Ineffable Benthic Pulchritude (braveiowan on bird app)
@anineffablegrump.bsky.social
Iowa. Root beer floats. #YNWA. If martin buber and EM Cioran had a baby and it married Italo Calvino's punk rock estranged kid, and they had a kid. Middling. Former licensed attorney, video store owner and floor layer.
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Nice summary of our paper and related work by @tomdee.bsky.social and @kslungaardmumma.bsky.social here.
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/10/i...
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/10/i...
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Nice summary of our paper and related work by @tomdee.bsky.social and @kslungaardmumma.bsky.social here.
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/10/i...
www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/10/i...
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UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.
An important vote in this series: Tammy Baldwin’s proposal to extend ACA expiring funds for 1 year. It’s structured as a motion to table (i.e. scrap it from the amendment tree). But it’ll show the appetite (or lack thereof) in the Senate to address this issue.
November 11, 2025 at 12:38 AM
UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.
Well, this was a read. I *think* legally, the courts correct re: Lee but also Mallory had a good faith basis for pursuing a charge and Lee probably was not wise to post any of it. Legally allowed sure. Weird layercake. I dislike everyone involved lol
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Well, this was a read. I *think* legally, the courts correct re: Lee but also Mallory had a good faith basis for pursuing a charge and Lee probably was not wise to post any of it. Legally allowed sure. Weird layercake. I dislike everyone involved lol
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This wouldn't be the first doctor to badly misunderstand how health insurance works but it's among the worst.
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 10:32 PM
This wouldn't be the first doctor to badly misunderstand how health insurance works but it's among the worst.
These remakes are getting out of hand
November 10, 2025 at 9:27 PM
These remakes are getting out of hand
From Insane Clown Posse's lips to Trump's ears
He did the thing.
"F*cking magnets, how do they work?"
youtu.be/_-agl0pOQfs?...
Juggalos need proper attribution, this is plagiarism of the highest order
He did the thing.
"F*cking magnets, how do they work?"
youtu.be/_-agl0pOQfs?...
Juggalos need proper attribution, this is plagiarism of the highest order
November 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
From Insane Clown Posse's lips to Trump's ears
He did the thing.
"F*cking magnets, how do they work?"
youtu.be/_-agl0pOQfs?...
Juggalos need proper attribution, this is plagiarism of the highest order
He did the thing.
"F*cking magnets, how do they work?"
youtu.be/_-agl0pOQfs?...
Juggalos need proper attribution, this is plagiarism of the highest order
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"My father remained at the Texas detention center until October. During those six months, he went completely blind in one eye and lost most of the vision in the other, because he wasn’t receiving adequate medical care for his Type 2 diabetes."
From @vanessalop.bsky.social: He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2...
He worked hard to give me a home. ICE took his: How I lost my father to deportation
Deportation has taken away the father I once knew and given me back a person I no longer recognize.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
"My father remained at the Texas detention center until October. During those six months, he went completely blind in one eye and lost most of the vision in the other, because he wasn’t receiving adequate medical care for his Type 2 diabetes."
The symmetry of asymmetrical approaches to symmetry
Iowa politics in one side by side
@iowademocrats.bsky.social you guys, cmon. Come tf on. What are we doing here.
Iowa politics in one side by side
@iowademocrats.bsky.social you guys, cmon. Come tf on. What are we doing here.
November 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
The symmetry of asymmetrical approaches to symmetry
Iowa politics in one side by side
@iowademocrats.bsky.social you guys, cmon. Come tf on. What are we doing here.
Iowa politics in one side by side
@iowademocrats.bsky.social you guys, cmon. Come tf on. What are we doing here.
My ongoing theory is that the Galloways of the world dont realize what theyre asking for is "Jane Austen but for Men" in a world where Jane Austen's patriarchal social dynamics are weakened but not exactly reversed. To put it another way...
November 10, 2025 at 8:35 PM
My ongoing theory is that the Galloways of the world dont realize what theyre asking for is "Jane Austen but for Men" in a world where Jane Austen's patriarchal social dynamics are weakened but not exactly reversed. To put it another way...
Hell of a photo. Warped reflection. Absence of tourists. For the obscure, its in sightline of the still existing, hamlin garland fame "cliff dwellers" club. Eat an overpriced lunch steak, take in the federal view.
