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"Five months after Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy invited Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to appear before the powerful health committee he chairs, the hearing has not happened, and the senator continues to say there is no date set for it to take place."
#healthcare #PublicHealth #HHS #vaccines #immunizations #CDC #ACIP #MAHA #UScongress #USpol
In a story that as far as I can tell represents a petulant fascist temper tantrum as a result of fallout over the clown-show authoritarian arrest of Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, noted sycophant Trump minion Alina Habba has announced criminal charges against US Congresswoman (D-NJ) LaMonica McIver. The regime is accusing the Congresswoman of assaulting two ICE agents during the lawful oversight visit she conducted on a sketchy, privately-run, recently reopened migrant detention facility called Delaney Hall; the very same visit that resulted in Trump's Gestapo arresting Baraka as part of the regime's attempts to intimidate opposition to their unlawful mass deportation campaign.
https://www.commondreams.org/news/lamonica-mciver-charges
'Should Send a Chill Down the Spine of Every American': Trump DOJ Charges New Jersey Democrat
"In a statement, Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey Alina Habba announced the charges against U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.), claiming the lawmaker "assaulted, impeded, and interfered with law enforcement" at GEO Group's Delaney Hall. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) awarded GEO Group a billion-dollar contract earlier this year to detain migrants there, even as the facility faced legal challenges and accusations of abuse.
McIver rejected the charges against her as "purely political," saying that "they mischaracterize and distort my actions" in an attempt to "criminalize and deter legislative oversight."
"We were fulfilling our lawful oversight responsibilities, as members of Congress have done many times before, and our visit should have been peaceful and short," said McIver. "Instead, ICE agents created an unnecessary and unsafe confrontation when they chose to arrest Mayor [Ras] Baraka."
Habba said Monday that her office has agreed to drop the trespassing charge against Baraka, who welcomed the decision while expressing solidarity with McIver."
Okay so I don't know if you remember the post I made about Baraka's arrest, but there are literally a bunch of links to video footage of the confrontation Habba is talking about and needless to say it doesn't show the Congresswoman assaulting anyone, let alone "body-slamming" anyone as at least one DHS official previously claimed. Even the government's own out of context video clip just shows some shoving in a crowd of people trying to protect the Mayor of Newark. In other words the Interim U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey is straight up lying about something we can all watch on video. This would of course be more shocking if the world hadn't gotten to know Habba during her time as a defense attorney for Downmarket Mussolini, in which is she routinely spat out easily disprovable lies in court. As an activist I can say from personal experience that this feels an awful lot like the standard bullshit charge cops who just roughed up some protesters press to keep the heat off long enough for the story to go away, and then quietly drop later. You can see that same pattern at work in the "trespass" charges laid against Newark Mayor Ras Baraka, which were ultimately dropped because the regime knows they don't have a leg to stand on when they're under oath.
With all that established however, I think it's important to understand that even if they ultimately drop the charges against McIver, as they did with Baraka, this is still an example of a fascist regime weaponizing the enforcement arm of the state, to target and intimidate their political opposition. Pam Bondi might not love the Justice Department's chances in a court of law, but a message is still being sent to opposition party politicians that if they try to interfere with the unlawful, openly fascist "whitening" of America, security forces will be deployed to stop them. This when combined with the regime's threatening rhetoric, and its day to day attempts to erode the oversight of the judiciary to do blatantly unconstitutional authoritarian bullshit, effectively creates an unstable political environment where opposition to the regime's program, even legal opposition, carries an impossible to properly calculate degree of personal risk to the critic. Whatever your opinion of the Democratic Party happens to be, I think we can all admit that putting their own asses on the line to protect dissidents and critics hasn't exactly been their forte since at least October 7th, 2023; although obviously Baraka, McIver, and Robert Menendez deserve full marks for doing so now.
Finally; I can't prove it, but for a fun thought experiment google up some pictures of Baraka, McIver, and Menendez and tell me if you can think of any obvious reasons a white nationalist government might charge only the two people they did. Yeah, looked about white to me too.
#Fascism #Trump #PoliceState #LaMonicaMcIver #ICE #DoJ #PamBondi #AlinaHabba #DHS #RasBaraka #DelaneyHall #RobertMenendez #Intimidation #DemocraticParty #USCongress #Newark #NewJersey #USPol #MassDeportation #Racism #WhiteNationalism
We're at 30 incumbent ® who've seen their district turn against them so bad they aren't even running again.
Sir, respectfully, you are old enough to remember the equal time rule. You do realize that the #USCongress abolished it after the #SupremeCourt uphelt it? My generation grew up without equal time because of corporate media who wanted this landscape.
Perhaps a rule requiring corporate outlets to have different political factions get equal prompting in front of users' eyes, so that #YouTube has to allow a #TownSquare and a #MarketplaceOfIdeas ? I want my generation to have their voices heard.
Senators urge Ford to disclose suspected lobbying over Trump’s climate rollbacks https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/22/senate-ford-trump-climate-rollbacks #Ford #AutomotiveIndustry #UsNews #Business #TrumpAdministration #ClimateCrisis #UsSenate #UsCongress #Environment #UsPolitics
"President Donald Trump announced his 'Great Healthcare Plan' to little fanfare on Capitol Hill last week.
The question now is how willing and able congressional Republicans will be to actually pass any of it into law after stumbling for years over politically toxic plans to undo Obamacare. The prognosis is not encouraging for the White House."
https://archive.ph/1JHC6#selection-755.0-763.238
#healthcare #insurance #ACA #obamacare #HealthPolicy #UScongress #USpol
Nearly all Epstein files still unreleased a month after Congress deadline https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/19/jeffrey-epstein-files-unreleased-trump-doj #JeffreyEpstein #UsCongress #UsJusticeSystem #TrumpAdministration #UsPolitics #UsNews #UsCrime #LawUs #WorldNews #NewYork
“Given the devotion of Trump’s cult in Congress, there’s no way an impeachment effort will end with the removal of the president.
Do it anyway. The rule of law is meaningless if you only take it up when it’s easy.”
#Politics #USPolitics #ImpeachTrump #ImpeachNoem #ImpeachTheEntireTrumpRegime #ImpeachmentNow #USConstitution #USCongress
https://newrepublic.com/post/205118/case-impeaching-trump-venezuela-ice
Madison Sheheen - resigned as #ICE Deputy Director to run for #USCongress - #Ohio - please get informed asap & don't let this happen in your state.
Aaron Parnas reported it yesterday. I just saw it.
#USpol #ExposeMAGA #FascistUSA #USNazis #BoycottUSA #SanctionUSA #FuckICE
"Republicans in competitive seats see a grave threat to their reelections in skyrocketing insurance premiums.
That was apparent Thursday in the defection of 17 in the House who voted for Democrats’ bill to restore expired Obamacare subsidies for three more years. The GOP revolt was bigger than anticipated and a stunning rebuke to Speaker Mike Johnson and President Donald Trump."
#healthcare #ACA #obamacare #insurance #TaxCredits #UScongress #USpol
"Progressives are pushing Medicare for All in some of the Democratic Party’s most competitive Senate primaries next year, threatening the unity the party has found on attacking Republicans over expiring Obamacare subsidies."
#healthcare #ACA #insurance #medicare #obamacare #UScongress #USpol
Eight years ago the #USCongress passed a law requiring that the #USDepartmentOfDefense actually keep track of their #Budget and #Spending. They still don't.
#News #DefenseNews #Corruption #PublicMoney #Military #PublicPolicy #Defense
"Senate leaders gave up on trying to pass a government funding package before adjourning for the holidays, punting the issue to the new year — when lawmakers will have just a few weeks left to avoid a partial shutdown on Jan. 30."
#healthcare #ACA #obamacare #insurance #TaxCredits #UScongress #USpol
"The circumstances have led to deep consumer concerns about higher costs and fears of political fallout among some Republican lawmakers. For those caught in the middle — including consumers and leaders of the 20 states, along with the District of Columbia, that run their own ACA marketplaces — the lack of action on Capitol Hill has led to uncertainty about what to do."
#healthcare #ACA #obamacare #insurance #TaxCredits #subsidies #CMS #CostsOfCare #UScongress #USpol
"The Senate is poised on Thursday to reject legislation to extend Affordable Care Act tax credits for millions of Americans, a potentially unceremonious end to a monthslong Democratic effort to prevent the COVID-era subsidies from expiring on Jan. 1."
#healthcare #ACA #obamacare #insurance #subsidies #TaxCredits #UScongress #USpol
"Medicare coverage is changing next month as telehealth flexibilities largely disappear.
The Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act extended telehealth options that were enacted during the coronavirus pandemic but ended during the government shutdown."
https://www.newsweek.com/medicare-coverage-changing-next-month-11188460
#healthcare #medicare #telehealth #CMS #AI #UScongress #USpol
After a strange twist in the field of #Defense #Technology, the #USCongress is talking about banning "crew optional" ship designs. We already have full #Drones and fully crewed ships, but this would make the #Navy pick a lane.
