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wknits
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📈 Medical costs are climbing faster than wages.
Families are being forced to choose between rent, food, or lifesaving care.
This isn’t a “market failure.” It’s the market working exactly as designed—for profit, not patients.
It’s time to change the system.
#PatientsOverProfits #MedicareForAll
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Democrats voted unanimously to ban gerrymandering.
MAGAs voted unanimously to allow gerrymandering.

Democrats voted unanimously for the Voting Rights Act.
MAGAs voted unanimously against the Voting Rights Act.

If MAGAs could win elections on ideas they wouldn't be banning fair elections altogether
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The Israeli military is deliberately massacring groups of journalists as it is threatening to occupy all of Gaza.
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The only reason you assassinate every Al Jazeera journalist left in Gaza is because you don’t want anyone to document the genocide you are about to accelerate.

Any politician and any journalist who cannot call this genocide for what it is, is complicit, and I hope history remembers you as such.
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Reminder: Here are the 20 Democratic Senators who voted just last week with every MAGA to continue arming Netanyahu. Don’t hold your breath for them to condemn Netanyahu for using the weapons they gave him to murder the Al Jazeera journalists.

With Democrats like these who needs MAGA fascists. Smh
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States that expanded Medicaid saw:
🔹 6% drop in mortality
🔹 25% increase in early cancer detection
🔹 50% decrease in medical debt
Medicaid saves lives and prevents bankruptcies.
Why would anyone want to cut that?
#SaveMedicaid #DataSavesLives #PNHP
Silence is a choice. There is no neutrality on this issue. If you are not speaking out you are saying that you are okay with genocide.
Illegal military occupation ✅
Forced into central camps ✅
Authorized Final Plan ✅

For those who are still silent—What mental gymnastics are yall doing to pretend this is anything But Israel committing genocide of Palestinians?🤔
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Dr. Therese Derovanessian: “The consequences of gutting Medicaid go far beyond numbers on a spreadsheet—they are felt most acutely by people with disabilities.

For our patients, Medicaid isn’t a safety net—it’s the foundation for survival.”
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Insurance CEOs don't save lives. Doctors do.
🤑 While patients ration insulin, execs rake in millions.
📈 The for-profit model is failing the sick—and rewarding the rich.
Let’s put care back in healthcare. #HealthcareJustice #EndTheGreed #PNHP
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Food insecurity sucks. Help us fight it at the link in my bio.
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Your wallet should not decide your fate.
💸 In the US, profits too often come before patients.
🏥 62% of bankruptcies are tied to medical bills.
It doesn’t have to be this way.
🔁 RT if you believe healthcare is a human right. #SinglePayer #MedicareForAll #PNHP
Gotta love this take.
Hostile White folks putting themselves on reservations is a great start tbh…
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I see many voices who were silent the last 22 months of genocide, now speak. To them I say:
1. Welcome to the right side of history.
2. Some (many?) will be upset at your silence—Keep speaking.
3. How you speak up matters: Elevate Palestinian voices & donate to PCRF, Anera, & families on the ground.
I keep this quote posted at work and home.

Thank you Ursula K. LeGuin for bringing it to my attention.
First line should state: ideal subject of….

Autocorrect is not my friend.
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STOP STARVING GAZA NOW: The people of Gaza have called on us to act. We are joining the call to people of conscience to stand against the U.S.-backed Israeli-manufactured famine in Gaza. People of all age groups are being gruesomely starved, with deaths due to malnutrition on the rise every day.
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Israel is planning to destroy a community rehabilitation center in the Palestinian West Bank that has been serving disabled Palestinians for decades now.

Israel cannot continue blatantly committing war crimes with impunity—it must be sanctioned.
Israeli demolition threat looms over vital Jenin disability rehab centre
Al-Jaleel NGO provides vital aid to disabled Palestinians but faces demolition under Israeli military plans in Jenin.
ow.ly
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The Blackbird Paradox: White folks believing they have no racial advantage because they’re mostly competing against other White people while simultaneously believing that most of the opportunities they don’t get are caused by that tiny sliver of non-White people.
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transphobia is often misdirected frustration with the gender binary
Thank you for being able to articulate this so clearly!
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Local journalists are reporting that Israeli military just bombed the very church in Gaza that Pope Francis used to call every night, killing 2 Christians and injuring 6 more.

If you still actually believe this is "Muslim vs Jew" & not War Criminal vs Civilians, you're helping whitewash genocide.
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ICE now has a larger budget than most of the world’s militaries.

A reminder that police have only ever *responded* to alleged crime, but a living wage, food & water security, & accessible healthcare have always *prevented* crime.

So if you want safer communities, invest in people—not punishments.