Eddie Bowen

A proud father. I teach film. Sometimes I make film. My first film industry job was on “Blue Velvet.” 25 years as a film worker, producer, writer, director

[Eddie Bowen @enbowen]

Looking back on this pre-COVID production. So lucky to have John & Denice embody these characters, to work with Will’s wonderful story, and to have the best crew ever lead by Tiffany, Jessica, both Ryans , Stefanie, Maria, Madison, Scotty, Drew…

https://t.co/BKtyTFp6hr

[Eddie Bowen @enbowen]

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either. - The New York Times https://t.co/NrcHgYVcOa

[Bobby Kogan @BBKogan]

Final CBO score of the "big beautiful bill" is out

Biggest Medicaid cuts ever - in fact, 4 times the size of the previous biggest; $894-$990 bn

Kicks 10 million off health insurance

Biggest SNAP cuts ever, $187 bn

Still increases deficit by $3.4 trillion from huge tax cuts

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

American healthcare worker films herself on the phone with UnitedHealthcare to show everyone how impossible it is to get care for patients

Even with an approval for over a month, UnitedHealthcare still refuses to provide services

“This is absolutely insane”

Medications also denied for over a month, even with approvals (imagine going over a month not being able to get a life saving medication you need)

“Uhc makes it difficult and inconvenient on purpose”

This is the state of American Healthcare:

[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.

[Eddie Bowen @enbowen]

Nick Offerman Is Sounding the Alarm: America’s National Parks Are Under ... https://t.co/0B7vdUtos9 via @YouTube

[noah kulwin @nkulw]

I guess it turns out all those Zoomers shaming people using AI because of its water usage and ecosystem damage were pretty much on the money!

[Mike from PA @Mike_from_PA]

The CBO and a separate study by Yale found that by eliminating private insurance companies and their worthless bureaucrats with Medicare for all, the country would save 500 billion dollars annually while saving 68,000 lives a year. They also found M4A would be highly deflationary

[Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal]

The two companies in Washington State with the most employees on Medicaid are Walmart and Amazon.

So not only are these companies and their billionaire CEOs not paying their fair share in taxes — they’re also not even paying their employees enough for them to afford health care.

[DCPetterson.bsky.social @dcpetterson]

Medicaid provides reimbursement to medical providers for medical services.

This means NO ONE can sit at home and collect Medicaid checks. The payments don't go to "Medicaid recipients." They go do doctors and hospitals.

1/5

[Eddie Bowen @enbowen]

@piyushmittal Democrats care about what happens to others. Republicans only care when something happens to them.

[Jason Garcia @Jason_Garcia]

One thing is quickly becoming clear about “Alligator Alcatraz,” the immigrant detention camp that the state of Florida just opened in the middle of the Everglades:

The politicians running the place are bigger lawbreakers than many of the immigrants they’re locking up.

🧵...

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

1/n This is nonsense, the Covid death rates globally = a mirror image of where people weren’t getting vaccinated.

Look at the next two attached figures

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

It’s not until you listen to Trump’s ACTUAL words spoken by a normal person, that you realise they are the words of either an idiot or a madman.

This is a man who has normalised gibberish, a man who is living in a world of his own that he’s dragged half the population into.

My thanks to the politichick for filling the void left by the removal of transcripts of his ramblings from the White House website.

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/MTEOyW2A3X

[scha·den·freu·de  @BlisterPearl]

it's absolutely perfect

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

Taxes Paid By Illegals (2023): $89.8 Billion

Taxes paid by Tesla (2024): $0
Taxes paid by GE (2024): $0
Taxes paid by Facebook (2024): $0
Taxes paid by FedEx (2024): $0
Taxes paid by Nike (2024): $0
Taxes paid by AirBnb (2023): $0
Taxes paid by 3M (2023): $0

Do you get it yet?

[Variety @Variety]

Lalo Schifrin, Prolific Film Composer Who Wrote 'Mission: Impossible' Theme, Dies at 93 https://t.co/A4X582vqS1

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

When a large employer pays so little that their full time employees qualify for Medicaid , (or any public assistance ) we the taxpayers are effectively subsidizing that big company. That’s wrong

[Jake Scott, MD @jakescottMD]

BREAKING: @SecKennedy just cut U.S. funding to @gavi, the alliance that has vaccinated over 1 billion children and prevented more than 17 million deaths since 2000.

This isn’t about science. It’s about dangerous ideology overriding children’s lives.

The consequences will be devastating:

500 million fewer childhood vaccinations by 2030

Over 8 million preventable child deaths

The return of measles, polio, and other diseases we had nearly eliminated

The poorest children in the world will suffer the most

Gavi works with independent WHO experts, follows rigorous evidence, and has an unmatched record of saving lives.

Pulling more than $300 million per year based on conspiracy theories, while children continue to die from preventable diseases, is morally indefensible.

When anti-vaccine extremism becomes policy, children pay the price.

This is a tragedy we can still prevent.

#SaveGavi #VaccinesWork #ChildrenFirst #GlobalHealth
h/t @Atul_Gawande
https://t.co/RGlmg92MCE

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

RFK Jr pulls US support for GAVI, an organisation which has vaccinated 760 million children in some of the poorest parts of the world, saving tens of millions of lives.

Children will die as a result

All because an anti vaccine fanatic has been given too much power.

Cruel!!