UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate. ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs. Here’s what we found. (Published Nov. 2024)

I can officially confirm that the snow in NC is roughly one (1) corgi deep

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Abolish ICE Impeach Pam Bondi Impeach Stephen Miller Invoke the 25th Don Lemon was kidnapped Chinga La Migra General strike Just to get it all out there.

This Valentine’s Day we want to put queer love first & heal hearts with this comics anthology! With an all-star line-up & exclusive posters by @hyeleth.bsky.social @avoidbee.bsky.social & Joeli, we hope you’ll join us!🐍 Main cover by @notanotheralex.bsky.social 🐺 www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

I have 4 pages of horrid adverts in this (including an advice column + lonely hearts)

Chiitan Knight will continue to spread his message until there are no more transgender people who are subjected to unjustified criticism and slander♡ Let's create a world where we can all love freely🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

This is what he looks like in my head. Y'all know who "he" is.

So far this morning, I have gone through 350/1400 No ICE entries to make sure they meet the bundle requirements, I’m currently sitting in the doctors office and he is surely going to try gaslighting me. I think I’m going to get myself a little treat and finish Cherry Magic! tonight as my reward.

Black women started 2025 with an unemployment rate of 5.4 percent. They ended it at 7.3 percent — the highest rate in four years. Black women’s unemployment is now equivalent to White women’s rate during the bleakest moments of the Great Recession. https://bit.ly/45uZOk3

genuinely stunning image

ICE has kidnapped another Indigenous person in Minneapolis. This is the fifth member of the Očhéthi Šakówinnto be taken this month. Statement from Standing Rock:

"ICE will leave Minnesota if you hand over your voter rolls" tells you everything you need to know. This was never about immigration or fraud. It was always about rigging elections.

they're executing moms and nurses in the street. they're using preschoolers as bait. they're stealing people's dads and grandmas and children. they're tear gassing babies. they're staking out schools. there is no remedy but abolition. any proposal that doesn't start there is an act of violence.

The 70 year old protestor is Greg Ketter of DreamHaven Books. As kids we grew up reading comics with our favorite heroes fighting Nazis, fascists and evil corporate billionaires. This is in our blood. dreamhavenbooks.com

hey everybody lifelong tech expert here > "system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility that's not how anything works they're lying and destroying evidence hope that helps

"I can't protest and I'm broke. What can I do?" @paperbacksfrybread.bsky.social has an answer. www.patreon.com/posts/if-you...

A script to call your representatives to demand they defund and dismantle 🧊 via Mr Williams PreK Pause on Insta

🚨BREAKING: An eyewitness to Border Patrol murdering Alex Pretti: "As a United States military veteran trained in counterinsurgency and detainee operations, from my perspective—Alex was not resisting. What I saw disgusted me, it made me sick to my stomach!" LIVE NOW ⬇️

crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours. please keep sharing with your networks.

World sucks. Between calls to your reps, take a second to do a cool puzzle by a cool board game designer.

Unrivaled co-founder and WNBA MVP Breanna Stewart held up an “Abolish ICE” sign during player intros ahead of Mist’s game this afternoon. Photo via @unrivaledwbb.bsky.social

Good afternoon from downtown Chicago, where despite heavy snowfall, thousands have gathered for an anti-ICE/CBP demonstration in solidarity with the Twin Cities. More are still streaming in. Lt. Illinois Gov. Juliana Stratton just addressed the crowd, and called for ICE to be abolished.

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

My final Directed By Women Viewing Guide of the year features 70 new releases (and restorations) that I have recommended throughout the year that you can now watch on streaming or rent, just in case you missed them during their theatrical release (plus some streaming films that bear repeating).

Y'all. Stop whatever you're doing right now, and call your reps about this literal trans genocide bill. 5calls.org/issue/gender... We know what happens to trans kids who don't get gender affirming care. We have the data. This will kill kids if it passes. It cannot.

In November I got to sit down and chat with Lorie about The Hearth Witch's Guide! She was so kind and lovely, and I'm ridiculously honored to get to talk to her about my debut into the traditional world. kingsriverlife.com/12/06/the-he...

Here’s Judith Butler explaining what this movement is and always was, about five years ago.

The "Department of Government Efficiency" has disbanded eight months early. DOGE sowed chaos throughout the government and disrupted services relied upon by millions, while finding hardly any savings. Here's what you should know about damage that DOGE leaves behind.

On this trans day of remembrance I just wanna call out my trans homies. I am 1000% in on protecting the dolls. But I am also 1000% in on protecting the dudes, who are often forgotten when we're talking about trans folks. I see y'all out there.

"Oh, you just call everyone you don't like Nazis! Name one thing he's done to support Nazis!" Hmmmmmmm.

Still on a Bluesky hiatus but popping by because the cover for my next novel, THE INTRIGUE, has now been revealed. Jacket design Drusilla Adeline/Sister Hyde. This noir about a con artist sifting through lonely hearts ads is out July 2026. Pre-order now: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/760821...

*taps the sign*

“281 Trans people were murdered this year with a rise in targeting Trans+ activists, in worrying trend” - Jamie Wareham for QueerAF Newsletter Rest in Power to our siblings.🏳️‍⚧️ Posting can never do this grief justice. We have a right to be here and we will always be here.

She was a part of so many of the games I played as a teen. Including one I'd completely forgotten about - Dragon Wars. I played that game so much, and never understood why it wasn't more popular.

I got a warning on Reddit for saying "It's always morally correct to punch Nazis" in the Tumblr subreddit and now I'm posting about it on Bluesky. And yet I'll still claim I'm not "too online."

It's hard to overstate what a disaster Kash Patel is. See the many disturbing details here, from @vermontgmg.bsky.social, an expert on the FBI. "The longer this chaos continues," he writes, "the more likely we’re going to face a catastrophic intelligence failure." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Unfortunately I’ve been laid off today from Square Enix, so if anyone has leads for any Community or Social positions please let me know. I’m just tired and heartbroken.

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

TurboTax makers Intuit have lobbied the government for years to block free public tax-filing. Now Trump has terminated the free IRS Direct File program, nearly a year after Intuit gave his inauguration $1M. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

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And away we go. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

Trump's USDA is ordering grocery stores to follow a federal rule outlawing them from giving discounts to SNAP recipients whose benefits are currently frozen illegally. So Trump's happy to finally follow the law as long as long as he can inflict pain and cruelty? Got it.

Happy Halloween! Here are some games well matched for the spookiest night of the year! 👻🧛‍♀️🎃

I don't know if either of these count, but: