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hey does anybody have any video clips that are both morally and viscerally disturbing, maybe with some audio that will stay with the listener for years? ideal if they're also a metaphor for our political age. thanks!
If you don’t understand the difference between abortion being an individual decision that affects only oneself & vaccine refusal being a public health choice that affects herd immunity & thus the health of your community, you have zero fucking business working in, let alone overseeing public health.
Something important to understand about ICE thugs in the Twin Cities is that they're harassing innocent kids and parents at bus stops and schools every single day. Even after the Pretti shooting. It's terrorism.
one of the weirdest things about the current moment is how the national media have to pretend like they don't know what this is about. official government social media accounts are posting about racially cleansing America and they have to pretend like it's not clear who the bad guy is.
Experts Alarmed by USPSTF Work Slowdown www.medpagetoday.com/primarycare/...
Sometimes i wonder if shane hollander knows how hard i work at my job
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
This is literally what the 4th amendment was written to protect against. There are lots of things that are up for discussion and debate about how one interprets the 4th amendment. This isn't one of them.
If you were moved or aggravated by today's CBS Sunday Morning segment on health insurance barriers for which I was interviewed (youtu.be/SRPOoPDN-7w?...), here I provide some broader context for my forthcoming book's analysis of health insurance barriers. mirandayaver.substack.com/p/the-state-...
JB Pritzker talking to Jake Tapper on CNN about the recent shooting in Minneapolis by ICE
JB Pritzker: “I have encouraged the public to have your phones at the ready, video everything, bring us your documentation, tell us your stories, make sure that we have witness testimony — so that when we are able to hold them accountable, we will be able to do it because we have the evidence”
Must be a coincidence that they keep ripping off Nazi phrases
If you’re up for watching a Sunday show, I’ll be on CBS Sunday Morning, through which I discussed with Erin Moriarty my research findings on the scope and impact of health insurance coverage barriers in the U.S., which deepen administrative burden and inequity. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/thi...
this is extraordinary. too many people in my profession have circled the wagons around someone who lacks the moral sense of a child
Chart titled 'States Report a Variety of Challenges With Implementing New Medicaid Work Requirements'. The chart lists challenges by categories: System Changes, Implementation Timeline, Staff Capacity, Fiscal Impact, and Applicant and Enrollee Issues. Each category details specific implementation challenges faced by states according to a 2019-2020 KFF survey of state Medicaid officials. Examples include system upgrades, pressure to make system changes in a short timeline, training needs for staff, potential increased cost due to accelerated timelines and changes, and potential confusion among applicants and enrollees.
State Medicaid programs shared insights into the challenges they anticipate when implementing work requirements next year: https://on.kff.org/3LLhQHu
Suddenly "hate speech" is bad. Suddenly "dehumanizing" people is bad. Suddenly "cancel culture" is good. Suddenly words have consequences.
The modern American right in 2025, folks.
We finally made it to "Heavy with History," the Devin Allen installation at the Baltimore Museum of Art. It's been a challenging summer, one that left me feeling uncharacteristically disconnected from Baltimore. Spending time in this room changed that. 1/2
this is biggie and tupac for people whose rural hospital is about to close
Just thinking about how the right made up an entirely fictional left wing character that resulted in so many bomb threats and the like and nobody will face consequences. But people on the left who accurately clocked the victim’s life work lost jobs.
ngl it sucks to work & know the whole time that, with zero conspiracy or overstatement, the taxes you pay on that income are going to a government controlled by a party that has currently shut down the federal government to protect the world's most notorious pedophiles
The Ku Klux Klan Acts (passed in 1870 & 1871 to protect 14th amend rights) were particularly focused on masked gunmen who violated the civil rights of Black people. We should remember this history when masked law enforcement ofcrs are deployed in our communities.
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Rural impact of proposed Medicaid cuts...
"1.5 million...more than one out of every ten rural residents who would be covered by Medicaid under current law—will lose their coverage."
"On average, rural hospitals are slated to lose 21 cents out of every dollar they receive in Medicaid funding."
When a cabinet member announces "We are using the military to liberate an American city from its elected leaders," where do you go from there. What is left to say. The idea of that being anything short of a near-universal "Wait, what the fuck is going on" moment proves how far we've backslid.
Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.
SEIU California President David Huerta Injured, Detained at ICE Raid in Los Angeles Los Angeles - David Huerta, President of SEIU California and SEIU- United Service Workers West was injured and detained at an ICE raid in Los Angeles today while exercising his First Amendment right to observe and document law enforcement activity. Tia Orr, Executive Director of SEIU California, made the following statement: "SEIU California members call for the immediate release of our President, David Huerta, who was injured and detained at the site of one of today's ICE raids in Los Angeles. He is now receiving medical attention while in custody. "We are proud of President Huerta's righteous participation as a community observer, in keeping with his long history of advocating for immigrant workers and with the highest values of our movement: standing up to injustice, regardless of personal risk or the power of those perpetrating it. "We call for an end to the cruel, destructive, and indiscriminate ICE raids that are tearing apart our communities, disrupting our economy, and hurting all working people. Immigrant workers are essential to our society: feeding our nation, caring for our elders, cleaning our workplaces, and building our homes."
BREAKING
The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.
In a new memo, @pennldi.bsky.social and @yalesph.bsky.social researchers project that, based on available evidence, the rollback of coverage in the House-passed reconciliation bill will lead to 42,500 additional deaths per year.
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