I haven't been able to stop thinking about how much it would mean to have even 25% of Dems in Congress (and state houses!) put together helplines and distributed volunteer clinics in neighborhoods, shelters, and community centers to help people navigate the paperwork burdens. Lives saved. RE:
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Henry Farrell (@himself.bsky.social)
Given how much of this is supposed to be done through imposing administrative burdens on the overburdened, my hopelessly utopian dream is for a min...
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You know we have a lot of unemployed game designers around rn and a whole lot of rich-people money going to fund the Abundance Joe Rogan plan or whatever, seems like this could get made RE:
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Dr. Damien P. Williams! Look over here! … It's All For You! (@wolvendamien.bsky.social)
A thing i would like is a comprehensive if-then-else flowchart for the budget reconciliation proces. There's charts that claim to do this, but most...
I am so burned out on elected officials but I love these guys. RE:
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Brad Lander (@bradlander.bsky.social)
Two weeks ago today, Donald Trump’s ICE agents arrested me. Now, he’s threatening to put @zohrankmamdani in a prison camp he’s building in ...
We'll have a ton of material in our [@unbreaking.org](
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Unbreaking (@unbreaking.org)
How the administration is breaking the government and what that means for all of us. All of our content is free to republish and remix. https://unb...
 ) Medicaid update later this week, but I want to link to a sources for folks trying to understand the cuts. 1. The NYT tracker is still awaiting bill text like everyone else, but this is solid for big-picture stuff. [www.nytimes.com/interactive/...](
Everything in Trump’s Big Tax and Spending Law, and How Much It Will Cost or Save
The legislation includes tax cuts as well as big cuts to Medicaid, food benefits and other programs, and it’s expected to add more than $3 trilli...
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Everything in Trump’s Big Tax and Spending Law, and How Much It Will Cost or Save
The legislation includes tax cuts as well as big cuts to Medicaid, food benefits and other programs, and it’s expected to add more than $3 trilli...
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Performance reliability decreasing. 🤖
Who's going to have the first clear and reasonably detailed breakdown of what just passed? (Real question.)
Excellent, lucid explainer on the—very much in flux—state of gender-affirming care as an essential health benefit in ACA plans from [@gracesdeng.bsky.social](
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A federal health agency already passed a rule that could make care more expensive for trans people, but the Big, Beautiful Bill seeks to enshrine it.
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jael holzman (@jael.bsky.social)
yeah confirmed GAC ban outta the bill
The cat avi is making me a worse (better) poster
Except for me, you should let me upload a secret code to get out of Discover (Paul’s way is the right way, I just still want cheats) RE:
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Paul Frazee (@pfrazee.com)
I’d rather we just solve the problem of angry randos in replies