Border Patrol agents posed at "The Bean" for an apparent photo op after a weekend of clashes in Little Village. blockclubchi.co/4oUHKae
November 10, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Hell of a photo. Warped reflection. Absence of tourists. For the obscure, its in sightline of the still existing, hamlin garland fame "cliff dwellers" club. Eat an overpriced lunch steak, take in the federal view.
Your constituents? This is what i found from today in new hampshire. Lets see the op-ed author..... Are you kidding me?
November 10, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Your constituents? This is what i found from today in new hampshire. Lets see the op-ed author..... Are you kidding me?
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Sen. Lucy Football (D-NH)
Agree.
Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."
This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.
Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."
This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.
November 10, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Sen. Lucy Football (D-NH)
Yeah and i think mod dems were worried if they blew it up, theyd know dems could blow past it too in the future and theyd have to pass policy then
Maybe im just upset tonight
Maybe im just upset tonight
It was totally working. They were going to have to blow up the damned filibuster.
Sen. Angus King on why Democrats caved: "It wasn't working."
November 10, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Yeah and i think mod dems were worried if they blew it up, theyd know dems could blow past it too in the future and theyd have to pass policy then
Maybe im just upset tonight
Maybe im just upset tonight
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Tuesday’s elections were NOT about the Democratic Party.
They were about candidates focusing on the wants and needs of their constituents; about new leaders prepared to fight; about representation in every sense of the word.
Party leaders haven’t absorbed this yet.
They were about candidates focusing on the wants and needs of their constituents; about new leaders prepared to fight; about representation in every sense of the word.
Party leaders haven’t absorbed this yet.
November 10, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Tuesday’s elections were NOT about the Democratic Party.
They were about candidates focusing on the wants and needs of their constituents; about new leaders prepared to fight; about representation in every sense of the word.
Party leaders haven’t absorbed this yet.
They were about candidates focusing on the wants and needs of their constituents; about new leaders prepared to fight; about representation in every sense of the word.
Party leaders haven’t absorbed this yet.
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Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
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Without a warrant, law enforcers surreptitiously install video cameras looking over a man's eight-foot privacy fence; Eleventh Circuit says ten-month surveillance okay because part of man's backyard was visible from a different angle. Cato cert brief argues for tougher 4A standard [Matt Cavedon]
Williamson v. United States Brief: Ten Months of Warrantless Video Surveillance Violates the Fourth Amendment
The Eleventh Circuit’s decision would invite the warrantless deployment of these technologies against any part of the home considered “exposed to the public.” Such a result would enable “near-perfect ...
www.cato.org
November 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Without a warrant, law enforcers surreptitiously install video cameras looking over a man's eight-foot privacy fence; Eleventh Circuit says ten-month surveillance okay because part of man's backyard was visible from a different angle. Cato cert brief argues for tougher 4A standard [Matt Cavedon]
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
Im too old to meme well
November 9, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Im too old to meme well
Its all i got
November 9, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Its all i got
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Opinion | Trump Aid Cuts Kill More Christians Than Jihadists Do
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:20 AM
40 men Trump sent to CECOT tell the NYT they were beaten, tortured, and sexually assaulted. The details are worse than you can imagine.
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
We can’t let them get away with this. Miller and the other architects of this sadism need to go to prison.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
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I am licensed in multiple states for health insurance and I have my 2026 FFM certification for ACA plans
Off-exchange plans are still offered by insurance carriers, and the money would still be going to them, but without the benefits and discounts available through the exchange
Off-exchange plans are still offered by insurance carriers, and the money would still be going to them, but without the benefits and discounts available through the exchange
Trump: "I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE."
November 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I am licensed in multiple states for health insurance and I have my 2026 FFM certification for ACA plans
Off-exchange plans are still offered by insurance carriers, and the money would still be going to them, but without the benefits and discounts available through the exchange
Off-exchange plans are still offered by insurance carriers, and the money would still be going to them, but without the benefits and discounts available through the exchange
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lol. The "religious freedom" crusaders are literally trying to ban people from praying outside of immigration jails.
“Federal authorities told demonstrators Friday that there would be ‘no more prayer’ in front of or inside the Broadview ICE facility, in a move that mystified local leaders and raised legal questions.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f...
Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
blockclubchicago.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
lol. The "religious freedom" crusaders are literally trying to ban people from praying outside of immigration jails.
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New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks.
I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:
I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:
The voices of SNAP
Recipients have become political pawns. They explained, in their own words, what Trump withholding funds has been like.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks.
I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:
I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food: