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"A 60-year-old couple earning $85,000 may have to pay $31,000 for a health insurance plan in Kentucky...

$28,000 for a plan in Oregon...

$44,000 for a plan in Vermont..."

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Health insurance sticker shock begins as shutdown battle over subsidies rages
Many states have shown rising premiums ahead of open enrollment for Affordable Care Act plans. The government shutdown is driven by Democrats and Republicans being far apart on the issue of extended s...
www.washingtonpost.com
October 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Is he just gonna steal $230 million dollars from us?
Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X
October 21, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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More from my conversation with Dan Senor. Full episode: open.spotify.com/episode/24VG...
October 14, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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We need a name for this new government revenue-sharing model. I propose that we call it: taxes.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/t...
August 11, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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Fox Biz commentator on the July jobs report: "This was a very weak report. The revisions certainly to May and June are very concerning. I'm surprised that unemployment is just at 4.2% ... we do see a softening jobs market ... I'm concerned about the labor market."
August 1, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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where is that dude who is terrified of the subway
July 26, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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July 24, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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July 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Unchained Hunter Biden is my fav Hunter Biden.
July 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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July 20, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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the head of fema finally rolled out of bed, grabbed a shirt off the floor, and showed up in texas
July 13, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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There is apartheid and ethnic cleansing in the middle east, but it's against the Jews
July 13, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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The Saudis know. Why are progressives in the West so dense?
July 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
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Blackouts and power outages could be 100 times more common by 2030 due to rising demand and an aging power generation infrastructure, according to a new DOE report. Yet U.S. policy just shifted from the fastest-growing energy production technologies: renewables like wind, solar and battery storage.
WATCH: Trump rolled back energy tax credits for homeowners and developers. Here's what that means for you
Blackouts and power outages could be 100 times more common in the U.S. by 2030.
www.pbs.org
July 13, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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July 13, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Wikipedia is infected with Jew hatred and antisemitism. Zionism is about Jewish homeland and self determination.
July 11, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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“California is so far using forty per cent less natural gas to generate electricity than it did in 2023, which is the single most hopeful statistic I’ve seen in four decades of writing about the climate crisis.”

www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
www.newyorker.com
July 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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NYT Page One:

“Six months into his new administration, President Trump’s assault on global trade has lost any semblance of organization or structure.”

@jeannasmialek.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/w...
July 12, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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It will never be comprehensible or forgivable that the man who incited a deadly insurrection and attack on our Capitol was able to run again and retake the levers of power.
July 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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And just ensure his demands are fully unhinged, the tariff letter goes on about fentanyl as a problem, when less than 1% of fentanyl seized originates in Canada.

It's hard to solve problems that don't actually exist, eh.
July 11, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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One of these is not like the others and it represents a dangerous new expansion in Trump's tariff adventures, meddling in internal criminal matters in other countries.
July 10, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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My plan to revive American manufacturing is to: raise the price of inputs like steel, aluminum & copper; create shortages of rare earths; generate less electricity; invite retaliatory tariffs; cut R&D; raise borrowing costs by blowing out the budget; and to cover it all in a cloud of uncertainty.
July 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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Holy shit wait for it
July 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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People are surprised that there are fewer Jews today than there were before the Holocaust.

There is really no understating how devastating the Holocaust was. Decades later, the effect can still be felt.

Yet, of course, some people will still deny that it happened or downplay just how bad it was.
July 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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I appreciate the optimism of this parking validation machine
July 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM