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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 4m

people who think this will not have an effect on employer-provided health care rates and premiums are walking into a buzzsaw

Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 22m

HOO BOY. I just acquired the FINAL, approved 2026 #ACA rate filings for #ARIZONA and it's not pretty at all.

Premiums are going up 46.3% on average...and that's for full price enrollees.

acasignups.net/rate_changes...

2026 Final Gross Rate Changes - Arizona: +46.3% (updated)

Originally posted 8/7/25 Overall preliminary rate changes via federal Rate Review database. Antidote Health Plan of AZ: (Unfortunately, no rate justification summary is available, and the full actuari...

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 3m

Oh yeah fuck the pledge that’s some stupid Christian nonsense. I just like the idea of an overtly inclusive space reclaiming the ideals.

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 9m

Their boss is Kristie Noem.

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 13m

This story, and others like it every single day in America, give me a murderous rage.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 22m

EL PASO — a family says ICE showed up at their house looking for migrants and shot and KILLED THEIR DOG, then didn’t help them as the agent ran away and was not identified.

kfoxtv.com/news/local/e...

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David Atkins @davidoatkins.bsky.social · 12m

Right wing billionaires are buying up the entire information environment. And now they are buying video game and voting machine companies.

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 6h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 11m

I know but I'm just like... why should I have to change they're the ones who suck. "liberty and justice for all" is actually a good idea.

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 13m

For the creepy ass cult of techbros who call themselves "rationalists?" yes.

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 14m

ah. Politico is still garbage.

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 18m

So glad they saved all that money firing civil servants and destroying our infrastructure so they could spend it building a ballroom and buying a jet.

Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 20m

why are we talking about someone who hasn't been in The House in years and to my knowledge no longer has a national political profile? I know Politico is called "Tiger Beat on the Potomac for a reason but they need to get a life and focus on accurately covering people who still have power over us.

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 24m

just as asinine as when DOGE demanded it and saved all that money to build a ballroom and an ugly monument on the Mall

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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 26m

Her blatant incompetence is somewhat heartening. This definitely won't end well.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2h

Here's the full memo.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 26m

MIT showing the way

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

www.nytimes.com

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 26m

dunno about the costumes specifically but the idea of humiliating fascists through absurdity as a form of protest has a long and storied legacy.

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Dan Creel @dancreel.com · 28m

The New World Order that the GOP warned us about. Brought to you by the GOP 🤣

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 29m

I actually love this one. We need to take back Americana to promote Liberty and Justice for *ALL*

Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 46m

If you're going to a rally on the 18th and don't want to be a frog, this ridiculous thing exists:

Screenshot of an inflatable bald eagle in an Uncle Sam hat that you can wear for only $27 plus patriotic sales tax

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 29m

what's with today, today?

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 30m

Why is Pete Hegseth trying to turn Idaho into Dearborn*, Michigan?

(*I know there's nothing wrong with Dearborn but I'm sick of christofascists pretending they don't have much more in common with a far right theocracy than pretty much any Muslim American does)

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 34m

Pete *Hic*seth would surrender to Red Dawn, and call it a deal.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2h

Hegseth: "I'm also proud that today we're signing a letter of acceptance to build a Qatari Emeri air force facility at the Mountain Home Airbase in Idaho."

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 34m

These people are not kidding, and it would behoove all of us if more people in the US who think "identifies as christian" = "good person" accepted it instead of sticking their fingers in their ears or minimizing it.

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 1h

Exclusive: Tech billionaire Peter Thiel warned that Swedish activist Greta Thunberg and critics of AI are “legionnaires of the Antichrist” in private lectures that connected government oversight of Silicon Valley to an apocalyptic future.

Inside billionaire Peter Thiel’s private lectures: Warnings of ‘the Antichrist’ and U.S. destruction

In leaked recordings of private lectures by tech billionaire Peter Thiel he argued that “the Antichrist” is likely to take the form of a critic of technology.

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 58m

The direct descendant of George W. bush’s “either you’re with us or you’re with the terrorists” rhetoric, in case you thought he was blameless because he’s retired into painting and silence, or you thought the Cheneys were good now because it has come back to bite them, personally, in the ass.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 46m

I know we all think of George W. Bush as ancient history, now that news cycles last mere minutes.

But George W. Bush is still the immediately preceding Republican administration to Trump’s. Trump is Bush’s immediate Republican successor.

This was no evolution.

David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 58m

The direct descendant of George W. bush’s “either you’re with us or you’re with the terrorists” rhetoric, in case you thought he was blameless because he’s retired into painting and silence, or you thought the Cheneys were good now because it has come back to bite them, personally, in the ass.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Mike Johnson: "We're so angry about it. I mean, I'm a very patient guy, but I've had it with these people. The theory we have right now -- they have a hate America rally that's scheduled for October 18 on the National Mall. It's the pro-Hamas wing and antifa people ... "

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Willow @rockshrimp.bsky.social · 46m

The Luddites did nothing wrong.

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G. Willow Wilson @gwillow.me · 47m

Never a good idea to remind customers that you actually still own the thing they thought they bought.

Ryan McManus @ryantomorrow.bsky.social · 58m

Tesla pulls an Apple U2. electrek.co/2025/10/10/t...

Tesla pushes Tron: Ares ad inside its cars, upsetting owners

Tesla has partnered with its recent foe, Disney, to promote its latest movie, Tron: Ares, with an in-car update that...

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Elizabeth Picciuto @epicciuto.bsky.social · 54m

Blown away by how good an idea the costumes are. More shareable and fun than pics of a regular protest, and it’s immediately clear that the protestors are non-violent.

dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 12h

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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