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A Third of Americans Have Cut Spending or Borrowed Money for Health Care. As medical costs rise, more than 80 million people have made sacrifices like skipping meals and driving less, a new survey finds. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/health/health-costs-cutting-back.html?smid=bs-share
A Third of Americans Have Cut Spending or Borrowed Money for Health Care

As medical costs rise, more than 80 million people have made sacrifices like skipping meals and driving less, a new survey finds.

The New York Times
LISTEN: EFF’s Beryl Lipton joined WBUR’s On Point to explore the AI surveillance state. From your online browsing habits to traffic cameras on your commute and more, AI helps gather, store and share detailed information about you faster than ever.
https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2026/02/03/inside-the-ai-surveillance-state
Inside the AI surveillance state

From your online browsing habits to traffic cameras on your commute, data about you is everywhere. And with AI, companies can gather, store and share detailed information about you faster than ever.

Think every government needs to do this. That would make an international law protecting our personal physical identities.

Back before the Internet, we thought the reason for human stupidity was the lack of information options.

I’ll put it this way: That wasn’t it.

This was an unexpectedly *terrible* take from Vox.

Imho, speech that directly threatens someone's safety (a child, no less) should not be protected under 1A.

Wasn't this halfway to a criminal incitement to violence?

Yet @imillhiser seems to believe that this is valid expression of "opinion"? That allowing this speech without even a censure is a win for democracy?

What a shameful use of editorial discretion from Vox, as well. @supreme-court-Vox

https://www.vox.com/politics/413775/supreme-court-libby-fecteau-maine-transgender-house

The Supreme Court stands up for democracy — and for an anti-trans lawmaker

Libby v. Fecteau is a voting rights case about an anti-trans lawmaker who nonetheless needed to win.

Vox

At 1 am, Republicans tried to sneak the Big Beautiful Bill through the Rules committee

Rep. Jim McGovern wasn’t having it

“You are literally taking food off kids' plates to buy Elon Musk another yacht...this is not policy: This is theft."

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The world's biggest corporations have already caused US$28 trillion in climate damage.

More than half of that total figure comes from oil and gas companies. ⁠

We KNOW oil companies are causing this crisis.

Sign the #PollutersPayPact to make them pay their fair share: https://act.gp/3FccTES

Polluters broke it, we're paying for it. Make Polluters Pay

Sign the pact, record your story. Join the global movement to make polluters pay.

Rubbish? Fine? Brilliant? British superlatives graded and ranked.
https://yougov.co.uk/society/articles/21568-how-good-good

US version here ('quite' interesting comparison)
https://today.yougov.com/society/articles/21717-how-good-good-1

How good is “good”? | YouGov

A new YouGov study looks at exactly how positive and negative various descriptions are seen as being

Congress Passes TAKE IT DOWN Act Despite Major Flaws
L: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/congress-passes-take-it-down-act-despite-major-flaws
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43828568
posted on 2025.04.28 at 23:57:40 (c=0, p=4)
Congress Passes TAKE IT DOWN Act Despite Major Flaws

It would give the powerful a dangerous new route to manipulate platforms into removing lawful speech that they simply don't like, with President Trump himself saying that he would use the law to censor his critics. The bill passed the Senate in February, and it now heads to the president's desk.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
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