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Aug 18 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
📣 BREAKING: GOP Senate Majority Leader openly admits that gerrymandering is the only way their crappy Republican candidates can take over the House & complains that this doesn't work with statewide races.
📣 Since the awfulness of the GOP's House candidates is being cancelled out by their gerrymandering advantage, Dem candidates need our help more than ever to stay competitive. Donate to these competitive races today to keep the #HouseBlueIn22:
secure.actblue.com/donate/housebl…
📣 Since the awfulness of the GOP's House candidates is being cancelled out by their gerrymandering advantage, Dem candidates need our help more than ever to stay competitive. Donate to these competitive races today to keep the #HouseBlueIn22:
secure.actblue.com/donate/housebl…
NOTE: (sigh) Yes, the first tweet should read "GOP Senate *Minority* Leader" not "Majority Leader. Too late to delete/retweet now...

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Aug 19
So here's a little irony for you: My wife is getting her counseling degree so our own family is on her university's quite robust student plan (Gold PPO).

We just learned that our premiums are jumping a whopping 70% for the 2022 - 2023 school year.
I'm waiting to confirm, as the website still lists the current year's premiums but when we go to renew enrollment it lists the much higher rate.

Meanwhile, the enhanced ACA subsidies extended by the IRA mean we might end up better off back on an exchange plan this fall.
As for 2023 ACA plans, in Michigan they're likely only going up ~6.8% overall, & the plan we'd be getting would likely be *dropping* ~2.8% at full price.
acasignups.net/22/07/05/updat…
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Aug 19
New York: APPROVED unsubsidized 2023 #ACA rate changes released: +9.7% (reduced from +18.7%) acasignups.net/22/08/19/new-y…
NOTE: Premiums +9.7% is obviously better than +18.7%, but keep in mind that NY's Dept. of Financial Services touting hundreds of millions of dollars in "savings" needs to be taken w/a big grain of salt (via @NYHammond, h/t @consultbenefits for the link):
empirecenter.org/publications/h…
Also note that NY's DFS has a long history of making some rather questionable claims about their annual rate hikes. @NYHammond notes this in his piece; I documented it every year here. See if you can spot the problem:
acasignups.net/22/08/19/updat…
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Aug 18
For starters, 2% of the U.S. population is around 6.7 million people. There's ~30 million Americans w/diabetes, of which 31% require insulin. That's 9.3 million, not 6.7 million.
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… 1/
Second, I'm pretty sure most of those 9.3 million people have families who care about them. Spouses, fiances, boyfriends/girlfriends, children, parents, siblings. Maybe even a few cousins. Some people even have close friends who care about them, I hear.
Let's say that those 9.3 million Americans who require insulin have an average of, say, 10 people who a) are aware they're diabetic and b) would prefer that they not die of diabetes or go bankrupt to stay alive.

That's ~93 million more. Let's call it an even 100 million.
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Aug 18
🚨🚨 Why am I pushing so hard to flip *state legislative* seats blue??

There are *16 states* where Republicans have SUPERMAJORITIES in the state legislature (vs. only 8 Dem supermajorities).

That means the GOP can pass practically any bill they want even if the Gov opposes it. Image
The GOP has supermajorities in AL, AR, ID, IN, KS, KY, LA, MO, ND, OH, OK, SD, TN, UT, WV & WY.

Dems have supermajorities in CA, DE, HI, IL, MD, MA, NY & RI.

Help reduce the first list & add to the second by donating to these races TODAY: americabluein22.com/state_leg/
Now if you're just talking about SIMPLE majorities (which, absurdly, are also *supermajorities* in 6 red states), here's what Dems need to do in each state House & Senate: Image
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Aug 17
UPDATE: 15 out of 19 known Democratic challengers to GOP-held Senate seats support flat-out elimination of the filibuster; at least 2 others support carveouts/reforms.

In the 2 states w/out a Dem nominee yet, at least 3 of the 5 candidates support elimination or carveouts. Image
More to the point, this includes all 6 of the Dems w/the best chance of flipping their seats (@valdemings, @FrankenforIowa, @CheriBeasleyNC, @TimRyan, @JohnFetterman & @TheOtherMandela).
secure.actblue.com/donate/senateb…
As for the 50 *current* Dem/Dem caucus Senators, 19 of them are on record as supporting flat-out elimination; another 29 support carveouts and/or other reforms (or at least did as of the date listed). Image
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Aug 15
“Oh, no! Two women love me! They’re both gorgeous and sexy! My wallet’s too small for my fifties and my diamond shoes are too tight!” —Chandler Bing
As an aside, according to Walmart.com:
--Broccoli: $1.40/crown
--Asparagus: $2.98/bunch
--Carrots: $1.96/2 lb bag
--Guacamole: $3.14/8 oz
--Salsa: $3.48/16 oz
= $12.96 total
Obviously prices vary by brand, size, location etc (I had to guess on the size of some of these) but Wal-Mart is about as "Heartland of MAGA America" as you can get.
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