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  • 'Call This What It Is—Theft': Republicans Approve Largest Medicaid, SNAP Cuts in US History

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  • As someone on SSDI, Medicaid/Medicare, and in HUD housing….. I’ve been terrified since Jan 20th. But I had hope that this bullshit might be stopped because I foolishly believed the Democrats would grow a fucking spine.

    All these people who keep telling me I’m over exaggerating (on both sides) — especially my own family — will be shocked when I’m homeless or disappeared in the next few months.

    This is a nightmare that never ends. I just want to wake up and for it all to be over.

  • Ah yes the "enlightened" democracies

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  • As someone from the U.S., given the history we know about the Trail of Tears and trying to erase Native Americans from existence, this isn’t surprising in the least. Sad, yes, but not surprising.

  • Huge cost of military parade on Trump’s birthday is revealed

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  • Good grief I can’t do math apparently. Thank you for correcting me.

  • Huge cost of military parade on Trump’s birthday is revealed

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  • You know….

    There are roughly 7 million people on SSDI. A good chunk of those who of us on SSDI are at poverty level or less.

    There are roughly 18 million veterans. Many of them have been at poverty level or less.

    You could give 25 million people who are either veterans or disabled a million dollars tax-free and no strings attached and you would improve their quality of life drastically.

    But, no, the Orange King needs his ego soothed and inflated by having a fucking parade on his birthday. Absolutely disgusting and I really hope there will be a major protest at the same time. I might use the meager finances I have and take a trip to D.C. for that.

    The irony? Some of those men and women from the military in that parade will be left to rot once their service is over.

  • The Cynical Republican Plan to Cut Medicaid: Work requirements set up a thicket of paperwork that leads eligible Medicaid recipients to lose their insurance. That’s the point.

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  • https://www.kff.org/tracking-the-medicaid-provisions-in-the-2025-budget-bill/

    • Requires states to conduct eligibility redeterminations at least every 6 months for Medicaid expansion adults.

    I'm on Medicaid currently because I'm on SSDI. I have to recertify my eligibility every year. It takes the local office 4-5 months to make the determination. A LOT of people are going to get left behind if this happens. Local offices will never be able to keep up and people are going to lose coverage.

    Those of us on the bottom of society that have to utilize the safety net already had to go through hell to get approved in the first place in most cases. These assholes lack empathy completely because they've never had to utilize the safety net and think we're lying or something about needing it.

    If you're in the U.S. and have never needed any kind of government assistance, let me clarify the process a bit:

    • Imagine you're on a plane and you have to jump out with a parachute to get to safety. That's scary.
    • Just before you jump, you're told you have to charge up the parachute release by free falling through rings in the sky. That are on fire.
    • You make it through all the rings of fiery death and your parachute doesn't open because it didn't charge up the release for some reason (why would it, in what world does it make sense to have to do that?)
    • As you're falling you see what looks to be like a bouncy house on the ground. Lucky for you there's a safety net halfway between you and the ground.
    • The safety net has a tiny tear in it and as you fall into the net the tear becomes a split down the entire net and you continue falling.
    • Bracing for impact into the bouncy house you can see it's starting to sag a little. Is it leaking air? Will you make it in time before the air is completely out?
    • The bouncy house had enough air to keep you safe thankfully and you never touch the ground until the air completely deflates from the bouncy house.
    • Oh but wait....you've been on solid ground for a year? Nope, you're going to repeat the process only this time instead of a bunch of rings of fire you only have to go through one. But there's no safety net....and no parachute. Just the ring of fire and the slowly leaking bouncy house on the "ground".

    They're not taking Medicaid away, they're just purposefully making it harder to keep it. So technically they didn't "cut" Medicaid. Because, after all, Trump didn't lie when he said Medicaid and Social Security were off the table, right?

  • A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them

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  • I learned my lesson about “lifetime” thanks to SiriusXM.

    When Howard Stern got lured to SiriusXM they offered a deal where you buy the receiver and pay $500 for a lifetime subscription with unlimited transfers to different receivers. Fat forward to 2017ish when I bought my last car that had the receiver built into the radio and tried to transfer to the new one. I was told that was the last time I would be able to do that and in the future I’d be paying a $75 transfer fee and be forced into a monthly subscription.

    Lifetime is a hoax.

