Phaedra Blocker
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Even if you're on private insurance, the Republican budget will screw you over too, @aoc.bsky.social explains. #NoMedicaidCuts
May 13, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Even if you're on private insurance, the Republican budget will screw you over too, @aoc.bsky.social explains. #NoMedicaidCuts
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WATCH: @aoc.bsky.social explains how the Republican bill will:
- Gut Medicaid
- Increase premiums for private health insurance
- Force rural hospitals to close
All to give a giant tax handout to billionaires.
- Gut Medicaid
- Increase premiums for private health insurance
- Force rural hospitals to close
All to give a giant tax handout to billionaires.
May 13, 2025 at 7:51 PM
WATCH: @aoc.bsky.social explains how the Republican bill will:
- Gut Medicaid
- Increase premiums for private health insurance
- Force rural hospitals to close
All to give a giant tax handout to billionaires.
- Gut Medicaid
- Increase premiums for private health insurance
- Force rural hospitals to close
All to give a giant tax handout to billionaires.
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Back-to-back headlines on Washpost homepage tonight
May 13, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Back-to-back headlines on Washpost homepage tonight
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How people habitually respond to the poor in their midst will always be revealed in a crisis. When a crisis comes, people simply do what they practice.
May 14, 2025 at 12:35 PM
How people habitually respond to the poor in their midst will always be revealed in a crisis. When a crisis comes, people simply do what they practice.
Because facts matter.
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The part that I hate is the this is not complicated. This is 9th grade economics that 33% of Americans refuse to look into.
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May 12, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Because facts matter.
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The most important lesson in macroeconomics: There’s a big difference between “B” and “T”
Trump must’ve been out sick that day at Wharton
Trump must’ve been out sick that day at Wharton
May 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The most important lesson in macroeconomics: There’s a big difference between “B” and “T”
Trump must’ve been out sick that day at Wharton
Trump must’ve been out sick that day at Wharton
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It was Mark Twain who said "war is how you teach Americans geography"
Well, Donald is how you teach Americans how the government works and now how tariffs work.
Well, Donald is how you teach Americans how the government works and now how tariffs work.
May 6, 2025 at 7:10 AM
It was Mark Twain who said "war is how you teach Americans geography"
Well, Donald is how you teach Americans how the government works and now how tariffs work.
Well, Donald is how you teach Americans how the government works and now how tariffs work.
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Trump’s proposed budget slashes billions for essential programs that millions of Americans rely on—just to hand over $1 trillion for military spending overseen by Pete Hegseth and help give massive tax breaks to the wealthy.
May 2, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Trump’s proposed budget slashes billions for essential programs that millions of Americans rely on—just to hand over $1 trillion for military spending overseen by Pete Hegseth and help give massive tax breaks to the wealthy.
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Those who can, shld donate like crazy. It’s a very visible form of resistance.
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Trump orders end to federal funding for NPR and PBS
In an executive order, President Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS, the nation's primary public broadcasters.
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May 2, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Those who can, shld donate like crazy. It’s a very visible form of resistance.
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Let's be clear. It's not "deportation." U.S. citizens can not be deported. It's kidnapping and expulsion--most likely to for-profit torture prisons like CECOT.
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Breaking: republicans voted that Trump can deport citizens
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May 1, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Let's be clear. It's not "deportation." U.S. citizens can not be deported. It's kidnapping and expulsion--most likely to for-profit torture prisons like CECOT.
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It misrepresents God when we tell victims of atrocious, life-changing abuse to simply forgive and forget. Forgiveness of any wrong, let alone a life-shattering one, is never a “just do it” task.
April 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
It misrepresents God when we tell victims of atrocious, life-changing abuse to simply forgive and forget. Forgiveness of any wrong, let alone a life-shattering one, is never a “just do it” task.
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For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other items has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel.
Aid groups are running out of food to distribute. Markets are nearly bare.
Palestinian families are left struggling to feed their children.
Aid groups are running out of food to distribute. Markets are nearly bare.
Palestinian families are left struggling to feed their children.
For nearly 60 days, Israel has blocked food from Gaza. Palestinians struggle to feed their families
For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other item has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel.
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April 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
For nearly 60 days, no food, fuel, medicine or other items has entered the Gaza Strip, blocked by Israel.
Aid groups are running out of food to distribute. Markets are nearly bare.
Palestinian families are left struggling to feed their children.
Aid groups are running out of food to distribute. Markets are nearly bare.
Palestinian families are left struggling to feed their children.