Ashley

“I just smile and say God bless”-Miranda Lambert

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

To build on this bipartisan issue. The big insurance companies realize their PBMs are facing hard core legislative changes. Which are great. However.

The ins companies aren’t dumb. They are greedy. They are already moving charges and fees across their subsidiaries.

It starts with the insurance plan that unfortunately, your CEO (if you get it from work) made the mistake of approving , or from your MA plan

They push you into the medical care, pharmacy and specialty pharmacy , clinics, and practices they own or contract with.

Those outlets will charge you more than enough to compensate for the lack of rebates they would hold back from their GPOs

Plus they will charge you and or your companies fees that you have no idea they are charging you or why. Then they will make your company pay fast and get their rebates slow, or use Pre Auths to delay, both so they can earn interest on the premiums for as long as possible

They are too Big to Care. Make them divest.

Next class is on how Pharmacy Wholesalers are complicit in high drug prices. Hint: they are multi hundred billion dollar companies , and they buy from manufacturers at retail price. No other industry in the history of industries that I know of , so this. And it helps PBMs/ins companies benefit from higher prices.

Break them up !

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

Liam Ramos is just a baby. He should be at home with his family, not used as bait by ICE and held in a Texas detention center.

I am outraged, and you should be too.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Soybean farmer reacts to Trump’s bailouts:

“We don't want a bailout. Bailouts don't work. Bailouts are band-aids. That's money that should be going towards senior citizens. That's money that should be going toward the Affordable Care Act. That's money that should just be going to regular tax cuts for normal Americans. What Trump is doing is destroying our markets, and when those markets disappear, we're not gonna get them back”

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

The two most prominent progressives in America who support Medicare for All deliver the most compelling message of anyone in the party about ACA subsidies

They’re also doing it without posting cringe jokes and memes from young staffers

A lesson, perhaps!

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

Kimmel.

Colbert.

Suits against the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and 60 Minutes.

Extorting settlements from CBS, ABC, and others.

Blocking the AP's access to the White House.

This administration is responsible for the most blatant attacks on the free press in American history.

What will be left of the First Amendment when he’s done?

[Cameron Kasky @camkasky]

My adult life began with me calling for an end to horrific school shootings, and that will continue no matter who the victims are.

Stop gun violence means stop gun violence against everybody.

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

In the last few years we've seen:

- The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
- The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC
- The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi
- Multiple assassination attempts against Trump
- The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife
- Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk

Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all.

The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.

[Walter Masterson @waltermasterson]

Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender - 4

Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender - 4,193.

Hope that helps.

[Matt McNally @McNally4Indiana]

In 2022 Spartz won in a newly gerrymandered district-she went from a 4 point district I’m 2020 to a 15 point district since -she has benefitted from gerrymandering-she is a hypocrite of the highest order.

[Sheryl Cole @SherylCole1]

While on my morning walk in the Mueller neighborhood, my DPS escort, who was forced upon me to track my every movement, threatened to arrest me. He lost me on the trail, got angry about it, and made a scene in front of my constituents on the trail. #txlege

1/3

[Rob Kendall @RobMKendall]

Indiana already has rigged maps. That’s how in a state that’s basically 55-45 Republican they have 78 percent of the Congressional seats and super majorities in the State House and Senate.

[Governor Tim Walz @GovTimWalz]

The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.

[Rep. Gloria Johnson @VoteGloriaJ]

I’m so glad Rachel Wells did this story. When this brave woman told her story at a town hall last week, it was the first patient I had heard who was refused treatment due to a new TN law. This is horrifying and dangerous for TN women.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

The consensus view, expressed in the documents below, was that Russia wasn't likely to manipulate voting machines or alter the election results.

The consensus view, expressed after the election by the intel community, the Obama administration, and ultimately a bipartisan Senate panel led by Trump's current Secretary of State/National Security Advisor...was that Russia didn't manipulate voting machines or alter the election results.

What all of those people concluded instead is that Russia disseminated hacked emails and conducted an influence campaign against the 2016 election to undermine Hillary Clinton and help Donald Trump. The consensus was never that the campaign cost Hillary Clinton the election. It was that Putin tried.

That conclusion has never been refuted. Not by Senate Republicans. Not by Marco Rubio. Not by John Durham. Not by anyone who worked for Donald Trump his entire first term. And not by a single word of the information that Tulsi Gabbard has disclosed. Putin's people have even admitted interfering!

This really is peak manufactured scandal, though - the Epstein stuff has been so destabilizing to MAGA that they're not even trying to come up with a believable conspiracy. They can't even articulate what the actual scandal is or offer any evidence to support their claims. The White House just wants people to turn their attention to something else so badly that they're literally yelling "arrest Obama" figuring that the MAGA influencers they lied to about Epstein will fall for it again.

We just have the most impossibly stupid politics.

[Chip Gaines @chipgaines]

Talk, ask qustns, listen.. maybe even learn. Too much to ask of modern American Christian culture. Judge 1st, understand later/never

It’s a sad sunday when “non believers” have never been confronted with hate or vitriol until they are introduced to a modern American Christian💔

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country. And remember, 93% have no record of any violent crimes. This facility, then, is comparable to the internment camps for Japanese Americans during the Second World War. But let's call it what it is: a concentration camp. Jesus wept.

[Grant Certiorari @GrantCertiorari]

Donald Trump is trying to collapse the global economy, but sorry that you thought Kamala’s laugh was weird

[Dave Harden @Dave_Harden]

Here is the list of 99 USAID personnel who died in serving our nation abroad. May their memory be a blessing and may we learn from their sacrifice.

The Memorial Wall at USAID Headquarters was taken down this weekend. @John_Hudson @fstockman @BBCPaulAdams @tombateman

[Jason Kander @JasonKander]

The places we’re pulling foreign aide dollars from now are the places we’ll be forced to send American soldiers to risk their lives in ten years.

[Lindsay Owens @owenslindsay1]

This is an excellent summary of Musk’s takeover of the Treasury from @NYMag’s @chasdanner, with quotes from WSJ, NYT, WaPo, and my op-ed from @MSNBC yesterday.

But this quote from @smotus is right on the money. This isn’t efficiency. It’s a coup.

https://t.co/XivGG5Zz2H