Republicans consider cuts and work requirements for Medicaid, jeopardizing care for millions

Republicans consider cuts and work requirements for Medicaid, jeopardizing care for millions

Republicans are weighing billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid, threatening health care coverage for some of the 80 million U.S. adults and children enrolled in the safety net program.

I don't think it's even a matter of "could" If they start messing with social security, Medicare, Medicaid, snap of which a Yuge portion of MAGA is dependent upon, the pitchforks will come out. - Daniel Nichols

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

• NBC News Analyst Questions Whether Trump Voters Are Even 'American Anymore'
• CNN’s Scott Jennings Shrugs At Dem Analyst Asking If FAA Cuts Are OK ‘Even If Someone Dies?’
• Social Security Commissioner Reportedly Ousted After Denying Elon Musk Access to 'Sensitive Files'
• 'Congress Has Not Acted!' Bush's USAID Chief Warns Of 'Constitutional Crisis' And Musk Overstepping Executive Power
• Russia won't accept Nato troops in Ukraine, Lavrov says after talks with US
• Hamas says it will free 6 living hostages and hand over 4 bodies, accelerating Gaza releases

Once you realize that Trump and all the MAGA Republicans are working for Russia and Saudi Arabia, not America, everything they do makes sense. - Andrea Junker

Russia and the U.S. Ostracized Ukraine For A Reason. And That Reason Can't Be Good. 

In the first major negotiations for a ceasefire in Ukraine since Russia's invasion nearly three years ago, U.S. officials met with their Russian counterparts at a meeting in Saudi Arabia after refusing to include Ukraine or other European countries in the talks.

As the meeting wrapped on Tuesday, it was still unclear on what terms the bloody conflict could stop. And Ukraine and its European allies questioned whether a deal that would guarantee lasting security could be reached at all without the invaded country's input.

They don't want to teach history so they can repeat it. - Kelsey Hightower

Before talking about elections in Ukraine, the US should first demand free and fair elections in Russia. - Marko Mihkelson, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Estonian Parliament

Oh, Trump Says Musk Doesn't Work For DOGE. What Is Going On?
The White House is claiming Elon Musk does not run, or even work for, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) — a claim that seems to contradict numerous previous statements from President Donald Trump.

Republican Shenanigans

• Elon Musk Mocks ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ By Freaking Out Like He’s Been Shot With ‘Methamphetamine and Rabies’
• Trump Interior Secretary Gushes Over Boss Taking Laps Before Daytona 500: 'He's Actually Leading the World Right Now'
• Republican Congresswoman Introduces Bill To Make Trump’s Birthday a Federal Holiday
• ‘Mouth-Breathing Idiot’: White House Staffer Flames Matthew Yglesias Over Hegseth ‘Bourbon’ Myth
• 'An Assault on Free Speech': Fox's Turley Hits Back At Trump Border Czar Suggesting AOC Could Be Prosecuted
• Megyn Kelly Under Fire From Conservative Women Over 'Toxic' Message on 'Decision to Settle For Less'
• Bari Weiss Torches Tucker Carlson and the Far-Right for 'Erasing the Line Between Good and Evil'

When you control all three branches of government, AND 26 Republican governorships AND 28 Republican legislatures -

maybe it's time to stop blaming the "woke left" for all your problems. - Chris Rilling

I Watched This Exchange and Rep. Burchett Got As Slimy As Southerners Can Get.
CNN host Pamela Brown battled DOGE subcommittee member Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) in a fiery on-air showdown over the extent of Elon Musk’s influence on federal cuts and the extent of government oversight of him on Monday.

Trump is frustrated that he doesn’t have absolute power due to the checks and balances of the courts and Congress. It’s almost as if our government was designed to prevent a monarchy. - David Hogg

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Rock The Voter News

• NY Democrats demand RFK Jr. restore cuts to 9/11 survivor program
• Wisconsin’s Democratic governor calls for tax cuts, push back on Trump’s tariffs
• 'The Governor of New York Is a Dolt': Carville Blasts Kathy Hochul for Not Removing Eric Adams
• Leonard Peltier leaves prison after Biden commutation

I would rather give my social security number to an online scammer claiming to be a Nigerian prince than to Elon Musk. - Andy Borowitz

Government Shutdown Is Looming

Congress is struggling to strike a deal to keep the government funded as a looming deadline to prevent a shutdown next month gets closer.

Lawmakers are less than a month away from a mid-March date to pass legislation to prevent a funding lapse — or risk the first shutdown in years. 

