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Shy'tyra Burton is 22 years old. She lives in Philadelphia with her dad, a city sanitation worker. Her IQ tests below seventy. After years of medical evaluations and a hearing in front of a federal judge, she qualifies for SSI — $994/month. Now Trump's people are writing a rule that would take up to $330 of that every single month, by assessing the dollar value of her bedroom and deducting it from her benefit. This is the second attempt. The first one was killed when ProPublica exposed it. Same people — Russell Vought at OMB and Frank Bisignano at SSA — are back with a new version, buried deeper in the regulatory process. Up to 400,000 disabled Americans could lose benefits. Forty Down syndrome organizations have already sent a letter opposing it. The National Association of Evangelicals — not a liberal group — has come out against it. When you've lost the evangelicals on a disability cut, you've lost the room. The man writing this rule had to Google what the Social Security Commissioner does when Trump offered him the job. A Republican congressman called his testimony "embarrassing for my side." Now he's deciding whether Shy'tyra keeps her check. The rule is in OMB review. A public comment window is coming. That's how it was stopped last time.

Our current economy is rigged. It just is. A new report shows that 88 of the largest companies in America, including: Amazon Citigroup Haliburton Kohl's Palantir PayPal PG&E Southwest Airlines Tesla United Airlines Disney paid ZERO corporate income tax last year.

Get rid of this whole corrupt administration! This is not the America that you were raised in this modern day Russia North Korea!

Health insurance is not healthcare. It’s a wasteful and unnecessary bureaucracy that sits between you and your doctors and hospitals, designed to exploit the working class and transfer their wealth upwards. Demand Medicare for All.

Never forget that Ronald Reagan tripled the national debt from $738 billion to $2.1 trillion, dropped the income tax rate on the top 1% from 70% to 28%, sold 500 missiles to Iran, let 90,000 Americans die of AIDS, and set into motion the end of mental institutions, creating a massive homelessness crisis that continues to this day. And he’s not even close to the worst president we’ve ever had.

A 12-year-old can't sign a lease, buy a phone, or get a tattoo. But she can be forced to give birth? Meanwhile, the 30-year-old who got her pregnant walks free. This isn't pro-life. It's pro-predator.

@desolate_defend “Everyone” is explicitly universal. Don’t pretend that you didn’t say what you said. 🙄

@boo2you2 I do not believe I ever used the word universally. Don’t add to the context. But he was certainly admired by a lot of people, including celebrities, who now claim to hate him.

Nobody hates Trump because he is a Republican. People hate Trump because he is a horrible person doing horrible things and harming everyone in the process. Being Republican doesn’t enter into it.

@desolate_defend God, you drank a lot of the koolaid. No, he was not universally loved in the USA before he ran for president. Stop taking crazy pills.

@BeingJWood Then explain why he wasn’t “such a horrible person” BEFORE he ran for president? Everyone loved him then. At least the talk show people did.

@neoagrarian You think the first amendment guarantees A SPECIAL TAX exemption for pro confederate groups that aren’t nonprofits??? When people call you racist, don’t you dare deny it.

Fuck your ballroom!

The Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank. It just published a 30-year study showing immigrants paid 14.5 trillion dollars more in taxes than they received in government benefits. Every single year. For thirty years. Without exception. The country was lied to. Here is what the study found.🧵

Quote of the day 👇

JD Vance just called Iran’s Strait of Hormuz tolls “economic terrorism against the entire world.” Then said: “Two can play at that game.” Read that again. The Vice President of the United States just described America’s own blockade as playing the same game as economic terrorism. He said it out loud. On camera.

Project 2025 wants to privatize the USPS so they can control it during elections. They are DONE with democracy.