James Leckie

Personally, I'm not a fan of a tax increase on working class single mothers

it’s so important, now more than ever, that we remember: there’s a cowboy with a big knife in Dracula, because Dracula takes place in cowboy times.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

Yea, for me, I'm at 2% so way less than you. But I'm hoping I can do more after big life events and paying off student loans in a few years.

10% seems really difficult to do, but 5% seems like a good goal.

I ask this every once in awhile, but:

1) What % of your income do you donate to charity and various causes?

2) What % of income do you think people should donate?

The line, "by the time you are 5 or 6, you are shocked by the fact that the country you pledged alliegance to holds no alligance to you," is iconic

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour Baldwin-Buckley race debate still resonates 55 years on

Funny that this hits my algorithm now

youtu.be/MRzkHgMaPL4?...

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

For example, Poilievre in Canada lost this year because he caught an entirely different hot potato than Trudeau.

Multi-variable games are tricky.

YouTube video by Michael Burns Socrates Would HATE Self-Help Culture (And You Should Too)

Philosophy YouTube good

youtu.be/cXeRFKOgAtw?...

Don't catch the hot potato is the lesson.

I stan National Public Radio

It is pretty crazy.

My brother used to work in car insurance and I guess people do the same thing with even nice cars in grocery store parking lots. Wealthy college kids moving back home.

Watching Weapons. Any movie recs?

I avoided this in LA traffic in 2023 taking the train down to San Juan Capistrano. It's possible on the coasts.

You know, in a lot of other countries, failure to pass a budget triggers an election.

All Things Go is cool, but I definitely belittle it because I can commute to it.

A festival you rent a hotel for is kinda goofy.

'I want his name to be known': Wife of immigrant injured at ICE facility shooting speaks out Stephany Gauffeny says she wants the world to know that her husband, Miguel Angel Garcia-Hernandez, is more than "just an immigrant or a detainee, or a criminal."

A victim of the shooting at the ICE facility is UNCONSCIOUS, in critical care, may not survive, his wife is about to give birth, and ICE IS KEEPING HIM SHACKLED TO HIS HOSPITAL BED:

I just unlocked a new level of rage.

www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...

Questions about housing affordability are kinda weird when one city fits a million people in 60 square miles while another fits it in 600.

I was an alternate juror once, and that reminded me that the system wasn't completely broken

Ngl, I've come around to the idea of having a jury selection style system for a branch of government.

I don't think it would be much worse, and it'd be more representative.

Anyway, I think at some point we decided we needed air bags and seat belts.

In the same vein, I think we will need to realize these modern F-150s are getting people killed.

Yes, I am familiar with 1950s marketing campaigns

Meanwhile, Frederick had like 78k people in 2020 and is projected to have 90k now. It's totally different than 20 years ago.

Frederick. MoCo isn't growing right now.

It's so funny how the main hub of where I grew up in Maryland is one of the few parts of the state that's growing fast and many locals are vocally against it.

Like...it's leaps and bounds cooler than it was 20 years ago and they're mad that someone else wants to live there.

I don't know who made this, but as many people need to see it as possible

Virginia: Impact on net benchmark ACA plan premiums if enhanced tax credits expire

Examples (assuming benchmark Silver plan both years):

--A 50-yr old earning $40K/yr: +93%

--Single parent earning $50K/yr: +120%

--Family of 4 earning $70K/yr: +150%

--Older couple earning $90K/yr: +230%

Changes to ACA Individual Insurance Markets After States Leave Healthcare.gov 2016-2023 - David M. Anderson, Sukriti Beniwal, Salpy Kanimian, 2025 To evaluate changes in enrollment, average risk scores, and premiums in the Affordable Care Act individual market after states transitioned from the federally f...

❗❗❗NEW RESEARCH ALERT ❗❗❗

With @beniwalsukriti.bsky.social and @salpykanimian.bsky.social we examine the impact of states converting from Healthcare.Gov to #StateBasedMarketplaces after 2018 in the #ACA

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

TLDR: No detectable effects

#HealthPolicy
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