Dr Sharon Krossa 🪷 (the real kind—PhD!)

For handy reference, this thread has links to good information & analysis relevant to the 2024 elections. (Please pardon me as I update it!)

Trump being incapable of reading a briefing should be grounds for invoking the 25th amendment, but instead the media made sure we all knew a lot about the schedule of every doctor who ever visited the white house, even when Biden wasn't there

Here is a video of you voting against TSA funding literally this week

That $3.5B number? Not real — it’s wrong, even the Trump Administration admitted that. And let’s be clear: Medicare is a FEDERALLY administered program. California has been cracking down on fraud for YEARS — revoking 280+ hospice licenses and BANNED new ones beginning in 2022. Good to see the feds finally catching up … fraud is disgusting, but let’s work together and stick to facts, not made-up numbers.

For months, families lived in fear, children were separated from parents, and two of our neighbors were killed by federal agents. I’m establishing a council to document the impact of Metro Surge and create a public record of the harm Minnesotans endured. We will not forget.

Trickle down? Remember that? That was the Heritage foundation’s first baby. The only thing that trickled down was footing the cost of billionaires on welfare. And they’ve practically bankrupted us.

“We can use what’s happening with these ICE [agents] helping out at the airports, we can use this as a test run, as a test case to really perfect ICE’s involvement in the 2026 midterm elections.” thehill.com/policy/transpo…

Meanwhile, every Trump family member and their cronies are getting richer and richer.

@Acyn This is the expectation. He and his be besting birther bride bitch sue people expecting them to pay up. They’re billionaires. And they shake people down for money.

NEW: “Pay attention to the fact that he [Trump] said he wants to nationalize elections. You look at what they've done with redistricting. You look at what's going to happen probably with Section 4 of the Voting Rights Act. And then you look at the SAVE Act.” ~ @KamalaHarris

@mcuban +…into Medicare before 65 while keeping (& improving) the rest of ACA.

@mcuban Single payer is not the only way to achieve UHC—it’s not even the most common way used by countries that have UHC We’re never going to get UHC in US if we insist it must be single payer. We have to get there from where we are now. Improve the bird in hand. Let people buy…+

Single payer COULD cut cost and improve care but there are 2 fundamental issues. 1. All plans proposed have placed the Sec of HHS in charge of the program. You can't have a political appointee in that position and it's hard to de-politiicize HC in this country 2. They assume that they can get providers and specialists to accept whatever rates they set. You are talking about organizations that in most cases, don't even know their costs. Why ? They don't want to know their costs. For lots of reasons to long to dig into here Proponents of M4A have to first get hospitals to the point where they can define all their costs and do a Bill of Materials for procedures. You can't negotiate a price for all Americans if you don't know what your costs are It's Shark Tank 101. So we get a stalemate. Politicians don't do the work needed. Hospitals and providers avoid the work needed Other countries started on their path to universal care decades and decades ago. When healthcare was much simpler technically and fiscally. If senators won't support the Break Up Big Medicine Bill or anything comparable , there is no chance of getting to single payer. Our politicians don't have the backbone to do what is needed. You can call out all but Hawley and warren. No one else has uttered a syllable in support

@Slate Democrats have flipped 29 or 30 seats from red to blue, @Slate Republicans have flipped ZERO While it's hard for newsrooms to resist leveraging clicky personalities to juice engagement, Piker has no relevant experience in public policymaking, governance, or winning elections

@Slate Democrats would be foolish to treat Hasan Piker as anything but a Republican weapon. Americans consistently tell each other and pollsters that they want bipartisanship, compromise & pragmatic middle-ground solutions not revolutionary bullshit cosplay

Democrats have flipped 30 Republican-held seats since 2024. Republicans have flipped zero. Democrats are overperforming by an average of ~18 pts in 2025 congressional elections. More than the 16 pt average in 2018. Piker is either delusional or lying or both. Why interview him?

@Wilson__Valdez Adding insult to injury—her private email was more secure than State Department’s at that time!!!

We really got rid of Roe b/c the media decided that 'email security' was the #1, 2 and 3 issue of the election. And then just completely lost even one iota of interest once Trump did 1000x worse (repeatedly).

@MateuszKaczysk9 @simonhancock_uk @dieworkwear Does a Polish loaf of bread cost twice as much as UK’s?

@skrossa @simonhancock_uk @dieworkwear The difference in storage time is 2 weeks (kielecki), 28 days (Helmans Poland).... and 3 months (Helmans US). This is what it looks like with most products BTW: Don't call what they sell in the UK bread...

"American" here is a shorthand for "car dependent country where people stock up on supplies like they're on the Oregon Trail instead of buying small portions because people live in walkable neighborhoods"

@MateuszKaczysk9 @simonhancock_uk @dieworkwear Doesn’t look like European (UK) mayonnaise spoils any faster than US mayonnaise, based on ingredient list Pretty much only thing I noticed significant difference in spoilage times was bread—spoiled much more quickly in UK—but also was much cheaper (at least 50% when I was in UK

@skrossa @simonhancock_uk @dieworkwear Faster spoilage of goods results in the greater popularity of smaller packaging. Do you really think that Poles, for example, would not want to buy larger packages if it were economically justified?

@MateuszKaczysk9 @spacarias @dieworkwear It’s funny we’re discussing Mayonaise, given how little difference there is between the US vs European (UK) ingredients list: focos-food.com/dual-quality-e…,)%2C%20flavourings%2C%20paprika%20extract. Some other products of course have more differences, but it is funny about mayonnaise

@skrossa @spacarias @dieworkwear Europe can afford "universal healthcare and sufficient social/financial security" precisely because it cares about regulation. If we allowed corporations to poison us to this level, we would go bankrupt.

@geyoungs @scarylawyerguy @neeratanden And those few were invented out of whole cloth by other people. (Unlike Trump—or Reagan, Nixon, Bush, etc—all the investigations into her supposed wrongdoing turned up bupkis)

@scarylawyerguy @neeratanden Trump's secret sauce is having so many scandals that no one can keep up. Hillary made the mistake of only having a few.

I honestly don't know how Hillary gets up every morning and doesn't want to punch a hole in the wall considering what Trump did is about 1000x worse than the email "scandal" reporters used to deny her the White House