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Happy Halloween from the scariest creatures ever.

Are they back to work yet?

It’s ‘too late’ to extend ACA subsidies without major disruptions, some states and lawmakers say States are worried Congress missed its opportunity to extend enhanced ACA subsidies and lower premiums before consumers start picking plans in a few weeks.

“Every single day that passes, the risk is higher [that] we will not be able to update the information in time,” said Devon Trolley, executive director of Pennsylvania’s insurance exchange. “Typically, we try to have the rates locked in [by] September.”
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

It’s ‘too late’ to extend ACA subsidies without major disruptions, some states and lawmakers say States are worried Congress missed its opportunity to extend enhanced ACA subsidies and lower premiums before consumers start picking plans in a few weeks.

Mike Johnson & other Rs argue that Dems should open the government first and then negotiate over extending the Obamacare premium subsidies later this year.
But with open enrollment starting soon, some states say it's *already* too late to add back the enhanced subsidies

Trump is the mob

Iran-Contra figures Oliver North and Fawn Hall marry after 40 years The pair shredded documents to cover up secret arms sales to Iran in a scandal that rocked Ronald Reagan's White House.

According to US media reports and public records, North, 81, and Hall, 65, married last month in Virginia.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

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📣 NO KINGS N.Y.C.
📍 Times Square (the red steps)
📆 October 18th
⏰ 11am

The NYC march route is from Times Sq, south on 7th Ave, dispersing at 14th St.
We need your help to make this big, and to make our voices heard.
Bring a friend, tell a friend, sign up to volunteer at NoKingsNYC.org

ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok, and other platforms to target people for deportation.

Wired - Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok and other platforms to target people for deportation. www.wired.com/story/ice-socia...

Yesterday, Speaker Johnson announced that the House would have another week off, in the middle of a shutdown.

Why? Because coming into session means seating Rep.-elect Grijalva, who won special election in Arizona…and would be the 218th signature on the Epstein discharge petition.

Stephen Miller Implies He Intended for Trump's Nutjobs to Kill Democrats - emptywheel Stephen Miller just confessed on Fox News that when he uses dehumanizing language -- when he calls Democrats "fascists" or "Marxists" or "radical" -- he intends it as a message to "all the crazies and...

Stephen Miller makes a persuasive argument that Stephen Miller is a terrorist.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/10/02/s...

(next to a map of the nearly 2,200 peaceful protests planned for October 18) NO THRONES. NO CROWNS. NO KINGS. SATURDAY, OCT. 18

Shutting down the government is another authoritarian power grab. Trump’s Shutdown isn’t about budgets — it’s about his quest for absolute power.

Millions of Americans are taking to the streets to show this wannabe king what democracy really looks like. Join us: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most importan...

NEW: In newly unsealed testimony, a SpaceX insider revealed that Elon Musk’s company had directly received money from Chinese investors, raising questions about foreign ownership interests in one of the United States’ most important military contractors.

Portrait of a psychopath.

🤷‍♀️ we can’t be like this. There is no perfect candidate.

I wonder if they are going to get paid. Trump is known for not paying his contractors.

The felon/heroin/sex addict with a brain worm is looking at your kid.

Maybe they cut Vance out of briefings? 🙀

President Biden loves the USA and all its people including immigrants. We miss his leadership. Remember his tribute to all of the people we lost to Covid? 🙏🏼

What if it’s the “Epstein files” that are the distraction from our descent into being an authoritarian police state?

Time to move him to the tiny desk.

This hurts all of us

not on the Epstein list or even Epstein’s best friend 👍

He published his own Bible, compared himself to Jesus, allegedly raped and assaulted women and children, doesn’t pay his workers, commits adultery, lies and cheats constantly, and treats his fellow man like garbage. Yeah doesn’t look good.

How much kickback does DJT get in this plan? Also …

I had to check that this wasn’t an Onion article

And the WH Etsy shop. No gold records or sparkly jumpsuits but look at that curio of bibles and sneakers. Maybe the World Cup trophy? 😂

Nice church

When you’re having trouble with your DUI field test…

Watch out Sean Hannity. Donald is a predator and loves to sleep with his friend’s wives as a game. 🤮https://nypost.com/2018/01/04/trump-thought-bedding-friends-wives-made-life-worth-living-book/