Adam Cohen (My Personal Views Only)

In many areas, Planned Parenthood is the only maternity service

Regardless, South Carolina wants to prevent the provider from receiving Medicaid

For NON-ABORTION treatments

Like cancer screenings

Their case will be heard by the Supreme Court

The cruelty is the point
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Supreme Court takes up South Carolina's effort to defund Planned Parenthood

The state cut off funding to Planned Parenthood because it provided non-abortion services to Medicaid patients.

America's money goes to Hungary. To Argentina. To fund wars in Iran and invasions of Venezuela.

It goes to kill shipwrecked survivors. To ICE, who shoot US citizens and build concentration camps

Our money seems to fund death and destruction all across the globe

But it never goes to help Americans

SENATE DEMOCRATS HAVE STARTED A MARATHON PROTEST TO STOP THE NOMINATION OF RUSSELL VOUGHT

This architect of Project 2025 basically said he’d

VIOLATE US LAW

By taking money specifically designated by Congress

And use the cash to fund whatever Trump wants

CALL YOUR SENATORS NOW

202-224-3121

You can't make it up

MAGA Congressman Derrick Van Orden-a huge supporter of the Big Ugly Bill

Who published this repugnant post cheering the fact that the law would gut Medicaid and SNAP

Is now BEGGING the Democratic governor of his state

To save the very hospitals that he just voted to close

Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social

This is from an actual Republican Congressman, from the party that is also locking kids in cages in a concentration camp in Florida, hoping they try to escape and get eaten by alligators. This is today's Republican Party.

The NY Times concludes that the ICE agent who shot Renee Good was NOT hit by her car

“the visual evidence shows no indication that..Jonathan Ross, had been run over..It also establishes-millisecond by millisecond-how Mr. Ross put himself in a dangerous position near her vehicle in the first place”

Oh my G-d we’re back with this crap on Greenland again

Right after he started a fight with Panama

When-just a few days earlier-he mused about making Canada the 51st state

Does anybody if it’s possible to invoke the 25th Amendment

BEFORE a president takes office

We won’t notice it at first

Maybe an outbreak of cholera in southwest Kansas goes undetected

Perhaps the number of flu related deaths ticks up just a bit each year

But-ultimately, inexorably-the destruction of the CDC will lead to countless deaths

All because of two men

Trump and RFK, Jr

No undeserved praise
No obeying in advance
No normalization
No sane washing

Just calling out a failed businessman, exceedingly corrupt president and convicted criminal for what he is

And-although you left out the $454 fraud judgment and sexual abuse verdict

Well done, @vanityfair.com

Elon Musk said he’d cut the federal budget by $2 trillion

Quickly lowered this to $1 trillion

Now he’s down to $150 billion

And even THAT appears to be an overestimate of $92 billion

So-after firing thousands of workers and destroying government services

This clown will cut $58 billion

Maybe

The Kids Online Safety Act passed in the Senate with a 91-3 vote

But Mike Johnson made sure the bill didn’t come up for a vote in the House

So Mark Zuckerberg will make more money-by exploiting children

REPUBLICANS AREN’T ON OUR SIDE

They’re working for billionaires

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Mark Zuckerberg and Meta got a big win. They have the House GOP to thank. — POLITICO

The billionaire and his company needed Speaker Mike Johnson's help to stop legislation that would have regulated social media for the first time.

There are still good, kind, decent people in the world

You just need to know where to look

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Florida locals defy Ron DeSantis by restoring Pulse rainbow crosswalk

People took matters into their own hands after the commemorative crosswalk was removed, and drew it back onto the ground.

On January 6, 2021

Donald Trump attempted a coup

He lied about the election

Ginned up a “fake electors” scheme

Tried to coerce election officials into saying he won

Threatened his own VP

And dispatched MAGA thugs to attack the Capitol

140 Capitol Police were maimed

Several died

Never
Forget

My G-d

They're really going to put Pete Hegseth and Kash Patel in charge of government agencies

Unless we make so much noise they can't possibly ignore us

CALL YOUR SENATORS

NOW

202-456-1414

www.cnn.com/2024/12/09/p...

