Mary Nasca
@mnasca.bsky.social
She/her
Believes that people should have autonomy over their bodies.
Believes in social justice, equality & equity for all. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Believes no one should be disappeared to a foreign country or concentration camp.
Believes that people should have autonomy over their bodies.
Believes in social justice, equality & equity for all. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
Believes no one should be disappeared to a foreign country or concentration camp.
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KFF's estimate that out-of-pocket ACA premiums will increase if enhanced tax credits expire by an average of 114% has been widely reported. But, it varies a lot, especially by income. Here's what increases look like in dollar terms -- from $378 at $18,000 to $1,836 at $45,000.
November 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
KFF's estimate that out-of-pocket ACA premiums will increase if enhanced tax credits expire by an average of 114% has been widely reported. But, it varies a lot, especially by income. Here's what increases look like in dollar terms -- from $378 at $18,000 to $1,836 at $45,000.
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Roughly 1 in 4 domestic violence homicide victims in Tennessee’s five biggest cities were allegedly shot by someone who was legally barred from having a gun. @paigepfleger.bsky.social @wpln.bsky.social @mariamelba.bsky.social
How a Gap in Tennessee’s Probation System Leaves Domestic Violence Victims in Danger
Probation officers pause in-person visits and home searches for offenders facing an arrest warrant. That reduced supervision can last for months — in one case it was over a year. Six mothers died duri...
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November 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Roughly 1 in 4 domestic violence homicide victims in Tennessee’s five biggest cities were allegedly shot by someone who was legally barred from having a gun. @paigepfleger.bsky.social @wpln.bsky.social @mariamelba.bsky.social
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Happy Tuesday everyone! Today we have 735 new design patents, a new mayor of NYC, and a group of spineless senators. I'm going to celebrate the first two, starting with D1101354, issued for an inflatable costume.
If you're going to do something today, at least be fabulous.
#DesignPatents
If you're going to do something today, at least be fabulous.
#DesignPatents
November 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Happy Tuesday everyone! Today we have 735 new design patents, a new mayor of NYC, and a group of spineless senators. I'm going to celebrate the first two, starting with D1101354, issued for an inflatable costume.
If you're going to do something today, at least be fabulous.
#DesignPatents
If you're going to do something today, at least be fabulous.
#DesignPatents
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Republicans have destroyed health care in our country. Millions will go without care, and people will die. Yet again, Republicans have shown their priorities begin and end with helping billionaires. Americans won't forget it the next time they go to the polls.
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 3:31 PM
Republicans have destroyed health care in our country. Millions will go without care, and people will die. Yet again, Republicans have shown their priorities begin and end with helping billionaires. Americans won't forget it the next time they go to the polls.
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OH REALLY.
Let's recall that between 2010-2017, House Republicans voted 100 times to repeal the ACA. 100! And repealing the ACA was one of Trump's top priorities when he was elected in 2016. He's railed against it ever since. The GOP will not help Americans with health care. Nope, not ever.
Let's recall that between 2010-2017, House Republicans voted 100 times to repeal the ACA. 100! And repealing the ACA was one of Trump's top priorities when he was elected in 2016. He's railed against it ever since. The GOP will not help Americans with health care. Nope, not ever.
BREAKING: Johnson won't guarantee House vote on extending health care tax credits. @alivitali.bsky.social reports.
November 11, 2025 at 3:31 PM
OH REALLY.
Let's recall that between 2010-2017, House Republicans voted 100 times to repeal the ACA. 100! And repealing the ACA was one of Trump's top priorities when he was elected in 2016. He's railed against it ever since. The GOP will not help Americans with health care. Nope, not ever.
Let's recall that between 2010-2017, House Republicans voted 100 times to repeal the ACA. 100! And repealing the ACA was one of Trump's top priorities when he was elected in 2016. He's railed against it ever since. The GOP will not help Americans with health care. Nope, not ever.
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It’s not enough to simply thank our veterans for their service.
Millions of them rely on SNAP and the ACA.
Many struggle with PTSD and worry about access to mental health services.
Today, on Veterans Day, let’s renew our commitment to keep fighting for those who fought for us.
Millions of them rely on SNAP and the ACA.
Many struggle with PTSD and worry about access to mental health services.
Today, on Veterans Day, let’s renew our commitment to keep fighting for those who fought for us.
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
It’s not enough to simply thank our veterans for their service.
Millions of them rely on SNAP and the ACA.
Many struggle with PTSD and worry about access to mental health services.
Today, on Veterans Day, let’s renew our commitment to keep fighting for those who fought for us.
