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Today in Politics Chat, I talked about how power sloshes around when a president is checked out, and noted that right now unelected officials like Stephen Miller are trying to grab it. But instead, We the People can take it back and create a better nation.

ACA Marketplace Premium Payments Would More than Double on Average Next Year if Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Expire | KFF KFF estimates that, if Congress allows the enhanced premium tax credits to expire at the end of this year, ACA Marketplace enrollees on average would see their premium payments more than double next y...

New data shows the cost of Republican plan to jack up health care prices:

– Premiums will more than double
– A 60 year old couple would have to pay $22,600 more a year

Woliczko Is Coming To Hawkeyes To Win, And She Wants To Help Add To The Roster By JOHN BOHNENKAMP There are no beaches in Iowa that compare to what McKenna Woliczko has in California. “I’ve been told there are a lot of lakes to go to,” Woliczko said on Wednesday. “So I think …

owa's women's basketball team received a big commitment on Wednesday, and McKenna Woliczko now wants to work to add teammates to the 2026 class. iowacollegehoops.com/2025/10/02/w...

Iowa City is a kind of Oasis in the rough so to speak. It really is a legit nice town and a sweet campus. But I feel you...

Overnight, Trump and Republicans in Congress shut down the federal government.

They shut it down because they’re determined to strip healthcare from millions of Americans, to enrich the billionaires they serve, to continue the assault on our rights.

We must fight back.

Iowa Women's Basketball: Five-star forward McKenna Woliczko commits to Iowa The Hawkeyes have officially landed one of the highest-rated players in program history. On Wednesday, five-star forward McKenna Woliczko announced her commitment to Jan Jensen and her staff. Iowa lan...

Hawkeyes women's basketball keeps on rollin'! McKenna Woliczko is the highest rated recruit (#6) to sign with the Hawkeyes since someone named *checks notes* Caitlin Clark.

247sports.com/college/iowa...

Iowa Women's Basketball lands five-star forward McKenna Woliczko Iowa women's basketball picked up a massive commitment, landing five-star forward McKenna Woliczko over a number of high-level programs.

NEW: Iowa Women's Basketball lands five-star forward McKenna Woliczko

- Rated as the #6 player in the country by @Rivals

- Chose Iowa over South Carolina, USC and Ohio State

"All those people supporting women’s basketball. I thought that was super cool"

MORE🏀: www.on3.com/teams/iowa-h...

Hey Brendan "we can do this the easy way or the hard way" Carr:

Last year in National Rifle Association v. Vullo, the Supreme Court unanimously reaffirmed this fundamental principle of our constitutional republic:

“Government officials cannot attempt to coerce private parties in order to punish or suppress views that the government disfavors."This doesn't just constrain Democrats. It applies to all officeholders, including you. You took an oath to the Constitution not to Donald Trump.

“With an autocrat, you cannot give an inch,” Colbert said. “If ABC thinks that this is going to satisfy the regime, they are woefully naive.”

@politico.com
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Great summary. The Hawks looked a lot like last years team tonight. Which isn't a horrible thing...but as a fan watching for the offense to take that next dynamic step forward, they didn't give me the glimpses I was looking for. I think the Clones might be scratching their heads, but nervous? No.

Rallies in support of Ukraine have begun in Alaska. Today, Trump and Putin and their delegations will meet there. One of the main subjects will be “resolving the war”.

"There's a reason we separate military and the police: one fights the enemy of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." ~Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica

Making sense of the weather that led to a horrible Texas flooding tragedy, plus Tropical Storm Chantal In brief: Invest 92L became Tropical Depression 3 yesterday and is now Tropical Storm Chantal.

The latest on TS Chantal today, but more importantly, we take a deep dive into the causes and forecasts leading up to the horrific flooding tragedy in Texas. A lot to unpack today. open.substack.com/pub/theeyewa...

June in the #bwca

So the Trump/GOP will make America great how? Massively fund secret police & concentration camps, destroy US science, steal medical care from the poor to give more tax breaks to the ultrarich, & expand dirty energy & worsen climate change while the rest of the world moves to clean energy.
Got it.

Pathetic as is his custom.

DJT is corrupt and has no moral compass. He will just keep committing crimes until someone has the balls to stop him.

A headline reads: "She Paid $12.67 for a Cottage in Ireland." Kathleen Spangler, in a dark blue dress, holds up a photo of a white house with red trim. Photo by Brian Kaiser for The New York Times

Kathleen Spangler, a 29-year-old U.S. Marine Corps officer, only vaguely remembered buying a few tickets in an online raffle back in December. Six months later, she got a text from a friend asking, “By chance, did you win a cottage in Ireland?” nyti.ms/4ebfpZe

The day started with tragedy with political violence in MN and instead of being scared, neighbors SHOWED UP to stand together at No Kings Twin Cities. We packed the Capitol Mall all the way to the Cathedral. Estimate 80,000+ right now. So proud of our state. #nokings #indivisible

Wow!

Still mind-boggling to me that Trump paid absolutely no reputational price in the media for massively endangering 🇺🇸 national security & shredding our credibility in int’l negotiations by unilaterally withdrawing from the JCPOA. Literally, it had no effect on The Narrative™️ of coverage about him 🤷‍♂️

Actions have consequences and Trump is dealing with the consequences of tearing up the Iran Deal for no reason except his hatred of Obama.

PADILLA: “If this is how the administration responds to a Senator with a question, you can only imagine what they're doing to farmworkers, cooks, and day laborers throughout the country.”

Booker: He was made to kneel before the authority of the executive… They treated a member of the United States senate violently after he identified himself, dragged him out of a room, threw him upon the ground, and put him in handcuffs

Plane crash in India 🇮🇳✈️

10 ways that Trump’s tax bill would undermine his energy promises » Yale Climate Connections For starters, it contains a hidden gas tax.

Trump promised $2 gas.
But if the “big, beautiful” bill passes, gas prices could rise, not fall.
Why? Killing EV tax credits means 20-40M fewer EVs on the road = more demand for gas = higher prices.
It’s a hidden gas tax.

yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/06/10-w...

A message from Carl Sagan from 1995—some of his last prophetic words.

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving.

There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later.

They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

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