Grant Stern
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Republicans promised they wouldn’t touch Medicare. Then they passed a bill that triggers tens of billions in cuts. Seniors will feel it in higher costs, fewer providers, and harder choices between medicine and rent. Broken promises have consequences. #RepublicanMedicareCuts
Washington DC Republicans can’t agree on anything right now to pass a budget or fund the military or the basics of governing. But there is one thing every Republican and Donald Trump agreed on. Cutting Medicare for seniors and making drug prices higher. #RepublicanMedicareCuts
Republicans alone slashed Medicare with zero Democratic votes and timed it for after the election. A Democratic Congress will restore the cuts, cap insulin at $35, expand dental and vision coverage, and crack down on Big Pharma. Vote them in. #RepublicansCutHealthcare
Republicans: We hate Communisim! Also Republicans: Vote for Marx!
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · last wk.Given that Marx has asserted that he has killed an unspecified number of people, this comparison is a little too on the nose.
Today is my 19th anniversary of quitting smoking cigarettes. You can quit, too.
Why are private health insurers, like UnitedHealth, widely DESPISED? Charlotte Libov and thousands of other sick South Floridians are in a fight with United Health that is illustrating how a company that made a net profit of $1 billion a month churns out returns for its shareholders.
Trump is cutting Medicare’a drug benefits right before the midterms. You know what to do…
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Grant Stern@grantstern.bsky.social · last wk.Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appoints state AG Ashley Moody to the US Senate. She turns around and approves $10 million to Hope Florida, FRAUDULENTLY diverting money from Medicaid to a non-profit for his wife, Casey DeSantis, to spend on 2024 elections. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/f...
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis appoints state AG Ashley Moody to the US Senate. She turns around and approves $10 million to Hope Florida, FRAUDULENTLY diverting money from Medicaid to a non-profit for his wife, Casey DeSantis, to spend on 2024 elections. www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/f...
Florida Senator Ashley Moody faces renewed scrutiny over her role in Hope Florida scandal
As Florida attorney general, it was Moody and her office that approved the diversion of $10 million of taxpayer money to the Hope Florida Foundation
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Who the hell are the 3% of Americans who think Trump spends too much time trying to lower prices when he's personally responsible for crushing tax increases and high gas prices fueling inflation??? #BlueWaveIn100Days
How many times over the years did we report that Trump’s mafia was real and all they wanted to do was get Rich on holding public office? MAGA just refuses to listen. www.rawstory.com/trump-nuclea...
'It's stunning!' CNN's Erin Burnett floored as Trump 'raking it in' with Saudi deal
The details of President Donald Trump's nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia caused alarm bells to ring out on CNN on Thursday. CNN's Erin Burnett and Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA) discussed a new report dur...
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BREAKING: Paramount agreed to delay its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery while the states' lawsuit proceeds Proud to be part of the coalition opposing this dangerous merger & standing up for independent journalism, competition & our democracy👇 -TN
Paramount Agrees to Delay Warner Bros. Merger for Months (Gift Article)
The company agreed to a proposed freeze until June 2027, unless a judge issues a ruling before then on a lawsuit blocking the deal.
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Donald Trump Junior and Eric Trump are profiting off of the Pentagon and America’s need for rare earth minerals because they are Donald Trump’s sons. How much less would Americans pay if we weren’t paying a corruption tax to the Trump family? #RepublicanCostOfCorruption
Just finished a visit to Newsmax where I called Donald Trump a Republican authoritarian socialist. Can’t wait to get this clip!
Republicans in Congress voted today to fund $73 Billion for war and $10 Billion for a Trump backed pay to vote scam that makes it expensive for Americans to vote in federal elections. We the people get increased costs on everything; including healthcare and more corruption. #HealthcareNotWarfare
If the SAVE Act stopped Russia from helping Donald Trump, then I’d be all for it. But all it would do is help Vladimir Putin. And Putin wants to help Trump. #PayToVoteSaveAct
Voting is the most basic act of citizenship. The SAVE Act makes it expensive. Expensive voting is restricted voting. Restricted voting is not democracy. It's oligarchy with a ballot fee. #PayToVoteSaveAct
🚨Caught on camera: Ken Paxton PANICS when asked about owning 15 homes worth $9 million on a $153,000 government salary. Paxton dodges, stammers, then says “I’d like to keep today to law enforcement!” Classic Paxton—refuses to answer, cuts the presser short. Texans deserve better.
Right wing media is based on insanity. Ben should know. He’s been peddling it for years to sleep on his bed made of gold.
Media Matters for America@mmfa.bsky.social · 2w agoBen Shapiro on right-wing media “touting” the Tate brothers: It’s “really quite insane”
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Marc Elias@marcelias.bsky.social · 2w agoDay 2 of the Democracy Docket subreddit and it already has more than 2,000 members! It is free to join and is one of the best ways to interact with me and the entire Democracy Docket team. www.reddit.com/r/DemocracyD...
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Q: The war w/Iran is 5 months in & the death toll has surpassed withdrawal from Afghanistan. At what point are you willing to put an AUMF on the floor? JOHNSON: The administration is working very hard to bring this to a resolution. We're closely watching. I don't think an AUMF is in order right now
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In 2018 we had to flip 24 seats. We flipped 40. This November we need 6. Read that again. —-> SIX ‼️
Pivoting from blaming Joe Biden for everything to asking Americans to weigh Trump's presidency partly by Joe Biden's numerous economic successes is a laughable desperation move from South Carolina's new senior senator.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoSORKIN: We have more debt, inflation is worse, consumer prices are worse, unemployment is worse, the GDP number is maybe worse. Just math SCOTT: You've gotta take both presidencies in aggregate SORKIN: Those who are measuring from the end of the Biden presidency to today may take a different view
Greg Kelly whining about “Biden getting rich in government” while Trump is literally running the White House like a side hustle is beyond parody. Trump has added billions to his fortune off the presidency. They know it. They just think we’re too tired, too ill, too poor to notice. We noticed!
Nobody deserves to get paid millions in damages by Trump more than E. Jean Carroll. NOBODY.
ICE agents killed Joan Sebastian Guerrero even though he did everything right and wasn't their target. Susan Collins voted to spend $70 billion on ICE. Get this right in November, Maine voters.