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Steve Yaver

@rugrat907.bsky.social
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Baseball, music, film, television, and politics, not necessarily in that order. Former SF Bay Area resident transplanted to Canada. Former DJ at UC Berkeley's KALX. And screw John Fisher!

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4h
Thanks to Trump and the Republicans, healthcare premiums jumped after enhanced ACA subsidies expired and Medicaid eligibility checks resumed. Even more painful program changes will be phased in later. Rural hospitals are cutting services. Americans are feeling it now. #RepublicanHealthcareCrisis
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Brad Takei @bradtakei.bsky.social · 3h
Every word of this.
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Richard M. Nixon @dicknixon.bsky.social · 19h
Dave Sims just said, "This is one of the worst defensive performances in the postseason I've seen, maybe ever." Remember the Yankees are such a badly coached team that they made John Sterling - as good-natured as they come - say late in his life, "The Yankees run the bases like a bunch of drunks."
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Jason Collette @jasoncollette.bsky.social · 21h
The B ring is clearly a Yankee because it too couldn’t hold onto the ball
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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 05/10/2026
Power To The People Festival. October 3, 2026. 📸: Liz Baummer
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Carter Lowe @whitesoxx.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Sam Antonacci is asked what his reaction was to Munetaka Murakami’s go ahead 2 run home run. He confesses that he was hiding in the batting cage, eating an ice cream at the time. His teammate Miguel Vargas hears about this and called him a child that needs to be looked after. #WhiteSox
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Bluesky. The official app of sports.
A screenshot of my Bluesky feed, with nothing but baseball posts
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Bryan Based International Order 🇨🇦 @bryanpeeler.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
From the guy that brought you the torture memos come this:
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Daniel Fienberg @thefienprint.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I detest that everything has gone so thoroughly to shit that we, as a right-thinking society, are simply unable to dedicate enough anger to the fact that we still do this ridiculously inhumane thing.
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Eric Reese @reeseer83.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
States like to present lethal injection as a clean, almost medical, form of execution, but it's all just prison warden chemistry experiments administered by amateurs and should rightly fall afoul of the 8th Amendment.
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Steve Yaver @rugrat907.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I just turned on the Sox game. Why is Hunter Brown looking so dirty? Or I guess was since he is coming out...
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thegladerunner.bsky.social @thegladerunner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Five years ago, when a Seattle burger chain raised employee wages & benefits the Reicht wing lost their minds, screaming the result would be $20 burgers & the company would end in bankruptcy. Today, the chain is even more popular than ever. Never let them try to tell you a living wage can’t work.
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
There was no “109 Row 1” at the Atlanta Hawks game Senator Eric Schmitt was fixated on today talkingpointsmemo.com/news/eric-sc...
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New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing
TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread...
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This also sums up the American healthcare experience pretty well. American healthcare is a travesty. This is the bad place.
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Sarah Burris @sarahburris.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I mean, honest to god, Sen. Eric Schmitt (correctly spelled) literally concocted a whole conspiracy between Jack Smith and Fani Willis all because he didn't know the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes. You're literally next door to Iowa, bro. Like how dumb are you
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We do have a relatively low poverty rate, but this administration is setting fire to anti-poverty programs, which will reverse this trend. What's more, many people live just above the poverty line and get squeezed, especially with the expiration of enhanced marketplace subsidies.
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Spooky Back From The Dead Lazarus @jlazarus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is Nazi rhetoric. Not similar. Not Nazi-like. It’s straight up lebensraum.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My latest @msnowreports.bsky.social piece on Vance/Oz’s claim of widespread fraudulent marketplace enrollment. Some brokers are to blame but regulation not disenrollment is the cure, and using absence of filed claims as evidence of fraud shows no understanding of insurance www.ms.now/opinion/vanc...
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Opinion | You should be skeptical of JD Vance’s claims about Obamacare fraud
The vice president's anti-fraud task force may strip health coverage from people who did nothing wrong.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Judges? We don't need no stinkin' judges.
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Steven Goldman @stevengoldman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is either spectacularly naive or collaborationist thinking. This is, "Be nice to your abuser and maybe he'll stop hitting you" advice. This is a total sell-out of the Constitution. We're all alone and no one is coming to save us.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Last week, @commonwealthfund.org published a really important report on medical debt, which affects roughly 1 in 3 Americans. This problem is only going to get worse as health insurance becomes even less affordable, leading to poorer quality plans. My take: mirandayaver.substack.com/p/the-medica...
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The Medical Debt Crisis is a Policy Choice
A new report by The Commonwealth Fund highlights the widespread extend to which even people with health insurance bear medical debt – and it’s only going get worse with looming premium hikes.
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Carter Lowe @whitesoxx.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Jason Benetti gets roasted by his own production crew with the camera cut after his Austro-Turkish War reference. #DNMW #Tigers
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Just Lee 🇨🇦 Pretti Good @justleeg.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yes!..love it
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Steve Yaver @rugrat907.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It has been a very tough year for Giants fans. This doesn't help.
Statement from Duane Kuiper. "I was recently diagnosed with throat cancer and began treatment last week with my doctors at Stanford Medicine. This is unrelated to the one I experienced five years ago, and I'm optimistic that it will be successfully treated." Goes on to say he will miss a couple of broadcasts but will be there over the weekend to celebrate Mike Krukow's retirement as he calls his final game. Then goes on to thank the Giants, fans and family for all the support.
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Sam Wang @samwang.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
What I think of trans people: they and I are paying $20/tank more for gas they and I are threatened by attacks on public health they and I have neighbors who are being attacked by ICE they and I face the end of U.S. scientific greatness they and I are having our federal government dismantled
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This is my favorite thing I’ve ever done with ChatGPT
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s amazing how the media cooperates to make some issues salient and completely ignores others. We went from North Carolina being protested against for an anti-trans bathroom bill in 2016 to now every politician being asked their position on a dozen or so athletes in ALL of K-16.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
A billionaire dictator who'll lose everything if the opposition replaces him on Jan. 20, 2029 is stockpiling killer drones and high-powered rifles on towering monuments and ballroom roofs I'm sure it's nothing to worry about
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The accounting is in: In Oregon there are 111 data centers. The TOTAL number of people employed at data centers is just 2,630, or 0.1% of the labor force. Those 100 data centers consumer 23% of all electricity used in Oregon. Meanwhile, electricity rates skyrocket as more centers are built.
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Oregon data centers by the numbers: 111 facilities consume nearly one-quarter of state’s power, according to new report
A first-of-its-kind report details the footprint of the controversial facilities.
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ismua ᴮˡᵘᵉˢᵏʸ ᴱˡᵈᵉʳ📯 🌈⛵💜 @ismua.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#RandomSummerGIF
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The Simpsons: Homer Simpsons 'The End Is Near'
Alt: The Simpsons: Homer Simpsons 'The End Is Near'
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“If you just need a few stitches, an extra half-hour drive is a nuisance. If you are dealing with a stroke or heart attack, that is precious time”. The incredible @mirandayaver.bsky.social has a new piece out on the current and future impacts of looming Medicaid cuts, including hospital closures.
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Opinion | The bill for Trump’s Medicaid cuts is coming due — for everyone
Though much attention has centered on the closure of rural hospitals, quieter transformations could reshape healthcare for publicly and privately insured patients alike.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Yes
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
American exceptionalism in a nutshell: Struggling with burdensome insurance complexity amid illness, rather than focusing on recovery This sad story is all too common, as I highlight in my book Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality. a.co/d/0g0HKX7o www.wftv.com/news/local/o...
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Orlando couple fights insurance denial after stroke and spinal surgery
A sudden medical issue put an Orlando couple’s lives on hold, and they believe an insurance decision is making this Tayler Gonzalez’ already tough road to recovery even harder. “We got engaged before...
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
NEW: The US Supreme Court just rejected the second attempt by Republicans to use old Missouri congressional maps backed by Donald Trump. There were no noted dissents in the brief order.
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Jon Collins @jcollins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"With prompt and appropriate medical care, maternal health experts say, women should not die. Yet ProPublica’s analysis found a stark & baffling increase: Almost 200 women with the condition died from 2020 to 2025, compared with about 100 in the previous six years" www.propublica.org/article/ecto...
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Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans.
With prompt and appropriate medical care, experts say, people shouldn’t die from an ectopic pregnancy. Women in Texas and Oklahoma have sued over delays in care, which, coupled with our new analysis, ...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Is it a big deal that the U.S. president is telling insane lies that he personally rushed to the site of 9/11 and heroically acted like a first responder himself? Sorta seems like it should be! Maybe?
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Hypocrites, just like the American Nazis, the MAGA Republicans.
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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
OMG the #STLCards Double-A team the Springfield Cardinals are doing a Crooked Cap giveaway next week. #CrookedCaps
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Liked by wesmck88 and others springfield_cardinals GIVEAWAY ADDED! Join us on Thursday, September 10 as 2,000 fans will receive a Springfield Cardinals Crooked Cap. Enjoy your crooked cap with Thirsty Thursday drink specials. Get tickets at the tickets link in our bio.
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meh @mharvey816.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
How is this real
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/09/2026
turns out the guy who looked, talked and dressed like he didn’t give a shit about the job…doesn’t give a shit about the job
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
What Pablo Torre did was ridiculously impressive. Uncovered a conspiracy between rich guys, withstood a propaganda campaign by one of the richest guys in the world with a pretty good reputation, didn't buckle or panic, and just kept reporting. That's some Pulitzerin' right there.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I've never before experienced the kind of rage and hatred that Trump and his evil minions bring out in me.
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Steve Yaver @rugrat907.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I am a U.S. citizen living in Canada and vote by mail. If there are attorneys looking for voters who are potentially going to be affected by the postal service shenanigans, feel free to contact me. I am from one of the most blue districts in the U.S., so my vote is very much at risk.
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Steve Yaver @rugrat907.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Joey Votto needs to be protected at all costs.
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Angry @angrystaffer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
People are falling for the DSA vs Establishment trap again. Didn’t we learn our lesson in 2016 and 2024? It’s the establishment’s job to build a coalition that can win EVERYWHERE. In some places, that means ultra-progressive. In others, it means establishment. The tent is big enough for all of us.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Cool, cool, I have a couple quick questions -- who's in charge of preventing food-induced illnesses right now and how good a job are they doing?
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