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NEWS: The ban on transition care through Medicaid was finally removed from Trump's Big Ugly Bill. A source tells me Sarah McBride and Tammy Baldwin worked tirelessly over the weekend to maintain Democratic opposition to the measure.

Value of building a coalition in full display here. I know people don’t like McBride’s interviews where she stresses the need for compromise, but without that I don’t know how this provision could have been removed.

Several weeks ago I wrote a thread about the horrible mistake the climate movement made a ~ dozen years ago by handing over its reputation to a bunch of anti-science, social-media-savvy "communications experts." This is one of them. The climate movement is in deep trouble.

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an issue that was on nobody’s radar (affordability)

Republicans decided this was bad for some reason and are now sabotaging it.

A broad set of states is winnable IF issues like health care and tax fairness are the terrain the campaign is waged on. But that means recruiting candidates with views on energy and cultural values that fit their states, and safe seat members who stand by them.

Matthew Yglesias Yeah, like Joe Manchin.

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Why does the House Freedom Caucus still exist? They fold every time. The debt is exploding. Just a worthless joke of an organization.

the warnings that Medicaid cuts will lead to hospitals and health clinics closing across the country and especially in rural areas is not hyperbole or hysteria. it's basic math x.com/mattmfm/status…

Democrats must judge policies by how much they advance the public's needs, not how little they offend the party's allied interest groups. In making it easier to build housing -- over the objections of some greens and unions -- CA Dems did precisely that vox.com/politics/41867…

#2 for me

Rachel Cohen Booth Adam Jentleson And it’s not just clinics closing It’s also clinics scaling back services, capacity and reach

The facts are simple and devastating: Aid cuts have already cost lives, and the number of deaths will continue to rise. Here’s the evidence.

I’d go long on Zohran because that dumbass NYT story only makes him more likely to win

On Independence Day let’s ask: what do we today need independence from now? I’d suggest a system that tells us there are only two ways to think!