Saturday, August 8, 2026

Tag: American Health Care Act

Republican’s treacherous health care plan: betrayal of the American people

What kind of human beings would do this to their fellow human beings?

The Senate GOP health care bill is lethal for the poor...

The fight against the Senate’s deadly health care bill must also include the demand for a single-payer system.The fight against the Senate’s deadly health care bill must also include the demand for a single-payer system.

The moral travesty of Trumpcare

So what do we do now? We fight.

TrumpCare dies, XL flies and the secret winner is…

It is the bending of Trump by the hands of the poisonously greedy Brothers Koch that brings the fascist corporatist state one day closer.

Trumpcare was for CEOs, not patients

Buried in Paul Ryan's failed replacement for Obamacare was a huge handout to overpaid health insurance CEOs.

Koch brothers to bribe GOP politicians to vote ‘no’ on health...

It seems the Koch brothers and their network are getting even bolder when it comes to showing their influence in politics.

Repeal and replace: The true cost of repealing Obamacare

“Call it Obamacare, Trumpcare, just keep our health insurance.”

Protest to House Budget Committee: ‘Kill the Bill Before It Kills...

That campaign is continuing as the bill moves toward a final vote on the House floor that is expected on March 23.

‘America first’ budget is unworthy of our nation

“We are struggling to save the soul of America.”

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The west front of the U.S. Capitol. The Protected Time Off Act, pending in Congress, would guarantee full-time workers two weeks of paid annual leave. Photo: Architect of the Capitol (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

US workers average 10 paid vacation days a year, and 33 million get none

Twenty-five OECD countries require employers to provide at least 20 days. The US legal minimum is zero, and 57 percent of the lowest-paid tenth of workers get no vacation at all.
The entrance to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, where Elvis Brooks was imprisoned for 42 years. Photo: kccornell from Lafayette, LA / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

He’s Eligible for Up to $480,000 After Being Wrongly Imprisoned for 42 Years. The...

Elvis Brooks’ case was an egregious example of a wrongful conviction, civil rights attorneys said. But Louisiana’s attorney general maintains that Brooks and other exonerees are guilty — and therefore don’t qualify for any money from the state.
The E. Barrett Prettyman United States Courthouse in Washington, home of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, where Judge Amit Mehta issued the order. Photo: AgnosticPreachersKid (public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)

Judge dismisses the last January 6 case, writing that absolving the Oath Keepers is...

The Justice Department told the court a retrial would harass eight men whose sentences Trump had already commuted. Two Oath Keepers who pleaded guilty and cooperated keep their convictions.
A young Jeffrey pine on a slope in the eastern Sierra Nevada. Photo: Dcrjsr / CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A Gnarly Situation: High-Elevation Discovery Raises New Questions About Which California Trees Will Survive...

Birds may have been burying Jeffrey pine seeds up high for thousands of years. But now that they’re sprouting, this new species of subalpine tree may change the playing field.
The Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse in Manhattan, where the Epstein and Maxwell cases were heard. Photo: Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA / CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Welcome to Dawn’s Barbecue: the Epstein files in a time of war

A meditation, part essay and part poem, on what the files show about power, impunity and the ease with which the harm of innocents is absorbed.