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Comrades, it is still OK to leave me behind. I'm still not as fierce as you but after following you all this long it's mostly because I'm tired.

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A. Marmot 🌱's avatar A. Marmot 🌱 @aminus.bsky.social
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for Portland-area folks, here are resources from Multnomah County on dealing with the heat wave, including cooling centers - stay safe and hydrated
www.multco.us/hot

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Costa Samaras's avatar Costa Samaras @costasamaras.bsky.social
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I’m not a reporter but I did have a blogroll once, so here’s some follow-ups for the former president that seem important: which parts of Project 2025 do you disagree with? Would you appoint anyone to your admin that is supporting it? How do you feel about the “bloodless if the left allows” comment?

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OldHippieChick 's avatar OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social
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That's the main difference. You have more rights to care under traditional Medicare though your supplemental is a private insurer. My husband has been on an Advantage plan 5 years and so far that has not been an issue.

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OldHippieChick 's avatar OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social
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I read some terrifying comments in a thread about hospice on the hellsite that suggests prolifers consider withdrawal of treatment when a heart is beating to be murder. That's apparently what Trump's meandering statement about after birth abortions meant.

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man it's a hot zone,'s avatar man it's a hot zone, @mobute.bsky.social
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We know we don't have much time left so we've been spending a lot of time with America for its last birthday. Plenty of hugs, taking pictures. My niece is in film school, and got the camera out and interviewed it about what it was like growing up, just trying to record memories while we have them.

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OldHippieChick 's avatar OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social
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To love America is to love an ideal. We had to recite the pledge every morning in school & at lots of other public occasions, one of the several changes I made was at the end: with the hope of liberty and justice for all.

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Technology Connections's avatar Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social
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Happy independence day to all who remember why we declared independence and a very fuck off to those who think kings are good actually.

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OldHippieChick 's avatar OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social
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When my cats are old, they hear The Owl and the Pussycat. When they are old, this.

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OldHippieChick 's avatar OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social
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Ending Advantage without a single payer will roughly double premiums for all seniors who aren't in Medicaid, not just rich bastards like me, AND force us to have at least four insurance companies to fight for coverage with four deductibles instead of one.

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OldHippieChick 's avatar OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social
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Well, I'm suggesting part of "fixing what we have now" would include reforms to how & what insurers who are paid by Medicare get to review in order to kill fewer people now. Sure, I'm a privileged monster because I don't want to abolish a more affordable alternative without a better replacement.

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OldHippieChick 's avatar OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social
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Yes & like most corporate traps here the government helped set it. I have no daily prescriptions. The ones I use as needed are cheapest without insurance. But, if I don't get drug coverage now, should I need it later, I will pay a penalty every month until I die for each year I went without it.

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OldHippieChick 's avatar OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social
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This is a plan I have been behind for a long time. In the meantime, though, let's at least fix what can be fixed in what we've got.

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OldHippieChick 's avatar OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social
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It's not good & I am not arguing it is good. It's horrible but for individuals who have X income per month, paying twice the amount of an Advantage plan for Medicare supplement, for drug plan, for vision plan, for dental plan (last two not covered by Medicare) just doesn't seem sensible.

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OldHippieChick 's avatar OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social
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That is the other big problem. You probably won't be able to get supplemental coverage if you want to get back to Medicare. Medicare coverage isn't 100% so you have a supplemental insurer, though you have more rights if you have time to assert them. We need a well-regulated single payer system.

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OldHippieChick 's avatar OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social
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Some of them didn't *intend* to sign up and some probably don't understand that Medicare part C is different than Medicare. Others didn't realize that call ti the number on the ad results in Advantage either I would bet.

kffhealthnews.org/news/some-se...

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OldHippieChick 's avatar OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social
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Yes, and they've designed it so it is the cheaper option for a group of people who are no longer working. That's why most seniors are signing up for Advantage programs (if they even know what they've done). The price to consumer is artificially low because they are ripping off the government.

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OldHippieChick 's avatar OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social
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Absolutely- where Medicare is shorthand for a well regulated single payer system.

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OldHippieChick 's avatar OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social
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Thank you. I live where people get evacuated to. It can get really smoky though and my husband has COPD.

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OldHippieChick 's avatar OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social
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Please fix the problem with overcompensation instead of ending Advantage. My monthly premiums will go up, but I'll only have one insurance to fight not four. Also, end the penalty for not signing up for Part D immediately. I have 0 daily prescriptions - now.

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OldHippieChick 's avatar OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social
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I very much fear Trump will be our next President. I hope Kamala might eke out a victory by holding enough of the 2020 coalition together.

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OldHippieChick 's avatar OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social
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It is. The problem is the alternative is very expensive for the consumer. Monthly cost of $174.70 for required Pt B. Then either minimum of $137 for HD Medicare supplement + drug + dental + vision OR $72 for better coverage in one package. One insurance co. to deal with instead of 4.

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I called it on the day the pick was announced- ironically on January 6. I remember trying to be optimistic that the events I watched that day would spur Garland to be more aggressive.

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Ftr I don't know what the best move for the Dems is re: Biden stepping down, and they don't care what people like me think anyway. I am focused on what I know how to do and what I believe we should all be doing with our political energy right now.

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"Lawsuits are slow, they are complicated, they are often decided on arbitrary technicalities or total nonsense, and being so costly they are hideously biased toward the rich and well-connected." prospect.org/justice/amer...

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OldHippieChick 's avatar OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social
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But campaign skills are relevant to whether he can win the election he is in right now.

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It should be quite clear I am not a fan of Trump. I am begging Democrats to own up to their own mistakes in order to learn from them. I did not enjoy the 1st Trump Administration. Someone competent needs to get ahold of the controls of this plane because it appears to be in a death spiral.

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Please cite your source regarding the thing that did not occur. Polls of names before any campaigning occurs are not persuasive for me. We would be in better shape if Biden had, in fact, emerged from a hard fought campaign as a victor. It would be hard to then argue he's not capable of campaigning.

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You mean the individual states that decided who was on the ballot in October, before some candidates had announced? That's an odd coincidence too as was choosing this year to reshuffle the primary calendar.

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DC just needs statehood. That's another problem. Why haven't we added a state since 1959? That's my entire lifetime.

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OldHippieChick 's avatar OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social
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I'm a tragic optimist, though, so I absolutely understand that fascists are motherfuckers who must be stopped. You know what really helps fascists? Undemocratic processes that make it too easy for a minority to win power even when a majority votes against them.

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OldHippieChick 's avatar OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social
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The field narrows fairly quickly because a lengthy race needs so much money.

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OldHippieChick 's avatar OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social
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Yes. Unlike the Founders, I have a fairly optimistic view of human nature, so I *love* democracy. I would abolish the Electoral College if I were granted temporary absolute power. Presidents should be elected by popular vote. I'd settle for uncapping the House, which all Democrats should be for.

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OldHippieChick 's avatar OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social
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Their delegate selection plan could have been democracy forward instead of what it was.
Quite a coincidence the rules kept challengers off some ballots.

Here's a little read about how things really work.

www.google.com/amp/s/abcnew...

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OldHippieChick 's avatar OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social
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Williamson & Palmer are outsiders ; RFK had nothing to lose since his career imploded. I actually admired Phillips' stones for running. Pretty sure he knows his future propects are now toast. Or, possibly, this debacle will finally get Dems to understand democracy is good actually.

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I'm sorry. I've got a few too many pictures now that are me & the images of ghosts I loved. It does suck.

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OldHippieChick 's avatar OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social
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I imagine that letting the word go out that they would not be punishing anyone for running a primary campaign would have been enough. Plenty of Democrats dream of being President but challenging an incumbent who is running is understood as not being the thing one does.

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According to Democratic wisdom since 1980, if a sitting President wants to run for re-election, you don't run against them. Reportedly Bernie flirted with the idea in 2012 and Reid talked him out it. Part of the vitriol against him in 2016 I would imagine. His audacity needed to be punished.

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Yet suggesting that a contested primary would be good for voter enthusiasm and turnout to my Democratic friends in 2022 had some of them furious with me. A few leapt to the conclusion I wanted Bernie to ruin things for them again.

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I feel like I'm going crazy because people who supposedly cover politics keep talking about having until convention or a floor fight. But, unless something has changed, delegates have to vote considerably before the convention to be on the Ohio ballot.
abcnews.go.com/Politics/dnc...

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OldHippieChick 's avatar OldHippieChick @oldhippiechick.bsky.social
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Mitch McConnell & Chuck Grassley are right there. Washington DC has a "too old" problem. Although, I probably don't care as much about Republicans because the more incapacitated they are, the better.

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Wildfire danger is so high in so many places because of the heat wave we're having or will by tomorrow

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In addition to taking concrete action to rein in the Court, we have got to demand a lot of powers that got expanded as part of War on Terror get sunsetted so they aren't also lying "about like a loaded weapon".

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