President Donald Trump took a break from Twitter Wednesday to rail against Medicare for All in a falsehood-ridden op-ed for USA Today, despite promising voters on the campaign trail in 2016 that health care for all is “just human decency.”
The op-ed, which editors clearly didn’t bother to fact-check, contained dozens of lies about the health care proposal for which many Democrats have advocated over the past two years. The plan has various interpretations, depending on which Democr...
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Freedom Caucus member who backed shutdowns complains about obstruction in new ad
Freedom Caucus member Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA), who boasted of receiving awards from a designated anti-LGBTQ hate group and a Sacha Baron Cohen-invented fake pro-Israel group and claimed the Puerto Rico crisis was invented by the media, is locked in a very close re-election race. In his latest campaign ad, the conspiracy theorist who backed multiple government shutdowns depicts House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and House Democrats as children throwing food in a cafeteria and attempt...
Medicaid expansion is on the ballot again in Maine this November
PORTLAND, MAINE — “When I’m in pain, I take Tylenol. I can’t have it looked at,” said 59-year-old Ann Avery, her voice cracking before she started to cry.
“I did find the list of some of the things that’s wrong me,” she told ThinkProgress. Depression, coronary artery disease, type 2 diabetes, and Piriformis syndrome, to name a few.
“I have no idea what some of these things are,” Avery said. But she could tell you theyR...
$3 million raised for Susan Collins’ 2020 challenger after she backed Brett Kavanaugh
Whoever runs against Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) in 2020 will start off their campaign with nearly $3 million, thanks to a crowdfunding campaign opposing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
Already, two politicians have expressed interest in running: U.S. National Security Advisor for the Obama administration Susan Rice and Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives Sara Gideon. On Twitter, both hinted they’d be interested in opposing Collins in 2020. Now either one could ...
BREAKING: Susan Collins backs Kavanaugh, setting the stage for his SCOTUS confirmation
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) announced Friday that she would vote to confirm Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, in spite of sexual assault allegations that put Kavanaugh’s confirmation in jeopardy in recent weeks.
“[Kavanaugh] has been an exemplary public servant, judge, teacher, coach, husband, and father… My fervent hope is that Brett Kavanaugh will work to lessen the divisions in the Supreme Court,” Collins said in a long, meandering speech justifyin...
Flint residents eye innovative solutions for the future as they try to move beyond the water crisis
FLINT, MICHIGAN — The north side of Flint is largely a food desert, the result of a steady decline in jobs and economic security compounded by the city’s enduring water crisis. But Mark Baldwin wants to change that.
“Especially for young folks, there’s an amazing amount of opportunity in Flint,” he says on a crisp Thursday afternoon, gesturing around his greenhouse, which he hopes can be translated into a wider-scale effort to provide the neighborhood w...
Republican Senate hopeful Martha McSally lies about her pre-existing condition record
Rep. Martha McSally (R), her party’s nominee for the open U.S. Senate seat in Arizona, was a staunch supporter of the Trumpcare legislation to repeal Obamacare, literally telling her Republican House colleagues that they needed to get the “fucking thing” done. Now that she is under fire for her vote for the wildly unpopular legislation, she is simply lying to her constituents and pretending that the bill would not have eliminated insurance protections for the more than 10...
Lies don’t get more brazen than the one Rohrabacher is telling his constituents about health care
On Wednesday afternoon, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) shared a touching campaign video detailing how his daughter Annika’s leukemia diagnosis made the need to protect people with pre-existing conditions personal for him.
“Politicians argue a lot about health care, but for me, it’s personal,” Rohrabacher says, while standing next to his daughter. “When my daughter Annika was 8 years old, she was afflicted with leukemia. It was devastating to my family, bu...
Trump pick to run Social Security allegedly impersonated police officer to avoid trespassing charge
The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing Tuesday morning on President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Social Security Administration, Andrew Saul, a former vice chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA).
Like other Trump nominees, Saul has no background in the field he was chosen to lead. He did, however, serve on the board of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, a right-wing think tank whose visiting fellows include Charles Murray, a race scien...
Murkowski claims more voters have called her office about Kavanaugh than Obamacare repeal
Alaskans and voters across the country have been flooding Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s (R-AK) voicemail to voice their opinions on Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, the senator said Tuesday evening.
“All the voicemail boxes are are literally filled within the first hour,” she told Alaska Public Media, adding that the number of calls has been even higher than before recent health care votes.
Asked for clarification by the APM reporter for whether there were mor...