About 8 in 10 Americans who re-enrolled in Affordable Care Act marketplace coverage say their health care costs are higher this year, including about half who say their costs are "a lot" higher, according to a survey from the health care research nonprofit KFF. https://to.pbs.org/47HpDOI

Friendly reminder: Republicans continue to block our efforts to lower healthcare costs.

Trump Seeks Monumental Increase in Ability to Detain Immigrant Families The White House’s budget proposal includes funds for up to 30,000 beds in family detention facilities. www.notus.org/immigration/...

Bracing for federal cuts, some states are already paring back Medicaid services www.npr.org/2026/04/07/n...

This is not AI. This is my friend @elenahung.bsky.social , a mom, an activist saying what needs to be said. #ReadThemHome @littlelobbyists.com

President Trump is using OUR health care funds, that were intended to cover OUR children and families, paid for by OUR tax dollars, at a rate of $1 billion per day, to fund his wars that Americans do not want. To this, moms say: Time out!

They keep talking about cutting Medicaid and then ask for money for JAILS

Reading To Stop Family Detainment “Read Them Home: End Family Detention" is organized by a coalition of groups raising awareness about the families and children held in places like Dilley, while also advocating for the full end of family detention texassignal.com/reading-to-s...

Photos from our time outside the Dilley Detention Center as part of the Read Them Home campaign — bit.ly/readthemhome @staceyabrams.com @cellbitos.bsky.social @mychal3ts.bsky.social

Celebrating disability, diversity, and joy! Little Lobbyists North Carolina is excited to partner with Drag Story Hour Charlotte and their incredible performers to offer this fun community event. DETAILS: www.facebook.com/events/45966...

Happy to have joined the #ReadThemHome crew in this effort — many thx to @staceyabrams.com, @domesticworkers.bsky.social, @aft.org, @seiu.org, @neatoday.bsky.social, and all partners Special s/o to @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social & all the volunteers The work continues —> bit.ly/readthemhome

Today, SEIU members are joined with our partners in Dilley, TX where children & families are being held indefinitely. We’re launching the #ReadThemHome campaign—reading children’s books aloud for kids in Dilley and across the country who aren’t allowed to just be kids. Tune in: www.readthemhome.org

Kids should be kids.💔 That's why SEIUTX Sec-Treas Cathy Martinez & @seiuhcmnia.bsky.social member Carmen Phillips are with @staceyabrams.com today for a 12-hr vigil & children's book reading outside the Dilley detention center where children are being held indefinitely. 🔴 Watch: ReadThemHome.org

In #Dilley, fighting to #ReadThemHome with @staceyabrams.com #EndFamilyDetention · #InternationalChildrensBookDay · #BringThemHome

Proud of my LL comrades for taking the fight to Dilley today! ICE must be destroyed.

A msg from @elenahung.bsky.social — who is outside the Dilley Detention Center as part of #ReadThemHome The trauma children in detention carry doesn't disappear when the cell door opens. The anxiety, regression, loss of language — that damage is real and it is lasting. END FAMILY DETENTION!

Trump: “We can’t take care of daycare… We’re fighting wars… Medicaid, Medicare—they can do it on a state basis.” He says we “can’t afford” care—after Republicans gutted Medicaid by over $1 trillion to bankroll tax breaks for billionaires.

When voting rights are stripped away, it hurts all Americans. The SAVE Act must not become law because it will add barriers decreasing voting access." Read more ⤵️ then call your Senators and say NO to the SAVE act! 🔗 to #AoCC action in first comment

Go @elenahung.bsky.social Go @littlelobbyists.com Go #ReadThemHome TAKE ACTION —> bit.ly/readthemhome

@msrachelforlittles.bsky.social is leading a campaign to close Dilley Detention Center in Texas. Dilley is run by CoreCivic, the same company that just opened a detention facility in Leavenworth, KS. Sign the petition below.

HAPPENING NOW: @elenahung.bsky.social reads children's books as part of the #ReadThemHome campaign. Reading aloud offers a powerful contrast between the horrors of the Dilley #Immigration Detention Center and the beauty of letting kids be kids. LEARN MORE: bit.ly/readthemhome

How the SAVE America Act Hurts Disabled Voters time.com/article/2026...

This is a moral failure

5-year-old who spoke to Ms. Rachel from ICE detention is released with family www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

New from me and @seemiaroll.bsky.social: Does Medicare still cover durable medical equipment (DME)? Yes—but the six-month Medicare enrollment moratorium does apply to certain DME suppliers. Here’s what it means for people who rely on DME.

While the Trump administration has cut $1 trillion in taxes for the rich and has reportedly just requested an additional $200 billion for its immoral war in Iran, it continues to cut programs like Medicare that assist disabled people. https://ampr.gs/4dcdll4

"March is Cerebral Palsy Awareness Month and Developmental Disability Awareness Month, but as the twin brother of Danny, who had severe cerebral palsy and intellectual disabilities, I never need the reminder." via @WBUR.org www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

☎️ Call your senators and representatives this morning and tell them, "NO MONEY FOR ICE." They can pass legislation that funds the TSA without giving money to the people terrorizing our communities. Use the @5calls.org app to make it super easy!

ICE Raids and Medicaid Cuts Put Both Caregivers and Their Patients at Risk ICE raids and cutbacks to personal care services are leaving seniors and disabled adults scrambling for in-home aid.

“There are lots of rumors about what ICE is doing, and we know that some people have left the country, self-deported, and others are too afraid to leave their homes,” she says. “People who lose their in-home care workers end up in nursing homes and it is terrible.” truthout.org/articles/ice...

"Disabled people already face a variety of barriers to voting and consistently vote at lower rates than nondisabled people. This trend will only become more extreme should these [SAVE Act] voting restrictions become law." time.com/article/2026...

16 years of the #ACA means 16 years of protection from "pre-existing condition" discrimination, no lifetime caps, and #Medicaid expansion changing lives. Medically complex kids are celebrating more birthdays because of it. The ACA is worth fighting for. Happy 16th birthday! 🎂🎉

16 years ago, President @barackobama.bsky.social signed the Affordable Care Act into law — guaranteeing millions of Americans access to affordable, quality health care. Today, we celebrate the progress. And we fight to protect it. #ProtectOurCare

The day the Affordable Care Act passed was one of my proudest moments as president, because it meant that millions of Americans would have access to health care, some for the first time.

Tomorrow, MobilizeKS is organizing a protest against 🧊. Show up and show your support for our immigrant community in Olathe! Tuesday, March 24th at 3pm | Olathe City Hall | 100 E Santa Fe St

A self-employed couple already had to dip into retirement savings for health costs. Now, they are skipping vacations and canceling streaming to afford health insurance. n.pr/47dTCxC

I'm a stage 4 cancer survivor, and the Affordable Care Act saved my life nine years ago. The ACA and I are both still here. Why are we funding more wars overseas while taking away health care from millions of Americans like you and me? #HealthcareNotWarfare

Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi on the ACA’s 16th anniversary: “In their stinky, lousy, rotten bill that they think is so beautiful, Republicans cut $1 trillion out of Medicaid.” As she said: there’s much more work ahead.

Notable data points via @kff.org on the #ACA at 16: → HALF of re-enrollees say costs are "a lot higher" this year → Enrollees worry about premiums AND out-of-pocket expenses → Health care costs are straining budgets kff.org/public-opinion/a-follow-up-survey-of-aca-marketplace-enrollees/

⚡ It’s been 16 years since the Affordable Care Act’s passage. KFF’s Isabelle Valdes examines how public opinion of the law has continued to change over time. #QuickTake https://on.kff.org/4rPSyr9

“It was unbelievably surreal to see this sweet little face and feel like I was on a call with somebody who’s in jail,” Ms. Rachel, whose real name is Rachel Accurso, told NBC News in an exclusive interview this week. “It broke me, and it was something I never thought I’d encounter in life.”

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"The volunteer opportunity was to make sandwiches and food for the detainees at the site," How is this remotely ok?

While we are at it, meet Victoria and Cole — mom and son who are featured in the article below ❤️💙 Thank you for sharing your story!

We‘re building community and making a statement together on March 28th in Johnson County, KS. ❌👑 From 9:30-11:30 am we're lining Metcalf Ave from 75th to 119th Street for No Kings 3. Each major intersection has a host! Pick the corner closest to you, or the organization that gets you excited.

“You know Medicaid is — it’s not a cash benefit... It’s nearly impossible on the consumer side to commit fraud, because you’re having to prove everything 10 times over.”

I think about how high-profile Liam’s case is and how many people have their eyes on him and his family…and I worry about the other Liams we don’t know. ICE is causing permanent trauma with life-long effects for kids like him.

LAST CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 🗣️🚨 We’re so grateful to everyone who has expressed interest in the #LittleLobbyists Internship Program! If you’ve been waiting to apply, then this is your last chance. Applications close on Friday, March 20 —> https//tinyurl.com...

"Twelve days after his youngest daughter was born prematurely, Juan Chavez Velasco was on his way to deliver milk to her hospital room — still in his own neighborhood in Weslaco, Texas — when immigration agents pulled in front of his car."

Could adult day programs be the answer to sandwich generation caregivers’ prayers? https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/480426/adult-day-care-caregiving-baby-boomers-sandwich-generation