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Affordable to Buy, Costly to Use:
Health care affordability depends on access to care and the true cost of care, not just insurance premiums. https://t.co/wimCaVBk5v
Trump Kicks His Dismantling of Veterans’ Health Care Into High Gear:
His proposed new budget shrinks the VA’s ability to meet veterans’ needs. https://t.co/aYdf6I0fS9
Senate Democrats Threaten to Punt FISA Over Pulte Appointment:
President Trump’s appointment of Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence is roiling an emerging bipartisan extension of warrantless spying. https://t.co/4JGX1XY20y
It’s more than a bit ironic that Pulte is the trigger for blowing up a bipartisan compromise deeply sought by the intelligence community. https://t.co/1vNtQSWrGq
Fixing the affordability of insurance premiums does less to address the underlying prices and care needs that make health coverage expensive in the first place. https://t.co/uznWQifZ4m
Crude oil prices are skyrocketing. Guyana could become the site of another fossil fuel exploration boom: Any country that partners with Big Oil can make billions. But reality has been less kind to Guyana. https://t.co/umFAtXMUhN
We're looking at a sustained inflationary pressure that might tip the world into a recession, as well as outright shortages of certain items, including food in some places, and major supply chain snarls similar to what we saw during and after the pandemic. https://t.co/gMQxBdKhB6
Millions of voters of color will no longer be able to elect a representative of their choice. But what’s at stake is far bigger: whether voters of color can elect legislators whose votes actually reflect their policy preferences. https://t.co/GPCVSKQudD
Something Is Going to Snap
So far, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz has not led to a major economic disaster. That won’t last forever. https://t.co/tYMmX8bNCi
Any country that partners with Big Oil can make billions. Guyana, one of the most impoverished countries in South America, wants a slice of the pie. But reality has been less kind to the Guyanese people. https://t.co/8tpYbiMPql
It’s Election Day in California, and it raises a meta-question that’s not before the voters as such, but that nonetheless depresses both them and their turnout: How did California politics become so lackluster? https://t.co/F4JIy7BwJj
Take This Data Center and Shove It:
Americans ain’t puttin’ up with these things no more. Welcome to Virginia, ground zero for data center defiance. https://t.co/r8uJqpp7TY
Today is one of the bigger primary days on the calendar so far in the 2026 midterms, with six states including the nation’s largest going to the polls. It’s hard to keep track, so we're looking across the country at the key story lines. https://t.co/gFCPtY1avB
NYC Immigration Courts Speed Deportations as Striking Detainees in Newark Suffer:
The list of one judge’s ‘mega master’ hearings was so long on Monday that it nearly reached the floor. The violence in Delaney Hall illustrates what may await immigrants. https://t.co/wTNJ15paBM