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,
North Atlantic right whale birth rate is up but extinction still looms North Atlantic right whale birth rate is up but extinction still looms https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/01/north-atlantic-right-whale-birth-rat…
"A sperm bank for cheetahs could one day save the world's fastest land animal from extinction"
#Cheetahs #Animals #Conservation
Adobe reports Q4 revenue up 10% YoY to $6.19B, Digital Media revenue up 11% to $4.62B, and forecasts FY 2026 revenue above estimates (Zaheer Kachwala/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/adobe-forecasts-annual-reven…
Okay, for those who want to switch Email providers and think about Fastmail (as I described in my article https://tante.cc/2026/01/05/exiting-the-billionaire-castle/ ):
This link gives you 10% off your first year. (It will give me 10 USD, too, so you can consider this a…
DEADLINE EXTENDED: Conference on Religions and Freedom c. 1776 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20137107/deadline-extended-conference-religions-and-freedom-c-1776
‘Extinct’ Snail Found in Alleyway Results in Species Pulled Back From the Brink: A ‘Once in a Career’ Moment https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/extinct-snail-found-in-alleyway-results-in-species-pulled-back-from-the-brink/
un_migrations: UN migration stock (2015)
A network of migration between countries, collected by the United Nations. A directed edge gives the flow of migration, and an edge property gives the number of migrants, for each given year and sex. Estimates are presented for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015 and are available for all countries and areas of the world. The estimates are based on official statistics on the foreign-born or the foreign population.
This network has 232 no…
un_migrations: UN migration stock (2015)
A network of migration between countries, collected by the United Nations. A directed edge gives the flow of migration, and an edge property gives the number of migrants, for each given year and sex. Estimates are presented for 1990, 1995, 2000, 2005, 2010 and 2015 and are available for all countries and areas of the world. The estimates are based on official statistics on the foreign-born or the foreign population.
This network has 232 no…