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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Well, they definitely stopped the subsidies to afford health insurance. No lie there.

James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Anyway, I think the US is in good company for a lot of countries being hit with a gaggle of problems right now the parties and people take issue with solving

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Because 1) Medicare payroll is way lower, 2) Medicare costs can be balanced with modest reimbursement cuts.

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is how I feel about Medicare solvency relative to Social Security. Relatively speaking, I think Medicare solvency is almost a non-issue.

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Definitely reached the point where my next car will be an EV, but you can bet I'm gonna hold on to my Mazda3 for another 3 or 4 years... I don't drive much anyway

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Seems like Toyota and Hyundai are much better at this for some reason

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

That's what happens when you have like 8 or 9 times the people

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The thing is after the major cities, populations plummet fast in Canada. Not so in the US. We have hundreds of mid-sized cities.

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Rewatching Twilight after Primetime with the wife repeating, "THIS man is one of the best actors of our generation" to each other. How far Robert Pattinson has come.

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Yea, but I think those are either condensed or maybe one version stems from a different parent language (what I would assume). Kinda like how Latin doesn't have "yes" or "no." Just affirmative or negative statements.

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"But you can just say or and drop either" Not in logic; "or" can be inclusive. Also language sometimes isn't perfectly efficient.

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

When you make the full statement, you have to use both-and just like either-or. It's probably constructed off of that. "We need to both get groceries and go to the pharmacy"

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think Gnomes and Trolls were my least played races. Orcs and Dwarves were cooler.

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I remember I hated playing warriors, priests, and rogues. Hunters I never got into really. Warlocks, druids, and shaman were fun but sparsely played. Characters I liked the most were mages and paladins (kinda eh tbh).

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I never made it to end game content in vanilla WoW the first time (clocked out at lvl 50 mage) because I kept making alts to see all the race and class choices for levels 1-30 or so. But maybe if I join this time it will be different....

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Only a 7.9% uninsured rate in 2025. Clear enough that the Medicaid unwinding post-COVID wasnt that harmful in aggregate. OBBB and enhanced ACA expiration tbd tho

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yup, EU isnt a monolith and they have their own politics to overcome. No filibuster though.

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Reupping this because America's level of medical debt is entirely downstream of our coverage gaps of uninsurance and our crazy high deductibles.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is somehow still going, and it’s not just a few random families now; it’s also a former mayor of NYC and governor of New York. There is, again, no way to reason to argue Mamdani shouldn’t attend this commemoration that isn’t fundamentally bigoted

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Mayor Mamdani says he'll attend 9/11 ceremony despite growing criticism

Mayor Mamdani says he will attend New York City's annual 9/11 remembrance ceremony Friday despite mounting criticism from some family members of victims.

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Probably some Dune-ass MFer in the tailend risk

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The National Guard can only do so much, Stephen.

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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

this is not an argument against Medicare for All! I am in favor of universal healthcare, and I am also in favor of being honest about the costs and benefits. slopulist "everyone can pay less and get more" nonsense is just that, nonsense.

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Glonzo the Bureaucrat 🇬🇱 🌹 @snarkranger.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

every system has trade-offs; our system has traded quick access for a lot of people for making access really difficult for a smaller number of people. there are a lot of people who like that trade-off and don't want to give it up!

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Jason @jrock08.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Today a preeminent climate scientist said that building a bike lane in Berkeley California is bad because not everyone can bike to get groceries. The US climate movement has a cars blindspot, and it's why we aren't making progress the way other countries are.

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

This “game” on the White House website, a version of Snake where you play as a white man in a suit and you run around picking up identifiably black, Asian, and Latino men and putting them in orange jumpsuits, might be the most openly white supremacist thing I’ve ever seen the US government produce

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

AI has made weird pictures too low barrier to entry. They should have to pose for this with a Comms team nearby

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I'm at the point where I try my best not to bring this up unless asked because I just wanna hang

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I think if you are a millenial politician that wants to beat an octogenarian, you have to represent your electorate...

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 02/09/2026

Everywhere he went, Ed Markey's biggest applause line was about protecting trans people. The Massholes yearn for trans liberation.

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Introduce yourself with 10 acts or bands you've seen live. Bruce Springsteen The Beastie Boys Foo Fighters Paramore The 1975 Boygenius Tyler the Creator Florence and the Machine Deftones Nine Inch Nails

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Made a guitar at a friend's bachelor party. No idea if it'll play, but hey it's still cool!

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

People don't want manual labor jobs. They want other people to have manual labor jobs because it's a more manly society or something. ...but they get to keep their high paid teleworking email job.

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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Its been compared to the great migration.

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Over 400,000 transgender people have fled their home states for safer ones since the 2024 election
This marks one of the largest domestic relocations in modern U.S. history.

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Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

NEW from me: The right says migrants are culturally incompatible with democracy. But those who choose to move to free states actually tend to be their biggest admirers I wrote about Justin Gest's new book on rising immigration from illiberal to liberal states www.theargumentmag.com/p/democracie...

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Democracies attract immigrants who like democracy

What did you think "City upon a hill" meant? Vibes, papers, essays? Losers

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Last point: A really important part of cultivating political influence is knowing when and how to eat shit. Lots of people, including me, don't have the temperament for that, which is fine. But if you can't eat a little shit now and then, you're limiting your ability to influence live policymaking.

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Real question, though: would they? And scale it up if it worked? Maybe let states step in when the feds won't

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Anyway, I think there are real social and welfare benefits to federalism. Look at the minimum wage in states vs the federal rate! Or voting rights. But state welfare programs tend to be jenkier than a federal one that may or may not be real.

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

CMMI does voluntary, and CSA-level randomized mandatory models. You could do that elsewhere.

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I think it would be crazy to say the inner workings of Medicaid are more well-made than Medicare. Still super odd to me that state-based marketplaces outperform the federal marketplace for the ACA though.

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Someone tell them state marketplaces are supposed to not suck

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

In time, I think people will realize what they lost from axing the carbon tax and dividend, reducing immigration, and being generally weaker on using social policy to address poverty

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Easy time to be pro-Canada, even if I think Carney is a step down from Trudeau

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Or at least Bruce Wayne has a facade character for The Batman, and ignores the genuine broken person underneath the mask.

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Yea, the comics and sometimes movies even point out this is his psychosis. He even refers to himself as "The Batman" in the abstract and his broken behavior is what pushes Dick Grayson away. Though he also gives a lot to charity to blunt the critique.

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Reupping this simply because I like it so much

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James Leckie @luckyleckie.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I think it's all machismo atm, and that was the undercurret of the stated ideology for decades.

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