The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.

the faux-AI evangelists see the artistic process as a race to get to a finished product, instead of something valuable in itself. the process is where you develop those skills you don't have yet, it cannot be skipped, it is where the art happens

We are experiencing a more severe than usual flu season and COVID rates are starting to rise. If you want to reduce your chances of getting sick, one of the most effective things you can do is wear a high quality mask. 🤫

This is the Tufts PhD student who seized by masked agents on the street and jailed for two months because she wrote an op-ed calling for the school to divest from Israel.

This article opens with a 3-year-old forced to represent herself in court. We live in a fundamentally sick country.

The Hepatitis B vaccine was expected to prevent 9.5 million infections, 2.4 million chronic cases, and save 600,000 lives in the US by 2050. The federal vaccine committee has blood on their hands.

And I don't know if the answer is: everyone is too traumatized to do work and we need to reinvent society. Or if it's more like: generations are losing their cognitive abilities and willpower due to destructive technologies. Or: we all have post-viral brain damage. Or: all of the above.

It's only a matter of time before humanities departments will be forced to accept AI-authored assignments, as part of revised university policy to cooperate with these billionaires. It's already happening, and our response needs to be decisive. Because our students' ability to *think* is at stake.

To be clear, there’s a difference between a couple making $30k trapped in intergenerational poverty and downwardly mobile millennials who can’t pay for childcare, but building class solidarity among people who can’t afford shit makes it easier to organize against these impoverishing conditions

Some of you wouldn’t touch the word “poor” with a 10-foot pole and some of you are gatekeeping it like it’s a precious resource. If you can’t afford the basics— housing, healthcare, childcare, retirement— you’re poor, + the only debatable part is how poor. Most people can’t afford these things now!

What we call "AI" is just fancy text-prediction that was created through theft We 100% deserve to know if a game or other piece of creative media was used in its creation

A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.

I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

COMPLICITY NOT COWARDICE. COMPLICITY.

5 Inconvenient Facts About E-Books 1. e-books cost more, a lot more 2. Libraries license e-books under unsustainable terms 3. Platforms & publishers can use user data against you. 4. e-lending does not hurt book sales 5. The legal framework for e-lending is an unregulated frontier. bit.ly/4nQsev0

It's difficult to sum up the abject chaos Trump has caused by using people's ability to eat as a bargaining chip. Communication re: SNAP varies widely state by state, and it's wonderful to hear some have gotten November benefits, but many, many millions still haven't. This was totally avoidable.

The union is calling on people to boycott btw!!

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

They need to steal all the world's IP, and get all the world's money for free, to be successful at their business. They are geniuses.

NBC, The New York Times, and most importantly @hellgatenyc.com call the NYC mayoral race for Zohran Mamdani.

I'm happy that Mamdani won. But I won't let that get in the way of my celebrating Cuomo losing.

If we had lost Virginia, there was a very real chance that we’d be losing abortion access in the state, which would be a disaster especially for us in DC, which couldn’t possibly absorb all those patients. Watching with my abortion fund board member hat on, these results are a tremendous relief.

This to me is the game. I don’t care if Schumer doesn’t like Mamdani, but for him to stand silently by while sex pest Cuomo leans into gutter racism and Islamophobia while accepting endorsements from Trump, Musk and Miller is outrageous from the Senate Minority Leader.

"Person who received an important call right when they were about to eat" x.com/dailyportalz...

Food banks need money if you’ve got it. For everything else, contact them and ask—some can take donated meat by hunters or eggs from backyard flocks, some can’t.

past-molly really not pulling her weight on this group project.

There is an actual life-changing conflict between WFH being cheaper and more efficient, an entire layer of middle managers who need to have meetings to feel alive, and the commercial real estate cabal that runs all cities. It’s going to get so fucking weird.

Apart from helping Comey's selective prosecution defense, this also means the president of the United States uses direct messages on Truth Social to communicate with cabinet officials. I didn't know that, but we can be sure intelligence agencies all over the planet already did.

The most recent gun manufacturer to relocate to Tennessee has direct ties to a military that a growing number of experts, a UN commission and other international groups have said is carrying out a genocide in Gaza.

Don't forget your ballot questions this year, New York!

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

called @booker.senate.gov to say that if Republicans shut down the government everyone is going to blame them, if Democrats cave on trans rights they are going to further cement in the minds of voters that they're wimps who believe in nothing and they will lose an entire generation of voters

I just called Chuck Schumer’s office and, for the first time EVER, a person answered, who then politely entered my complaints into their call log. This tells me two things: 1) They’re not getting enough calls over there, and 2) If you want to yell at Schumer, today’s the day. (212) 486-4430

scully still treating the new guy like a weirdly noisy pile of clean laundry

Thanks for posting, Senator. It's hard to do. Too bad you have no power to do anything. Maybe next time.

Reactions like this to brians story show why it's valuable to keep talking about. As artists we are living the situation and assume others are aware, but the truth is most people do not know

Trump posts on Truth Social that he’s ordered another strike on what he claims is a drug trafficking boat. He’s presented no evidence that his victims in the three previous strikes were running drugs. Drug trafficking is also not a capital crime. Trump is murdering people in international waters.

had to read the article to understand wtf was going on here which is that Meta is literally feeding Instagram pictures parents took of their teenage daughters to middle aged men as ads for Threads

Microsoft gave guidance on H1Bs to its employees last night

Why is this horrible for Universities? Just about everyone who isn't a citizen or green card holder already who's hired for a tenure track faculty position is hired through an H1B and then, after 3-5 years, applies for a green card. This is literally "No more foreign professors can be hired"

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us. We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again. That's the revolution.