Let them eat Melania biscuits. #Affordability.
Black cakes and branded buckets: welcome to the White House premiere for Brett Ratner’s Melania movie
https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2026/jan/26/melania-amazon-authorised-documentary-white-house-premiere

I don't always have a good start on a morning, so this was a help
https://youtu.be/bF_a_w7Dozo

#affordability #costofliving #householdbills #hope

I don't always have a good start on a morning, so this was a help
https://youtu.be/bF_a_w7Dozo

#affordability #costofliving #householdbills #hope

@heidilifeldman

Trump’s return to the White House was built on the back of people’s fears. Fear of immigrants, fear of trans folks and bathroom access, fear of #affordability

The reality of #Trumpist policy is the unnecessary death of a young women unable to access once routine #healthcare

This story is drowned out by wave upon wave of madness whether it is the tragedy of #reneegood or threats directed at #Greenland. Next week it will be something else

#USPolitics #USPol

If you're in the #rural US, when you pay your bills, you're likely paying a #coop, even if you don't realize it.

By landmass, most of this country's #energy distribution is serviced by rural electric cooperatives.

There will be a free, four-part training series for rural residents who want to use grassroots power to work toward greater energy #affordability, #reliability, and #sustainability.

More info here:
https://www.shareable.net/working-towards-energy-affordability-in-rural-america/

If you're in the #rural US, when you pay your bills, you're likely paying a #coop, even if you don't realize it.

By landmass, most of this country's #energy distribution is serviced by rural electric cooperatives.

There will be a free, four-part training series for rural residents who want to use grassroots power to work toward greater energy #affordability, #reliability, and #sustainability.

More info here:
https://www.shareable.net/working-towards-energy-affordability-in-rural-america/

"Cooperative enterprises address market failure: provide rural electricity or other utilities in sparsely populated areas; affordable healthy and organic foods; access to credit and banking services; access to affordable housing; access to quality affordable child or elder care; access to markets for culturally sensitive goods & arts."

#Cooperatives
#Scarcity
#MarketFailure
#Affordability
#Access

https://prospect.org/2025/12/22/demands-for-data-center-moratoriums-surge/

Maybe this will bring these folks down before they burn down the world.

#ai #genai #techbros #billionaires #plutocrats #oligarchs #datacenters #democracy #justice #affordability #humanrights #labor

Though #MikeJohnson had signaled openness to allowing debate on the proposal, he ultimately rejected a bid to do so by politically vulnerable #Republicans who had hoped for a vote that would, at the very least, allow them to show voters they had tried to avoid rising premiums.

#Trump #House #Congress #healthcare #law #policy #HealthInsurance #insurance #AffordableCareAct #ACA #subsidies #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #affordability #CostOfLiving #CostOfDying

Speaker #MikeJohnson on Tuesday shut the door on a vote to extend #AffordableCareAct subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year, bucking moderates in his party who had urged action to prevent millions of Americans from facing higher #health care costs starting Jan 1.

#Trump #Republicans #Congress #healthcare #law #policy #HealthInsurance #insurance #ACA #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #affordability #CostOfLiving #CostOfDying
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/us/politics/obamacare-subsidies-house.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

"Make no mistake: Trump wasn’t president because of his policies, his qualifications, or even primarily because of his base. He was president because America’s wealthiest class funded his rise, protected his power, and enabled his worst instincts, at least so long as he delivered the goods."

~ Thom Hartmann

#Trump #economy #affordability #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #tariffs #dolls #pencils #ApprovalRating #ballroom
/14

https://hartmannreport.com/p/chapter-5-powered-by-plutocrats

#Affordability?
"Energy bills in US have increased 13% since Trump took office."
Why?
Trump cancelled 25,000 MWe of new (cheaper renewable) power plants, while demand is surging due to data centers and other uses, causing prices to rise and consumers to pay more.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/energy-bills-us-increased-13-trump-office-new/story

Though #MikeJohnson had signaled openness to allowing debate on the proposal, he ultimately rejected a bid to do so by politically vulnerable #Republicans who had hoped for a vote that would, at the very least, allow them to show voters they had tried to avoid rising premiums.

#Trump #House #Congress #healthcare #law #policy #HealthInsurance #insurance #AffordableCareAct #ACA #subsidies #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #affordability #CostOfLiving #CostOfDying

Speaker #MikeJohnson on Tuesday shut the door on a vote to extend #AffordableCareAct subsidies that are set to expire at the end of the year, bucking moderates in his party who had urged action to prevent millions of Americans from facing higher #health care costs starting Jan 1.

#Trump #Republicans #Congress #healthcare #law #policy #HealthInsurance #insurance #ACA #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #affordability #CostOfLiving #CostOfDying
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/us/politics/obamacare-subsidies-house.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

#Affordability?
"Energy bills in US have increased 13% since Trump took office."
Why?
Trump cancelled 25,000 MWe of new (cheaper renewable) power plants, while demand is surging due to data centers and other uses, causing prices to rise and consumers to pay more.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/energy-bills-us-increased-13-trump-office-new/story

"Make no mistake: Trump wasn’t president because of his policies, his qualifications, or even primarily because of his base. He was president because America’s wealthiest class funded his rise, protected his power, and enabled his worst instincts, at least so long as he delivered the goods."

~ Thom Hartmann

#Trump #economy #affordability #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #tariffs #dolls #pencils #ApprovalRating #ballroom
/14

https://hartmannreport.com/p/chapter-5-powered-by-plutocrats

"Which is amazing when he himself is plating everything he can in the White House in gold and building a 200, you know, actually it's now 300 or 400 million dollar glorious ballroom. And at the same time, lecturing people that they've never had it better. I don't think any of that seems to be working."

#Trump #economy #affordability #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #tariffs #dolls #pencils #ApprovalRating #ballroom
/13

"The highlights from that speech are just... I mean, he's telling people you're doing better than you've ever done. Again, going back to you don't need 37 dolls, you know, two or three are nice. You know, school kids, children just need a few pencils, not a whole box of them."

~ Joe Trippi

https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/trump-is-weaving-right-into-an-oncoming

#Trump #economy #affordability #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #tariffs #dolls #pencils #ApprovalRating #ballroom
/12

"Same dollar. Five commitments. Zero proof. Zero possibility. ...

The 'tariff shelf' is a prop. Trillions are fiction. Promises are illusions."

#Trump #economy #affordability #EconomicElites #TaxCuts #tariffs #dolls #pencils #ApprovalRating #ballroom
/11