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Marc Elias

@marcelias.bsky.social

I am listening to Ron Desantis talk about elections as he is about to sign a new voter suppression law. He is every bit as unhinged as Trump. Amazingly unhinged.

As soon as he stops rambling and signs this bill, Florida will be sued. Stand by....

April 1, 2026 at 2:26 PM

davge107

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Trump’s hunt for undocumented Medicaid enrollees yields few violators

By � Phil Galewitz �for KFF Last August, as part of the federal government’s crackdown on people in the country illegally, the Trump administration �

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April 1, 2026 at 7:51 PM

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Jon Cooper

@joncooper-us.bsky.social

NEW: Republicans are considering reductions in federal health spending to help pay for a budget bill containing as much as $200 billion to fund the Iran war and immigration enforcement.

GOP weighs health care cuts to pay for Iran war

New efforts to rein in health programs open the GOP up to attacks that they're cutting health care to pay for an unpopular war.

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March 30, 2026 at 3:08 PM

davge107

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GOP wants to cut health care funding to pay for Iran war

As the war in Iran stretches into its fifth week, congressional Republicans are looking for ways to help fund the quagmire President Donald Trump created in the ...

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March 30, 2026 at 4:21 PM

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸

@gtconway.bsky.social

March 30, 2026 at 4:18 PM

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Aaron Rupar

@atrupar.com

oh my goodness -- watch Mike Johnson, Scalise, Emmer, and McClain clap like seals for Trump for nearly two minutes straight. None of them want to be the first to stop!

March 9, 2026 at 8:53 PM

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Bill Grueskin

@bgrueskin.bsky.social

“Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding.”

-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, writing about the unfortunate director of the local paper factory

mannerofspeaking.org/2010/05/12/s...

At the conclusion of the conference, a tribute to Comrade Stalin was called for. Of course, everyone stood up (just as everyone had leaped to his feet during the conference at every mention of his name). ... For three minutes, four minutes, five minutes, the stormy applause, rising to an ovation, continued. But palms were getting sore and raised arms were already aching. And the older people were panting from exhaustion. It was becoming insufferably silly even to those who really adored Stalin.

However, who would dare to be the first to stop? … After all, NKVD men were standing in the hall applauding and watching to see who would quit first! And in the obscure, small hall, unknown to the leader, the applause went on – six, seven, eight minutes! They were done for! Their goose was cooked! They couldn’t stop now till they collapsed with heart attacks! At the rear of the hall, which was crowded, they could of course cheat a bit, clap less frequently, less vigorously, not so eagerly – but up there with the presidium where everyone could see them?

The director of the local paper factory, an independent and strong-minded man, stood with the presidium. Aware of all the falsity and all the impossibility of the situation, he still kept on applauding! Nine minutes! Ten! In anguish he watched the secretary of the District Party Committee, but the latter dared not stop. Insanity! To the last man! With make-believe enthusiasm on their faces, looking at each other with faint hope, the district leaders were just going to go on and on applauding till they fell where they stood, till they were carried out of the hall on stretchers! And even then those who were left would not falter…

Then, after eleven minutes, the director of the paper factory assumed a businesslike expression and sat down in his seat. And, oh, a miracle took place! Where had the universal, uninhibited, indescribable enthusiasm gone? To a man, everyone else stopped dead and sat down. They had been saved!

The squirrel had been smart enough to jump off his revolving wheel. That, however, was how they discovered who the independent people were. And that was how they went about eliminating them. That same night the factory director was arrested. They easily pasted ten years on him on the pretext of something quite different. But after he had signed Form 206, the final document of the interrogation, his interrogator reminded him:

“Don’t ever be the first to stop applauding.”

March 10, 2026 at 1:45 PM

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Senator Patty Murray

@murray.senate.gov

My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.

December 6, 2025 at 2:41 AM

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Chris Murphy

@chrismurphyct.bsky.social

Brand new data:

Republicans blamed for the shutdown (+12) and for health care premiums going up (+28!!).

These are stunning numbers. Republicans aren't immune from the pressure this creates.

Time to press our advantage. Stand for what we believe in.

November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM

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Indivisible DuPage

@indivisibledupage.bsky.social

Open enrollment in the ACA has begun, and the sticker shock is real. Protect Our Care is encouraging folks who are enrolled in the ACA to take a picture of the new premiums next to the old ones and send them to our elected representatives. Let them know how outrageous these premiums are!

November 5, 2025 at 4:25 PM

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Senator Patty Murray

@murray.senate.gov

4 out of 5 people who rely on the ACA tax credits live in states that Trump won.

And over 80 percent of the people who will end up uninsured if these expire are in Trump states!

This is a MAGA health care hike, yet Trump won't lift a finger to save your health care.

November 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM

davge107

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Healthcare for All: The Democratic Promise That Could Heal a Broken Nation

When politics becomes personal, policy becomes powerful. And there’s nothing more personal than survival. Every election cycle, candidates talk about “freedom,” “security,” and “opportunity,” yet igno...

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November 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM

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Julie Roginsky

@julieroginsky.bsky.social

There was a very high profile vote by mail scandal in NJ in recent years. Unfortunately, the person who was just sentenced to years in prison for fraudulent VBM operations worked for... Jeff Van Drew.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Aug 19

Rep. Jeff Van Drew claims he’s spoken to “large numbers” of dead people who had mail ballots sent to them