#Texas Gov. #GregAbbott says at least 161 people are still missing days after flash #floods that killed more than 100 people across central Texas.
#Climate #ExtremeWeather #Republicans #GovernmentFunding #Trump #purge #NWS #NOAA #FEMA
https://apnews.com/article/texas-floods-victims-camp-mystic-death-toll-ea38edadc7e965fb2c76c0ec46245a82?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-07-08-Breaking+News
"It’s always the ones pointing the fingers, the ones screaming the loudest about 'protecting the children.' That’s why we call them gaslighters. They demonize drag queens and the LGBTQIA+ community. Meanwhile, they’re the ones doing the most harm behind closed doors."
~ Saadia Mirza
#Republicans #trans #drag #LGBTQ #SexualAbuse
https://beagoodinfluence.substack.com/p/its-always-the-ones-you-most-suspect
Key #Medicaid provision in #Trump's big tax cut & spending bill is found to violate #Senate rules
The Senate #parliamentarian has advised that a key Medicaid provider tax overhaul that is central to Trump’s bill does not adhere to procedural rules, delivering a crucial blow to #Republicans rushing to finish the massive package this week.
#law #USpol
https://apnews.com/article/trump-big-bill-hospital-provider-tax-f6f4343bbc9c9a279bd7861c2e5c1b7b?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2025-06-26-Breaking+News
The changes made to #Trump’s big tax bill in the #Senate would pile trillions onto the nation’s #debt load while resulting in even steeper losses in #healthcare #coverage, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said in a new analysis, adding to the challenges for #Republicans as they try to muscle the bill to passage.
Susan Niemann on her discovery that she descends from a woman hanged for witchcraft during the Salem witch trials:
"The Salem Witch Trials serve as another example of America’s heinous treatment of the poor, the power of religious superstition and extremism, the mass hysteria religion can gin up, and the dangers of intolerance."
#NewEngland #witches #women #Trump #MAGA #Republicans #Christofascism
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https://adchick.substack.com/p/they-hung-grandma-margaret-in-salem
Because it isn’t already about who has the richest friends:
#SCOTUS will hear #Republicans appeal over #spending limits in #elections
SCOTUS will take up a Republican-led drive to wipe away limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination w/candidates for Congress & president.
The justices said Mon they’ll review an appellate ruling that upheld a provision of federal #election #law that’s >50 yrs old. #Democrats want the court to leave the law in place.
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-6-30-2025#00000197-c11d-de08-a1f7-c7dfd2e50000
In the runup to a final #Senate vote on #Trump’s big bill of tax cuts & spending cuts, #Republicans have voted down #Democratic amendments to strike portions of the bill that would reduce funding for rural #hospitals, #FoodStamps & #Medicaid.
Sen #SusanCollins (R-ME)joined #Democrats on an amendment to strike language that would force rural hospitals to limit their services.
#law #policy #PublicDisservice
https://apnews.com/live/donald-trump-news-updates-6-30-2025#00000197-c1a1-d0e0-abbf-ffbf19690000
At the end of this historic week — a massive transfer of wealth from poor to rich, healthcare and food support ripped from millions — I'm wondering what bible texts U.S. churches will read and preach about this Sunday?
So many churches, so many texts, so many Christians eager to hear the words of Jesus and other scriptures preached — addressing us in the world in which we live today, of course.
#Trump #Republicans #cruelty #EconomicElites #immigrants #bible #healthcare #food
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New today: Despite warnings from advocates like me about the dire consequences, Congressional #Republicans have sought to dismantle core legal protections for detained immigrant #children fund strip searches of children as young as 12 years old by law enforcement officers, allow indefinite detention, and impose new barriers to children’s release. https://www.texasobserver.org/republicans-immigrant-children-budget-court/
#immigration #politics #USpol #HumanRights #news #border #refugees
"With the passage of Trump's death bill, we face the prospect of many great harms, including an archipelago of concentration camps across the United States.
Concentration camps are sites of tempting slave labor. Among many other aims, the Soviets used concentration camp labor to build canals and work mines."
~ Timothy Snyder
#Trump #Republicans #BigBeautifulBill #ICE #immigrants #ConcentrationCamps
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