How the CDC’s opioid rules created a crisis for chronic pain patients
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Devious US Intention and Incompetence Always Good for Genocide
By Oliver Boyd-Barrett
Help Suffering Rich White Folk!
Possibly too cowardly, incompetent and impervious to stop genocide in Israel, fascist Trump is making up other genocides to blame people for.
Devious US Intention and Incompetence Always Good for Genocide
Trump’s Big Beautiful Budget is a declaration of war on everyone in the US but the very rich.
Tyranny & Tantrums: A Rant on America’s Collapse
America is to going to hell in a hand basket, and the cracks in its foundation are glaring. As Linkin Park’s Burn It Down echoes, “We’re building it up to break it back down,” the cycle of destruction and collapse feels all too familiar. Institutions meant to uphold democracy are being dismantled, only to be rebuilt on even shakier ground. Power is concentrated in the hands of a few, while the vulnerable are left to fend for themselves. Like the song’s imagery of betrayal and downfall, the current political landscape mirrors a system that prioritizes control and greed over people. The flames of collapse are fanned, and the question remains—what will rise from the ashes?
Young men are ‘playing videogames all day’ instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman
This sounds sexist to me. 🤷♀️
More specifically, part of the plan is to implement work requirements for Medicaid eligibility—this is currently only a feature of the program in Georgia—and to justify adding this administrative hurdle for patients and states, Republicans are claiming that access to taxpayer-funded healthcare is causing young men to waste all their time playing videogames instead of working.
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Crybaby throws a tantrum, threatens to shut down SSA.
Acting Social Security commissioner Leland Dudek said Friday that he is consulting with agency lawyers and the Justice Department as he threatens to shut down the agency in response to a court ruling blocking Elon Musk’s team from accessing sensitive taxpayer data.
Acting Social Security head consults with Justice Dept. on whether to close agency (archived)
Social Security faces historic payment delays under DOGE 🖕

Social Security confronts its first delivery crisis in eight decades as government streamlining threatens system stability
Previously:
Musk Undercuts Trump’s Promise Not to Cut Social Security
Trump’s Medicaid reversal should worry Social Security recipients.
Trump’s Medicaid reversal should worry Social Security recipients.
House narrowly passes budget resolution containing $100B for defense
The House budget resolution would add about $3 trillion to the deficit in a decade while mandating deep cuts that threaten to significantly shrink Medicaid and food programs for low-income people. It also calls for the debt limit to be raised by $4 trillion.
Democrats decried the blueprint as a “betrayal of the middle class.”
Rep. Mark Takano of California, the top Democrat on the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, said the plan would harm 9 million veterans that rely on Medicaid for health insurance coverage and more than 1 million veterans who use the SNAP food assistance program, formerly known as food stamps.
He said the Republican budget blueprint would also “take a chainsaw” to the Department of Veterans Affairs. The resolution does not specify exact cuts, but it mandates committees find $2 trillion in total spending reductions to finance tax cuts or reduce the amount of the tax cuts.
Previously:
Speak Up Before VA Health Care Is Gutted #Project2025
Donald Trump’s Next Diversity Target: People With Disabilities
DOGE Sets Its Sights on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid
Donald Trump’s Next Diversity Target: People With Disabilities
President Trump’s suggestion last month that the tragic Potomac air crash was somehow the fault of disabled federal air traffic controllers was appalling—but it should have come as no surprise. Trump’s contempt for people with disabilities has been well documented, and it’s that animus, combined with the accelerating MAGA assault on diversity throughout the United States, that has disability rights advocates preparing to defend decades worth of hard-won protections.
One month into his presidency, Trump has unleashed a government-wide attack on people with disabilities, from anti-diversity executive orders to proposed special-education rollbacks to threats to slash programs like Medicaid that are lifelines for disabled people across the country. If successful, these actions could have catastrophic consequences for millions of Americans, according to disability rights experts.
Donald Trump’s Next Diversity Target: People With Disabilities
Related:
In the video below, Rep. Jahana Hayes mentions how Trump’s DEIA order is already affecting special education.
DEI (A?) – The Effect of Donald Trump’s DEI Executive Order on Accessibility
On President Trump’s first day in office, he immediately issued a new Executive Order declaring Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (“DEI”) efforts “illegal.” With this new order in effect, previous mandates that implemented DEI efforts both in the federal government and among federal contractors were revoked.
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While the primary focus is on race- and sex-based affirmative action, the Order lumps together “DEI” and Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (“DEIA”) efforts. So, disability inclusion efforts may now be under scrutiny as well.
DOGE Sets Its Sights on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid
The Republican record on Social Security: Getting worse all the time
Related:
Social Security at Risk? The Impact of Trump and Musk’s Reforms
Cutting Social Security Disability Benefits Can Backfire Horribly
FAIRNESS OF REAGAN’S CUTOFFS OF DISABILITY AID QUESTIONED
The US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did
Elon Musk’s DOGE Allies Search Medicare Agency Payment Systems For Fraud
Ms. Cat’s Chronicles 
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