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Mon, 02/06/2025 - 22:00

“Republican Sen. Joni Ernst faced a number of agitated constituents at a town hall on Friday who expressed concerns that the Republicans’ cuts to Medicaid under their major legislative effort to advance President Donald Trump’s agenda would cause people to die. Her response: ‘Well, we all are going to die.’”
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All flesh is but wheat chaff scattered by the breeze. And wheat chaff, as your claims specialist will inform you, is not covered under your mini-med limited-benefits plan.

You are an insulin drop trembling on the tip of an out-of-network EpiPen. Glimmering. Pure. Bankrupting.

Medicaid expansion is clinging, and clinging is the enemy of inner peace. The truly enlightened refuse coverage, choosing to drift from urgent care to urgent care like cherry blossoms on the wind. Like their pulse, thoughts of single-payer systems soon fade.

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Mon, 02/06/2025 - 17:00
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Mon, 02/06/2025 - 14:39

It’s striking how quickly certain segments of the Labour Party have been seduced by a right-wing, deregulatory approach to housing policy. Much of this, I’m sure, stems from a genuine desperation to tackle the housing crisis left by the Conservatives. We’ve inherited sky-high waiting lists, and homeownership is a distant dream for millions. But the […]

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Mon, 02/06/2025 - 10:00

We’re pleased to announce that the publication of Tribune will continue under the stewardship of Mohamed Ali Harrath, Chairman of E Media Group (parent company of Islam Channel) and veteran of the UK media scene.  The owner, Tribune Media Group, is supported by an editorial advisory board composed of longstanding socialists and trade unionists, including […]

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Mon, 02/06/2025 - 07:45

Believe it or not, I had a transcendent experience at this year’s Border Security Expo, the annual event that brings Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) together with private industry. I hesitate to describe it that way, though, because I was on the exhibition hall floor and instantly found myself in the very heart of the U.S. border-industrial complex. It was early April and I was surrounded by the latest surveillance equipment — camera systems, drones, robodogs — from about 225 companies (a record number for such an event) displaying their wares at that Phoenix Convention Center. Many of the people there seemed all too excited that Donald Trump was once again president. You might... Read more

Source: Upside-Down World appeared first on TomDispatch.com.

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Sun, 01/06/2025 - 13:00

Momentum is growing behind a campaign for Justice for Kumanjayi White, a 24-year-old Warlpiri man from Yuendumu killed by police in the Coles supermarket in Mparntwe-Alice Springs on Tuesday.

The post Demands for justice after another Aboriginal death at police hands in Alice Springs first appeared on Solidarity Online.