⚠️⚠️⚠️ PROBLEM: Election experts keep lecturing you about how vitally important it is for Dems to flip STATE LEGISLATIVE seats blue...but there's *thousands* of them and who the hell knows which seats are even competitive at that level? 1/ americabluein22.com/state_leg/
🎉🎉🎉SOLUTION: I've compiled links where you can donate DIRECTLY to Dem nominees in over 400 *competitive* districts in over 20 states at once!
w/a few exceptions, all districts listed are rated between R+10 to D+10 by @davesredist.
So far I have competitive races listed for AK, AZ, CO, FL, GA, IN, IA, KS, ME, MI, MN, MO, NV, NM, NC, OH, OR, PA, TX, WA & WI, with more states on the way!
There's ~7,400 state legislative districts, but 4 states don't have their leg. elections this year & some only have half or no state Senate races this year.
With the recent *drop* in gas prices, a quick update on my EV situation:
I've had my 2022 Kia Niro EV for just over 5 months & have driven around 4,300 miles so far, including an 1,100-mile road trip to DC which included some commercial fast charging. 1/
Total home charge: $109.62
Total fast charge: $95.34
Total all charging: $204.96
Total miles: 4,272
That's $0.048 per mile.
An ICE car @ 32 MPG would've used 133.5 gallons of gas, or:
--$668 @ $5.00/gal
--$601 @ $4.50/gal
--$534 @ $4.00/gal
--$467 @ $3.50/gal
Here's my EV case study write-up from early June. Note that a lot has already changed since then, including:
--the *drop* in avg. gas prices ($3.91/gal via AAA), and...
So here's a little irony for you: My wife is getting her counseling degree so our own family is on her university's quite robust student plan (Gold PPO).
We just learned that our premiums are jumping a whopping 70% for the 2022 - 2023 school year.
I'm waiting to confirm, as the website still lists the current year's premiums but when we go to renew enrollment it lists the much higher rate.
Meanwhile, the enhanced ACA subsidies extended by the IRA mean we might end up better off back on an exchange plan this fall.
As for 2023 ACA plans, in Michigan they're likely only going up ~6.8% overall, & the plan we'd be getting would likely be *dropping* ~2.8% at full price. acasignups.net/22/07/05/updat…
NOTE: Premiums +9.7% is obviously better than +18.7%, but keep in mind that NY's Dept. of Financial Services touting hundreds of millions of dollars in "savings" needs to be taken w/a big grain of salt (via @NYHammond, h/t @consultbenefits for the link): empirecenter.org/publications/h…
Also note that NY's DFS has a long history of making some rather questionable claims about their annual rate hikes. @NYHammond notes this in his piece; I documented it every year here. See if you can spot the problem: acasignups.net/22/08/19/updat…
For starters, 2% of the U.S. population is around 6.7 million people. There's ~30 million Americans w/diabetes, of which 31% require insulin. That's 9.3 million, not 6.7 million. ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P… 1/
Second, I'm pretty sure most of those 9.3 million people have families who care about them. Spouses, fiances, boyfriends/girlfriends, children, parents, siblings. Maybe even a few cousins. Some people even have close friends who care about them, I hear.
Let's say that those 9.3 million Americans who require insulin have an average of, say, 10 people who a) are aware they're diabetic and b) would prefer that they not die of diabetes or go bankrupt to stay alive.
That's ~93 million more. Let's call it an even 100 million.
📣 BREAKING: GOP Senate Majority Leader openly admits that gerrymandering is the only way their crappy Republican candidates can take over the House & complains that this doesn't work with statewide races.
📣 Since the awfulness of the GOP's House candidates is being cancelled out by their gerrymandering advantage, Dem candidates need our help more than ever to stay competitive. Donate to these competitive races today to keep the #HouseBlueIn22: secure.actblue.com/donate/housebl…
📣 Since the awfulness of the GOP's House candidates is being cancelled out by their gerrymandering advantage, Dem candidates need our help more than ever to stay competitive. Donate to these competitive races today to keep the #HouseBlueIn22: secure.actblue.com/donate/housebl…
Now if you're just talking about SIMPLE majorities (which, absurdly, are also *supermajorities* in 6 red states), here's what Dems need to do in each state House & Senate: