Yes, it’s terrifying trying to pick a healthcare provider in the US, because of our awful for-profit health insurance system. I’m keeping my current plan because their app made it easy to find a new primary care physician. But I still had to talk to two customer service reps to set it up, and have to call my old doctor’s office to inform them of my new doctor and request a records transfer ‘This is not freedom,’ Swedish man tells newspaper as he learns costs of American medical care He’s not wrong, that Swedish guy. I’ll meet my new doctor…
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It’s all about dominance in space And government contracts potentially worth trillions. Link: What Bezos and Musk really want from Trump
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Driftglass is a lefty political curmudgeon, and a national treasure.
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Click link to dKos to follow cartoonist Jen Sorensen. Her details are masterful. Link: Cartoon: The last firewall
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The part about outrage was when one lone protestor flipped the bird and yelled “F- Trump!” at the MAGA devotees waiting to enter the place of worship. They erupted in fury, and one guy yelled “Get deported.” So that’s how we know it’s all they want. Link: ‘Very Hitlerian’: Protesters cause MAGA outrage at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally – Raw Story
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SO NOT GOOD, MAYNARD. Vote, because our lives, freedom, and democracy itself depend on defeating these basstids. Link: Leaked memo reveals plan for Trump to skip ‘traditional background checks’ if elected: NYT – Raw Story
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It’s about frickin’ time, NY Times, but until you stop sanewashing Der Drumpfuhrer in your headlines, sabotaging your reporters’ stories, I’m not subscribing. For all the shit we’ve given the NYTimes in this election season, they have really pulled out all the stops to make up for it the last couple of days. This was yesterday’s front page. Here are a couple of the inside pages in the same issue. There are more. A huge section was devoted to this subject. I have… Link: The NY Times Comes Through – Digby’s Hullabaloo
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Ann Telnaes still getting kudos for that cartoon./ Paper has been pilloried for what some call ‘anticipatory obedience’ in preparation of a new president next year Link: Washington Post cartoon team skewers paper’s decision not to make endorsement
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Why are we not surprised? And ye gads, that photo in the article. I’m not reposting the image here because the photo credit is under Getty Images. PALO ALTO, Calif. — Long before he became one of Donald Trump’s biggest donors and campaign surrogates, South African-born Elon Musk worked illegally in the United States as he launched his entrepreneurial career after ditching a graduate studies program in California, according to former business associates, court records and company documents obtained by The Washington Post. Link: Exclusive from the Washington Post, via archive.is because fuck that guy Jeff Bezos, but kudos to…
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Ann Telnaes’ stark visual commentary on the Washington Post’s failure to endorse Kamala Harris from 25OCT24. I will not be cancelling my subscription to the Post, because I support their journalists and editors. The decision came from publisher Jeff Bezos.