Don’t ever say both parties are the same. They want to SHRED THE AMERICAN SOCIAL SAFETY NET TO GIVE TAX BREAKS TO MILLIONAIRES AND BILLIONAIRES.
MILLIONS WILL LOSE THEIR HEALTHCARE.
Protect Our Care
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Republican Senator Thom Tillis: What do I tell 663,000 people and two years or three years when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them off of Medicaid. Trump’s advisers in the White House are not telling him that the effect of this bill is to break a promise.
https://bsky.app/profile/protectourcare.org/post/3lsrzhintqs25
Sheldon Whitehouse
@SenWhitehouse
As GOP starts vote-a-rama on their Beautiful-for-Billionaires Betrayal Bill, they still don’t have complete bill text. Yup, still NO BILL – they’re still corralling members and negotiating with parliamentarians. What a mess.
8:39 AM · Jun 30, 2025
https://x.com/SenWhitehouse/status/1939680173722673457
This trifling piece of garbage:
Republicans against Trump
@RpsAgainstTrump
NYT: The Senate official who enforces the chamber’s rules determined that two last-minute provisions — added on Saturday to benefit Alaska and Hawaii and help secure the vote of Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska — violated Senate rules and would likely need to be dropped from the bill
https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1939471543027044655
Senator Patty Murray
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For a budget bill like this, both parties get 10 hours of debate each.Democrats used our time to spell out explicitly what a catastrophe Trump’s Big Ugly bill is.
I guess Republicans can’t actually defend this disaster so they’re forfeiting their time and going to bed.
https://bsky.app/profile/murray.senate.gov/post/3lss33kdd7k2t
Edith Horwitz
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Democrats are doing EVERYTHING in their power to obstruct.
Republicans are doing EVERYTHING in their power to screw ordinary Americans. #NeverForget
June 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
https://bsky.app/profile/eeheli.bsky.social/post/3lss4fmqqmc24
Elizabeth Warren
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The Senate Republican budget policy:Tax breaks for billionaires are FREE!
But health care costs money, so CUT!
It’s magic math — and cruel hypocrisy.
https://bsky.app/profile/warren.senate.gov/post/3lsrimvkwe22o
Dana Houle
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This is potentially an effective message. Trump tends to distrust everyone & always worries someone is screwing him. It’s often easy to get him to change his approach if he thinks someone is screwing him. And he doesn’t have strong convictions except on immigration, tariffs, greed, & adulation
https://bsky.app/profile/danahoule.bsky.social/post/3lssadkwrp22j
egbaka.bsky.social
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Millions of people losing their healthcare to fund Trump’s billionaire tax cuts needs to be the Dem’s main campaign message in 2026.
June 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
https://bsky.app/profile/egbaka.bsky.social/post/3lssag46yq22z
Elizabeth Warren
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BREAKING: 1 in 4 nursing homes say they will be forced to close if Republicans pass Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill.No grandma should be kicked out of her nursing home so that Mark Zuckerberg can buy another Hawaiian island.
https://bsky.app/profile/warren.senate.gov/post/3lsp7sptjr222
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
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turning over the wildly unpopular destruction of medicaid to a guy who oversaw the largest instance of medicare fraud in united states history because you’re afraid of a leadership challenge is extremely on brand for what’s turning out to be a strikingly poor instinct for leadership from thune
https://bsky.app/profile/golikehellmachine.com/post/3lsrmlvlc7c2o
The Cruelty IS ALWAYS THE POINT
Hemry, Local Bartender
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The tax cuts just blow everything else out of the water, there’s no budgetary/trade-off reason to cut cancer research and food stamps, they just did that because they know we don’t want them to and they hate us
https://bsky.app/profile/bartenderhemry.bsky.social/post/3lsrxhbtkzs2n
Hemry, Local Bartender
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They don’t care that republicans still get cancer and other diseases and fall on hard times and have special-needs kids. This was the deal. “We will hurt the people you hate even if it hurts you” and half the country signed up in blood
June 29, 2025 at 7:49 PM
https://bsky.app/profile/bartenderhemry.bsky.social/post/3lsrxo5kzuk2n
Making America Gross Again: Big Fugly Bill Hits the Senate Floor
June 30, 2025/15 Comments/in Congress, Domestic Policy /by Rayne
[NB: check the byline, thanks. Updates will be added at the bottom of this post. /~Rayne]
Trump’s big ugly bill will be up for a vote in the Senate this morning.
It takes money from hungry children and gives it to the already rich as Marcy has previously said, and the Center for Budget Policy and Priorities has quantified.
