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July 11, 2025
Trump's 'Big, Beautiful Bill' Hands $5 Billion Win To Big Pharma: Report
The GRIFT be with him, always.
Trump's 'Big, Beautiful Bill' Hands $5 Billion Win To Big Pharma: Report - Benzinga via MSN
Donald Trumps $3.3 trillion domestic agenda bill, passed by House Republicans on Thursday, includes a significant but little-noticed victory for pharmaceutical companies that will cost taxpayers nearly $5 billion over the next decade.
What Happened: The legislation expands exemptions from Medicares drug price negotiation program, allowing manufacturers to keep prices higher for medications treating multiple rare diseases, The New York Times reported. The Congressional Budget Office estimates this change will reduce government savings by $5 billion through 2034.
This is essentially giving $5 billion back to the pharmaceutical industry, said Benjamin Rome, a health policy researcher at Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston, according to the report. Its done in a way that is designed, on its face, to solve the problem of some misaligned incentives, but I dont think it solves those problems.
What Happened: The legislation expands exemptions from Medicares drug price negotiation program, allowing manufacturers to keep prices higher for medications treating multiple rare diseases, The New York Times reported. The Congressional Budget Office estimates this change will reduce government savings by $5 billion through 2034.
This is essentially giving $5 billion back to the pharmaceutical industry, said Benjamin Rome, a health policy researcher at Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston, according to the report. Its done in a way that is designed, on its face, to solve the problem of some misaligned incentives, but I dont think it solves those problems.
July 11, 2025
Patriot Front Marches In Louisville, NAACP Speaks Out - Newsone
Bishop stuns priest by telling immigrant Catholics to skip Mass if they fear ICE - Raw Story
Hidden megabill clause hands taxpayers bill for huge gift to private jet owners - Raw Story
Confederacy Group Sues Over Slavery Exhibit At Stone Mountain - Blackenterprise
MTG pushes to clear doctor who injected kids with saline instead of vaccines - MSN
Im Conducting a Criminal Investigation: Florida Deputy Drives onto Black Couples Property and Questions Why Theyre Sitting In Front of Their House - Atlanta Black Star
ICE Said They Were Being Flown to Louisiana. Their Flight Landed in Africa - MSN
Ann Coulter Draws Outrage Over Vile Post About Killing Native Americans - MSN We didnt kill enough Indians, Coulter wrote in the since-deleted post.
In Trump's Fascist America: Ann Coulter Has a Plan (and so does Trump)
Trump's racist immigration policy comes for education and food banks - Daily KosPatriot Front Marches In Louisville, NAACP Speaks Out - Newsone
Bishop stuns priest by telling immigrant Catholics to skip Mass if they fear ICE - Raw Story
Hidden megabill clause hands taxpayers bill for huge gift to private jet owners - Raw Story
Confederacy Group Sues Over Slavery Exhibit At Stone Mountain - Blackenterprise
MTG pushes to clear doctor who injected kids with saline instead of vaccines - MSN
Im Conducting a Criminal Investigation: Florida Deputy Drives onto Black Couples Property and Questions Why Theyre Sitting In Front of Their House - Atlanta Black Star
ICE Said They Were Being Flown to Louisiana. Their Flight Landed in Africa - MSN
Ann Coulter Draws Outrage Over Vile Post About Killing Native Americans - MSN We didnt kill enough Indians, Coulter wrote in the since-deleted post.
July 11, 2025
Trump won't need to cancel the midterms if this Republican plot succeeds - by Thom Hartmann
Trump won't need to cancel the midterms if this Republican plot succeeds - AlternetSpeaking to NewsNations Chris Cuomo, Carville warned that as Donald Trump sees a political shellacking coming in the 2026 midterms particularly in states like New Jersey and Virginia he may try something extreme to hold onto power. The hoof prints are coming, Carville said, and hes not wrong.
Trump has already laid the psychological and structural groundwork to undermine or suspend elections; he just may not need to declare martial law if his fixers pull off whats happening already this year.
Award-winning investigative journalist Greg Palast, a committed non-partisan, has laid it out in painful detail. And what hes uncovered should terrify every American who believes in democracy.
Palast argues that Trumps GOP doesnt have to wait for November 2026 to win. They plan to win it in 2025, through something he calls The Great Purge, authorized by five corrupt Republicans on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Trump has already laid the psychological and structural groundwork to undermine or suspend elections; he just may not need to declare martial law if his fixers pull off whats happening already this year.
Award-winning investigative journalist Greg Palast, a committed non-partisan, has laid it out in painful detail. And what hes uncovered should terrify every American who believes in democracy.
Palast argues that Trumps GOP doesnt have to wait for November 2026 to win. They plan to win it in 2025, through something he calls The Great Purge, authorized by five corrupt Republicans on the U.S. Supreme Court.
July 7, 2025
Elizabeth Warren's Troubling Video Describes How Republicans Reacted After They Voted On the Big BAD Bill
Elizabeth Warren, architect of the CFPB, the agency whose work had benefited millions of American consumers, and the agency that Republicans and later, Trump, have been trying to KILL ever since its inception, again calls them out for WHAT THEY ARE:
Elizabeth Warren Posted This Troubling Video Describing How Senate Republicans Reacted After They Voted On The "One Big Beautiful Bill" - BuzzFeed Visa Yahoo
"They cheered over taking away healthcare from around 17 million people.
They cheered over giving huge tax breaks to a handful of billionaires.
They cheered over running up the national debt by another three and a half trillion dollars.
You know, this bill, it's bad. It's bad economically. It's bad morally," Warren says. "This bill is just wrong."
They cheered over giving huge tax breaks to a handful of billionaires.
They cheered over running up the national debt by another three and a half trillion dollars.
You know, this bill, it's bad. It's bad economically. It's bad morally," Warren says. "This bill is just wrong."
July 5, 2025
Authoritarianism Expert Reveals 'Chilling' Phrase Trump Used During New Threat
Authoritarianism Expert Reveals 'Chilling' Phrase Trump Used During New Threat - Huffpost via YahooTrump on Tuesday threatened to strip U.S. citizens of their nationality and then deport them if they commit certain crimes ― including some who were born in the United States.
Theyre not new to our country. Theyre old to our country. Many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here, too, if you want to know the truth, he said during a visit to a new migrant detention facility. So maybe that will be the next job that well work on together.
Ben-Ghiat, the author of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, responded on X about Trumps comments:
"The Homegrowns Will Be Next," is one of the more chilling authoritarian phrases I have heard. This is also why they want to increase ICE's budget so much.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat)
Theyre not new to our country. Theyre old to our country. Many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here, too, if you want to know the truth, he said during a visit to a new migrant detention facility. So maybe that will be the next job that well work on together.
Ben-Ghiat, the author of Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present, responded on X about Trumps comments:
"The Homegrowns Will Be Next," is one of the more chilling authoritarian phrases I have heard. This is also why they want to increase ICE's budget so much.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat (@ruthbenghiat)
July 4, 2025
And not just the grievances, come to think of it.
Here are the Declaration of Independence's Grievances Against King George III. Many Apply to Trump.
Here are the Declaration of Independences Grievances Against King George III. Many Apply to Trump. - Mother JonesAnd not just the grievances, come to think of it.
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