Millions of them rely on SNAP and the ACA.
Many struggle with PTSD and worry about access to mental health services.
Today, on Veterans Day, let’s renew our commitment to keep fighting for those who fought for us.
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But many in Congress are stopping the VA from flagging when a veteran is at a heightened risk of harming themselves or others, and therefore shouldn’t have access to a gun.
Making guns more easily accessible to those in crisis is catastrophic.
Making guns more easily accessible to those in crisis is catastrophic.
Kennedy Amendment increases the danger for veterans in crisis
www.stripes.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
But many in Congress are stopping the VA from flagging when a veteran is at a heightened risk of harming themselves or others, and therefore shouldn’t have access to a gun.
Making guns more easily accessible to those in crisis is catastrophic.
Making guns more easily accessible to those in crisis is catastrophic.
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Since 2006, veterans have died by suicide nearly 20 times more often than soldiers have been killed at war.
Veterans deserve more than empty words. They deserve leaders who work to protect them.
Veterans deserve more than empty words. They deserve leaders who work to protect them.
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Since 2006, veterans have died by suicide nearly 20 times more often than soldiers have been killed at war.
Veterans deserve more than empty words. They deserve leaders who work to protect them.
Veterans deserve more than empty words. They deserve leaders who work to protect them.
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Update on Baby Formula recall
All ByHeart infant formula should NOT used!
Share widely. Will share more once gov websites are updated.
Update on Baby Formula recall
All ByHeart infant formula should NOT used!
Share widely. Will share more once gov websites are updated.
November 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Update on Baby Formula recall
All ByHeart infant formula should NOT used!
Share widely. Will share more once gov websites are updated.
Update on Baby Formula recall
All ByHeart infant formula should NOT used!
Share widely. Will share more once gov websites are updated.
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“On this Veterans Day, I share this post with tears in my eyes as I reflect on my service to our nation and honor my fellow military members. In some pics I’m fighting for my country overseas. In others, I’m fighting for my life at the hands of the citizens I sought to protect in my own country.”
November 11, 2025 at 3:34 PM
“On this Veterans Day, I share this post with tears in my eyes as I reflect on my service to our nation and honor my fellow military members. In some pics I’m fighting for my country overseas. In others, I’m fighting for my life at the hands of the citizens I sought to protect in my own country.”
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Thanks to all the veterans, and to my two grandfathers (WW1), dad, two uncles, two great uncles and FIL (WW2), and brother (Vietnam).
We honor all who served
We honor all who served
a poster for veterans day with an american flag in the background
Alt: a poster for veterans day with an american flag in the background
HONORING ALL WHO SERVED
VETERANS DAY
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Thanks to all the veterans, and to my two grandfathers (WW1), dad, two uncles, two great uncles and FIL (WW2), and brother (Vietnam).
We honor all who served
We honor all who served
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Yes! More of this please.
November 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Yes! More of this please.
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I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
November 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I wonder if the United States can learn anything from the last time a major industrialized country decided to isolate itself from the rest of the world?
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
Almost a decade after the Brexit vote, GDP in the UK is around 6-8% lower relative to peer countries. (Source: www.nber.org/papers/w34459)
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There’s also a zero percent chance the real number is 3 trillion
So he’s saying all the tariff money we took in is gone and we won’t be able to pay it back. There was always a possibility he could lose this lawsuit and have to refund the tariff money. We didn’t prepare for that possibility? He’s running the govt like he ran his casinos.
November 11, 2025 at 3:35 PM
There’s also a zero percent chance the real number is 3 trillion
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Terrific look at what life is like in Chicago since Trump's state sponsored terror campaign started.
"The pressure hangs over everyone: We have to protect one another, because no one else is coming to save us. We have to save each other."
Read @allisonhantschel.com:
"The pressure hangs over everyone: We have to protect one another, because no one else is coming to save us. We have to save each other."
Read @allisonhantschel.com:
This month in @damemagazine.bsky.social I wrote about the siege of Chicago, what it feels like to live here, about the violation of the ICE invasion and the gratuitous violence of the president against a city he's hated for years:
ICE Is Bringing the Violence to Chicago - Dame Magazine
Inside St. Jerome Catholic Church in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood on a recent Sunday, incense wafted through the air as prayers in Spanish rose upward. The service was to honor friends and loved...
www.damemagazine.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Terrific look at what life is like in Chicago since Trump's state sponsored terror campaign started.
"The pressure hangs over everyone: We have to protect one another, because no one else is coming to save us. We have to save each other."
Read @allisonhantschel.com:
"The pressure hangs over everyone: We have to protect one another, because no one else is coming to save us. We have to save each other."
Read @allisonhantschel.com:
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"an unusual mass deportation to a country with a poor human rights record that the United States had bombed earlier this year in an effort to set back its nuclear program"
but we're sending them back dissidents "who repeatedly told American authorities that Iran would persecute them"
but we're sending them back dissidents "who repeatedly told American authorities that Iran would persecute them"
“For decades, Iranians fleeing persecution have found protection in the United States. But this fall, the Trump administration deported a planeload of people to Iran after making a deal with Tehran.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/w...
‘It Feels Like I’m in a Nightmare’: Inside the First Deportation Flight to Iran
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"an unusual mass deportation to a country with a poor human rights record that the United States had bombed earlier this year in an effort to set back its nuclear program"
but we're sending them back dissidents "who repeatedly told American authorities that Iran would persecute them"
but we're sending them back dissidents "who repeatedly told American authorities that Iran would persecute them"
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This is total word salad as one expects from Bessent. The truth is that in recent years the Exchange Stabilization Fund has been used only to provide dollar-based loans to other countries. What Bessent/Trump did was buy Argentinian pesos with US dollars, exposing US taxpayers to Arg currency risk.
MSNBC: How does a $20b bailout of Argentina help Americans?
BESSENT: Do you know what a swap line is? Why would you call it a bailout? The US government made money
BESSENT: Do you know what a swap line is? Why would you call it a bailout? The US government made money
November 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
This is total word salad as one expects from Bessent. The truth is that in recent years the Exchange Stabilization Fund has been used only to provide dollar-based loans to other countries. What Bessent/Trump did was buy Argentinian pesos with US dollars, exposing US taxpayers to Arg currency risk.
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NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
edition.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:06 PM
NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...
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Seriously, though, I want to see reporters go interview parents waiting with their kids in line outside the American Girl store. Are THEY scared to be there?
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Seriously, though, I want to see reporters go interview parents waiting with their kids in line outside the American Girl store. Are THEY scared to be there?
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Among the many presidency-ending things it is Congress' job to police & it is failing to do, allowing the Mad King to incinerate our closest alliances is top of the list. It should have all ended w/ threatening to invade our NATO allies. Alas, we are not a serious country.
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The Trump regime is ruining America’s most valuable alliances and international partnerships.
The level of trust needed to do high level intelligence sharing is rare, and Five Eyes cooperation has been a major asset.
The US chose to throw it away, harming its own power and security. And for what?
The level of trust needed to do high level intelligence sharing is rare, and Five Eyes cooperation has been a major asset.
The US chose to throw it away, harming its own power and security. And for what?
Exclusive: UK suspends some intelligence sharing with US over boat strike concerns in major break | CNN Politics
The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes ...
www.cnn.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Among the many presidency-ending things it is Congress' job to police & it is failing to do, allowing the Mad King to incinerate our closest alliances is top of the list. It should have all ended w/ threatening to invade our NATO allies. Alas, we are not a serious country.
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Great chart from Goldman about what happened to “layoff discussions” after the launch of ChatGPT:
November 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Great chart from Goldman about what happened to “layoff discussions” after the launch of ChatGPT:
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During his campaign, Trump (& RFK) promised to rein in the use of dangerous pesticides, but the EPA has loosened oversight and is accelerating pesticide approvals.
Notably, the top 4 positions in the new Trump EPA’s chemical safety office are held by former pesticide and chemical industry lobbyists
Notably, the top 4 positions in the new Trump EPA’s chemical safety office are held by former pesticide and chemical industry lobbyists
Trump officials set to approve ‘forever chemical’ as pesticide ingredient
Critics say that fifth Pfas Trump’s EPA has proposed for approval this year would put food and water supply at risk
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
During his campaign, Trump (& RFK) promised to rein in the use of dangerous pesticides, but the EPA has loosened oversight and is accelerating pesticide approvals.
Notably, the top 4 positions in the new Trump EPA’s chemical safety office are held by former pesticide and chemical industry lobbyists
Notably, the top 4 positions in the new Trump EPA’s chemical safety office are held by former pesticide and chemical industry lobbyists
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Today is Veterans Day — a time to send our thanks to all those who have sacrificed so much to defend our freedoms and values.
To all those who have served and put their lives on the line — thank you.
To all those who have served and put their lives on the line — thank you.
November 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Today is Veterans Day — a time to send our thanks to all those who have sacrificed so much to defend our freedoms and values.
To all those who have served and put their lives on the line — thank you.
To all those who have served and put their lives on the line — thank you.