Idea: no corporate welfare, subsidies, or government contracts for corporations whose employees need to rely on government assistance because of low wages.
Stephanie Eller
@seller11.bsky.social
I ‘answer to "Hi!" or to any loud cry, Such as "Fry me!" or "Fritter my wig!" To "What-you-may-call-um!" or "What-was-his-name!" But especially "Thing-um-a-jig!”’
My latest @msnowreports.bsky.social piece on Vance/Oz’s claim of widespread fraudulent marketplace enrollment. Some brokers are to blame but regulation not disenrollment is the cure, and using absence of filed claims as evidence of fraud shows no understanding of insurance www.ms.now/opinion/vanc...
Opinion | You should be skeptical of JD Vance’s claims about Obamacare fraud
The vice president's anti-fraud task force may strip health coverage from people who did nothing wrong.
ms.now
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren asked Trump officials to explain why the Census Bureau's parent agency cut a ban on political interference from its scientific integrity policy, as NPR first reported. n.pr/4d56tVL
Warren demands Trump officials explain removing a ban on interference in census data
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren asked Trump officials to explain why the Census Bureau's parent agency cut a ban on political interference from its scientific integrity policy, as NPR first reported.
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U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly granted a 14-day temporary restraining order, finding the news organizations are likely to succeed on their claim that their hard passes were revoked without constitutionally adequate due process. 2/
🚨 BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the White House to IMMEDIATELY restore the press credentials of CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO reporters after President Trump barred the outlets from the White House. 1/
And why not. 😄 https://www.space.com/astronomy/asteroids/astronomers-just-named-an-asteroid-after-weird-al-yankovic
Astronomers just named an asteroid after 'Weird Al' Yankovic
Asteroid Alyankovic was discovered in 1981 and resides in the main belt of asteroids found between Mars and Jupiter.
space.com
"I finished the book convinced that she had enlarged my understanding of a subject I thought I knew well, which is no small achievement." —Iain MacGregor, Englesberg Ideas buff.ly/eNyNYb8 #BookReview
The struggle to capture the Nuremberg Trials
What is a trial for? Is it enough simply to establish guilt, or must that guilt then be communicated to the wider world?
buff.ly
Arguably the dumbest sitting Senator in history. This is not fake, he actually said this Lord help us
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 19h agoTommy Tuberville: Many airline pilots, flight attendants, and air traffic controllers are part of the furry community. It's terrifying.
Indiana prosecutors charged five Indianapolis police officers, accusing them of misusing their access to Flock license-plate-reader cameras, after outreach from The Post highlighted thousands of questionable searches and led to an officer's suspension.
Five Indianapolis officers charged following The Post’s reporting on Flock misuse
The officers are among at least 100 police department employees accused of abusing their access to the camera system, prompting calls for greater oversight.
washingtonpost.com
"Tafoya described herself on her podcast as 'sort of a Florida woman'..." www.cnn.com/2026/09/23/p...
Republican Senate nominee said she was ‘embarrassed’ to be from the state she’s now running to represent | CNN Politics
In a local radio interview earlier this month, Michele Tafoya, the Republican Senate nominee in Minnesota and former sports broadcaster was asked about her past criticism of the state and whether she ...
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NEW: 8 sailors aboard the Lincoln attempted suicide per a letter from the Secretary of the Navy to Congress. That is “incredibly high”. www.cnn.com/2026/09/23/p...
Eight sailors assigned to US carrier group that fought in Iran war attempted suicide, Navy secretary tells Congress | CNN Politics
Eight US Navy personnel assigned to the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group attempted suicide during a period that included when the ships undertook combat operations against Iran and the carrier...
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@jakejohnsonmn.bsky.social knows firsthand how important programs like SNAP and Medicaid are to families — he grew up relying on them. Now, he's running to give Southern Minnesota the representation in Congress it deserves—one that puts its needs first. Check it out: bit.ly/46FfukW
yeah, i wrote a piece on this. i've been studying regional oil/gas markets a lot this year and that doesn't surprise me. because of the way pipelines work there kind of isn't really a "US" oil market. highly regionalized.
Paul Krugman says it'll raise prices because most of the country gets its diesel from outside the US.
The White House says it banned Politico for using anonymous sources. One of the examples it cited was their own background briefing in which the White House itself provided the anonymous official. @scottnover.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
The White House banned Politico, citing anonymous sources. It provided the quotes.
In a letter defending its ban of Politico, the White House critiqued a report based on a press call it conducted, where reporters were told not to name the speaker.
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Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
the daily police presence at chez mcconnell lately is so wild—basically back at what it was when he was minority leader
Jim Crow was on the ash heap of history. Then came the Roberts Court. Our September + October cover story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This is a common lie from DHS press flacks. They claim that people who came through CBP One — who registered for an appointment through a government app, went to a port of entry, and were issued a grant of humanitarian parole by a CBP officer letting them enter — "entered illegally." Total nonsense.
Aaron Hall@immlawachall.bsky.social · 2d agoThey can't help themselves. They lie by saying he "entered illegally." He entered with DHS permission under the CBP One program. Literally waited for an appointment to become available and entered with his appointment exactly as the U.S. government told him he should.
“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted.... History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” ― George Orwell, 1984
CMS head Mehmet Oz is leading the enforcement to fully terminate health plans of 760,000 individuals on the premise they fraudulently signed up for Obamacare. Sick or not, they're now fully uninsured. Oz, a "doctor," is sworn to to do no harm - Which makes him either a fraud or a criminal.
Senate Democrats are again insisting that administration officials release the contracts they negotiated with more than two dozen pharmaceutical companies to lower drug prices. The Post has published portions of the contracts with Pfizer and Eli Lilly:
Democrats again demand Trump’s drug-price contracts following Post report
Lawmakers say they cannot judge the effectiveness of the administration’s initiative to lower drug prices until the contracts are released.
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Please explain this scam. I buy insurance and then don’t use it and become rich somehow?
I've paid my hard-earned money for home and car insurance for decades and never used it. I must be scamming someone.
Dr Oz: "There are 5 times more people in parts of Obamacare in Florida than live in the state. It's impossible More than a third of people on Obamacare have never used the insurance policy once. If you were gonna pay your hard-earned money to buy insurance, would you ever use it? The answer is yes"
www.npr.org/2026/09/23/n... The Nazis had "mobile detention facilities" - large vans they pumped the exhaust into that killed the people in them. trump and his minions are pissing all over our Constitution. .
ICE is looking into 'mobile detention facilities'
Buried in the paperwork for Immigration and Customs Enforcement's expansion in Pennsylvania is a document requesting "mobile detention facilities."
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Note that the judge assumed here, for sake of argument, that Passantino was a *private* figure—not public—so there was no need for Passantino to prove “actual malice." Even so, Passantino couldn’t show simple negligence, because Weissmann's interpretation of the testimony was "reasonable."
![Even assuming the truth of Mr. Passantino’s pleadings,
Mr. Weissmann “had reasonable grounds for believing that [his] communication was true.”
Restatement (Second) of Torts § 580B cmt. g.
Lest there be any doubt, a reasonable person attempting to verify Mr. Weissman’s
statements would have found ample sources of support. Representative Lofgren told the public at
a highly publicized congressional hearing that the Select Committee had “obtained evidence” that
“one lawyer told a witness the witness could in certain circumstances tell the Committee that she
didn’t recall facts when she actually did recall them.
” Business Meeting to Consider the Select
Committee’s Final Report; Select Comm. to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol
(December 19, 2022), 117th Cong., 2d Sess., at 8 (2022). And numerous mainstream media
outlets promptly identified Mr. Passantino as the lawyer in question. See supra p. 5.
Mr. Passantino argues that there is “no record evidence that [Mr. Weissmann] actually viewed or
otherwise knew of these media articles.” ECF No. 50, at 18. Nevertheless,
Representative Lofgren’s statement and the public reporting on it reflect and support the objective
reasonableness of Mr. Weissman’s statement because large swaths of people, including reporters
held to a higher standard of care, drew the same conclusions from the same testimony.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vrmx2e5gsi23srsy2n7vljvb/bafkreifnwvx7a2vtm436ga35vhxqeifpbj7nk2vi644p5jc5nyf6leg35e)
In 2023, atty Stefan Passantino sued @weissmann.substack.com for defamation for posting that Passantino had “coached” Cassidy Hutchinson “to lie.” Resounding victory for Weissmann yesterday on pleadings: “The transcript, far from contradicting Mr Weissman’s statement, supports it.”
![Even assuming the truth of Mr. Passantino's pleadings, Mr. Weissmann "had reasonable grounds for believing that [his] communication was true."
Restatement (Second) of Torts § 580B cmt. g.
Lest there be any doubt,
a reasonable person attempting to verify Mr. Weissman's
statements would have found ample sources of support. Representative Lofgren told the public at
a highly publicized congressional hearing that the Select Committee had "obtained evidence" that
"one lawyer told a witness the witness could in certain circumstances tell the Committee that she
didn't recall facts when she actually did recall them." Business Meeting to Consider the Select
Committee's Final Report; Select Comm. to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol (December 19, 2022), 117th Cong., 2d Sess., at 8 (2022). And numerous mainstream media outlets promptly identified Mr. Passantino as the lawyer in question.
See supra p. S.
Mr. Passantino argues that there is "no record evidence that [Mr. Weissmann] actually viewed or
otherwise knew
of these
• media articles."
ECF No. 50, at 18.
Nevertheless,
Representative Lofgren's statement and the public reporting on it reflect and support the objective
reasonableness of Mr. Weissman's statement because large swaths of people, including reporters
held to a higher standard of care, drew the same conclusions from the same testimony.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vrmx2e5gsi23srsy2n7vljvb/bafkreiheoun2fgpc4jsnxf45a4ycnf3ter27thriamzgxofdirlnlnh7vq)
Oh Fuck This! Send that white trash back home. We're all full up on racist white folks here.
Chicago Tribune@chicagotribune.com · 2d agoTrump administration tells Congress it will admit 17,500 white South African refugees