EMTALA: Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act of 1986. They want to ditch 39-year-old legislation which assures Americans obtain
— a medical screening examination (MSE);
— are stabilized with an emergency medical condition;
— are transferred or accepted as a patient as appropriate and needed.
What are we left with if the GOP Senate knocks off EMTALA?
This Isn’t a Budget. It’s a Betrayal.
The “pro-life” party my ass.
JoJoFromJerz
Jun 30, 2025
There was a time in my life when I didn’t know how I was going to feed my kids.
I was a paraprofessional in a public school classroom, working with autistic preschoolers—tiny, luminous souls who hadn’t yet found their voices. I was there for their first words, their first real smiles, their first trembling moments of safety in a world that so often meets them with confusion or cruelty. That work wasn’t just a job—it was sacred. I gave it every ounce of patience, love, and hope I had.
But I was barely surviving. My paycheck was a cruel joke—nowhere near a living wage.
My friends became lifelines, quietly tucking bags of groceries into my back seat while I pretended not to notice, their kindness wrapped in dignity instead of pity. I sobbed on the phone with the oil company, my voice shaking as I begged for one more extension, promising I’d find a way, somehow. Every day was a gauntlet of impossible choices: groceries or hot water, gas for the car or dinner on the table. I stood in the checkout line, hands trembling, doing frantic math in my head, praying I wouldn’t have to put anything back, praying no one would see how close I was to breaking.
That kind of fear carves itself into you. It crawls into your bones and settles there, heavy and cold. It changes how you move through the world, how you breathe, how you hope. It humbles you in ways you can never quite explain—and it never, ever lets you forget.
And today, Republicans are sharpening their knives to carve tens of millions of Americans—mothers, children, grandparents, veterans—straight into the jaws of fear. Not just fear: bone-deep, marrow-chilling desperation. That silent, paralyzing terror you feel when you realize the safety net is gone and there’s nothing but concrete below.
Let’s not kid ourselves. This isn’t a budget vote. This is a vote on who gets to live and who gets to beg for mercy
And, the attack on EDUCATION.
Dr. G (@GinnyMcDonald8) posted at 10:27 AM on Sun, Jun 29, 2025:
People need to read the BBB plan. It cuts Pell Grants and subsidizes loans to students. It raises full time student from 12-15 hours. Many kids take 12 hours because the have to work. It allows no stopping of payments if you become unemployed. It forbids future POTUS’ fromforgiving students loans. It doenst allow loans to be discharged after 20 years of payments. You’ll be paying out of your SS check. This bill is designed to hurt liberals and the educated.
(https://x.com/GinnyMcDonald8/status/1939344904334762386?t=NZQjH8GRIMLP45p8RPQDxQ&s=03)
Katy McBride (@KatyForTX) posted at 5:24 PM on Sun, Jun 29, 2025:
Whatever anyone’s personal opinions are on student loans— there’s one thing for certain— we will be massively short of medical doctors with this bill. We are already short, & doctors spend their lives paying off their debt.This is a travesty.
(https://x.com/KatyForTX/status/1939449857913098363?t=ElZ55YKQKp4vjwe4CZkY7A&s=03)
Karen Salitis 🇺🇸♥️🤍💙🇺🇸 (@KarenSalitis) posted at 8:36 PM on Sun, Jun 29, 2025:
This is a CLASS WAR. They want us dumb, subservient and broke ass poor! Only the wealthy elites will have education. Nobody else will be able to afford it. They can’t afford it now. Paying off student loans is a ball and chain ⛓️ that affects our young into middle and old age,
(https://x.com/KarenSalitis/status/1939498288824127755?t=EtI-FYXl3ew5GgF_noXRoA&s=03)
Ron Filipkowski
@RonFilipkowski
Joe Neguse now wants to know why Mike Johnson continues to leave votes open indefinitely for hours every time they don’t have enough votes.
https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1940493339230617903
Esaias Guthrie’s Stylist
@DNjtrenton
No news outlets are talking about how these 2 black mayors have achieved record low homicides in their cities.
https://x.com/DNjtrenton/status/1940084580708504010
(((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) posted at 10:29 AM on Wed, Jul 02, 2025:
Re: Mamdani & Israel, Democrats are longer pro-Israeli when it comes to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
Dems sympathized more with Israelis by 13 pt in 2017. Now, it’s Palestinians by 43 pt.
Among Dems under 50, it was Israelis by 14 pt in 2017. Now, Palestinians by 57 pt. https://t.co/AfGop8UHTF
(https://x.com/ForecasterEnten/status/1940432541556818166?t=fNlQwICuVD0oOX6NjopAtQ&s=03)
Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney) posted at 2:58 PM on Wed, Jul 02, 2025:
JUST IN: Edward Kelley, a pardoned Jan. 6 defendant, gets life in prison for plotting to assassinate the FBI agents and police who investigated him.
He contended Trump’s pardon extended to these crimes as well but DOJ opposed and court denied.
https://t.co/ynEl4XASRl https://t.co/Z4kVT1VEd0
(https://x.com/kyledcheney/status/1940500344213328108?t=FFNG06KYJhpqOxuyLGsGhw&s=03)
Jazz the Professor (@Jazzieeiswhoiam) posted at 2:09 PM on Wed, Jul 02, 2025:
#OTD Jul 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act. It outlawed discrimination in public accommodations such as restaurants and hotels, and in federally funded programs. The Civil Rights Act of 1957 was also a landmark piece of legislation in the U.S., primarily focused on protecting voting rights for African Americans. It was the 1st major civil rights legislation since Reconstruction. The passage of these Acts, however, did not come without vigorous opposition. In 1957, whites in Albany, GA, were interviewed and asked what they thought of the Civil Rights Act.
Here are their responses…
#History #KnowYourHistory
https://t.co/j5rvO5zjex
(https://x.com/Jazzieeiswhoiam/status/1940488104915111975?t=Kc46rrfOd0EZTjIB7YG4bQ&s=03)
Chris D. Jackson
@ChrisDJackson
We told folks during the election that the corporate media was intentionally sandbagging Biden to boost Trump—for clicks, chaos, and profit.
Now the receipts are rolling in. They knew exactly what they were doing.
This wasn’t journalism. It was total capitulation. And democracy is paying the price.
https://x.com/ChrisDJackson/status/1940425071559889300
Paramount just paid Trump a bribe for merger approval. When Democrats retake power, I’ll be first in line calling for federal charges. In the meantime, state prosecutors should make the corporate execs who sold out our democracy answer in court, today.
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— Senator Ron Wyden (@wyden.senate.gov) Jul 2, 2025 at 9:50 AM
As a Black American woman…I have no sympathy.
They clung to the search for White Adjacency, and thought that the Orange Menace
‘ didn’t mean them’.
when he spoke of mass deportations.
Anyone with any sense knew…
that, in the country who incarcerates more people than anyone else on the planet…
that, if MILLIONS OF ACTUAL CRIMINALS EXISTED…THEY WOULD BE SWOOPED UP BY OUR CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.
It was obvious to me, because I am well-versed in American Caucansese..
That Undocumented = CRIMINAL
PERIOD
Everybody Black that I knew understood that.
WE were baffled that the Latino community didn’t grasp that.
………………………………………….
Trump was winning with Latinos. Now, his cruelty is derailing him
“All Trump had to do was stick to his campaign promises and target the millions of immigrants who came in illegally during the Biden years. Pick off newcomers in areas of the country where Latinos remain a sizable minority and don’t have a tradition of organizing. Dare Democrats and immigrant rights activists to defend the child molesters, drug dealers and murderers Trump vowed to prioritize in his roundups. Conduct raids like a slow boil through 2026, to build on the record-breaking number of Latino GOP legislators in California and beyond.”
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-07-02/trump-latinos-2024-ice-raids?sfmc_id=6532a07225b3640666b2488a&utm_id=40525252&skey_id=646fd548a5815b1a717cd3d527122ec310d6decf8933e3f60a4b8277b373ba31&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLTR-Email-List-Essential%20California-20250702&utm_term=Newsletter%20-%20Essential%20California
Raskin [a few minutes ago]: “I found the preamble to this big ugly bill. ‘We the billionaires and our king, in order to deform and sicken our union, establish injustice, ensure domestic servility, weaken our people’s defenses, undermine the general welfare, and have staggering debt servitude for eternity … ‘”
Jen Rubin
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Says the awful senator who didn’t need to inflict pain on millions of Americans. At least have the decency to resign. Hoping the House undoes your own vote is the most pathetic, demented defense I have ever heard http://www.axios.com/2025/07/01/l...
https://bsky.app/profile/jenrubin.bsky.social/post/3lswmve3a6c2t
🌊 ᑎIGᕼTᗯᖇITEᖇ 🌊
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So Murkowski sold her vote for a tax break for whalers who buy harpoons? If you or I traded votes for bribes, we’d be in prison. It would seem that the same laws should apply to senators.
📰 Democrat calls Murkowski ‘cheap date’ over whaling tax carve-out
thehill.com/homenews/hou…
Schnorkles O’Bork
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As
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just posted- the key quote is the next one, which is “If I vote against it, OBBB is just gone. And there are tax implications for the people of my state.”
