Showing posts with label healthcare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label healthcare. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Death of 7-Year-Old Girl in U.S. Custody, a Family Funeral, and the Inexplicable Cruelty of Right-Wing U.S. Catholicism: An Advent Conundrum

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Sometimes I follow threads in Catholic discussions on Twitter down rabbit holes. I know I shouldn't do this, because the holes inev...
Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Two Stories: Snapshot of Who We Have Become in Trump Era — Price-Gouging Diabetes Patients While Hedge Fund Managers Rake in Additional $10,000 Per Week

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A hedge fund manager on Wall Street told me he was pleasantly surprised to see his pay go up $10,000 a week. He said that will more than...
Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Short (Mostly) and Sweet (Sometimes) Takes on Today's News: "'A Culture Broken by Brutally Powerful Men' Is an Eloquent and Precise Diagnosis of Our Current Context"

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The charges against the Bundys, who led an armed standoff at their ranch in 2014, have been dismissed by a federal judge https://t.co/Qoi...
Friday, October 13, 2017

"Today He's Blowing Up Obamacare. Tomorrow, Maybe, the World" & "Memorize the Faces of the Smiling Scum Surrounding the Filth in Chief": Will Bishop Peter Jugis Address This Scandal?

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So the sabotage of health care is in full swing and out in the open. And the motive is the scariest thing 1/ https://t.co/hH0Ehi0BTb — Pa...
Thursday, October 12, 2017

Trump Eviscerates Obamacare by Executive Action, "Pro-Life" North Carolina Catholic Virginia Foxx, a Member of Bishop Peter Jugis' Flock, Exults

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Charles Pierce on the executive action taken today by the man "pro-life" white Christians placed in the White House, to under...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Joel Osteen Story and Nashville Statement Raise the Question, What Good Do Churches Do? — #EmptyThePews More Important Than Ever

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Victoria & I are praying for everyone affected by Hurricane Harvey. Please join us as we pray for the safety of our Texas friends ...
Monday, July 31, 2017

A Family Story: When "Pro-Life" Catholic Trump Voters Confront Sexual Abuse of Minors by a Priest — In Their Own Family Circle

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I have a story to tell you this morning. It's a story with a question embedded in it. The question is one with which I am persona...
Thursday, July 27, 2017

Attack on LGBTQ People Coupled with Attack on Healthcare Coverage: Double-Whammy Attack Emanating from "Pro-Life" White Christians

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THREAD: 1. People choose to end their lives for all sorts of reasons. — Bill Lindsey (@wdlindsy) July 27, 2017
Wednesday, July 26, 2017

The Current Spectacle of Astonishing Cruelty in U.S. Cheered by White Christians: Jesus Makes Winners, Not Losers!

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This is going to the worst day of a lot of people's lives. And for absolutely no reason. Astonishing cruelty. — Mark Joseph Stern (@m...
Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Trump's Presidency and White Evangelical and Catholic Voters: "Trumpism Is Basically a Religion at This Point"

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Things I've read today that I'd like to share with you:
Thursday, June 22, 2017

What Twitter Is Saying About the GOP Wealthcare Bill: "Broad Tax Cut to the Affluent, Paid for by Billions of Dollars Sliced from Medicaid"

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What folks are saying on Twitter about the wealthcare bill the Republicans have finally released after weeks of secrecy as they seek to ram...
Sunday, June 18, 2017

Sunday Morning Soul-Enriching Resources: Ex-Evangelicals, Catholic Sexual Abuse and Fr. Tom Doyle, Rev. William J. Barber and Healthcare

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Some Sunday morning soul-enriching resources I'd like to share, dealing with disparate topics:
Tuesday, May 9, 2017

"Church Should Provide Healthcare Coverage, Not State": Two Statements Confronting This Claim of Many U.S. White Christians with Reality

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if you applauded 24 million losing healthcare and you're planning on attending a church this weekend—I'd pray about how you'r...
Friday, May 5, 2017

"If There's a Single Worst Actor in This Drama, It Is Ryan": Time for White Catholics to Face Responsibility for Trump

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Jamelle Bouie writes ,  The GOP’s passage of Trumpcare is one of the most callous things the party has ever done.
Thursday, May 4, 2017

Charles Pierce on the Party in D.C. Today: Celebrating Taking Healthcare from Poor People to Give Trillion-Dollar Tax Cut to Super-Rich

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This is the moral bankruptcy of Christian Conservatism: National day of prayer, praise their god, then kill healthcare for millions — ...

GOP Votes to Rip Healthcare from Millions of Americans, Beer Bash Ensues: Twitter Documentation of Today

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Republicans cheering the fact that they're about to vote for a measure that strips 24 million of coverage (while preserving their own ...
Friday, April 28, 2017

White Christian Right "Over the Moon" About Trump Presidency: News Worth Noting Today

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#Christian pic.twitter.com/3ZA6pRFGJS — Ani Sangye (@SangyeH) April 26, 2017 Some "in the news" items I've noticed in ...
Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Easter Tweets For You: Conversations Between Trump's "Pro-Life" Supporters and Their Critics — "Aren't You the Same Guy Who Just Yesterday Was Clamoring to Kill Prisoners?"

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Says the "pro-life" politician who spent her Easter weekend fighting to kill prisoners. https://t.co/iHiCxus5qJ — Sister Helen ...
Sunday, March 26, 2017

The Healthcare Debacle and the GOP Culture of Cruelty: "A Display of Incompetence and Cruelty"

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Thoughts and prayers with Paul Ryan, whose youthful dream of robbing poor people of their health coverage was dashed today. — Ned Resniko...
Thursday, March 23, 2017

As Day Goes On, William J. Barber's Prophetic Moral Testimony about Trump-Ryan Take Health Care Away Death Bill

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Reverend William J. Barber II speaking yesterday at a protest of the Trumpcare legislation — by way of Charles Pierce :