According to the latest estimate, Republicans' megabill could cost 20 million Americans their health insurance, including as many as 900,000 Virginians.

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

“I am also a friend and a mom. I get the texts.” I explain what to do if you are concerned about traveling this summer. I get a dozen texts a day from family and friends about the same. @cnn.com

Painting by numbers: the magnificent ties between maths and art Marcus du Sautoy’s new book demonstrates that these aren’t two separate cultures—but part of the same, glorious whole

Bach’s fifth canon is secretly a musical Möbius strip. Debussy hid Fibonacci numbers in “La Mer”. Pollock used fractals decades before anyone knew.

Daniel Rey reviews @marcusdusautoy.bsky.social’s brilliant new book, which reveals the maths behind masterpieces: www.prospectmagazine...

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Congress moves to loosen toxic air pollution rules The House and Senate both voted to loosen regulations on air pollutants like dioxin and mercury, which are associated with higher cancer risk.

By @alejandrabee.bsky.social

The House and Senate both voted to loosen regulations on air pollutants like dioxin and mercury, which are associated with higher cancer risk.

Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

Charleston to name new Johns Island park after former Chief Resilience Officer Dale Morris Today Sunny to partly cloudy. High 86F. Winds SW at 10 to 20 mph.. Tonight A few clouds. Low 72F. Winds SW at 10 to 15 mph...

Charleston to name new Johns Island park after former Chief Resilience Officer Dale Morris
->Post and Courier | #Island | More info from EcoSearch

Not a single word to help the 33m small businesses in this country. Not from anyone in the administration.

So many buy from China, and don't have alternatives.

So many didn't have the cash to front run the tariffs and buy inventory

Reminder: Tariffs aren't paid by other countries.

They're eventually paid by us at the check out line.

And they're regressive — taking a higher percentage out of the paychecks of working people than out of the wealthy.

Republicans in Congress can repeal every tariff tomorrow and take Trump’s tariff authority away from him. But they choose not to. So every Republican in Congress owns EVERY SINGLE BIT of this. You can’t hide from the voters forever.

You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

As the economic news keeps coming out over the coming weeks keep one thing in mind: this is the fault of one man and didn’t need to happen.

Just a legal historian here reminding everyone that “high crimes and misdemeanors” do not need to be felonies.

They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days.

From Nov 7:

WELKER: Trump promised he was going to improve the economy on day one. What's your message to Americans who want to retire and have just seen their lifetime savings drop significantly?

BESSENT: Most Americans who have put away for years in savings accounts don't look at the day to day fluctuations

WELKER: The markets lost more than $6 trillion in value. Was this disruption always part of the plan?

BESSENT: We had record volume on Friday and everything is working very smoothly. So the American people can take great comfort in that.

Peter Navarro, the guy who created a fake "expert" to advise Donald Trump on his tariffs:

"600, 700 billion dollars they're gonna to raise a year, $6 to $7 trillion over the 10 year period."

$6.5 trillion was wiped off the stock market in just two days, just to put that in perspective.

Massive crowd at Hands Off rally in St. Paul, Minnesota

Wow. #HandsOff rally in St. Paul, Minnesota is massive!

Nationwide 'Hands Off!' protests erupt against Trump and Musk Demonstrations took place across the country, uniting a myriad of criticisms of the Trump administration under one message: "Hands off!"

Demonstrations took place across the country, uniting a myriad of criticisms of the Trump administration under one message: "Hands off."

This.

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He Said He Would Ban Congressional Stock Trading. Now in Office, He Trades Freely. Representative Rob Bresnahan Jr., who campaigned on prohibiting stock trading by members of Congress, has emerged as one of the most active stock traders in the freshman class.

He Said He Would Ban Congressional Stock Trading. Now in Office, He Trades Freely..
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Today in Ruby Red Naples, Florida 3k+
#Indivisible #handoff

Portland OR Hands Off Rally

Oh wow: Portland Oregon is NOT KIDDING
#handsoff

To the world:
We are fighting back. Our movement has been silenced by the media here—but we are not backing down. This is what our streets looked like across multiple cities. Tomorrow, there will be more of us! Raise a glass to freedom.

—With love,
Your American allies.

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> @wutangforchildren.bsky.social

The American people have risen up and they are PISSED AS HELL.
#HandsOff

Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging An emergency order removes protections covering over half the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service as the president aims to boost timber production.

The Trump administration has removed environmental protections covering more than half of the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service as part of the president’s aim to significantly bolster the U.S. logging industry.