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Health insurance premiums are likely to grow more expensive next year for those who buy Marketplace plans, after increases this year. From Stateline buff.ly/qPZv0L4

Some 401(k) and 403(b) plans are stuck in investments with bloated fees and costly add-ons. Help ProPublica investigate the financial products companies are pushing and the fees they’re charging workers:

NEW: Financial firms want a bigger piece of the $10 trillion in America’s 401(k) plans, and the Trump administration is planning a regulatory rollback to encourage less-regulated — and often riskier — investments.

The Defense Department was funded with a budget of nearly a trillion dollars, but it is running out of cash, according to three U.S. officials, a former defense official, outside experts and two congressional staff members.

#AffordableCareAct #ACA #healthinsurance

The expectation you should have from paying taxes is that everybody receives universal healthcare, a social safety net, & properly subsidised medication. If you're paying tax to fund the rich, corruption, war, & universal poverty you're being robbed - signed The Rest of the World

As I said in my Editor’s Note, it is my belief that the Democrats should make universal birthright, single payer, healthcare a major party priority. The United States has the lowest ranked healthcare amongst the developed democracies, and a grotesquely greater cost.

If I were involved in Democrat Party politics I would be advising the Democrats to make universal birthright single-payer healthcare a major party priority.

We just hit a harrowing milestone. There are now 1,000 hospitals, nursing homes, and clinics that have closed or are on the verge of closing since Republicans gutted Medicaid and the ACA to fund tax cuts the wealthy. Billionaires over patients. With deadly consequences.

So as Bernie said...roughly the amount we could spend on UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE.

Why are US tax dollars being squandered on needless wars, ballrooms, helipads and arches when actual taxpayers are going without healthcare or even basic government services? When will taxes start benefitting taxpayers again?

So in other words, millions more without health insurance.

I'm not American. What are the alternatives when ACA (or any) coverage becomes unaffordable? Does this mean emergency care only, or not even that?

It means no coverage at all. You can get emergency services but you are expected to pay for them. Its crazy that a country with as much wealth as a US can’t even provide their citizens with basic health coverage. And we pay a boatload of taxes.

Health insurance premiums for millions of people who buy coverage through the Affordable Care Act are on track to rise sharply again next year, according to a report by KFF, a nonpartisan health policy research group.

ICYMI: The U.S. Navy has identified Cmdr. Gabriel Edwards as the sailor lost at sea and now presumed dead following last week's emergency helicopter landing in the Arabian Sea. From Stars and Stripes' Gary Warner:

Iran targets sites in Bahrain, Kuwait after wave of US strikes reut.rs/4vgvTGg

Sherrilyn Ifill sat down with Rachel Maddow for a conversation about the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence at the “We the People” live event in Philly. Listen to her thoughts on Supreme Court reform and our chance to build a new democracy.

President Donald Trump's White House unveiled a new promotional gimmick this week: "Freedom Fuel," or a network of 25 gas stations offering what is being billed as cut-rate gasoline to deliver savings to American voters.

A useful case study in Cheyenne, Wyoming with a Meta data center that discharged water into the city's reclaimed water system that tested positive for an opportunistic pathogen, Cupriavidus gilardii. Let's explore how data centers can DIRECTLY harm human health.

Meta’s AI data-center in Cheyenne, Wyoming, has been caught infecting the town’s water supply with deadly bacteria. Officials say wastewater from Meta’s AI data-center flooded the town’s pipes with the bacterium Cupriavidus gilardii, and they found the company violated industrial waste regulations.

ICYMI: As the annual NATO summit opened Tuesday in Turkey, President Donald Trump renewed his threats to pull all American troops from Europe if Denmark refuses to relinquish Greenland, adding fresh uncertainty to the U.S.-NATO relationship. From Stars and Stripes' John Vandiver:

“a relentlessly tendentious piece of trash…” www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...

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As DOGE’s charter expires, it’s worth recognizing what this endeavor was at its core: a failed experiment. DOGE’s goals went unmet. Its promises went unfulfilled. It envisioned one set of results but delivered the opposite. Good riddance. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

An Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces has died from an allergic reaction while in ICE custody, one day after he was detained for deportation proceedings, his death certificate shows. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

I have shocking news to report: An hour in to the NATO summit and Trump has already make a complete ass of himself on the world stage again, trashing our closest allies for decades while praising Putin and Erdogan and ranting one lie after another.

Why is Trump attacking ‘communists’? Because he’s run out of cards to play | Robert Reich

Beijing, whose stockpiles and renewables industry allowed it to withstand the energy shock, is now gaining from the global solar, wind, and EV push, writes Amy Hawkins.

Planned Parenthood Can Access Medicaid Funds Again as Congress Lets Ban Expire www.commondreams.org/news/planned...

Now they want to open a new for-profit Trump prison camp for children: apnews.com/article/ice-...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. #giftarticle #stockmarket www.nytimes.com/2026/07/03/b...

Trump ruins everything.

BREAKING: The U.S. Navy says it has suspended the active search for a crew member missing since Wednesday, when a MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter went down in the Arabian Sea. www.stripes.com/branches/nav...

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Josh Groban singing "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" at the Nashville 4th while being aired on CNN is 'chef's kiss.' We see you Josh.

Coverage of the Boston Pops on CNN just now was beautiful. Brava Boston!

Thank you Boston, Boston Pops (and CNN ) for a glorious and classy celebration appropriate for our 250th!

The caricature fireworks in Boston harbor (with the Boston Pops on CNN) were breathtaking and a wonderful tribute to American history 250 years ago. Worth a rewind almost to the beginning of the broadcast.

We’re turning off CNN before he starts ranting. Not letting his speech ruin today’s celebration. Happy 250, America! 💙🌈🤗

The drone show with the Boston Pops on CNN is amazing. Watching live fron the West coast.

#CNN is covering #BostonPops with synchronized fireworks. Always a favorite!!!

Just watched the Fireworks display in New York City on CNN. Wow it was amazing. Congratulations on your 250th birthday from your Northern neighbours. 🇨🇦🇺🇸

CNN, who has may issues, is doing a killer job on the NYC fireworks. They had to cover on the fly because of the weather. But whoever picked the music, has a great ear. And the drone shots, quite amazing. Compared with the milktoast muzak on NBC, CNN get a tip of the hat.

Watching the CNN broadcast of the fourth. Somehow the Orange seems irrelevant. WE are the spirit of the fourth, not him. Happy Birthday!