When Medicare reductions happen, already vulnerable rural hospitals are more likely to close. Between 2010 and 2022, 143 rural hospitals closed. This must stop.
Support patients & providers in rural areas: protect Medicare, protect access to quality health care! #protectcare
If you are LGBTQ+, trans, or an ally to the community, it is so important that we elect better Democrats willing to stand for our rights. A handful of Democrats in a state like New Hampshire just allowed a trans sports ban to pass.
Go run for something.
https://t.co/uavYxbblbB
4,500 Maine workers will be furloughed & 7,000 federal employees in the state will have to work without pay because their jobs are considered essential. These cuts will harm working families & critical services Mainers rely on.
https://t.co/Ilc7HfbUUi #mepolitics
New: William Allen, the “scholar” who Ron DeSantis keeps citing to justify Florida’s new standards teaching that Black people “benefited” from slavery, previously compared Black people to “animals” and was charged with kidnapping a 14-year-old girl.
🔗https://t.co/CIqyg45jSc
The largest school district in Texas, which was just taken over by Republicans using state power, has announced its libraries will be eliminated and replaced with “discipline centers” for “misbehaving students.”
🔗https://t.co/5lIq1dmWNL
New paper in the Lancet confirms gender-affirming care is preventative care.
Confirms:
- GAC is linked to improved quality of life
- GAC is an integral determinant of well-being
- GAC increases positive psych outcomes
- GAC must be considered preventative mental healthcare
Truly incredible how it took only three years for Elon Musk to shift his public image from “eccentric genius, futurist, progressive” to “subnormal intelligence, impossibly bad business instincts, unlikeable, fascist”
Alert!
The House Judiciary (House Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitution and Limited Government) will be holding a hearing on gender affirming care in congress on Thursday.
It is expected to be extremely hostile.
Republicans are beating the drum on national trans bans.
UPS WORKERS WON
- 48% INCREASE IN WAGES FOR PART-TIME WORKERS OVER THE NEXT 5 YEARS
- A/C AND FANS IN DELIVERY VANS
- END TO FORCED OVERTIME ON DAYS OFF
- CREATION OF 7,500 FULL-TIME POSITIONS AND THE FILLING OF 22,500 OPEN POSITIONS
- IMMEDIATE PAY INCREASES
UNIONS WORK
The RFK Jr. campaign is a dirty trick by Republican operatives. It's been clear since the beginning. Great reporting by @JuddLegum.
GOP donors and super PACs (including one run by PayPal ghoul David Sacks, a DeSantis booster) are buoying his candidacy. https://t.co/8Slj2qYrn2
Newly uncovered state records show Daniel Cameron, the GOP nominee for Kentucky Governor and current Attorney General, hasn’t used his key fob to enter his office for the past THREE YEARS.
His office is refusing to explain. Has he been skipping work?
🔗https://t.co/7XTrExUAny