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ACA Marketplace insurers are proposing the biggest premium increases since 2018 — a median jump of 15%, per our analysis. They cite rising health care costs, the expected expiration of enhanced tax credits, and the impact of tariffs as key factors: on.kff.org/3TIMVwq

What Trump and his Enablers don’t get about ABBA, the Europeans, and what has truly made America Great until Trump and Musk decided to blow it all up. open.substack.com/pub/trygveol...

Seen in town today. Even the birds have an opinion...

I feel like it’s more important than ever to be intentional about noticing things like happiness, joy, and beauty where I can find them, and appreciating and embracing them more than ever. I feel that is what will get me through these crazy times. Sometimes it’s as simple as watching a sunset.

Inspectors General are key public servants tasked with holding our government accountable. They’re independent, nonpartisan whose work is identifying fraud, waste, & importantly, abuse. Trump just fired them all. Make no mistake: he's purging those who will protect the rule of law.

Trust that it pains me to use CNN to put out a WaPo story but here we are. WaPo lays off roughly 100 staffers as star journalists, and a Pulitzer Prize winning editorial cartoonist, exit. Subscriptions continue to plummet. Good. www.cnn.com/2025/01/07/m...

I am afraid one party and its current White House resident are too timid to use the hell out of SCOTUS’s granting of presidential immunity and release Jack Smith’s report no matter what the courts say. Heck, pardon everyone in DOJ who may have had a hand in its release while you’re at it.

Well, now my retirement is secured.

Nothing says “pro-life” like throwing hundreds of billions of dollars around to avert a shutdown, but eliminating 0.1% of it that was dedicated to research on cancer in children. Pro-life!

Nice to see the insurance company’s AI bot knows better than the attending doctors.