Murkowski is passing the buck, yeah, but ultimately she made a choice that extending the TCJA is more important
https://bsky.app/profile/schnorkles.bsky.social/post/3lsw5eoqhsk2o
The Bulwark
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“Murkowski promised to make sure that ‘Alaskans and *people around the country* are not impacted in a negative way’ (emphasis ours). That didn’t last.” http://www.thebulwark.com/p/senate-gop...
https://bsky.app/profile/thebulwark.com/post/3lswz73bema2h
jen 🌻
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski stares Ryan down for more than 10 secs after he asks her to respond to Sen. Rand Paul’s critique of the deal she struck to get her to a YES and pass the OBBB.
“Do I like this bill? No. But I tried to take care of Alaska’s interests.”
https://bsky.app/profile/bunnibytz.bsky.social/post/3lswjlobs6226
James Martin, SJ
@JamesMartinSJ
Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country. And remember, 93% have no record of any violent crimes. This facility, then, is comparable to the internment camps for Japanese Americans during the Second World War. But let’s call it what it is: a concentration camp. Jesus wept.
https://x.com/JamesMartinSJ/status/1940220803255034321
once again for the bleachers…
HE INHERITED THE BEST ECONOMY IN THE WORLD FROM JOE BIDEN
MeidasTouch
@MeidasTouch
JOBS PLUMMET: The U.S. private sector lost 33,000 jobs in June, badly missing expectations for a 100,000 increase, payrolls processing firm ADP says.
8:48 AM · Jul 2, 2025
Ben Meiselas 🎤
@meiselasb
What murkowski doesn’t realize is that while she got some kickbacks for Alaska, she still is harming WA State. Interestingly Alaska does not have a level 1 trauma center in their state (neither does Idaho). They all rely on access to Harborview Medical Center ( a state/public hospital) for level 1 (high acuity) services. She is essentially screwing the state that her state needs to access vital care
4:27 PM · Jul 1, 2025
Happy Bobby Bonilla Day🤗🤗🤗
Ashton Nicks (@Ashton_Nicks) posted at 9:52 AM on Tue, Jul 01, 2025:
Eventually we’ll be talking about Shohei Ohtani as the craziest contract ever after he retires but until then, this is still ridiculous. Bobby Bonilla will still get paid every July in deferred payments until 2035. His last game was in 1999.
#mlb #bobbybonilladay https://t.co/LQbv6FGU5s
(https://x.com/Ashton_Nicks/status/1940060868949287342?s=02)
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) posted at 11:25 AM on Tue, Jul 01, 2025:
Selfish. Cruel. Expensive.
Voting for the bill because you got a special hospital fund just for your state is open acknowledgement that folks will get kicked off healthcare & will have to go to expensive emergency rooms. Also clear you know it’s a terrible bill for everyone.
(https://x.com/RepJayapal/status/1940084295789433002?t=wd-uE_bLBeE5iy35dnXtaQ&s=03)
Chris Murphy 🟧 (@ChrisMurphyCT) posted at 11:04 AM on Tue, Jul 01, 2025:
Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.
One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.
They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.
(https://x.com/ChrisMurphyCT/status/1940079181372563966?t=vTnMsU-Q7mQOVHG-Kk0Pag&s=03)
Andy Specht (@AndySpecht) posted at 10:45 AM on Tue, Jul 01, 2025:
NEW @NRSC letter to GOP donors:
With Tillis out, the group is “more confident than ever” Republicans can keep North Carolina’s Senate seat.
Internal polls showed Tillis trailing Democrats by 9-13 percentage points, source says. https://t.co/SM1WvlEtZK
(https://x.com/AndySpecht/status/1940074211453678046?t=nauA0ETIBOwN8BNg2vDlOw&s=03)
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) posted at 11:32 AM on Tue, Jul 01, 2025:
Trump calls for deporting US citizens: “We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time … many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too, if you want to know the truth. So maybe that’ll be the next job.” https://t.co/zQDOlqjB3u
(https://x.com/atrupar/status/1940086036643697161?t=wc5tIRgUzFuk5aYb796zIA&s=03)
waltb31 (docb2020 on Threads) waltb31.bsky.social (@waltb31) posted at 5:28 AM on Tue, Jul 01, 2025:
Big agricultural farms in Mississippi are using slaves from prisons to work on egg and chicken farms. Slaves. In America 2025. Now you understand why so many private detention centers are being built for immigrants. Slave Labor #AbolishSlavery #Nuremberg2028 https://t.co/eHXJb7VCBP
(https://x.com/waltb31/status/1939994604335460406?t=7Kg41cYBIHhhhK5gDqsm1g&s=03)
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