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Some interesting slippage here: the StudySync "disclaimer" recommends that *students* seek out and buy whole books, not that teachers mix a reasonable amount of them into the curriculum.

A tweet I saw here or on Twitter has stuck with me and become a kind of internal mantra:

The day is coming when countries will compete for immigrants.

Let it be.

encrusted? festooned? smeared? enshittified?

I'd choose a verb other than bedazzled, but yeah.

Trump losses are really piling up this morning

May he not get CNN.

People bitch about CNN, but...don't know what you've got till it's gone

If my thought-dreams could be seen
they'd probably put my head in a guillotine...

oops, they can be seen now.

That's well put.

Then again, those who are putting the terror campaign in motion are doing it because they're Nazis and they want to.

TBH, it's a "problem" Dems didn't solve, thanks to Manchin and maybe another skittish handful.
How much can you do with 50 senators? They did a lot.

The Attack on Somalis is Hate Politics Right-Wing Terror Descends on Minnesota

John Ganz's subhead gets it right:

Right-Wing Terror Descends on Minnesota

WOW. So this is obviously a huge violation of this man's rights, and it illustrates a few things we're seeing broadly:

- DHS officers are ignoring peoples' IDs and instead requiring screening through their own systems
- Confirms @404media.co's reports of use of DHS's facial recognition app.

CMS has failed to shut down broker fraud in the ACA marketplace. But...

Great reporting by KFF's Julie Appleby

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Someone has to

Take me back to an era where this subject line would obviously be metaphorical

The same Randy Fine who just called for genocide against Palestinians?

as neologisms go, prebunking is not bad! But since the "de" is key to meaning, may I float predebunking...

Brad Lander is challenging Dan Goldman in NY-10. Good.

Here's Lander in Central Park this past August.

More on Cassidy catering to Trump:
Bill Cassidy and the Sundown Kid

Freedom's just another word for paying till it hurts

Jeffrey Young Presents: JUST IN TIME!! (a continuing series) (updated) UPDATE 10/30/25: Over ten years later, Jeffrey Young's "Just in Time!" series is still going strong. While some people spend their lives in search of the Holy Grail or the Lost City of Atlantis, Huffi...

Which reminds me…

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"Better" in Republican parlance always means "less coverage for more money." They have a hard time putting that over, even on themselves.

"New Roman" as in Mussolini's Italy?

In which Bill Cassidy aims to do to health coverage what he did to public health In a word, undermine it

Re the Cassidy Crap bill:

It faithfully codifies *both* Trump's babbling *and* Brian Blase's "60% AV for those who who remain in ACA coverage" formula -- indicating that Trump's babbling is just a senile transcription of Blase's hard-right policy.

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Murkowski OBBBA vote comes to mind

Thanks, Gaba, for reading all the shit-stains on the wall. Someone had to.

Republican policy proposals are just self-parody at this point.

It keeps working

Democrats will reject this garbage bill in every particular.

No one ever signed up to be a Bill Cassidy prophet, but I am one.
Me, three weeks ago, when Cassidy introduced a less ridiculous plan:
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"If...

Balloon Juice - Cassidy and Crapo - great for healthy over 400% FPLers Senators Cassidy (R-LA) and Crapo (R-ID) released their health plan proposal for the ACA. It does not extend premium subsidies but it does provide limited cost-sharing subsidies that are likely to be ...

Cassidy and Crapo's proposal would be great if you are single, healthy and making over six figures ---- otherwise.... YEESH
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And behind this fascist administration, a fascist tech industry:

the broligarchs hate Europe because the Europeans are trying to impose sensible limits to protect their societies from the well-documented psychological and economic harms that are inflicted by an unrestrained Silicon Valley agenda.