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I’m really glad to hear some souls won’t be heading to bankruptcy court over their medical debt. However; “SINGLE PAYER NOW, GODDAMN IT” is the exact prescription needed.

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Per Charlie Pierce, "The Flying Swiss Army Knife".

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Single payer. Sooner, not later. Ta, Dok.

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Too bad! I could imagine a world in which people aren't held to the face-value of their debt, because it's obviously not worth that any longer...

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Anybody remember how Becca said to play nice in the comments?

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Goodness, I hope the Maginot Line holds.

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Cool. Now we can shut down Fort Hood, Fort Bliss and Lackland AFB without upsetting anyone.

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The Navy F-35C costs $337 million....each. They don't work correctly and by the time they do, if ever, they will be obsolete.

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Poverty is not a moral failing.

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I could scream.

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That's an excellent delegation of responsibility. Let the children pray they can make it safely through the day rather than requiring the adults do anything to make it more likely the children can make it safely through the day. Kudzus, Gov. Ron.

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I guess this atheist and former Catholic just doesn't understand the nuance of the bible. I guess I am to take the teachings figuratively and not literally.

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Geoff Bennett just had Michael Harriot on to talk about that -- those top-down right wing think tanks pushing "anti critical race theory" on the "omg gonna teach your kids to HATE WHITE PEOPLE" pseudo-grounds basically as a scaremongering GOTV pseudo-strategy, especially since CRT, as a framework for looking at disparate impact in the law, isn't ordinarily taught till *graduate school*

The Right's War To Make America Dumber

https://twitter.com/JoyAnnR...

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Upvote for Mr. Guttenberg, but definitely not for DeathSantis or this stupid bill.

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I was watching Ned Beatty (RIP) yell "allahu akbar" in front of the stand-ins for the Afghan refugee rebels in a Charlie Wilson's War re-watch and I was thinking

"You would never never NEVER see anything like this in the insane political climate consuming a loud and crazy MINORITY (because people forget) of Nazipublicans right now today"

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its weird when christians only like that part of the bible that doesnt contain any christ right?

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