Well, today @deldeib.bsky.social has a very helpful explainer. Here's what an external review is, how it works, and how you can use it to help to get coverage of your own medical care: "Appeal, appeal, appeal, appeal... That’s all you have." www.propublica.org/article/heal...

There it is

The subtext of every single social media post congratulating Bari Weiss on her new job today.

This guy told the Speaker of the House to do everything in his power to stop the discharge petition, including extending the shutdown just to avoid the swearing in of someone who would make it happen. Think about how awful the info in there must be. Asking Rs to eat the shutdown just to protect him.

Research reveals that those diagnosed with autism early show distinct genetic and developmental profiles from those diagnosed later. www.wired.com/story/autism...

Calling up one state's National Guard to deploy in another state against latter's express wishes raises issues - constitutional, legal, political, and historical - that federalizing a state's own National Guard does not. And are distinct from deploying other state NGs into federally-controlled DC.

​I call on Governor Abbott to immediately withdraw any support for this decision and refuse to coordinate. There is no reason a President should send military troops into a sovereign state without their knowledge, consent, or cooperation.

Welp

They are called writers

Video taken one hour ago outside the Portland ICE facility of the violent insurrectionists in question

“Game day bucket go boom”

Good evening. "Jerry Chen" was a 27-month sociological experiment studying Poster's Madness conducted by Quinnipiac University. We are now complete with our study; thank you for your time.

my wife’s dad is on a solo trip in Central Asia and had an absolutely insane story from Tajikistan

Bad Bunny, el primero presentador de la nueva temporada de ‘Saturday Night Live,’ tenía un mensaje para todos: “If you didn’t understand what I just said, you have four months to learn.”

In the American system of government, a legislature of the people’s elected representatives decide how to allocate the people’s money, then an unelected appointee in the executive branch called “OMB Director” decides if he feels like distributing the people’s money that way or if he’d rather not.

I was testing something, so I searched for a random word and got this hilarious result.

What holiday are my neighbors celebrating with fireworks today?

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

The lesson of the Trump era is to stick with your principles. He’s coming for you anyway, whether you do or not, so you might as well stick to your principles so people don’t laugh at you afterward and you can look yourself in the mirror.

I wonder why we heard very little on this one from the FBI Director and AG, DOJ

The regime is acting this way because there are no consequences so it is clear that consequences—the development of them, the advocacy for them, the imposition on bad behavior—are the answer to our crisis.

The government is in full shutdown and the Republicans are refusing to call the House back into session. Want to know why? Because we have secured the final vote on releasing the Epstein Files and they don’t want it out. Call GOP and tell them to swear in @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social.

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

Trump receiving his in depth Presidential Daily Briefing.

Has anyone put a version of this to song yet?

the point of having a comms team, just so everyone is clear, is not only to write better statements than you (which everyone arrogantly thinks they don't need) but also to give others the power to take your phone away when needed, because this is patently embarrassing at this point.

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Three-Quarters of Public Say Congress Should Extend the Enhanced ACA Tax Credits Set to Expire Next Year, Including Most Republicans and MAGA Supporters www.kff.org/public-opini...

Opinion: Coverage for telemedicine has ended abruptly. For my patients and me, it’s a disaster www.statnews.com/2025/10/03/t...

As if irony isn’t already dead, the Hatch Act violation on the DOJ website, which blames Democrats for the shutdown, appears on the page advising DOJ employees they are subject to the Hatch Act. joycevance.substack.com/p/a-note-abo...

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

Where are the people who said harping on Project 2025 was fear mongering? Come outside we ain't gonna jump you

how Phineas got the nickname Huey long

Ohhh I didn’t even notice that “too” at first.

The Sora AI thing is proof of something very important: The technology itself is useless without the ability to use the likenesses of real, living, unpredictable people, and the art they create. And the only way to get those likenesses or that art is to summarily steal it.

Today is Primidi the 11th of Vendémiaire in the year 234. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate potatoes.#JacobinDay More information on potatoes

Passive-aggressive competitive lap sitting.

Well hmm, the post I was trying to share got deleted, but here’s the cute alligator story. www.metrotimes.com/news/metro-d...

This is great. You’ll want to read this one.

The biggest reason for longer waits is staffing shortages, which are driven by more people leaving healthcare practice than entering, esp nursing, due to bad management practices (often related to private equity). This administration’s immigration policies will significantly worsen these shortages.

let them eat cake

My goodness, the last line.

This is happening because Republicans in Congress cut off all of their federal funding in July. www.huffpost.com/entry/corpor...

NEW: At least 10 watchdog websites are dark after OMB withheld funds from a watchdog council, removing access to thousands of watchdog reports and required whistleblower links. OMB's move to withhold funds - which has received Republican pushback - is separate from the shutdown.

Overnight, Trump and Republicans in Congress shut down the federal government. They shut it down because they’re determined to strip healthcare from millions of Americans, to enrich the billionaires they serve, to continue the assault on our rights. We must fight back.

We won't have an official September jobs report number from BLS for a while (maybe ever), but this ADP private sector figure does not include the ~150,000 federal workers who took delayed layoffs at the end of September nor does it include any shutdown-related layoffs implemented by the White House.

Trump has decided that no jobs report will issue on Friday due to the government shutdown. But it turns out there is a different reason: that report will, when issued, be catastrophically bad.