The political puzzle is why Republicans didn’t see this coming. The One Big Beautiful Bill carefully and cynically delays big cuts to Medicaid until after the midterms. Why didn’t it include a similarly cynical delay to the looming premium apocalypse? /1 paulkrugman.substack.com/p/an-autocra...

No more Kavanaugh stops

👀⚖️ "Kavanaugh Stops" what a legacy to leave. #KavanaughStop

On September 8...Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote that such profiling is acceptable.... In practice, though, reports of abuses have become so commonplace that such encounters have been dubbed “Kavanaugh stops.”

8. CE Noticias Financieras, a leading Latin American economic publication, describes Citrone as “a friend of the Secretary of the Treasury.” El Cronista, citing government sources, reported that Citrone “has a personal relationship as well as a past working relationship” with Bessent.

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The Trump administration was presenting a holistic plan to shift the culture and conduct of the United States military to accommodate the lawless character of this nascent regime. /1 lucid.substack.com/p/a-holistic...

But for Trump, the optics were perfect: two leaders, flags, handshakes, and a press conference where reality politely waited outside the door. Greatness? Maybe in the same way his steaks were “great:” overcooked, overpriced, and mostly for show.

“So the electricity grid doesn’t just collect electrons and store them somewhere. It has to match supply and demand at every second.” That is an actual quote from the Secretary of Energy of the United States of America – who apparently isn’t aware that batteries exist.

The researchers wrote that “national policy-level changes are needed” to address the various issues highlighted by the findings, including potentially unnecessary cost burdens and high-markup hospitals’ lower-value care. www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/ho...

This is a VERY well crafted lawsuit. 1) Plaintiff is natural born. 2) He was detained 2X in a fast-growing part of Alabama, not in a city that Brett Kavanaugh could be easily duped into believing was all migrants. 3) Unwarranted detentions were on private property. 4) He showed Real ID both times.

Building & Standards Quorum Problems open.substack.com/pub/raycolli...

The good news is that America’s officer corps isn’t stupid, at least not yet. The stony silence with which the assembled generals and admirals greeted Hegseth’s and Trump’s rants was eloquent. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/bulging-bi...

This is one of the few areas where I'm indifferent to media coverage. Americans know what they're paying. I think the only thing media coverage might do is alert some WSJ readers that people are pissed.

I do wonder when media outlets will get interested in ballooning everyday costs. My family's grocery bill has exploded over the past six months and - unlike when a Democrat is president - this is a non-story.

Love to spend $100 on Halloween candy that would’ve been $60 three years ago

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

First decline in ADP construction payrolls since 2021. (via Kev Gordon)

The judge [William G. Young] concluded: “I fear President Trump believes the American people are so divided that today they will not stand up, fight for, and defend our most precious constitutional values so long as they are lulled into thinking their own personal interests are not affected.

Mortgage rates, biggest weekly rise since April. (via Kev Gordon) $XHB

Australia has had compulsory voting since 1925. LBJ proposed it in 1972 and Obama more recently. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Evidence of herd immunity 17 years after HPV vaccination Between 2006 and 2023, vaccination rates reached 82%. www.cidrap.umn.edu/h... Photo: NIAID/Flickr cc

What it’s really about is culture war. Trying to bring back coal is all about owning the libs. And if it damages the environment, well, from MAGA’s point of view that’s a plus. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/fossil-fue...

...hospitals acquired by private equity reduced salary spending, cut staffing levels and experienced higher mortality rates within their emergency departments, according to a Medicare claims analysis published this week in Annals of Internal Medicine. www.fiercehealthcare.com/providers/st...

A better way to characterize Obamacare subsidies is as one way to help to level the playing field of our inequitable tax code. gooznews.substack.com/p/the-obamac...

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Schumer told reporters that in their discussions, Trump did not appear to be aware that Americans are facing huge increases in their healthcare insurance payments because of the budget reconciliation bill.

Stay-at-home film and TV production. open.substack.com/pub/raycolli... @mikesiegeld7.bsky.social

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You forgot to mention that the shooter was a Trump supporter. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

For several years now I have been unable to obtain my favorite Kenyan coffee. I am told by my supplier that it is due to climate change. www.axios.com/2025/09/29/c...

The Supreme Court is much less popular and much more divisive today than it was when John Roberts was sworn in as the 17th Chief Justice on September 29, 2005. And at least much of that is his fault. www.stevevladeck.com/p/180-the-ro...

This comic is becoming increasingly realistic. m.xkcd.com/3056/

What will happen then? I have no idea. But I think the Democrats made the right choice when they made health insurance premiums — rather than, say, tariffs — their key demand. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/understand...

If MedBeds were real and “every citizen” could use them, as the deep fake video suggests, no one would need to worry about losing their healthcare insurance. Someone took the video down from Trump’s timeline this morning.

📢 Access to medical abortion saves lives. The medications used – #mifepristone and #misoprostol - are included on WHO’s list of Essential Medicines. 🔗 bit.ly/3OynjiA

History is like science and free speech. It doesn't exist for you to agree or disagree with it, it exists for you to listen to it.

“My message to Donald Trump is this,” [Senator] Wyden posted: “we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.”

I know a lot of people won’t click through to read about “med beds” so here’s the crucial quote to explain how fucking crazy this is. Trump just posted an AI video of himself promising every American access to this.

Seizing defensive gear in a country where we have a constitutional right to bear firearms is madness!

In a post-Roe landscape where access to accurate reproductive health information is more crucial than ever, Meta's enforcement system is silencing the very voices communities need most. www.eff.org/pages/meta-...

Audit: Council compliance with lobbyist ordinance improving City Manager accepts audit recommendations for tracking lobbyist activities theaustinbulldog.org/audit-counci...

The physics are almost too good to be true. When wind speed doubles, the energy it carries increases eightfold. Triple the speed, and you have 27 times the energy. /1 cleantechnica.com/2025/09/25/c...

It’s fitting that Hegseth, a political appointee whose tenure has been marked by incompetence, would defend the awarding of those particular Medals of Honor, /1

The [US House Oversight] committee said it received 8,544 documents in response to its subpoena in August. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

This evening, Trump signed a memorandum targeting activists and nonprofits as part of what he called a “terror network” that he claims is fueling violence, especially against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

Kathy Mitchell Day Proclamation open.substack.com/pub/raycolli...

Hawai'i's supreme court issued a major ruling. From now on, police MUST record interrogations of suspects at police stations (& when feasible, outside police stations, too). The ruling aims to promote fairness when a defendant's word stands against an officer's word. boltsmag.org/hawaii-supre...