ratboy

Having a super duper hard time finding newer edition texts, hoping that there might be some places that I'm missing that I could check

Curious what people's thoughts are on this

cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/12947

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Trump has imposed 50% tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. Jordan manufacturing doesn’t buy foreign steel. But by crippling foreign competition, Trump’s tariffs have allowed domestic US steelmakers to hike prices.

Johnson doesn’t blame them. “There’s no red-blooded capitalist who isn’t going to raise his prices’’ under those circumstances, he said.

People really love capitalism so much that they will willingly sacrifice themselves to the beast. This seems to be where religion can really be used as a tool for subjugation, this man will willingly throw himself on the altar of the dollar and think that it is just the way of things, that the best man won, that he is supposed to have his life ruined in the name of the greater power. Yikes

OREGON, USA — After Washington state's health agency said sensitive personal data was shared with federal immigration authorities without its consent, Oregon could be next.

The federal government has given the state until July 30 to comply by handing over personal information from the Medicaid-funded Oregon Health Plan, according to The Lund Report.

Washington state's health agency, the Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA), shares Medicaid client data with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), as required under federal law — but CMS turned that information over to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) without notifying the state.

The ACLU of Washington and Gov. Bob Ferguson condemned the move, with Ferguson stating, in part, "President Trump is targeting vulnerable Washingtonians to continue to sow chaos and fear. We are looking at all available options to protect the people of our state."

The Oregon Health Authority did not respond to a question from The Lund Report on whether or not it intends to comply, only saying it will continue to "evaluate" the request.

This comes on the heels of an internal memo and emails obtained by the Associated Press, showing that top Medicaid officials fought to block the transfer of any of that kind of data to immigration officials, citing legal and ethical concerns, but two top advisers to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ordered it to be handed over to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), giving officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services just 54 minutes to comply.

That included information from California, Illinois, Washington state and Washington, D.C., which all have Democratic leaders.

The idea, according to the Trump administration, is to ensure that undocumented immigrants are not receiving Medicaid benefits that the administration says is only for "law-abiding Americans."

Legally, all states must provide emergency Medicaid services to noncitizens, but seven states, plus D.C., allow noncitizens to enroll in their state's expanded Medicaid program with full benefits. Those states launched the programs during the Biden administration, saying they would not bill the federal government to cover those costs for noncitizens.

But the Trump administration is not buying that, claiming that those programs have "opened the floodgates for illegal immigrants to exploit Medicaid, and forced hardworking Americans to foot the bill."

That's why the administration wants the data — including addresses, names, Social Security numbers and claims information for people enrolled in those programs in each state — according to the Associated Press. The move appears to be part of a broader effort by the Trump administration to provide immigration officials with more data on noncitizens and where they might be.

It also follows a move last month by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to share immigrants' tax data with ICE to help agents locate undocumented immigrants. U.S. District Judge Dabney Friedrich, who was appointed by Trump, refused to block the IRS from doing so.

I don't have money to spare right now, but figured I would put this out there. If you are unfamiliar with assistance programs of different types that might be available to you in your city or state, I am happy to help research and compile websites, addresses, phone numbers and program information for you. If you get overwhelmed with making phone calls, I am happy to try to do that for you to get more specific info to see if it would be worth it for you to pursue.

Each city/town/state is different, some have more resources than others, obviously, but I can try to help with finding: Eviction defense/diversion, rental/utility emergency assistance programs, food pantries, clothing closets, supports for people fleeing domestic violence, etc. If you have other needs I can get creative to see if I can find anything that might benefit you in your situation.

I am also happy to try to help people with SSI/SSDI, Medicaid, and SNAP/EBT applications and questions. I have worked doing case management, so I'm decent at navigating social service systems and wanna do whatever I can to help. I specifically assisted with the SSI/SSDI application process so I can probably answer a lot of questions you might have about that process.

Feel free to DM me any time

I am FINALLY going to be able to trial Adderall after taking a long break from meds and want to track how I'm doing daily. What do you do so that you can know the meds are having a positive/negative effect? What are the indicators you track?

Worksheets, your own indicators, apps, etc. would by great. I'm leaning towards making my own worksheet but idk what some of the most important things would be to keep track of.

It would appear that the moniker was first unveiled by former Fox News star Tucker Carlson weeks before the presidential election, in an off-the-rails speech at a TPUSA event in October.

“Yeah, that’s right. Dad comes home. And he’s pissed. Dad is pissed,” the far-right podcaster blared at the time. “And when dad gets home, you know what he says? ‘You’ve been a bad girl. You’ve been a bad little girl, and you’re getting a vigorous spanking right now. You’re getting a vigorous spanking because you’ve been a bad girl.’ And it has to be this way.”

Since Linux does not seem to work on my laptop (I have spent hours trying to find a fully functioning distro, it doesn't exist yet for Snapdragon), I am curious if there are different things I can do to keep Windows from tracking all of my shit.

I know that's impossible but minimizing it is desirable for me, at least. I don't want CoPilot, I don't want advertisement pop ups, anything like bloatware I fucking hate it, as we all do.

So pls let me know what you do to minimize this shit. Apps, things I should uninstall, settings I should change. If I have step by step instructions I'm not afraid to use command prompts since I got a little bit of experience with that while trying to install Linux.

Thank you all in advance for helping this luddite