Andy Tuck

“Fairness”

Here's the reality: On any given day the President might impose an effective embargo on trade with China. This is the second time he's done it *this year*. They may patch it up again, but the pattern has been set, and it will shape expectations for the rest of his term.

“the Hatch Act Unit is out of office due to a lapse in appropriations.”

Lol

In Missouri, House District3
35,000 are enrolled in ACA marketplace plans (4% of population)
32,000 received subsidies

if the Congress does not extend the enhanced subsidies set to expire, premiums will rise an estimated 104%
www.kff.org/affordable-c...

Nationwide, 45% of ACA marketplace enrollees identify as Republicans, 35% as Democrats, and 20% as Independents/Other.

The U.S. is probably going to lose our elimination status for measles in 2026.

Anyone tired of so much “winning”?

MAHA is a toxic infection of the brain that spreads via social media and results in the rejection of scientific fact, followed by disease and death.

Trump Seizes On Shutdown to Punish Political Foes

NEW: The White House is weaponizing the federal budget during the shutdown to harm Democratic-led cities and states. Targeting $27 billion and counting, it is a major escalation in the president’s efforts to date to interrupt funding and defy Congress.

My latest www.nytimes.com/2025/10/04/u...

Welcome to the Era of "Kavanaugh Raids" ICE crosses another big, important line.

America enters a new, dark chapter: "Kavanaugh Raids" on entire buildings and neighborhoods, a chapter surely to be remembered as infamously as we now view the "Palmer Raids" of the first Red Scare. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...

Leaked Document Justifies Boat Strikes as “Non-International Armed Conflict” “The Trump administration is saying that one person — the president — now decides if the United States is going to war.”

SCOOP: Leaked Document Justifies Boat Strikes as “Non-International Armed Conflict”

“The Trump administration is saying that one person — the president — now decides if the United States is going to war.”

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Thanks for your hard work and commitment.

Think of shutdowns as negative-sum negotiations. If your leverage comes from inflicting pain on bystanders, and your opponent is fine with that pain, you’ve lost leverage. All that’s left is pain—for workers, families, and businesses.

How an ACA Premium Spike Will Affect Family Budgets, and Voters In his latest column, President and CEO Dr. Drew Altman shows how spiking premiums, which may come if the enhanced ACA tax credits are not extended, will hit people in the context of their family budg...

🔥PLEASE REPOST🔥

🚨If ACA tax credits are NOT extended, premium payments will increase by more than 100% for many of the 24M Americans who buy their own coverage & it's on top of rising food & housing costs among other inflationary pressures that are adding major STRESS.🚨

www.kff.org/from-drew-al...

I don’t like the ad campaign with Mathew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson. They both seem extremely unlikable. I thought you’d want to know.

YES!! Haaland goal.

Morning Joe people are indeed complete idiots. Totally complete.

The only good thing about this is that it crystallizes the bad faith in which every single Republican senator who claims to care about the institution operates, and it is coming right as Democrats are going to have to decide whether to continue funding the government.

Cook's lawyers just filed their opposition to the administrative stay request: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

“Tump says, …””

Trump administration takes first steps to restore Harvard's funding, but money isn't flowing yet Harvard University says it has started receiving notices that many federal grants halted by the Trump administration will be reinstated after a federal judge ruled that the cuts were illegal. But it’s...

Harvard University says it has started receiving notices that many federal grants halted by the Trump administration will be reinstated after a federal judge ruled that the cuts were illegal. But it’s yet to be seen if money will arrive before the government appeals the judge’s decision.

A few quick charts. First, the big picture: Overall consumer prices were up 2.9 percent from a year earlier. Over the past three months, prices have risen at a 3.5 percent annual rate.
#NumbersDay

Is Trump going to invade Oren, Utah, now? Clearly, gun crime is out of control when a young white man gets gunned down on campus. Of course not. Invasions are only to subdue democratic cities.

“No comment”

Postal traffic to US drops more than 80% after trade exemption rule ends, UN agency says The de minimis rule that allowed small packages worth less than $800 to be exempt from tariffs ended on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025.

The de minimis rule that allowed small packages worth less than $800 to be exempt from tariffs ended on Friday, Aug. 29, 2025.

Good for Daniel Jones. (It’s hard being a Giants fan)

Oh yeah. This is the first international break week. I got a week ahead of myself. Thanks.

[cite_start]A screenshot of the first page of a court document from the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts[cite: 3]. [cite_start]The document is titled "MEMORANDUM AND ORDER" [cite: 43] [cite_start]and was filed on September 3, 2025[cite: 1]. The document lists two related civil actions: * [cite_start]**Civil Action No. 25-cv-11048-ADB**: President and Fellows of Harvard College, et al., Plaintiffs, v. United States Department of Health and Human Services, et al., Defendants[cite: 4, 5, 14, 17, 21]. * [cite_start]**Civil Action No. 25-cv-10910-ADB**: American Association of University Professors - Harvard Chapter, et al., Plaintiffs, v. United States Department of Justice, et al., Defendants[cite: 22, 23, 24, 26, 27, 36]. [cite_start]The order is from Judge Burroughs, D.J.[cite: 44]. [cite_start]The text begins by identifying the plaintiffs in the consolidated cases[cite: 45].

A screenshot of pages 81 and 82 from a court order, detailing the judge's rulings and the relief granted. **Rulings:** * **For Harvard's case:** The court grants Harvard's motion for summary judgment on several counts, including violations of the First Amendment and Title VI. It grants in part Harvard's motion regarding the "Freeze Orders" and grants in part the defendants' motion regarding the "Termination Letters," citing a lack of jurisdiction. * **For the Organizational Plaintiffs' case:** The court grants the plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment on their First Amendment claims and denies the defendants' cross-motion on several counts. The ruling on the "Freeze Orders" and "Termination Letters" mirrors the one in Harvard's case. **Ordered Relief:** 1. The court vacates and sets aside the Freeze Orders as arbitrary and capricious. 2. The court vacates and sets aside the Freeze Orders and Termination Letters as violations of the First Amendment. 3. The court vacates and sets aside the Termination Letters as violations of Title VI. 4. The court permanently enjoins the defendants from implementing the Freeze Orders, Termination Letters, and their unconstitutional conditions.

JUST IN: Harvard won summary judgment against the Trump administration with the court finding that the admin violated Harvard's 1st amend. rights. The court has vacated the funding freeze orders and termination letters and issued a permanent injunction.

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I am not a sea captain. I am on team-no-more-Mercator-Projection.