When an insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, it generates a file, which should contain all records associated with your case, including documents explaining why the claim was denied. You have a right to see this file. (Published May 2023)

The best time to get an IUD or vasectomy was November 2025. Second best time is now

The backstory here is that the Squamish people of what is now Vancouver were illegally dispossessed of this land a century ago. They sued, got their land back, and are using their sovereignty to ignore local zoning rules and build 6,000 new homes over the objections of nearby wealthy NIMBYs.

Great news out of Georgia! ALL of the 15 anti-LGBTQ+ bills have died as the Georgia legislative session comes to a close. This was only possible with intense efforts from local LGBTQ+ activists. Subscribe to support our journalism.

This is outrageous. And personally depressing. People over 65 and those with chronic conditions will get sick and die. Just because the younger healthy people don't fear COVID anymore doesn't mean everyone else has nothing to fear. And just because MAHA is stupid and insane that should not happen.

Today would be Renee Good's 38th birthday. Let's never forget that Renee & Becca Good were a loving, lovely, lovable couple who should have celebrated many birthdays together.

"Long COVID is not just about fatigue and brain fog. A new Ohio State University study finds it can quietly chip away at several senses at once, with measurable problems in smell, hearing and balance." Source: archive.md/JL1Ap

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

I don't use AI in my writing. AI, on the other hand, steals my writing to train up on so it can do its work. The recent discourse about how writers use it but pretend they don't pisses me off. If you're using generative AI to write your stories, you are pissing me off. You. Specifically.

It is a struggle every day for my friend Sama'a to feed her family, and food is only growing more scarce. Please give what you can to help. tinyurl.com/SamaasFamily

During a recent hearing, he shared how agents abused him while abducting his dad. “They told me I was ‘gay for crying,’ ‘an illegal idiot,’ a ‘border hopper,’ and other demeaning words." "I’m sharing my story so that this doesn’t happen to other ppl,” he said. "This is not the America that I know.”

Everyone pony the fuck fpr the librarian who just got sacked for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from the kids' section of the library.

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

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1. The new IOC trans ban also targets cis women with genetic conditions. Under the policy, it's even possible for a cis woman to be banned after giving birth with the uterus she was born with. This policy was revoked before after unintended consequences. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Every year, January to April, people accuse me of fearmongering in my reporting. Every year around this time, bills pass. And without fail, every year, the ratchet tightens. And now Idaho just passed a bill that could put me in prison for years—for washing my hands in a bathroom.

19 years old Royer Perez-Jimenez is one of the youngest people to die in an ICE camp. His arrest was unnecessarily violent and forceful. He’s shoved to the ground while officers kneel on his back as he struggles to communicate. A few weeks later, he was dead. Abolish ICE

If you're not trans, maybe it really hasn't landed on you how intensely the single biggest plank of one of the two parties in the US is "kill all trans people." If you're cis, did you know Kansas revoked the drivers licenses of every trans person overnight?

If you are looking for a good place to volunteer here in NYC, here's an opportunity.

A Democrat just won the Florida house seat that contains Mar a Lago. If a Democratic president was suffering these kind of losses the papers would be screaming at them to resign. Instead we get this...

It's budget season in NYC, and despite promises to commit .5% to NYC libraries, Mamdani has instead proposed cuts. The budget is now with the City Council, which will counter-propose--so it's time to contact your council member. @nycplan.org has all the info you need: nycplan.org Takes ~2 mins

Lotta folks who promised they were gonna hold @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s feet to the fire and yell at him when he’s wrong are be awwwfullyy quiet right now. Y’all lying about not putting political celebrity over people’s lives? Y’all too busy pretending he can do no wrong? Hold him accountable!

Candy is being crushed at heretofore unseen levels.

I've been working on this piece for a few months, and I won't lie it's hurt to go from hearing the suffering inflicted by this transphobic theocracy to seeing progressives sing its praises. The bishops' ban is the most extensive trans healthcare ban in the country. It deserves way more attention.

“I am political,” Ms. Rachel told me of her new effort to free kids from ICE detention. “It’s political to believe that children are worthy of love … and that our care shouldn’t stop at what we look like, our family, at our religion, at a border. Mr. Rogers was very political.”

NEW: For the first time, ProPublica has been able to quantify how many U.S. citizen children have been directly affected by Trump’s immigration crackdown: more than 11,000 kids had a parent detained — and that’s an undercount. 1/ 🧵 www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Markwayne Mullin is trying to sell himself as a steady hand to lead DHS. But our receipts, & his own words, tell a very different story. Asked on whether agents should operate in hospitals, Mullin wouldn’t give a yes or no. Instead he said, “I will always support my law enforcement doing their job”

the trans drivers license revocation in kansas is horrible, but it's the second-worst thing in the bill there's not been nearly enough focus on the bathroom bounty system: any private resident can sue me for $1000 if they can prove i made them uncomfortable in a bathroom

I'm receiving reports from airports all over the country about ICE sightings. I'll be sharing updates here as I get them. ⬇️

Time sensitive: this is the last day to submit comments opposing the Bureau of Land Management's clearcutting of Oregon's ancient forests. This is a tool that educates you on just how diabolical it is, and it helps you submit your comment. morethanjustparks.com/oregon-old-g...

Seeing ICE detaining people at airports is so sickening and so are the details about the LGA plane crash. Just a fraction of the money they’re using to brutalize families could be spent on rehiring air traffic controllers, who they fired so they could brutalize more people

"Whatever we may think about PinkNews - its further divestment from news leaves a growing news gap for our community. "Something we should all be concerned about."

3,300 passengers travel through LaGuardia every hour, every day, every year. 29 million total. Running that airport with a single ATC in charge of both sky and ground traffic is inexcusable and if the shortage is that bad then we need to shut some airports down

Think it’s important to understand the things people clamor for or accept without protest which has lead to this. You couldn’t have data centers everywhere without people accepting environmental racism, ICE couldn’t operate the way it does without people accepting policing, etc

My friend Sama'a has lost so much. She and her family have gone through things we can't imagine in order to survive. Please give what you can to help. chuffed.org/project/157569

"remove friction" is how you get slop

Mueller’s FBI persecuted Muslims nationwide. He was responsible for one of the most egregious, systemic violations of civil rights in the history of the FBI, which is saying a whole lot. This was Mueller’s FBI:

please help get them out.

Ex: Delia Ramirez (who’s Methodist) and Daniel Biss (who’s Jewish) both took money from J-Street employees and neither took money from AIPAC. Guess which one gets the red background with flames and a black & white photo, and which gets the green background with normal colors.

A classic anti-masker tactic is to claim that if you don't wear a mask 100% of the time, it isn't worth it. Untrue. Every single time you wear a mask, you reduce the chances for viruses to spread. Wearing a mask always improves public health, even if you only do it occasionally.

We must reckon with our "great man" theory of progress. Liberation comes from empowering collective groups to challenge entrenched domination.

it’s just shattering and I don’t have anything profound to say about it at all

Um. A canceled citizenship application in December… …would imply Eugenio Suarez is a victim of the USCIS benefits “pause” where they just stopped processing applications for people from a couple dozen countries. www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/trump-a...

"It’s true that the Irish weren’t quite white for most of American history, but we never had it half as bad as Black or indigenous people here, and we’ve been white for a hundred years now because we met the devil at the crossroads and sold him our soul." Loved this essay by @margaret.bsky.social

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He wasn't just an asylum seeker. Paktyawal was an Afghan special forces soldier who worked with the U.S. Army's 3rd Special Forces Group. He was evacuated on August 30, 2021, entered the U.S. legally and had a pending case with a work permit and social security number. Killed by ICE maggots.

I'm still raising funds to pay for increased cancer treatment costs, & as a token of my appreciation to all donors, every contribution between Feb 1 & Mar 28 will be entered in a random draw to win 1 of 3 autographed copies of my latest novella! Click for details! www.gofundme.com/f/help-r-s-a...