Mike Johnson Strangely Silent About Musk Having More Children Than Jesus Had Disciples. - Andy Borowitz

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Business/Tech News

• CNN Analyst Whacks Trump For Job Cuts While Paying Secret Service 'To Ride Around The Racetrack'
• Pro-Trump Actor Begs Elon Musk Not To 'Leave Behind Good People' Losing Jobs In 'Necessary' DOGE Cuts
• 'Brazen Conflict of Interest': Trump Reportedly Held Oval Office Meeting to Forge Merger Involving Saudi Business Partner

To the DOGE team hacking the IRS computers: you won’t find any evidence of Tesla paying taxes. - Andy Borowitz

Presenting The Next Reality TV Show From Mar-a-Lago...

 President Donald Trump on Tuesday was set to sign new executive orders from his Florida home while his first joint TV interview with adviser Elon Musk airs in prime time.

Trump's Florida home will also be the setting for an awards program by a conservative group led by Mike Flynn, who briefly served as national security adviser in the Republican president's first term.

it’s now socially acceptable again to clap when the plane lands. - alli

Canada isn’t booing our hockey teams. Canada isn’t booing our country. And they’re certainly not booing us. They’re booing him. And as an American with common sense, I hope they keep it up for the next four years.

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Odd News

• Scientists spot alien world ‘like something out of science fiction’
• What Happens If Asteroid 2024 YR4 Strikes Earth — And Why We Can’t ‘Nuke’ It
• Bitterly cold arctic air is dropping temperatures to historic lows across U.S.
• Oklahoma man boasts world's largest collection of bricks
• Truck overturns on Florida highway, spills 44,000 pounds of beer

Time To Deflate Photo

Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah, the hoodoo section.

FYI: a 4.2 earthquake just hit about 20 minutes ago. Unnerving.

Peace.

Trump suggests no laws violated if he ‘saves’ country

Trump suggests no laws violated if he ‘saves’ country
“He who saves his Country does not violate any Law,” Trump posted Saturday to Truth Social and X. The phrase is attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte ...

So whatever it takes for us to save our country from Trump, Musk, and fascists - we get a pass on the law. Got it. - signollapc3

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

• ABC’s Jon Karl Delivers Five-Alarm Warning About ‘Exodus’ of Prosecutors in Trump’s DOJ — Compares it to ‘The Darkest Days of Watergate’
• 'Full-on Existential Crisis': CNN's Elie Honig Warns That DOJ Is Becoming a 'Political Tool' Complete With 'Handcuffs and Guns'
• Mass firings continue across nation’s health agencies
• 'Betrayal!' CBS's Cold War-Era Moscow Correspondent Issues Dire Warning For Trump Not to 'Leave Ukraine In A Ditch'
• Russia's Lavrov rules out territorial concessions as part of Ukraine peace talks.
• Ukraine's President Zelenskyy travels to United Arab Emirates as momentum grows for war peace talks
• Starmer 'ready' to put UK troops on ground in Ukraine to protect peace
• Rubio Lands in Saudi Arabia for Talks on Gaza and Ukraine
• Vance Doubles Down on Lecturing Germany: ‘This Is Orwellian’
• Trump administration reverses nuclear agency firings
• MAGA's Favorite Canadian Politician Says Country Will 'Seek Friends Elsewhere' While Blasting Trump: 'We Will Never Be The 51st State'
• 'I'm a Really Big Fan of You People': Trump Revels as His Limo Takes Laps Around Track Before Daytona 500

If you’re going to have peace talks with Putin about ending his war with Ukraine.

And the peace talks are going to take place in Saudi Arabia.

Without Zelenskyy there.

You’re not having peace talks. - daviddunn77

We don’t know whether or not our Secretary of Defense was drinking alcohol on the job for all the world to see.

This is where we are now folks. - JoJoFromJerz

Trump Wants To Kneecap Whistleblowers
The Trump administration wants the Supreme Court to permit the firing of the head of the federal agency dedicated to protecting whistleblowers, according to documents obtained Sunday that would mark the first appeal to the justices since President Donald Trump took office.

Trump went to the South this weekend. Not to visit flood victims in Kentucky, but to have his security drive him around a race track. He doesn’t give a sh*t about you or your needs. He’s on a vanity tour for the next four years. - Rep. Eric Swalwell

Republican Shenanigans

• Nancy Mace Honors Presidents Day With Image of Trump & Nixon
• Trump Reportedly Thrilled With His New Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt: 'She Speaks Donald Trump Fluently'
• White House Ramps Up Attack On AP To Hit 'Partisan' StyleBook For 'Weaponizing Language': 'This Isn't Just About The Gulf of America'
• JD Vance Snaps At Margaret Brennan: Do You 'Really Think The Holocaust Was Caused By Free Speech?'
• Ramaswamy set to launch Ohio governor bid on Feb. 24
• Actor Julianne Moore Reacts With Shock to Trump Banning Her Children's Book From Schools
• MAGA Melts Down Over Trump Fan Scared Of Black Host's Handshake In Tom Hanks SNL50 Sketch
• Former Babylon Bee Writer Who Says Elon Musk Fathered Her Child Claims They Met On X When He 'Slid Into My DMs'
• Measles continues to spread as Texas outbreak rises to 48 cases

2 died of Ebola: They said Obama should resign. 

