Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

1. This picture is taken from my monthly statement. That sentence explains what my health insurance premium would be if not for subsidies expanded during the pandemic. That “Advance Premium Tax Credit” is what everyone’s talking about. If the Republicans do not renew it, my premium will double.

If my western PA bona fides were ever in question, my ancestor made his way to California during the Gold Rush, decided the west coast wasn’t for him, and moved back to the Laurel highlands to the “Coalpit district” of Ligonier Township

It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.

This is a remarkable statistic: 18.7 million out of the 24.3 million Obamacare enrollees are in states won by President Trump in 2024. www.kff.org/quick-take/m...

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Republicans in Washington did this. This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

⬇️ This is what the Trump/GOP shutdown is all about. Premiums are going through the roof for hardworking Americans across the country. Folks window shopping for plans in GA, ID, and VA can already see the difference. The Republicans created this health care crisis and they need to fix it!

📈 Health care premiums are spiking in Virginia, Idaho, and Georgia. 💸 Virginia Beach: +$1,295/month 💸 Boise: +$1,472/month 💸 Fulton County: +$2,064/month These numbers don’t lie—and families are paying the price.

Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated. Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.” This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.

Republicans would rather shut down the government than help millions of Americans afford health care. This article tells some of their stories, and is a good reminder of what’s at stake.

A must-read essay for this moment by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social. I think a lot about shame as a therapist; toxic shame (e.g., "I am inherently bad and helpless to change that"), is not the same as experiencing shame for harmful behaviors that undermine a pluralistic society.

Tremendous

Victoria Sylvester and her husband have discussed divorcing ‒ just on paper ‒ to protect their assets if her healthcare costs tip her into bankruptcy. Their health insurance premium is expected to jump from $0 to $1,500 a month when the premium tax credits they’ve relied on end

DOGE was a failure because its entire premise was flawed, and, on top of that, the people who ran and implemented it were both arrogant and ignorant.

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

The Pennsylvania insurance commissioner just predicted the cost of an ACA plan will go up *82%*! Affects 500k people whose budgets are already stretched to the breaking point. Yet neither of our senators seems aware. The radical left didn’t cause this one fellas.

So Trump can get Kimmel and Colbert fired, execute people at sea, put others in a gulag, make foreign profits on crypto, force China to let his friends cash in on TikTok…. But he can’t stop healthcare prices going up 82% in Pennsylvania? Because he also needs a tax cut?

Wrote this. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Why isn’t every local news broadcast opening with, “What are the ‘Groypers’, and how do you know the signs of your son is part of the deadly gang?”

My parents took me out of a country where this was the norm and where it led to the execution and imprisonment of millions of innocent people. They brought me here, to America, believing that it would not happen here. And yet here we are.

of all of the cable segments I am not going to watch, this is the one I am not going to watch the most

Sure seems like Big Pharma spent way way more energy, money and lobbying capital on fighting Dems on prescription drugs than doing anything about the Secretary of HHS casually, and without any real evidence, telling everyone their products kill kids and give them autism.

The real life consequences of Trump’s Big, Ugly Bill right here in Virginia. It didn’t have to be this way. Republicans made a choice to give permanent tax cuts to the ultra wealthy at the expense of folks trying to make ends meet.

Just a photo of Epstein happily holding up a novelty check, made to look like Donald Trump paid him $22,500 in exchange for a “fully depreciated” woman from Epstein.

As a guy who got a cancer that was probably caused by a virus, I think we should have /more/ vaccines.

Ossoff: He never should have been confirmed by the senate and he needs to resign. It is one thing to be a skeptic or a reformer. It is quite another to be a fool…

BREAKING: Sen. Warnock gets RFK Jr. to admit that he demanded that then-CDC Director Monarez fire CDC officials before her firing.

Brad Woodhouse: “we warned y’all. We warned all of you.” @protectourcare.org sounded the alarm months ago and we were right. It’s time for RFK Jr. to go. #FireRFK

Sen. Ossoff: What RFK Jr. is doing at HHS is gross mismanagement that is putting this nation at risk. The demolition of the CDC has lowered our nation's defenses against deadly disease outbreak and is putting lives at risk. Secretary Kennedy must resign.

🔥 @baldwin.senate.gov: Americans should be able to trust that the information coming from the health department is rooted in what is best for their families, and not based on the unsupported theories of RFK Jr., who has spent his career peddling misinformation.

Sen. Alsobrooks: RFK Jr. was unfit from the start — swayed by pseudoscience and conspiracy theories. Now he’s slashing health research and putting lives at risk. He must go.

Senator Murphy: We need our Republican colleagues to stand up and say that it's time for RFK Jr. to go. It's time that both Republicans and Democrats stand up to protect our kids before it is too late—before the CDC and HHS have gone fully, unrecoverably off the rails.

Sen. Ossoff: It is one thing to be a skeptic or a reformer. It is quite another to be a fool and a wrecking ball. And the destruction of the CDC in Georgia, the systematic dismantling of American public health is putting lives at risk every single day. It is time for RFK Jr. to resign.

BREAKING: Senator Tammy Baldwin calls for RFK Jr.'s immediate resignation.“It is not a matter of politics anymore. It's a matter of public health. I'm calling on RFK Jr. to resign immediately.” - Tammy Baldwin, U.S. Senator, Wisconsin

Sen. Ron Wyden to RFK Jr.: I hope that you will tell the American people how many preventable child deaths are an acceptable sacrifice for enacting an agenda that I think is fundamentally cruel and defies common sense.

Senator Michael Bennet: I'm asking the questions for Mr. Kennedy on behalf of parents and schools and teachers all over the United States of America who deserve so much better than your leadership. 🔥

Sen. Cantwell is right: Vaccines cut deadly diseases by 99% in the last century. Science works. Trump & RFK Jr. would rather abandon it — and hand global leadership to other countries.

Sen. Warner: “Do you accept the fact that a million Americans died from COVID?” RFK Jr., HHS Secretary: “I don’t know how many died.” Unfit. Dangerous. He must go.

Today, Sen. Ossoff demanded RFK Jr.'s resignation after months of the Trump Administration's attacks on the CDC.

The president is sending the military to control American cities and if you're a reporter who's framing that illegal power grab as "pushing the boundaries of constitutionality" or "acting boldly to fight crime" or whatever, please go find another line of work where you won't get us all killed.

Children have literally died because of RFK’s anti-vaccine activism but okay that’s the same as Michelle Obama encouraging people to eat vegetables and move more

Jesus fucking christ. The Trump administration tried to send a bunch of children to Guatemala at 3 am and justified it by saying that the kids just wanted to return to their parents in Guatemala, but the kids actually told the court that they are afraid of being sent back to Guatemala.

Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

The average American simply has no idea how quickly the infrastructure that keeps us safe and healthy is collapsing. These systems run in the background thanks to government employees who quietly do critical work. Those employees are being purged and systems are being destroyed.

I don’t care what anyone says, getting this title and subhead through approvals is one of the proudest moments of my professional career. Bye, Joni 👋🏻

Feeling sad for everything that Trump and RFK Jr. were able to destroy in a few short months. These kids deserve better. These doctors deserve better. We deserve better.

Congressional Republicans voted for Medicaid cuts that will devastate our health care system. But it’s not too late to reverse that decision — and I’m still fighting back. I joined @protectourcare.org and @protecthealthcare.medsky.social in Tazewell, Virginia to sound the alarm on Medicaid cuts.

The Trump admin wants AI — not doctors —to decide whether seniors can get the treatment they need. It’s the same tactic used by private insurers to deny coverage.

I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.