AK Coulter
@ak-coulter.bsky.social
Pharmacist & aspirant fiction writer. Health care, equal rights, & rescue dogs. Writing multi-ethnic, multi-generational novel.
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AK Coulter
@ak-coulter.bsky.social
· Nov 11
I’m a pharmacist trying to write a novel who joined Twitter in 2019 to follow brilliant people & stay engaged & see dog photos—now coming here to follow brilliant people & stay engaged & see dog photos. I barely figured out Twitter…I imagine I’ll be same here! But I appreciate the community.
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When Democrats offered a clean ONE-year extension of the tax credits—which is truly the most straightforward and common-sense thing we can do for people facing gigantic premium hikes this year—Republicans said “never, ever, ever, ever.” They called it “political terrorism.” Are you serious?
November 10, 2025 at 10:35 PM
When Democrats offered a clean ONE-year extension of the tax credits—which is truly the most straightforward and common-sense thing we can do for people facing gigantic premium hikes this year—Republicans said “never, ever, ever, ever.” They called it “political terrorism.” Are you serious?
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I will not let people forget that the same Republicans who did everything in their power to make tax breaks for billionaires PERMANENT refused to even negotiate ONE YEAR of health care tax credits for working families.
November 10, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I will not let people forget that the same Republicans who did everything in their power to make tax breaks for billionaires PERMANENT refused to even negotiate ONE YEAR of health care tax credits for working families.
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No one should doubt for a single second who is to blame for skyrocketing health care costs: Republicans and Republicans alone.
And families across the country will pay the price of Republican inaction every single month.
And families across the country will pay the price of Republican inaction every single month.
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM
No one should doubt for a single second who is to blame for skyrocketing health care costs: Republicans and Republicans alone.
And families across the country will pay the price of Republican inaction every single month.
And families across the country will pay the price of Republican inaction every single month.
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Trump isn’t interested in truth. He is interested in subordination and control. The apology conveys to me that the BBC thinks they can sweep this under the rug with a robust “sorry,” but that’s just opened the door to an authoritarian to come at them. Where are the journalists to say “no, enough?”
November 11, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Trump isn’t interested in truth. He is interested in subordination and control. The apology conveys to me that the BBC thinks they can sweep this under the rug with a robust “sorry,” but that’s just opened the door to an authoritarian to come at them. Where are the journalists to say “no, enough?”
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In the midst of a 40+ day Republican shutdown with major flight delays and being short 3,000 air traffic controllers, our INSANE President is ENCOURAGING ATCs to quit heading into the holiday season.
Trump is taking a wrecking ball to our air safety infrastructure.
Trump is taking a wrecking ball to our air safety infrastructure.
Trump to air traffic controllers: "For those that did nothing but complain, and took time off, even though everyone knew they would be paid, IN FULL, shortly into the future, I am NOT HAPPY WITH YOU. You didn’t step up to help the U.S.A. against the FAKE DEMOCRAT ATTACK"
November 10, 2025 at 4:57 PM
In the midst of a 40+ day Republican shutdown with major flight delays and being short 3,000 air traffic controllers, our INSANE President is ENCOURAGING ATCs to quit heading into the holiday season.
Trump is taking a wrecking ball to our air safety infrastructure.
Trump is taking a wrecking ball to our air safety infrastructure.
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What everyone should understand is that Donald Trump could just pay SNAP benefits so people don't go hungry.
He's choosing not to. He is choosing to appeal to SCOTUS. He is choosing cruelty.
He's choosing not to. He is choosing to appeal to SCOTUS. He is choosing cruelty.
Trump administration wants Supreme Court to intervene in SNAP fight again
The battle over funding for the nation’s largest anti-hunger program has left millions wondering how they will afford food.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
What everyone should understand is that Donald Trump could just pay SNAP benefits so people don't go hungry.
He's choosing not to. He is choosing to appeal to SCOTUS. He is choosing cruelty.
He's choosing not to. He is choosing to appeal to SCOTUS. He is choosing cruelty.
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Another horrifying consequence of Republican abortion bans that block women from getting the basic health care they need.
Every Republican should have to answer for this.
Every Republican should have to answer for this.
A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage
A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.
www.propublica.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Another horrifying consequence of Republican abortion bans that block women from getting the basic health care they need.
Every Republican should have to answer for this.
Every Republican should have to answer for this.
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A stark reminder that-despite the fecklessness of 7 Democratic senators-Donald Trump and his MAGA lackeys are the real reason health insurance premiums have skyrocketed
The callousness of their Big Ugly Bill and half-baked ideas (like this one) to “fix” the crisis will get even MORE people killed
The callousness of their Big Ugly Bill and half-baked ideas (like this one) to “fix” the crisis will get even MORE people killed
Trump: "We want a healthcare system where we pay the money to the people instead of the insurance companies. We're gonna be working on that very hard over the next short period of time. Where the people get the money. We're talking about trillions and trillions of dollars."
November 10, 2025 at 9:38 PM
A stark reminder that-despite the fecklessness of 7 Democratic senators-Donald Trump and his MAGA lackeys are the real reason health insurance premiums have skyrocketed
The callousness of their Big Ugly Bill and half-baked ideas (like this one) to “fix” the crisis will get even MORE people killed
The callousness of their Big Ugly Bill and half-baked ideas (like this one) to “fix” the crisis will get even MORE people killed
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many people have been saying
As predicted, they’re going after the entire childhood vaccination schedule (second slide, from WaPo).
November 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
many people have been saying
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Typical petro-state #ffagenda climate change global warming denier. Just lie, racast blame from the mass harms they cause, make stuff up. Just like tobacco and asbestos companies with causing lung cancer or Purdue pharma re false long term harmful drug prescribing, same product marketing tactics
Mike Johnson: "That's the reason the inflation is up, the cost of living is up so high -- because of the policies of the previous administration. Now, we're working to root those policies out and implement our own, but it takes a little time."
November 10, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Typical petro-state #ffagenda climate change global warming denier. Just lie, racast blame from the mass harms they cause, make stuff up. Just like tobacco and asbestos companies with causing lung cancer or Purdue pharma re false long term harmful drug prescribing, same product marketing tactics
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Unpopular shutdown take: something like this result was probably baked in from the start, trying to fight was the right thing to do anyway, and Dems don't suck. Shutdown politics always favor Rs due to nihilists' advantage. They've never given half a shit if people starve before, they didn't now.
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Unpopular shutdown take: something like this result was probably baked in from the start, trying to fight was the right thing to do anyway, and Dems don't suck. Shutdown politics always favor Rs due to nihilists' advantage. They've never given half a shit if people starve before, they didn't now.
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Public health depends on citizens accepting scientifically-grounded guidance. When official institutions produce politically-determined science and independent verification infrastructure is eliminated, the capacity for evidence-based health policy collapses, writes Renée DiResta.
How Political Power is Capturing Knowledge Systems and Manufacturing Structural Ignorance | TechPolicy.Press
We're witnessing the simultaneous capture of knowledge-producing institutions and the elimination of independent verification mechanisms, writes Renée DiResta.
www.techpolicy.press
November 10, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Public health depends on citizens accepting scientifically-grounded guidance. When official institutions produce politically-determined science and independent verification infrastructure is eliminated, the capacity for evidence-based health policy collapses, writes Renée DiResta.
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40* Senate Dems said no. House Dems have said they will fight & we should encourage them. Meanwhile, Reps have gone all in on Trump's efforts to turn our government into a weapon against our people.
*Yes, I know. No vote on stage may still hide helping cloture backstage.
*Yes, I know. No vote on stage may still hide helping cloture backstage.
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
40* Senate Dems said no. House Dems have said they will fight & we should encourage them. Meanwhile, Reps have gone all in on Trump's efforts to turn our government into a weapon against our people.
*Yes, I know. No vote on stage may still hide helping cloture backstage.
*Yes, I know. No vote on stage may still hide helping cloture backstage.
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Less than 3% of Congressional Democrats caved. 100% of Republicans created a situation in which we had to choose between making families go hungry or lose their health care. Please blame the right people.
November 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Less than 3% of Congressional Democrats caved. 100% of Republicans created a situation in which we had to choose between making families go hungry or lose their health care. Please blame the right people.
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Yet again another federal court affirms that Donald Trump must get SNAP benefits out.
It is beyond sick and cruel for this President to quite literally sue in order to keep children and seniors hungry.
It is beyond sick and cruel for this President to quite literally sue in order to keep children and seniors hungry.
States face uncertainty as Trump administration tries to reverse SNAP food payments
States are facing uncertainty about providing full monthly benefits for a federal food program serving 42 million Americans.
apnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Yet again another federal court affirms that Donald Trump must get SNAP benefits out.
It is beyond sick and cruel for this President to quite literally sue in order to keep children and seniors hungry.
It is beyond sick and cruel for this President to quite literally sue in order to keep children and seniors hungry.
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Trump is offering a pardon to any criminal who tried to help him steal an election.
The most corrupt administration in history and Republicans won’t say a peep.
The most corrupt administration in history and Republicans won’t say a peep.
Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani and others involved in bid to overturn 2020 election
The pardons may be largely symbolic as none of the people listed were convicted of federal crimes, which the presidential pardon covers.
www.nbcnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Trump is offering a pardon to any criminal who tried to help him steal an election.
The most corrupt administration in history and Republicans won’t say a peep.
The most corrupt administration in history and Republicans won’t say a peep.
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SCOTUS declined to hear the challenge meant to overturn Obergefell. Which means marriage equality stays. Heritage Foundation and other Christian nationalists were counting on this case to roll back rights. Welp…Not today!
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
SCOTUS declined to hear the challenge meant to overturn Obergefell. Which means marriage equality stays. Heritage Foundation and other Christian nationalists were counting on this case to roll back rights. Welp…Not today!
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Need to stop pretending:
We know this because he told us.
The reality is the government was shut down the first day Trump entered office. We just didn't talk about it that way.
The only real leverage Dems had is on appropriations. Schumer screwed that up in February/March for FY 26. It imperiled his political support.
The reality is the government was shut down the first day Trump entered office. We just didn't talk about it that way.
The only real leverage Dems had is on appropriations. Schumer screwed that up in February/March for FY 26. It imperiled his political support.
November 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Need to stop pretending:
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Chuck @schumer.senate.gov should step down
8 Senate Democrats sided with Trump and Republican fascists in throwing 15 million Americans off Medicaid and Obamacare:
Dick Durbin (IL), Maggie Hassan (NH), Tim Kaine (VA), Angus King (I-ME), Cortez Masto (NV), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Jacky Rosen (NV), John Fetterman (PA).
Dick Durbin (IL), Maggie Hassan (NH), Tim Kaine (VA), Angus King (I-ME), Cortez Masto (NV), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Jacky Rosen (NV), John Fetterman (PA).
November 10, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Chuck @schumer.senate.gov should step down
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This is a good piece of analysis, one that doesn’t give into doomerism
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 AM
This is a good piece of analysis, one that doesn’t give into doomerism
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i'm basically with you on this. the optics are bad, the power dynamic is bad, but it's bad either way. the problems go much deeper than "caving" - primarying people is fun but not a structural solution to having elected a party that doesn't want to live in a society or a republic
November 10, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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The thing to make it about was the lawless authoritarianism. Just like last week’s elections were.
They were never going to get ACA subsidies, which is part of why it was a mistake to insist this was only about ACA subsidies and nothing else.
Sincere question: does anybody have any evidence that the GOP/WH would have eventually folded and extended the ACA subsidies if the shutdown continued?
I haven’t seen any. The President didn’t seem to feeling any pressure. No GOP Senator AFAIK expressed any concern. (Some Reps did)
I haven’t seen any. The President didn’t seem to feeling any pressure. No GOP Senator AFAIK expressed any concern. (Some Reps did)
November 10, 2025 at 6:12 AM
The thing to make it about was the lawless authoritarianism. Just like last week’s elections were.
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U.S Democrats need total solidarity to beat a fascist party that has total solidarity. This now sets the scene of U.S Democrats creating a perception they are responsible for the shutdown which GOP will exploit to amplify blame against them. Dems repeat foolishness that GOP can work in good faith
On no...
Eight Moderate Senate Democrats caved and voted YES on CR to end shutdown...
I'm sure Trump is doing a victory dance at Mar-A-Lago...
Eight Moderate Senate Democrats caved and voted YES on CR to end shutdown...
I'm sure Trump is doing a victory dance at Mar-A-Lago...
November 10, 2025 at 6:02 AM
U.S Democrats need total solidarity to beat a fascist party that has total solidarity. This now sets the scene of U.S Democrats creating a perception they are responsible for the shutdown which GOP will exploit to amplify blame against them. Dems repeat foolishness that GOP can work in good faith
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This is pretty close to where I'm at at the moment.
I'll have more on this from an actual ACA wonk POV (which is my wheelhouse anyway) tomorrow.
I'll have more on this from an actual ACA wonk POV (which is my wheelhouse anyway) tomorrow.
November 10, 2025 at 6:04 AM
This is pretty close to where I'm at at the moment.
I'll have more on this from an actual ACA wonk POV (which is my wheelhouse anyway) tomorrow.
I'll have more on this from an actual ACA wonk POV (which is my wheelhouse anyway) tomorrow.
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Long-term, there’s plenty of time for recriminations around the Democratic capitulation (primaries, leadership votes, etc.).
Short-term, we can’t lose sight of our biggest goal:
Pressuring House and Senate Republicans to extend the ACA subsidies.
Like it or not, that’s where the fight is now.
Short-term, we can’t lose sight of our biggest goal:
Pressuring House and Senate Republicans to extend the ACA subsidies.
Like it or not, that’s where the fight is now.
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Long-term, there’s plenty of time for recriminations around the Democratic capitulation (primaries, leadership votes, etc.).
Short-term, we can’t lose sight of our biggest goal:
Pressuring House and Senate Republicans to extend the ACA subsidies.
Like it or not, that’s where the fight is now.
Short-term, we can’t lose sight of our biggest goal:
Pressuring House and Senate Republicans to extend the ACA subsidies.
Like it or not, that’s where the fight is now.