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What are ACA Enrollees Paying this Year due to Trump/GOP Policies?

NATIONAL: How much more are ACA enrollees *really* paying this year due to Trump/GOP policies? ACA Signups, Charles Gaba Partial post taken from; “How much more are ACA enrollees *really* paying this year due to Trump/GOP policies?” Charles Gaba @ ACA Signups. Nationally, on average, net ACA premiums have jumped by 58% this year vs. last, from […]

Making America unhealthy again

You probably have read about increasing reports of violent and potentially life-threatening diarrhea caused by cyclospora in multiple states. Cyclospora isn’t new, but the Trump administration stopped tracking it. “As of July 1, the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network (FoodNet) program has reduced surveillance to just two pathogens: salmonella and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC), […]

Destroying America According to Trump

Pres. Tr__p is whining about the SCOTUS decision granting magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll her $5million suit against Tr__p. Tough breaks when one person assaults another and denigrates them also. “The Supreme Court’s ruling is wrong,” Trump posted on social media. “I will be asking for a Rehearing by the United States Supreme Court, IMMEDIATELY. This miscarriage […]

The housing market’s new suboptimal equilibrium: flat, flat, and flat

 – by New Deal democrat It has been four years since the Fed started aggressively raising interest rates, causing mortgage rates to rise similarly. It has been over four years since home sales peaked, and also about four years since the median price of a new home peaked. Finally, it has also been four years […]

What is Going on at SCOTUS? Attempted Ban on Semi-Automatics and Birthright Decision

Beyond the Headlines: The Supreme Court’s Final Decisions” (two), Civil Discourse, Joyce Vance First one is ongoing and the second was decided. About a five-minute read with clear explanations and more detail on the site. – Bans on Semi-Automatic rifles? Are bans legal? In particular the AR-15 is being discussed. Some explanation and still a […]

The triumph of hope over experience?

Green Mountain College in Poultney VT closed in 2019 due to insufficient funds. Now, a traveling Pentecostal preacher from Florida has announced on Facebook (from Disneyland) that he’s gonna make it into a Christian fundamentalist college in the least religious state in the nation. The whiskey magnate Raj Bhakta bought the campus in 2020 and […]

Once was not Enough

Taken from today’s SCOTUS Blog. The president thinks he is special and is entitled to second hearing by SCOTUS on the same issues.. President Jjackass is again attempting to have birthright overridden in SCOTUS; Trump wants court to rehear birthright citizenship case,” SCOTUSblog. “President Donald Trump announced that he would seek ‘to get the Supreme […]