Addressing threats to health care's core values, and now larger threats to the democracy needed to advance health and welfare
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The question inside Trump's White House wasn't whether suspending habeas corpus was a good idea. It was how much the administration could get away with before the courts stopped them.
That's a warning worth paying attention to.
Read here:
joycevance.substack.com/p/the-questi...
Joyce White Vance
[So far, I haven't seen any major media coverage of this, especially No Kings/Indivisible concert and 500 watch parties] ‘Reeks of corruption’: protesters rally as Trump hosts UFC event on his birthday- Demonstrations took off in Washington and across US www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
They were seriously debating using the military to throw anyone who disagreed with them in jail…
To those of you publishing guileless headlines quoting DHS today as if they are a credible source, a reminder: presswatchers.org/2025/11/dhss...
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The president's announcement that the July 4th event in DC celebrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence will be a "TRUMP RALLY" completes the MAGA takeover of the country's birthday that started last year. www.motherjones.com/politics/202....
Problem wasn’t the fighting. It "was the tonally incoherent emulsion of patriotism and bloodlust, history and buy-this-crap, an event happening for the people but tucked behind a Paramount+ paywall" We've always been violent, but "such a shameless" country?" www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
"Vance got to the point. They needed to invoke the Insurrection Act, swiftly, to crush the unrest in Minnesota. It would be painful in the short term, he said, but the message it would send — that paid agitators can't get away with disrupting ICE operations — would make sure no one tried it again."
[When private equity came to health care] Mass General Brigham tried to resurrect closed hospital, but ex-Steward partner raised the price even more [Steward, built by private equity, bought many hospitals, went bankrupt after investors and managers profited] www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/15/b...
The UFC extravaganza at the White House was not a celebration of a sport, it was a celebration of slop. We have always been a violent country, but have we always been such a shameless one?
Department staffers investigating the Warner acquisition were leaning toward recommending a challenge to the merger, people familiar with the matter say.
Trump's July 4: "We are going to host the most spectacular TRUMP RALLY of them all, a ‘TRIBUTE TO AMERICA,’" Turning it all into extreme politics, on our dime, in the peoples' capitol. We are the con man's ultimate mark www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
The previously planned event for the country’s anniversary will feature the president’s playlist and his keynote address, he said.
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[Not called political leadership for nothing] The DOJ’s senior leadership closed an investigation of Paramount’s bid for Warner Bros Discovery before career staffers who were concerned about the acquisition had an opportunity to object www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Department staffers investigating the Warner acquisition were leaning toward recommending a challenge to the merger, people familiar with the matter say.
