Jonathan Cohn

Writer at The Bulwark / Author of THE TEN YEAR WAR & SICK / Fan of Red Sox, Dolphins, Wolverines, Billy Joel / Proud husband & dad

[Jonathan Cohn @CitizenCohn]

**Some Personal News**

THE TEN YEAR WAR, my new book, is available for pre-order.

It’s an effort to tell the story of Obamacare and, more broadly, the story of American politics over the last decade. (1)

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[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

"There’s an opportunity to stop it from becoming the counterproductive brawl it’s been in the past. And if Democrats are smart, they’ll take that opportunity while it’s still there."

@CitizenCohn on the Medicare for All debate in The Breakdown:
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[Jonathan Cohn @CitizenCohn]

Definitely the impression so far

Absence of such a figure in the caucus — except maybe Fetterman — represents a key difference with recent Dem majorities, especially in a world where more legislation moves with 50+ votes

[Lydia Polgreen @lpolgreen]

We won't know exactly what heterodoxy will look like in the incoming Democratic majority in congress, but none of the new faces seem likely behave anything like Manchin or Sinema, the odious pro-corporate moderates that plagued the last Dem majority.

[Bob Herman @bobjherman]

One of the best charts I've seen explaining how health insurance costs are silently choking workers. If your job gives you a 4% raise, health care sucks away one-third of it. Food, gas, etc. feel more expensive because health care is devouring your salary. https://t.co/XRYINbTyja

[Harold Pollack @haroldpollack]

A quiet Medicaid Expansion triumph is supporting folk w/disabilities who present to public systems as low-income adults. Excellent work by Vyas+colleagues shows that this is arguably the group at greatest risk from HR1 work requirements.whttps://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/ANNALS-25-04811?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed

[Sarah Despres @sarahdespres]

CDC dir doesn’t plan on changing CDCs approach to measles even if we lose our measles elim status. So I guess we will continue to see confusing and misleading info that undermines confidence in the vaccine. https://t.co/uoMidTOTDq

[Rob Flaherty @Rob_Flaherty]

The most accurate AI capabilities predictors are starting to raise the alarm about things moving toward The Bad Thing faster than they thought.

Underscores why we need frontier reg legislation now, not later.

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[Josh Marshall @joshtpm]

Why ‘First Democrat Since 1982’ Doesn’t Capture What Scott Colom’s Win Would Mean for Mississippi https://t.co/rdtqJ6zc8G via @TPM

[Zack Beauchamp @zackbeauchamp]

On the right, there's an emerging line that true MAGA has never been tried — that Trump betrayed his principles, and cost the GOP the midterms.

This isn't really true. But it tells us something important about the post-Trump right.

THREAD

[Charles Ornstein @charlesornstein]

The administration has denied that it is hurting veterans’ care.

That is not what we have found. Over months of reporting, ProPublica has watched the East Orange VA Medical Center — a typical agency facility — spiral downward.
https://t.co/wZ29Sc9dHa @ericuman

[Alex Wayne @aawayne]

NEWS: Nebraska rushed to be the first state to require adults in Medicaid to prove they're working, under Trump's budget law.

The result: A cancer patient lost his insurance, while several consultants are making lots of money.

By @rachanadpradhan

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[Aaron Blake @AaronBlake]

Democrats are currently at 55.8% of the House popular vote, per @CookPolitical.

That's the highest for any party since 1974.

Republicans haven't gotten that much of the House popular vote since at least World War II.

[Will Saletan @saletan]

When Trump loses the votes counted last, he says they’re fake.

When he loses the votes counted first, he says they’re fake.

He says the polls are fake—unless he loses, in which case he uses them to say the vote counts are fake.

The faker is always him. https://t.co/bsZEhGa2fV

[Peter Sullivan @PeterSullivan4]

New: Warnock, Luján lead 16 Senate Dems in calling for 2 year delay of Medicaid work requirements

Which are set to take effect on Jan 1

Letter calls for action on next moving legislative vehicle

Start of Dem push on repeal or delay of Medicaid changes

In @PunchbowlNews AM

[Larry Levitt @larry_levitt]

Potential implications for Medicaid expansion in Georgia.

[Reese Gorman @reesejgorman]

News: Dem Rep. Haley Stevens, who enraged Democrats by endorsing GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers, spent the vote series tonight in the Republican cloakroom, per multiple sources.

This was the first vote series post election.

Multiple reporters from The Sun stopped by her office today and it appeared to be closed.

[Bulwark Clips @BulwarkClips]

.@SarahLongwell25: "This level of repudiation puts him in a place where he can't be the kingmaker that he once was. You're now seeing the two parts of their coalition, the MAGA establishment and the America First-ers…move away from Trump."

[Aaron Blake @AaronBlake]

At least 159 women will serve in the new Congress.

That's a record.

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[Paige W. Cunningham @pw_cunningham]

Yes, MAHA failed to deliver as a political force in the midterms.

But there's reason to believe RFK Jr. is gaining a stronger foothold in the Trump administration and might stick around after rumors earlier this year said he'd be out post-election.

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[Eric Michael Garcia @EricMGarcia]

Abdul El-Sayed holding court with a bunch of young people as he begins orientation. Dude is popular. Only really see this for Bernie, Elizabeth Warren or AOC

[Matt Grossmann @mattgrossmann]

The House Republican caucus will shift rightward as more moderate members in swing districts lost or retired; the House Democratic caucus will shift to the center as more moderates won in swing districts; this is the normal pattern
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