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Incredibly, 61% of adults are unaware that the ACA prohibits insurers from denying coverage to people with preexisting conditions, and 69% don’t know that the ACA also prevents sick people from being charged higher premiums than healthy people.

NEW! Don’t believe the hype: bigger AI ≠ better AI.

The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center

Project 2025 mastermind allegedly told colleagues he killed a [barking] dog with a shovel
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/24/project-2025-kevin-roberts-killed-dog

City of Arkansas City, KS faces cybersecurity Incident at water treatment facility. On detection they switched to manual operation and they state that water is safe.
https://www.arkcity.org/environmental-services/page/city-arkansas-city-faces-cybersecurity-incident

Wegovy, a powerful drug nearly identical to Ozempic, is sold for $92 in the UK.
$137 in Germany
$186 in Denmark
And $265 in Canada
In the U. S., the price is $1,349 a month.
That’s why Bernie is laying into the CEO of pharma giant Novo Novdisk, maker of Wegovy, right now.

The IRS has recovered $263 MILLION from a single wealthy tax cheat.
The individual had reportedly run an offshore tax evasion scheme for over a decade.
The IRS’ whistleblower program helped expose the scheme.
This is why funding IRS tax enforcement is so important.

GOP Senate Candidate Bernie Moreno Asks Why Women ‘Past 50’ Are Worried About Abortion “I’m thinking to myself, ‘I don’t think that’s an issue for you,’” Moreno said of older women voters during a town hall in Ohio last week. Moreno can kiss my A__

Mark Robinson’s entire campaign staff has quit. Laura Loomer has been pushed out of the Trump campaign.

Major YouTube price increases, and predictions about Google’s future

A bunch of non-U.S. countries are now seeing major increases in the
costs of YouTube Premium individual and family plans. You’ll recall
the U.S. had similar increases relatively recently.

Prediction: Google will start charging everyone for Gmail, Google
Voice, and other basic Google services (perhaps even versions of
Search), or force users to accept decreases in service quality (e.g.,
massive increases in ads) to avoid paying those fees (or to pay lower
fees). These are services where many millions of users would find
moving to alternatives extremely disruptive, and Sundar could likely
pull the switch at any time. Ultimately, it’s clear that Google just wants to be as close to 100% AI as possible, with as few employees or bothersome “low value” users as possible, while still growing the profit funnel to the C-suite. -L

Trump calls for the return of Johnny Carson to The Tonight Show (who has been dead since 2005)

BREAKING: Donald Trump just announced if he wins, he will lift sanctions on Russia and Iran. This is why Putin was paying millions to Republican influencers. He’s bought control of Trump’s party. All Americans need to see this alarming announcement.

“Bankers are looting the world. You’re not in the middle of a recession; you’re in the middle of a robbery.” – Frankie Boyle

Kamala Harris might be even better for #Bitcoin price because she will “accelerate many of the structural issues that drive Bitcoin adoption in the first place” – VanEck
Whoever wins it’s bullish for Bitcoin.

Prescott, Arizona A on running everywhere
In April, an Arizona grand jury issued a 58-page indictment against 11 AS Republicans and 7 Trump associates (including Giuliani & Meadows) for conspiring to overturn the 2020 election through their fake elector scheme.
1/ https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1838219904312619479.html

Lev Parnas @levparnas
The @nytimes & @kenvogel must be held accountable for using sanctioned Russian assets like Andrey Derkach & Andrii Telizhenko as sources against President Biden and his son Hunter. This isn’t journalism; it’s spreading Kremlin propaganda. The Times owes readers, the American people and the Biden family retractions and the truth. #Retractthelies
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1838006888731931020.html

The NYT is no longer the ‘All the News Fit to Print’ publication. The NYT led the charge against Biden’s 2024 campaign while remaining remarkably silent about Trump, sane-washing his utterances so he appears competent when he’s not. You’ve exposed how dangerous he is to the US. They continue to pay @maggieNYT. Doesn’t that explain a lot??

A reminder that Maggie Haberman’s mom, Nancy, was an Executive VP at Rubenstein PR, a firm that represented Fred Trump, Donald Trump, and Charles Kushner.
This is why Maggie essentially does PR for the Trump family through the
@NYtimes now.

Read this carefully. The New York Times conspired with Russian intelligence to attack the 2020 election. Get the handcuffs.
@levparnas https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sm1232
In early 2019, Konstantin Kulyk informed Giuliani, me, and the rest of the BLT group that his guy at the @nytimes had been @kenvogel. His reporting starts to make more sense when you peel back the onion. We were celebrating his May 10, 2019 article.
For those without the program with the Russian Agent roster, Kulyk was sanctioned as a Russian Agent by the US Govt for spreading foreign disinformation alleging a fake corruption scheme in Ukraine by the Bidens to interfere with the 2020 Presidential campaign to help Trump. Kulyk was later indicted in Ukraine on Treason charges for heading an “organized crime syndicate” with Andrii Derkach sponsored by the Russian GRU to spread propaganda.

Senate Judiciary Committee @JudiciaryDems
Let’s be clear: The Supreme Court’s Trump immunity decision was wrongly decided.

The Republican Montana Secretary of State @SOSJacobsen instructed her office to leave VP Kamala Harris’ name off voting ballots that were sent to thousands of Montanans living abroad. She should be arrested and charged with election interference. Where the hell is the DOJ?

McDonald’s stole over $28 million from workers after it didn’t correctly calculate holiday pay.
Over 60,000 people who have worked for the fast food giant in New Zealand are now able to get thousands in backpay.

Private equity is involved in everything now, including housing.
Alden Global Capital has spent over $275 million on buying up more than 10,000 manufactured housing units to hike rent, enact junk fees, and evict people when they can’t pay.
Here’s how it went down https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1838269390917075419.html

FTC trustbuster Lina Khan: feared in boardrooms, cheered on by progressives — and even some MAGA Republicans Lina Khan – the youngest chair ever of the Federal Trade Commission – just 32 when she was named, says much of the blame for the exorbitant prices on everything from food to concert tickets, is widespread corporate consolidation.

Kick Judge Cannon to the curb She should be removed from the classified documents case if that case is reinstated including because of an appearance of bias, per two briefs packed with experts, including one from @CREWcrew, a retired federal judge and constitutional scholars.

“Bhutan has become the 4th largest government holder of Bitcoin”

Google is serving AI images of mushrooms when users search for some species. Very risky, potentially fatal error for foragers who are trying to find what mushrooms are safe to eat. Could have “devastating consequences” one expert said

BNY Identified as First Bank to Receive SEC Exemption From SAB 121

@DocAtCDI
I live in a “swing state,” the only place where any votes seem to count according to people who defend the electoral college. My daughter is a county clerk; she is in charge of handling elections for a large county in Michigan. The FBI came in and told her to shut down all her social media, and if she couldn’t, to remove all references to family and change her name. No one in her office is allowed to open any mail without gloves and a mask. They have armed security when they enter and leave the city building. They receive 2-3 letters a day filled with white powder (so far, flour or powdered sugar). Please don’t think we’ve got this under control. There is LITERALLY a war going on, quietly, waged by domestic terrorists, to take away your right to have your voice heard. This woman, who I can’t name because her life is in danger, goes into combat every single day to try to protect your right to have your voice heard! Don’t let her down.
https://x.com/DocAtCDI/status/1838407775832924381

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