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Photographer in the great city of Chicago

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

We pay the premiums. We pay the deductibles. We pay the copays.

Then when we actually need care, an insurance company gets to decide whether it will pay.

Healthcare should exist to keep people alive and healthy, not to maximize shareholder returns.

Something has to change.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

The U.S. now spends twice as much per capita on healthcare as other major countries, all of which have universal healthcare.

Why? The function of the U.S. system isn't quality care for all.

It is massive profits for insurance and drug companies. We need Medicare for All NOW.

[#TuckFrump @realTuckFrumper]

I’m happy to share this because I don’t care what side of the aisle you sit on, this is a fact.

Speaker Mike Johnson this is for you.
Concerning Social Security payments, my contributions were made for over 50 years on every salary I received. From my first part time job until I retired. I always had a job.

The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a "Federal Benefit Payment?" I'll be part of the one percent to forward this.I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you. Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it.

The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment." This isn't a benefit. It is our money paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too.

It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.
Congress took our money and used it elsewhere. They forgot (oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking.

They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them. And they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer. And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a "benefit", as if we never worked to earn every penny of it.

Just because they borrowed the money doesn't mean that our investments were a charity!

Let's take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.

Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of that 92% of our population who need it. Then call it what it is: Our Earned Retirement Income.
99% of people won't forward this to their timelines…..will you?

Please, for the sake of our country, repost this.

[Katherine Clark @TeamKClark]

Notice how Republicans say we can't "afford" healthcare for Americans but have no issues with a gold-covered ballroom and a reckless war that's skyrocketing everyone's prices.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

When we talk about Medicare for All, we’re not just talking about covering every man, woman and child.

We’re talking about expanding Medicare to cover dental, vision and hearing — something supported by 92% of Americans.

Healthcare is a human right. Let’s make it happen.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

$900 million for White House vanity projects? Approved.

$1 trillion tax cut for the 1%? Approved.

$1 trillion for war with Iran? Approved.

Lower grocery, housing or gas prices? Sorry, you're on your own.

Money for billionaires. Money for war. Nothing for working people.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

For years, we've been told Medicare for All is "too radical."

Really? A new YouGov poll shows 64% of Americans support a Medicare for All, single-payer system.

The American people agree: Healthcare is a human right.

Let's get it done.

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

Democrats should introduce national paid sick and parental leave and call it the MITCH Act. If you can be missing from your job for months as a U.S. Senator and still collect your full paycheck, working Americans should get the same deal.

[Zara Quinn @_Zaraquin]

America has moved so far right that “your taxes should pay for your healthcare” is considered radical, but “your taxes should pay for another country’s bombs” is considered moderate

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Absolutely insane that this isn’t already illegal.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days.

ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Deploys private police.
Seizes ballots.
Prosecutes his political enemies.
Purges watchdogs.
SUBPOENAS THE FREE PRESS.

If only there were a word for that.

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

Morning! Can we talk about Donald Trump having a convo with an AI, and then telling everyone he talked to Teddy Roosevelt about the Panama Canal? But, for real.

[Adam Mockler @adammocklerr]

He got into office and just started fixing everything bro

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

I haven't gotten a clear answer on this yet: if Democrats cheat in every election, why do we have a Republican house, senate, and white house and SCOTUS?

[Ariana Jasmine @arianajasmine__]

"The left just wants free government handouts!"

No, we just want our taxes to be used on what we PAID THEM FOR

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Trickle down economics was the lie the 1% told so you would let them take all of the money.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

It’s almost like driving your really heavy armored limo on fresh sealant and then dumping thousands of gallons of hydrogen peroxide in the pool was a bad idea.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

This should be a bipartisan no-brainer.

Let's ban lawmakers from becoming lobbyists.

Public service in Congress should not be a stepping stone to a lucrative corporate lobbying job.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Let’s normalize paying Congress only for the days they actually work, not a salary.