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ChateauK retweeted
The group most healthy and least likely to need to file insurance claims are children and young adults.
In response, are Dr. Oz and VP Vance preparing to disproportionately kick young people off of health insurance coverage?
ChateauK retweeted
OMG -- Donald Trump is holding an event just now at the WH but no audio because the press pool isn't there.
The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Donald Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
ChateauK retweeted
The Supreme Court’s decision to assist President Trump’s assault on mail-in voting is a blatantly partisan move that should alarm anyone who cares about one of the core tenets of our democracy.
@KarenDolan on @InsideSourcesDC dcjournal.com/the-supreme-co…
ChateauK retweeted
In a new report, Henry A. Wallace Fellow Layla Sayed and IPS expert @karendolan reveal just how harmful some recent and proposed cuts would be — and some alternative policy solutions that have proven effective in helping American families. ips-dc.org/a-perfect-storm-h…
ChateauK retweeted
At a time when the rising cost of housing, healthcare, and food has left nearly half of Americans struggling to afford basic necessities, our current federal government is instituting one the largest rollbacks of our social safety net.
ChateauK retweeted
New funding will allow pathologist Ie-Ming Shih and his team to examine the role of serous tubal intraepithelial carcinomas — lesions believed to be the main precursors of high-grade serous carcinoma, the most common and lethal form of ovarian cancer — with the hope of illuminating how ovarian cancer develops. hopkinsmedicine.org/news/art…
ChateauK retweeted
This war has led to thousands of deaths and injuries in Iran, Lebanon, and surrounding countries, as well as the deaths of 18 U.S. troops to date.
More money for it will prolong the violence and continue to underfund programs that Americans need and deserve.
ALT Graphic with a background of U.S. dollar bills reads: "Congress is considering providing $73 billion more for the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran." It states that the same amount could instead fund free universal preschool for 3- and 4-year-olds ($35 billion/year), restore food stamp funding benefiting 4 million people ($18.6 billion/year), provide rapid or permanent supportive housing for every person in a homeless shelter ($9.6 billion), and double the Environmental Protection Agency's funding to protect clean air and water ($8.8 billion). The National Priorities Project logo appears at the bottom.
ChateauK retweeted
Thank you @SenMarkey for introducing the Slash the Pentagon Act: congress.gov/bill/119th-cong…
Trump is using Pentagon funding to wage an illegal and destructive war against Iran that the American people never asked for and don't want. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has never passed an audit and wastes billions of dollars a year on contractor abuse and overpriced projects that never deliver as promised.
The Pentagon budget already ballooned to $900 billion last year. Now Trump wants to increase it to $1.5 trillion.
Sen @EdMarkey's bill would explicitly protect soldiers' salaries, healthcare, and other needs, while cutting the Pentagon budget down to $750 billion.
We need to rightsize the Pentagon and invest the difference back into the people's needs: climate action, healthcare, education, food, housing, and more.
Thank you Senator for your principled leadership.
ChateauK retweeted
📅 IN 2 WEEKS: Authoritarianism is rising. How can we not only defend democracy, but expand it to meet our needs?
Join us July 23 in D.C. or online for our FREE Henry A. Wallace Symposium presented with @WeBuildProgress and @thenation. Save your spot: ips-dc.org/event/3rd-wallace…
ChateauK retweeted
Patients with platinum-sensitive recurrent #OvarianCancer and exceptional response to PARP inhibitors showed ≥78% ten-year progression-free survival, with low risk of myeloid cancers, regardless of maintenance duration.
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ALT Figure 2. Bar graphs display outcomes for 5 patients after starting PARP inhibitors. Timelines mark events like PARP discontinuation, MDS/AML diagnosis, & death over several years. Most patients experienced an event, often within 5-10 years post-treatment.
ChateauK retweeted
The estimated lifetime cost of the faulty F-35 program is $2.1 trillion.
That's enough money to wipe all student debt in the U.S.
CRAZY: four F-35 fighter jets hit the afterburners as they fly over the Washington Monument. @7newsdc
ChateauK retweeted
JD Vance says the US is going to give Iran $300 billion.
For reference, the ACA subsidies the GOP said we couldn't afford was $37 billion.
America First?
ChateauK retweeted
I feel compelled to post this banger of a clip showing Barbara Walters humiliate trump to his face, as a reminder to reporters: YOU DON'T HAVE TO ACCEPT HIM CALLING YOU "DUMMY."
This is outstanding. 👏👏👏
ChateauK retweeted
Please. Stop what you are doing, and watch this.
Standing in love and solidarity with @Justinjpearson and all of our TN family doing all they can to fight for truth and democracy.
ChateauK retweeted
🔥🇺🇸MAJOR BREAKING: Tennessee just passed a new congressional map breaking up the state’s only majority-Black district.
State Rep. Justin Pearson on the floor:
“These maps are racist tools of white supremacy at the behest of the most powerful white supremacist, Donald J. Trump.”
Louisiana cancelled an ongoing election to do it.
Florida signed new maps to flip 4 seats.
Tennessee just broke up the only majority-Black district in the state.
This is a coordinated national campaign to erase Black political power.
ChateauK retweeted
Funny AI video mocks Donald Trump's Jesus picture which he later claimed to be associated with his feelings to be a doctor who heals the world.
Note: AI generated Video
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NEW: If you paid federal taxes for 2025, you likely paid $4,049(!) for Pentagon contractors, military personnel, nuclear weapons, aid to foreign militaries, and last year’s bombing of Iran’s nuclear energy facilities.
@johnsonjakep in @commondreams: commondreams.org/news/taxpay…
