Cannot count the number of times a kind pharmacist has helped me navigate some obtuse insurance coverage problem that usually came out of a basic misreading of a prescription request. And I don't have any preexisting conditions.

I, for one, am shocked— SHOCKED! — that despite insurers’ promises, Americans are still experiencing delays and denials of coverage. And for a comprehensive treatment of this subject, read my book Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality. a.co/d/0isrVObS www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/b...

A Sportico editor accused Sports Illustrated of plagiarism, suggesting that AI may have been used to generate the plagiarized piece. SI deleted the author and his entire archive from its website. Social media profiles associated with the author have also disappeared. futurism.com/artificial-i...

HUGE NEWS: ICE’s courthouse arrests have been STAYED by a New York district judge. That means that ICE will have to stop arresting our immigrant neighbors on the spot when they show up to court at places like 26 Federal Plaza, 290 Broadway, and 201 Varick. (1/2)

If you have a kid one thing they don't warn you about at the hospital is that you have to come up with a rhyming song for every object in your house

Unseat a despot and watch the dominos fall

Sometimes my cat is so long she looks like two cats in a trench coat

Does it count as a scoop if they want you to publish it?

The pattern is so complicated

Debate is born out of the disagreement about the framing of a question. It is a symptom of a poorly framed idea, lacking the acknowledgement of different perspectives

This is powerfully written

There's a photograph shared here of children protesting. Children protesting.

Excuse my French but when's the last time this piece of shit was in Flushing

👀👀 New from CBO - 3 million kids will lose Medicaid bcuz of the Trump budget bill last year with huge cuts to Medicaid. Remember the rhetoric that kids would be protected? Not so. When kids lose Medicaid the child uninsured rate goes up. cbo.gov/system/files...

Bury me with printed-out dril tweets for archaeologists to decipher in the 35th century www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/s...

Correct. See also: “where are all the student protests?!” They’ve been surveilled, terrorized, arrested, evicted, kicked out, and stigmatized maybe?

The widow of a man killed in last year's mass shooting at Florida State University is suing ChatGPT maker OpenAI, blaming the company's artificial intelligence chatbot for giving advice on how to carry out the rampage.

Africa CDC is sounding the alarm over an Ebola outbreak in DRC, where 13 of 20 samples tested were positive for Ebola - likely a non-Zaire ebolavirus. So far, there are about 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths.

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BOY BAND

Damn, this is a good politics newsletter for those of us who are having a hard time following the nonsense. www.semafor.com/newsletter/0...

Turtle moods, this morning in the Pond in Central Park in NYC. 🐢

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Once again, California appears to be targeted solely for political reasons. The Trump Administration is planning to defer over $1 billion in Medicaid funding for vital programs that helps seniors and people with disabilities remain safely in their homes.

philly too!! 🫡🫡🫡 libwww.freelibrary.org/blog/post/5603

Spent some time on the #MASen trail. The CW seemed to be that Moulton took himself out with his trans sports comments, and Markey lucked out by not getting a better challenger. But the Dem electorate is not as forgiving of elderly candidates as it was in 2020. www.semafor.com/article/05/1...

Deloitte and Zoom are *shortening* (!) paid parental leave for their employees, saying things like, it's for the "long-term health and sustainability of our business." Fascinating decision at a time when there's handwringing over the birth rate... www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/u...

An awful lot of the politics of the moment can be explained with this chart. Gift link: www.ctinsider.com/columnist/ar...

exercising after the kids go to bed is really eating into my ice cream sandwich time

I DID NOT KNOW HE WAS A BUSINESSMAN

This is the second time in a week the Supreme Court has sidestepped process in a way that helps GOP adopt new maps to maximize partisan advantage even as election season is underway.

How dare you (I dared you)

"The resulting daily indignities have rippled across Cuban society. We returned from our trip certain that if the American people knew the full extent of what is happening on the ground in Cuba, they would demand an end to the blockade immediately."

Happy demographic day to me, a demographic member

If brand keep putting ruching on dresses I will start a general boycott

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito leaned on an erroneous claim that Black voter turnout now tops white voter turnout, in his Callais v. Louisiana ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act, reports The Guardian. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I think the calf is a mistranslation? I believe it was actually a golden ox

Book fair ✔️ Bakery ✔️ Flea market ✔️ Cozy lil day ✔️

Neighborhood #flowerreport

"Viruses do not care about politics, and they do not respect borders. The best immunity any of us has is solidarity."

Happy Dune Day. May thy 9th chip and shatter

Bleeding hearts

I love this channel producing AI-free, ambient and classical music; presented with charming moving illustrations. No logos, no ads, just music to imagine to.

god forbid a French rat live out his dream of becoming a chef on a cruiseship

- Limiting the movement and speech of brown and Black people - Hundreds of thousands of Black women laid off without cause - Cutting funding for jobs that audit civil rights abuses - Redrawing maps to weaken the Black vote - Requiring new ID laws for voters All this is happening.

Tennessee lawmakers pass a new U.S. House map urged by President Trump that carves up a majority-Black district in Memphis.

30 percent of Americans are against [squints at notes] the Pope urging peace

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NEW: Chief Justice John Roberts bemoans that Americans don't understand how the Supreme Court operates and see justices as "political actors". The court at times simply has to make "unpopular" decisions, he adds: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

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