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Husband, father, grandfather, retired Family Doc and retired Chief Medical Officer for Covered California.
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BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:21 AM
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
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The construction industry, where more than a quarter of workers are foreign-born, has long struggled to find enough workers. Now, industry officials say Trump's immigration crackdown is making it worse.
ICE is sending a chill through the construction industry
The construction industry, where more than a quarter of workers are foreign-born, has long struggled to find enough workers. Now, industry officials say Trump's immigration crackdown is making it worse.
n.pr
November 11, 2025 at 3:52 AM
The construction industry, where more than a quarter of workers are foreign-born, has long struggled to find enough workers. Now, industry officials say Trump's immigration crackdown is making it worse.
This encapsulates it perfectly
People understand that the Democrats can’t stop every bad thing from happening. But they’re also scared and angry and want leaders who will stand up and fight with everything they’ve got. That’s the bare minimum we deserve.
November 11, 2025 at 6:10 AM
This encapsulates it perfectly
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Virginia House seats won by Democrats this century, out of the chamber's 100 seats:
in 2001: 32
in 2003: 34
in 2005: 40
in 2007: 44
in 2009: 39
in 2011: 32
in 2013: 33
in 2015: 34
in 2017: 49
in 2019: 55 (first Dem majority since 1999)
in 2021: 48
in 2023: 51
2025, i.e. this week: 64
in 2001: 32
in 2003: 34
in 2005: 40
in 2007: 44
in 2009: 39
in 2011: 32
in 2013: 33
in 2015: 34
in 2017: 49
in 2019: 55 (first Dem majority since 1999)
in 2021: 48
in 2023: 51
2025, i.e. this week: 64
November 9, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Virginia House seats won by Democrats this century, out of the chamber's 100 seats:
in 2001: 32
in 2003: 34
in 2005: 40
in 2007: 44
in 2009: 39
in 2011: 32
in 2013: 33
in 2015: 34
in 2017: 49
in 2019: 55 (first Dem majority since 1999)
in 2021: 48
in 2023: 51
2025, i.e. this week: 64
in 2001: 32
in 2003: 34
in 2005: 40
in 2007: 44
in 2009: 39
in 2011: 32
in 2013: 33
in 2015: 34
in 2017: 49
in 2019: 55 (first Dem majority since 1999)
in 2021: 48
in 2023: 51
2025, i.e. this week: 64
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You have to read between the lines here to imagine what President Trump is proposing. But, it sounds like it may be a plan for health accounts that could be used for insurance that doesn’t cover pre-existing conditions, which could create a death spiral in ACA plans that do.
November 8, 2025 at 6:14 PM
You have to read between the lines here to imagine what President Trump is proposing. But, it sounds like it may be a plan for health accounts that could be used for insurance that doesn’t cover pre-existing conditions, which could create a death spiral in ACA plans that do.
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Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.”
The result was “institutionalized hunger.”
@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The result was “institutionalized hunger.”
@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.”
The result was “institutionalized hunger.”
@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
The result was “institutionalized hunger.”
@kristencrowell.bsky.social
www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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How much more would ACA Marketplace enrollees pay if the enhanced premium tax credits expire at the end of this year?
Our updated calculator shows how costs would rise — based on zip code, income, age, and family size — if those credits aren’t extended: https://on.kff.org/4olBSa4
Our updated calculator shows how costs would rise — based on zip code, income, age, and family size — if those credits aren’t extended: https://on.kff.org/4olBSa4
November 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
How much more would ACA Marketplace enrollees pay if the enhanced premium tax credits expire at the end of this year?
Our updated calculator shows how costs would rise — based on zip code, income, age, and family size — if those credits aren’t extended: https://on.kff.org/4olBSa4
Our updated calculator shows how costs would rise — based on zip code, income, age, and family size — if those credits aren’t extended: https://on.kff.org/4olBSa4
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Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
November 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.
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Yup. It turns out massively destabilizing trade in and out of the country is bad for people importing to build factories in order to export stuff.
Also, they’ve pretty much killed CHIPS and Science, the largest domestic manufacturing bill in recent history.
Also, they’ve pretty much killed CHIPS and Science, the largest domestic manufacturing bill in recent history.
Domestic manufacturing rose sharply under Biden and is falling under Trump
November 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Yup. It turns out massively destabilizing trade in and out of the country is bad for people importing to build factories in order to export stuff.
Also, they’ve pretty much killed CHIPS and Science, the largest domestic manufacturing bill in recent history.
Also, they’ve pretty much killed CHIPS and Science, the largest domestic manufacturing bill in recent history.
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Trump will deny it’s a referendum on him. But it’s a referendum on him and his disgraceful regime that couldn’t care less about the needs of people.
November 5, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Trump will deny it’s a referendum on him. But it’s a referendum on him and his disgraceful regime that couldn’t care less about the needs of people.
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Across all states, benchmark ACA premiums will rise an average of 26% next year, though most enrollees would see sharper increases if the enhanced tax credits expire.
KFF’s Cynthia Cox explains the numbers. #QuickTake https://on.kff.org/3WNhiDz
KFF’s Cynthia Cox explains the numbers. #QuickTake https://on.kff.org/3WNhiDz
October 28, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Across all states, benchmark ACA premiums will rise an average of 26% next year, though most enrollees would see sharper increases if the enhanced tax credits expire.
KFF’s Cynthia Cox explains the numbers. #QuickTake https://on.kff.org/3WNhiDz
KFF’s Cynthia Cox explains the numbers. #QuickTake https://on.kff.org/3WNhiDz
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Donald Trump deleted this from the government website.
Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.
Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.
October 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Donald Trump deleted this from the government website.
Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.
Let's be clear: there's funding available to cover SNAP benefits next month. Trump is stopping SNAP benefits because he wants to. He is forcing mommas and babies to go hungry.
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Justice Kavanaugh: "and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States."
"According to his running club, the man, who is a U.S. citizen, was returning from a team run when agents pulled him out of his vehicle, tackled him to the ground and kneeled on top of him, allegedly breaking six ribs and causing internal bleeding"
US citizen, 67, ‘has six ribs broken’ by Border Patrol agents, his running club says
The incident unfolded Saturday in Chicago’s Old Irving Park neighborhood, where residents say federal agents disrupted a children’s Halloween parade
www.independent.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Justice Kavanaugh: "and those individuals may promptly go free after making clear to the immigration officers that they are U.S. citizens or otherwise legally in the United States."
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We have reached the stage where legacy media simply ignores Trump's targeting of political opponents for prosecution. Meanwhile, commentators and pundits find ways to dismiss it or - in some cases - normalize it.
I will never accept it and neither should you. Watch and share. youtu.be/yZR90S5DUKE
I will never accept it and neither should you. Watch and share. youtu.be/yZR90S5DUKE
Why Smart People Keep Getting Trump's DOJ Scandal Wrong
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
youtu.be
October 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
We have reached the stage where legacy media simply ignores Trump's targeting of political opponents for prosecution. Meanwhile, commentators and pundits find ways to dismiss it or - in some cases - normalize it.
I will never accept it and neither should you. Watch and share. youtu.be/yZR90S5DUKE
I will never accept it and neither should you. Watch and share. youtu.be/yZR90S5DUKE
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The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
October 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The richest man on earth owns X.
The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
The second richest man on earth is about to acquire TikTok and his family could soon own both Paramount and Warner Bros.
The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.
The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post.
See the problem here?
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Rents are up nearly 4% — the largest increase since 2011.
Natural gas prices are up 14%.
The cost of meat, fish, and eggs is up over 5%.
And now some families will see their health insurance premiums go up by $22,000 a year.
This is Trump’s economy.
Natural gas prices are up 14%.
The cost of meat, fish, and eggs is up over 5%.
And now some families will see their health insurance premiums go up by $22,000 a year.
This is Trump’s economy.
October 23, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Rents are up nearly 4% — the largest increase since 2011.
Natural gas prices are up 14%.
The cost of meat, fish, and eggs is up over 5%.
And now some families will see their health insurance premiums go up by $22,000 a year.
This is Trump’s economy.
Natural gas prices are up 14%.
The cost of meat, fish, and eggs is up over 5%.
And now some families will see their health insurance premiums go up by $22,000 a year.
This is Trump’s economy.
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Priorities
October 23, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Priorities
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Jeffries: We have an American president behaving like an organized crime boss, stealing taxpayer dollars in real-time in front of everyone in plain sight. And Republicans have nothing to say about the emerging crime scene at 1600 Pennsylvania avenue.
October 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Jeffries: We have an American president behaving like an organized crime boss, stealing taxpayer dollars in real-time in front of everyone in plain sight. And Republicans have nothing to say about the emerging crime scene at 1600 Pennsylvania avenue.
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Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.
October 21, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Democrats should be drawing up legislation right now, this very minute, to bar Trump from helping himself to $230 million in taxpayer funds from DOJ. Challenge Republicans to hold a vote on it. Push this so hard in the media that every GOP Senate and House candidate is pressed to comment on it.
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NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
October 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.
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When ICE stormed through Santa Ana, CA, panicked calls flooded into the city’s emergency response system.
Recordings obtained by @propublica.org captured the terror residents felt as they watched masked men ambush people and force them into unmarked cars. / Story by @davidmcswane.bsky.social
Recordings obtained by @propublica.org captured the terror residents felt as they watched masked men ambush people and force them into unmarked cars. / Story by @davidmcswane.bsky.social
How Trump is Building a Violent, Shadowy Federal Police Force
Trump’s DHS appointees have dismantled civil rights guardrails, protected agents’ anonymity and encouraged them to wear masks, threatened groups that stood in their way, and overwhelmed legal challeng...
www.propublica.org
October 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
When ICE stormed through Santa Ana, CA, panicked calls flooded into the city’s emergency response system.
Recordings obtained by @propublica.org captured the terror residents felt as they watched masked men ambush people and force them into unmarked cars. / Story by @davidmcswane.bsky.social
Recordings obtained by @propublica.org captured the terror residents felt as they watched masked men ambush people and force them into unmarked cars. / Story by @davidmcswane.bsky.social
Arrests all MAGA
22 arrests.
All Maga.
Including this armed terrorist with a gun who assaulted a woman.
I think we know who the violent ones are.
#NoKings
All Maga.
Including this armed terrorist with a gun who assaulted a woman.
I think we know who the violent ones are.
#NoKings
October 19, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Arrests all MAGA
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