C.L. (Cyndi) Pauwels
@clpauwels.bsky.social
Writer, student, seeker of truth. "A conscientious objector to America's current culture" ~ unkn source - https://clpauwels.com/ Random DMs=BLOCK
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ACA marketplace subsidies, which allowed millions of people to afford private health insurance, are set to expire by the end of this year.
For contractors and freelancers in particular, the expiration of these enhanced subsidies could decide whether or not they can afford health insurance.
For contractors and freelancers in particular, the expiration of these enhanced subsidies could decide whether or not they can afford health insurance.
For many contractors, losing ACA subsidies means losing health care
The GOP's unprecedented premium hikes put chronically ill workers—especially freelancers—in peril.
www.motherjones.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
ACA marketplace subsidies, which allowed millions of people to afford private health insurance, are set to expire by the end of this year.
For contractors and freelancers in particular, the expiration of these enhanced subsidies could decide whether or not they can afford health insurance.
For contractors and freelancers in particular, the expiration of these enhanced subsidies could decide whether or not they can afford health insurance.
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Waymo is issuing a software recall for its self-driving cars after reports the company's autonomous vehicles failed to stop for school buses. n.pr/4iGUYWf
Waymo will recall software after its self-driving cars passed stopped school buses
Waymo is issuing a software recall for its self-driving cars after reports the company's autonomous vehicles failed to stop for school buses.
n.pr
December 6, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Waymo is issuing a software recall for its self-driving cars after reports the company's autonomous vehicles failed to stop for school buses. n.pr/4iGUYWf
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For the first time, the Kennedy Center Awards were presented in the tiny Oval Office instead of the Kennedy Center For Performing Arts. Donald used his now-vulgar Oval Office for the ceremony to avoid the embarrassment of TV audiences seeing an almost empty theater.
December 7, 2025 at 1:34 AM
For the first time, the Kennedy Center Awards were presented in the tiny Oval Office instead of the Kennedy Center For Performing Arts. Donald used his now-vulgar Oval Office for the ceremony to avoid the embarrassment of TV audiences seeing an almost empty theater.
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A remarkable threat from the Deputy AG: DOJ’s No. 2 official suggested Thursday that lawyers might have a harder time winning lenient treatment for corporate clients if they’ve publicly accused the Trump administration of being lax on white-collar crime www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Blanche warns lawyers who criticize Justice Department
DOJ’s No. 2 official said says prosecutors see "inconsistency" in attorneys’ private pleas and public commentary.
www.politico.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:48 AM
A remarkable threat from the Deputy AG: DOJ’s No. 2 official suggested Thursday that lawyers might have a harder time winning lenient treatment for corporate clients if they’ve publicly accused the Trump administration of being lax on white-collar crime www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
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Important resource: "The Trump administration has conducted an undeclared war in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean, killing scores of civilians."
@theintercept.com "is chronicling all publicly declared U.S. attacks and providing a tracker with information on each strike."⬇️
@theintercept.com "is chronicling all publicly declared U.S. attacks and providing a tracker with information on each strike."⬇️
The U.S. Killed Four More People in Latest Boat Strike. We’re Tracking Them All.
The Intercept is keeping count of all publicly declared U.S. attacks on boats in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean and the number of civilians killed.
theintercept.com
December 6, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Important resource: "The Trump administration has conducted an undeclared war in the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean, killing scores of civilians."
@theintercept.com "is chronicling all publicly declared U.S. attacks and providing a tracker with information on each strike."⬇️
@theintercept.com "is chronicling all publicly declared U.S. attacks and providing a tracker with information on each strike."⬇️
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An American president is pressuring politicians of his own party on social media by name, even after some of them have received threats and been swatted in the wake of prior Trump postings. This is what experts on political violence call "stochastic terrorism." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump puts screws on Indiana Senators to greenlight a GOP-friendly voting map
The Supreme Court seems unlikely to halt a tsunami of partisan gerrymanders.
www.motherjones.com
December 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
An American president is pressuring politicians of his own party on social media by name, even after some of them have received threats and been swatted in the wake of prior Trump postings. This is what experts on political violence call "stochastic terrorism." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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About 3 million glucose monitoring sensors were potentially affected by a production error that caused incorrect low glucose readings. n.pr/4pQYNub
7 deaths and hundreds of injuries are linked to faulty Abbott glucose monitors
About 3 million glucose monitoring sensors were potentially affected by a production error that caused incorrect low glucose readings.
n.pr
December 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
About 3 million glucose monitoring sensors were potentially affected by a production error that caused incorrect low glucose readings. n.pr/4pQYNub
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The boat wasn’t headed to the U.S., which we would have learned with a little due process instead of murder. www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...
Exclusive: Boat at center of double-tap strike controversy was meeting vessel headed to Suriname, admiral told lawmakers | CNN Politics
The alleged drug traffickers killed by the US military in a strike on September 2 were heading to link up with another, larger vessel that was bound for Suriname — a small South American country east ...
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December 6, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The boat wasn’t headed to the U.S., which we would have learned with a little due process instead of murder. www.cnn.com/2025/12/05/p...
This should be a given nationwide.
Police Chief Brian O’Hara has delivered a blunt message to his department: If an officer witnesses ICE agents using illegal force and fails to step in, they will be fired. 👏 👏 👏
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 5:52 PM
This should be a given nationwide.
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Virtual Reading on Monday 12/8/2025: Help raise funds to support the emergency response rooms in Sudan. Readers include Jericho Brown, Safia Elhillo, Lameese Badr, Natalie Shapero, Martha Collins, David Baker, Sandra Lim, Katie Peterson, and Ladan Osman.
