Eu gosto de comparar a duas situações.
1 - ele remou literalmente contra a maré e venceu.
2 - ele é o exemplo mais real do patinho feio, todos criticavam, julgavam e aconselharam a desistir, mas ele insistiu, e se tornou um lindo cisne, um ícone global amado no mundo todo 🥹😭
Billie Eilish: “I am asking for your help. If you live in California like me, please, please vote YES on Prop 50 on or before November 4th. It is so unbelievably important and if you need any help voting you can go to https://t.co/8m0eIXsLrY”
This is Melissa Hortman, on June 14, 2025 she & her husband John were murdered in a politically motived attack. She stood for environment rights, abortion rights & sensible gun control policies.
No lowered flags!
Can we take a moment to remember her good works.
Please RT.
Trump orders flags throughout the United States lowered to 'Half Mast' until Sunday evening in honor of Charlie Kirk.
(A courtesy not extended to Melissa Hortman and her husband.)
Brooke Rollins on farm laborers: "There will be no amnesty. The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way. And we move the workforce toward automation and 100% American participation, which with 34 million able-bodied on Medicaid we should be able to do fairly quickly."
The claim that the Ugly bill will not close rural hospitals is misleading. Here's why:
HR 1, §71401 does establish a "Rural Health Transformation Program" with $10 billion/year from 2026–2030 to support struggling rural hospitals.
BUT.
What's left out?
Severe Medicaid cuts undermine rural hospitals.
§71112–§71120 impose work requirements, cost-sharing mandates, and spending restrictions on Medicaid - rural hospitals rely heavily on Medicaid reimbursements. These cuts are expected to reduce rural hospital revenues drastically.
Payments to rural hospitals are phased down (§§71118, 71120, and Medicare payment alignment rules).
➡️$10 billion/year for 5 years = $50 billion total (§71401)
➡️ $50B in aid vs $1T in cuts - that's just 5 cents returned for every $1 taken.
States cannot use their own funds to make up the shortfall (§71401(h)(2)(ii)) - even if local governments want to save a hospital, they're banned from filling the gap.
No appeals. No judicial review.
If CMS says a state misused funds, the money is reclaimed with no recourse (§71401(h)(8)).
Under §71401(h)(1)–(8), the HHS Secretary - under Trump - has sole discretion to approve, revoke, or reclaim rural hospital funding.
§100001–§100005, gives the President sweeping authority to direct, override, or reorganize executive agencies - including HHS. So, Trump can decide who gets help - and who doesn't. No appeals. No judicial review.
So, there's money for rural health on paper.
But it's paired with:
- brutal Medicaid cuts,
- bans on state intervention,
- and federal clawback power with no review.
That's not protection. It's a ticking time bomb for rural care systems.
The rural health "funding" is a PR cover for a massive system drain.
@SallyMayweather Here in Texas, to receive flood aid, you have to sign a contract in which you declare that you will never boycott Israel and if you do, you have to pay the money back.
Today in "trump's America", this could happen to you, to members of your family, within your circle of friends, to your neighbours ...
#ResistanceUnited#ProudBlue
#ResistanceUnited
Don’t fall for the straw man argument that the Big Ugly Bill will only throw people off Medicaid who don’t meet work requirements. Work requirements just mean more paperwork and confusion and more cost to the states. Repubs want to trip people up then blame them for falling.
@atrupar Lutnick: "The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones -- that kind of thing is going to come to America."
Get your screwdrivers ready!
This is a shit show of epic proportions.