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[AIPAC Tracker @TrackAIPAC]

This terrorist should be arrested when he arrives in New York:

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

MAGA said Mamdani would bring Sharia law and communism. All I see is a corporation being held accountable for underpaying workers.

[Steph @StephanieYeboah]

Mamdani’s PR and comms team are egregious. 😂

[Matterrific @Matterrific_]

@NewsWire_US Note to self: never get on an airplane again.

[Matterrific @Matterrific_]

@guychristensen_ Read the book Project Maven. It talks about the system that was built that did this

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Apartheid

[Karishma Manzur, PhD @Karishma4Senate]

“Since winning election to Congress in 2018, Pappas has been a steady backer of U.S. aid to Israel. He’s also received a steady flow of campaign donations from pro-Israel interests: $30,000 directly from AIPAC, and hundreds of thousands of dollars more from individual donors that AIPAC helped facilitate. But despite that relationship, AIPAC is a touchy subject for Pappas these days.”

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[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

We Need Medicare for All More Than Ever

Over and over again, I hear from critics that moving to Medicare for All is just “too expensive.” That is demonstrably untrue.

But let me tell you what IS too expensive. And that is our current healthcare system, which puts the profits of the big health insurance and drug companies ahead of the well-being of the American people.

Today, not only is our current system cruel, broken and dysfunctional, it is wildly expensive. Despite spending twice as much per capita on healthcare as other wealthy countries, we remain the only major nation on Earth not to guarantee healthcare for all. The result: 85 million Americans are uninsured or underinsured and thousands die unnecessarily every year because they can’t afford the healthcare they need.

The outrageous cost of the current American healthcare system is unsustainable. If we do nothing, it is estimated that we will spend $72 trillion over the next ten years. That is trillion with a T.

These skyrocketing costs are not only making healthcare unaffordable for ordinary Americans, they are negatively impacting businesses and our entire economy. According to a recent survey, employers in our country are expecting the cost of healthcare to skyrocket by 11% next year — the highest in decades.

Last year, as healthcare costs soared, insurance companies made over $54 billion in profits, drug companies continued to charge us, by far, the highest prices in the world for medicine, and healthcare CEOs received huge compensation packages. But that’s not all. The current system maintains massive amounts of expensive bureaucracy and administrative costs designed not to provide high quality healthcare to all, but to make executives and stockholders extraordinarily rich. It is not an accident, for example, that we spend a fraction of what other countries spend on primary healthcare and disease prevention. Not only would investments in these areas make Americans healthier, they would save tens of billions a year in keeping people out of emergency rooms and hospitals.

The Medicare for All legislation that I introduced would save the American people over $1 trillion and 114,000 lives each and every year according to researchers at the Yale School of Public Health. This legislation has 18 cosponsors in the Senate and 115 in the House. Most importantly, it now has the support of 64% of the American people, according to a poll that came out last month.

Over a four-year transition period, Medicare for All would guarantee healthcare as a human right to everyone.

In the first year, we reduce the eligibility age to 55, cover all children under 18, and expand Medicare to cover dental, vision and hearing.

In the second year, the Medicare eligibility age would be reduced to 45. And in the third year it would drop to 35.

By the fourth year, every man, woman and child would be enrolled in a Medicare for All system with no copayments, no premiums, no deductibles and no out-of-pocket expenses.

Every major country on Earth figured out decades ago how to provide universal healthcare to all of their people at a much lower cost than we do. Please don’t tell me we cannot do the same.

[JerryRigEverything @ZacksJerryRig]

DID THE CYBERCAB JUST HEAL THAT WHEELCHAIR USER?!?! 🙏 PRAISE THE LORD 🙏

[Matterrific @Matterrific_]

@TylerSebreezy So that’s why that one $500 billion Open AI data center is being built there

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

Today, rather than focus on the price of gas, the price of groceries, ending the war, or stopping the trade war, Congress spent its time declaring this.

“Dear colleges that receive American taxpayer money: We will take away that American taxpayer money if you decide to keep it from going to Israel.”

Aside from being blatantly unconstitutional, it’s wild. Why is it wrong to want our taxpayer money spent here to provide for schools here instead of being sent somewhere else?

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

Shop at any of these grocery stores?

Kroger
Fred Meyer
Ralphs
Food for Less
Mariano’s
Smith’s
Harris Teeter

Seems like a lot of competition—except that every one is owned by Kroger.

Now Kroger is trying to buy another: Giant Eagle.

And when competition dies, you pay more.

[Matterrific @Matterrific_]

@guychristensen_ Wouldn’t be surprised. The Nazis first rounded up the Social Democrats and Communists for their concentration camps

[Dr. Abdul El-Sayed @AbdulElSayed]

Yesterday’s bond market selloff is a a ringing alarm bell about the future of the economy under Trump’s mismanagement.

Treasury bonds are the pillars of America’s economy. When they shake, the whole thing shakes. Traders are selling them off because they understand that Trump’s war and trade war are making things more expensive, and he’s pressuring the Fed to keep it from doing its job despite the rising inflation he’s creating. It’s triggering a lack of trust from the market—and a selloff.

Why’s he doing this? He’s risking the future of the economy itself to inject the economy with a temporary sugar high through the midterms for his political gain. What’s the consequence for us?

Everything is about to become a lot more expensive than it already is. Mike Rogers will say nothing because he’s corporate, corrupt, and a coward.

[anyone_want_chips @anyonewantchips]

Republicans lost their fucking minds when allegations emerged of Somali-American healthcare fraud in MN - but when Ron DeSantis & his wife stole $10M of taxpayer money meant for poor children’s healthcare & Ron rewarded his accomplices with promotions - the silence is deafening.

[Joe Wrote @joewrote]

Won't make a blip because AIPAC Dems are crying about Hasan Piker.

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

NEWS: Texas has quietly shoved more than 1.2 million voters — over 6% of its rolls — onto the "suspense list" heading into a midterm the GOP is terrified of losing, and most of those people won't find out until they're standing at a polling place in November. Check your registration before October 5, because they're purging the rolls to save Ken Paxton.

[Marit Stiles @MaritStiles]

It’s time to break up the grocery monopoly.

There’s a clause hiding in grocery store leases that keeps your bill high, and most people have never heard of it. It’s called a property control, and the giant chains use it to block competitors from opening anywhere near them.

Doug Ford voted against banning them. Watch me explain what he’s protecting, in 60 seconds.

[Matterrific @Matterrific_]

@poppy_haze Why can’t the west do this? …Because the criminals are running our government… right… right.