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At a Last-Hope Health Clinic, Desperation, Kindness and Fear for What’s Next www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/u...

“I have been a Republican for most of my life. But character matters more than party affiliation. Our democracy depends on leaders who respect our institutions, tell the truth, accept accountability, and seek to unite rather than divide.” -Neil Bush, brother to President Bush

12M Americans have lost healthcare coverage under Trump, and others have seen the cost of their premiums rise sharply. The situation will get worse, since as per the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Republicans have put the worst of their cuts off until after the midterms. -P Krugman

“Sometimes I pretend I'm a medieval peasant: The king is nuts, no one I know can afford to live, folks are getting locked in the tower for no particular reason.” —Sarah McQuade

~ 902 gallons (3,414 liters). ~ 6,045 lbs (2,742 kg) of jet fuel used. ~ $7,035 cost of fuel. ~ 10 tons of CO2 emissions.

Are You ‘Triggered’ or Just Upset? www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...

“Telling Americans that it would be acceptable, or even good, if San Diego were destroyed, if Los Angeles were destroyed by Iran…tells us where his mind is. His mind is exclusively focused on staying in power.“ -HCR

Yesterday the Power to the People festival, organized by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, took place at the Merriweather Post Pavilion. Rock, alternative & hip hop royalty joined together to remind Americans of our agency to reclaim democracy. -HRC

Trump never intended to address the real problems. His tariffs, deep tax cuts for the wealthy & corporations, extraordinary corruption, multiple vanity projects, & war on Iran are benefiting him, his family, & his cronies, while slashing social welfare programs & healthcare. -HCR

More U.S. Households Are Struggling Financially, Analysis Finds www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/y...

Laid Off After 50, and No Health Insurance? Here’s What to Consider. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/b...

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Former sheriff’s deputies in Georgia have been arrested on charges of using Flock cameras to stalk people. -NYT

License plate reading networks like Flock, marketed to police for public safety purposes, are being used to build pretexts for searches based on lawful interstate travel to states with different drug laws. -Aaron Parnas

Dr. Fauci was instrumental in bringing the AIDS crisis under control. He designed PEPFAR for George Bush, which has saved 26M lives and was dismantled by Donald Trump. And he served again during the COVID-19 pandemic. So I don't want to hear shit about Tony Fauci. -Sarah McQuade

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The Trump admin announced it will end a Biden-era program that has helped tamp down the cost of monthly premiums for drug coverage for people on Medicare. The decision means that millions of Americans 65 and older could face higher Medicare drug premiums next year. -NYT

Trump’s conviction that he and his cronies should run the United States without input or check from Congress or experts and without reference to reality has brought us to a perilous place. -Heather Cox Richardson

Manufacturing the Enemy open.substack.com/pub/whatdidd...

Maine ICE shooter has history of severe mental illness, multiple psych hospitalizations, mil PTSD, chronic violence agst at least two wives, and threats against mutiple family members and more. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-mus...

Following Putin's footsteps, Trump makes his attempt towards consolidating a dictatorship in the US under the pretext of "election security." Trump rambled for a full 25 minutes. Yet ironically, the released documents show evidence that Russia and China were helping Trump.

Trump: If we terminate the filibuster as we should do, and immediately vote for the Save America Act, then we will not lose an election for 100 years. Voter suppression bill.

🇺🇸Journalist Kernen: "You made a ton of money in crypto. Do you even know about those crypto deals?" 🇺🇸Trump: "Yeah I know. Nothing illegal there." 🇺🇸Kernen: "Title 18, Section 208. It’s criminal law that stops gov workers from making money off official stuff." 🇺🇸Trump: "Don’t know it."

🇺🇸 Trump: "We officially cut funds for research and health subsidies. It’s not that important." 🇺🇸 Zohran: "You think city-run grocery stores and Medicare are impossible, but you spent $500 million a day to kill people in Iran and Lebanon was necessary?"

To Beat the Heat, the Wealthy Are Building Snow Rooms www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/s...

“At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another.” -Mamdani

GOP Rep. Troy Nehls, when asked about 60% of Americans struggling with affordability: "Affordability? What are you talking about?... I'm gonna get me a couple of big lobster tails. I'm gonna get me some nice rib eyes... Maybe the 60% of Americans don't work as hard as I do."

A new analysis from climate researchers concludes the intense heat blanketing much of the United States this holiday weekend would have been “virtually impossible” without human-caused climate change. —Aaron Parnas

Trump: “By the way, on July 4th, it’s going to be approximately 107 degrees out, and I’m gonna go and I’m gonna make a really long speech just to show that I can do anything.” … Podcaster Keith Edwards: Just fyi, 3 presidents have died on July 4th.”

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick: “Trump wants to cut down DC’s oldest grove of cherry trees along the Mall and eliminate the public biking path and picnic areas so he can build a Trump golf course on public land, using public dollars, and taking spaces away from the public.

—Sarah MacQuade

“Trump said he plans to deliver an unusually long speech on July 4 despite temperatures expected to reach about 107 degrees, saying he wants to prove that he "can do anything."’ Please, heat stroke. Do your thing.

Chris Murphy (D-CT): “Right now the biggest threat to this country are not a handful of House candidates in NY, it is the president of the US who is trying to destroy American democracy.”

“Our national greatness flows not through our blood or our genes, but through our ideas and our care for one another. Americans are not a race. We are a people united not by ethnicity, but by shared convictions.” -Senator Jon Ossoff

#Trump officials & their cronies are turning the country we worked so hard to build into a vehicle for building their own power & their own wealth, and Republicans in Congress have steadfastly refused to stop the looting or even to investigate. -Heather Cox Richardson

Mayor Mamdani is advocating for the expansion of pet-friendly housing across New York, saying that no family should ever be forced to surrender an animal simply because of a rental rule. This is the kind of policy shift that changes lives, and it's long overdue.

• Reporting confirms taxpayers, not Trump, paid for that $689,000 granite walkway at the White House. • The Reflecting Pool’s own coating manufacturer contradicts the National Park Service’s “sabotage” story. -Meidas

• Rubio needs to explain why Michael Boulos, Trump’s son-in-law with zero government role, was parked next to him in an official meeting with the UAE president. -Meidas

We went from the signing of a historic housing bill to stop private equity from buying houses & investing in housing infrastructure & doing something good for Americans to…the president is not signing the bill. One senior Republican told NOTUS, “He’s having a f*cking tantrum.”