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"Patients and medical centers are already feeling the pain as several provisions in the GOP’s deadly spending law take immediate effect, either as required or in practice. ...

Hospitals are closing or actively considering doing so, cutting programs, and laying off staff."

~ Whitney Curry Wimbish

#Trump#BigBeautifulBill #hospitals#Medicaid#EconomicElites#TaxCuts
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People voted for this to be done to themselves and their loved ones.

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"Planned Parenthood is warning patients it can no longer accept Medicaid insurance & in one region says it can’t provide services to Medicaid recipients at all, even if the patient doesn’t use Medicaid to pay. And lawmakers in at least five states are planning special sessions to revamp their already-enacted budgets & determine how to handle the cuts, including what cuts they should enact and how to administer the new Medicaid work requirement."

#Trump#BigBeautifulBill #hospitals#Medicaid
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Shauna GM
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Found elsewhere
Take note, America

#BigBeautifulBill#Alert#USPol

"A private police force with the power to conduct raids, surveillance, arrests, and disappearances—all without military oversight or congressional restraint.

With $170 billion behind it, ICE can now be deployed not just against immigrants but against anyone who threatens the regime’s ideological, economic, or political grip."

~ Jemar Tisby

#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE#BigBeautifulBill#PoliceForce
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https://jemartisby.substack.com/p/trumps-personal-arm

"Anyone could be a target for harassment, imprisonment, or disappearing.

ICE is the president’s personal army to carry out his authoritarian will."

#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE#BigBeautifulBill#PoliceForce
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"Trump has called the idea 'owner responsibility.'

'[T]hey’re going to be largely responsible for these people,' Trump said. This echoes the system legislators set up in the U.S. South during Reconstruction thanks to the fact the Thirteenth Amendment permits enslavement 'as punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.'”

#Trump#StephenMiller #immigrants#ICE#ConcentrationCamps#SlaveLabor
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"A private police force with the power to conduct raids, surveillance, arrests, and disappearances—all without military oversight or congressional restraint.

With $170 billion behind it, ICE can now be deployed not just against immigrants but against anyone who threatens the regime’s ideological, economic, or political grip."

~ Jemar Tisby

#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE#BigBeautifulBill#PoliceForce
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https://jemartisby.substack.com/p/trumps-personal-arm

Ben Ramsey
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Yahoo's main page right now is featuring a splashy headline (below) which says that we seniors who got Social Security's illegal email yesterday praising Trump's big, beautiful bill may have been "confused" by that email.

I beg to differ. I was not confused.

I was outraged, because the email was full of lies.

Also, as the article attached to Yahoo's headline, by Ben Adler in USA Today, says,

#Trump#BigBeautifulBill #SocialSecurity
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This is NOT what the Social Security Administration is set up to do, and all Americans should be concerned about this overt politicization of an essential government agency.

#Trump#BigBeautifulBill #SocialSecurity
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"'[For Social Security to send out an overtly political email like this is] completely unprecedented,' said Alex Lawson, executive director of Social Security Works, a left-leaning advocacy organization focused on retirement benefits. 'It's an enormous breach of trust.'"

#Trump#BigBeautifulBill #SocialSecurity
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/04/social-security-administration-big-beautiful-bill-email/84470278007/

Lawson contends that the email praising Trump's 'Big, Beautiful Bill' violates the Hatch Act, a law against partisan political activity by federal government employees."

And that's why I call the email illegal.

I unsubscribed from all emails from Social Security after I got this politicized pack of lies in my inbox.

#Trump#BigBeautifulBill #SocialSecurity
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Yahoo's main page right now is featuring a splashy headline (below) which says that we seniors who got Social Security's illegal email yesterday praising Trump's big, beautiful bill may have been "confused" by that email.

I beg to differ. I was not confused.

I was outraged, because the email was full of lies.

Also, as the article attached to Yahoo's headline, by Ben Adler in USA Today, says,

#Trump#BigBeautifulBill #SocialSecurity
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"'[For Social Security to send out an overtly political email like this is] completely unprecedented,' said Alex Lawson, executive director of Social Security Works, a left-leaning advocacy organization focused on retirement benefits. 'It's an enormous breach of trust.'"

#Trump#BigBeautifulBill #SocialSecurity
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/07/04/social-security-administration-big-beautiful-bill-email/84470278007/

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"The utterly evil bill that just squeaked through in Congress, among other harms, aims to make many immigrants' lives go from difficult to terrifying nightmare. ...

Many people are simply disappearing, their friends, family, employers, coworkers simply unable to find out where they've been taken."

~ Rebecca Solnit

#Trump#BigBeautifulBill#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps
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https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/immigrants-a-love-letter/?ref=meditations-in-an-emergency-newsletter

"There's a racist/white supremacist fantasy that only a certain kind of white and descended from Europeans who got here in the seventeenth-to-early-twentieth centuries is a real American – a descendant of immigrants, but the right kind at the right time (until recently, Protestant was part of the criterion; Jews and Catholics were outsiders to these nativists)."

#Trump#BigBeautifulBill#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps
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"We need to defend immigrants but also value them and respect their contributions, and we need a we in which there is no them, a we that does not divide us, a we as big as this country."

#Trump#BigBeautifulBill#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps
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"There's a racist/white supremacist fantasy that only a certain kind of white and descended from Europeans who got here in the seventeenth-to-early-twentieth centuries is a real American – a descendant of immigrants, but the right kind at the right time (until recently, Protestant was part of the criterion; Jews and Catholics were outsiders to these nativists)."

#Trump#BigBeautifulBill#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps
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"The utterly evil bill that just squeaked through in Congress, among other harms, aims to make many immigrants' lives go from difficult to terrifying nightmare. ...

Many people are simply disappearing, their friends, family, employers, coworkers simply unable to find out where they've been taken."

~ Rebecca Solnit

#Trump#BigBeautifulBill#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps
/11

https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/immigrants-a-love-letter/?ref=meditations-in-an-emergency-newsletter

"It is a shocking, obscene, and endlessly cruel reign of terror already, and this budget bill intends to make it far worse. Which means all of us are called on to act in solidarity, to stand with immigrants, stand for their rights, and stand against ICE and this regime."

#Trump#BigBeautifulBill#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps
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