After Republicans in Congress let enhanced federal subsidies for Affordable Care Act health plans expire in January, millions of Americans including Button had to decide whether to keep insurance that often doubled or tripled in cost -- or risk going without it. ... Florida, whose large population of gig workers, entrepreneurs and small business owners relies heavily on the federal health insurance marketplace, has become one of the nation's most visible epicenters of that impact.
Jennica Pounds, who is more well-known as MAGA influencer DataRepublican on social media, was outed as a special government employee of the Department of Defense Monday. Pounds's Pentagon employment came to light after a bizarre incident in which she claimed she was being "set up" by the deep state " but it was revealed she merely botched a "scoop" she was being handed by a State Department official.
The leadership vacuum comes as the Army is trying to adapt to a new kind of war dominated by deadly drones.
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Two unvaccinated individuals have died of measles in Pennsylvania, state health officials announced on Tuesday. The deaths are the first in the state in 35 years and have been announced just one day after Maryland declared a measles outbreak in three counties. Measles is one of the most contagious diseases known to medicine, and is preventable with a highly effective vaccine.
Natalie Harp has been in the news so much that I assumed she must have committed a crime, done something unethical or botched her job as one of President Donald Trump's aides so badly that he fired her. I'm as disappointed as you are to learn none of the above is true (at least not yet). Nevertheless, Harp has dominated news coverage
CIA Director Ratcliffe On USAF Cargo Jet Flight To Moscow CBS News Senior White House reporter Jennifer Jacobs has provided some clarity on the mysterious US Air Force Boeing C-17 Globemaster III military transport aircraft that flew to Moscow earlier today. Jacobs said, "Scoop: CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Russia aboard a C-17 for meetings in Moscow today, sources told @Olivia_Gazis @JimLaPorta and me. @CBSNews. Read more
When he worked in corporate dining, Bradley Alvelo missed the human connection, something he's found again with his tiny pizzeria. "I've been cooking professionally for most of my life. But if you'd told the teenager peeling potatoes after school that one day he'd have his own pizzeria " and operate it out of a Smart car, no less " I'm not sure he would have believed you." Read more
In matters involving the president and cryptocurrency, some experts say the Securities and Exchange Commission has abandoned its mission of protecting investors.
Ukraine held the world's first all drone parade as attending EU leaders joined in celebrations of their independence from the USSR "Over the years of war, Ukraine has built an almost entirely new defense industry. Modern. Technological. An industry that meets the challenges of war," said President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Read more
His message is simple, his persona is unglamorous, and his old-school North Carolina Senate bid is working.
To celebrate Ukrainian Independence Day on 24 August, the death of British citizen Bradley Townshend (33) who fought for ICC-indicted Vladimir Putin was announced. Russian army casualties over the past 24 hours: +1,230 troops and 1,555 drones. Total Russian losses since Feb 2022: Personnel - nearly 1,479,300 (+1,230); aircraft: 440; helicopters: 354; UAVs (operational-tactical level) ' 479,882 (+1,555); cruise missiles: 5,052; warships and boats: 35; submarines: two.
This war is costing both Kiev and Moscow billions of dollars, on top of lives lost and vast ecological damage
AIPAC mega-oligarch Miriam Adelson's right-wing newspaper Israel Hayom has suggested that any Turkish soldiers in Syria would be considered sitting ducks for Israel to murder because NATO's collective defense pact would not apply outside a member state's borders.
Israel completely out of control and Dummkopf Trumpf is friends with Turlish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Hillbilly hypocrite JD Vontz bleating to the sheep in Maine: ""When the officers approached the person they were trying to arrest, that person, like, broke away from the scene, and what at least the law enforcement officers argue is that person posed a danger to the community. When I look at the case what I see is a country that's trying to enforce its laws. My message to Democrats who are so worried about that situation is to say, have a little bit of perspective."
"Perspective."
As Republicans and some moderate Democrats increasingly portray democratic socialists as out of step with mainstream America, polling suggests a more complicated reality -- a majority of Republican voters support several of the economic policies championed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) and prominent figures on the party's left flank.
Although the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and civil rights laws dating back to 1866 prohibit nearly all racial preferences, most Americans oppose these preferences, and Donald Trump was elected vowing to eliminate DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) " progressives won't give up. Their race-obsessed thinking reduces America to intersectional classifications of oppressed and oppressor. This addled concept is a self-defeating dialectic in which no amount of progress on race relations is ever enough " or even acknowledged. Despite enormous advances, with the possible exception of Palestinians and transgender people, no group is seen as more oppressed and deserving of preferences than African Americans
