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@juliannemcshane.bsky.social

Some pretty good trolling here: Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin, who is often mistaken for Minnesota Senator Tina Smith, appears on the cover of the Smith College magazine. Baldwin graduated Smith in 1984.

Photo of Tammy Baldwin on the cover of Smith Quarterly magazine with the word “Smith” in giant block letters

Tina Smith@smith.senate.govMay 15(source)

These guys should have to look their constituents in the eye and say: You don’t deserve health care as much as Elon Musk deserves a tax break. Instead they’ll run and hide from their pissed off constituents like cowards while millions are kicked off of their health insurance.

@kv_swartz: After over 26 hours, stopping only for votes, Energy and Commerce advanced their markup along party lines.

(35 mins short of the committee’s record)

Tina Smith@smith.senate.govMay 15(source)

So they’re doing the Project 2025 thing they said they wouldn’t do? Shocking.

Julianne McShane

❗RFK tells Senate HELP committee he has asked the FDA director to "do a complete review" on mifepristone following a report from an anti-abortion group that purports to show dangers from the pill, adding, "at very least the label should be changed."

This graph is devastating... too many of our kids are going hungry, and yet they're still plowing forward with the largest cuts to SNAP in American history. They're taking the $6/day that people get in food assistance so they can give it to the wealthiest corporations on the planet.

Graph depicting childhood food insecurity rate in 2023.

Clearly cutting Medicaid is unpopular, but they're still trying to do it. The reason? Because screwing over hard working people is okay with them if it means catering to their rich friends.

Worst farm economy of the century. Avian flu outbreaks nationwide. Screwworm nearing the border. But yeah… THIS is the priority.

Washingtonian Problems

@washprobs.bsky.social

Trump’s Freebie Qatar Jet Is the Stuff of Nightmares in Spyworld

Spotted going up at USDA today…

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Jamie Tarabay@jamietarabay.bsky.socialMay 14(source)

“If we had built the plane, knowing it was going to a foreign government, we would probably have bugged it,” said Thad Troy, a former CIA station chief. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Qatar’s offer of a luxury Boeing 747 to President Donald Trump has set off alarm bells within the US intelligence and diplomatic community, where gifts from foreign powers have long been viewed with s...

They plan to cut your Medicaid benefits to pay for tax breaks for their rich friends.

We can read - we’re not "claiming" millions will lose health insurance. It’s in the damn bill. Thanks for the free air time anyways, Fox News.

Screenshot of a Fox News segment where Cory Booker and Tina Smith and Brian Schatz decry Republicans' Medicaid cuts. The chyron reads "DEMS CLAIM GOP BILL WILL GUT MEDICARE, MEDICAID"

I’m not going to let them take away health care from millions of people without a fight.

See you soon.

Photo of Tina Smith, Brian Schatz and Cory Booker

Burgess Everett

@burgessev.bsky.social

Democratic Sens. Booker, Schatz and Smith planning to walk over to the House reconciliation markup shortly to deliver message on cuts to Medicaid spending

They're cutting food assistance that disproportionately helps their own constituents... who are working but don't make enough money to feed their families... at a time when food shelf visits are at an all-time high. I'm running out of synonyms for cruel.

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Farm Aid@farmaid.orgMay 13(source)

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Kicking moms and babies off of their health insurance (during Women’s Health Week, no less) is a low blow.

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Thread from Senator Tina Smith stating: My take on what’s REALLY happening on these tariffs: He’s totally folding.

He lost all his leverage. Americans are furious about the economy and blame his tariffs. He’s capitulating on China, he threw our allies under the bus… he knows he and his party are solely to blame. Don’t get me wrong, he’s going to claim victory and his army of supporters will say “Art of the Deal” – but I call bullshit.