'Powerless': Indiana families describe the toll of losing Medicaid access
'Powerless': Indiana families describe the toll of losing Medicaid access • Indiana Capital Chronicle
Indiana families describe delayed care, confusion and financial strain as Medicaid coverage lapses ripple across the state's health system.
indianacapitalchronicle.com
Trump sued Capital One to prove they closed his accounts over politics. The bank’s answer, filed Friday: it was the anti-money-laundering desk. Months of review. Three hundred accounts. He pulled that thread himself.
Elon Musk is planning to spend at least $100 million to help Republicans in this year’s midterms. That’s just 0.014 percent of his current $702 billion net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.
Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...
‘We Ran Out of Space’: Bodies Pile Up as N.Y. Struggles to Bury Its Dead (Gift Article)
The coronavirus crisis is overwhelming New York’s system for burying the dead.
nytimes.com
New: Investigators believe a cyberattack this week on dozens of municipal water systems in Minnesota was probably the work of Iranian hackers, a potential act of aggression that comes at a precarious moment in the U.S. war against Iran. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/u...
U.S. Sees Iran as Likely Behind Cyberattack on Minnesota Water Systems (Gift Article)
Investigators cautioned that the assessment was preliminary. There were no indications that any water supply had been rendered unsafe to drink.
nytimes.com
Susan Collins voted for $70 billion in ICE funding just before an ICE agent gunned down a young immigrant father in Maine. Collins also voted against an amendment requiring bodycams. These votes will now be hung around her neck, Dems in the state tell me. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2133...
Trump Badly Screws Susan Collins as Maine ICE Death Takes Darker Turn
Collins cast some recent votes that can help likely Democratic challenger Troy Jackson tie her to Trump and to ICE. And there’s evidence that both liberals and moderates will listen.
newrepublic.com
President Trump endorsed Rep. John James last month, easing — but not clearing — his path in the primary for governor. Still standing in James’ way: self-funding businessman Perry Johnson.
Congressman clashes with wealthy businessman in Michigan’s GOP primary for governor
Rep. John James has Trump’s endorsement but faces a persistent, self-funded challenge from Perry Johnson in another tough test for a House Republican seeking higher office.
nbcnews.to
The six House Democrats who voted for the NDAA are Reps. Henry Cuellar (Texas), Don Davis (N.C.), Jared Golden (Maine), Tony Gonzales (Texas), Adam Gray (Calif.) and Marie Glusenkamp Perez (Wash.). thehill.com/homenews/hou...
6 Democrats cross aisle, join GOP to back annual defense policy bill
Six Democratic House lawmakers crossed the aisle on Wednesday to join a majority of Republicans in passing a nearly $1.15 trillion annual defense policy bill. The Democrats who backed the 202…
thehill.com
I'm never going to get over the fact that the president of the United States paid a woman more than $5 million after a jury found him liable for raping her. And he's still president. And people still support him. Never. Get. Over. It.
Epstein survivors released this video today urging senators to block the confirmation of Todd Blanche for Attorney General. They’re trying to get to 20,000 signatures on their petition to send a message to the Senate. ujoin.co/campaigns/45...
More signs of resurging HIV after USAID’s closure. African Neonatal Network reported at IMNCH (a global health conference): HIV+ pregnant women ↑50% & those not on antiretrovirals ↑>300%, year-on-year, across 22 hospitals in 5 nations. @vtoxfordnetwork.bsky.social
"It was not Hitler or Himmler who abducted me, beat me and shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor, who received a uniform and then believed they were the master race." Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor
The only reason to hold back cervical cancer screening recommendations is to benefit insurers. thehill.com/policy/healt...
RFK Jr.’s focus on preventive health panel provokes new fears
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has his sights set on remaking another influential health panel, one that determines what preventive medical services insurers must c…
thehill.com
700,000 People Have Died from DOGE’s U.S.A.I.D. Cuts Eighty million people were reached by emergency-health services in 2024, that number in 2025 dropped by more than fifty million people. Fourteen million of them were victims of severe, acute malnutrition. 2.5 million of them were children.
The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.
Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.
newyorker.com
What a charming guy and probably a terrific boss...
