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[𝗖𝘆𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗕𝘆𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿🏳️‍🌈🌍💙⚽️🐓🏉🦁🌻🇺🇦💚 @chickacee]

“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops - at all” Emily Dickinson

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

A new lawsuit is trying to block the UFC event at the White House. The plaintiffs say it violates National Park Service restrictions on sporting events on federal parkland, lacks proper approval for major construction, and skipped environmental review.

The plaintiffs also argue that the event serves to privately enrich the UFC, Paramount Skydance, and Trump rather than serving as a legitimate federal 250th-anniversary celebration.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

🚨 Trump's new Medicaid rules just made it official: having cancer is not enough to be exempt from work requirements. You have to PROVE cancer is stopping you from working. While you're in chemo.

This week, the Trump administration released its final 400-page rule on how states must enforce the Medicaid work requirements that were buried inside last year's "One Big Beautiful Bill." Starting January 1, 2027, most low-income adults on Medicaid must prove every single month they are working, volunteering, or attending school for at least 80 hours — or lose their coverage.

For months, advocates for cancer patients and people living with HIV had been pushing for a blanket medical exemption. What they got instead was a trap. The new rule ties the definition of "medically frail" — the exemption category — directly to a person's ability to work. That means cancer patients who are still capable of working, even in between chemo rounds, do not automatically qualify. A woman with early-stage breast cancer receiving radiation treatment? May not qualify. A man living with HIV who takes medication and still reports to work? No exemption.

And here's the part that should stop you cold: Harvard health policy professor Adrianna McIntyre told reporters that even cancer patients who ARE technically exempt could still lose coverage — because the paperwork process is so complex that "a recently diagnosed cancer patient who is employed might lose Medicaid coverage due to errors in completing the necessary paperwork." Cancer will not wait while a Medicaid office sifts through forms.

The American Cancer Society ran the numbers. Researchers at the University of Chicago published a study in JAMA Oncology projecting that over 1 million mammograms and colorectal and lung cancer screenings will be missed within the first two years of these rules. That translates to more than 2,300 undetected cancer cases — hundreds at advanced stages — and an estimated 155 avoidable deaths from just three types of cancer alone.

A coalition of 48 patient advocacy groups signed a joint statement calling the rule "life-threatening." The American Academy of Pediatrics said it will "harm those whom Medicaid is intended to support." The HIV+Hepatitis Policy Institute's director said bluntly: "We will lose individuals from Medicaid, and many will become ill and die as a result."
68 million Americans depend on Medicaid. The CBO says at least 5 million will lose coverage. And Dr. Oz went on TV to defend it by saying Medicaid recipients watch too much television.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Do not doubt that if a major pandemic hits, millions of Americans will die because of this grotesque man. And not a single person better say that we didn’t know it was coming. Alarm bells have been ringing *nonstop* that this sick buffoon will kill people. https://t.co/PUXZBHP2h2

[Elizabeth @alluringmedia]

JAKE TAPPER WILL NEVER BE HUGGED BY ELTON JOHN OR RESPECTED

ELTON JOHN HUGS JOE BIDEN AS BIDEN RECEIVES A STONEWALL AWARD IN PHILADELPHIA TODAY FOR ALL OF HIS LGBTQ+ ACTION & LEGISLATION
❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 🏳️‍🌈🌈

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

This is beyond outrageous.

A man caught on video storming the Capitol has no place in a sensitive counterterrorism role at the Pentagon.

op: @washingtonpost

[MM  @adgirlMM]

@Rep_Stansbury @oliwymom @NRDems Hello @Rep_Stansbury Flying back from your beautiful state. We need every Dem in Congress and the handful of Republicans (there are a few) who understand what a critical issue this is to STOP Trump, Doug Burgum and Mike Lee from selling off our public lands. Code Red!! 🚨

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

Protect the sacred! Donald Trump is trying to auction off nearly 700,000 acres of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling right now.

Whether it’s Chaco Canyon, Oak Flat, or the Arctic—we stand with Tribal Nations and our communities in the fight to protect sacred and public lands. These lands are not for sale! ✊

[Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff]

Trump should show up here at the L.A. County ballot processing center because he’d learn within five minutes this is democracy in action, not some conspiracy.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

It’s so hard, but the thing my dad did for me was that he never let me go. As much as I tired to run I always knew he was waiting. And I know I tortured him. It still makes me cry to think about what I put him through. But I came back. And he was where he always was waiting to love me.

[Caro @CAHOLAB]

@MikeLevin @djb805 The @TrumpAdministration, the people, and the organizations running our government are destroying America! 👿😡😭🤮
Is their ultimate goal to take over America, or just destroy it ?
Sadly, the self serving and corrupt @Congress and @SCOTUS are just letting it happen. @GOP

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[Global Times @globaltimesnews]

A 70-year-old former teacher who began writing in her late sixties has gained over 100,000 followers by sharing reflections on ordinary life that resonate deeply with readers. #reading #books
https://t.co/iDzJlzcvWt

[Steve Collins @stevecstny]

@DemocraticWins Voters across America realize Trump is incompetent and dishonest

[A.J. FRANCI$ 💰 @AJFrancis410]

We are literally just 1 step from Hunger Games

[Amy Aiello Lofgren @azsweetheart013]

We’re going to have to call in Four Seasons Landscaping in for this job.

[Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia]

Today, Jon Ossoff offered an amendment to stop insurance companies from denying or delaying medically necessary care.

Republicans blocked it.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Trump promised not to “touch” Medicaid.

Now he is cutting it by $1 trillion and taking health care away from patients with cancer, AIDS and other life-threatening diseases to pay for tax breaks to the top 1% and his wealthy campaign contributors.

Unimaginable cruelty.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Unearthed footage shows Elias Irizarry, who was recently appointed to a top counterterrorism job, climbing through a Capitol window on January 6th

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[Team Ossoff @TeamOssoff]

Ossoff: Last September, the President of Kazakhstan calls Donald Trump and says he wants to grant tungsten mining rights to an American company. And the very next month, Eric and Don Jr. get a stake in the American company pursuing the mining deal.

Six days later, six days after Prince Eric and Prince Don get their stake, Kazakhstan announces this company will get, “The largest known undeveloped tungsten resource in the world.” A few more weeks go by, and then the U.S. government, run by their father, sets aside 1.6 billion of your tax dollars to fund and finance their mining project. In Kazakhstan.

All this while you pay more for gas, for groceries, for health care, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.