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Charles Ornstein
18 days ago
Despite what President Trump says, many Affordable Care Act plans are losing money this year and investors have grown increasingly bearish. “This is the worst of the five businesses managed-care companies participate in.”
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Trump Calls Obamacare Insurers Fat and Rich. Investors See Them as Vulnerable.
Republicans want to shift subsidies away from some of the frailest companies in the industry.
https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/trump-calls-obamacare-insurers-fat-and-rich-investors-see-them-as-vulnerable-b918a8a6?st=2KGnGw&reflink=article_copyURL_share
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CDC replaces website on vaccines and autism with false and misleading statements
The CDC removed its own research into the safety of vaccines and replaced it with inaccurate statements.
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2025-11-20/cdc-fills-website-on-v
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Trump Refuses to Pardon Turkey After it Fails to Bribe Him
"This turkey is a terrible person," Trump said.
https://open.substack.com/pub/borowitzreport/p/trump-refuses-to-pardon-turkey-after?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=59bjfn
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Scientists pull ancient RNA from a woolly mammoth's body
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Scientists pull ancient RNA from a woolly mammoth's body
Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a woolly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in the extinct mammal's body just before it died.
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/14/nx-s1-5607041/wooly-mammoth-oldest-rna-yuka
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World Diabetes Day | About WDD
World Diabetes Day (WDD) is the world’s largest diabetes awareness campaign reaching a global audience of over 1 billion people in over 160 countries.
https://worlddiabetesday.org/about-wdd/
28 days ago
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GJRboston
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Johnson's new knight (in rusty armor should be "Sir Liealot"
about 1 month ago
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Mike Johnson's response (as a guess "this is the first I've heard about "it" I've been busy")>>
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Mesa Fama (@mesa)
Bette Midler serenading Stephen Colbert is EVERYTHING I needed to see tonight. 🤣🤣😍😍😍 For this LOTR nerd girl - this just made my nerd heart squee. 😍😍
https://substack.com/@mesa/note/c-166473750?r=59bjfn
about 1 month ago
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about 1 month ago
Governor Newsom continues to Lead America When Chump Fails. Governor Newsom is Going to COP 30,The Climate Change Conference in Brazil.......
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Subway sandwich thrower found not guilty in D.C. jury rebuke
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Subway sandwich thrower found not guilty in D.C. jury rebuke
The acquittal on a misdemeanor charge comes after the case came to represent broader resistance in the nation's capital to the Trump administration's law enforcement surge.
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/06/nx-s1-5600772/trump-justice-federal-surge-subway-sandwich
about 1 month ago
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Left engine fell off! What to know about the deadly UPS plane crash in Louisville
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What to know about the deadly UPS plane crash in Louisville, Kentucky
The plane crashed and burst into flames on Tuesday in Louisville, killing at least 12 people and injuring nearly 20 others. The disaster also shut down the largest UPS package distribution hub.
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/06/g-s1-96748/deadly-ups-plane-crash-kentucky
about 1 month ago
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Casey
about 1 month ago
Ice agents crashing into US citizens then forcibly detaining them. They don’t know how to hold guns. They clearly don’t have any training. They obviously aren’t following the laws. This is embarrassing for our country and dangerous for our citizens.
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Transforming Lives with Action | ADA
Find out how our advocacy supports diabetes research funding, health care access. Become an advocate and help us ensure a bright future for those living with diabetes.
https://diabetes.org/advocacy
about 1 month ago
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The Morning: Anti-vax for dogs
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about 2 months ago
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We’re the Frogs (Portland, Oregon Peaceful Protest Anthem for the "War Ravaged" city)
YouTube video by Grandma Clanker | Warm Heart | Cool Creative
https://youtube.com/watch?v=anVROJ9_5kY&si=4giDBh-Pmr4QCsSS
about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
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Barack Obama
about 2 months ago
Voters should pick their representatives, not the other way around. Glad to get the chance to talk to some of the volunteers and organizers doing the hard work to make sure Prop 50 passes. This vote will have critical implications, not just for California, but for our entire country.
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Barack Obama
about 2 months ago
We have just over two weeks to pass Prop 50. And when we do, it will send a message of hope across the country, that change is possible if we do the work. So, let’s get to it.
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Aaron Rupar
about 2 months ago
Mike Johnson: "Rep. Grijalva can work -- Rep.-elect Grijalva can work for her constituents right now. Constituent services, answering the phones, she has computers and 16 employees and there's no excuse for it. The Epstein files are being released."
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Anne Grete (GoogeliArt) 🦋💙PD
about 2 months ago
US leaders are erasing Black history. That threatens our future
go.shr.lc/4hm8kX3
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US leaders are erasing Black history. That threatens our future | Stacey Abrams and Esosa Osa
DEI is being used as a smokescreen to roll back progress and consolidate power. The goal is to rewrite our nation’s story
https://go.shr.lc/4hm8kX3
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Thousands turn out for St. Louis 'No Kings' rally despite rain
YouTube video by KSDK News
https://youtube.com/watch?v=uzPrqgd8K_Q&si=wtAT0bxYrar8zhZ7
about 2 months ago
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Missouri's new gerrymander could be overturned by voters
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These voters want to overturn Missouri's new gerrymandered congressional map
A Missouri group is working to overturn the map that gives the state one more Republican seat in Congress. If they get enough signatures, the map cannot take effect unless Missourians approve them.
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/18/nx-s1-5558173/redistricting-gerrymandering-missouri-ballot-texas
about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
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Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run (1975 - Full Album) - YouTube
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about 2 months ago
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My Kind of Town (Chicago) - Frank Sinatra
YouTube video by TheCrazyCrooner
https://youtu.be/XpEGxHLJpK4?si=nPdGo6tDd6SPQKDo
2 months ago
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White House claims “more than 1,000%” rise in assaults on ICE agents, data says otherwise
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White House claims "more than 1,000%" rise in assaults on ICE agents, data says otherwise
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers claim assaults on their officers are up sharply since June. There's no public evidence that number is true.
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/10/nx-s1-5565146/white-house-claims-more-than-1-000-rise-in-assaults-on-ice-agents-data-says-otherwise
2 months ago
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All In with Chris Hayes
2 months ago
WATCH:
@chrislhayes.bsky.social
explains precisely why Mike Johnson is stalling the new Dem rep's swear-in over the Epstein vote: "Right now, Johnson can pressure the four Republican signers to change their minds. He has time to do it—as long as he keeps Adelita Grijalva out of Congress."
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AFT
2 months ago
Happening now:
@rweingarten.bsky.social
has joined a strategy session with congressional leadership and
@endcitizensunited.bsky.social
for a frank discussion regarding the Republican shutdown of the government.
@pelosi.house.gov
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social
@repstevenhorsford.bsky.social
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Trump is reviving large sales of coal from public lands. Will anyone want it?
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Trump is reviving large sales of coal from public lands. Will anyone want it?
U.S. officials in coming days are set to hold the government’s biggest coal sales in more than a decade. About 600 million tons of the fuel will be auctioned from publicly owned reserves next to strip...
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2025/10/04/trump-is-reviving-large-sales-of-coal-from-public-lands-will-anyone-want-it
2 months ago
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Living With Diabetes | ADA
Explore our wealth of articles and more to support your diabetes journey whether you are newly diagnosed, living with type 1, type 2, gestational diabetes or other types.
https://diabetes.org/living-with-diabetes
2 months ago
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Rachel Maddow
2 months ago
Reported Trump plan to cut more than 750,000 older Americans off disability:
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Despite campaign promises, White House eyes new changes to Social Security and Medicare
“I will never do anything that will jeopardize or hurt Social Security or Medicare,” Trump vowed in 2024. I have bad news for voters who believed him.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/campaign-promises-white-house-eyes-new-changes-social-security-medicar-rcna235933
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Pritzker SUES Trump administration to block National Guard deployment in Chicago
YouTube video by NBC Chicago
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ke0zxkSNHmk&si=4f3lhQV8jlmVroVB
2 months ago
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Catherine Rampell
2 months ago
Ford CEO on tariffs: “I mean, it's frustrating 'cause we're the most American auto company, and we export the most, and yet, we have this $2 billion headwind, which prevents me from investing even more in the US.”
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Ford CEO says $2 billion in tariff costs prevents more US investments
Ford CEO Jim Farley says tariffs on imported parts are driving up costs on the company's cars.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ford-ceo-says-2-billion-in-tariff-costs-prevents-more-us-investments-213035044.html
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Robert Reich
2 months ago
BlackRock will buy AES, one of the largest publicly traded utility companies in the U.S. AES is a major power provider for Big Tech companies building out data centers. Yes: while these data centers drive up your electricity costs, wealthy financiers are going to make a killing.
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2 months ago
KEEP AN EYE ON GEORGIA! ✊🏻🇬🇪🇪🇺 Repost to spread the word!
#GeorgiaProtests
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I don't see karoline as essential. Potential way to cut spending?
2 months ago
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Does this mean kkkaroline is volunteering to be laid off? Karoline Leavitt defends Trump layoff plan during shutdown
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Karoline Leavitt says White House must cut spending due to shutdown
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says the Trump administration has to look at ways to "save money in a responsible way that respects the American taxpayer's money" during shutdown.
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/03/nx-s1-5561131/government-shutdown-white-house-karoline-leavitt
2 months ago
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'St. Louis grocery store highlights its zero waste alternative as city ends alley recycling' from 'Top Stories' on the St. Louis Public Radio app!
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St. Louis grocery store highlights its zero waste alternative as city ends alley recycling
Local Harvest Grocery, a Tower Grove South grocery store, is providing ways for St. Louisans to reduce waste after the city ended its alleyway recycling program.
https://www.stlpr.org/health-science-environment/2025-10-03/st-louis-grocery-store-local-harvest-zero-waste-alternative-alley-recycling
2 months ago
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'AFGE and U.S. Representatives in St. Louis call for 'cruel' government shutdown to end' from 'Top Stories' on the St. Louis Public Radio app!
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AFGE and U.S. Representatives in St. Louis call for ‘cruel’ government shutdown to end
U.S. Representatives Nikki Budzinski, D-Springfield, Ill., and Wesley Bell, D-St. Louis County, joined a small group of federal employees on Thursday, calling for an end to the shutdown as thousands o...
https://www.stlpr.org/government-politics-issues/2025-10-02/afge-and-u-s-representatives-st-louis-government-shutdown
2 months ago
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Christopher Webb
2 months ago
Straight up: I’m not onboard with farmers getting another bailout when so many voted for Trump two and three times. But what Trump is doing to them is brutal. I want to believe they’ve learned their lesson this time, but I don’t. Watch all the way through.
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Mark Hamill
2 months ago
Easily, his most elaborate and destructive distraction from
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Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer on meeting with President Trump and House Republicans
YouTube video by The National Desk
https://youtube.com/watch?v=IpSLHWdn_sk&si=tw1bY2CzCNBvoENb
2 months ago
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Governor JB Pritzker
2 months ago
In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists when unprovoked — what would we call it? If federal agents marched down streets demanding papers — what would we say? Authoritarianism — let’s not pretend it’s something else when it happens in our American cities.
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stevethdemocrat
2 months ago
Rumor has it that krasnov made the Portland move based on footage from 2020! Hold on! It gets better. Seems a defeated former congressperson, who now is in cabinet, & is full of grievance for
#Portland
. She fed him the footage and painted the picture! Lori Chavez-DeRemer is her name! Share it!😤
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Nicolle Wallace on Trump: ‘A historically unpopular President for month nine’
YouTube video by MSNBC
https://youtu.be/O1QhoInOKZA?si=KZJZFFHZWKlD-IW9
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Christopher Webb
2 months ago
NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka. I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws. Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”
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Kelly
2 months ago
While Jeff Landry asks for the National Guard to be mobilized against his own cities, Illinois Gov Pritzker gives practical resistance advice He urges people to film & document what’s happening. To ask for badge numbers & ID. To speak up for their neighbours. That’s how we resist. Don’t give up.
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