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So many ways to help the Blue Ridge Area Food Bank: https://www.brafb.org

Virginia’s Insurance Marketplace: https://www.marketplace.virginia.gov

Delicious Chilled 🍫
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I've been reposting everyone replying to this post with their own ACA (and sometimes employer!) price hikes. Feel free to add yours. There is some comfort in knowing you aren't alone and knowing we'll all be voting on this issue in a year.

Chuck Schumer should be chucked out. #chuckchuck
My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
November 11, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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This year we have sold 31% of the advent calendars that we sold last year 😓

The art is so pretty and colorful 🥺
The facts are so good 🥺
Eels are so cool 🥺

Get an eel facts advent calendar at EelFacts.net
November 9, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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This is your friendly reminder that Obamacare isn’t just the exchanges! It’s a set of laws that force insurance companies to actually. You know, insure people!! You can read my full graphic explainer here: aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/it-could-b...
November 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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that’s my flag 🫡
November 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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I just donated to my local food bank. If you can, you should too. People are already suffering but next month, in particular, is going to be so difficult.
October 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Ten years ago yesterday, I wrote a story that changed the next decade of my life.

I hate that it matters more today — I mean specifically, today — than it ever has before. I hate it, I hate it, I hate it.

But here it is.

www.thedailybeast.com/what-do-you-...
What Do You Say to a Roanoke Truther?
Trolls told Chris Hurst his grief over losing his girlfriend in the murders was a lie. But I’ve known him for years. Maybe, I thought, I could get them to listen.
www.thedailybeast.com
September 14, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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D.C. has more residents than two U.S. states. They pay more per capita in federal taxes than any other state.

But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed.

D.C. statehood now.
August 22, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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Please help boost this video by commenting liking or sharing! It’s an important one and I want to make sure people know what’s going on.

This is critical reporting from ProPublica and I’ll have more context at my newsletter, Abortion, Every Day.
July 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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the president does not actually have the power to fire a university president or a museum director, but if elites simply roll over under pressure, then effectively he does
June 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.
June 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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No, Trump is NOT defending mifepristone
May 6, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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69M married women could lose their voting rights if the SAVE Act is passed. Transgender individuals too.

Why? Absent a valid passport, you must present a birth certificate *with the same name as your registration* to be registered.

This is insane!

Hands Off Her Vote
April 7, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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This is cool. The Guardian recreated a searchable climate future risk tool (wildfire, extreme heat, drought, hurricane, and coastal flood) for the US that was developed by FEMA but deleted by the Trump administration’s ‘climate’ purge.
Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it
The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed by Fema but then deleted
www.theguardian.com
March 30, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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March 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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President Trump is abusing emergency powers to impose tariffs on Canada that will raise prices for American families and alienate one of our closest allies — so I’m forcing a vote to challenge him.

wapo.st/4c84yhj
Opinion | Tim Kaine: Why I’m forcing a vote on Trump’s Canada tariffs
Trump has created a fake “emergency” to impose tariffs whose cost will be borne by American families.
wapo.st
March 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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RFK is a eugenics freak first and foremost and everything falls downstream from that. he *wants* excess deaths. he thinks that only the "fit" should survive.
March 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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NEW: At the National Religious Broadcasters conference, an evangelical Christian gathering, activists openly debated plans to overturn same-sex marriage.

Experts say the threat isn’t individual efforts but a broad campaign — which is how Roe v. Wade was overturned. religionnews.com/2025/03/26/s...
Abortion fight won, conservative Christians mimic Dobbs tactics to go after same-sex marriage
(RNS) — A multistate effort is spitting out legislation and lawsuits aimed at testing the Supreme Court justices’ commitment to Obergefell v. Hodges.
religionnews.com
March 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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The ACA was cool because before the ACA you could hit your lifetime maximum before you were a month old and be denied insurance for the rest of your life and after the ACA that’s illegal.
March 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Y'all.

❤️

#uglydogs
Quince Mountain on the Iditarod Trail
YouTube video by BraverMountain
www.youtube.com
March 21, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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I've asked Major League Baseball's Vice President of Communications if Major League Baseball has any comment on the DoD erasing Jackie Robinson's page from the site and changing the URL to "DEI Sports." I'll update this story if and when the league weighs in. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...
Cup of Coffee Extra: The Department of Defense erases Jackie Robinson
The Department of Defense labeled a webpage about Jackie Robinson as "DEI" and deleted it
www.cupofcoffeenews.com
March 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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these people swore an oath to defend the constitution but i guess that’s just too hard
Schumer tells me Republicans might try to jam Democrats again in September, but thinks Trump will be less popular then and Republican appropriators might be more willing to stand up to him. He said they refused to do so now.
March 14, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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If you breathe in for 4 seconds, hold for 7, and exhale for 8, it tells your body you’re safe. This slows your heart rate, relaxes your nervous system, and helps shift you out of fight-or-flight mode. Now do it.
March 12, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Just as a reminder, separate from the executive orders being blocked in federal court, the Code of Virginia explicitly prohibits discrimination on account of gender identity.
February 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down.
For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now

Meanwhile...
February 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM