I see new photos from different journalists or articles, or tweets, stories — and I wondered if they are all “saved.”

There must be somewhere where all this can be stored as evidence.

History will want to change the narrative. They already are

Oz and the Trump Republicans intend to do away with Medicare as you know it, and replace it with a plan run by the insurance companies.

Remember, "Sorry, you have a pre-existing condition, so we are denying your claim?

Here's their plan:

Medicare

Project 2025 will...

...eliminate the Medicare Shared Savings Program. This program helps to lower the cost of Medicare, and getting rid of it will likely mean that Medicare will cost more. [465]

...repeal the Inflation Reduction Act. This law lowers the cost of prescription drugs for people on Medicare, and getting rid of it will likely mean that prescription drugs will cost more. [465]

...reduce the government share in the catastrophic tier of Medicare Part D. This means that people on Medicare will have to pay more for their prescription drugs. [465]

...repeal the drug price negotiation program in Medicare. This program lowers the cost of prescription drugs, and getting rid of it will likely mean that prescription drugs will cost more. [465]

...restructure 340B drug subsidies toward beneficiaries rather than hospitals. This program helps hospitals provide lower-cost drugs to low-income patients, and changing it could mean that those patients will have to pay more for their medications. [465]

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Dr. Mehmet Oz — who President-elect Donald Trump has tapped to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMMS) — may have plans to personally reap millions of dollars from privatizing Medicare, according to a group of senators.

NBC News reported Tuesday that several Senate Democrats recently published a letter to Dr. Oz asking him to clarify his past position on advocating for Medicare plans to be phased out in favor of Medicare Advantage plans, in which private health insurance companies replace the federal government in administering health insurance to the elderly. If Oz is confirmed to lead CMMS, he would have vast influence over both health insurance for both low-income Americans and retirees as well as vast oversight over prescription drug prices.

In a 2020 Forbes op-ed co-authored by the former CEO of health insurance giant Kaiser Permanente, Oz called for employer-provided health insurance to be eliminated and for all Americans to be put in "Medicare Advantage for All" plans funded by a 20% payroll tax evenly split between employers and employees. In their letter, senators pointed out that Dr. Oz would personally profit if Medicare was privatized due to his investment portfolio.

"Your advocacy for eliminating the Traditional Medicare program and replacing it with Medicare Advantage also raises questions about your own financial conflicts of interest," read the letter signed by six Senate Democrats. "In your financial disclosures from your 2022 Senate run, you reported owning over $550,000 of stock in UnitedHealth, the largest private insurer in Medicare Advantage and largest employer of physicians in the nation.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/conflicts-of-interest-senators-expose-dr-oz-s-plan-to-profit-from-privatizing-medicare/ar-AA1vCc9K?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=HCTS&cvid=624a5c2f4b944d6a9ca117ebf71360f6&ei=66

Hello everyone,

Ive been having lots of conversations and thoughts lately about how myself and the other leftists i know arrived at their radicalization and it seems to be a bit harder than i thought. Myself and most of the people i know were very likely already radicalized extremely young or just hyper empathetic people, or extremely well informed on political and historical knowledge which inevitable lead us to where we are. Im especially interested in learning what the secret is because i like many want to radicalize more people into leftism and organizing spaces.

So im genuinely curious about especially people who started off in the middle or on the right wing... how did you arrive at leftism? What chain of introspection or events or conversations lead you to being a communist or anarchist? What argument or issue finally convinced you?

I hope this is okay here. This is less of a rant and more of a stressed vent. I’m staying vague for safety reasons.

Obviously, I’m a leftist. I think differing opinions are great - diversity is important in all aspects of life - as long as things like basic human rights are not disrespected. I like to talk to other leftists with different politics to me to understand their views on things, and to rethink some of my deeply ingrained systemic views. I’ve been like this since I was a child.

I made the mistake of trying to engage someone, in a “safe space” leftist group, about an important topic/current events. I’m autistic so maybe I came off as trying to do a “gotcha” or being facetious, I don’t know.

Anyway, this person had absolutely uncalled for behavior and sent me trauma porn that was incredibly triggering for me. I saw horrific things as a child.

The vent is not about that. It came to my attention that this person is now working in a group that is in my area. I reached out to them about this, wanting to open a dialogue. Truthfully, I reached out because I was thinking of volunteering with the group and wanted to know if this person was still safe to be around.

Instead, I was called all manner of things, was told that my safety didn’t matter, and that mentioning some of my identities was “weaponizing” them (the mentions were relevant to the attacks I received earlier in the year). Some ableist things were said. They said no one would take me seriously.

I’m not putting them on blast. There’s so much infighting already and I am so frustrated about it. I don’t want to be in an echo chamber, I want some of my perspectives to be challenged, especially by people with different lived experiences than me.

What I am feeling most awful about is that I have experienced this before. Dismissal, gaslighting, victim blaming. And I worry if someone in the group is an actual abuser. I personally know people in the local leftist communities that have been harassed or assaulted or abused by other leftists, and were not taken seriously because the accused were so well regarded. One of them moved across the country because they were so traumatized.

What is with this? I find it’s usually the people that are the most performative and loud about certain ideals (“always believe victims,” emphasis on inclusivity, etc) that are the most likely to be hypocrites. It makes me so sad. And I feel stuck. I’m not going to call them out, because I don’t know anything about the other people, and they generally are helping the community. But I’m also dealing with some really intense PTSD flashbacks from this, and being treated like that from “inside the house” is making me feel sick. I usually have a pretty thick skin - I’ve been arrested, I’ve had people watching my house, I’ve had death threats - but now I feel betrayed? Maybe cut off from my community? I do not want to run into this person. I am scared to.

I suppose mostly I’m sad, especially given current events. We don’t need to be fighting each other. Leftists talk about community all the time. That means embracing the differences we have, and learning conflict management skills, not just dismissing people and shutting them down.

Sorry for the small novel. TL;DR: local radical leftists are treating anyone who isn’t exactly like them with disrespect and dismissal. We don’t need to be fighting each other.

If you have been following the news, you are probably aware of the recent developments in North-Western Syria. But for those that aren't up to speed with the situation - Rebel anti-Assad forces from Idlib province, have launched a surprise blitzkrieg offensive that has captured the second-largest city in Syria - Aleppo in just the last few days, seemingly meeting with little effective on the ground resistance from the Syrian Army. The rebel coalition is being supported and backed by Turkey, however many of the main factions within these anti-Assad forces are Islamist/Jihadists such as HTS. I have seen it being theorised by some that this offensive was launched now, as Assad can't count on Russian support as reliably as he previously could, due to Putin being pre-occupied with his invasion of Ukraine. I have also heard that the these rebels are now also fighting the Rojavan Kurdish forces, acting as a proxy for Turkey.

I wanted to hear your thoughts on this situation. How do you view the rebels? How fare do you think this new campaign of theirs will get, will they possible even manage to overthrow Assad? What geopolitical implications this might have and how the US (for sure) has a hand in this situation...