@steve@s.yelvington.com“History will not remember him as a king, or a savior. History will remember him as a small, ugly, sick man who happened to seize great power, who wielded it recklessly, and who left behind a trail of destruction, corruption and cowardice unmatched in American history.”
-- Rick Wilson
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@steve@s.yelvington.comHealth insurance is not health care.
Health insurance is a financial scheme. It is designed to deliver fat profits to people who don't practice medicine but have managed to get between doctors and patients.
@steve@s.yelvington.comNo, shitty jobs with shitty pay are not "designed" to give teenagers a way to get started earning some spending money. They're designed to send fat profits to people who aren't doing the shitty jobs.
Minimum wage is a cruel joke. Fix it.
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialGovernor Gavin Newsom signs AB 1043, which requires device makers and app stores to verify user ages; Google, Meta, and OpenAI supported the bill (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/13/california-law-online-age-checks-0060611…
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@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialGavin Newsom signs AB 1043, which requires device makers and app stores to verify user ages; Google and Meta supported the bill while Netflix and MPA opposed it (Tyler Katzenberger/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/13/california-law-online-age…
@steve@s.yelvington.comIt is slowly dawning on magats that insurance companies suck.
But they can't get beyond that to think about a better way.
Medicare for all.
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@steve@s.yelvington.comNow Looney Bonespurs thinks he can rename Veterans Day.
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2025/11/11/trump-veterans-day-speech-victory-day/3501762890394/
@steve@s.yelvington.comSnazzy packaging, but I was disappointed to find that there's nothing in it having to do with green eggs. It's just Spam.
@steve@s.yelvington.comICE thugs can't handle a little snow.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/us/gregory-bovino-border-patrol-agents-chicago
@steve@s.yelvington.comFacebook, whose algorithm is one sick SOB, shoved a "Trump for President" thread into my face this morning.
OMG. Crazy magats are practically shouting for civil war.
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@steve@s.yelvington.comThe word you're looking for when talking about Trump's latest pardons is "henchmen."
@steve@s.yelvington.comPeople having a fit about "the Democrats folding" and "we need a third party" need to chill out. It was eight. Not 45. Keep your eye on the ball. Don't get suckered by bots pushing the third-party crap.
@steve@s.yelvington.comAnyone who shows up in a public place carrying a weapon should have to face a conversation with police. Call 911. That's what they're paid for. Create a paper trail.
Long gun or pistol, makes no difference. The act of displaying a murder weapon should be treated as assault.
@steve@s.yelvington.comEvery time I encounter a cybertruck in traffic I am struck by what a moronic design it is. It's like a fifth grader was granted access to a car company.
@steve@s.yelvington.comBrilliant. Put the Republicans in a position of having to deal with this again right before the midterms.
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/government-shutdown-latest-senate-vote-day-38/
@steve@s.yelvington.comBy the magat definition:
Opening a city grocery store in a food desert is "socialism."
Peddling Trump wine at a government store at a military base is "free enterprise."
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Andrew Manze, Rachel Podger, Academy of Ancient Music & Andrew Manze:
🎵 Concerto in D minor for two violins, BWV 1043 (3rd mvt)
#JohannSebastianBach
https://open.spotify.com/track/5Zp0VPltPVwHIAZX7hl96b
@steve@s.yelvington.comThey seem to be turning the White House into a memory care facility.
@steve@s.yelvington.comScammers hard at work.
@steve@s.yelvington.comThe White House has a new gold sign outside the Oval Office so Grandpa Ranty doesn't get lost.
@steve@s.yelvington.comAmong the women and immigrants who won: Kaohly Her, Laos-born ethnic Hmong immigrant elected mayor of St. Paul.
Many Hmong moved to Minnesota after the Vietnam war.
@steve@s.yelvington.comAnd just like that, SNAP disappears from the front pages, swept aside like poor people.
@steve@s.yelvington.comI wonder how many Democrats Trump managed to get elected with this photo.
@steve@s.yelvington.comMamdani's election is a well-deserved thumping for New York's decaying legacy newspapers.
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, Zubin Mehta & New York Philharmonic:
🎵 Concerto for 2 Violins in D Minor, BWV 1043: I. Vivace
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https://open.spotify.com/track/2T2hQVQrEQGwcrOcJdRU7J
@steve@s.yelvington.comBlue wave.
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Isabelle Faust, Bernhard Forck & Academy for Ancient Music Berlin:
🎵 Concerto for 2 Violins in D Minor, BWV 1043: II. Largo ma non tanto
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https://open.spotify.com/track/0n6wjt7WkQ1TEuR9MZZa7g
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Isaac Stern, Itzhak Perlman, New York Philharmonic & Zubin Mehta:
🎵 Concerto for 2 Violins in D Minor, BWV 1043 (1st mvt)
#JohannSebastianBach
https://open.spotify.com/track/0n6wjt7WkQ1TEuR9MZZa7g
