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andy™ @andylevy.net · 4h

interesting that both the nyt and chicago trib chose to run these the day after millions of people turned out to protest one particular side

nyt:

OPINION
THE EDITORIAL BOARD
The Partisans Are Wrong:
Moving to the Center Is the Way to Win

Chicago Tribune

Editorial: Most
Americans don't think either Democrats or Republicans care about them

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 5h

The longer the govt is shut down the more people get their renewals, and the more people who aren't already convinced will realize that the Republicans are lying that it's about Healthcare for undocumented immigrants.

Also this bill is impossible

Bubba's Dad @bubsdad.bsky.social · 5h

Just receieved this today from Florida Blue. This is for a Bronze plan. Our monthly premiums are going from $333 (2025) to $2300 in 2026.

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Kristin Z. @kayzee1012.bsky.social · 5h

Whole thread, my friends. The ACA is not perfect, but it saves lives.

John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 5h

Are we doing "The ACA Sucks" Discourse again?

I'm going to guess most people hating on it from the left have never received a hospital bill the size of book; I put the apple there for scale.

That's the $1.3 million bill my kid incurred in his first ~94 days. Why does that make me respect the ACA?

A giant stack of papers, about 1/2 the size of an apple, on a counter.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 5h

Hating the ACA is similar to hating on vaccines.

It's a luxury borne of not really appreciating what existed before.

The fix wasn't perfect, and there is a lot more that we could do to make it better.

But the "ACA Was Bad" Discourse is just untethered from reality.

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 9h

curious how many claim now that they always thought it was wrong to vote to leave the EU

James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 16h

Ah! Good morning, reality. And welcome. We’ve been expecting you…

FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.

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Introvert Problems @introvertproblems.bsky.social · 9h

Before coffee: I hate everybody

After coffee: I feel good about hating everybody

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Audrey Dutton @audreydutton.bsky.social · 9h

Schools in South Carolina recently sent home unvaccinated kids, to stem a growing measles outbreak. Turns out 5 of them were infected and, if they'd been at school, could've unwittingly infected their classmates for days.

That kind of precaution is now illegal in Idaho.

Idaho Banned Vaccine Mandates. Activists Want to Make It a Model for the Country.

The Idaho Medical Freedom Act makes it illegal to require anyone to take a vaccine or receive “medical intervention.” Leslie Manookian, the activist behind the law, hopes to make it a “societal norm” ...

www.propublica.org

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 1d

Honestly a more embarrassing thing for the head of a major news organization to say than “let’s do the fucking news.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...

Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, surprised senior staff at the venerable news program "60 Minutes" during a meeting on Tuesday when she asked a provocative question:
Why does the country think you're biased?

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NPR @npr.org · 12h

Gas utility bills are rising even though natural gas prices are down. That's because a much larger share of your gas bill now goes to infrastructure instead of fuel.

Natural gas prices are low, but your monthly gas bill is up. Here's why

Gas utility bills are rising even though natural gas prices are down. That's because a much larger share of your gas bill now goes to infrastructure instead of fuel.

n.pr

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Kristin Z. @kayzee1012.bsky.social · 20h

I rarely if ever get the urge to deep clean and reorganize my kitchen. But that is how I spent my day. After I purged the spring and summer wear and swapped it with the fall/winter stuff yesterday. I was productive this weekend but now I am too exhausted to face Monday.

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Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 20h

You know, sometimes it's okay to have no new ideas. Really.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

“At toilet time, you sign in via a fingerprint sensor so that the device knows who's using the facilities. (Please wash your hands before signing out or tracking your progress.) Then, check in with the app for the day's analysis and trends over time.”

Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents

The company's new Dekoda toilet accessory is like a little bathroom detective.

www.cnet.com

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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 22h

I always wondered why France had so many heists but if you can still just put a ladder up to a window on the Louvre in the year 2025 and get away with a big bag full of priceless jewels I guess that solves the mystery

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

seems that RFK is clearing the path for his CDC to do tuskegee syphillis experiments as a matter of course. in other news, RFK is a genuine monster who relishes in the pain and suffering of those he feels he has control or dominion over

Julia Lynch @jlynch13.bsky.social · 1d

RFK is undoing human subjects protections so he can conduct placebo trials of vaccines. That means infecting people knowingly. I wonder who will “volunteer” for these trials? If history is any guide, a lot of incarcerated and other powerless people.

Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 1d

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder: We spent YEARS reading thousands and thousands of articles on the Tea Party and how it was a true expression of the American people's will, and it never mounted anything nearly as big as Saturday's No Kings rallies. [1/3]

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Kristin Z. @kayzee1012.bsky.social · 21h

Bonus kid cooked dinner tonight for us. He’s such a good kid. He made the most giant chicken parm I’ve ever seen and I couldn’t even eat half of one piece. So much food.

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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 22h

they are so close to understanding the entire point of trade

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: The US is rolling back tariffs on “products that cannot be grown, mined, or naturally produced in the United States," per WSJ

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Kristin Z. @kayzee1012.bsky.social · 1d

He’s just so unlikable.

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Jessica Smith @thedaybooks.bsky.social · 1d

Also, it drives me crazy that Universities are embracing AI when they are plagiarizing everyone else's work and plagiarism is supposedly not allowed in academia. It's only allowed when a computer does it? Wtf.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 2d

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Kristin Z. @kayzee1012.bsky.social · 1d

I keep seeing Pritzker denouncing ICE and Trump, but if I’m reading some skeets correctly the Illinois State Police is also behaving in a rather disturbing way? Does he not have authority over the ISP or is something else going on?

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Kristin Z. @kayzee1012.bsky.social · 1d

That was most definitely a shot fired at Moulton. Who does not think the same thing.

Liz Saila @lizsaila.bsky.social · 2d

Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."

Sen. Ed Markey, a white man with white hair, standing at a lectern with a dark background, and Sen Elizabeth Warren to camera right, in a black top with a red blazer. Markey wears a trans pride flag draped over his shoulders. The closed caption reads "trans people because trans righs are human rights. We" The chiron underneath reads "No Kings Rally Underway In Boston"

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 1d

It is true every day, but days like today just are huge reminders that for all it's many and varied faults this country was always great and it deserves better than what it's political branches give it in return

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 2d

When there’s so clearly more people who don’t want fascism than do want fascism it becomes pretty fucking unignorable that the Democratic Party has a widespread candidate, platform and messaging problem. Every election is theirs to lose, and they do.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 2d

#withalttext

Tweet from the verified NYPD News account reads: "The majority of the No Kings protests have dispersed at this time and all traffic closures have been lifted. We had more than 100,000 people across all five boroughs peacefully exercising their first amendment rights and the NYPD made zero protest-related arrests." The post is timestamped 3:27 PM on 10/18/25 and shows 50K views. The NYPD badge is displayed in the top left corner.

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