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Dave Γ‘ Jus
@nek@hear-me.social

From #northshore Massachusetts relocated to northeastern #Vermont and not just an aggregation of hashtags but: #antifascismIsProper #vegetarian #UBI #punk #punchanazi #antitrust #records #NEK #climate #spiritualjazz #decolonization #movies #SCOTUSexpansion #atheist #rescue #dogs


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Dave Γ‘ Jus
@nek@hear-me.social

My home (and the World) was a beautiful place with this guy in it. Without him now, it is nothing but ugly and hateful. RIP, Arizona the Rescuepup.

Dave Γ‘ Jus
@nek@hear-me.social

The #healthcare plan already funded by the Public has been scuttled with NO replacement. The tax credits to states - also already paid for by the Public - funding hundreds of me marketplace programs that provide #health & #medical services to tens of thousands of people, were taken and given away by #Congress - largely by donors to the Senate Minority Leader and House Speaker, with a few vague promises to negotiate some scraps back, all now evidently broken. At the end of 2025 the so-called Private #Insurance Industry was greenlighted massive increases to premiums and the associated payments of co-insurance & deductibles. The 2026 budget will scrap virtually all of #Medicaid and most of #Medicare right after this year's midterm #elections. Particularly in rural areas, upward of 40% of hospital revenues come from Medicaid reimbursements which will abruptly cease. HUNDREDS OF HOSPITALS NATIONWIDE are likely to shut down and, in some areas, nearly all will sharply reduce critical services like primary care, emergency rooms, OB/GYN, pharmacy, dialysis, and pediatrics. Many of these particular services will be consolidated to other #hospitals far away with no transportation provided. Thousands will die, tens of thousands will be impoverished, as a direct result. A national #economic failure is more than merely likely. And without good cause; only to crush the Public and to transfer away the remains of its #wealth - our #savings, our #investments - for #redistribution to the untaxed parasites who create nothing, to further ensure that their next six generations will be exempted from the Social Compact.

TrumpRx Denounced as Corrupt Scheme to Line Pockets of Big Pharmaβ€”and Don Jr.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trumprx-prescription-drugs

"Trump has dressed up yet another corporate giveaway as a boon to #patients," said one watchdog. "Real drug price reform doesn’t look like a website."

Dave Γ‘ Jus
@nek@hear-me.social

#factCheck
"JD Vance" [nΓ©e Bowman] claimed: β€œRight now we’re focused on Minneapolis because that’s where we have the highest concentration of people who have violated our immigration laws.”

PolitiFact rating: False
@mediabiasfactcheck@mastodon.social rating: Blatant Lie

There are an estimated 130,000 immigrants without current documented status in Minnesota, about 2% of the state’s population. Seventy-eight metropolitan areas have a higher percentage of undocumented-status immigrants in the U.S. than the Minneapolis area has. Jimbo made it up.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2026/jan/28/jd-vance/why-ice-in-Minneapolis-immigration-population/

Dave Γ‘ Jus
@nek@hear-me.social

Patriot Act was a response to the lie constructed as pretext to conquer Iraq, as staging ground for eventual, now imminent, conquest & plunder of Iran - an enabling, nonresponse to the actual hijacker terror-state of al-Saud which attacked the US on 9/11/01. The legislation created ICE for the limited purpose of preventing more hijackings. REPEAL ALL OF IT. #abolishICE #repealThePatriotAct

https://newrepublic.com/article/205286/abolish-ice-not-fringe-moderate-democrats

Dave Γ‘ Jus
@nek@hear-me.social

I post reliable-source reports and analyses that I feel affect many lives. Sometimes I sharpen or correct the framing. I try to cite properly.


Dave Γ‘ Jus
@nek@hear-me.social

The #healthcare plan already funded by the Public has been scuttled with NO replacement. The tax credits to states - also already paid for by the Public - funding hundreds of me marketplace programs that provide #health & #medical services to tens of thousands of people, were taken and given away by #Congress - largely by donors to the Senate Minority Leader and House Speaker, with a few vague promises to negotiate some scraps back, all now evidently broken. At the end of 2025 the so-called Private #Insurance Industry was greenlighted massive increases to premiums and the associated payments of co-insurance & deductibles. The 2026 budget will scrap virtually all of #Medicaid and most of #Medicare right after this year's midterm #elections. Particularly in rural areas, upward of 40% of hospital revenues come from Medicaid reimbursements which will abruptly cease. HUNDREDS OF HOSPITALS NATIONWIDE are likely to shut down and, in some areas, nearly all will sharply reduce critical services like primary care, emergency rooms, OB/GYN, pharmacy, dialysis, and pediatrics. Many of these particular services will be consolidated to other #hospitals far away with no transportation provided. Thousands will die, tens of thousands will be impoverished, as a direct result. A national #economic failure is more than merely likely. And without good cause; only to crush the Public and to transfer away the remains of its #wealth - our #savings, our #investments - for #redistribution to the untaxed parasites who create nothing, to further ensure that their next six generations will be exempted from the Social Compact.

