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Librarian type. PhD. Read food labels. Old punker. Facts matter. Resistor. Blocker galore. #LOL. Let's try 'strength through peace' instead. Boycott Bayer.

[dreed 🇺🇸 💙 @dreed415]

Bulletin Board for Voters

With all of the noise about the so-called SAVE America Act, I decided to start this bulletin board with tips to help voters prepare should this thing go through.

Please share and feel free to add tips.

[dreed 🇺🇸 💙 @dreed415]

@BasedMikeLee You are back to missing the point. You almost had it for awhile.

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@hemantmehta Almost, but no banana. If it were Catholics (for example) being omitted, he'd say nothing. Many of the. so-called Christians here are jumping for joy. They do not see the danger of labels. https://t.co/Ojgi1XVBNG

[dreed 🇺🇸 💙 @dreed415]

@BasedMikeLee What needs to change is the Pentagon recognizing faiths at all. As when checking into a hospital, military personnel may opt to identify their faith so they may get prayers and guidance if needed. The government should not be in the business of labeling personel.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Senate Republicans vote to stop all investigations into ICE civil rights abuses.

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@___TheGOOdWitch Today's discourse on X pretty much tells the tale.

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@nickshirleyy Prove it.

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@jkimballcook Yep. So many are missing the point.

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@DecodingFoxNews Yes. Parts of my family came here from England in the early 1900s because of discrimination. Their evangelical ways were labeled "non-conforming".

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@crazyus Nationalists don't like a lot of religions. Don't let the government get into the business of labeling.

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@CoffeeBlackMD What's controversial is the US government trying to make them.

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@asophiething Don't let the government label you by religion. Not its business.

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@jkimballcook My problem is why is the US government labeling people. Let people pray and identify as they wish.

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

David Brooks calls Graham Platner a “moral degenerate."

Brooks left his wife of 28 years after having an affair with his research assistant, who is 23 years his junior.

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@fire_starter457 Yeah and they're collecting social security.

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@spencerpratt What do you mean by that? Do you have a plan to "find votes"?

[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.

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@HigherEdSpeak Funny, Hegseth thought it was him. Ironic that he dropped his list of labels and jetted off to celebrate D-Day. Those who fought there saw first hand what labels do.

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@realDrTT This is a pointless academic debate. The question is why is the government weighing in on it? Why the labels?

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@PopePiusIXStan Yep. This is a pointless academic debate that will never be resolved to everyone's satisfaction. The division it sows keeps us from uniting around our commonalities. Keeps the flames of war burning.

[dreed 🇺🇸 💙 @dreed415]

@MrRobertForge You're missing the point. Should the government be labeling us by religion. Some in my family came from England in the 1900s because of religious labels. We were a safe haven.