About 8 in 10 Americans who re-enrolled in Affordable Care Act marketplace coverage say their health care costs are higher this year, including about half who say their costs are "a lot" higher, according to a survey from the health care research nonprofit KFF.
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🇦🇪🇺🇸 The UAE to the Trump administration: "You started this war; if it results in a shortage of US dollars, either you provide us with dollar-denominated credit swap lines, or we will be forced to start trading oil and gas in yuan and other currencies." - WSJ
Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.
Americans elected the only new yorker alive who has never set foot in a bodega bsky.app/profile/atru...
Trump: "Millions of American small businesses, including corner stores. What is a corner store? I've never heard that term. I know what a corner store is but I've never heard it described-- a corner store. Who the hell wrote that?"
MacFarlane: Are we to pretend we didn’t watch all that on television on January 6th? Did we not all see what happened at the Capitol?
These vacating of convictions, these pardons, are communicating to the American people: do not believe your lying eyes
This is capitalism functioning as intended. This will evil never end until businesses are worker owned micro democracies
Disney's new CEO, whose pay package is worth nearly $45M, just announced 1,000 layoffs.
Reminder that Disney paid an effective federal income tax rate of ZERO in 2025 and aims to buy back $7B of its own stock in 2026.
This is what corporate greed looks like.
France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.
Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars
The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.
Why aren't we doing this?
TurboTax and H&R Block spent $7 million lobbying the Trump administration to kill Direct File.
Both companies donated to Trump's 2024 campaign and inauguration committees.
screencap of a tweet with a photo at the bottom of JD Vance giving a talk, gesturing smugly with his hands Eric Daugherty • @EricLDaugh • 1h • JD VANCE RESPONDS TO POPE LEO: "When the Pope says that God is never on the side of those who wield the sword - there is more than a THOUSAND year tradition of Just war Theory." "In the same way that it's important for the vice president of the United States to be careful when I talk about matters of public policy, I think it's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology." "And I think that one of these issues here is that there has been - if you're going to opine on matters of theology, you've got to be careful, you've got to make sure it's anchored in the truth, and that's one of the things that I try to do, and it's certainly something I would expect from the clergy, whether they're Catholic or Protestant."
I’ve given this a great deal of thought, trying to come up with the perfect joke for this moment, and this is what I have so far -
POPE LEO: our religion teaches that this war is bad
VANCE: wow, who died and made YOU head of the Catholic Church??
POPE LEO: well, you should know, you were there
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the war on Iran cannot be understood as separate from NATO's war with Russia, from Israel's genocide on palestine and ethnic cleansing of southern Lebanon, from the kidnapping of maduro or the starving of cuba. the thread that ties these all together is sovereignty—something the US cannot allow
“The US cannot afford regional stability in West Asia because such stability would inevitably facilitate alternative economic partnerships and potentially undermine the dollar-denominated oil system that underpins US global financial dominance." – Matteo Capasso
US-led global capitalism managed to hobble into the 21st century. but it's now clear to anyone with a working brain that it has reached a point of profound, perhaps terminal crisis. and nothing demonstrates this as clearly as Iran
One of the things that really struck me as we went through this week was the way that the world was simply waiting around to see if a genocide would commence at 8:00 PM on schedule
Use your influence platforms wherever they are to be an advocate for justice, to be an advocate for rationality
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We have several legal ways to remove our despot before he is allowed to commit additional horrors. We must use these methods now. This is our moment, and if we fail—history will not just blame Trump & his MAGA acolytes for terrorizing the world; it will also blame us—the ineffectual opposition.
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Trump’s executive order to upend mail voting is not only illegal, but would inject chaos into our elections. bit.ly/4mhDqln
Rabbi stands silhouetted against the remains of a bombed synagogue
Holy book lies among the rubble in the remains of a bombed synagogue
⚠️ Israel bombed a synagogue in Iran this morning.
The Rafie Nia Synagogue in Tehran was completely destroyed.
(Photos via AryJeay on X)
Buttigieg: "For the leader of this country to make a nakedly genocidal threat against another civilization as if the US was a death star that was going around blowing up civilizations, of course that is a new low ... the whole country is being judged just for tolerating that kind of thing at the WH"
Same personalities.
Look at all these pathetic little wastes
The danger grows each time ICE is used in ways it’s not supposed to be. Video: xcancel.com/rpsagainst.....
All it takes is possession of a videotape.
Screenshot of Google results page after search for student protests, limited to coverage in the news in the last 24 hours. Headlines read: Florida Today: Brevard school board: Can social media users be sued for urging walkouts? (10 hours ago) Capital B News: After FAMU Signed ICE Deal, Students Demanded Answers, and Were Met With Silence (2 hours ago) www.nsunews.com: Student protests encourage free speech (5 hours ago) Jacobin: Germany’s Gen Z Is Revolting Against Militarism (2 hours ago) The Signal: MJC Students protest for “Protect our kids” (1 hour ago) Temple Update: Temple Students and Organizers Gather for Anti-ICE Walkout at Bell Tower (7 hours ago) Tampa Bay Times: Spring Break is here. Our schools are still standing (10 hours ago) Kitsap Sun: WA students remain active as local political protests continue (21 hours ago) Campus Reform: San Diego State socialist students stage anti-war march (5 hours ago)
Absolutely. This screenshot is just the first page (of five!) of results from news coverage in just the last 24 hours documenting student protests. Sure seems like lots of them happening all the time.
Maybe they should indulge in 30 seconds of research instead of writing a thread based on vibes?
New polling shows @amyactonoh.bsky.social up 10 in against Vivek in Ohio and @ginafortexas.bsky.social tie with Abbott in deep-red Texas.
Both are fierce defenders of public schools in states that have aggressively walked back their public school investments in recent years.
Dems File Lawsuit Demanding Details On Military Presence At Polls #CrooksAndLiars
@vanhollen.senate.gov has emerged as a moral leader. He's been on the right side of issues the past year.
