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🚨 REMINDER: 30% of the U.S. population STILL HAS TIME TO ENROLL in #ACA healthcare coverage starting in January.
If you live in CA, IL, MD, NV, NJ, NM, PA, RI, VA or WA, you still have until New Year's Eve to #GetCovered starting January 1st!
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If you live in CA, IL, MD, NV, NJ, NM, PA, RI, VA or WA, you still have until New Year's Eve to #GetCovered starting January 1st!
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Grouching towards Enrollment: My 2026 ACA OEP Guide
Almost exactly a year ago I began my 2025 ACA Open Enrollment Period guide with the following words: This is the best OEP ever for the ACA for several reasons: The expanded/enhanced premium subsidies ...
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December 26, 2025 at 4:39 PM
🚨 REMINDER: 30% of the U.S. population STILL HAS TIME TO ENROLL in #ACA healthcare coverage starting in January.
If you live in CA, IL, MD, NV, NJ, NM, PA, RI, VA or WA, you still have until New Year's Eve to #GetCovered starting January 1st!
acasignups.net/25/12/25/gro...
If you live in CA, IL, MD, NV, NJ, NM, PA, RI, VA or WA, you still have until New Year's Eve to #GetCovered starting January 1st!
acasignups.net/25/12/25/gro...
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Bad Bunny was once again the most streamed artist globally on Spotify after claiming the honor for 3 straight years from 2020-2022. Incredible that a Spanish language unabashedly Puerto Rican album was the most streamed globally this year.
Soy de P fucking R. 🇵🇷
Soy de P fucking R. 🇵🇷
December 26, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Bad Bunny was once again the most streamed artist globally on Spotify after claiming the honor for 3 straight years from 2020-2022. Incredible that a Spanish language unabashedly Puerto Rican album was the most streamed globally this year.
Soy de P fucking R. 🇵🇷
Soy de P fucking R. 🇵🇷
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Jesus Christ -- a noted working class Aramaic-speaking Palestinian Jew, socialist, and undocumented migrant living under a oppressive imperial regime -- would drop-kick this asshole into the sun.
December 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Jesus Christ -- a noted working class Aramaic-speaking Palestinian Jew, socialist, and undocumented migrant living under a oppressive imperial regime -- would drop-kick this asshole into the sun.
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Miraculously, the Waymo discourse is even worse. The cars are not Mechanical Turks. Have you ever seen one on the streets? Driven next to one? I do this four times a day. You've never met a driver half as capable as a Waymo.
The company sucks. Whatever. Regulate it. The technology is amazing.
The company sucks. Whatever. Regulate it. The technology is amazing.
I realize I'm caught in a liminal glass house as an LLM skeptic who works at a company at the very bleeding edge of its development, but every single discussion on this app about AI annoys me. Every opinion is bad, every discourse is stupid.
This post is worst of all.
This post is worst of all.
December 26, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Miraculously, the Waymo discourse is even worse. The cars are not Mechanical Turks. Have you ever seen one on the streets? Driven next to one? I do this four times a day. You've never met a driver half as capable as a Waymo.
The company sucks. Whatever. Regulate it. The technology is amazing.
The company sucks. Whatever. Regulate it. The technology is amazing.
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As it happens this is exactly the argument of a bunch of angry white dudes who seethe with fury because I have had a very successful 20 year career in mainstream science fiction publishing and they haven't. It's an intriguing hypothesis and I wish them joy with it.
You’re so woke you’re probably no longer a ‘real’ white man.
It happens to the best of us.
It happens to the best of us.
December 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
As it happens this is exactly the argument of a bunch of angry white dudes who seethe with fury because I have had a very successful 20 year career in mainstream science fiction publishing and they haven't. It's an intriguing hypothesis and I wish them joy with it.
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‘Carol of the Bells’ was born in a Ukrainian city destroyed by Russia wapo.st/48UVYmn
‘Carol of the Bells’ was born in a Ukrainian city destroyed by Russia
The music school dedicated to the song’s Ukrainian composer, Mykola Leontovych, was destroyed in Pokrovsk but has been reborn in exile.
wapo.st
December 26, 2025 at 11:56 AM
‘Carol of the Bells’ was born in a Ukrainian city destroyed by Russia wapo.st/48UVYmn
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Gift article — Some good news for chocolate and coffee lovers wapo.st/48Wy0XX
New study sheds light on a beneficial compound found in coffee and chocolate
Theobromine, an alkaloid found in dark chocolate and coffee, is associated with slower cellular aging, a study suggests.
wapo.st
December 26, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Gift article — Some good news for chocolate and coffee lovers wapo.st/48Wy0XX
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(Free article) A new analysis is gradually illuminating the science of autism’s beginnings, which carries great importance in a time of public discourse clouded by misinformation about the role vaccines and Tylenol play in the condition.
New science points to 4 distinct types of autism
Scientists are redefining autism as a complex condition with multiple forms, challenging traditional notions.
wapo.st
December 26, 2025 at 2:42 PM
(Free article) A new analysis is gradually illuminating the science of autism’s beginnings, which carries great importance in a time of public discourse clouded by misinformation about the role vaccines and Tylenol play in the condition.
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So few of these people are actually christian, even in a megachurch prosperity gospel sense
Here’s the U.S. government being officially religious in a country with no official religion.
December 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
So few of these people are actually christian, even in a megachurch prosperity gospel sense
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You can watch the 60 Minutes piece (with a link in my story) about the abuse & torture migrants received in the El Salvador gulag after being deported by the Trump regime without due process & lies about their criminality. This horror is what Trump apologist Bari Weiss didn’t want Americans to see.
Bullseye from 60 Minutes journalist Sharyn Alfonsi in response to Bari Weiss: “If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient.”
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-r...
www.americaamerica.news/p/snapshot-r...
Snapshot: Rejecting the Regime's 'Kill Switch'
CBS News' Bari Weiss blocked a rigorous '60 Minutes' story about the brutal CECOT prison. This is not tolerable.
www.americaamerica.news
December 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
You can watch the 60 Minutes piece (with a link in my story) about the abuse & torture migrants received in the El Salvador gulag after being deported by the Trump regime without due process & lies about their criminality. This horror is what Trump apologist Bari Weiss didn’t want Americans to see.
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Lovely to listen to this most beautiful of Christmas songs and then read its history—a Ukrainian import to the US that was originally about a swallow flying in to proclaim a bountiful year for a family and their sheep farm en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shchedr...
December 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Lovely to listen to this most beautiful of Christmas songs and then read its history—a Ukrainian import to the US that was originally about a swallow flying in to proclaim a bountiful year for a family and their sheep farm en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shchedr...
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I sincerely hope that she accidentally puts a third of the Republicans in the House in panic mode by airing video of the cocaine-and-gay-sex parties talked about by Madison Cawthorne.
Bari Weiss’ two accomplishments so far are hosting an interview that she desperately wanted people to watch (but they didn’t) and trying to spike a news story that she desperately wanted nobody to watch (but they did)
December 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I sincerely hope that she accidentally puts a third of the Republicans in the House in panic mode by airing video of the cocaine-and-gay-sex parties talked about by Madison Cawthorne.
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And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, his body surrendered to the sand in a slow, irreversible negotiation with eternity. Where a boy had been, a vast segmented body took shape, ring after ring locking into immortality.
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was immortal. From the dawn of time we came; moving silently down through the centuries, living many secret lives, struggling to reach the time of the Gathering; when the few who remain will battle to the last.
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, now has a machine gun. Ho. Ho. Ho.
December 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, his body surrendered to the sand in a slow, irreversible negotiation with eternity. Where a boy had been, a vast segmented body took shape, ring after ring locking into immortality.
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We don’t spend enough time discussing how the entire MAGA movement is kept afloat by the constant threats of stochastic terrorism orchestrated by the president of the United States.
Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.
Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.
“I’m 84 years old. Threats against my life expectancy are kind of hollow. I don’t have much time anyway. I’m more concerned that our democracy is at risk because of the trends against the rule of law.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Judges who ruled against Trump say harassment and threats have changed their lives
More than 100 pizzas were delivered to the homes of judges and their families this year, some with signs of foreign involvement. Judges say the message is clear: We know where you live.
www.nbcnews.com
December 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
We don’t spend enough time discussing how the entire MAGA movement is kept afloat by the constant threats of stochastic terrorism orchestrated by the president of the United States.
Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.
Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.