New York Pizza Shop Owner Dragged After Saying Teenagers Don't Need 'Livable Wages'
comicsands.com
Trump continues to try and gag journalists -- quite a hypocrisy for a man who ran on protecting the First Amendment. Silencing journalists is a move to fascism. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/b...
Times Journalists Subpoenaed as Trump Escalates Pressure on Media
The Justice Department is seeking to compel testimony from reporters who wrote about the new Air Force One. The Times called the move a “brazen act.”
nytimes.com
Trump admits to ANOTHER mystery trip to Walter Reed as speculation grows about his frequent checkups and cognitive exams, DOJ shows up at reporters' homes with subpoenas, a fence going up around the White House, and more. Your midday update is here:
Saturday Afternoon Updates: Trump Makes Another Mystery Trip to Walter Reed While Siccing His DOJ on the Press — 7/11/26
Saturday afternoon news updates: an unscheduled cognitive test, missile threats, and subpoenas for reporters who dared to do their jobs
meidasplus.com
As the Kennedy Center prepares for major renovations, former project managers there have sent Congress internal documents that they say show how the institution bypassed government contracting norms in work carried out under President Trump.
Whistle-Blowers Accuse Kennedy Center of Contracting Flaws Under Trump
Documents submitted to Congress detailed concerns about competitive bidding processes and a White House order to tear up new bathroom tile because of its color.
nyti.ms
Gift article. David French on “heritage” Americans: “Parts of the right still posture as patriots, but they have imagined a different kind of patriotism, one that loves the country but scorns its creed,” rejecting the self-evident truth that all men are created equal. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/o...
Opinion | MAGA’s Birthright Meltdown Is in Full Effect (Gift Article)
Is the right giving up on America?
nytimes.com
So hundreds of billions spent and thousands of lives lost and a global economic calamity all to…dig a hole and then fill it back up again? Great work, Marco. You definitely should be our next president.
Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 4w agoMarco Rubio says the goal of the war in Iran is now to return everything “back to the way it was” before Trump started the war. So after all that, the mission is apparently to undo the damage.
A year after shutting down USAID, the human cost is impossible to ignore. Millions are paying the price through hunger, poverty & preventable disease. The world is less safe, healthy, & stable. Canada should be stepping up, not cutting international development. ricochet.media/internationa...
One year after Trump’s aid cuts, the world’s poorest people are paying the price
A collapse in foreign assistance by wealthy countries has put millions of lives at risk. Canada, despite its global reputation, has followed a similar retreat from poverty reduction and human rights
ricochet.media
1/4 A stomach parasite doesn't care about politics. It cares about weak safeguards. As Cyclospora cases surge across multiple states, Taco Bell is pulling fresh ingredients while investigators trace the source.
Remember: The real freeloaders in this country are the rich — not the poor or immigrants or any other group of people vilified as scapegoats. The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year. The United States literally has yacht and private jet tax deductions. Hello?
NEW: States will reportedly lose tens of millions of dollars in DHS funding meant to prevent terrorism and prepare for natural disasters unless they adopt draconian changes to their election procedures at the demands of Trump. Now, election officials are condemning the effort.
Election chiefs say ‘desperate’ Trump DHS plan to blackmail states into purging voters ‘endangers American lives’
“The Constitution is clear: states run elections,” Oregon Secretary of State Tobias Read told Democracy Docket.
democracydocket.com
One in five Americans said they would move permanently to another country if they could — a 54% increase since 2020 — a poll found. Here are five countries that offer attractive residency programs.
Want to Live Abroad? You Can Still Find a Great Golden Visa.
As some countries curtail or even cancel their residency-by-investment programs, we scan the world for the most attractive visa plans for Americans.
nyti.ms
Folks have asked me if this is the start of Republicans having a spine. No. Not even close. This is low-hanging fruit to make them LOOK like they’re standing up to Trump without actually doing anything.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last mo.Reuters: U.S. SENATE VOTES TO HALT IRAN WAR UNLESS TRUMP GETS APPROVAL FROM CONGRESS
The Iranian consulate in Hyderabad says that $12B in frozen Iranian assets have been released following the U.S. and Iran's latest talks in Switzerland.
