Most Americans now favor government-paid health insurance for all, according to a ‌new poll, as voters across party lines see major healthcare reforms as a priority less than a month before midterm elections to decide control of the US Congress.

Two-thirds of US adults — up from 53% in 2020 — said they are in favor of universal US health insurance often referred to as "Medicare for all," according to a poll conducted by health policy research firm KFF released on Tuesday.

By party affiliation, 84% of respondents who identify as Democrats and 72% of independent voters were in favor, while 66% of Republicans were opposed.

When told such ⁠a single-payer model would eliminate private insurance plans, that overall support dropped to 52% — still well ahead of the 37% favorability seen in the 2020 survey.

from Source code for Rush, android app to fetch song lyrics

Was browsing the code for android apps I regularly use after being disappointed by some of them becoming somewhat buggy, and finding out the devs started using AI to build them (Newsblur :-( ).

Stumbled upon this, got baited real hard lmao

I propose a 3 State solution to the Israel / Palestine conflict.

Rather than implementing a two state solution where Israel coexists with Palestine, which we have seen they are incapable of doing, we should involve a third state. Namely, Utah.

It's pretty simple, really and I don't understand why no one has thought of it before.

Just move Israel to Utah. That's it.

Why?

1. The biggest issue here is that Israel would be homeless were it not for Palestinian land. This encroachment on Palestine is the reason for the bloodshed.
2. It's silly to act like there isn't enough land for everyone when we're not really using Utah.
3. It would give the Palestinians their land back and end the bloodshed, allowing them to rebuild even bigger than before. Then maybe they could actually profit off of things like resorts and TGI Fridays
4. The USA is a huge supporter of Israel and has been looking for a 51st state for some time now. Also since they're cash rich from tarrifs and borrowing Venezuela, they could foot the bill and consider it an investment. The taxes would pay for itself in no time.
5. Some believe Israel is a holy land promised to them by God. The same is true for Utah, and if you forget about the whole "who is the real Messiah" debate, they're both talking about the same God.
6. Both are kind of just shitty deserts
7. Make SLC the next Tel Aviv / Silicon Valley
8. The Great Salt Lake is every bit as cool as the Mediterranean and has just as rich of a history, if not more. The Miditerranean doesn't even have Great in its name.
9. Decrease terrorism in the Middle East while increasing tourism in the Southwest
10. The Mormons are seriously so nice they would probably just give the Israelis their homes.

A federal judge has put the brakes on the Trump administration's revived program of massive civil fines against immigrants, ruling that the Department of Homeland Security likely broke the law by slapping people with enormous penalties without checking whether they actually did anything to deserve them.

U.S. District Judge George O'Toole Jr., an appointee of former President Bill Clinton, granted a stay Wednesday against a June 2025 rule that let DHS rush out fines for failing to leave the country, along with ICE's practice of issuing them in bulk.

The agency has reportedly handed out more than 65,000 penalties worth roughly $36 billion.

Taken Oct 6th 2026 on a SeeStar S50 Pro.

As an extra, here is the post process sequence:

The Department of Homeland Security is moving to strip U.S. citizenship from 40 people accused of crimes, rapidly expanding the department’s use of little-known denaturalization mechanisms.

Among the crimes that people were convicted of - and for which they faced denaturalization - included aggravated sodomy, transportation of child pornography and sexual abuse of a minor.

Not all were convicted of or pleaded guilty to violent crimes. At least 19 of the 40 people faced denaturalization proceedings for reasons related to accusations of lying on visa forms.

fyi: it's "drugs"

A man holds an orange leaf aloft and says to himself "the leaves... it's time."
He wraps himself in a thick blanket.
A spider carries a steaming hot drink to him, before joining him in relaxation.

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By "trash" I mean it was a bunch of leftovers thrown together. Such leftovers include half an eggplant, half a yellow squash, half a zucchini, half can of Spam, half pound of jalapeños, half a yellow onion, half a shaker of curry powder, half boiled potatoes, half peeled taro root, and one full can of coconut milk.

I fried the veggies and spam separately to get some good maillard, then added them back after dumping the coconut milk.

It looks like somebody accidentally scraped the last one off, so I replaced it as a courtesy.

A new video from Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders was standard issue Republican messaging for promoting her state’s stricter rules for people on Medicaid. No more could able-bodied people lounge around while receiving taxpayer-funded healthcare, she said — they needed to work.

But the decision to portray an unemployed moocher as a young, white, cheeseball-chomping gamer named Brad upset some conservative commentators last week. Five decades after Ronald Reagan popularized the “welfare queen” trope about people living luxuriously while not working, they wanted to know why the video wasn’t featuring a Black woman instead.

“Republicans don’t have the balls to do this ad with ‘Shaniqua’ as the villain,” posted Matt Walsh, a conservative writer. “Even though that would actually be an accurate portrayal of the problem at hand.”

The shock gloves immigration agents could soon use to control detainees and protesters worked so powerfully during a military exercise that participants felt intense pain, stopped fighting immediately and feared additional exposures, according to a previously unreleased Army study.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement leaders were aware of the findings before signing a $16.7 million contract to purchase 6,000 pairs of shock gloves in August, according to records obtained by the watchdog group American Oversight and shared with The Associated Press.

The shocks had a profound impact on Army employees who played the role of combative prisoners during the exercise, which took place at the military prison at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas in October 2024. The participants, several of whom were large-statured men, stopped resisting seconds after officers applied shocks by touching gloves to their skin, and were left with “fatigue, soreness and excessive apprehensiveness to being shocked again,” the study found.

Lawyers tell judge ABC being unfairly targeted as US regulator seeks review of network’s local TV station licenses

Lawyers for Disney accused the Trump administration of “blatant violations of the US constitution” and censorship on Tuesday in the first court hearing over the Federal Communications Commission’s early review of the media giant’s eight local television station licenses.

District judge Loren AliKhan seemed unswayed by government arguments that the order to force Disney’s ABC to apply years early to renew local television station licenses was tied to an investigation into parent company Disney’s hiring practices.

ABC, Disney and its station group filed suit against the FCC in August, seeking to block the US media regulator from taking any further steps to punish or pressure the network in connection to the order.