Siri show me the best example you can of how fucked up American healthcare is.

Just finished reading this. Yes, old skeet, but it hit my feed this morning. The article answers a lot more questions than it asks. I commend it to your attention.

I firmly believe, with every single atom of my being, that instead of amplifying unreliable information that discourages helping, our focus as 42 million Americans face hunger must be on providing factual information that enables people to help. www.patreon.com/posts/142285...

New from me: Russ Vought is using federal employees as hostages in federal shutdown negotiations, threatening mass firings if Dems do not accept Trump's terms. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court just allowed Vought to impose a de facto impoundment of foreign aid. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/shutdown-h...

Listening to @socialistdogmom.bsky.social on Weird Little Guys and I realized I might be able to clear up a point. She was talking about Yianniki being the guys name and wasn't sure why. -iki is a kind of Greek diminutive for names. My wife who is (US-born) Greek confirmed it. So its Little John.

say it all plainly. it shouldn't be hard or controversial. this is this man's legacy www.404media.co/charlie-kirk...

It's interesting bc one of the things Erdoğan did early on in Turkey was purge academics. It started small but led to the expulsion of 6,000+ academic and hundreds of prosecutions. The lists of those to be expelled were prepared by the universities themselves.

Antifascism begins with friendship + solidarity. If you’ve ever helped without asking for payback, you know how it goes. 🌍 New podcast launches October 8. #AntifascistDad #CommunityCare #EverydayCommunism

Here's me on the BBC from early this morning

I’ve never been one to sit on the sidelines. I’m running for State Assembly. Let’s fight for the future we deserve. 🚀 ➡️ KluweOC.com/Donate #ChrisKluwe #CALeg #OrangeCounty

Let's be generous, here, and assume that by the solar system Altman wants to put the sphere outside the orbit of Neptune, and we'll just exclude the kuiper belt entirely. That would be a sphere with a diameter of 6 billion miles. Let's assume that it has the thickness of an eggshell: .3mm thick.

This is a really good piece from @laurajedeed.bsky.social. I'm reluctant to try to summarize it because its value lies in the granularity of its advice. It's worth your time.

A new report from @publiccitizen.bsky.social on how the Trump administration has ended enforcement actions and investigations — many against technology companies that have spent more than a billion dollars on lobbying, campaign contributions, and payments to Trump businesses.

This video is the sweetest fucking thing in the world and you should watch it if you need an example of kindness, empathy, generosity, and acceptance

Wrote about AI, and the way we talk about it all having the quality of a ghost story. open.substack.com/pub/houseofm...

According to the Watson School of International and Public Affairs in Rhode Island, more journalists have been killed in Gaza than in both world wars, the Vietnam war, the wars in Yugoslavia and the war in Afghanistan combined.

"I have BILLIONS of dollars. How can you give me more money to incentivize me to be decent?"

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Sea stars—26 species—have been dying by the billions from Mexico to Alaska, their arms tearing off, their bodies dissolving, w/huge consequences for the sea. Experts finally figured out why— and gave @biographic.bsky.social exclusive access. Can we save them? www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...

🚨WATCH: “THIS PROJECT & AIRPORT ARE IN MY DISTRICT.” Lee has Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social BLOCKED from entering an event announcing a state-sanctioned private Tesla Tunnel from Nashville airport - Elon Musk will control. (Republicans were allowed in) Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DMsqzpJ...

"I'm the greatest at everything I do" says man who has his caddie throw out a ball for him because they know he sucks at almost everything.

Forgive me if I haven’t seen it elsewhere, but why are we not referring to this as the Pedofiles?

There can be no greater shame in international discourse than to stand idly by and do/say nothing in the face of war crimes and genocide. Israel may have started off as being attacked, true. But to end a conflict by way of blatant war crimes and genocial actions? Hideous.

The purpose of antitrust authority, including FCC media merger approval, is to prevent market distortion. The purpose is not to get promises of coverage biased in the ruling party’s favor and discrimination in hiring, plus get the president a bribe. The Paramount-Skydance merger is deeply corrupt.

put differently, the president who has pardoned more child sex predators than any president in history is included in a trove of evidence of CSAM and child exploitation

Our beautiful president has taxed the poor, sent troops to stomp through playgrounds in California, opened up concentration camps, doubled the price of seemingly random goods for no discernible reason, and bombed a foreign country just to do it. And yet these ungrateful peasants are unhappy?

Also, Minnesota peeps, just got a heads up that some crazy shit is going on in Forest Lake, so I highly recommend you turn up for your school board elections. It matters more than you think. Don't let your city turn into Huntington Beach.

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This is a crazy video.

They don't want you to know the name of the medical reviewer because they don't want you to know how unqualified they are. Medical Review jobs are turning into the last stop for people whose history makes them unemployable in any other aspect of their discipline. www.propublica.org/article/ment...

"Unlike cynicism, hopefulness is hard-earned, makes demands upon us, and can often feel like the most indefensible and lonely place on Earth. Hopefulness is not a neutral position either. It is adversarial. It is the warrior emotion that can lay waste to cynicism." youtu.be/cFM4GVl-WqI

The Chemical Safety Board has an annual budget <$15 million and with that produces gold-standard failure analyses that can be extended across industries. Only reason to get rid of it is if you genuinely want more billion-dollar disasters that kill and maim blue collar workers.

A temperance movement but for crypto and sports betting

The demonization of scientific expertise results in the government failing to protect people from preventable deaths. Slashing budgets for disaster prevention results in preventable deaths. Vote like your life depends on it.

Today I would like to make a request: that in the interest of a more welcome, friendly, and inclusive Bluesky, we try to be more kind to journalists and influencers whose identity is primarily anti-woke. /1

It's really hard to focus on things like "doing my job" when my country is hell-bent on tearing itself down around me. The pain is deeper than physical. It's spiritual. It hurts in my soul. "Cry hard, libtard"? My confused brother, we're *all* gonna cry harder.

#HappyPride for the next 335 days, too.

Imma do something I have NEVER EVER done. Starting Friday at Royal Albert Hall and thru our entire Guns N Roses tour in Europe,,, every night I’m gonna auction off or sell the clock that I wore on stage and the proceeds are gonna go to single parents and teachers who need school supplies. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

Deploying military troops domestically is, in no way, part of "national security policy."

This was a targeted political assassination. Every single Republican needs to condemn this violence before more people end up dead.

This is about the size of it imho. You were raised to hate IMMIGRANTS, bro?!

Today they have crossed a deep red line. We, the people, must hold the president and his appointees accountable for this outrageous abuse against American liberty.

Explains Dr. Stanley Plotkin to Senator Bill Cassidy, addressing @seckennedy.govpeeps.us's attempt to explain his disbanding of ACIP:

A simple and honest thread that gets to the heart of things.

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“The idea of justice eludes even the people who are following the letter of the law and want nothing more than to live peacefully in this country, while the people who have everything continue to skirt the system in search of more.”