cclmft.bsky.social
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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The Senators that voted 'yes' on this disastrous bill represent more than 30 million FEWER Americans than the Senators that voted 'no.'
July 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Sandhill Cranes in North Platte, NE
March 25, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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"President Donald Trump honored a child cancer survivor during his joint address to Congress. Medical school faculty who helped treat him are facing potentially devastating federal funding cuts..."

www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
Trump honored a cancer survivor. The boy's doctors now face his budget cuts.
President Donald Trump honored a child cancer survivor during his joint address to Congress amid proposing vast cuts to medical research.
www.usatoday.com
March 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Remembering a lot of people saying stuff like “I don’t agree with RFK Jr. on everything but at least he’s going to do something about the food that’s making us sick”
USDA has eliminated two food safety advisory committees for microbiological contamination and meat inspection. Most recently, they had been reviewing regulatory approaches in response to the fatal Listeria outbreak from Boar’s Head meats and fatal Cronobacter contamination in powdered infant formula
USDA eliminates two food safety advisory committees
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has eliminated two committees that advise it on food safety, the agency said on Friday, raising concerns about government oversight of the food supply as the Trump administration seeks to downsize the federal bureaucracy and slash costs.
www.reuters.com
March 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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House Rs just passed the budget resolution, the first step in their process to enact a bill that'd kick millions off Medicaid & cut SNAP down to just $1.60 per person per meal on avg while cutting taxes for the top 0.1% by $278k - all while increasing the debt

🧵on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT
February 26, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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American insurance companies — quietly, and with little government pushback — have assumed an outsize role in mental health care. People in pain are paying the price.

On Feb. 20, join us for a virtual discussion about how insurers interfere with mental health care. RSVP:
Barriers to Care: Navigating the U.S. Mental Health Crisis
A discussion about the systemic barriers to accessing mental health care, which leave many without critical treatment.
propub.li
February 14, 2025 at 2:05 AM