Turning on student loan payments, turning off $300 a month per child direct payments, enacting the largest Medicare premium hike in history while preventing seniors from receiving dental and vision benefits & increasing interest rates all at the same time is pretty, pretty dumb.

Yep. A theoretical household with two college debtholders (~$800/mo.) and two kids under 6 (~$600/mo.) could immediately be net $1,400 poorer each month — about $20,000 gross annually — before factoring additional costs of potentially returning to the office around the same time.

"not Trump" by itself is just not going to win in 2022 or 2024.

How's this working out

This is some of the good news I’m talking about.

There's no more impactful domestic lever that a president can pull by themselves. Now is the time to #CancelStudentDebt.

As of last week, the federal government has forgiven over $644 billion of PPP loans without a peep about how much it costs or who’s deserving. That same amount represents 40% of all federal student loan debt. They can cancel student debt. Keep pushing.

Comfortable liberals literally only wanted like 5 things: - Boring press briefings - Cabinet diversity - Paris Climate Accords - Dog in the White House - Louis DeJoy fired Literally how is DeJoy still here lol.

- Free N95 or KN95 masks for ALL - Free at-home rapid tests for ALL - Expanded sick + family leave - Vaccine + booster tax credits - Remote-work credits for business - UI eligibility for people who quit over lack of vaxx, quarantine, or masking enforcement

COVID-19 household relief by president. Direct stimulus: - Trump: $458B > Biden: $405B Total legislative help (w/ UI, CTC, housing): - Trump: $1.2T > Biden: $0.8T Administrative (UI, student loans, taxes): - Trump: $385B > Biden: $290B per CRFB.org This has to change ...

This administration believes in: - Student debt cancellation* - Universal health coverage* - A pathway to citizenship* *The asterisks represent value judgments. The care it doesn't cover? The debt it doesn't cancel? Those become not so much philosophical choices as "fuck yous."

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Free at-home COVID tests are now available to order directly from USPS: special.usps.com/testkits Limited to four per household.

Nice visual from WIDeptHealthServices based on December data in Wisconsin. Adjusted for age and population, those not fully vaccinated suffered 10x more hospitalizations and 14x more deaths.

The most rah-rah ledger you'll find of President Biden's accomplishments. It reads to me as bare-minimum stuff — delaying or minimizing the inevitable. It's like America fell out of a plane, Trump shot our parachute, and Biden replaced it with a few napkins stitched together.

My small town is working on a wholesale revision to its ordinances. Seeking tips on what NIMBY-esque items I should be looking out for in a document that's hundreds of pages. Any help appreciated!

My mom went to CVS wearing a mask, so they asked her if she wanted some free masks. They gave her two boxes of N95s –– there are 440 (!) 3M Auras in each box. lol