--In the less extreme cases, #ACA enrollees will either pay far more for the same plan or downgrade to a plan w/higher deductibles & worse coverage --In the more extreme cases, enrollees will be priced out of coverage entirely & either move to junk plans or go bare Welcome to Trump/MAGA GOP world.

"Me, me me..!"
Raven mom delivers. All four of them got something. The noise they make when they see a parent fly toward the nest is quite something. But the nest is in a very safe place. And the father keeps an eye on it.

#ravens ##corvids #birds

If I get one boost I will skip work tomorrow

A comprehensive look at what happens in the brain when we're reading

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-05-comprehensive-brain.html

Can someone pass this on to Kathleen Kennedy plz?

#StarWars

At last!

The pillow has returned, clean and warm!

#dogsofmastodon

Helmdar: 3D Scanning Brooklyn on Rollerblades

Link: https://owentrueblood.com/blog/2025/05/04/helmdar/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43889875

THE KENT STATE MASSACRE
It is May 4, 1970 - minutes after the Ohio National Guard opened fire on a peaceful antiwar protest at Kent State University. A horrified Mary Ann Vecchio crouches over the body of Jeffrey Miller.
That’s me on the right with a white arm band. I am watching a freaked-out fellow art student jumping in the blood of Jeffrey Miller.
Four were killed and nine wounded, protesting against the invasion of Cambodia. Days later came massacres at Augusta GA and Jackson State MS.
The shootings at Kent were choreographed at the highest levels of government. Inflammatory comments by President Nixon and Governor Rhodes of Ohio provided a framework for the shootings. Actions reeking of the work of agent provocateurs preceded the murders. In the May 4 protest was an armed FBI agent - photographed holding a gun.
For 55 years, there has been a diligent cover up of the events by politicians of both capitalist parties. KSU has attempted to airbrush the mass anti-war movement of thousands of students out of existence.
Official May 4 commemorations were placed in the hands of Stephanie Danes Smith, a former top official of the CIA - testimony to the moral bankruptcy of the KSU admin. Former “radicals” of SDS, having carved out careers as “experts” and “survivors,” have embraced Smith - a sad testimony to failed ultra-left/liberal politics.
Now, Trump officials are again making inflammatory statements and threatening students with the National Guard. Like Nixon, they believe that deporting, jailing or killing some students will put an end to the anti-war protests. They are doomed to failure.
Those of us who went through the experience of building the Vietnam antiwar movement learned this: when millions of people join in direct action in the streets, we have enormous power.
The most important way to prevent state violence is to build a mass, independent defense of civil liberties.
Together with the Vietnamese people, we defeated the war makers in Southeast Asia.
We can and must do it again.
Stop the assaults on democratic rights!
End the genocide in Gaza!
War machine off campus!
—
#KentState #students #demonstration #protest #freespeech #massacre #vietnam #cambodia #antiwar #solidarity
#May4 #Alewitz #RedSquare

"It is not true that an #archivingsolution properly preserves the security offered by an end-to-end encrypted messaging app like #Signal. Ordinarily, only someone sending a Signal message and their intended recipient will be able to read the contents of the message. #TeleMessage essentially adds a #3rdparty to that conversation by sending copies of those messages somewhere else for storage. If not stored securely, those copies could in turn be susceptible to monitoring…"

https://www.404media.co/the-signal-clone-the-trump-admin-uses-was-hacked/

#meme #memes #politics

Sorry Uber driver dude. I refuse to ride in a Tesla. I will not support Musk in any way.

#musk #Tesla #teslatakedown #uber #swasticar

"Из-за ненависти". Трамп предположил, что достичь мира "невозможно", но верит в успех https://news.liga.net/politics/news/po-nenavisti-tramp-predpolozhil-chto-dostich-mira-nevozmozhno-no-verit-v-uspeh?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Russia #Ukraine

@FotoVorschlag
'Lost Place' #FotoVorschlag
Ganz in der Nähe vom anderen Lost Place. An diesem kann man direkt vorbeifahren.

Ukraine's National Guard brigade retakes Russian-held position on Pokrovsk front – video https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/05/4/7510570/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Immigration detainees spelling out SOS.
https://youtu.be/fxE_GdYQx6I?si=qtaBTna2TjRszy4m

#SilentSunday #SundayVibes #bird #BirdsOfMastodon #BirdPhotography #Blue #Honeycreeper #Nature #Outdoors

@GottaLaff @theogrin

We also need to remind ourselves of the attitudes of the six dynasties funding Project 2025.

Bradley, Koch, Coors, Scaife, Seid, Uihlein

The billionaires behind the Heritage Foundation believes the constitution is "filled with grave errors"

They believe the USA should be like the UK, a monarchy where both religious and state power is held by one person.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-project-explores-project-2025s-origins-and-goals-to-reshape-american-culture

https://truthout.org/articles/how-trumps-100-days-built-off-the-far-right-blueprint-of-project-2025/

Why #Germany Won’t Call It Genocide
by Hanno Hauenstein

"At this point, there can be little doubt: after a year and a half of the most extreme military offensive of the 21st century, evidence is mounting that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian population in #Gaza – with German support."

https://hannohauenstein.substack.com/p/why-germany-wont-call-it-genocide?r=j2j3p&triedRedirect=true

They forget that a lot of his base isn't well-versed in ironydead humor and also aren't all total nihilists and have their own sacred cows. Which is how you end up with that Pope tweet, which is deeply offensive to a powerful contingent within his base.

The American Government Sides with the Party of German Neo-Nazis
 
The MAGA-AfD alliance of extremists is not surprising, but it remains outrageous. If democracy is to prevail, America needs to establish a robust anti-fascist consensus.
 
New piece:
 
https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-american-government-sides-with