“The bill will include even more funding for the military and more funding for Trump‘s border crackdown, while slashing crucial programs like Medicaid, Medicare, and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, and also repealing clean energy credits put in place by the Biden administration. Up to 15 million Americans will be uninsured by 2034 due to the bill‘s cuts, and 7.6 million will be at risk of losing Medicaid,(cont):
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"The rhetoric of protest unsupported by the means of enforcement amounted to little more than bombast."
#nonfiction #history #socialpsychology
Puzzle was on sale , I know this book will take awhile. I stubbed 2 toes this afternoon, not thrilled. Guess I will have to keep it up & read the rest of the afternoon.
...evidence of 150 riots in the 13 colonies from 1765 through 1769--and there were undoubtedly more he did not detect. During the early 1770s, according to Gilje, the rioting continued on a similar scale.
It was 250 years ago that our great experiment with democracy began. So, I read the first volume in Rick Atkinson's wonderful history of the Revolutionary War.
My local library was having a used book sale today. I stopped by to browse, and ended up buying a few books.
I've bought a good amount of books from library book sales over the years. I've felt they served multiple good functions - help support the local library, purchase some books at a good price, and help serve as a way of passing on books.
pickWelp… I‘m not surprised that the first congress was as chaotic as the 119th congress is.
Despite the chaos of the first, almost everyone there (& I fully believe this) was genuine in their concern about building a great country; while our 119th congress…
One thing that really struck me was how prevalent tensions between North & South already were, & how critically the North‘s assent to the South in this time has shaped history up to this day.
I just opened some book mail to discover this atrocity. 😭 I hope it comes off.
https://newrepublic.com/post/195606/house-pass-tax-bill-medicaid-cuts-republican...
(Also: calling the Republicans brave is quite the editorial stretch) 6d
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The attempted genocide of my American Indigenous ancestors, and the forced assimilation of the survivors, all done by people who claimed Catholic and Christianity as their “guiding“ faith. As a daughter of a Catholic God, I know my God. My God is pure love above all else. I refuse to believe my God wanted the bloodshed of my ancestors, nor the hatred fueled chaos of today. 6d
😘💝💝💝.
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