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"The legislation Senate Republicans passed on Tuesday is probably going to kill a lot of people.

It sounds stark when you put it that way, but death is a stark thing. It’s also what can be reasonably expected from the GOP legislation, especially the cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act projected to leave nearly 12 million Americans newly uninsured."

~ Jonathan Cohn

#Trump#Republicans#BigBeautifulBill#EconomicElites#TaxCuts #oligarchy #immigrants
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https://www.thebulwark.com/p/an-ignominious-bill-passed-by-an-inglorious-body-afflict-afflicted-comfort-comfortable-trump-republicans-medicaid-bbb

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"Last week's horrific Supreme Court decisions further undermine our rights and the rule of law, and the attacks on immigrants and refugees continue to get more brutal, while a new attack on birthright citizenship and naturalized citizens is underway."

~ Rebecca Solnit

#Trump#Republicans#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts#BigBeautifulBill#EconomicElites#TaxCuts #oligarchy #immigrants #prisons #deportations
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https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/cynicism-is-the-enemy-of-action/

"Last week's horrific Supreme Court decisions further undermine our rights and the rule of law, and the attacks on immigrants and refugees continue to get more brutal, while a new attack on birthright citizenship and naturalized citizens is underway."

~ Rebecca Solnit

#Trump#Republicans#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts#BigBeautifulBill#EconomicElites#TaxCuts #oligarchy #immigrants #prisons #deportations
/11

https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/cynicism-is-the-enemy-of-action/

"If we do nothing, we will live in an authoritarian country, where the checks and balances guaranteed by the Constitution and the rights encoded in the Bill of Rights will become irrelevancies."

#Trump#Republicans#SupremeCourt#JohnRoberts#BigBeautifulBill#EconomicElites#TaxCuts #oligarchy #immigrants #prisons #deportations
/12

"Having sold out hungry children in Louisiana, sick children in Oklahoma, and elderly nursing-home patients and their families in Vermont, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Colorado, Oregon, and 45 other states, Murkowski now is looking for someone—anyone—to bail her out. Make Lisa Murkowski remember this as the worst day of her career."

~ Charles Pierce

#Trump#Republicans#BigBeautifulBill#EconomicElites#TaxCuts #oligarchy #immigrants #prisons #deportations#Murkowski
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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a65269543/republican-big-beautiful-bill-passes-senate/

"The Republican Congress has signaled they will do whatever it takes to support the largest population expulsion in history."

~ Adam Gurri

Who needs healthcare or adequate food when there's the fun and thrill of seeing immigrants seized by masked goons, locked in cages in Florida swamps, then flown to hellhole countries?

#Trump#Republicans#BigBeautifulBill#EconomicElites#TaxCuts #oligarchy #immigrants #prisons #deportations
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https://www.liberalcurrents.com/mass-deportation-is-happening/

"What JD Vance is really doing here is telling MAGA voters who are set to lose health coverage due to Medicaid cuts not to think too much about that eventuality. It'll all be worth it once they get to see lots more migrants detained and frog-marched on to deportation planes."

~ Greg Sargent quoted by Greg Dworkin

#Trump#Republicans#BigBeautifulBill#EconomicElites#TaxCuts #oligarchy #immigrants #prisons #deportations
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/2/2331247/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Roundup-A-final-in-NYC-a-disaster-from-the-Congressional-GOP

"The bottom line: The bill is cruel. ...

Republicans are solely responsible for the cruelest, most destructive, and most inhumane bill in decades."

~ Jennifer Rubin

#Trump#Republicans#BigBeautifulBill#EconomicElites#TaxCuts #oligarchy #immigrants #prisons #deportations
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https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-bottom-line-the-bill-is-cruel