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Lawmakers launch bipartisan, last-minute bids to force vote on ACA subsidies
Two bipartisan groups of House lawmakers launched last-minute bids Wednesday
to force votes on extending the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies set to expire at the end of the year.

The efforts, both using a legislative tool known as a
"discharge petition",
face long-shot odds:
At least 218 members of the House would first have to agree to consider the bills,

Bipartisan lawmakers launch last-minute bid to force vote on extending ACA subsidies
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers has launched a last-minute bid to extend the enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies set to expire at the end of the year.

The EU opens investigations into Temu and airport scanner maker Nuctech to assess whether they unfairly penetrated the EU market thanks to Beijing subsidies (Francesca Micheletti/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-china-nuctech-temu-unfair-foreign-su…

EU investigates China’s Nuctech, Temu for unfair foreign subsidies
The Commission is probing whether the companies receive unfair support from Beijing when they operate in Europe.

IEEE Spectrum: At-home brain stimulation for depression is just the start #tDCS dev…

FDA Approves tDCS for Depression Treatment
Could a simple headset be the future of depression treatment? Discover how tDCS is changing the game for mental health care.

Texten om Substack och nazisterna finns nu som blogginlägg, med fördjupningslänkar:
https://axbom.se/substack-och-nazisterna/

"They often generate code that fails to perform as intended, but which on the surface seems to run successfully, avoiding syntax errors or obvious crashes."
AI Coding Assistants Are Getting Worse
https://spectrum.iee…

AI Coding Degrades: Silent Failures Emerge
One AI coding assistant power user says the tools are hitting a plateau, and some are even declining. What's causing this unexpected twist in tech?

What a great blog, easily defeats traditional media,
https://open.substack.com/pub/mickryan/p/the-oreshnik-is-the-sign-of-a-fearful?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

The Oreshnik is the sign of a Fearful, Worried Putin, Not a Leader Confident of Victory: The Big Five 11 January 2026.
My first 2026 update on war and great power competition. This week: the Oreshnik attack, peace talks progress, the ground war in Ukraine, China's reaction to Venezuela & my Big Five recommended reads.

This *no notes necessary* does not look good.
https://open.substack.com/pub/welivedit/p/behind-the-noise-the-document-you?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

I’ve Sat in the Rooms Where These Are Written. This One Stunned Me.
The quiet rewrite of America’s national security priorities.

The Obamacare Subsidies Rise From the Dead (Jonathan Cohn/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/obamacare-aca-subsidies-extension-moreno-jeffries
http://www.memeorandum.com/260111/p10#a260111p10

Hamish McKenzie says Substack is starting to test native sponsorships with some writers but won't take a cut for now (Emily Sundberg/Feed Me)
https://www.readfeedme.com/p/substack-is-launching-native-sponsorships

Substack is launching native sponsorships.
"During the pilot, Substack is simply facilitating payments and is not taking a cut."

GPT-5.2 models match GPT-5 and 5.1 with a 400K context window and 128K max output tokens, but have a newer knowledge cutoff of Aug. 31, 2025 vs. Sept. 30, 2024 (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Newsletter)
https://simonw.substack.com/p/gpt-52-and-useful-patterns-for-…

GPT 5.2 and useful patterns for building HTML tools
Plus a YouTube video, a podcast appearance and more