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I like these two a lil guys. just a lil. 🤏 I really wish there was a comic arc that would show the rocky parts of their bond... like.. i refuse to believe that Ellie just simply likes Wade. I'd think there'd be tension with him avoiding her and being absent by choice TT... but oh well... i have an ipad... i can... do it myself... 🤡

also. Here's Peter being Ellie's tutor 💀

I had to take a lap around the building so I wouldn't be cackling at my desk.

Reason #13668893+316i why we are in this mess.

Democrats passed the affordable care act, passed the infrastructure bill, got rid of junk fees, lowered prescription costs, gave civil rights, protections, forgave student loans, etc.

Everything the republicans are doing is undoing the work of democrats. Yall would rather sit there on your flat asses and make these weakass centrist takes than actually have the courage to face what is happening with clarity.

The Supreme Court has had a conservative majority since Nixon was in office. In the last 60 years, Republicans have filled 15 SCOTUS seats; Democrats have filled 5.

The only time in recent history that Democrats controlled TWO of the branches of government — both chambers of Congress and the presidency — they passed the ACA.

Millions of people are alive because of it. No one seems to want to remember or acknowledge that people used to be denied insurance because they needed medical care.

Like cutting the child poverty rate by 30%

How it worked was kind of complicated and convoluted, but briefly lifted a huge number of kids out of poverty. One of our congresspeople here had been fighting for a version of this for 20+ years and very briefly got it.

but to get it passed AT ALL, it had a sunset clause in there. And it went away.

But it happened.

Justice40 reprioritized a huge number of grants from existing programs to now go to historically underserved communities that had suffered from underfunding and redlining. (40% was supposed to go to those) But it's loads of small projects in EXISTING programs so you never saw that. But that guidance on priorities was in the first month of Biden's administation.

Last year, provision kicked in where employers could now treat your student loan payments as if you'd made a contribution to a 401K retirement plan... and match your payments. again, complicated math, a little hard to explain, but a functional pay boost to a LOT of people because they otherwise would have gotten zero dollars there. they can't touch those dollars til years from now, but that may keep them out of poverty later in life. And that's just an adminstrative shift.