During his telephone town hall, Ron Johnson told a man living with stage 4 cancer that the medicine allowing him to survive the past few years, made possible from NIH grants and clinical trials, was “corrupt science.”

Cutting Medicare and Medicaid is wildly unpopular. That's why they're trying to jam these draconian cuts through right out of the starting blocks, before the American people tune into what's happening.

We need to buy time.

There are a few places in this country that serve as testing grounds for conservative tactics, places where you can see the future before it arrives elsewhere. Coeur D'Alene, Idaho is one of those places -- I've written about it before

This video should scare the absolute shit out of everyone

☎️ It’s that time again.

Call your House Rep and tell them to vote against any changes to Medicaid!

(202) 224-3121

Many of us are echoing @timothysnyder.bsky.social's lesson in On Tyranny, "Do not obey in advance.”

A no less vital admonition that deserves attn:

STAND OUT

“...without that unease, there is no freedom. The moment you set an example, the spell of the status quo is broken, and others will follow."