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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
December 23, 2025 at 1:28 AM
The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5
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A classic Christmas heist movie that doesn't get mentioned nearly often enough.
Mick's pick for Christmas viewing: screenplay by L.A. CONFIDENTIAL writer-director, starring the great Elliott Gould.
December 24, 2025 at 5:56 PM
A classic Christmas heist movie that doesn't get mentioned nearly often enough.
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The organized astroturfing and financing of these extreme ideologies is one of the key stories of our time
Anti-trans demagogue and fifth place swimmer Riley Gaines earned $470,000+ last year from a conservative non-profit.
Notably, $420k was incentive-based.
A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated.
I wonder what the per-post rate is?
Notably, $420k was incentive-based.
A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated.
I wonder what the per-post rate is?
December 24, 2025 at 5:59 PM
The organized astroturfing and financing of these extreme ideologies is one of the key stories of our time
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I mean, it's quite something to wallow in self-pity about how much privilege you've been denied... IN THE PAGES OF THE ATLANTIC.
The Atlantic has never published anything I've written and well... good for them. That's on me, not some cabal plotting against me.
The Atlantic has never published anything I've written and well... good for them. That's on me, not some cabal plotting against me.
it requires an absolutely staggering lack of self awareness for chatterton to complain that he has lost elite opportunities because he has anti-woke views.
The Other Way the ‘Super Woke’ Left Discriminates
Race and gender aren’t the only categories that determine who gets special treatment.
www.theatlantic.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
I mean, it's quite something to wallow in self-pity about how much privilege you've been denied... IN THE PAGES OF THE ATLANTIC.
The Atlantic has never published anything I've written and well... good for them. That's on me, not some cabal plotting against me.
The Atlantic has never published anything I've written and well... good for them. That's on me, not some cabal plotting against me.
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A true ADHD planner would just be two months of calendar planner and then slowly dissolving into random games and puzzles and blank pages for drawing.
btw if you love planner organizer stuff, over the next few days I'm uploading a ton of new colors of planner organizers, and also new desk organization stuff! just in time to totally be organized for the first 3-5 weeks of 2026 🤣
December 24, 2025 at 6:00 PM
A true ADHD planner would just be two months of calendar planner and then slowly dissolving into random games and puzzles and blank pages for drawing.
This quote-post chain, now up to 43 episodes, serves as a great bluesky journal of sorts of a GLP 1 experience. Terzepatide (Zepbound/Mounjaro) in this case, but the progress / side effect adventure is similar for other GLP 1 agonists.
43 doses in, 68 pounds down. couldn't finish lunch which means i've got half a pambazo to be deployed at a time of my choosing.
my side effects are mild other than the aerophagia which sucks.
my side effects are mild other than the aerophagia which sucks.
42 doses in, 69 pounds down. Fully reapproved by insurance; language suggested that the key factors were limited to 1) they had previously been paying for it and 2) it had worked.
it’s cold in DC and I’m wearing four layers in the house right now. is this how you skinny people feel every winter?
it’s cold in DC and I’m wearing four layers in the house right now. is this how you skinny people feel every winter?
December 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
This quote-post chain, now up to 43 episodes, serves as a great bluesky journal of sorts of a GLP 1 experience. Terzepatide (Zepbound/Mounjaro) in this case, but the progress / side effect adventure is similar for other GLP 1 agonists.
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This is all so depressing.
NEW: Riley Gaines, the former collegiate swimmer turned right-wing media figure, made $474,313 last year from the conservative nonprofit org, the Leadership Institute. More striking than her total comp was the way it was structured.
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Leadership Perks: Riley Gaines Scored Big Bonus From Nonprofit
Gaines, the former Kentucky swimmer turned OutKick commentator, banked $474,313 from the conservative political organization in 2024.
www.sportico.com
December 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
This is all so depressing.
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The Epstein files on the DOJ website allow you to highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it into another document, which reveals what was hidden. You can also press Ctrl+F and search for “Trump ” (with a space) to see his name appear more than 600 times. #OpDeathEaters
December 23, 2025 at 2:04 PM
The Epstein files on the DOJ website allow you to highlight the redacted text, copy it, and paste it into another document, which reveals what was hidden. You can also press Ctrl+F and search for “Trump ” (with a space) to see his name appear more than 600 times. #OpDeathEaters