#TechnologyNews #Congress #Military #AI #Drone #USNavy
https://www.twz.com/sea/crew-optional-designs-could-be-barred-by-law-from-navys-drone-ship-program
Mike Johnson strips military IVF coverage from defense bill – report https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/08/military-ivf-coverage-defense-bill-mike-johnson #Trumpadministration #Fertilityproblems #MikeJohnson #USmilitary #USCongress #USpolitics #Health #USnews #IVF
Ignorance is BS: speaker’s stock answer on Trump’s misdeeds is ‘I don’t know’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/08/mike-johnson-donald-trump #HouseofRepresentatives #MikeJohnson #DonaldTrump #Republicans #USCongress #USpolitics #USnews
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Look what you made her do!
My attorney and wife, @YeeHawClaire , got so mad about the redistricting of #Texas's District 11 that she filed the paperwork to run for #USCongress today.
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Claire Reynolds, aka @yeehawclaire@mastodon.social, standing in front of a Texas Democrats backdrop, having just filed to run for Congress.
The U.S. Supreme Court will allow Texas to use the new congressional map that favors Republicans. Here's more from @USAToday
#Texas #TrumpAdministration #Gerrymandering #Congress #USCongress
House Democrats release new images of Epstein’s private Caribbean island https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/03/epstein-caribbean-island-new-photo-video-release #HouseofRepresentatives #JeffreyEpstein #USCongress #USpolitics #Caribbean #Democrats #Americas #UScrime #USnews
"As the Republican leadership trifecta in Washington scrambles to address that imminent spike in premiums for millions of Americans, health care costs are emerging as a new flashpoint in next year’s midterm elections. Polling shows staunch nationwide support for the Affordable Care Act, with 64 percent of Americans holding a positive view of the policy..."
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/24/georgia-republicans-trump-health-care-midterms-00666216
#healthcare #ACA #obamacare #insurance #TaxCredits #subsidies #georgia #UScongress #USpol
"Sen. Bill Cassidy on Sunday declined to criticize Robert F. Kennedy after the Health and Human Services head personally instructed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to change its stance on vaccines and autism...'It’s actually quite well proven that vaccines are not associated with autism,' Cassidy (R-La.) told host Jake Tapper. 'There’s a fringe out there that thinks so, but they’re quite fringe.'"
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/23/bill-cassidy-refuses-to-speak-against-rfk-jr-00666410
"The Republican candidate’s outspoken alignment with Trump and his history of working for GOP lawmakers for decades have raised questions about his independence for a role that’s intended to scrutinize and root out fraud in some of the nation’s biggest spending programs. A number of Democratic lawmakers have criticized Bell’s nomination."
"Republicans, under pressure from Democrats after the government shutdown revived the health care clash, have not coalesced around legislation or even an abstract idea, and are only now starting serious discussions about putting proposals together."
#healthcare #ACA #obamacare #insurance #HealthPolicy #TaxCredits #shutdown #UScongress #USpol
“In some respects, the damage is already done,” said John A. Graves, a professor of health policy and medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee. “Premiums are higher in expectation of them expiring and they didn’t get it done in time for open enrollment, so people are seeing these premium increases.”
#healthcare #ACA #obamacare #insurance #HealthPolicy #TaxCredits #shutdown #UScongress #USpol
"House Democratic leaders introduced a discharge petition Wednesday designed to force consideration of legislation to extend expiring ObamaCare subsidies for another three years...the Democrats are hoping to entice a handful of moderate Republicans to endorse the petition, which will require 218 signatures to force a floor vote on the legislation over the objections of Republican leaders."
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5602615-democrats-discharge-petition-obamacare/
#healthcare #ACA #Obamacare #insurance #HealthPolicy #UScongress #USpol
US Senate takes steps toward vote to end historic federal shutdown https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/09/senate-moves-vote-federal-government-shutdown #USfederalgovernmentshutdown2025 #USfederalgovernmentshutdowns #HouseofRepresentatives #Trumpadministration #DonaldTrump #Republicans #USpolitics #USCongress #Worldnews #Democrats #USSenate #USnews
"By cutting and freezing public health funds, in particular, the Trump administration has already begun to undercut efforts to provide medical care, outbreak response, housing assistance, and research across the U.S., according to health officials, nonprofit directors, and federal agency staffers interviewed by KFF Health News."
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/russell-vought-trump-omb-doge-public-health-budget-shutdown/
#PublicHealth #HHS #CDC #UScongress #OMB #SCOTUS #courts #HIV #DOGE #alabama #mississippi #louisiana #texas #USpol
"Insurers have increased rates significantly for next year — an average of about 30 percent for a typical plan in the 30 states where the federal government manages markets, and an average of 17 percent in states that run their own markets, according to a new analysis from KFF, the health research group."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/health/obamacare-prices-health-insurance.html
#healthcare #insurance #ACA #premiums #subsidies #HealthPolicy #shutdown #UScongress #USpol
"Medical educators and health professionals warn that new federal student loan caps in President Donald Trump’s tax cut law could make it more expensive for many people to become doctors and could exacerbate physician shortages nationwide."
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/medical-school-federal-loan-caps-doctor-shortage-trump-law/
#healthcare #MedEd #MedSchools #StudentLoans #AAMC #physicians #UScongress #USpol #TaxCuts
"House Republicans in the toughest races in the country aren’t on board to extend expiring Obamacare subsidies yet.
The Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan election handicapper, detailed seven House Republican races in the “toss up” category ahead of the 2026 midterms. The races are likely to be close next year and even a small shift could decide the House majority."
#healthcare #ACA #Obamacare #insurance #HealthPolicy #shutdown #UScongress #USpol
"But the government shutdown has now put the WIC program at risk. Unlike Social Security, WIC isn’t an entitlement program, so it relies on Congress to appropriate money every year, but Congress wasn’t able to pass bills funding the government before the fiscal year lapsed on September 30. The program is currently very low on funds..."
#PublicHealth #food #FoodInsecurity #nutrition #WIC #SNAP #hunger #ChildrensHealth #disabilities #NorthCarolina #UScongress #USpol
"The prospect of young people dropping out of the ACA markets worries health policy experts — not just because of their own personal risk of going uninsured, but because of the effect that millions of people making the same decision could have on the whole health system."
#healthcare #insurance #ACA #Obamacare #premiums #DeathSpiral #HealthPolicy #shutdown #UScongress #USpol
"But in a letter to SNAP state agency and regional directors on Oct. 10, the Department of Agriculture warned that there would not be enough funding to pay full SNAP benefits — also known as food stamps — in November if the shutdown persists."
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/snap-benefits-funds-run-out-nov-1-rcna239432
#PublicHealth #food #FoodInsecurity #nutrition #SNAP #FoodBanks #WIC #shutdown #USDA #UScongress #USpol
Democratic senator’s floor speech condemning Trump enters 16th hour https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/22/senator-jeff-merkley-floor-speech-trump #Trumpadministration #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #USCongress #WestCoast #USSenate #USnews #Oregon
"Automated Immiseration" is how I read, at a coarse level, what's being proposed. Austerity politics handed down by machines.
The endgame of austerity economics has historically been some variation of fascism. Clara Mattei's meticulously-researched book The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism is a deep dive into how this has played out, especially after WWI. Mattei brings receipts: she has direct quotes indicating economists at the time knew full well what they were doing. The purpose of austerity measures, as spelled out explicitly by the people who invented them, is to discipline citizens and laborers--to keep them from getting any ideas about receiving too many benefits from government--and to re-affirm the position of capital holders at the top of the pecking order.
One comment I had about the "reskilling"/"upskiling" part of the conversation: I don't have the references on hand, but I believe it's been amply documented that "upskilling" almost never happens. It's a word that's thrown around as a salve, to reduce alarm about intended market destruction and job loss.
If upskilling were a serious part of this so-called roadmap, there'd be more specific plans for whose jobs will be displaced, which colleges and universities will educate these displaced folks, how that education will be funded, and which jobs are waiting for them on the other side. The upskilling plans, if serious, would be as detailed and spelled out as the AI/corporate plans are. If the upskilling plans were serious, the presidents of Ivy League and state universities, vocational institutions like coding bootcamps, and other educational institutions would have been present to share their insights and views, especially as regards the realism of re-training as many people as this roadmap and the rhetoric of #AI boosters suggests might be displaced. It'd be wise to include high school educators as well, since such a significant shift in the workforce affects students in high school as well. I didn't read the backgrounds on all 150-ish participants in these Senate forums, but I didn't see or hear about a large contingent of educators among them. As it stands the roadmap document only vaguely refers to "legislation" that doesn't yet exist.
Frankly, I see little that sounds serious in this "roadmap" aside from the danger it represents. It reads like a whitepaper a corporate middle manager would pound out (using #ChatGPT probably) in an afternoon. Emily and Alex referred to Chuck Schumer as "an #Elon #Musk fanboy", and I think that's what this document reflects. This is The Boring Company of government policy proposals.
#GenAI #AI #AGI #USSenate #USCongress #Senate #Congress #USPol #tech