Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

🚨 I won't repost the whole thread again, but I'm *BEGGING* #ACA enrollees to VISIT YOUR STATE'S ACA EXCHANGE WEBSITE & *COMPARE PLANS!* The deadline in most states for coverage strating Jan. 1st is MIDNIGHT TONIGHT! DO NOT PASSIVELY AUTO-RENEW your current plan. acasignups.net/25/12/11/gro...

I hope to God we don't have a bird flu outbreak.

Senator Ossoff on Senate Republicans raising health care costs: “You know, this isn't politically controversial among regular people. The American people — Democrats, Independents, Republicans, are against health insurance premiums doubling or tripling.”

"Progressives should not write off any segment of the working class as beyond the pale." I dunno (& maybe it's because I'm just a liberal shill) but I don't think it's "working-class solidarity" to consent to the Pale People being racist to people's faces 🤔

I’m so proud of the talented Leo High School Choir and all they are doing to represent the South Side of Chicago!

The other half of the problem is the reverse: You're gonna see more and more ACTUAL images/video which being *dismissed* as being AI even when it's real.

OPT INTO local government alerts. These are different than the wireless emergency alert systems and you may get MORE information such as road closed notifications and critical flooding information. Yes, you may have to set up an account with your county to do this. mil.wa.gov/alerts#local #wawx

Make sure your wireless emergency alerts are TURNED ON. You may have turned them off because of too many AMBER Alerts or something, but now is not the time to have them off. Here’s directions to help you: mil.wa.gov/alerts#WEA #wawx

I understand that many in our state have experienced significant floods in the past. However, we're looking at a historic situation, expecting 2 feet higher than record flood level. If you have instructions to evacuate from your local authorities, please evacuate.

MAHA! RFK Jr. has no soul, working to elect Trump so he could wield power & implement his eugenics fantasies The environmental work he dabbled in? He knowingly doomed it Trump & RFK’s environmental harms are bottomless Power & imposing his addled beliefs on the world are RFK’s fucked up legacy

Republicans flipped 0%

just incredible optics here, the president yelling at you about how you should buy less and like it, three weeks before christmas, while standing in front of a bunch of stupefied moronic dipshits holding BIGGER PAYCHECKS signs

A huge night for Democrats: —They flip Miami's mayorship. —They flip a state House district in Georgia that had voted Trump by 13%. —They keep Albuquerque's mayorship, while the liberal faction flips city council. —And they get big overperformances (+18 & +22) in 2 Florida specials.

*stares in a lifetime of listening to republicans fear-monger that socialism would take all our choices away*

It's International Anti-Corruption Day. Some of Trump’s most blatant acts of corruption are well-known by now—the crypto coin; the pardons for friends and donors. Less known are a series of corrupt policy moves that are raising costs for you and your family. Some examples ⬇️

Every single House Democrat has signed onto legislation to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits. We just need 4 Republicans to join us. The clock is ticking, and House Democrats are racing to save health care.

Portland's not a war zone, but tonight it's 40mph gusts, pouring rain, and pitch dark. And the dog needs to be walked. 😫

A better idea than taking on the headache of actually owning Paramount would be to “try” to buy Paramount, have the federal government block the sale, then sue the government for… something, and then have your father-in-law direct the DOJ to reach a “settlement” with you.

This is how the economy works now. You kiss the ass of the top guy, he throws you favors. There is no ideology here, it's just mafia rules, the oldest rules in the book.

Per NYT she's a Mexican immigrant, granted citizenship Ppl that look like her & her family are getting beaten & snatched off the street😔 She's a 3x Trump voter in Texas, invoking Jesus as reasons for shooting people clinging to a shipwreck She's a "got mine, fuck you" type of "godly Christian"🖤

Pls don't repost stuff by accounts engagement farming; you're building their followers & influence in upcoming elections. *Once they have that, they can guide ppl to what they want* This is a fake, AI video He's insisting on leaving it up because it generates likes and followers

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also NYTimes: "And skepticism is healthy is it not? We applaud healthy skepticism in every day life, so why not with vaccines...? This is why we refer to people as 'vaccine SKEPTICS,' because as they say: it's for health. And healthy skepticism IS a good thing."

A participation trophy for the very good boy who sits atop a movement comprised of Americans who resent how the libs have supposedly created a world in which children are rendered weak by all of the participation trophies they receive.

Sadism is the lifeblood of MAGA politics. Hard to overstate how disgusting and embarrassing for our country it is for the US Secretary of Defense to be doing this:

SPLIT IN HALF? The boat was capsized and SPLIT IN HALF? I got nothing folks. Trials. Prison. Everyone. If you told me this was a psy-op to make me rethink my moral opposition to the death penalty, I would at least have to think hard about you being right.

