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CJ Mo000oo00ooSe 🫎👻

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Rock lover, beer drinker, birdwatcher, weather nerd. Former NPS, Former #SciEd teacher, Former #VetMed. #GoAvsGo fan. @1LukeAF.bsky.social’s official taste-tester🍴. Parent of Rainy Pi, Stormy, & P-SwAG. #Lymphedema, #ADHD, #SciCom

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CJ Mo000oo00ooSe 🫎👻 @cjmoose.bsky.social · Nov 5

Moose are great swimmers, can fully submerge for 30+ sec, & dive up to 5m deep! When a moose submerges its head, the difference btwn water pressure & air pressure causes specialized structures w/in moose nostrils to seal the nose! The deeper they dive, the greater the pressure, the tighter the seal!

Nome @nome.bsky.social · Nov 5

Quote this skeet with a random fact you love, that brings you joy, I'll start:

Otters have pockets. The skin under their armpits makes a natural fold that they keep things in.

an otter standing on its hind legs in front of a rock wall with imgflip.com written on the bottom

Alt: A sea otter being handed a ball, then storing it in a strange pocket under one arm.

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CJ Mo000oo00ooSe 🫎👻 @cjmoose.bsky.social · 2m

Truly vile.

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Bus D. Sinclair 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️ @melbeast.bsky.social · 13m

Wondering how the statue defenders feel about this

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CJ Mo000oo00ooSe 🫎👻 @cjmoose.bsky.social · 5m

“The East Wing is mostly wasted space since the Doge purge and the government shutdown…”

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Omar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 25m

Echoes of the 1980s: “Trump himself ensured workers were told to remove the bronze latticework with blowtorches, separate the friezes from the walls with jackhammers, and throw them down into the interior of the building where they shattered into a million pieces.” news.artnet.com/art-world/do...

Headline: When Donald Trump Razed the Bonwit Teller Building, He Promised the Met Its Art Deco Friezes. A New Book Details How He Pulverized Them Instead

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 17m

www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4XW... there's a little PBS frontline clip here where you can see the sculptures briefly

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CJ Mo000oo00ooSe 🫎👻 @cjmoose.bsky.social · 16m

This is fucking disgusting.

Kaivan Shroff @kaivanshroff.bsky.social · 23m

BREAKING: new racist Republican groupchat has been leaked to Politico featuring texts from Paul Ingrassia, Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel.

Ingrassia’s texts include vile pro-Nazi & racist messages targeting Black people, Chinese people, and Indian people.

CJ Mo000oo00ooSe 🫎👻 @cjmoose.bsky.social · 19m

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CJ Mo000oo00ooSe 🫎👻 @cjmoose.bsky.social · 1h

Hmmm… if this is actually protocol, there certainly are a plethora of agents violating that protocol. A rule without consequences is merely a suggestion.

Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 2h

Ellis: How are ICE agents required to identify themselves?

Byers: With badge numbers and names.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 1h

CONTEXT: The First Amendment applies to all journalists whether they have credentials or not.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · 3h

Ellis: Have any Border Patrol agents been disciplined in connection with a use of force?

Harvick: Not that I know of, your honor.

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Alex Shephard @alexshephard.bsky.social · 1h

unfortunately the wanton destruction of government property is allowed without congressional approval if it “makes a really good metaphor”

Jonathan Edwards @jonathanreports.bsky.social · 2h

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom

The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.

wapo.st

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Petrishriekandgo 🇨🇦 @petrishriekandgo.bsky.social · 2h

In British Columbia, Canada we USED to pay $150.00 a month for my family of 4 for our Provincial health coverage, then it was reduced to $75.00 a month.

Now... we pay 0$ a month for basic health coverage.

US citizens are stuck in an abusive relationship with their country. It's criminal.

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Mike Leake @mikejleake.bsky.social · 2h

So when Americans say they pay less tax than us Europeans they might not be taking everything into account

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CJ Mo000oo00ooSe 🫎👻 @cjmoose.bsky.social · 2h

Me either!

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Ruo Shui @ruoshuiresearch.bsky.social · 6h

posting just CPI without per beneficiary and uninsured rate context was a choice though

A line chart titled “If the spending trajectory had continued.” It visualizes U.S. Medicare spending per beneficiary over time, comparing actual spending with a projected spending trajectory that would have occurred had previous growth rates persisted.

Axes and Units:

The y-axis ranges from $0 to $20,000 per beneficiary (inflation-adjusted).

The x-axis spans from 1970 through roughly 2024.

Lines and Key Elements:
A solid purple line shows actual Medicare spending per beneficiary, rising steadily from about $1,000 in 1970 to around $12,000–$13,000 by 2020. The growth slows notably after 2010 and fluctuates slightly through 2020–2024.

