Then join up with others. There are Indivisible chapters and other groups organizing near you. Make yourselves the local health caucus to keep these issues front and center. 13/
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aug 28, 2025, 4:07 pm • 0 0 • view
And dog your members of Congress. I don't care if they are Republicans or Democrats. Show up at their offices every week. Bang on about CDC, NIH, FDA, CMS (and learn about these agencies, what they do, how they function in normal times). 14/
aug 28, 2025, 10:22 am • 607 118 • view
No one is acting as if this in an emergency, except those of us who work in these fields. But we see the tsunami approaching--a wave of sickness and death that will wash over us all in growing numbers down the months, down the years. 15/
aug 28, 2025, 10:24 am • 697 149 • view
Please raise the alarm with HCW as well. I've been telling every doc I'm cramming visits in because I could lose coverage soon. Very few groked it. If docs don't even get it, it's hard to get the public to. Many docs seem to think they're above it & it's all hyperbole. +they vote their tax bracket
aug 28, 2025, 11:14 am • 0 1 • view
I fear that we will never see the cause-and-effect of this. We came out of the pandemic with over a million deaths, and hundreds of thousands who died as a result of vaccine ignorance. And how did we respond? We are restricting vaccines. Investigating the doctors.
aug 28, 2025, 12:52 pm • 1 1 • view
You or someone you love will feel the pain soon enough. Whether it's your kid catching measles in school, you ending up in the hospital from COVID, having to make household choices between the skyrocketing ACA premiums & other necessities. All of this is coming to your town, your city. 16/
aug 28, 2025, 10:31 am • 651 119 • view
It is not fun losing a family member to Covid. You leave this world lacking oxygen!
aug 29, 2025, 2:06 am • 0 0 • view
Don't wait. Take action today. end/
aug 28, 2025, 10:32 am • 529 57 • view
In CA I think we are going to have our own system.
aug 28, 2025, 10:59 am • 9 1 • view
Transmittable diseases are borderless. So even tho having a separate system is some help, it won't contain or prevent the national or global plague.
aug 28, 2025, 11:10 am • 1 0 • view
When I went to college, they barred potential students from attending until they got vaccines. States can do the same.
aug 28, 2025, 11:22 am • 0 1 • view
Even a large and rich state like California can't set up an equivalent to the federal health insurance and public health systems unless they somehow withhold residents' federal taxes from going to the federal government.
aug 28, 2025, 11:02 am • 21 3 • view
It wont be equivalent, but it still will be good. We have top research universities here. I think this is where we are going. cmarmitage.substack.com/p/its-time-f...
aug 28, 2025, 11:05 am • 23 6 • view
We have Americans living in deep poverty in red states whose votes are being gerrymandered away and right to vote suppressed whose enslaved ancestors also built this country. We built a strong federal government in part because of that shameful history, and we cannot leave them behind now.
aug 28, 2025, 11:15 am • 2 0 • view
The DC Dems didnt step up and fight when they had a chance to fight. RBG gave fascists her seat because she didn't resign. They didn't contest the 2000 election. They let activist participating in that, become SCOTUS justices. I could go on and on. They didnt fight; they let this happen.
aug 28, 2025, 11:30 am • 1 0 • view
I agree. That doesn't mean giving up the federal government's power to improve the lives of all Americans is the best outcome for the country.
aug 28, 2025, 11:34 am • 1 0 • view
I lived in WV, FL, and recently TX before moving to CA. I know how radically different those governments are compared to CA. But at a certain point, people have to move to where they are protected, like I did. I have Covered California as my health plan- far superior than private sector insurance.
aug 28, 2025, 11:26 am • 0 0 • view
Wow.
aug 28, 2025, 12:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Thank you. Many of us have been fighting for years to make our states better. No one deserves what is coming.
aug 28, 2025, 12:53 pm • 1 0 • view
I fought in FL and TX, but then the Dems fumbled it all away. FL wasnt MAGA before.
