“When you are dying, at least in my limited experience, you start remembering everything.” Tatiana Schlossberg, the daughter of Caroline Kennedy, writes about receiving a terminal diagnosis. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/a-battle-with-my-blood

Curiouser and Curiouser: in the economy of 2025 nothing added up and nothing made sense. The very positive GDP numbers are a perfect end to a mad year. My latest for @bloomberg.com #economy #gdp #2026 #tariffs

NNU wouldn't exist without Linda Hamilton. A fierce RN and union visionary, Linda helped found our union. She led with courage and fought for Medicare for All until the very end. We honor her legacy in 2025 and always. https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/article/visionary-leader

Transgender people deserve the same chance to thrive and live fulfilling lives as everyone else. Shame on Republicans for trying to strip away healthcare from vulnerable children. And shame on anyone who votes to deny care to families trying to do right by their kids.

Chart Week 🦈 📈 Day #5 Silver Linings & The 50 Year Newspaper #economy #poverty #infantmortality #lifeexpectancy

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

FUN FACT FRIDAY: SOCIAL SECURITY EDITION 📣 Did you know: In 2025, millionaires (and billionaires, and trillionaires) pay the same for Social Security as someone earning $176,100? 😲 Say it ain't so @moniquemorrissey.bsky.social 1/

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

Worth remembering now Protest by the United States Against Attacks by Japanese Naval Forces on Survivors of Torpedoed American Merchant Vessels June 1944 "The United States Government protests most emphatically against this inhuman form of warfare ..."

Scientists studied thousands of children born March 2020-May 2021. Out of 800+ mothers diagnosed with COVID-19, 16.3% of their babies received a neurodevelopmental diagnosis by 3 years old, compared with 9.7% who weren’t exposed to COVID-19 in utero.

In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.

My prayers are with the National Guard members injured in today’s senseless shooting. Grateful for the officers and first responders who moved quickly. There is no place for this kind of violence in our country.

We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community. The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution. Don’t give up the ship.

New Data! How's the economy? Unemployment ticks up to 4.4% in Sept. More current Unemployment Claims continue to slowly rise in Nov. Yet, inflation is slowly rising to 3.0% as of Sept. What will the Fed do?

Send a message of solidarity! act.medicare4all.org/survey/send-...

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

New Orleans nurses went on a three-day strike this week to stop LCMC's revolving door of staffing. We are fighting to retain experienced nurses and put patient care over corporate profit! ✊

Union nurses in Hialeah were on the picket line this week fighting for patient safety. We are demanding a fair contract with safe staffing to protect la comunidad!

The Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. inspired me. In 1984, while in high school, I attended one of his campaign speeches. I had never heard a speech like that. It still echoes in my mind. I pray for his comfort and recovery.

More scenes from the @nationalnurses.bsky.social rally at University Medical Center New Orleans yesterday. There's still time today to show your support for nurses.

Good explainer here of the 50-year mortgage rollout. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Oc_...

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived. (Published October)

Today is the first day of nurses' three day strike in New Orleans! We're on strike at UMC New Orleans because we’re tired of seeing great nurses leave LCMC because of the working conditions here. Nurses, our patients, and our community deserve better!

Power to the #nurses

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

Trump threw another lavish party as his DOJ asked the Supreme Court to stop it from being forced to pay food stamps for 40 million Americans. Yes, this is *different* from last week’s Gatsby party. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-hosts-...

“Most of the days the federal government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was the president.”— @howtoreadthisch.art www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...

A strike is a last resort but University Medical Center is refusing to recruit and retain experienced nurses. We’re tired of the revolving door policy that puts profits ahead of patient care. ✊ www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/new-or...

BREAKING: A man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent during Trump’s law enforcement surge in Washington, D.C., is found not guilty of assault.

Nearly every Virginia county and city voted more Democratic in the state governor's race than in the 2024 presidential election. There was a similar shift in New Jersey. nyti.ms/4qPKXty

In @nytopinion “Americans didn’t vote for Trump because they wanted him to demolish the East Wing and pave the Rose Garden—much less enrich his family with crypto. They wanted him to unrig a system they felt was rigged against them,” Molly Jong-Fast writes.

“Greatest country on earth” pays its professional, voluntary army so little that their families must rely upon state benefits to eat.

Two-thirds of registered voters say Trump and his administration have fallen short of their expectations on the cost of living www.nbcnews.com/news/rcna240...

Newsom: "He is not screwing around. He's changing the rules. He's rigging the game because he knows he'll lose if all things are equal. He did not expect California to fight fire with fire."

Careless people

Thank you Congressman Neguse for laying it plain.

let them eat toilets.

So pleased to get my book "Travels through the Spanish Civil War". @HurstPublishers publishers have done a wonderful job in producing it. Advanced copies available thru www.hurstpublishers.com/book/travels... with 25% off with code TRAVELS25. Otherwise 20 November in UK/Europe and 5 Jan for US, etc

Thank you @selenasd.com ! Your coverage is so important!

Speaker Johnson admits Trump & Republicans are forcing millions of kids to go hungry for political leverage. He says funding SNAP would "reduce the pressure" on Democrats. Disgusting.

California – this Election Day, vote yes on Prop 50. California’s Prop 50 says that if Republicans are going to abuse the system to try and hang onto power, we’re going to counteract that abuse and create a level playing field in the midterm elections. Make a plan to vote yes on Prop 50.

Pritzker makes a direct appeal to Greg Bovino to not terrorize kids over the Halloween weekend

Pritzker: "Imagine it. Children who woke up that morning, expectant with joy & excitement to put on their costumes & celebrate with their neighbors in what they thought was a safe place at their homes. Armed, masked agents, terrorizing innocent people, especially children, is unconscionable."

This is a public health emergency! 🚨 Trump is choosing to cut off food benefits that keep 42MM people from starving. He's playing with peoples' lives in an attempt to bully Democrats into caving on a funding bill without securing health care protections for working people. (1/5)

We need #medicareForAll

Sticker shock for ACA recipients: Clint and Cindy Kittrell, Oregon: $305/month --> $2,500/month. Chad and Tara Smith, Idaho: $710/month --> $1,000/month. Jessica Bunger, Florida: New premiums quadruple to $1,100/month. "I’ve never felt so powerless in my life" www.wsj.com/health/healt...

This is infuriating: Almost half of the people in the U.S. are concerned about being able to pay for the health care or medications they need. We need #MedicareForAll NOW.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 81st day out of the last 93. 12 days of work in over 3 months. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

It's easy to be so distracted by all the things the President is doing, to miss one thing he's not doing: Rallies. After he first won election in 2016, he kept having rallies b/c he liked them so much. He did them all through his first term, even during COVID. (RIP Herman Cain.) Why not?

#MedSky: In August, we reported that the VA lost more than 600 doctors and nearly 2,000 nurses this year. We know that for many of you, the decision to leave the VA could not have been easy. Here’s how you can share your story with us ⤵️