4 died in Benghazi: They had Hillary testify for 11 hours, held 33 hearings, and launched a 4-year probe. 

881,776 Covid deaths, an armed insurrection & theft of classified documents: They cheered, and made Trump a dictator. - Andrea Junker

How Can There Even Be A Doubt?
A federal judge in Washington Monday appeared inclined to deny an urgent request to temporarily block Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from firing employees or accessing sensitive records at half dozen federal departments.

If I were 53 and had 13 children by 4 different men, society would view me as the problem.

Not the solution. - SalfordMe2023

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Rock The Voter News

• Top Democrats question IRS on DOGE access to taxpayer data
• Eric Adams’ embrace of Trump unites Democrats against the New York City mayor
• ‘The Rule of Law Is Going to Stand’: Jamie Raskin Is Still Optimistic About Defeating Trump’s Agenda
• Chelsea Clinton Rips MAGA for Pushing Conspiracies About Her

Elon Musk is trying to access your personal bank and tax data.

The world’s richest man should not and cannot be able to snoop around your personal finances.

Period. End of story. - Sen. Adam Schiff

Mexico Plans To Sue Google If...

Mexico said Monday it’s awaiting a new response from Google to its request that the tech company fully restore the name Gulf of Mexico to its Google Maps service before filing a lawsuit

Watergate seems pretty quaint. = John Collins

No interest in Ukraine’s rare earth metals but would love it if they’d let us have their president. - Andy Borowitz

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Business/Tech News

• 'I Don't Mind!' Trump Responds to Potential EU Food Imports Ban By Doubling Down On Tariffs
• Washington Post backs out of ‘Fire Elon Musk’ ad order
• Musk’s SpaceX team visiting FAA: Duffy
• NAACP spending guide urges Black Americans to avoid companies that dumped DEI

It’s a mistake to run a government like a business.

A business is supposed to make money.

A government is supposed to protect and benefit it’s citizens.

A government that makes money is missing the point.

Who doesn’t understand this? - BeingJWood

Trump Blames Soaring Inflation Numbers on Existence of Numerical System. - Andy Borowitz

He Really Does Want Us To Die

The Trump administration began firing hundreds of employees at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Friday, just weeks after a deadly crash outside of Washington, D.C., put a spotlight on the agency.

In a late-night email Friday, probationary workers were notified they had been fired, David Spero, the president of the Professional Aviation Safety Specialists union, said...

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." – LBJ

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Odd News

• 'City-killer' asteroid 2024 YR4 could hit the moon instead of us, scientists say
• Astronomers realize mysterious TV signal in their data bounced off an airplane
• Intelligent Aliens May Be Common On Earth-Like Planets, Scientists Say
• Jim Morrison's footbridge: Paris to honour 1960s icon
• Florida woman lends helping hand to immigrant families afraid to buy groceries

Time To Deflate Photo

Yosemite winter scene.

Peace.

Trump seems to question well-known part of Sen. Mitch McConnell's life — his childhood polio battle

Trump seems to question well-known part of Sen. Mitch McConnell's life — his childhood polio battle

President Donald Trump seemed to question a well-documented part of Sen. Mitch McConnell's life — his childhood battle with polio — after the Kentucky Republican opposed vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s confirmation Thursday as the nation's top health official. Trump attacked McConnell's mental acuity and said he had “no idea” if the senator had polio. The Oval Office barrage exposed the icy relationship between the Republican president and the former Senate GOP leader.

Just when you thought it all couldn’t get any stranger. 

Trump insults McConnell over RFK Jr. vote, casts doubts on polio diagnosis - Sen. Amy Klobuchar 

The World Is A Safer Place Without Trump

• Judge Sets Five-Day Deadline For Trump Administration to Start Lifting USAID Funding Freeze
• Sweeping cuts hit recent federal hires as Trump administration slashes workforce
• With blitz of policies, Trump goes beyond Project 2025's goals
• The Free Press Shreds Trump's 'Shocking' Interventions at DOJ: 'What's Happening in New York Is Alarming'
• Israel-Gaza latest: Hamas to release three hostages including US-Israeli citizen this Saturday
• Zelensky says Ukraine's army will need to double in size if NATO membership is denied

They’re doing project 2025, just like we said they would. - Molly Jong-Fast

How To Alienate Your Allies In One Fell Swoop...

