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Todders

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If you haven’t read this article please do so

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Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.

If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.

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September 22, 2025 at 12:48 AM

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Mark Brazill 🇨🇦🇲🇽🇺🇦🇻🇪

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This is a breakdown on what Democrats in the House are doing right now. With some small hope I say this pos bill isn’t done yet. @ariellaelm.bsky.social
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All right, I was just on a call with House Dems including Reps Maxwell Frost (FL-10), Debbie Dingell (MI-06) Lauren Underwood (IL-14) Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08) and Joe Neguse (CO-02) Here is rapid fire what they want us to know for the next 18 hours.

“ kids will go to school hungry” that language is powerful

Costs will go up and jobs will go down.

For the bill to get to the floor, it has to pass through the rules committee first kind of like the vote before vote-a-rama in the senate

When Debbie Dingell was in the rules committee she submitted 15,000 letters from Michiganders into the record

There is a storm right now travel delays may delay this and every minute this is delayed it becomes less popular.

Maxwell Frost said that there should be faxing campaigns. Republicans might turn off their phones, but their fax machine is their copy machine. They won’t turn it off.

Almost 500 amendments have already been introduced by Democrats, but the Republicans majority rules committee is not allowing any of them to be voted on.

Jeffries said “this is the largest cut to healthcare in American history”” people are going to die, this is a crime scene”

20–30 Republicans are saying they are a no, that is the list that is going around. We need to keep them at a no and Maxwell Frost (and everyone in the room) gave the OK to contact them whether they are your rep or not. But start with those in your state and then you can move outside of your state after you’ve done that.

Joe Neguse stepped out of the rules committee to tell us that he does not think the Republicans have the votes.

18 hours is the magic number that is how long Democrats are expecting this process to take that is how long we have to really push. This is not in any way shape or form a done deal yet.

House Dems are 100% united we only need four Republicans and with Thomas Massie almost certainly know we really need three

Lauren Underwood mentioned that if someone had a heart attack and there’s not a hospital nearby they will die. It doesn’t matter if they are on Medicaid or private insurance. The hospital doesn’t exist for them to go to.

She also said “the nursing home industry will collapse.”

And that ACA tax credit will expire. That means that if you are paying $10 for your premium right now that will go up hundreds

17 million people will lose their healthcare but millions more will have it increase in cost possibly out of their ability to keep paying.

We can focus on holding Republicans accountable later. Ignore the Senate right now. Our focus is on the house and the Republicans who may vote no

And finally the human angle matters if you have a story write a letter or send a fax and tell it that may be the difference between a republican voting and voting no

That’s all I got. I hope this was helpful. I will be updating you as I know more. I will be posting infographics and other things as I know more but I hope this helped clarify some things and gives you some call to action right now.

Remember, our voices are our superpower, but only when we use them and now more than ever before we have to use them!

July 2, 2025 at 4:31 AM

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G Elliott Morris

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not a data take but this is fucked up. cutting food benefits to poor moms, infants, and toddlers is pointlessly cruel. not a partisan issue, just straightforwardly fucked. the cruelty is the point. call your congressperson

National WIC Association @natwicassoc.bsky.social · May 30

🗣️President Trump’s proposed FY26 budget would roll back WIC's fruit and vegetable benefits to pre-2021 levels, before USDA’s science-based increase.

Breastfeeding moms would drop from $54 → $13
Young kids: $27 → $10

These cuts jeopardize early nutrition. Read the full NWA statement:

National WIC Association Condemns Trump’s Proposed Cuts to WIC’s Fruit and Vegetable Benefits

By cutting WIC’s Cash Value Benefits (CVB) for fruits and vegetables by two-thirds and reducing overall program funding, the proposal directly removes healthy food from the hands of low-income moms an...

www.nwica.org

May 31, 2025 at 12:57 AM

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Proud Veteran

@roghair.bsky.social

If you follow me, you know how atheist and anti-religion I am.

But I’m open-minded enough to appreciate the power and beauty of this quote.

Repost and share.

It’s how we should all be thinking