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Healthcare data analysis, advocacy & snark. (Formerly @charles_gaba on 🐤) 🏥 https://ACASignups.net 🔵 https://Blue26.org

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · Nov 12

Welcome new followers!

I'm a healthcare policy analyst, advocate & blogger who focuses primarily on the ACA. I’ve also gained some attention for my COVID19 data analysis.

I also raise money online for Democratic candidates.

You can follow my work (& even support it!) at ACASignups.net.

ACA Signups

Healthcare policy data, analysis & snark.

ACASignups.net

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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 3h

The people who accused Obama of rounding them up and putting them in concentration camps now get to LARP their dark fictions into reality—with someone else getting locked up by jack-booted thugs

PritzkerPosting @pritzkerposting.bsky.social · 4h

Chicago: Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way

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Just Jill 💖 @just-jillg.bsky.social · 7h

This should be considered everywhere. They are kidnapping, abusing, harassing and threatening people who have rights. Every single one of them have rights and they are ignored. What they’re doing is unconstitutional and illegal.
Payback will come.

www.newsweek.com/jb-pritzker-...

JB Pritzker looking at prosecuting ICE agents in Chicago

Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker has suggested that state prosecutors might examine the conduct of ICE agents.

www.newsweek.com

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 3h

I have no problem with either of your campaigns pestering me for money; that’s part of the game for good or for bad.

What I don’t like is you pretending that it’s bad when “The Establishment” does it but perfectly fine when YOU do so because Reasons.

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 3h

Respectfully, while I did receive two texts from Mills asking for money, I also received two emails from YOU asking for money as well.

And I didn’t sign up for your mailing list either...which makes me wonder how you get YOUR lists?

Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 8h

Here’s why you were barraged with spam today.

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 3h

Case in point: acasignups.net/25/05/07/whi...

In which ChatGPT again attempts to write one of my blog entries...and gets nearly every data point dead wrong.

Two years ago, with all the controversy over the frighteningly quick expansion of machine learning technology (popularly known as Artificial Intelligence (AI), even though it's not really that) over t...

acasignups.net

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 3h

Case in point: acasignups.net/25/05/07/whi...

In which ChatGPT again attempts to write one of my blog entries...and gets nearly every data point dead wrong.

acasignups.net

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 3h

Dear God.

FWIW, the only AI-generated articles which have ever been published on ACASignups.net are the two I posted specifically to demonstrate how much AI sucks at writing blog posts.

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 3h

6 months ago I was anxious about being targeted because I’ve raised a lot of money for Democrats & have a big mouth online.

I no longer think I’ll be targeted for those reasons.

Now I’m afraid I’ll just be kidnapped & thrown into an unmarked van literally at random.

Which I guess is the point.

Xennial Farmer @xennialfarmer.bsky.social · 1d

Whatever immunity they think they have will not save them.

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 5h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 5h

Kansas Senate President and candidate for Governor Ty Masterson is in a disavowing-my-relationship mood today. kansasreflector.com/2025/10/14/k...

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 6h

No surprise to see Elise Performative Outrage Stefanik here.

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Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta.bsky.social · 4h

THE DNC AND ITS OFFICERS DO NOT ENDORSE IN PRIMARY ELECTIONS —PERIOD!

THE DNC IS NOT FOR— OR— AGAINST YOUR FAVORITE CANDIDATE. WE SUPPORT THE DEMOCRATIC NOMINEES CHOSEN BY VOTERS.

WE FOCUS ONLY ON BEATING REPUBLICANS SO GOVERNMENT WORKS FOR US.

THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 7h

Stevens: There’s $1.3 trillion of credit card debt. There are people putting grocery bills on credit cards and then paying interest on them. We are in an affordability crisis. Coffee is up 20%, beef is up 16%, bacon is up over 10%. And now we’re going to see health care costs skyrocket.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 4h

To be clear:

LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government.

The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency.

This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

Los Angeles County declares state of emergency over immigration raids

Los Angeles County officials voted on Tuesday to declare a state of emergency over ongoing federal immigration raids.

abcnews.go.com

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Xennial Farmer @xennialfarmer.bsky.social · 1d

Whatever immunity they think they have will not save them.

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 4h

Welp.

Insurance commissioner says Coloradans are about to make “scary” choices if Congress doesn’t act on healthcare

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 4h

Welp.

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 4h

Welp.

While the battle over the tax credits has been partisan, conservatives including Associated Industries of Florida President and CEO Brewster Bevis, Florida Hospital Association President and CEO Mary Mayhew, President and CEO of Florida Association of Community Health Centers Jonathan Chapman, and President and CEO of the Florida Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Julio Fuentes aligned under the Florida Conservatives for Affordable Health Care moniker and came out in support of their continuation over the summer.

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 4h

Welp.

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 4h

Welp.

ONE IN FOUR FARMERS COULD LOSE INSURANCE AS ACA CREDITS EXPIRE

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 4h

Yeah, perhaps. I’m cranky. Deleted.

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Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social · 5h

here’s more context to the videos DHS is putting out from Chicago.

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Charles Ghoul-ba ✡️ @charlesgaba.com · 4h

Hmmm maybe. I’m in a cranky mood. Deleted.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 8h

BREAKING: Marco Rubio's State Department announces publicly that it is exercising unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination in revoking people's visas based on comments about the killing of Charlie Kirk.

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The United States has no obligation to host foreigners who wish death on Americans.
The State Department continues to identify visa holders who celebrated the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here are just a few examples of aliens who are no longer welcome in the U.S.:
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 19h

Senate is back in session today.

1/ So a quick 🧵on where things are at on the shutdown.

You get a lot of propaganda and spin thrown at you, so I want to give you the real, behind-the-scenes tea.

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