aug 28, 2025, 12:57 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 28, 2025, 2:33 pm • 0 0 • view
Thanks for posting this, it’s one of the most important things I’ve read since January.
aug 28, 2025, 11:09 am • 11 0 • view
It give me hope. Because I have lost faith in Jeffries and Schumer to protect us from all of this.; I moved to CA from TX. The governments are visibly completely different. CA sent out its own COVID checks to residents separate from the federal government.
aug 28, 2025, 11:23 am • 9 0 • view
Congrats on the smart move! Yeah this is looking like it’s all gonna come down to the state level.
aug 28, 2025, 11:31 am • 3 0 • view
This blog post gives some constructive ideas about how states can withhold money from feds. Idk if practical, but it is a less damaging form of asserting states' rights than more permanent structures because it lets states play tit for tat. substack.com/home/post/p-...
aug 28, 2025, 11:28 am • 3 1 • view
Besides these ICE fucks, I cant tell the difference between Los Angeles under Biden and LA under Dump. When I live in TX and FL, it was the opposite; no matter who was President, you felt oppressed.
aug 28, 2025, 11:32 am • 0 0 • view
The per capita cost of the UK NHS is about 1/3 that of the US 'system'. Going to a state run system and excluding the profiteering insurance companies will cut the costs to everyone.
aug 28, 2025, 11:55 am • 1 1 • view
I am on Covered California. My doctors visits are $8. My meds are $3. I see the top specialists in the country. My parking cost more than my care. I had a medical scare recently. ER+ 3 day hospital stay at Providence Santa Monica- $850. Its better than private sector insurance though work.
aug 28, 2025, 11:58 am • 1 0 • view
Covered California is the ACA marketplace for California. The tax credits are due to expire so premiums will increase, but the majority of even Republicans favor extending them. www.kff.org/affordable-c...
aug 28, 2025, 4:17 pm • 0 0 • view
You probably know this, but the heath insurance rates via Covered California are federally subsidized. I don't know how much that involves or whether that's at immediate risk of going away. Also, part of CC is Medi-Cal, which is California's Medicaid program.
aug 28, 2025, 1:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Im hearing they won't. Cal Care is different than Covered California.
aug 28, 2025, 1:44 pm • 0 0 • view
If we’re no longer acting as a donor state, exporting our tax money to fund the federal govt and to prop up the red states ($80b a year) we can make it work in California. 4th largest economy in the world, and largest subnational economy in the world.
aug 28, 2025, 3:39 pm • 2 0 • view
Thats what Im seing. We have almost $80B in reserves. We can increase taxes on top earners if we need more $$.
aug 28, 2025, 4:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Yep.
aug 28, 2025, 7:18 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh how I miss living in Cali.
aug 29, 2025, 2:22 am • 1 0 • view
Make a YouTube video, go on Meidas Touch, call Joe Rogan, and get on his podcast... Mainstream media is no longer the answer to get your message across to the masses.
aug 28, 2025, 2:44 pm • 1 0 • view
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aug 28, 2025, 4:07 pm • 3 0 • view
@unroll.skywriter.blue unroll
aug 28, 2025, 12:48 pm • 0 0 • view
As a cancer survivor and patient still on cancer meds, all of the above is frightening. Throw in good doctors leaving because they fear ICE, can no longer do their jobs due to Kennedy Jr. and his policies of death, hospitals closing, and a shortage of nurses, our healthcare system is collapsing.
aug 28, 2025, 11:37 am • 147 9 • view
Which was precisely their end goal.
aug 28, 2025, 5:11 pm • 1 0 • view
Yes, I’m disabled and caretake my husband who has an aggressive stage 4 cancer. We’re both on Medicare & Medicaid, have debts w adjustable rates, it freaking terrifying to see health collapse on all these levels.
aug 28, 2025, 12:59 pm • 72 3 • view
So sorry you are dealing with all this. It seems the goal of this administration is to kill as many of us as possible. With cuts to Medicare and Medicaid coming, insurance costs going up, and hospitals charging facility fees, I don't know how many will survive without losing everything💔
aug 28, 2025, 1:05 pm • 42 4 • view
Horrible. Older Americans out and the conscious effort for newborns.
aug 28, 2025, 1:33 pm • 19 3 • view
But they don’t even care about newborns, or at least their survival rate.
aug 29, 2025, 4:07 am • 7 1 • view
Nope. Once that baby is out of the womb, it is on it's own.
aug 29, 2025, 11:16 am • 5 0 • view
Well, Gregg Gonsalves, I have feared this day but hoped that those (like you) with the expertise would start shouting from the rooftops, so that those at risk will pay attention and take steps to survive the coming contagion. Thank you.
aug 28, 2025, 3:34 pm • 4 0 • view
@unroll.skywriter.blue unroll please
aug 28, 2025, 11:13 am • 0 0 • view
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aug 28, 2025, 11:14 am • 1 2 • view
And yet trump’s approval is close to 40%. Tells you how messed up things really are.
aug 28, 2025, 12:51 pm • 1 0 • view
It is appalling, the propaganda is very strong. But even at that [averaged] 40%, he's underwater and trending down. Here's the rcp chart on his whole political career, from 2015 to one week ago:
aug 28, 2025, 1:31 pm • 1 0 • view
How is he even that high?? Makes me sad for humanity. 😢
aug 29, 2025, 2:26 am • 0 0 • view
Propaganda. The most advanced and pervasive in human history.
aug 29, 2025, 2:39 am • 0 0 • view
"we're faced with psychopaths at the helm of our nation's public health, scientific and healthcare efforts. They want to inflict pain and suffering. It's a goal, not a by-product " @unroll.skywriter.blue Unroll please
aug 30, 2025, 12:18 am • 0 0 • view
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aug 30, 2025, 12:19 am • 0 0 • view
There was another school shooting in Minnesota attacking small children….WHY what Robert Kennedy jr, is doing to our Vaccine’s for children to keep them safe & healthy, be a form of mass killings, of children. Fire Robert Kennedy Jr. what a disappointment he is to the Kennedy Family..for shame!
aug 28, 2025, 7:31 pm • 0 0 • view
As long as stonks go up most will not care about anything We are a selfish, violent, deeply ignorant and extremely hypocritical society
aug 28, 2025, 2:21 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 28, 2025, 12:18 pm • 1 1 • view
@unroll.skywriter.blue Unroll
aug 28, 2025, 2:23 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 28, 2025, 2:23 pm • 1 1 • view
I have absolutely noticed the Republican plan seems to be for the old poor & sick to get underground AS FAST AS WE CAN for the rich as they were the ones who bought this country & did NOT want to share w/the icky of us in society. DEF some robust financial benefits w/those early returns to the earth
aug 28, 2025, 12:49 pm • 0 1 • view
I recently learned about the consequences of #Lysenkoism: www.storybehindthescience.org/lysenkoism
aug 28, 2025, 12:46 pm • 0 0 • view
We just need 4 House Rs to stop the NIH cuts. Many are vulnerable and would damage their districts' economies with the cuts. tpasinet.github.io/nih-budget-c...
aug 28, 2025, 12:01 pm • 5 2 • view
We need to target the Republicans who are leaving: Ernst, Tillis, McConnell & others. They are more willing to take a stand.
aug 30, 2025, 8:54 pm • 1 0 • view
After the bipartisan Senate Appropriations Committee vote, I think we're good in the Senate. The House is less certain. That's where we need to apply pressure. Those seats are all in play...plus ME and AK.
aug 30, 2025, 9:01 pm • 2 0 • view
I love this idea.
aug 31, 2025, 3:52 am • 0 0 • view