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Emergency Poems: Writers Offer Support Through A Reading for Sudan
By Sarah Green My friend Nathaniel texted me in late October of this year about El Fasher, where Sudanese paramilitary forces had captured the city, where already-starving civilians—including infan…
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December 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Virtual Reading on Monday 12/8/2025: Help raise funds to support the emergency response rooms in Sudan. Readers include Jericho Brown, Safia Elhillo, Lameese Badr, Natalie Shapero, Martha Collins, David Baker, Sandra Lim, Katie Peterson, and Ladan Osman.
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brevity.wordpress.com/2025/12/06/r...
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The US government is summarily executing people on a weekly basis without telling the American people any of their names or presenting any proof of their guilt, for alleged crimes that do not carry the death penalty in the US.
December 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The US government is summarily executing people on a weekly basis without telling the American people any of their names or presenting any proof of their guilt, for alleged crimes that do not carry the death penalty in the US.
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There isn’t much for our Supreme Court to hear, the Constitution is already clear. And just to be absolutely clear: the Supreme Court does not have the power to overrule or rewrite our Constitution.
December 6, 2025 at 3:08 PM
There isn’t much for our Supreme Court to hear, the Constitution is already clear. And just to be absolutely clear: the Supreme Court does not have the power to overrule or rewrite our Constitution.
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Next week, the court will hear the most important campaign finance case since Citizens United. Here’s what you need to know, from one of the lawyers who’s been working on the case. substack.com/home/post/p-...
December 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Next week, the court will hear the most important campaign finance case since Citizens United. Here’s what you need to know, from one of the lawyers who’s been working on the case. substack.com/home/post/p-...
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NEW ORLEANS OFFICIALS: “We insist (Trump’s ICE goons) clearly ID themselves… there is no precedent for masked law enforcement… they have ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY… citizens are being racially profiled, chased, hunted… the chaos and lack of professionalism is ALARMING…”
December 6, 2025 at 1:30 PM
NEW ORLEANS OFFICIALS: “We insist (Trump’s ICE goons) clearly ID themselves… there is no precedent for masked law enforcement… they have ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY… citizens are being racially profiled, chased, hunted… the chaos and lack of professionalism is ALARMING…”
"‘The U.S. poverty line is calculated as 3 times the cost of a minimum food diet in 1963, adjusted for inflation.’ ...the annual income that places an American family of four at the poverty line in 2025, using 1963 domestic budget math, is $32,150."
"As just about any working-class American family will tell you, the real 'distortion of reality' is the idea that a family of four can do anything but suffer on $32,150 a year." Commentary from @danawormald.bsky.social #NHPolitics
How much does it cost to stop being poor in America? • New Hampshire Bulletin
Last month, a Wall Street portfolio manager named Michael Green created a bit of a stir with a Substack article headlined, “How a broken benchmark quietly broke America.” His provocative economic…
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December 6, 2025 at 1:59 PM
"‘The U.S. poverty line is calculated as 3 times the cost of a minimum food diet in 1963, adjusted for inflation.’ ...the annual income that places an American family of four at the poverty line in 2025, using 1963 domestic budget math, is $32,150."
20/20 - plus many/most/all of the various techs since on first home computer (Atari something) in 1985 (?)
December 6, 2025 at 1:53 PM
20/20 - plus many/most/all of the various techs since on first home computer (Atari something) in 1985 (?)
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MURFREESBORO: “MTSU students are mourning the death of professor Ashleigh McKinzie… found shot multiple times 50 miles from campus, a loaded gun next to her… when officers arrived a man was at the scene in possession of a gun— he is not facing charges…” www.wsmv.com/2025/12/05/m...
December 6, 2025 at 5:37 AM
MURFREESBORO: “MTSU students are mourning the death of professor Ashleigh McKinzie… found shot multiple times 50 miles from campus, a loaded gun next to her… when officers arrived a man was at the scene in possession of a gun— he is not facing charges…” www.wsmv.com/2025/12/05/m...
"Observers referred to the document as National Security Council Report (NSC) 88 and noted that it could have been written in just 14 words. White supremacists use 88 to refer to Adolf Hitler and 'fourteen words' to refer to a popular white supremacist slogan."
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December 5, 2025
Late last night, the Trump administration released the 2025 National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States of America.
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December 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
"Observers referred to the document as National Security Council Report (NSC) 88 and noted that it could have been written in just 14 words. White supremacists use 88 to refer to Adolf Hitler and 'fourteen words' to refer to a popular white supremacist slogan."
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JUST NOW: "This is like Alice in Wonderland", Judge Breyer says when trying to get the DOJ to explain to him why what happened in CA is a "rebellion" justifying the deployment of the National Guard. "Words just mean what you want them to mean?"
December 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
JUST NOW: "This is like Alice in Wonderland", Judge Breyer says when trying to get the DOJ to explain to him why what happened in CA is a "rebellion" justifying the deployment of the National Guard. "Words just mean what you want them to mean?"
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He commits crimes against humanity to stop “drug traffickers” while pardoning a notorious drug trafficker.
He attacks veterans while committing treason.
Make it stop.
He attacks veterans while committing treason.
Make it stop.
December 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM
He commits crimes against humanity to stop “drug traffickers” while pardoning a notorious drug trafficker.
He attacks veterans while committing treason.
Make it stop.
He attacks veterans while committing treason.
Make it stop.
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wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
December 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
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The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.
December 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
The White House surrenders at 138 million views. Sabrina wins.