Narwhal in the Sky
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Hi, yes, you are not crazy, antisemitism is very bad now.
This is so cool!
I’ve seen this shared several times with the header and footer not visible, so you can’t see the artists’s name.
Credit: Leo the Alien — alienyrox on redbubble and other platforms.
Credit: Leo the Alien — alienyrox on redbubble and other platforms.
November 12, 2025 at 5:14 AM
This is so cool!
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Nights like this are the best. All the trouble of the world is momentarily set aside while we're collectively marveling at the pretty lights and nature together. This is how it's supposed to be. Life, I mean. Shared joy and all. 🙂
November 12, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Nights like this are the best. All the trouble of the world is momentarily set aside while we're collectively marveling at the pretty lights and nature together. This is how it's supposed to be. Life, I mean. Shared joy and all. 🙂
Media literacy lessons….this time, involving food - youtube.com/shorts/v-bFN...
Which baking account is AI? #dessert #cake #baking #food #recipe
YouTube video by Jeremy Carrasco
youtube.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Media literacy lessons….this time, involving food - youtube.com/shorts/v-bFN...
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For ACA enrollees with incomes above 400% of the poverty level -- who would lose subsidy eligibility entirely if enhanced credits expire -- effects vary by age and zip code. A 60 year old in Baltimore making $63,000 has an increase of $5,207. In Charleston, WV, it's $22,509.
November 11, 2025 at 4:17 PM
For ACA enrollees with incomes above 400% of the poverty level -- who would lose subsidy eligibility entirely if enhanced credits expire -- effects vary by age and zip code. A 60 year old in Baltimore making $63,000 has an increase of $5,207. In Charleston, WV, it's $22,509.
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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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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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ACA signups more than doubled since the enhanced premium tax credits went into effect, from 11.4 million in 2020 to 24.3 million this year. Without that enhanced premium assistance, enrollment will drop substantially.
November 10, 2025 at 9:23 PM
ACA signups more than doubled since the enhanced premium tax credits went into effect, from 11.4 million in 2020 to 24.3 million this year. Without that enhanced premium assistance, enrollment will drop substantially.
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I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
Senate Democrats that supported the vote last night freed every Republican Congressperson from the consequences of their harm to the American people WITHOUT ANYTHING IN RETURN
November 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Senate Democrats that supported the vote last night freed every Republican Congressperson from the consequences of their harm to the American people WITHOUT ANYTHING IN RETURN
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Los Alamos and U of Michigan want to build a data center in the small town of Ypsilanti. The city's people don't want to help make weapons of mass destruction. The fight is only just starting
A Small Town Is Fighting a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter for America's Nuclear Weapon Scientists
Ypsilanti, Michigan has officially decided to fight against the construction of a 'high-performance computing facility' that would service a nuclear weapons laboratory 1,500 miles away.
www.404media.co
November 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Los Alamos and U of Michigan want to build a data center in the small town of Ypsilanti. The city's people don't want to help make weapons of mass destruction. The fight is only just starting
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
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EIGHT Senate Democrats have voted to advance the funding measure so far after the deal was reached:
Cortez Masto
Durbin
Fetterman
Hassan
Kaine
King
Rosen
Shaheen
If the existing 52 Republicans hold, that's 60 — enough to advance this agreement. Final vote still to come.
Cortez Masto
Durbin
Fetterman
Hassan
Kaine
King
Rosen
Shaheen
If the existing 52 Republicans hold, that's 60 — enough to advance this agreement. Final vote still to come.
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
EIGHT Senate Democrats have voted to advance the funding measure so far after the deal was reached:
Cortez Masto
Durbin
Fetterman
Hassan
Kaine
King
Rosen
Shaheen
If the existing 52 Republicans hold, that's 60 — enough to advance this agreement. Final vote still to come.
Cortez Masto
Durbin
Fetterman
Hassan
Kaine
King
Rosen
Shaheen
If the existing 52 Republicans hold, that's 60 — enough to advance this agreement. Final vote still to come.
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If enhanced ACA tax credits are not extended, out-of-pocket premiums will increase an average of 114% next year. Who will get blamed?
Republicans, who do not support an extension.
Democrats.
Insurers.
The ACA itself.
Republicans, who do not support an extension.
Democrats.
Insurers.
The ACA itself.
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
If enhanced ACA tax credits are not extended, out-of-pocket premiums will increase an average of 114% next year. Who will get blamed?
Republicans, who do not support an extension.
Democrats.
Insurers.
The ACA itself.
Republicans, who do not support an extension.
Democrats.
Insurers.
The ACA itself.
Democrats - win landslide elections running on affordability and anticorruption
Senate Dem leadership - ahhhh let’s torpedo our chances at further gains by agreeing to a deal that is no better than what was offered in Sept.
Senate Dem leadership - ahhhh let’s torpedo our chances at further gains by agreeing to a deal that is no better than what was offered in Sept.
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Democrats - win landslide elections running on affordability and anticorruption
Senate Dem leadership - ahhhh let’s torpedo our chances at further gains by agreeing to a deal that is no better than what was offered in Sept.
Senate Dem leadership - ahhhh let’s torpedo our chances at further gains by agreeing to a deal that is no better than what was offered in Sept.
🎶we want the bare necessities the simple bare necessities
Healthcare, food, and warm beds to sleep in
I mean the bare necessities
that Congress keeps pissing on
We need those bare necessities of life 🎵🎶
Healthcare, food, and warm beds to sleep in
I mean the bare necessities
that Congress keeps pissing on
We need those bare necessities of life 🎵🎶
November 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
🎶we want the bare necessities the simple bare necessities
Healthcare, food, and warm beds to sleep in
I mean the bare necessities
that Congress keeps pissing on
We need those bare necessities of life 🎵🎶
Healthcare, food, and warm beds to sleep in
I mean the bare necessities
that Congress keeps pissing on
We need those bare necessities of life 🎵🎶
“Fifty years later, the memories of those lost sailors are perhaps best honored by the many forecasting and safety improvements that have been made since then.”
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
50 years later, the legacy of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald looms as large as ever
The exact cause of the Edmund Fitzgerald’s sinking is still a mystery, but the lasting legacy is this: There were more than 6,000 shipwrecks on the Great Lakes in the century prior to the wreck of th...
www.mprnews.org
November 9, 2025 at 8:24 PM
“Fifty years later, the memories of those lost sailors are perhaps best honored by the many forecasting and safety improvements that have been made since then.”
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...
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NSO's new executive chairman is a Trump former official, in case you're wondering how hard the company is gunning for those sweet, sweet US government contracts.
www.wsj.com/tech/israeli...
www.wsj.com/tech/israeli...
Israeli Spyware Maker NSO Gets New Owners, Leadership and Seeks to Mend Reputation
Investors led by Hollywood producer Robert Simonds have taken a controlling stake in the company behind Pegasus, and former Trump official David Friedman has been named executive chairman.
www.wsj.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
NSO's new executive chairman is a Trump former official, in case you're wondering how hard the company is gunning for those sweet, sweet US government contracts.
www.wsj.com/tech/israeli...
www.wsj.com/tech/israeli...
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Trump has now called for replacing the ACA (again) so people can buy skimpier policies from insurance companies (again)?? In a shutdown debate where tax credits are the issue not the popular law. As a negotiating strategy that’s tripling down.
November 9, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Trump has now called for replacing the ACA (again) so people can buy skimpier policies from insurance companies (again)?? In a shutdown debate where tax credits are the issue not the popular law. As a negotiating strategy that’s tripling down.
Well that just blew my mind - but she’s got an extremely valid point
In another era, ICE raids would be described as persecution of Catholics.
November 9, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Well that just blew my mind - but she’s got an extremely valid point
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“These are people who did everything by the book, paid taxes, had no criminal records, opened businesses and contributed to their communities...now they have become collateral damage in this cruel, unjust and inhumane political game.”
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Venezuelans begin fleeing U.S. as protections end and threat of war looms
TPS expired for hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans on Friday. Many are shuttering business, selling homes and boarding planes, or scrambling to find a way to stay.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:42 PM
“These are people who did everything by the book, paid taxes, had no criminal records, opened businesses and contributed to their communities...now they have become collateral damage in this cruel, unjust and inhumane political game.”
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Apparently this is a bit of a catchphrase for Sen. Kennedy (R-LA), as he also used it during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings
Either way, it’s an excuse for posting some Beastie Boys so…..
youtu.be/qORYO0atB6g?...
Either way, it’s an excuse for posting some Beastie Boys so…..
youtu.be/qORYO0atB6g?...
November 8, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Apparently this is a bit of a catchphrase for Sen. Kennedy (R-LA), as he also used it during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings
Either way, it’s an excuse for posting some Beastie Boys so…..
youtu.be/qORYO0atB6g?...
Either way, it’s an excuse for posting some Beastie Boys so…..
youtu.be/qORYO0atB6g?...
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This is very clearly the direction in which things are headed, especially since so many of the people who built and maintained the tools the US IC has developed-in house have been fired or have left.
YIKES: NSO floats Pegasus spyware used in hypothetical "time of domestic crisis" in 🇺🇸America.
I believe they won't stop lobbying until they get Pegasus into USA.
To hack Americans. 1/
I believe they won't stop lobbying until they get Pegasus into USA.
To hack Americans. 1/
November 7, 2025 at 10:11 PM
This is very clearly the direction in which things are headed, especially since so many of the people who built and maintained the tools the US IC has developed-in house have been fired or have left.
Just a reminder that Republicans in Congress could end this cruelty at any time and are actively choosing not to
November 8, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Just a reminder that Republicans in Congress could end this cruelty at any time and are actively choosing not to
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"Clearly echoing Erwin Rommel’s Nazi force, the Africa Corps is the Kremlin’s new expeditionary formation in Africa. ...Like Wagner before it, it is still laden with neo-Nazi and white supremacist symbology."
on Russian neo-colonialism in Africa:
ecfr.eu/publication/...
on Russian neo-colonialism in Africa:
ecfr.eu/publication/...
The bear and the bot farm: Countering Russian hybrid warfare in Africa
Russia has many quiet enemies in Africa. Working together, like-minded Africans and Europeans can roll back its troublesome influence.
ecfr.eu
November 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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