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California bill targets investigative journalism under guise of protecting service providers

California legislators are using the pretext of worker safety to create a legal weapon against independent investigators. Assembly member Mia Bonta designed this bill to insulate entities receiving millions in taxpayer funds from necessary public scrutiny. Per community note, just to be clear the bill was voted on and passed through the CA Assembly. Here …

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Health providers could lose $32 billion if ACA credits at center of shutdown fight expire

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/25/health-aca-obamacare-federal-government-shutdown.html “The Affordable Care Act’s enhanced premium tax credits are set to expire at the end of this year unless Congress intervenes. If the ACA subsidies disappear, health providers could lose more than $32 billion in revenue and see an extra $7.7 billion in unpaid medical bills from uninsured patients, a new analysis finds. Average …

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US government created backdoors at Internet Service Providers (ISP) to spy on its citizens. China then hacked these backdoors and used them to spy on the U.S. – WSJ

A cyberattack tied to the Chinese government penetrated the networks of a swath of U.S. broadband providers, potentially accessing information from systems the federal government uses for court-authorized network wiretapping requests. For months or longer, the hackers might have held access to network infrastructure used to cooperate with lawful U.S. requests for communications data, according …

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Obamacare, as planned, has massively enriched U.S. “healthcare providers” at the expense of patients who have to cover their own medical expenses

The cost of health insurance premiums in the US has significantly increased, from $6,000 in 2000 to $21,000 in 2022, outpacing inflation. The average US family health insurance premium has increased from $6,000 in 2000 to $21,000 in 2022. That’s a 249% increase, or 5.8% per year, more than double inflation. The biggest beneficiaries of …

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