3 ways states can save billions & survive the impending health care crisis: remove private insurance from #Medicaid programs, embrace global budgets for hospitals, & regain control of Medicaid pharmacy benefits. Read When DC Hands Out Lemons: How States Can Cushion #MedicaidCuts - next post!

I have wondered sometimes if the "Olympic Rain Shadow" was real estate marketing spin, but clearly not! #OlympicRainShadow

Look at this stunning beauty. #PNW

It's stunning that anyone would call Robert De Niro a "sad, broken old man" who "hasn’t made anything worth watching in at least 30 years." That's one more giant lie in a sea of lies from this administration. variety.com/2025/film/ne...?

Ignore all laws about altering historic properties ✅ Pave over Rose Garden for tacky Mar-A-Lardo Patio ✅ Demolish East Wing after lying that "It won't interfere with the current building. It'll be near it but not touching it" ✅ Build gaudy $250M Ballroom as public struggles financially ✅ #Ugh🤢✅

As a social movement scholar, the protests were important for their size and for how many sites participated but also because they are part of a trajectory of participation of millions. A 🧵:

If you are confident that a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, you stop it and board it. That way, you have evidence. If you don't really care if a boat near Venezuela is carrying drugs, but you just want to kill people, you blow the boat up. That way, the irrelevant evidence is gone.

It must be very weird for @harryjsisson.bsky.social that the President of the U.S. had someone make an AI video of himself in a fighter jet (as if he would ever have served) dumping s*it on Sisson and other people using their first amendment rights. It's certainly weird for the rest of us, too!

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

It's National Mammography Day! If you are financially stressed about paying for a mammogram, here are some resources to help. #NationalMammographyDay www.nationalbreastcancer.org/nbcf-program...

What is clear is that no one involved in this new, unprecedented federal policy gave any thought to any legal issues involved in it, any dangers foreign nationals might now or in the future pose to any Democrats, or indeed anything besides trolling America and the world like a psychopathic nihilist.

Antifa is an imaginary villain. The people showing up at No Kings Day are ordinary Americans who don't want to live in a white supremacist authoritarian theocracy.

“No, Speaker Johnson — the No Kings rally on October 18 is not a hate America rally. In fact, it’s quite the contrary: It’s a love America rally.” #NoKings

If you are feeling crispy fried, this book might help. It helped me.

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What's up with the editing, @cnn.com ? Did you think we would not notice?

Sunseting Puget Sound Seattle. From our small balcony. #seattle #sunset #pugetsound #photography #tf_photography #tf_photoscapes #tf_photoescapes

Congrats to Mary Brunkow of #seattle for #immunology discoveries leading to shared #Nobel ... Congrats to Institute for Systems Biology. #research #science www.nytimes.com/2025/10/06/h...

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Read & share* so everyone understands that Democrats are fighting to save AFFORDABLE Health Care GOP wants ACA subsidies to expire YOUR ACA premiums will jump 114% & much more SD-235%⬆️ LA-150%⬆️ WV-387%⬆️ WY-382%⬆️ TN-320%⬆️ MS-314%⬆️ AK-346%⬆️ www.cnbc.com/2025/09/30/a... thx @n2play.bsky.social

www.cnn.com/2025/10/02/u... Review of court filings, social media posts and news has found 2 dozen incidents of people posing as ICE officers in 2025. Cases that range from political agitators seeking to intimidate immigrants to others using guise of authority to allegedly kidnap, rob, and assault.

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ONCE AGAIN: No one has shouted about how devastating the #ACA tax credit expiration will be to tens of millions of Americans INCLUDING MYSELF, and I'm telling @schumer.senate.gov & @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social DO. NOT. CAVE. for a short-term extension. acasignups.net/25/09/16/dea...

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Jon Adams. #NewYorkerCartoons Sign up for our humor newsletter to get the Daily Cartoon right in your inbox: nyer.cm/niP6eXi

Portland is just his latest manufactured crisis to deflect attention from the economy and the Epstein files. #warravagedportland www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

In the span of a week, a FOX News host said we should give lethal injections to the mentally ill homeless and another said we should bomb the United Nations. Neither have been fired.

@bagleycartoons.bsky.social By Pat Bagley.

Is California going to let him destroy this university? (My alma mater.) #ucla

In a Hitleresque speech, JD Vance says there can be no unity with the left and vows to use the government to dismantle non-profit NGOs and liberal civil society who he says promote violence and terrorism.

A well-deserved win for @boomboomhiller.bsky.social ! variety.com/2025/tv/awar...

Please join me in subscribing to @karenattiah.bsky.social 's Substack, a paid version if you are able. #KarenAttiah karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washin...?

Horrifying and completely unacceptable.

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Justice Sotomayor is crystal clear in dissent as to what's happening: "We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

the two americas

On #LaborDay, I stand with every worker demanding fair pay, safe conditions, and respect on the job. The fight for dignity is far from over. (2/2)

Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), top Dem on the Senate health committee, on this evening's chaos at CDC: “We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what’s left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired."

Thank you, California. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ www.chhs.ca.gov/blog/2025/07...

So they cut funding for cancer research and instead spent it on...... So much for waste, fraud, and abuse.

Wow, uncool, Otter AI. www.npr.org/2025/08/15/g...

I sure hope so, @derekeb.bsky.social

It is unconscionable that we are letting this happen.

Never before in U.S. history has one man exercised such unbridled discretion affecting the lives of so many, while simultaneously preventing others — Congress, the courts, the American people — from having a say or even knowing what he’s going to do next. This is dictatorship.

Trump just forgot he appointed Powell. Hey @jaketapper.bsky.social when does your book come out on this?

According to this Supreme Court, President Biden's Department of Education was exceeding its power by trying to forgive peoples' student loans. President Trump, on the other hand, has the power to just completely dismantle the entire Education Department.

Tech bros don’t want to save the world. They want to own it, brand it, license it, and charge you a monthly fee to visit.

Only ICE agents.