@kkmilkyway.bsky.social
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if you are insured, in all likelihood.. you got a SUBSIDY to buy health insurance.
WE ALL GET TAX SUBSIDIES TO BUY HEALTH INSURANCE
Those with employer insurance (60% of us) get subsidies TEN TIMES higher than the costs of the ACA subsidies.
So why only attack the ACA/Obamacare subsidies?
WE ALL GET TAX SUBSIDIES TO BUY HEALTH INSURANCE
Those with employer insurance (60% of us) get subsidies TEN TIMES higher than the costs of the ACA subsidies.
So why only attack the ACA/Obamacare subsidies?
A complaint: extending ACA/marketplace enhanced premium tax credits would be expensive.
It would cost $35 billion/year to extend marketplace credits.
In contrast the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance cost $299 billion/year in 2022
taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-boo...
It would cost $35 billion/year to extend marketplace credits.
In contrast the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance cost $299 billion/year in 2022
taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-boo...
November 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
if you are insured, in all likelihood.. you got a SUBSIDY to buy health insurance.
WE ALL GET TAX SUBSIDIES TO BUY HEALTH INSURANCE
Those with employer insurance (60% of us) get subsidies TEN TIMES higher than the costs of the ACA subsidies.
So why only attack the ACA/Obamacare subsidies?
WE ALL GET TAX SUBSIDIES TO BUY HEALTH INSURANCE
Those with employer insurance (60% of us) get subsidies TEN TIMES higher than the costs of the ACA subsidies.
So why only attack the ACA/Obamacare subsidies?
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I have lost more sleep over ocean acidification than any other environmental disaster. A new study finds that it's even worse than we thought.
This article is succinct & well-written, but it was painful for me to read. If you don't know about ocean acidification, please read it. No pay wall.
This article is succinct & well-written, but it was painful for me to read. If you don't know about ocean acidification, please read it. No pay wall.
‘Ticking timebomb’: sea acidity has reached critical levels, threatening entire ecosystems – study
Ocean acidification has already crossed a crucial threshold for planetary health, scientists say in unexpected finding
www.theguardian.com
June 17, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I have lost more sleep over ocean acidification than any other environmental disaster. A new study finds that it's even worse than we thought.
This article is succinct & well-written, but it was painful for me to read. If you don't know about ocean acidification, please read it. No pay wall.
This article is succinct & well-written, but it was painful for me to read. If you don't know about ocean acidification, please read it. No pay wall.
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Read for yourself this provision of the reconciliation bill, which is the current text just released by the House Rules Committee.
Then read: Dean Erwin Chemerinsky's essay this morning in @justsecurity.org.
Chemerinsky's essay is titled: "A Terrible Idea"
www.justsecurity.org/113529/terri...
Then read: Dean Erwin Chemerinsky's essay this morning in @justsecurity.org.
Chemerinsky's essay is titled: "A Terrible Idea"
www.justsecurity.org/113529/terri...
May 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Read for yourself this provision of the reconciliation bill, which is the current text just released by the House Rules Committee.
Then read: Dean Erwin Chemerinsky's essay this morning in @justsecurity.org.
Chemerinsky's essay is titled: "A Terrible Idea"
www.justsecurity.org/113529/terri...
Then read: Dean Erwin Chemerinsky's essay this morning in @justsecurity.org.
Chemerinsky's essay is titled: "A Terrible Idea"
www.justsecurity.org/113529/terri...
University research drives innovation which drives our economy and wellbeing in all aspects of life.
Actions against Harvard this week have Consequences on the “standing of American higher education in the world”
But the letter to Harvard was sent by mistake? 👀
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...
Actions against Harvard this week have Consequences on the “standing of American higher education in the world”
But the letter to Harvard was sent by mistake? 👀
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...
Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard (Gift Article)
An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.
www.nytimes.com
April 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
University research drives innovation which drives our economy and wellbeing in all aspects of life.
Actions against Harvard this week have Consequences on the “standing of American higher education in the world”
But the letter to Harvard was sent by mistake? 👀
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...
Actions against Harvard this week have Consequences on the “standing of American higher education in the world”
But the letter to Harvard was sent by mistake? 👀
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/18/b...
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One point that's going to get lost in the discussion of #SCOTUS's intervention in the Alien Enemy Act case:
This is the *value* of nationwide injunctions. Without them, you have to go district by district, and the government can try to play games by moving people to districts without relief (yet).
This is the *value* of nationwide injunctions. Without them, you have to go district by district, and the government can try to play games by moving people to districts without relief (yet).
April 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
One point that's going to get lost in the discussion of #SCOTUS's intervention in the Alien Enemy Act case:
This is the *value* of nationwide injunctions. Without them, you have to go district by district, and the government can try to play games by moving people to districts without relief (yet).
This is the *value* of nationwide injunctions. Without them, you have to go district by district, and the government can try to play games by moving people to districts without relief (yet).
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Spread this! Be informed. Know your amendment rights!
April 16, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Spread this! Be informed. Know your amendment rights!
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If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
April 14, 2025 at 5:54 PM
If the U.S. government is going to take the position that, once removed from the United States, folks can’t be brought back, then it sure seems to me that federal courts should be reflexively and categorically barring *all* removals until they’re 100 percent certain that the removals are lawful.
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STAND and DEMAND the immediate return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
BRING HIM HOME!
