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Allyn
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Mostly here for the dogs. Proud New Mexican. Pro Democracy. Feminist. Corticobasal syndrome patient. Fleeing X. No DMs and no crypto!
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NEW: Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah.

But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.

By @jessicamiller.bsky.social, with @sltrib.com
Utah Farmers Signed Up for Federally Funded Therapy. Then the Money Stopped.
Farmers are dying by suicide at the third-highest rate by vocation in Utah. But after a federal program offering mental health support ran out of money, the state did not continue it.
www.propublica.org
April 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Far right extremists, inspired by Trump per Whitmer herself, tried to kidnap her. Trump himself later suggested it was a fake plot and mocked it. He called her ‘that woman in Michigan’ and led a crowd that chanted ‘lock her up.’

Today Whitmer hugged him on the tarmac.

This is why Dems lose. 🤷🏽‍♂️👇🏽
Gretchen Whitmer greets Trump in Michigan
April 29, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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I'm old enough to remember when pro-life GOPers would accuse working class women of having babies just to get government money. Anyone remember that, or am I nuts?
April 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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These guys are about to kick millions of people off their health insurance and they don't have the faintest idea of how these programs work, just throwing out numbers in an incoherent jumble. It's like a football coach saying "We've got a 10-yard redzone in our offside flea flicker so we'll be good"
House E&C Chair Brett Guthrie: “We have an expansion population that gets 90% federal money, and you have traditional [Medicaid], so a disabled child in Kentucky gets 72 cents when they go to the doctor. And we know that’s just unsustainable.”

“We want to fix that” www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Republicans consider unraveling a key part of Obamacare in Trump agenda bill
The chair of the House committee overseeing health care policy said they're looking at unwinding the federal promise to cover 90% of the 2010 law's Medicaid expansion.
www.nbcnews.com
April 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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🚨BREAKING: Missouri Supreme Court REJECTS election challenge to Proposition A, the minimum wage and sick leave bill approved by voters in November. A victory for the Jobs with Justice Ballot Fund and the voters of Missouri.
April 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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This is killing me.
In game theory, “strategic uncertainty” is not “a strategy of creating uncertainty”.
It is what one faces from interaction when there is no dominant strategy.
If you want to create uncertainty in others about what strategy you are going to pursue, that’s a “mixed strategy”
Today on ABC This Week, Treas Sec Bessent said: "In Game Theory, It's Called Strategic Uncertainty... Nobody is better at creating this leverage" than Trump.

Don't they see this is already failing as a strategy? Some of us warned them this would backfire
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
The True Dangers of Trump’s Economic Plans
His radical agenda would wreak havoc on American businesses, workers, and consumers.
www.foreignaffairs.com
April 27, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Hope this isn't part of the grant money being cut ✂️ from the federal budget ...

"Albuquerque is joining the fight against overdose deaths, specifically in black communities"

You Have the Power to Save Lives, launched today to raise awareness about Naloxone's life-saving power

Reports @krqe.com
April 26, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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*Of course* advance information on US combat operations is classified. Pretending otherwise is an insult to our troops, who all know this.

The Secretary is unfit to lead.
April 21, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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If Democratic congressional leadership don’t lead an en masse halt to all legislative business after today, I don’t know why they’re worth supporting. What moment could more demand a response of intractable and tedious opposition? Shut it all down, and refuse to budge.
April 14, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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"So, Adolf Hitler invited me to lunch. It was wonderful. He was gracious and willing to listen. You can hate me for it, but I'm not a liar."
April 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I wish you all can smell my tree 🌳
April 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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🚨BREAKING: North Carolina Supreme Court rejects Republican effort to disqualify more than 60,000 votes in close judicial election. However, GOP dominated court rules 4-2 that several thousand other ballots must be "cured" to be counted.

Democratic candidate will continue legal fight in Fed court.
🚨 Griffin v. North Carolina State Board of Elections (II)
Learn more.
www.democracydocket.com
April 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Right, because Grandma is on X.

This is corruption, plain and simple.
wired.com WIRED @wired.com · Apr 11
SCOOP: The Social Security Administration (SSA) will be shifting its public communication exclusively to X, sources tell WIRED. This comes as agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent.
The Social Security Administration Is Gutting Regional Staff and Shifting All Public Communications to X
The SSA's shift to Elon Musk's X comes as the agency plans to cut its regional office workforce by roughly 90 percent, WIRED has learned.
www.wired.com
April 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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UPDATE: Judge Xinis has ordered daily reports by 5pm every day starting tomorrow and a new hearing on Tuesday at 4pm. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
April 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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If you are a Democratic member of Congress and you’re trading stock, you are part of the reason millions of voters believe the system isn’t built to help them.
April 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Art of the deal!
TL;DR: The new U.S. tariff rate against our two largest trading partners is either 10%, 25% or 35%, and so far no one I've reached out to at the White House is able to tell me which.
So the White House says the 10% baseline tariff also applies to Canada & Mexico. It has not said whether that's the effective new rate itself; whether it adds to the 25% fentanyl tariff, making the new rate 35%; or whether it kicks in only if the fentanyl tariff falls away
April 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
A roadrunner way up high. Beep beep!!
April 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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NEW: Yesterday, the Justice Department sent armed marshals to warn former U.S. pardon attorney Liz Oyer not to disclose internal DOJ information during her Senate testimony.

Today, Oyer is speaking out to condemn the DOJ’s actions and defend the rule of law.
April 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Batshit is right
The ramifications of this decision are not just legal abstractions; they strike at the heart of American freedoms. If the court capitulates, it will have opened the floodgates to the gravest consequences imaginable under 47's regime, endangering the very foundation of democracy.
April 7, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Remember: Republicans in Congress can put a stop to this at any time.
April 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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In just two months, DOGE has —lost— the government an estimated half a trillion dollars. I propose that Musk pay it back personally.
This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...
IRS Predicts DOGE Lost Half a Trillion Dollars for the USA
The Post reports today that the IRS’ internal projections estimate that the...
talkingpointsmemo.com
April 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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75%
60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
April 7, 2025 at 2:15 AM