TrumpRx Denounced as Corrupt Scheme to Line Pockets of Big Pharmaβ€”and Don Jr.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/trumprx-prescription-drugs

"Trump has dressed up yet another corporate giveaway as a boon to #patients," said one watchdog. "Real drug price reform doesn’t look like a website."

Dave Γ‘ Jus
@nek@hear-me.social

My home (and the World) was a beautiful place with this guy in it. Without him now, it is nothing but ugly and hateful. RIP, Arizona the Rescuepup.

Dave Γ‘ Jus
@nek@hear-me.social

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mediabiasfactcheck/115991216485665460

If it is inscripted with unredacted
#epsteinFiles I'll advocate for its funding. Only then.

Dave Γ‘ Jus
@nek@hear-me.social

#factCheck
"JD Vance" [nΓ©e Bowman] claimed: β€œRight now we’re focused on Minneapolis because that’s where we have the highest concentration of people who have violated our immigration laws.”

PolitiFact rating: False
@mediabiasfactcheck@mastodon.social rating: Blatant Lie

There are an estimated 130,000 immigrants without current documented status in Minnesota, about 2% of the state’s population. Seventy-eight metropolitan areas have a higher percentage of undocumented-status immigrants in the U.S. than the Minneapolis area has. Jimbo made it up.

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2026/jan/28/jd-vance/why-ice-in-Minneapolis-immigration-population/

Dave Γ‘ Jus
@nek@hear-me.social

Patriot Act was a response to the lie constructed as pretext to conquer Iraq, as staging ground for eventual, now imminent, conquest & plunder of Iran - an enabling, nonresponse to the actual hijacker terror-state of al-Saud which attacked the US on 9/11/01. The legislation created ICE for the limited purpose of preventing more hijackings. REPEAL ALL OF IT. #abolishICE #repealThePatriotAct

https://newrepublic.com/article/205286/abolish-ice-not-fringe-moderate-democrats

Dave Γ‘ Jus
@nek@hear-me.social

I post reliable-source reports and analyses that I feel affect many lives. Sometimes I sharpen or correct the framing. I try to cite properly.

Dave Γ‘ Jus
@nek@hear-me.social
Dave Γ‘ Jus
@nek@hear-me.social

Voters didn’t factor Trump’s history of sex crimes, fraud, and fascism into their vote because Trump’s opponents failed to prosecute the issue in the public sphere on a daily basis even as Trump spun a tale of grievance that actually attracted younger voters.
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/08/12/dont-be-distracted-from-trumps-filth/

Dave Γ‘ Jus
@nek@hear-me.social

#Veterans Condemn Domestic Military Intervention in the Nation’s Capital

https://www.chamberlainnetwork.us/the-report/tcn-condemns-dc-deployment

Atlanta, GA: Today, Don Trump announced that his crew is taking federal control of the Metropolitan #Police Department of the District of Columbia, and federalizing the D.C. National Guard β€” despite the fact that violent crime in our nation’s capital is at a 30-year low! and down 26%! from last year. The facts make clear that this action is not an emergency response. It's an abuse of #military and federal law-enforcement power on U.S. soil.

Dave Γ‘ Jus
@nek@hear-me.social

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

"...If the appeals court denies the petition, Anthropic argued, the emerging company may be doomed. As Anthropic argued, it now 'faces hundreds of billions of dollars in potential damages liability at trial in four months' based on a class certification rushed at 'warp speed' that involves 'up to seven million potential claimants, whose works span a century of publishing history," each possibly triggering a $150,000 fine. Confronted with such extreme potential damages, Anthropic may lose its rights to raise valid defenses of its AI training, deciding it would be more prudent to settle, the company argued. And that could set an alarming precedent, considering all the other lawsuits generative AI (GenAI) companies face over training on copyrighted materials, Anthropic argued."
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/08/ai-industry-horrified-to-face-largest-copyright-class-action-ever-certified/