ICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data reveals Immigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows.

Before Trump 2.0, children already in the U.S. were never detained.

Aerial view of large scale devastation inflicted on the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, with an Israeli tank parked in the center of the photo.

This is what Israel has done to Bint Jbeil, my hometown in southern Lebanon

An incontrovertible indictment, under international law as well as Catholic doctrine, of the war criminals now governing the United States

Mightn't Gemini divine that I'm 67 and not in school?

Outside ICE’s Newark detention center, our volunteers do what the system won’t. Volunteers at Delaney Hall offer food, clothing, legal resources and human dignity to relatives visiting loved ones detained by ICE — and they need more help

Mutual aid flourishes outside Delaney Hall, the immigrant detention center in Newark.
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Kim Lane Scheppele on Hungary Democracy wins big

Incredible narrative of how the autocrats were beaten in Hungary, from someone who know where all the bodies were buried
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Trump vows ‘insurance for everybody’ in Obamacare replacement plan The president-elect also said he would force drug firms to negotiate prices in Medicare and Medicaid.

Now do Trump's healthcare plan
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How the hell has the stock market not learned that Trump just lies? Trump is wishing away the Iran War the way he did Covid. What happens when the market finally has to tell the truth?

I ask myself this question every other day

California: Effectuated ACA Enrollment Down 5.6% Y/Y; Could Drop By 12% Or More By End Of 2026 Hot on the heels of yesterday's Wakely report...

Coal mine, meet canary

Hoo boy. Wakely Consulting projects effectuated ACA enrollment to drop 3.8 - 5.8M this year Me, December 26th: ...I'm bringing all of this back up again today because I strongly suspect that the situation is about to reverse itself, with the Trump Administration already preparing to brag abo...

When it comes to gauging likely year-round attrition in the ACA marketplace that will increase enrollment losses in 2026, Charles Gaba was woke before Wakely... acasignups.net/26/04/15/hoo...

Equating Pharisees with deception and malice is antisemitic

Why doesn't he just go with "Happy will be he who takes your little ones/ And dashes them upon the rock?" That's in there.

Next up: bullshit claims that only "phantom" enrollees are dropping out.

We have empowered the worst of the worst of the worst. Kakistocracy is too weak a word.

Remember when...packages came regularly enough that you might save the envelope they came in, if it was in good shape?

"Ooh, a Jiffy bag..."

Trump’s Latest Meltdown Attacking the pope was only part of the president’s disturbing night on Truth Social.

@radiofreetom.bsky.social on the obligations of the House, Senate, and voters as Trump deteriorates in plain sight: "America cannot keep ignoring the dysfunction of the commander in chief, the sole steward of the codes to a massive nuclear arsenal." 🎁
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AOC: President Trump—I want to be clear—not only threatened genocide, he is continuing to threaten genocide against the Iranian people. That is his main point of “leverage” in this situation. It is a war crime. It is abhorrent, and it is also illegal.

Didn't he post himself as Lion King?

Colorado: Q1 effectuated enrollment down 5.3% y/y; could drop by up to 9.1% or more by end of 2026 Connect for Health Colorado, the state's ACA exchange, has published effectuated enrollment data for January, February and March 2026, so it's time to dig in and see what this might say about national...

Charles Gaba reads some Colorado tea leaves on likely year- long enrollment attrition in the AVA marketplace acasignups.net/26/04/13/col...

CSR forsaken: Long-term trends and 2026 changes in the ACA marketplace When considering how the most seismic changes in the ACA marketplace’s 13-year history have shaken out, it’s important to keep in mind that the market mainly serves very low-income people.

ACA marketplace changed far more in 2026 than the 5% drop in OEP enrollment suggests. Some updates at bottom.
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He's like the Hitler of health care administration

I don't suppose "Swallowell" jokes would elevate the discourse

I'm on the train back to DC – I call on all my colleagues to come back, too.

Congress must vote to end this war IMMEDIATELY.

IMO, gold in 2026 functioned as safety valve for low-income enrollees who felt they couldn't pay for silver with the subsidies reduced.

Gold as well as bronze selection soared at low incomes (< 200% FPL) in 2026. Gold enrollment *shrank* at >200% FPL.
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I'm grateful to anyone who can stand to watch/listen to Trump at all, let alone constantly, because I can't.

I've had English professors who claim that you can't understand European literature without being versed in the Bible.
Such claims are too categorial -- you can "understand"/respond to any lit w/ any or no context -- but for scholarly purposes, it's true.

people split hairs about the genocide classification all the time, but Trump unambiguously wrote down his intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national group, and then he broadcast it out

So sick of reading shit like this, as if he's a rational actor and good-faith negotiator.

If the president sees a deal is coming together, he'll probably hold off. But only he and he alone makes that decision," a senior administration official told Axios.

Texas Considers Required Reading List for Schools, Which Includes the Bible

There's a decent case to be made for including the Bible from a literary standpoint. But that's not what's going on here.