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Zeroing in on Florida:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/us/obamacare-price-spikes-lost-subsidies-threaten-florida.html
As many as a third of the 4.7 million Floridians on Affordable Care Act plans could drop them next year because of the higher costs, …
And, no, Florida is not a Medicaid expansion state.
@Mik said in How to guarantee the ballroom gets taken down:
I wonder what their boogeyman will be once Trump is gone.
I suspect Trump will never be truly gone from the American people’s psyche. The Republican Party will be labeled as the party of Trump for a long time. And they will deserve that label for a long time.
Due to government shutdown, a federal tax regulation lawyer now runs a hotdog cart. He named his cart SHYSTER, and use this slogan: "The Only Honest Ripoff in D.C."
He says it's his childhood dream.
Trump Says He’s Cutting Off Trade Negotiations With Canada
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/us/politics/trump-trade-negotiation-canada.html
... because, according to Trump, "Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement" featuring former president Ronald Reagan speaking negatively about tariffs.
@Doctor-Phibes said in Deflation coming next month:
Just how dumb does he think we are?
You think he was talking to you?
@Mik , get the Hulkman Alpha85. I have used it to jumpstart compact car as well as minivan. I am quite confident that with one full charge I can jumpstart a Honda Odyssey three times over. And it holds a charge very well, starting from a full charge, I can go a year without recharging and still expect it to jumpstart a car. Compact too, using lithium ion battery.
@Mik said in The hill they have chosen to die on:
The question remains are they important enough that we should borrow to pay for them.
We should tax and pay for them.
Even if you want to restrict the argument to "borrowing," of all the things we "borrow to pay for," one would think that the health of the citizenry should be pretty high up on priority.
Without sufficient insurance coverage, the uninsured will still get healthcare anyway -- but through much costlier means such as going to emergency rooms rather than primary care, and/or cost a lot more for worsened ailments that could have been diagnosed and treated early on the cheap had there been sufficient insurance.
The "Paragon Health Institute" was founded in 2021 by former Trump officials and is still being run by former Trump officials today. (E.g., https://paragoninstitute.org/profile/brian-blase/ ). Be sure to carefully consider potential political and ideological biases give its background.
Consider other sources, like, for example, the KFF, that has been around far longer (founded in 1948) and has been a non-partisan healthcare policy think tank for a long time.
https://www.kff.org/affordable-care-act/premium-payments-if-enhanced-premium-tax-credits-expire/
@89th said in He’s just going to loot the fucking treasury.:
BTW... call me if Trump does something really crazy, like raze the east wing of the White House.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/us/politics/east-wing-white-house-demolition-trump.html
The White House is demolishing the entirety of the East Wing to make way for President Trump’s $200 million ballroom ...
@jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting:
Not saying this is easy, and I don’t know if this is what he did. If it were me attempting this, I think I would do it in a tip-toe manner, without letting the heels touch the ground.
https://www.notus.org/congress/filibuster-senate-republicans-shutdown
This time, more Republicans are leaving openings to entertain the possibility of ending the filibuster.
What say you? Still want the 60-vote cloture rule to stay?
26% admit they’ve gone on a date primarily for the free meal—with Gen Z leading at 31%. While it may sound comical, this statistic underscores the real financial pressures young adults are facing. For some, dating doubles as a way to stretch their budgets as much as it is about connection.
Also some interesting statistics on when couples choose to broach the conversation on "how much money do you make?"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/10/20/ai-996-startups/
Story on a resurgent culture in which workers work exceptionally long hours in Silicon Valley startups to catch a new, potentially lucrative technological wave.
It happened before. Last time it was the DotCom boom. This time it's AI.
The new buzzword this time is "996," an import from China that says you work from 9 AM to 9 PM 6 days a week. (There is an even more extreme version called "007" but I have seen that used only in sarcasm or as intentional hyperbole.)
The workforce in mainland China view "996" as a sad inescapable fact of life, they don't like it but resigned to recognizing it as a common way of existence for the working class. Now some Silicon Valley startup folks take it as a point of pride and openly state in recruiting ads that they expect workers to work "996" and be excited about it.
@jon-nyc said in The Ukraine war thread:
Russians taking over Ukrainian territory doesn’t seem to end the suffering of the inhabitants.
But maybe it will result in a Nobel Prize.
@jon-nyc said in George Santos Charged:
So he won’t have to pay back the disabled veterans he defrauded.
That’s even more wrong than the rest.
