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The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
I'm dubious about Amazon's commitment to keeping pre-existing conditions a thing of the past.
December 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
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America has the most marketized health care system, with co-pays and HSAs already in place to patients to act like consumers. And we have the most expensive system with poor outcomes.
Ron Johnson: "Obamacare has caused this consolidation. The solution is consumerism. Free market competition."
December 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
America has the most marketized health care system, with co-pays and HSAs already in place to patients to act like consumers. And we have the most expensive system with poor outcomes.
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Fact-check: true
December 14, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Fact-check: true
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Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
December 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
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This is a textbook case of political asylum.
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
This is a textbook case of political asylum.
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so if you personally pay donald trump you get a fast track to a green card
trumpcard.gov is live and the million dollar fees are all referred to as “gifts” or “contributions” to an undisclosed party lol
December 14, 2025 at 3:08 PM
so if you personally pay donald trump you get a fast track to a green card
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It's because she doesn't know how to be the head of CBS News. Just no clue what a person in this role does. Similar to how Pete Hegseth and Sean Duffy don't know how to be cabinet secretaries.
A hallmark of this movement is people being out of their depth. It says, "expertise is unnecessary."
A hallmark of this movement is people being out of their depth. It says, "expertise is unnecessary."
I’m sorry but why is the head of cbs news on tv herself
December 14, 2025 at 2:12 AM
It's because she doesn't know how to be the head of CBS News. Just no clue what a person in this role does. Similar to how Pete Hegseth and Sean Duffy don't know how to be cabinet secretaries.
A hallmark of this movement is people being out of their depth. It says, "expertise is unnecessary."
A hallmark of this movement is people being out of their depth. It says, "expertise is unnecessary."
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Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.
December 14, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Australian news reporting that the hero bystander here is named Ahmed al Ahmed. Muslim, father of two.
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Today, I spoke with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife, Jennifer. In April, when I met with him in El Salvador, Trump said he would never set foot in the U.S. again.
This case has never been about one man alone; if the govt can violate the constitutional rights of one, all our rights are threatened.
This case has never been about one man alone; if the govt can violate the constitutional rights of one, all our rights are threatened.
December 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Today, I spoke with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife, Jennifer. In April, when I met with him in El Salvador, Trump said he would never set foot in the U.S. again.
This case has never been about one man alone; if the govt can violate the constitutional rights of one, all our rights are threatened.
This case has never been about one man alone; if the govt can violate the constitutional rights of one, all our rights are threatened.
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The RFK, jr effect.
December 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The RFK, jr effect.
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In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
ICE Holding Chinese Man Who Documented Uyghur Camps
Heng Guan is awaiting an immigration hearing on Monday that could lead to his removal from the U.S. and ultimately land him back in China, according to his lawyer and a New York-based activist group.
www.wsj.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites.
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him.
www.wsj.com/world/china/...
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Land of the free, where you are subject to kidnapping and exile by armed agents of the state if you do not carry your documents
December 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Land of the free, where you are subject to kidnapping and exile by armed agents of the state if you do not carry your documents
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🤡"First of all, it seems like she’s well-educated. It seems like she’s — got a lot of energy. But she, to me, she violates the first rule of politics and that is in politics, you always make it about the voters and never about yourself,”
-Carville
Black people can read between these lines.
-Carville
Black people can read between these lines.
The longtime Democratic strategist knocked Crockett just days after she launched her U.S. Senate bid.
James Carville Says Jasmine Crockett Is Violating The 'First Rule Of Politics'
The longtime Democratic strategist knocked Crockett just days after she launched her U.S. Senate bid.
www.huffpost.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:27 PM
🤡"First of all, it seems like she’s well-educated. It seems like she’s — got a lot of energy. But she, to me, she violates the first rule of politics and that is in politics, you always make it about the voters and never about yourself,”
-Carville
Black people can read between these lines.
-Carville
Black people can read between these lines.
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A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
December 12, 2025 at 4:02 PM
A tiny trial in New York has shown that personalized mRNA vaccines can provoke massive, lasting immune responses against pancreatic cancer, even as sweeping federal cuts now threaten the fragile labs required to produce them.
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
theintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/a-breakthr...
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“In 2029, we will pass a law retroactively annulling all presidential pardons for crimes that directly benefited the president and his administration. And we will not permit the corrupt Supreme Court to stop us from seeking justice.”
Trump and admin lawyers know Pete Hegseth and others in the chain of command on the boat bombings are legally vulnerable. Adding to this from @swin24.bsky.social and @premthakker.bsky.social, the Trump Murder Memo "justifying" the bombings also makes this clear:
zeteo.com/p/trump-is-a...
zeteo.com/p/trump-is-a...
Trump Is Already Discussing Preemptive Pardons For His Lawless Administration
The revelation comes as Pete Hegseth faces scrutiny for a possible war crime, and as a judge pursues a contempt inquiry into the defiance of his order.
zeteo.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
“In 2029, we will pass a law retroactively annulling all presidential pardons for crimes that directly benefited the president and his administration. And we will not permit the corrupt Supreme Court to stop us from seeking justice.”
