RaetheJedi
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There's a 99.99% chance I like Star Wars more than you. And a good chance I hate capitalism more.
I spent an hour reading this last night at 1am. It's terrifying. Especially when you understand this is the extent with which Project 2025 SEEKS to create real harm to millions of people under the guise of kicking ineligible people off Medicaid. 🧵
Medicaid and CHIP Cuts in the House-Passed Reconciliation Bill Explained
Editor’s Note: CCF published a brief explaining the final bill that was signed into law on July 4, 2025. In the early morning of Thursday, May 22nd, on a 215-214 vote, House Republicans passe…
ccf.georgetown.edu
August 22, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I spent an hour reading this last night at 1am. It's terrifying. Especially when you understand this is the extent with which Project 2025 SEEKS to create real harm to millions of people under the guise of kicking ineligible people off Medicaid. 🧵
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NEW—Earlier this evening agents from ICE/other fed agencies were outside Rhode Island Ave metro in DC asking people exiting the station for their IDs, per someone who experienced it. When the person presented their Real ID license, an agent said that wasn't sufficient. Luckily they had secondary ID.
August 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
NEW—Earlier this evening agents from ICE/other fed agencies were outside Rhode Island Ave metro in DC asking people exiting the station for their IDs, per someone who experienced it. When the person presented their Real ID license, an agent said that wasn't sufficient. Luckily they had secondary ID.
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RFK Jr., who's supposed to be all about "facts and logic," is out here removing members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee?!?
Y’all, these aren’t political appointees. These are public health experts—people who’ve spent their careers working to keep Americans safe from disease.
Y’all, these aren’t political appointees. These are public health experts—people who’ve spent their careers working to keep Americans safe from disease.
RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines.
apnews.com
June 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
RFK Jr., who's supposed to be all about "facts and logic," is out here removing members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee?!?
Y’all, these aren’t political appointees. These are public health experts—people who’ve spent their careers working to keep Americans safe from disease.
Y’all, these aren’t political appointees. These are public health experts—people who’ve spent their careers working to keep Americans safe from disease.
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FRIEND: "We're at risk of slipping into fascism."
ME: "Oh, honey . . . when they are arresting judges and mayors, we've already slipped."
ME: "Oh, honey . . . when they are arresting judges and mayors, we've already slipped."
May 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
FRIEND: "We're at risk of slipping into fascism."
ME: "Oh, honey . . . when they are arresting judges and mayors, we've already slipped."
ME: "Oh, honey . . . when they are arresting judges and mayors, we've already slipped."
I wish this a hole nothing but ill will
The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.
HHS plans to cut the national suicide hotline’s program for LGBTQ youth
In February, the program received an average of 2,100 contacts per day.
www.motherjones.com
April 24, 2025 at 12:39 AM
I wish this a hole nothing but ill will
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The National Institutes of Health plans to pool information from private sources like pharmacies and smartwatches.
NIH autism study will pull from private medical records
The National Institutes of Health plans to pool information from private sources like pharmacies and smartwatches.
www.npr.org
April 23, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The National Institutes of Health plans to pool information from private sources like pharmacies and smartwatches.
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The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses.
The State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rights
The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses.
www.npr.org
April 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses.
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Democracy does not collapse overnight. It erodes gradually––and then suddenly––with the normalization of undemocratic practices that are cloaked in legality yet corrosive to constitutional governance.
#USDemocracy
#USDemocracy
How Democracies Defend Themselves against Authoritarianism
Democracies facing authoritarian threats from within have found ways to push back by strengthening institutions, reinforcing democratic norms, and building popular resistance against encroaching autoc...
brewminate.com
April 17, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Democracy does not collapse overnight. It erodes gradually––and then suddenly––with the normalization of undemocratic practices that are cloaked in legality yet corrosive to constitutional governance.
#USDemocracy
#USDemocracy
Except it's kinda happening over night
April 18, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Except it's kinda happening over night
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🚨URGENT—Despite the Supreme Court declaring that it would be illegal to deport people under the Alien Enemies Act without giving them a meaningful chance to seek judicial review, the Trump admin is reportedly about to send a group of Venezuelans detained in Texas to El Salvador in a matter of hours!
April 18, 2025 at 2:55 AM
🚨URGENT—Despite the Supreme Court declaring that it would be illegal to deport people under the Alien Enemies Act without giving them a meaningful chance to seek judicial review, the Trump admin is reportedly about to send a group of Venezuelans detained in Texas to El Salvador in a matter of hours!
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Authoritarianism
He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him.
He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons.
He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him.
He’s defying the Supreme Court.
Don’t you see what’s happening here?
He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons.
He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him.
He’s defying the Supreme Court.
Don’t you see what’s happening here?
April 15, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Authoritarianism
Very obvious. He has no intention of eliminating " fraud and waste". It was a cover to gain sensitive data and he had to fire 1000s of federal employees to get it
It was clear as day what Elon was actually doing.
You must now assume he controls every single piece of sensitive data the government has on you from tax records to health and student loan records. He has it all.
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
You must now assume he controls every single piece of sensitive data the government has on you from tax records to health and student loan records. He has it all.
www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
April 15, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Very obvious. He has no intention of eliminating " fraud and waste". It was a cover to gain sensitive data and he had to fire 1000s of federal employees to get it
Heinous
Marco Rubio just announced 10 more people were sent to be imprisoned in CECOT. They were flown there from Gitmo to be imprisoned potentially for life based not on any crime for which they were convicted, but on unproven allegations of gang membership with no due process.
This is not lawful.
This is not lawful.
April 14, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Heinous
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More in No, Other People:
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
April 13, 2025 at 5:06 PM
More in No, Other People:
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
New poll:
“America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.”
• 80% of Americans agree
• 20% disagree
“I would be better off if I worked in a factory.”
• 25% of Americans agree
• 73% disagree
• 2% currently work in a factory
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The plan from M*sk et al is to put academics and dissidents to work in the mines-- it's not hyperbole it's a refreshed vision of forced labor and indentured servitude in the name of techno fascism
This “genius” genuinely believes that healthcare budget analysts can simply be reassigned to making toasters.
April 13, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The plan from M*sk et al is to put academics and dissidents to work in the mines-- it's not hyperbole it's a refreshed vision of forced labor and indentured servitude in the name of techno fascism
On April 20th, 2025, the United States will Cross the Point of No Return. medium.com/@aletheisthe...
On April 20th, 2025, the United States will Cross the Point of No Return.
That’s the day Donald Trump’s advisory committee is expected to release its findings on whether he should invoke the Insurrection Act — a move that would allow him to deploy the military domestically…
medium.com
April 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
On April 20th, 2025, the United States will Cross the Point of No Return. medium.com/@aletheisthe...
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I mean he does love the poorly educated.
March 21, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I mean he does love the poorly educated.
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BREAKING
Project 2025 leader and current OMB head Russ Vought directs all agencies to create plans for large-scale layoffs ("Reductions in Force") by March 13.
Project 2025 leader and current OMB head Russ Vought directs all agencies to create plans for large-scale layoffs ("Reductions in Force") by March 13.
February 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
BREAKING
Project 2025 leader and current OMB head Russ Vought directs all agencies to create plans for large-scale layoffs ("Reductions in Force") by March 13.
Project 2025 leader and current OMB head Russ Vought directs all agencies to create plans for large-scale layoffs ("Reductions in Force") by March 13.
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This is so important and has been lost in most reporting. The House hasn’t cut $880 billion from Medicaid. Yet. Tonight they just moved the procedural ball forward. Now is the time to raise hell.
This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote.
There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP
Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.
There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP
Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.
@aoc.bsky.social
Please explain what just happened. Is there no way to stop this w the reconciliation to be used by GOP to get around the filibuster? Are we sunk?
Please explain what just happened. Is there no way to stop this w the reconciliation to be used by GOP to get around the filibuster? Are we sunk?
February 26, 2025 at 4:28 AM
This is so important and has been lost in most reporting. The House hasn’t cut $880 billion from Medicaid. Yet. Tonight they just moved the procedural ball forward. Now is the time to raise hell.
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After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.
Mark Hamill posting rebellious content in a battle against a dictator and his robotic sidekick is the most Star Wars shit ever.
February 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
After playing a fictional member of the Resistance a long time ago, I never could have imagined it ever happening in real life, but here we are.
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