@nikkinow.bsky.social
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The entire reason we created the ACA and Medicaid expansion is many jobs don’t offer health insurance, and certainly those who work as contractors or consultants are not employees. They all understand this and are just saying crazy shit up there all the time. Ugly bill will hurt entrepreneurship.
JIANG: What is the NEC's estimate for how many people could lose healthcare coverage?
HASSETT: The bottom line is the best way to get insurance is to get a job
HASSETT: The bottom line is the best way to get insurance is to get a job
July 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The entire reason we created the ACA and Medicaid expansion is many jobs don’t offer health insurance, and certainly those who work as contractors or consultants are not employees. They all understand this and are just saying crazy shit up there all the time. Ugly bill will hurt entrepreneurship.
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I've covered race for two decades. I knew the 2nd Trump Admin would be dangerous for civil rights. Yet the collapse of the federal civil rights architecture and national will to address racial inequality and work on integration is stunning. Here's my latest. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months
www.nytimes.com
June 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
I've covered race for two decades. I knew the 2nd Trump Admin would be dangerous for civil rights. Yet the collapse of the federal civil rights architecture and national will to address racial inequality and work on integration is stunning. Here's my latest. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
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The Justice Department plans to drop a lawsuit alleging sexual abuse by employees of a company that houses thousands of unaccompanied migrant children, @justinfwise.bsky.social and @suzannemonyak.bsky.social report
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
US Said to Drop Sex Abuse Lawsuit Against Migrant Child Shelter
The Justice Department plans to drop a Biden-era lawsuit alleging sexual abuse by employees of a company that houses thousands of unaccompanied migrant children and has received billions of dollars in...
news.bloomberglaw.com
March 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The Justice Department plans to drop a lawsuit alleging sexual abuse by employees of a company that houses thousands of unaccompanied migrant children, @justinfwise.bsky.social and @suzannemonyak.bsky.social report
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
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I wonder why nobody's tweeting about the Tesla stock price crash?
March 10, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I wonder why nobody's tweeting about the Tesla stock price crash?
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With the NIH cuts, there’s no longer any excuse for any professor, in any discipline, to not address the moment in their classes. You don’t even have to be “political” if that’s how you roll; this changes everything. You need only observe reality. 1/
February 8, 2025 at 3:09 PM
With the NIH cuts, there’s no longer any excuse for any professor, in any discipline, to not address the moment in their classes. You don’t even have to be “political” if that’s how you roll; this changes everything. You need only observe reality. 1/
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Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?
February 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?
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federal workers are getting spammed today with “please quit” emails, i’m just told. the ones who still have access to their inboxes.
February 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
federal workers are getting spammed today with “please quit” emails, i’m just told. the ones who still have access to their inboxes.
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Weird how no one has come up with a catch nickname for Trump like “Genocide Joe.” I guess it’s not cool now.
February 4, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Weird how no one has come up with a catch nickname for Trump like “Genocide Joe.” I guess it’s not cool now.
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Setting quotas of arrests per day. You know what happens when you have a quota to meet? Scoop them up and let the court sort it out. They will be grabbing anyone they can. No proof of citizenship on your person? Too bad. That’s an arrest. Look “illegal?” Explain it to the court someday.
January 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Setting quotas of arrests per day. You know what happens when you have a quota to meet? Scoop them up and let the court sort it out. They will be grabbing anyone they can. No proof of citizenship on your person? Too bad. That’s an arrest. Look “illegal?” Explain it to the court someday.
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Well this is somewhat encouraging
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Exeter firm excited over long Covid test breakthrough
The firm says for some people it can confirm the existence of long Covid and help treatment.
www.bbc.com
January 27, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Well this is somewhat encouraging
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Are you paying ATTENTION, yet? 👇
Well, are you?!
Well, are you?!
January 27, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Are you paying ATTENTION, yet? 👇
Well, are you?!
Well, are you?!
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Just a reminder of some of the context around the TikTok ban: In 2020, Trump tried to ban it via executive order a couple months after K-pop fans used it to organize fake signups to Trump’s Tulsa rally, which led him to publicly overestimate how large the crowd size would be.
January 19, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Just a reminder of some of the context around the TikTok ban: In 2020, Trump tried to ban it via executive order a couple months after K-pop fans used it to organize fake signups to Trump’s Tulsa rally, which led him to publicly overestimate how large the crowd size would be.
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I'm glad Pete Hegseth has pledged not to drink if he is confirmed as Defense Secretary. So, I guess he can still sexually harass women, mismanage funds, discriminate against women service members, push for a Christian Nationalist agenda, and be a virulent Islamaphobe?
Super duper.
Super duper.
December 5, 2024 at 12:20 AM
I'm glad Pete Hegseth has pledged not to drink if he is confirmed as Defense Secretary. So, I guess he can still sexually harass women, mismanage funds, discriminate against women service members, push for a Christian Nationalist agenda, and be a virulent Islamaphobe?
Super duper.
Super duper.
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They figured out the democracy hack. Extreme gerrymandering removes the need for winning the office. You only need the power.
I rang the alarm on this Republican tactic last year. Removing power from the office when Democrats win, is the final act in making voting irrelevant once the legislatures are gerrymandered. It’s happening all over the country. Read about it here: slate.com/news-and-pol...
December 3, 2024 at 10:06 PM
They figured out the democracy hack. Extreme gerrymandering removes the need for winning the office. You only need the power.
