Wrote the damn bill. Fmr: Deputy Health Policy Director, @HELPCmteDems, @SenSanders; @SenateBudget; @USGAO; @ColumbiaMSPH; @ProvidenceCol.✨🏳️🌈
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Gotta hand it to the bad guys - hitting children and farmers at the same time is almost impressive!
USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks ow.ly/jJh610625C6
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Hospital units dedicated to treating the nation's sickest kids are disappearing nationwide. In the past year alone, hospitals have closed pediatric intensive care units for critically ill kids in Montana, Oregon, and Missouri. Overnight hospital wings for kids have also shuttered in Illinois and California.
cbsnews.com/news/pediatric-i…
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News: Wyden and Sanders are accusing 10 major health insurers of "colluding" with Trump admin to kick thousands of ppl off ACA coverage
Wyden and Sanders will be chairs of Finance and HELP if Dems win Senate
They wrote oversight letters to the insurers
in @PunchbowlNews AM
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Is The Cheesecake Factory Really a Restaurant for Regular Americans?
Here’s what the data show
washingtonsun.com/policy/che…
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This is beyond absurd. Democrats need to pass bills that will demonstrably improve people’s lives and dare Trump to veto it.
.@SenBrianSchatz says that if Democrats take the Senate, the party's left wing needs to be strategic about not proposing things "that the president of the United States is guaranteed to veto."
"If we want to be more aspirational, if we want to make more bold policy changes... that's for 2028."
a sad song is only truly internalized when you’ve played it so many times you can start booty dropping to it 🙌🏻
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A new report on truancy in D.C. says that some Latino students are truant because the increased presence of ICE, other federal agents, and National Guard had "negative impact on their families." One kid said he was "genuinely afraid to step outside" after his dad was deported.
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This would be a good moment for Democrats to say something like "we won't let this happen."
The Trump admin is moving forward on plans to impose financial penalties on Americans in default on their federal student loans and hire private debt collectors to go after them.
The plans are unlikely to be announced until after the midterms. washingtonsun.com/economy/tr…
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There is absolutely no logical reason why someone who has a mortgage should pay property tax while someone who owns their house outright should not.
"I own my house, therefore I shouldn't pay property tax" is a total non sequitur.
“I’m old. I’ve paid my home off,” said Ray Warner, a 72-year-old Akron resident. “Why would I pay property tax?”
Across the country, homeowners are asking the same question and revolting against property taxes at a scale not seen in a half century.
politico.com/news/magazine/2…
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Scoop: Healthcare.gov premiums for benchmark plans are set to rise 11% on average in 2027. It's the 2nd year in a row for double-digit spikes but not nearly as bad as last yr's 30%. Insurer participation is down 14%. washingtonsun.com/health/aca…
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News - Sen. Bernie Sanders has transferred $250k to El-Sayed in Michigan
cnn.com/2026/10/16/politics/…
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Huge hole blown in drug regulation. There's a quote in this story that calls this a victory for "medical freedom." But to me a system that disincentivizes the study of whether medicines work or not & what their side effects are before they are sold is NOT freedom.
NEW: Kennedy's HHS has submitted an “interim access policy” on peptides to the White House, moving ahead with an effort to ease access to the unproven injectables favored by wellness influencers.
apnews.com/article/peptides-…
