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@factsrtruth.bsky.social
Handle @sbarisch on the platform formerly known as Twitter. Looking for sanity in an insane world. Therapist, Bears fan, mom, lifelong Dem, Disney World fan, proud Leguminati 🫘.
Did they get too close to Mara Lago or withstand of Trump's properties?
June 14, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Reposted
June 14, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Democracy dies in darkness and in silence, just like the House passing this bill in the dead of night.
May 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
The time is here to use every peaceful means possible to stop this bill.

Call your Senators and make those phones ring off the hook!

Write letters and postcards and fill their offices with mail!

Send emails and flood their data systems!

March, protest, put signs out. Anything you can do.
May 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
It also strips $500 billion from Medicare, eliminates $300 billion in food security programs, and strips another $700 billion from Medicaid, imposing costly penalties and requirements that reduce care and hate already been found to be ineffective.
May 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
This isn’t just another bill. It’s the Project 2025 playbook written into law. This bill abuses budget reconciliation rules to jam through non-budget items: education rollbacks, environmental deregulation, and civil service purges.
May 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
- Eliminates the ability for federal courts to hold ANY government officials in contempt when they violate court orders. Literally allowing the Trump administration (our any following administration, if there is one) to be immune to the checks and balances written into our Constitution! -my addition
May 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
- Sec. 80121(h) - Strips courts of jurisdiction to review federal permits and approvals
- Project 2025: Removes judicial oversight over mining, drilling, leasing, and environmental enforcement, effectively silencing the courts.
May 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
- Sec. 44122 - Limits retroactive Medicaid coverage
- Project 2025: Reduces healthcare access by tightening eligibility windows.
- Sec. 44131 - Ends extra funding for states that expand Medicaid
- Project 2025: Actively seeks to roll back Medicaid expansion entirely.
May 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
More buried provisions with Project 2025 fingerprints:
- Sec. 41008 - Creates a “De-Risking Fund” to protect fossil fuel companies from court orders or regulation
- Project 2025: Seeks to shield oil and gas interests from legal and environmental challenges.
May 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Limits state authority
- Sec. 44001 - Preempts state and local governments from regulating artificial intelligence for 10 years
- Project 2025: Centralizes federal power to override states on tech, education, and energy policy.
May 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
- Sec. 90006 - Eliminates early retirement supplements
- Project 2025: Aims to purge and replace career civil servants with political loyalists.
May 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Weakens federal worker protections
- Sec. 90004 - Allows new federal hires to be fired at will-reviving “Schedule F”
- Sec. 90005 - Increases pension contributions for federal workers
May 23, 2025 at 2:26 AM