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Voices of Health Care Action @voicesofhealthcare.org · 7m

Americans care about health care. Congress needs to act to lower health insurance costs.

More about the government shutdown from the conversation with @laurapackard.com & Laura Rodriguez of @americanprogress.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-0y...

The REAL Reason The Government Shut Down

Americans care about health care. Congress needs to act to lower health insurance costs. More about the government shutdown from the conversation with @LauraPackard & Laura Rodriguez of @seeprogress: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-0yxdHCBsQ #governmentshutdown #healthcare #healthinsurance

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Dani M. ❌👑 @danielleloveswords.bsky.social · 1h

📣 Every American who gets a notice saying their health care premiums will go up needs to know it’s b/c Republicans are taking an extended paid vacation in order to help Trump cover up his relationship with sex-trafficker Epstein.

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Mike Johnson’s Shutdown Strategy Is Corruption in Broad Daylight

Federal workers go unpaid, premiums are set to spike, and Congress is on a paid vacation—all to protect Trump from the Epstein files.

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Senator Mark Warner @markwarner.bsky.social · 5m

Trump has taken to threatening the American people to try and get what he wants. His authoritarian tactics have no place in our government.

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Elaine @depink.bsky.social · 5m

Good Lord, republicans are acting like they are scared shitless of patriotic Americans peacefully marching in the streets of our country. Why are they so afraid of us protesting against govt corruption and fascism?

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Scalise refers to No Kings as the "Hate America Rally"

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Elaine @depink.bsky.social · 13m

Ready, set, let’s go! 🇺🇸

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 57m

Bring as many American flags to No Kings as you can.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1h

Scalise refers to No Kings as the "Hate America Rally"

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Sherry @sherry2.bsky.social · 11h

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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 27m

This is a jaw-dropping, terrifying number. The CDC's workforce has decreased by 3,000 people since January.

A Quarter of the CDC Is Gone

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.

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Deanna @dgigliotti4.bsky.social · 12h

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Jack Hopkins-The Original @therealjackhopkins.bsky.social · 12h

The American Farmer….

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Elaine @depink.bsky.social · 20m

Hilarious! 🤣

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anita72.bsky.social @anita72.bsky.social · 20h

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Elaine @depink.bsky.social · 22m

We were uninsured when my husband was diagnosed with cancer in 1/13. We had to wait until 1/14 when the ACA kicked in to get treatment. By then the cancer had progressed from fully treatable to inoperable. He would be alive today if we had been insured. GOP is evil to take away such a vital need.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 2h

"It always becomes clear the GOP alternative will mean fewer people with insurance." Same as it ever was.

The latest edition of The Breakdown from @citizencohn.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/something-...

There’s Something Weirdly Familiar About This New GOP Argument

Republicans’ latest attempt to win the shutdown fight shows they still don’t get it on Obamacare.

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Elaine @depink.bsky.social · 37m

Well, this hardest core, farthest left 74 year old Gold Star grandma will be marching with my 5 Gen Z grandchildren in the NO KING’s protest rally in Salt Lake City. WE DISSENT! No Kings. No Lies. No Fear. We proudly march to honor those who died defending our freedom against fascism. Join u!

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 2h

the farthest left, the hardest core

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Bessent: "This crazy No Kings rally this weekend, which is gonna be the farthest left, the hardest core, the most unhinged in the Democratic Party, which is a big title. No Kings equals no paychecks."

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Eddie Smith @eddsmitty.bsky.social · 11h

They sent this man death threats by mail because he was on the cusp of breaking a white man's home run record. He used their hate mail for inspiration to go on and break that record.

It was Hank Aaron's big "f**k you" to all of those racists.🖕🏾😝

🔥☕️

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Hank Aaron Used Record-Setting Hate Mail for Inspiration Before Breaking Babe Ruth Record

“If I was white, all America would be proud of me,” the baseball legend said before passing the record in 1974

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Ashley Kuckelman @ashleyvotesblue.bsky.social · 9h

The future of the Republican Party is as reprehensible as the current party.

From: REICH-WING WATCH

LEAKED CHATS FROM LEADERS OF YOUNG REPUBLICAN GROUPS EXPOSE RACIST, ANTISEMITIC, PRO-HITLER VIEWS AND ADVOCACY FOR KILLING POLITICAL OPPONENTS.

Mike Johnson’s Young Republican friend sitting next to him said “rape is epic.”

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WE ARE FED UP! @val.sheshed.rocks · 8h

Love! 🐸🥇
#Pinks #SheShed

George Resistance 2025 @christosgeo.bsky.social · 1d

Hero

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 2h

…and then after lying on @meetthepress.com with no pushback from Welker, everyone remembers MVP Harris taking to twitter with “why do y’all white people like green bean casserole so much”

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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 21h

Perfect case in point: here is the vice president, who has spiraled into overt sociopathy thanks to Twitter, repeating a six year old racist “joke” about Elizabeth Warren and getting a quarter million likes for it. This is what constitutes conservative brain now. Trolling from the literal top down.

JD Vance: “The president told me he did this on Indigenous Peoples Day in honor of you.”

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Will Pollock 🏳️‍🌈🌻🐶🫘 ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 2h

remember when Biden designated TPUSA a terrorist org and dispatched Kamala Harris to Sunday shows so she could condescendingly lie about all of it?

both sides are not the same.

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Patrick De Klotz @patdeklotz.bsky.social · 16h

Really important that we don't become numb to the President designating unspecified groups as terrorists who he can just kill without any process and without much evidence that the allegations against the unknown people are even actually true.

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Senator Andy Kim @kim.senate.gov · 2h

Trump is using taxpayer dollars to fund propaganda about himself, spending your money on the most expensive political ad of the year while billionaires get tax cuts and working families lose their healthcare.

This is your money and your life they’re messing with.

U.S. government pays for 2025's most expensive political ad campaign

The next closest ad campaign is the $41 million effort to support California's redistricting measure.

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Resist Ignorance @jen-d2.bsky.social · 2h

Why did maga Mike Johnson put congress on paid vacation?
Why not negotiate healthcare subsidies?
Why not swear in the elected official from Arizona’s 7th District (final vote needed to release the Epstein files)?
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2h

The more people turn out this weekend, the more obvious the lie here

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Bessent: "This crazy No Kings rally this weekend, which is gonna be the farthest left, the hardest core, the most unhinged in the Democratic Party, which is a big title. No Kings equals no paychecks."

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#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 2h

JD Vance’s Defense of Racist Republican Chat Exposes Moral Rot of the MAGA Right

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JD Vance’s Defense of Racist Republican Chat Exposes Moral Rot of the MAGA Right

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