Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT): "How do they get away with this? The bill they passed cuts Medicaid by $793 BILLION."

[Miles Archer]

Chris Murphy
‪@chrismurphyct.bsky.social‬

How do they get away with this? The bill they passed cuts Medicaid by $793 BILLION.

$793 BILLION.

It's in the bill. They wrote it. Their own budget office says 10 million people will lose Medicaid coverage.

Just wild.

How do they get away with this? The bill they passed cuts Medicaid by 3 BILLION.

3 BILLION.

It's in the bill. They wrote it. Their own budget office says 10 million people will lose Medicaid coverage.

Just wild.

— Chris Murphy (@chrismurphyct.bsky.social) 2025-06-24T21:54:32.800Z

Aaron Rupar
‪@atrupar.com‬
Mike Johnson brazenly lies: "We are not cutting Medicaid. The president has said that and I have said that. We're all said that. We're strengthening the program."

Mike Johnson brazenly lies: "We are not cutting Medicaid. The president has said that and I have said that. We're all said that. We're strengthening the program."

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) 2025-06-24T15:02:33.716Z

[senseandsensibility]

1. Go Murphy!

He's been great on offense since right after the election.

[harumph]

2. They get away with it because the people calling the shots in the MSM want them to.

[Miles Archer]

3. "Why billionaire John Malone's shadow looms over CNN"

Why billionaire John Malone’s shadow looms over CNN

https://www.vox.com/2022/8/26/23322761/cnn-john-malone-david-zaslav-chris-licht-brian-stelter-fox-peter-kafka-column

by Peter Kafka
Aug 26, 2022, 9:30 AM EDT

But the bigger question floating over one of the world’s largest and most important news organizations is why it’s changing. Is it because the CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, its new owner, wants an overhaul? Or is it at the behest of a conservative billionaire investor in the company who sits on its board?

That billionaire is John Malone, a legend in the cable TV business and one who has deep and longstanding ties with David Zaslav, the CEO of WBD. People close to both men insist that Zaslav is remaking CNN because he wants to for both business and editorial reasons, and not because Malone has told him to.

But complicating that narrative is the fact that Malone has repeatedly wished, in public, for CNN to remake itself. And his prescription happens to sync with the new CNN agenda: a plan to steer the channel away from what Malone and others call a liberal bias they say muddles opinion and news. And to shift it toward a supposedly centrist, just-the-facts bent.

“I would like to see CNN evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with, and actually have journalists, which would be unique and refreshing,” he said. Then he suggested a model: “Fox News, in my opinion, has followed an interesting trajectory of trying to have ‘news’ news, I mean some actual journalism, embedded in a program schedule of all opinions.”

[maxrandb]

4. They get away with it

Because the "news" is simply what they say.

It would take about a fucking minute for some reporter to do a little research and report the truth.

Instead we get what passes for "news" today.

Press: "Democrats say the bill cuts $843M from Medicade...Retrumplicans say it doesn’t. Thank you for your attention to this "news".

I normally don't watch shows like Inside Addition, or Entertainment Tonight. I consider them potato chips for the brain.

Tonight, I caught some Inside Edition when I didn't move fast enough to get the remote after the Evening News.

The first 5 minutes were about Donnie Dipshit's F-bomb, complete with how it "blew up on social media". It was the most powerful, consequential office on the planet as fucking entertainment.

The presidency is now treated with all the seriousness of Kim Kardashians butt implants.

[Miles Archer]

5. Yeah, a couple of days ago, the big story was Kylie Jenner no longer lying about her breast implants.

I hear ya.

[Hotler]

6. Ask the 128 democrats that just voted against impeachment.