Abrego Garcia is a SMART Local 100 first-year apprentice who was working full-time to support his young family — before he was brutally abducted and illegally deported to El Salvador.
SMART General President…
BRING HIM HOME!
Abrego Garcia is a SMART Local 100 first-year apprentice who was working full-time to support his young family — before he was brutally abducted and illegally deported to El Salvador.
SMART General President…
April 13, 2025 at 4:00 AM
STAND and DEMAND the immediate return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
BRING HIM HOME!
Abrego Garcia is a SMART Local 100 first-year apprentice who was working full-time to support his young family — before he was brutally abducted and illegally deported to El Salvador.
SMART General President…
BRING HIM HOME!
Abrego Garcia is a SMART Local 100 first-year apprentice who was working full-time to support his young family — before he was brutally abducted and illegally deported to El Salvador.
SMART General President…
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Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration.
So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives.
So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory
So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives.
So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory
April 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration.
So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives.
So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory
So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives.
So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory
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Nice to see 500 law firms banding together to support of the rule of law!
NEWS: More than 500 law firms sign on to an amicus brief in support of Perkins Coie amid the firm’s legal battle against Trump’s executive order targeting its business.
Read the list of firms that signed the brief authored by former SG Don Verrilli:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Read the list of firms that signed the brief authored by former SG Don Verrilli:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
April 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Nice to see 500 law firms banding together to support of the rule of law!
I guess I’ll delay my retirement.
www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...
www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...
Trump’s Tariffs Wipe Out Over $6 Trillion on Wall Street in Epic Two-Day Rout
The selloff capped the worst week since 2020, as fears of a recession mount
www.wsj.com
April 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I guess I’ll delay my retirement.
www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...
www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...
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Hey North Carolina
🚨🚨Calling all North Carolina voters!! Here is a list of every voter that Jefferson Griffin is trying to disenfranchise, please if you are a NC voter check to see if your name is on here, you have 15 days to cure your ballot to make sure your vote counts. thegriffinlist.com/assets/griff...
thegriffinlist.com
April 4, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Hey North Carolina
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“As a little girl growing up in Chippewa Falls,” Judge Susan Crawford said in her victory speech, “I never could have imagined that I’d be taking on the richest man in the world for justice in Wisconsin. And we won.”
April 2, 2025 at 8:24 AM
“As a little girl growing up in Chippewa Falls,” Judge Susan Crawford said in her victory speech, “I never could have imagined that I’d be taking on the richest man in the world for justice in Wisconsin. And we won.”
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The CDC has literally been gutted today.
There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet.
Thousand of scientists fired.
Entire departments erased.
1/
There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet.
Thousand of scientists fired.
Entire departments erased.
1/
April 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
The CDC has literally been gutted today.
There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet.
Thousand of scientists fired.
Entire departments erased.
1/
There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet.
Thousand of scientists fired.
Entire departments erased.
1/
American brain drain has begun. As in all nations that degrade into authoritarian regimes.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving
More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.
www.nature.com
April 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
American brain drain has begun. As in all nations that degrade into authoritarian regimes.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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April 1, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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We have just 24 hours until polls open here in Florida on Tuesday! This last stretch is crucial for turning out voters but to do that we need to run ads, pay canvassers, and make sure we have voter support hotlines available. Help out here:
Support Josh Weil in the Special Election!
Show your support with a contribution.
secure.actblue.com
March 31, 2025 at 11:01 AM
We have just 24 hours until polls open here in Florida on Tuesday! This last stretch is crucial for turning out voters but to do that we need to run ads, pay canvassers, and make sure we have voter support hotlines available. Help out here:
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Wow. Rep. Jake Auchincloss minces no words about Signalgate on Piers Morgan: “Pete Hegseth is lying to the American people, lying to Congress, lying to the military.” “It’s incompetence incarnate…It’s embarrassing & it’s dangerous.”
This is how it’s done.
This is how it’s done.
March 31, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Wow. Rep. Jake Auchincloss minces no words about Signalgate on Piers Morgan: “Pete Hegseth is lying to the American people, lying to Congress, lying to the military.” “It’s incompetence incarnate…It’s embarrassing & it’s dangerous.”
This is how it’s done.
This is how it’s done.
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Crucial point from @jenrubin.bsky.social: The Hegseth fiasco is on GOP Senators, and "concern" won't cut it anymore.
"If they're afraid to be challenged in a primary or have mean tweets put out about them, then they aren’t fit for public office."
Listen on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/1933...
"If they're afraid to be challenged in a primary or have mean tweets put out about them, then they aren’t fit for public office."
Listen on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/1933...
Trump Text Fiasco Suddenly Worsens as MAGA Knives Come Out for Hegseth
As Trump allies begin turning on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth amid the darkening war-text scandal, Jennifer Rubin of The Contrarian explains why this will grow politically untenable for Trump and th...
newrepublic.com
March 31, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Crucial point from @jenrubin.bsky.social: The Hegseth fiasco is on GOP Senators, and "concern" won't cut it anymore.
"If they're afraid to be challenged in a primary or have mean tweets put out about them, then they aren’t fit for public office."
Listen on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/1933...
"If they're afraid to be challenged in a primary or have mean tweets put out about them, then they aren’t fit for public office."
Listen on the pod:
newrepublic.com/article/1933...
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Only one can do something 💕🙏🏻
March 30, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Only one can do something 💕🙏🏻