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I have no interest in music charts and sales culture. Just send me some good tunes and I’m straight
December 3, 2024 at 4:44 AM
I have no interest in music charts and sales culture. Just send me some good tunes and I’m straight
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Fascinating how this is coming out AFTER the election www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/u...
Dinesh D’Souza, ’2000 Mules’ Director, Acknowledges the Film Was Flawed
The director, Dinesh D’Souza, who is facing a lawsuit over the documentary, admitted that an analysis used to make claims about election fraud that were later debunked had been faulty.
www.nytimes.com
December 2, 2024 at 11:16 PM
Fascinating how this is coming out AFTER the election www.nytimes.com/2024/12/02/u...
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I don’t care that Biden pardoned his kid. I care that he hasn’t also commuted death sentences to life. I care that there are people still serving decades-long sentences for MJ whose sentences weren’t commuted. I care that the BOP is a tragic old folks home thanks to drug war policies HE promoted.
December 2, 2024 at 2:32 AM
I don’t care that Biden pardoned his kid. I care that he hasn’t also commuted death sentences to life. I care that there are people still serving decades-long sentences for MJ whose sentences weren’t commuted. I care that the BOP is a tragic old folks home thanks to drug war policies HE promoted.
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The world is failing Sudan as it faces famine, 11M displaced, a collapse of healthcare services, & severe child endangerment. One person living through this is IRC Sudan Director Eatizaz Yousif, who carries the key to her home in Khartoum in hopes of one day returning. She joins me at 11aET. #Velshi
November 30, 2024 at 2:11 PM
The world is failing Sudan as it faces famine, 11M displaced, a collapse of healthcare services, & severe child endangerment. One person living through this is IRC Sudan Director Eatizaz Yousif, who carries the key to her home in Khartoum in hopes of one day returning. She joins me at 11aET. #Velshi
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NEW: Porsha Ngumezi is the fifth case we've reported on in which a woman died after not receiving a D&C or its second-trimester equivalent in time, or at all.
Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
A Third Woman Died Under Texas’ Abortion Ban. Doctors Are Avoiding D&Cs and Reaching for Riskier Miscarriage Treatments.
Thirty-five-year-old Porsha Ngumezi’s case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
www.propublica.org
November 25, 2024 at 12:00 PM
NEW: Porsha Ngumezi is the fifth case we've reported on in which a woman died after not receiving a D&C or its second-trimester equivalent in time, or at all.
Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
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Black kids have to learn to be superheroes to survive in America while white kids get to be children because white ADULTS like RFK Jr. refuse to prioritize racial justice.
Trump HHS nominee RFK Jr.:
If you give Black children “resilience” then “the inevitable racism” will “bounce off” them like they are “the Avengers” because “they will be immune to it” and “then we don’t have to stop racism altogether, because we’re never going to be able to do that.”
If you give Black children “resilience” then “the inevitable racism” will “bounce off” them like they are “the Avengers” because “they will be immune to it” and “then we don’t have to stop racism altogether, because we’re never going to be able to do that.”
November 24, 2024 at 4:41 PM
Black kids have to learn to be superheroes to survive in America while white kids get to be children because white ADULTS like RFK Jr. refuse to prioritize racial justice.
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RFK Jr is enlisting associates with close ties to anti-vaccine organizations to help vet and interview candidates for senior roles at the Department of Health and Human Services, even as he publicly seeks to distance himself from the movement he once led.
www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
Kennedy's 'MAHA transition team' includes anti-vax activists
At least three informal advisers connected to the anti-vaccine movement are assisting Kennedy in filling out his staff as he prepares to lead HHS.
www.politico.com
November 24, 2024 at 1:01 PM
RFK Jr is enlisting associates with close ties to anti-vaccine organizations to help vet and interview candidates for senior roles at the Department of Health and Human Services, even as he publicly seeks to distance himself from the movement he once led.
www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
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They are frickin’ creating a new horse race, RATHER THAN FOCUSING ON WHAT THE APPOINTMENT MEANS.
I can’t believe it and I can believe it.
What a disgrace.
Danger right in front of us.
“Let’s play.”
I can’t believe it and I can believe it.
What a disgrace.
Danger right in front of us.
“Let’s play.”
November 22, 2024 at 1:59 PM
They are frickin’ creating a new horse race, RATHER THAN FOCUSING ON WHAT THE APPOINTMENT MEANS.
I can’t believe it and I can believe it.
What a disgrace.
Danger right in front of us.
“Let’s play.”
I can’t believe it and I can believe it.
What a disgrace.
Danger right in front of us.
“Let’s play.”
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conservatives spent decades equating abortion with murder. liberals spent decades slut shaming women by claiming it should only be rare. but it’s either the first thing or it’s just another basic medical procedure. this is a prime example of centrism revealing itself to be the refuge of cowards.
Trump's team rejected naming Roger Severino to a top HHS spot, concerned he'd be too polarizing with his anti-abortion views.
It's the first big rejection of a Trump admin hopeful involved in Project 2025, and a blow to the anti-abortion movement
www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
It's the first big rejection of a Trump admin hopeful involved in Project 2025, and a blow to the anti-abortion movement
www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
Project 2025 author rejected for top health position
Anti-abortion groups had been pushing former Trump administration official Roger Severino for Health and Human Services deputy secretary.
www.politico.com
November 22, 2024 at 3:04 AM
conservatives spent decades equating abortion with murder. liberals spent decades slut shaming women by claiming it should only be rare. but it’s either the first thing or it’s just another basic medical procedure. this is a prime example of centrism revealing itself to be the refuge of cowards.