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I’d say this is damn good reason for Democrats to hold fast to the shutdown until Republicans agree to protect ACA credits.
Just receieved this today from Florida Blue. This is for a Bronze plan. Our monthly premiums are going from $333 (2025) to $2300 in 2026.
October 20, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I’d say this is damn good reason for Democrats to hold fast to the shutdown until Republicans agree to protect ACA credits.
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Y’all won’t use plastic straws but you’re using GROK to plan your workouts??????????? Go dive off a street curb into a pool of trash bag juice.
Them: I used ChapGPT to find a dinner recipe.
Me: Oh, wow, so you like poisoning black neighborhoods so you can cook… *lowers reading glasses*…a roast chicken that’s still too dry. Wow.
Me: Oh, wow, so you like poisoning black neighborhoods so you can cook… *lowers reading glasses*…a roast chicken that’s still too dry. Wow.
October 16, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Y’all won’t use plastic straws but you’re using GROK to plan your workouts??????????? Go dive off a street curb into a pool of trash bag juice.
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Them: I used ChapGPT to find a dinner recipe.
Me: Oh, wow, so you like poisoning black neighborhoods so you can cook… *lowers reading glasses*…a roast chicken that’s still too dry. Wow.
Me: Oh, wow, so you like poisoning black neighborhoods so you can cook… *lowers reading glasses*…a roast chicken that’s still too dry. Wow.
October 16, 2025 at 12:02 AM
Them: I used ChapGPT to find a dinner recipe.
Me: Oh, wow, so you like poisoning black neighborhoods so you can cook… *lowers reading glasses*…a roast chicken that’s still too dry. Wow.
Me: Oh, wow, so you like poisoning black neighborhoods so you can cook… *lowers reading glasses*…a roast chicken that’s still too dry. Wow.
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…”Grow up”???????
October 15, 2025 at 6:13 PM
…”Grow up”???????
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EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM
EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇
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NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.
Version of original on left, updated on right:
Version of original on left, updated on right:
October 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats.
Version of original on left, updated on right:
Version of original on left, updated on right:
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The open use of federal funds as a blunt force object to get universities, cities, and other entities in line is criminal. Those are tax payer dollars! And so much capitulation! Dbjdonfonifbinrondondonodnonfonfoninfonfin
October 2, 2025 at 1:00 AM
The open use of federal funds as a blunt force object to get universities, cities, and other entities in line is criminal. Those are tax payer dollars! And so much capitulation! Dbjdonfonifbinrondondonodnonfonfoninfonfin
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If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.
September 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.
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The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
September 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
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A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
September 17, 2025 at 11:22 PM
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.
All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
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Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"
September 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and the pundits and politicians sanitizing his legacy.
Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
www.vanityfair.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Charlie Kirk and the pundits and politicians sanitizing his legacy.
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As a governor who cares about the well-being of my people, I can’t live in a fantasy land where I pretend Trump is not tearing this country apart for personal greed and power.
September 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
As a governor who cares about the well-being of my people, I can’t live in a fantasy land where I pretend Trump is not tearing this country apart for personal greed and power.
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Always great to be back at Caffe Paradiso in Urbana.
July 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Always great to be back at Caffe Paradiso in Urbana.
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My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.
June 8, 2025 at 5:10 PM
My dad, who has lived under a dictatorship, knows one when he sees one. His first text this morning is that we are now officially in a dictatorship. It is all pretty grim.
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This has been under the radar, but the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies dissolved a lot of their committees recently. On equity, energy, alt fuels, and more. Just gone. The conference is the main transportation conference where our students would present their research.
Not surprised, just disappointed. Equity and environmental justice have been wiped from the new TRB standing committee structure. Subcommittees banned entirely.
Bleak times ahead for @trb.org and #TRBAM.
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Bleak times ahead for @trb.org and #TRBAM.
mailchi.mp/nationalacad...
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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine | Transportation Research Board: Technical Activities Division Organization Chart
nap.nationalacademies.org
June 7, 2025 at 2:59 AM
This has been under the radar, but the Transportation Research Board (TRB) of the National Academies dissolved a lot of their committees recently. On equity, energy, alt fuels, and more. Just gone. The conference is the main transportation conference where our students would present their research.
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must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
“In light of the President's statement about cancellation of my government contracts, @SpaceX will begin decommissioning its Dragon spacecraft immediately”
June 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
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You gotta laugh (before you cry.)
I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.
June 5, 2025 at 10:27 PM
You gotta laugh (before you cry.)
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The kids are fighting!
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump threatens to cut government contracts and subsidies key to Musk's businesses as fallout spreads from their feud.
June 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
The kids are fighting!
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And she was right to say it!
Trixie Mattel talks about attending Beyoncé’s ‘COWBOY CARTER’ tour:
“It’s the only thing that’s made me proud to be an American in a long time.”
“It’s the only thing that’s made me proud to be an American in a long time.”
May 28, 2025 at 7:22 PM
And she was right to say it!
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WHEW, BUDDY.
Trump Administration Halts Harvard’s Ability to Enroll International Students
www.nytimes.com
May 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
WHEW, BUDDY.
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This was inevitable. Grotesque.
Kristi Noem has been working with the producer of “Duck Dynasty” to pitch a reality TV show—titled “The American”—where immigrants will compete in a string of challenges across the country “for the honor of fast-tracking their way to U.S. citizenship,” according to a new report.
Noem Plots Reality Show Where Migrants Fight for Citizenship
A Homeland Security official told the Daily Beast that the show is in the early stages of vetting, though approval has not been given—or denied.
www.thedailybeast.com
May 16, 2025 at 4:38 AM
This was inevitable. Grotesque.
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Breaking News: Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia University student and organizer of the pro-Palestinian movement, was freed from federal custody on Wednesday after ICE tried to rescind his green card and deport him. nyti.ms/4iGIa0m
April 30, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Breaking News: Mohsen Mahdawi, a Columbia University student and organizer of the pro-Palestinian movement, was freed from federal custody on Wednesday after ICE tried to rescind his green card and deport him. nyti.ms/4iGIa0m
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Philadelphia Eagles QB Jalen Hurts will not attend the White House Super Bowl celebration this afternoon, Yamiche Alcindor reports
April 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Philadelphia Eagles QB Jalen Hurts will not attend the White House Super Bowl celebration this afternoon, Yamiche Alcindor reports