A dashed yellow line labeled “Recent trend” extends sharply upward from around 2005 onward, depicting what spending would have looked like if earlier growth rates had continued unchecked.

The divergence between the two lines creates a $3.9 trillion gap, shown near the 2020–2024 period, emphasizing how much lower actual spending turned out compared with the projected path.

The chart implies that Medicare spending growth has slowed significantly since the early 2000s. If the prior spending trajectory had persisted, total outlays would have been roughly $3.9 trillion higher, suggesting structural cost containment or slower growth in healthcare inflation.

Sources:
New York Times analysis of data from the Congressional Budget Office, the White House Office of Management and Budget, and the Medicare Board of Trustees.
Note: Mandatory Medicare outlays adjusted for inflation using the GDP price index.

A line chart titled “Figure 1. National Uninsured Rate, All Ages (2000 – Q4 2023)” showing the percentage of Americans without health insurance over time.

Axes and Units:

The y-axis represents the uninsured rate, ranging from 0% to 18%.
The x-axis spans from the year 2000 through Q4 2023.

A single dark blue line tracks the national uninsured rate over the 23-year period, annotated with key inflection points and major health policy events.

2000: 14.9% uninsured.
2010 (Passage of ACA): about 16.0%, marking the peak.
2014 (ACA Main Coverage Provisions Begin): steep decline to 11.5%.
2015: 9.1%, the lowest level up to that time.
2018–2020: slight rise to 9.7%.
2021 (ARPA Takes Effect): 9.2%.
Q4 2023 (IRA Period): 7.7%, the lowest uninsured rate in the series.

Annotations and Policy Markers:
“Passage of ACA” appears around 2010.
“ACA Main Coverage Provisions” spans approximately 2014–2015.
“ARPA Takes Effect” (American Rescue Plan Act) is marked around 2021.
“IRA” (Inflation Reduction Act) is labeled near 2023.

The uninsured rate remained high and stable around 15–16% in the early 2000s, peaking before the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Following the ACA’s rollout in 2014, the rate fell sharply, reaching single digits for the first time. After modest fluctuations, additional legislation such as ARPA and the IRA helped push the uninsured rate to a record low of 7.7% by late 2023.

Source:
National Health Interview Survey’s Health Insurance Coverage Reports (2000–2022) and early release of Q4 2023 data.

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CJ Mo000oo00ooSe 🫎👻 @cjmoose.bsky.social · 6h

Truly beautiful! Sadly a hard nope for me now with my orthostatic intolerance. Lol. I get woozy just thinking about shit I did when I was younger (like Angels Landing, etc).

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 7h

See today how many times you can mentally append "So give up, peon" to the end of the headline or story. If it works, ignore that story, which is not reporting but propaganda designed to make you as broken and afraid as our self-appointed masters.

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Congressman Greg Casar @repcasar.bsky.social · Nov 18

A trans person didn’t deny your health insurance claim, a giant corporation did.

An asylum seeker didn’t raise your rent, a billionaire’s private equity firm did.

Our focus must be taking on the billionaires & corporate greed.

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CJ Mo000oo00ooSe 🫎👻 @cjmoose.bsky.social · 7h

Yes.

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Some Random Susan @anysusan.bsky.social · 7h

I mean you could deprive yourself of donuts all your life and then get hit by live-fire ordnance driving on the I-5.

Times are weird my friends.
Choose joy.

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LCV – League of Conservation Voters 🌎 @lcv.org · 7h

The Trump administration is set to allow oil and gas leasing across the entire Arctic National Wildlife Refuge coastal plain, a wilderness landscape that has been protected for over 40 years.

Nothing is sacred to this administration.

They are destroying our planet to enrich their Big Oil friends.

Trump preparing to reopen Alaska wildlife refuge for oil drilling

The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is home to polar bears, caribou and wolves — and may hold vast amounts of crude oil.

www.politico.com

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 9h

Now that Trump has illegally bombed a seventh boat in the Caribbean, please note this: Rep Adam Smith, ranking Dem on Armed Services, tells me that *at no point* have officials given lawmakers even the most basic information about these extrajudicial murders:

newrepublic.com/article/2019...

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CJ Mo000oo00ooSe 🫎👻 @cjmoose.bsky.social · 9h

Nice little earthquake swarm this morning in Iceland near Eyjafjöll.

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our lady of the cow parsley @ladycowparsley.bsky.social · 9h

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CJ Mo000oo00ooSe 🫎👻 @cjmoose.bsky.social · 18h

Can’t be grown/mined/produced or it can’t be done *feasibly* and at a profit?

Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: The US is rolling back tariffs on “products that cannot be grown, mined, or naturally produced in the United States," per WSJ

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