She'll start a podcast. She'll be on Bill Maher, she'll do an event with Bari Weiss, she'll "host a space" for "free thinkers" and people who've been "cancelled." She'll laugh with Russell Brand, she'll do a Ted talk... And she'll be on the arm of a high as a kite uber rich tech bro within a year

Oh that discourse is surely coming: "Trump wants tiny cars! Even feckless Dems won't propose that!" Evergreen...

Oh how he misses the cash he was raking in, driving and fueling the grifting conspiracy rightwing outrage "space" Yes, he'll be back to monetizing it, and it will be supercharged as he can make claims about all the stuff he had access to & all the things he did Pure grift.

These kinds of bros don't think they're doing drugs, they're hyped up on "optimizing" So they go on radical diets of concoctions & supplements They take a LOT of drugs They do MAHA "wellness" regimes w hyperbaric chambers, & IVs & devices All "optimizing," & dumb peasants don't understand, man

cool that the official position of the administration appears to be that black people don’t really count as americans

Ok serious finance law voice here: this is the part of the bubble where a company without revenues to match its valuations makes up an unlimited untapped future market to agree with it. Enron did this about the exact same thing.

Republicans increasingly oppose requiring healthy kids to get MMR vaccines to attend public schools 2016 19% 2019 20% 2023 42% 2025 47% www.pewresearch.org/science/2025... 🧪

Women deserve actual healthcare, not Oscar winning actors marketing their supplement woo as healthcare. And since Gwyneth for sure sees how much buzz Halle Berry's supplement woo is getting from yelling at Newsom, I'm sure we're about to get Goop yelling about him too.

Getting on board with defending health woo supplement peddlers is a path that ends with RFK Jr. destroying public health in service of scammy conspiracy theories.

Like seriously, take two seconds and find out what she's actually selling before applauding her just because she wrapped her supplement woo in the language of women's health.

People are all sharing this approvingly, but the reason Halle Berry is mad at Gavin Newsom is because her scam AI menopause supplement health woo company can't bleed taxpayers because of the bill he vetoed. A pox on all of their houses.

An absolutely appalling decision by the right-wing Supreme Court majority to approve the racially gerrymandered Texas map.    Trump & his MAGA Rubber Stamps are trying to rig the game and silence voters. Now SCOTUS has signed off on this blatant power grab. Utterly Disgraceful.

Abstaining is the way to signal as a voter that you are 100% on board with Trump & Republicans winning Moreover your moral narcissism shines; as you decide you'll personally be fine with that outcome, you choose to flounce your personal wishlist over the actual lives & wellbeing of others

That last point. Cassidy really has enormous leverage if he wants to use it. He would win this fight. Worst case is he winds up losing a primary and spends his 70s (he's 68 now) as a hero to millions. He'll likely never have as much influence over anything again as he has over this right now.

Every state needs to completely decouple their vaccination policy from ACIP if they haven’t already done so. This is no longer a credible scientific body.

Call your Republican reps - they saw the election results last month, they see how ppl are getting pissed at Trump & Republicans, & they are getting nervous. 🔥Demand they vote with Dems to preserve your ACA credits ☎️Pop your zip code in here for your rep's direct contact information:

This man ripped off teachers, nurses, small business owners - people from all walks of life and professions. Some lost their life savings. Not only did Trump let him out of prison, he also doesn’t have to pay back the victims.

I think some democrats should probably say forthrightly that though Hegseth among others deserves impeachment and removal, the process is broken because the republican majority has forsaken their duties to the country, and pursuing it would risk misinforming the country that acquittal = innocence.

Yes, and not just Putin's ask, rolling back mileage standards & juicing the demand for oil dovetails with Trump glad-handing the Saudi Crown Prince last month. Oil. Wealth. Deals. And don't forget that Kushner is ALSO paid by the Saudis!

Pretty much every article about the Putin-Kushner-Witkoff summit in Moscow yesterday fails to mention that Kushner is simultaneously accepting tens of millions in annual payments from the Saudis and other foreign governments. Seems like a key detail!

Trump has pardoned: (1) A former Honduran president convicted of drug trafficking (2) Ross Ulbricht, who operated Silk Road, the dark web marketplace where illegal drugs were sold (3) Binance founder Zhao who failed to stop criminals from using Binance to move money tied to drug trafficking. 1/

Call your Republican reps - they saw the election results last month and are getting sweaty. Demand they vote with Dems to preserve your ACA credits ☎️Pop your zip code in here for their number: www.house.gov/representati...

it should probably be a bigger story that the richest man on earth and leading Republican is a fucking Nazi media needs to stop beating around the bush. this is Nazi shit.