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Heads up, eligible Georgia voters: If you voted by mail in the Public Service Commission(PSC) Special Primary, you won’t automatically get a vote-by-mail ballot for the runoff. You MUST request another one by July 7th! Don’t wait. Don’t risk it. Make your vote count (again).

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Republicans just passed Trump’s budget bill — not a single Democrat voted for it. This is an utter betrayal of the American people. We won’t forget this.

We the people have boycott power, peaceful protest power, general strike power, and just the power to be relentless pains in the ass until we get what we want. Come on! Do not shut up!

Protecting his stock portfolio while ripping away health care from 17 million Americans. This is Washington at its worst. We need to ban Congressional stock trading.

As Republicans in Congress rush through Trump’s ugly budget bill, I’m thinking about kids like Delilah, who rely on Medicaid to get the health care they need. So many people will be hurt because Republicans prioritize tax breaks for billionaires and corporations over lives.

But will Americans remember this? Republicans have been showing us who they are for several years. People still voted for them.

Mike Johnson just said if you are for reducing the deficit, this bill is for you. The bill adds 3-4 trillion dollars to the deficit. They just lie.

FWIW, I think it is very noticeable that the entire Democratic Party is in absolute *lockstep* about messaging this hideous GOP bill: Schumer, Jeffries, Warren, Bernie, AOC, Omar, all unanimous in emphasizing that it *shreds* healthcare for poor people while giving away to the rich

While the Trump regime continues dismantling scientific research in the US and inflicting damage that will take decades to repair (if ever), France and other EU countries are eager to benefit from our brain drain. We wouldn’t mind a summer in Provence right about now…

This must become a meme.

Bad news: The Senate cowards passed the budget bill. This will devastate every part of life in the US. (Even billionaires—infectious diseases don’t care about your yacht.) 🎩

It’s coming back to the House. ❌ 17M Americans lose healthcare ❌ 5M lose food assistance ❌ $3.3T added to the deficit Help us kill this bill.

Millions of Americans are going to lose healthcare and food assistance so the super-wealthy and big corporate investors get the biggest tax cuts.  Kill the bill.

PERFECT description of the Big, Ugly Bill: "It is caviar over kids, hedge funds over health care, Mar-a-Lago over the middle class." Sen. Ron Wyden, Oregon #VoteNO

No morals Murkowski

Most folks are already struggling, and this budget will make life even harder👇🏼

Senate Republicans just passed Trump’s horrific budget that will: -Kick 16 million people off their health care -Put 300 rural hospitals on the brink of closure -Close 200 Planned Parenthoods -Make millions more kids hungry Now it’s coming back to the House. I’m voting NO.

Met with Christ Hospital to talk about how we can help them better care for folks in SW Ohio – and how this reckless budget bill, which could strip healthcare from 440,000 Ohioans, would impact the hospital. We're fighting to protect their healthcare.

The Senate’s version of the Big Ugly Bill raises taxes on wind & solar energy. This will increase utility bills, kill thousands of jobs, and make our electric grid less reliable. (Oh, + gives handouts to the fossil fuel industry.) Just another reason to stop this horrible bill.

1/4 📢 CDC funding for 2025 is months late, leaving health depts stranded. CDC leaders told NPR the delay appears intentional - “a deliberate effort to grind us to a halt.” We are not surprised 😡. This is a public health emergency manufactured by HHS.

What nearly $1 trillion in cuts to healthcare would mean for our children’s hospitals.👇🏼

Food insecurity in San Diego has risen to levels we haven’t seen since the pandemic. Why? Because of inflation, tariffs, rising costs, and supply chain issues. What’s the GOP’s response? To cut SNAP, our best program to address food insecurity.🤦‍♀️

President wants to crush US, Congress has yielded its power, Supreme Court has neutered the courts, Corporate Media is collaborating, but there is one estate left that can save US: The People.

3 years ago, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. We’ve seen the horror that’s caused – people dying in ERs, parking lots, and at home because they can’t get an abortion. Abortion is health care, and I won’t stop fighting until it’s legal, affordable, and accessible for all.

RUIZ: Did you read the report & fact-check its sources prior to publication? RFK JR: I did not fact check RUIZ: It included citations to sources that don't exist. How does that happen? RFK JR: All of the foundational assertions are accurate RUIZ: They did not exist. How can they be accurate?

From today’s House Energy & Commerce Committee hearing: Rep. Raul Ruiz excoriates RFK Jr.’s dangerous anti-science record, saying a pre-med student would’ve flunked if they turned in his MAHA report. (We might’ve added the sticky note. He earned it. 🧪❌) 📸👇

Ruiz: Why did the report include citations that don’t exist? RFK JR: All of the foundational assertions in that report are accurate Ruiz: How can they be accurate if they did not exist?

There is no military solution to this crisis, so we must find a diplomatic one. But regardless, the decisions about going to war or not belong to Congress, not the president. That's why I'm proud to support this resolution.

I just called my reps with @5calls.org, you should too: 5calls.org

Good.Store sponsored the Lady Griz game tonight and we did a half-time game where middle schoolers had to put on as many socks as they could in 2 minutes.