Republicans’ framing of deep cuts to the social safety net—and why she says the American people shouldn’t buy it on The Weeknight.
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Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only) @axidentaliberal.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
The myth of able-bodied adults abusing Medicaid debunked “Among adults under age 65 with Medicaid who do not receive benefits from the Social Security..programs..92% were working full or part-time..or not working due to caregiving responsibilities..illness or disability..or school attendance”
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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
More than 16 million Americans are at risk of losing their health care because Republicans in Congress are rushing to pass a bill that would cut federal funding for Medicaid and weaken the Affordable Care Act.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
But “we’re broke”, right? We can’t afford health care, housing, education, etc right? A budget is a moral document. 🇺🇸
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Rep. Kevin Mullin @kevinmullin.house.gov · 01/07/2025
Trump's big, ugly bill just got uglier. It strips healthcare and food assistance from millions, guts clean energy tax credits, and adds $4 TRILLION to the U.S. debt. All to give tax breaks to billionaires. I'm heading to DC to vote NO.
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Jen Rubin @jenrubin.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Murkowski and Sullivan voting for this is single most cruel, irresponsible vote they have ever taken. They are willing to see tens of thousands of Americans die. Sullivan is up in 2026. Boot him out. Collins voted to proceed. End her career.
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Ken Tremendous @kentremendous.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
It’s a terrible bill. It will literally kill people. The most vulnerable among us will suffer as the wealthiest benefit. It’s perverse. I wish there were something I could do. But alas, I am only a U.S. Senator from Alaska whose “no” vote would kill the bill. So I voted yes. You get it.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
the Senate's small-state ultra-bias is never more maddening than when one senator uses it to get benefits for her 740,000 constituents while openly acknowledging the bill she's supporting will harm the nation's 339 million other residents.
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 01/07/2025
Incredible — a plain-faced ‘soak the poor’ agenda.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 01/07/2025
Our own @stuartpstevens.bsky.social lays bare what Trump's Big Stupid Bill means: hospital closures, loss of healthcare, and everyone but the billionaires get screwed. Watch him on @msnbc.com
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
If Dems and their backers are not right now cutting ads featuring Tillis to be played in Maine, Alaska, Missouri, Louisiana, and elsewhere, it’s political malpractice.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
New, from me: They are trying to shove through the massive reconciliation bill as quickly as possible. Stepping back, the bill is: *an assault on the poor to benefit the richest *an assault on freedom *an assault on the future donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-re...
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How the reconciliation bill would change America
An assault on the poor, on freedom and the future
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
I want to be very clear about what’s happening: Senate Republicans know the parliamentarian will say they can’t use 312 to pretend tax cuts are free (because two have two Byrd rule problems). So they are refusing to meet with her so they can pretend they never ignored her when they do it anyway.
NEWS — Senate R's refusing Dem request for a bipartisan meeting with the parliamentarian on using current policy baseline to pay for tax cuts.
Budget Cmte GOP spox:
"There is no need to have a parliamentarian meeting with respect to the current policy baseline because Section 312 of the Congressional Budget Act gives Graham — as Chairman of the Budget Committee — the authority to set the baseline.
"There is nothing to debate and we consider this matter settled."
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