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I’m mean, they aren’t wrong. His image is that of a narcissistic dick who doesn’t give a shit about anyone else.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
DOJ argues Trump being made to use sign language interpreters could hurt his ‘image’
The Justice Department has appealed a November order requiring interpreters at many events
www.independent.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I’m mean, they aren’t wrong. His image is that of a narcissistic dick who doesn’t give a shit about anyone else.
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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Lawless, criminal behavior
December 13, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Lawless, criminal behavior
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Exactly. The full weight of the White House propaganda and legal apparatus bearing down on one day laborer and his family for months simply because the addled despot can never be wrong.
It’s really atrocious how they threw the full force of the federal government at this one guy because he embarrassed them by being innocent of everything except trying to live his life.
Only one of many, unfortunately. But he got publicity so he had to be destroyed.
Only one of many, unfortunately. But he got publicity so he had to be destroyed.
Remarkable how brutal the ruling against Trump on Abrego Garcia truly is: It details flagrant and malicious abuses of power all throughout. Trump and Stephen Miller were testing their ability to spread lawless state terror. But the court held the line. 1/
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
(new piece)
newrepublic.com/article/2043...
December 13, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Exactly. The full weight of the White House propaganda and legal apparatus bearing down on one day laborer and his family for months simply because the addled despot can never be wrong.
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100% agree. Ironically, this is the only version of "broken windows" that actually makes any sense, because it has to do with the individual behavior of one person going from getting away with small crimes to getting away with big crimes, instead of being some vague theory about general contagion.
My hottest take is that letting cops park in red zones for mundane errands and coffee breaks; I think “you can break the law at your discretion as a job perk” is the small domino that ends in the large domino of “shooting protesters in the face with rubber bullets”
It must be wild to get to abuse the public then pay for it with the public's money
December 12, 2025 at 6:14 AM
100% agree. Ironically, this is the only version of "broken windows" that actually makes any sense, because it has to do with the individual behavior of one person going from getting away with small crimes to getting away with big crimes, instead of being some vague theory about general contagion.
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The industry aims to build a superintelligence by assimilating unthinkable volumes of data dating to the dawn of the written word, yet apparently tweaking the models to account for separate regulations across several states is a level of complexity that would paralyze the whole project...
The president signed an executive order aimed to crimp state AI laws.
https://sherwood.news/tech/trump-ai-executive-order-is-a-major-win-for-open-ai-google-microsoft-and/
https://sherwood.news/tech/trump-ai-executive-order-is-a-major-win-for-open-ai-google-microsoft-and/
Trump AI executive order is a “major win” for Open AI, Google, Microsoft, and Meta, says Ives
The president signed an executive order aimed to crimp state AI laws....
sherwood.news
December 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The industry aims to build a superintelligence by assimilating unthinkable volumes of data dating to the dawn of the written word, yet apparently tweaking the models to account for separate regulations across several states is a level of complexity that would paralyze the whole project...
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I am dead serious when I say that if one of the most vulnerable people in the country can do this with the right allies, no fight in American politics is completely hopeless.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an ordinary man, has defeated the great might of the US Government
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is free. every bit of cruelty, boasting, slander, and persecution was for absolutely fucking nothing.
December 12, 2025 at 5:42 AM
I am dead serious when I say that if one of the most vulnerable people in the country can do this with the right allies, no fight in American politics is completely hopeless.
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In before all my "Jewish people are not white!" friends ask for clarification:
I'm using the white/not-white definition of "If you are pulled over on El Camino in Atherton, or De Anza in Cupertino, do the cops think you're white?" definition of white.
Race isn't real. Racism is very real.
I'm using the white/not-white definition of "If you are pulled over on El Camino in Atherton, or De Anza in Cupertino, do the cops think you're white?" definition of white.
Race isn't real. Racism is very real.
December 12, 2025 at 4:04 PM
In before all my "Jewish people are not white!" friends ask for clarification:
I'm using the white/not-white definition of "If you are pulled over on El Camino in Atherton, or De Anza in Cupertino, do the cops think you're white?" definition of white.
Race isn't real. Racism is very real.
I'm using the white/not-white definition of "If you are pulled over on El Camino in Atherton, or De Anza in Cupertino, do the cops think you're white?" definition of white.
Race isn't real. Racism is very real.
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This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
December 12, 2025 at 4:21 AM
This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him.
I don’t know how else to say it…
I don’t know how else to say it…
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i want to be clear about this: worker’s rights also includes the right to be free from racist or sexist or gendered abuse at your job.
December 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
i want to be clear about this: worker’s rights also includes the right to be free from racist or sexist or gendered abuse at your job.
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there is a certain condescension in the idea that “racism should be publicly unacceptable and come with consequences” is an attack on the “working class.”
December 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
there is a certain condescension in the idea that “racism should be publicly unacceptable and come with consequences” is an attack on the “working class.”