Key GOP senators begin to fall in line to support Kash Patel and keep door open for Pete Hegseth | CNN Politics

Top GOP senators on Monday signaled support for Donald Trump’s plan to oust the current FBI director in favor of firebrand loyalist Kash Patel, while keeping the door open for Pete Hegseth, who faces ...

The Pentagon is apparently going to share its most sensitive war plans for China
with Elon Musk

I’m not sure that people have even noticed this

So I will repeat it

THE PENTAGON IS APPARENTLY GOING TO SHARE ITS MOST SENSITIVE WAR PLANS FOR CHINA WITH ELON MUSK

Worried yet?

“When the German nation was, thanks to the inflation instigated and carried through by Jews, deprived of the entire savings which it had accumulated in years of honest work..when we were divested of the whole of our colonial possessions”

Adolf Hitler, 1939

There’s not much difference

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Trump’s primetime diatribe against immigrants is straight up unvarnished Nazi stuff

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The Trump administration hired a company to open an ICE facility in Newark

Mayor Ras Baraka said they needed permits

There's a sordid history of for-profit businesses holding immigrants under inhumane conditions

So the mayor went to inspect

And they arrested him

NEVER
STOP
FIGHTING
FASCISM

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey mayor is arrested at ICE detention center where he was protesting its opening, acting US attorney says.

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The stock market has lost

$4 TRILLION

In the last month due to Trump’s disastrous tariff plans

Plus the jobs numbers were equally terrible

The price of eggs keeps going up

And the GOP is STILL threatening to cut Medicaid by $880 billion so they can give tax breaks to billionaires

The Trump tariffs are the highest tax increase on the American public since World War II

Yes, you read that correctly

What's worse, he did it while taking health insurance away from 20 million people

And giving $75 billion to ICE so they can hunt US citizens

#TrumpTariffChaos

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social

Wolfers: What we have is a pro-tax Republican president. Maybe he favors this tax because it’s regressive — it takes a bigger chunk out of the paychecks of the poor than of the rich. Maybe he thinks he can baffle us with bullshit and pretend China is paying, but that’s a story people aren’t buying

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Neither the New York Times nor the Washington Post published stories about Trump writing 200 unhinged posts on Christmas Day

While we were distracted by Charlie Kirk, the incompetence of Kash Patel, the conviction of Jair Bolsonaro and the GOP voting not to release the Epstein files

Republicans in the Senate were busy deploying the nuclear option by shredding the filibuster

Thanks so much, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema

I'm here in Mount Kisco, NY to tell Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the GOP

HANDS OFF AMERICA

Much of the focus on today's events will probably be the large rallies in big cities

But make no mistake

It is the smaller rallies

The local rallies

That will be the backbone of this movement

Democrats have been saying it for months

And here it is-in black and white for all to see

Republicans want to cut $715 billion from Medicaid

Ripping away insurance from 13.7 million Americans

Just to give billionaires like Elon Musk another tax break

Don't
Mess
With
Medicaid

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com

Michelle Lujan Grisham on the Republican push to cut Medicaid: "It is a disaster, and people will die. Children will die."

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In their rush to destroy our government

The Trump administration fired the workers who keep our nukes safe

And-realizing how badly they screwed up

Are trying to rehire them

But can’t-because they don’t know how to get in touch with the fired workers

The incompetence is unprecedented

Jack Smith's deposition must be bigger news

"There is no historical analog for what..Trump did..[H]e was free to say he thought he won..He was even free to say falsely that he won..But..he was not free to..violate federal law and use knowingly false statements..to target lawful government function"

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social

Jack Smith: I believe we had proof beyond a reasonable doubt in both cases.

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