  • House Republicans unveil Medicaid cuts in Trump's big bill

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  • I’d like to say I don’t understand what you’re going through.

    I’m a 3x attempt survivor, disabled, and terrified. I’m on SSDI, Medicare/Medicaid, and in HUD housing. My situation is not the same but I see you.

    I wish there was more I could offer, but you are not alone.

  • butt mogged these zoomers today

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  • As a nearly 50 year old dude, never heard of it either

  • “The concluding moves”: Israel launches Trump’s “final solution” in Gaza

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  • Ok, so does this kick off WW3 or are other nations just going to roll over and allow this to happen?

    How the hell is this even a plausible timeline we’re living in?

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  • Oh hey! I narrowly avoided this one. No SNAP here (yet)! Only SSDI, Medicaid/Medicare, and HUD housing 🤨

  • Big hugs

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  • I’m sober for 9 months.

    When I did drink it was to escape, which is the real reason most alcoholics become alcoholics

  • Trump administration threatens to arrest House Democrats over ICE facility incident

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  • And Schumer will send another strongly worded letter.

    Freaking ass had the chance to alter history potentially and he fucked it up.

  • Marshmallow Test

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  • Took me D_C's comment to get it and even then it took me a minute to find the marshmallow and realize it wasn't on the plate anymore 🤦🏻

  • Big hugs

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  • I'm an alcoholic, definitely makes me more depressed.

  • Big hugs

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  • Me: Doc, I'm in constant pain, my lower back is killing me, my hips are killing me, and random parts of my body go numb or twitch and randomly hurt for no rhyme or reason.

    Doc: You need to lose weight and see a therapist, this is most likely depression and anxiety.

    Therapist: Yes, you have depression and anxiety, but the 7 years of therapy you've had shows it's not just anxiety or depression causing this, advocate for yourself.

    Friend: Have you tried yoga?

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  • Wait…. Did I miss something? What’s going on in South Africa that we take on refugees? Shouldn’t we be, I dunno, accepting refugees from Gaza and Ukraine instead?

  • Inside the new regime: Source says Team Trump is growing "disillusioned"

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  • DEI and “woke culture” made me feel seen as a person with a disability and a facial paralysis. 100 years ago I would have been an orphan and hidden away. Not long before that I would have been “sacrificed” as an evil baby.

    Did corporations cash in on that? Yes they did because that’s all corporations are supposed to do is make money and bleed the consumer.

    If you are anti-woke and anti-DEI then you’re really saying you want to include everyone who looks like you and relegate those who don’t to obscurity either by way of deportation, exile, slavery, or death. It’s exactly like what every country perpetuating genocide has done in history.

    What is your solution to my problem of again not feeling like I can go out in public because of this administration’s policies. What about to the LGBTQIA people who are afraid that their marriage will be nulled or are also afraid to go out in public?

    Are you ok with fixing people different from you back to isolation, declining mental health, and attempts to take their life because of getting rid of DEI?

  • Inside the new regime: Source says Team Trump is growing "disillusioned"

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  • Someone has got to start talking about “inclusion” instead of division

  • History Shmistory

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  • Holy cow!

    Any guess as to what will happen? The US also has a debt ceiling issue coming up very soon too

  • News @lemmy.world
    dryfter @lemm.ee

    Rochester woman admits to hiding boyfriend’s body, claiming social security benefits

    www.rochesterfirst.com /crime/rochester-woman-admits-to-hiding-boyfriends-body-claiming-social-security-benefits
  • politics @lemmy.world
    dryfter @lemm.ee

    Trump administration deports hundreds of migrants, despite judge's order stopping removal

    apnews.com /article/trump-venezuela-el-salvador-immigration-dd4f61999f85c4dd8bcaba7d4fc7c9af
  • News @lemmy.world
    dryfter @lemm.ee

    Trump administration deports hundreds of migrants, despite judge's order stopping removal

    apnews.com /article/trump-venezuela-el-salvador-immigration-dd4f61999f85c4dd8bcaba7d4fc7c9af
  • politics @lemmy.world
    dryfter @lemm.ee

    “The President Wanted It and I Did It”: Recording Reveals Head of Social Security’s Thoughts on DOGE and Trump

    www.propublica.org /article/recording-reveals-leland-dudek-thoughts-trump-doge-social-security