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Next year, Americans will see the biggest jump in health insurance costs in 15 years.
Meanwhile, the seven largest health insurance companies made a combined $71B in profits in 2024.
It’s far past time for Medicare for All. Here’s what you need to know.
Meanwhile, the seven largest health insurance companies made a combined $71B in profits in 2024.
It’s far past time for Medicare for All. Here’s what you need to know.
Medicare for All Explained | Robert Reich
Robert Reich
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Next year, Americans will see the biggest jump in health insurance costs in 15 years.
Meanwhile, the seven largest health insurance companies made a combined $71B in profits in 2024.
It’s far past time for Medicare for All. Here’s what you need to know.
Meanwhile, the seven largest health insurance companies made a combined $71B in profits in 2024.
It’s far past time for Medicare for All. Here’s what you need to know.
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SNAP ending on 10/31 means that almost 1M WA residents would lose their resources to getting groceries, adding pressure to an already-burdened food system.
@wadshs.bsky.social + Economic Justice Alliance put together a helpful visual on the destabilizing impacts of the scope of losing SNAP in WA:
@wadshs.bsky.social + Economic Justice Alliance put together a helpful visual on the destabilizing impacts of the scope of losing SNAP in WA:
www.dshs.wa.gov
October 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
SNAP ending on 10/31 means that almost 1M WA residents would lose their resources to getting groceries, adding pressure to an already-burdened food system.
@wadshs.bsky.social + Economic Justice Alliance put together a helpful visual on the destabilizing impacts of the scope of losing SNAP in WA:
@wadshs.bsky.social + Economic Justice Alliance put together a helpful visual on the destabilizing impacts of the scope of losing SNAP in WA:
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The Dept of Labor is considering a change to a rule that would prevent home care providers from earning the minimum wage and overtime pay. Stand up for home care providers now by opposing this rule change. act.afscme.org/letters/stan...
Stand up for Home Care Providers
Home care workers — including thousands of AFSCME members — deliver skilled, essential services for seniors, people with disabilities and others. The Department of Labor is considering a rule change t...
act.afscme.org
August 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The Dept of Labor is considering a change to a rule that would prevent home care providers from earning the minimum wage and overtime pay. Stand up for home care providers now by opposing this rule change. act.afscme.org/letters/stan...
Please help Sarah and Isaac if you can. Their family could use the assistance.
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August 9, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Please help Sarah and Isaac if you can. Their family could use the assistance.
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I feel like regular people should talk about how small their margins are, just like businesses that are making record profits do. 💁🏽♀️
July 11, 2025 at 2:12 AM
I feel like regular people should talk about how small their margins are, just like businesses that are making record profits do. 💁🏽♀️
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Here in WA, in the 4th Congressional district, approx 38% of people — & 70% of kids — rely on Medicaid. Almost 17% of people in the region rely on SNAP. People in Yakima & Tri-Cities need Rep. Newhouse to reject the reconciliation bill that would take health care & food assistance away from so many.
Senate Rs voted to pass a bill that wld raise food & health care costs on families, increase hunger & take health coverage away from millions of ppl while doubling down on tax cuts for the wealthy. House Rs must stand up for their communities & reject it. www.cbpp.org/press/statem...
House Should Reject Senate Republican Bill That Is Even Worse Than Already Harmful House Version in Important Ways | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Following a series of middle-of-the-night backroom deals, and less than an hour after the final language was unveiled, Senate Republicans voted to pass a bill that would raise food and health care cos...
www.cbpp.org
July 2, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Here in WA, in the 4th Congressional district, approx 38% of people — & 70% of kids — rely on Medicaid. Almost 17% of people in the region rely on SNAP. People in Yakima & Tri-Cities need Rep. Newhouse to reject the reconciliation bill that would take health care & food assistance away from so many.
As the Senate weighs the big bad bill, remember: when workers are told to do more with less, that’s a choice. Scarcity is engineered. Care should be unconditional. Ask what our communities need, and who’s hoarding the resources. (Hint: rhymes with Beff Jezos and his ilk).
June 30, 2025 at 11:58 PM
As the Senate weighs the big bad bill, remember: when workers are told to do more with less, that’s a choice. Scarcity is engineered. Care should be unconditional. Ask what our communities need, and who’s hoarding the resources. (Hint: rhymes with Beff Jezos and his ilk).
Sounds like something a gorilla would say.
why is the president the only person testing the limits of his power? everyone should see what they can get away with. what if zookeepers gave helicopters to gorillas? nobody has tried this
June 10, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Sounds like something a gorilla would say.
Nothing says "fiscal responsibility" like making working families choose between groceries and medications so billionaires can get a tax break to snag a third yacht and bankroll a union-busting legal team while they continue to build an AI overlords to do your job... just saying, #MedicaidMatters
May 30, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Nothing says "fiscal responsibility" like making working families choose between groceries and medications so billionaires can get a tax break to snag a third yacht and bankroll a union-busting legal team while they continue to build an AI overlords to do your job... just saying, #MedicaidMatters
The ladies at my salon said everyone has been asking when the revolution is… and they tell them they’ll ask me. So now I have to draft an email explaining how to get involved so they can share it with anyone asking. Always be organizing! lol
March 15, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The ladies at my salon said everyone has been asking when the revolution is… and they tell them they’ll ask me. So now I have to draft an email explaining how to get involved so they can share it with anyone asking. Always be organizing! lol
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March 9, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Canceling the measurement of economic impacts from climate change doesn’t make those costs — estimated to be nearly $2 trillion for the U.S. economy this decade — go away. Instead, it will likely have the effect of pushing them onto citizens.
By @abrahm.bsky.social
By @abrahm.bsky.social
Trump Order Shifts the Financial Burden of Climate Change Onto Individuals
The change would effectively transfer financial responsibility from oil drillers, auto manufacturers and others and leave Americans to face greater direct costs as warming continues.
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February 25, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Canceling the measurement of economic impacts from climate change doesn’t make those costs — estimated to be nearly $2 trillion for the U.S. economy this decade — go away. Instead, it will likely have the effect of pushing them onto citizens.
By @abrahm.bsky.social
By @abrahm.bsky.social
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Kinda makes you wonder if the White House press corps wishes it had pushed back harder on the AP being banished, don’t it?
The White House announced on Tuesday that the administration — not an independent group of journalists — will determine which outlets have access to the president as part of a pool allowed into the Oval Office, aboard Air Force One and other events www.politico.com/news/2025/02...
White House says it will determine which reporters have access to the president
“All journalists, outlets and voices deserve a seat at this highly coveted table,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said.
www.politico.com
February 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Kinda makes you wonder if the White House press corps wishes it had pushed back harder on the AP being banished, don’t it?
The U.S. is being hoodwinked in broad daylight. So… that revolution, who’s manning the grill, and do we RSVP or just show up with a casserole and a game plan???
February 22, 2025 at 4:25 AM
The U.S. is being hoodwinked in broad daylight. So… that revolution, who’s manning the grill, and do we RSVP or just show up with a casserole and a game plan???
I posted this with an explanation of why I’ve been MIA; then I took it down b/c idk why... But, it NEEDS to be shared. This is what WA loses if we don’t get off our asses and bring in new progressive revenue and this doesn’t even count what’s going on federally. Fight the power, people. ✊🏽
WA Budget Cuts – Washington State House Democrats
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February 21, 2025 at 5:03 AM
I posted this with an explanation of why I’ve been MIA; then I took it down b/c idk why... But, it NEEDS to be shared. This is what WA loses if we don’t get off our asses and bring in new progressive revenue and this doesn’t even count what’s going on federally. Fight the power, people. ✊🏽
If you're in WA, please sign in as PRO on HB 1927 (on-time rent credit reporting) which will help make rent count towards your credit score. app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifie...
CSI
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February 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
If you're in WA, please sign in as PRO on HB 1927 (on-time rent credit reporting) which will help make rent count towards your credit score. app.leg.wa.gov/csi/Testifie...
“Our union was born in the fight for a professional, non-partisan civil service, and our communities will pay the price if these anti-union extremists are allowed to undo decades of progress by stripping these workers of their freedoms. Together, we are fighting back.” ✊🏽
Public Service Unions File Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration Efforts to Politicize the Civil Service
Today, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), represented by Democracy Forward and Bredhoff and Kaiser PL...
www.afscme.org
January 30, 2025 at 6:39 AM
“Our union was born in the fight for a professional, non-partisan civil service, and our communities will pay the price if these anti-union extremists are allowed to undo decades of progress by stripping these workers of their freedoms. Together, we are fighting back.” ✊🏽
Just going to drop this, from Jan. 22, 2025, here and duck back out…
Trump Guts Key Aviation Safety Committee, Fires Heads Of TSA, Coast Guard
The committee will technically continue to exist, but it won't have any members to carry out the work of examining safety issues at airlines and airports.
www.huffpost.com
January 30, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Just going to drop this, from Jan. 22, 2025, here and duck back out…
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A friendly reminder....
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January 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
A friendly reminder....
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Reminder: profiteering/corporate capture is a bad joke, & the punchline is democracy gets hurt. Govt funding isn't a luxury, it's necessary. Corps, incl nonprofits, are NOT adequate (or cost-savings) substitutes. The transfer of wealth is a sneaky way to take from the many & give to the few.
December 17, 2024 at 6:22 PM
Reminder: profiteering/corporate capture is a bad joke, & the punchline is democracy gets hurt. Govt funding isn't a luxury, it's necessary. Corps, incl nonprofits, are NOT adequate (or cost-savings) substitutes. The transfer of wealth is a sneaky way to take from the many & give to the few.
I've always said I'd never sign up for another social site. But here we are...
November 16, 2024 at 12:59 AM
I've always said I'd never sign up for another social site. But here we are...