This government shut down is all about whether Republicans will get away with raising health care premiums by 75% for 20 million Americans and throwing 15 million people off their health care.

We can't allow that to happen.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.

Hope all BLUE Readers will take a moment & read. So glad I did. These are facts I knew but facts that became obscured beneath my Immediate Threat to US Democracy Warning Radar. I think it's brilliantly stated & imo, a much needed reminder. Thank you scha·den·freu·de‬ ‪@blisterpearl.bsky.social‬

Attorney General Pam Bondi says that Tr*mp has saved 258 million lives from fentanyl overdoses. That's 75% of the population.

it is fun to read profiles of this guy which play him up as some diabolical mastermind and then watch him in action and see a huge loser

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Dr. Oz has a horrible record on reproductive rights. How can we trust him to oversee health care for millions of women?

Senator Duckworth and I are sounding the alarm.

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