Notices by Tony, Pretty Much (tonystark@progressivecafe.social), page 2

Removing healthcare subsidies will destroy people's lives. Medical debt in this country is the highest in the world and without health insurance families will lose their homes and more. By families I also mean you. And me. And your kids. And your parents.

ACA premiums to more than double without enhanced subsidies: KFF
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/30/aca-premiums-to-more-than-double-without-enhanced-subsidies.html

My second reminder that no one needs to believe any information the Trump administration puts out, including Kash Patel’s FBI.

This administration lies constantly and always blames Democrats for everything, usually without evidence and often counter to the evidence. So I will discount all of their announcements because I have no reason to trust anything they say.

Turns out you actually need people in these jobs.

*cue Curb Your Enthusiasm music*

Former GSA employees laid off by DOGE receive reinstatement offers:
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5519449-trump-administration-doge-rehiring/

No, New. York Times, this doesn't "test the limits.”

It fucking eradicates them. Unbelievable normalizing of fascism as usual.

If voting doesn’t matter how come Republicans voted and are getting what they want all the time?

The people who told you that 100% scammed you.

Supreme Court will consider expanding Trump’s firing power | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/trump-fire-ftc-commissioner-supreme-court-2149d7c3802b3ddea6e157d3a0afd292

No one is getting cheap groceries. Palestine isn’t free. Everyone’s ability to hold Republicans accountable is eroding away.

Eliminating the ability of the EPA to show the harm caused by greenhouse gases is protecting the bottom line of corporations over protecting the long-term health of Americans.

More important to this country to keep one woman out of office, I guess.

Trump administration plans to end EPA's greenhouse gas tracking program for industrial facilities:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/epa-greenhouse-gas-tracking-program-lee-zeldin-trump-administration/

“Senate Republicans cheat to mass confirm nominees with absolutely no experience that will harm the country.”

Fixed your headline for you.

Senate Republicans confirm 48 Trump nominees at once | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/senate-nominations-trump-rules-change-confirmation-a84e49fb5f6e433bf6fc9e92d2bd968b

Free speech was pretty good while we had it. Good luck getting it back, dumbest electorate on the planet.

ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after remarks about Charlie Kirk | CNN Business
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/media/jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk-trump-fcc-brendan-carr

There’s no way to adequately state how bad this is.

What really worries me is how pollution always hits the less well off the hardest. If you’re wealthy, you can just escape or buy something. But working people don’t have that option. They’re the ones who end up living right next to the factories, the highways, or whatever it is that’s polluting.

This country really fucked up.

Trump admin won’t make polluters report how much they’ve polluted | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/12/climate/epa-polluters-reporting-trump

Honestly, the right for years has called Democrats woke brunch-eating elite wimps who drive around in electric cars and lecture people about DEI and libraries being cool and now they want us to take the blame for all the violence they’re committing?

Give me a fucking break.

It’s always “keep politics out of sports” unless sports owners can find a racist white guy to elevate.

Packers hold moment of silence for Charlie Kirk:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/2025/09/11/packers-charlie-kirk-moment-of-silence/86103383007/

Imagine if Democrats were going on and on about a podcaster’s death and wanting to memorialize him in the Capitol instead of talking about the economy or healthcare or jobs.

Legacy media would be melting down.

If there is a political aspect to the death of a right wing podcaster, I can point out exactly which person caused political violence to begin to be normalized again in the United States, if anyone wants.

Trump Implies 'Second Amendment People' Could Stop Clinton : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2016/08/09/489363581/trump-implies-second-amendment-people-could-stop-clinton

I absolutely condemn murdering people on a school campus or a street or in their homes or anywhere else. I’ve been really clear about it. Why? Because applauding it makes more of it and we don’t get to pick who gets killed. It’s not about “karma” or who deserves it. That’s not how it works. That’s not how anything works.

However, the New York Yankees having moments of silence and lowering flags to half mast for an aspiring Nazi instead of children shot within the same hour is a real choice.

No one has no idea who did it or why, and assumptions about such things have been proven wrong many times - including last year - because so often people who do these things are deeply disturbed.

Nobody knows. Not entertaining that from anyone.

We interrupt this broadcast about a well known person being shot for a report of more regular school kids being shot.

When will Republicans come to the table about gun violence?

At least 3 students injured in shooting at Colorado high school: Officials - ABC News
https://abcnews.go.com/US/shooting-reported-colorado-high-school-2-kids-transported/story?id=125452526

Orem, Utah. Not a blue city.

Just keeping the facts straight.

The United States has lost 42,000 manufacturing jobs since April 2nd and 12,000 just in August.

Almost 10,000 jobs lost a month since Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’.

The U.S. is losing thousands of manufacturing jobs, analysis finds - CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jobs-manufacturing-trump-tariffs-economy/

The American people elected one of the biggest perverts/rapists of all time as President...twice. Both times over very qualified women.

Blame some voters in this country for once.

There are a group of judges who are essentially standing between us and full on fascism.

This decision, as with many of them, was made by a judge appointed by a Democrat. So congratulations to those of you understood the assignment in the 90s and voted for Bill Clinton. You helped.

But of course Trump is appealing. So hope these things don’t get to SCOTUS, because a lot of voters in 2024 failed the assignment.

Trump appeals ruling on National Guard LA deployment:
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/03/trump-appeals-california-national-guard-deployment.html