My health insurance premiums will more than double in January. I pay a little less than $500/month for my current silver plan. I just reapplied and my new premium will be $1062/month. And don’t forget: I still have a co-pay for every visit and pay for prescriptions.

CALLOUT: I am looking to interview individuals who have sought health care at crisis pregnancy centers, whether intentionally or unintentionally, and want to talk about their experience. The center can be located anywhere. If you or someone you know might be interested, please email or send me a DM.

"and the combat decisions HE has made" takes some real warfighting skill to toss someone under the bus *with* your statement of unqualified support

it’s been four years since i wrote this analysis of campus reform, another vector for this college instructor harassment machine. behaving perfectly will not prevent them from attacking you. your employers/unions need plans to protect you from their lies. www.liberalcurrents.com/how-to-decip...

I gotta say, when a Republican governor suddenly comes out in support of state supreme court expansion *right* after that court implements an electoral map preserving a blue-leaning district in a deep-red state, but says it’s not “court-packing,” I am…skeptical www.sltrib.com/news/politic...

Listen, if you haven't gotten vaccinated and you're not masking, I need you to know that whatever COVID variant is going around has some nasty GI side effects, and I feel like everyone should be aware if there's a non-zero chance of them shitting themselves in public in the next three months.

Build worker-owned pharma with my homies.

I would continue running my worker-owned journalism outlet @rascal.news and help provide additional funds to the mutual aid networks in my neighborhood

Man, Bombshell was fun but it really sanitized this absolute menace of a woman.

Ate the bedtime gummy but stayed up. Please leave all kinds of weird comments for my amusement?

we are well past the point at which anyone who cannot identify bad faith like this is disqualified from commenting on it the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying

your political praxis pales in comparison to my strategy of crossing my fingers and wishing really hard

like big tobacco funding cancer research

Had a lovely time talking to @harrymccracken.com at @fastcompany.com, and they even took photos of me doing the Gendo Ikari pose www.fastcompany.com/91448284/ed-...

"Do they really put bad stuff in all the meds??!!! Why is there even other stuff in there?"

Private Equity

This is why arguments about whether or not these ICE agents are “legitimate” are a waste of time. Law enforcement agencies — with ZERO exceptions — are racist perpetrators of supralegal violence and incalculable terror.

I can’t promise that this is the first time a Canadian publisher of a beloved children’s book series has publicly condemned the bloodthirsty US secretary of defense’s use of its imagery to smirkingly defend heinous war crimes. I mean who can say.

1. Here on the Internet we sometimes speak of things that we believe should happen, not necessarily that will happen. We do this because the ability to envision a better world is fundamental to its creation. 2. The phrase is “tilting at windmills.” 3. Suck my dick.

Master what

The bigger thing about Nalin (& a lot of Gen Z conservatives) is that they try to center young people's economic struggles rhetorically don't actually offer anything new on econ policy. All his answers to economic struggles are "we need less immigrants", which is already established Trump policy

I definitely do hate when parents dress their kids up as rainbow sherbet.

You know, the right constantly yells that buildings all got burned down in 2020 and everything was on fire, and I'm pretty sure it was just a Target, and I feel like they must have developed a shame kink after that.

i’m genuinely so convinced all of this has been a planned operation by the student and her mother (who is commenting on this publicly, and associated closely with the republican party), and big far right propaganda account going all in on it. this is designed to oust trans people from public life

“In her interview with Hearon, Wachowski said that she was unsurprised conservatives have latched onto the film because ‘right-wing ideology appropriates absolutely everything.’”

UCONN is so scared of free speech they denied grad workers request to use an acoustic guitar at an outdoor event. #adminsofragile

prison is the moderate position

Zohran Mamdani taps trans rabbi for mayoral transition team - www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/zohr...

the problem is that the TA appears to have been the target of a deliberate campaign to silence trans people and force them out of public life. so, it seems like that should be a factor when discussing the first amendment? 1

Is she trying to say he got a full body MRI scans like imaging centers sell rich people on as preventative to separate them from their money? Or is this like the, "Kate Middleton is getting 'preventative' chemo for the cancer we don't want to definitely say that she has," version of "preventative"?

A recent mega-meta-analysis (429 studies, 2021-2024) estimates a global pooled Long-COVID prevalence of ~36% (95% CI: 33–40%) among people with confirmed infection. This is not a fringe phenomenon. It touches tens or hundreds of millions worldwide. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41018705/

Interesting that the number one finding in this quasi-FBI report on Kash Patel and the FBI is that "Trump derangement syndrome is alive and well" and too many FBI agents dislike Trump:

India’s best engineers are no longer focused just on the U.S., opting instead for emerging opportunities at home and in other countries, as the lure of the U.S. fades, writes Mehran Gul for @restofworld.org restofworld.org/2025/india-t...

This Wed, Dec. 3rd 6 pm EST at @busboysandpoets.bsky.social : Join me, @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, @mehdirhasan.bsky.social of @zeteo.com, & @versharma.bsky.social formerly of @teenvogue.com -- as we discuss building power outside of institutions. RSVP: www.busboysandpoets.com/events/th-ev...

The thing about the Oklahoma University student's shitty paper that I keep thinking about is how much it reminds me of when Bari Weiss's sister got national media attention for writing an open letter to all the schools she didn't get into.

New from me: The Trump DOJ plans to cite Prairieland defendants' "antifa ideology" to establish motive in material-support-for-terrorism charges. Precedent from white supremacist and jihadist cases suggests they can do that. (gift link) www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...

Looking forward to chatting about how data journalism actually happens! Join us on Thursday if you can. 📊

Homelessness in the U.S. is far more pervasive than the official figures suggest: roughly four million people are without housing right now. Many are part of the low-wage labor force, powering the very economy that has abandoned them. I spoke with PBS News about this devastating reality (Part 1):

i get the joke but think people underestimate the number of Christians who want to have sex with Jesus like, this is a venerable tradition! all the way back through the Middle Ages!

I named my fists Actual and Malice because you're completely going to misunderstand what they do to you

The economics of fascism have always been based on the idea of looting and pillaging without any further consequences. There is a certain amount of stuff and if we drive out or kill the minority, we can take theirs and this will not affect growth or prosperity in any way, whatsoever.

All this - and much much more about why this little-known think tank matters - here. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

If anyone is curious about the current list of search terms being used by right wing activist organizations to harass university professors, here's a public records request I received today from Mike Howell of the Heritage Foundation. Not intimidating or meant to curtail by my speech at all, right?

Buckle down, because I had free time last weekend and I decided to look at publicly available data for myself. 🧵

This article is essential for cis people talking about this whole thing. Katelyn got a screenshot of the student's mom flatly reposting the idea that trans people should be banned from teaching. Here's the screenshot, but you should actually read the article for the context and the story itself.

For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss: It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!! www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...

Brand new at @theunpopulist.net, @polphilpod.bsky.social's fascinating piece showing how Elon Musk's deployment of Tolkien is straightforwardly fascist.

Is Evanston mayor @danielbiss.bsky.social going to say anything about this?

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades