Lee, for his part, has vowed to return with a diluted version of the proposal, writing on X, “Yes, the Byrd Rule limits what can go in the reconciliation bill, but I’m doing everything I can to support President Trump and move this forward. Stay tuned. We’re just getting started.”
The fight isn’t over though. It was just deemed to be too far outside of strictly budget related proposals. Another version of this will be added eventually. If not in this same bill, the next one.
Freeze your credit on all three bureaus. IIRC it is free for all of them, just don’t get tricked into enrolling in their credit monitoring service. You’re there to freeze and unfreeze your credit, nothing more. From then on, any time you apply for something that requires a credit check, you need to go thaw each credit bureau temporarily. They all let you schedule thaws, so just open it for a day, apply. And close it back up. Or however long your credit check takes.
The premium service offered by these data breaches is pretty terrible. In some cases, they’ll have a clause that says if you accept, you can’t sue or be part of a class action suit. If you have a credit card with monitoring included, they will notify you way faster if your credit is run. My credit card companies email me within minutes of an application being submitted. The paid service I got from a breach years ago doesn’t let me know till about a week later.
I didn’t learn that Red Dead Redemption 2 had a fast travel system until after my first playthrough. I completed a second playthrough shortly after and still didn’t use it. Im glad the game had the feature still because I know not everyone has 5-10 minutes to ride everywhere or are not as interested in that aspect of the game. The world was plenty compelling for me, personally, to not use it. I liberally use fast travel in other games. Sometimes I want immersion, sometimes I want to progress the story. I don’t think it’s indictive of lazy design. I really appreciate the option when I have it.
+1-I’m doing my part
This is my personal favorite MAGA conspiracy theory I think, because it means willful ineptitude on themselves. In this theory, the virus is an illegal bioweapon from a Chinese lab. The bioweapon escapes the lab and spreads to every county, infecting 800 million people and killing around 7 million. By those metrics, it’s a pretty damn good spreader and a halfway decent killer, if it is a weapon.
So, say I’m China, and I’m watching my weapon escape and travel the world. I watch as my greatest adversary absolutely fucking fumbles. They fail to do much of anything about it and half their citizens just straight up can not be bothered to protect themselves with even the smallest of measures.
If their conspiracy was right, they showed the world they will do nothing to stop a real attack.