United States Vice President JD Vance launched a blistering attack on European governments on Friday, chastising them for ignoring the will of their people, overturning elections, ignoring religious freedoms and not acting to halt illegal migration.

It was a U.S.-style MAGA, red meat speech that eschewed detailed discussion of defense and security — the topic of the Munich Security Conference. Vance instead hit on some recent hot button cultural issues, from abortion laws in Britain to the recent election in Romania.

Thank you for the lessons, Mr Vance, but if you speak of democracy while supporting Europe's far right, you have no legitimacy. -  Guy Verhofstadt, President of European Movement International

It didn't end well for the people who drank Jim Jones's Kool-Aid. - Andy Borowitz

Republican Shenanigans

• Alina Habba Brags Trump Administration Has 'A Tremendous Amount of Billionaires'
• Bannon Warns Trump and Musk: There's 'A Lot of MAGAs on Medicaid' and They 'Can't Take a Meat Axe To It'
• Trump Gets Annoyed at Reporter Because ‘I Can’t Understand a Word He’s Saying’
• Kara Swisher Rips Elon Musk for Loving 'Dank Memes' and Insulting People: 'A 53-Year-Old Man Does Not Do This'
• Trump’s framed mug shot hangs outside Oval Office

Believing that Tulsi Gabbard — longtime Russian asset and newly confirmed Director of National Intelligence — is acting in the interests of the United States requires an extraordinary level of self-delusion. - Andrea Junker

Wow, This Is A Super Easy Way To Target People...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Fox News host Laura Ingraham he might unleash artificial intelligence on the IRS to make the agency more efficient.

Bessent said on Thursday’s edition of The Ingraham Angle that he would decide what to do with the agency after Elon Musk’s DOGE finished its assessment.

We've got bird flu jumping to cows.

An unchecked TB outbreak.

Perfect time to confirm an anti-vaxxer.

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Rock The Voter News

• 'Learn To Read': AOC Fires Back at Trump Border Czar Who Threatened Her With 'Trouble'
• Democrats Go After Trump Over ‘Misguided and Detrimental’ NIH Cuts
• James Carville Says Dems 'Getting Overwhelmed,' Steve Bannon 'Is Right': 'We Are Flooded In S**t'

If a woman brought a toddler into the oval office she would never hear the end of it.

Killing Us Softly With Their Song...

House Republicans are putting cuts to Medicaid at the top of their list of budget cuts to help pay for their wide-ranging agenda that spans tax cuts, energy production and border security.

Republicans are eyeing changes to how much the federal government, as opposed to states, will contribute to Medicaid expenditures, a number called the federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP).

Chuck Schumer has an exciting plan to appeal to younger voters and is at this moment recording his own dis track against Drake. - John Fugelsang

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Business/Tech News

• Canadians Say "Adios" to Disney World and Universal Studios, Canceling Their U.S. Trips and Going Here Instead for Their Summer Vacations
• NASA Astronauts Deny Trump's Claim Biden Abandoned Them In Plea To Anderson Cooper: 'Help Us Change The Narrative'
• House Republican Admits on CNN: ‘I Can’t Guarantee’ Trump Tariffs Won’t Raise Prices
• Chris Hayes Bursts Out Laughing When He Learns Trump Caused NYC Bank Account to Overdraft by $79.5 Million
• Internet Trolls Exploit Design Flaw In Elon Musk's DOGE Website To Push Fake Updates

I’m so over these mediocre white men and their fake f--king bravado. - Lakota Man

The Effects of High Egg Prices Continue...
With prices rising rapidly and showing no signs of slowing anytime soon, some of the nation’s biggest grocery store chains — including Trader Joe's, Walmart and Costco — have begun limiting the amount of eggs individual consumers can buy.

Do you remember that time Pence tried to see Hamilton and the cast called him out.

Or when McConnell was chased out of a restaurant and not allowed a peaceful meal.

Or when Cruz abandoned Texas during the deep freeze and we shamed him into going home.

That.

Do that. - Hillary Monahan  

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Odd News

• Threat of newly-discovered asteroid hitting Earth has risen
• Alaska’s Largest Volcano Is Waking Up and There’s a 50-50 Chance of an Eruption
• Parts of San Francisco and Los Angeles are sinking into the sea — meaning sea-level rise will be even worse
• Michigan judge sentences Walmart shoplifters to wash cars in the parking lot
• Scammers using AI to dupe the lonely looking for love

Time To Deflate Photo

SHOUTOUT To My Canadian Friends. Chesterman Beach is a 1.7 mile stretch of sand bordering the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve on the West Coast of Vancouver Island.

Peace.