crazy that under the precedent set by callais, a lily-white congressional delegation formed by "partisan" gerrymandering in a plurality black state passes constitutional muster, while any majority-minority district is constitutionally suspect

Excellent summary of how Vought’s proposed rule will destroy science. Please be ready to comment tomorrow, call Congress, tell your friends. If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to speak up, that moment is now.

It is with deep sorrow and profound love that we announce the passing of Sonny Rollins. The Saxophone Colossus died this afternoon at his home in Woodstock, NY at the age of 95. 1/2

Good story from Stephanie Lee at the Chronicle of Higher Education on dealing with funding uncertainty with very highly rated grant proposals. www.chronicle.com/article/they... 1/2

In my @inquirer.com debut, I draw on research from my book Coverage Denied (www.amazon.com/Coverage-Den...) to outline barriers patients face in challenging coverage denials. Ex: PA created an external review process but pts must exhaust internal remedies few pursue. www.inquirer.com/health/healt...

Another person has died in ICE custody. Denny Adan Gonzalez, who allegedly killed himself, is the fourth person this year who ICE says has died by suicide. That's a lot of deaths in facilities the regime claims are providing the best health care some immigrants have ever had. buff.ly/tJxOC1H

It's especially wild since the guy most obsessed with making rocketships right now is a death trap-building conman who wants to ship peons off on a one-way trip to an arid, lifeless planet. You should DEFINITELY ask questions about the rocketship, well beyond the issues of seating

D.C. folks: Come out Wednesday morning for @dcjwj.bsky.social's rally for a decent city budget. RSVP: bit.ly/20may26

Wrote about @mirandayaver.bsky.social's great book: www.actionsandindications.net?p=215

I'm so looking forward to reading Cory's own forthcoming book on AI

It’s a real mystery why we need a bill of rights at all, living as we do in a utopia staffed by conscientious public servants untainted by any whisper of racism, religious prejudice, malice, or desire for personal wealth & power.

I’m not putting Van Hollen on a pedestal or saying he’s above reproach forever. But flying to El Salvador and demanding to see Kilmar Abrego Garcia was brave and caring as hell. That is one thing you simply cannot attack.

The Worker’s May-Pole, Walter Crane, 1894.

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Today I’m writing notes and sending advance copies to indie bookstores hoping they might order this book. 🤞

Work requirements, elimination of eligibility for lawful immigrants, MAHA waivers to restrict food purchases, limiting automatic renewal all have the same purpose and effect: reduce access to SNAP while pretending the changes are minor and technical.

It's incredibly gendered to the point where some of the first industries targeted by AI were female-dominated fields like medical transcription, translation & teaching. There was such a push for AI to replace listening & interpretation of information because they were seen as low level skills.

It turns out they do know how to make a plane turn around and bring people back when they want to.

More evidence of solar plus batteries eliminating the need for diesel generators. This is incredibly good news for the people who live in these communities. “We used to depend on diesel and lamps,” said Waldemir da Silva....“Today we have electricity 24 hours a day, without noise or smoke.”

"This is, above all, a deeply dishonest indictment—politically motivated, intellectually bankrupt, and designed to leave a lasting false impression in the minds of people who will never look past the headline: My gosh, the good guys are the bad guys." https://bit.ly/4eF1A7i

RFK Jr has been attacking Medicaid-funded caregiving all week. For @motherjones.com, I spoke to a parent on how these payments helps her family keep her disabled son at home. Her son is one of 155 kids in Oregon who has a parent who is a paid caregiver. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Shot/chaser: Read this bit in @ddayen.bsky.social's column over breakfast and thought Huh, that hadn't crossed my mind. Ten hours later . . .

The first epidemic of the 1918 flu in the United States occurred at the military’s Camp Funston, Kansas (later Fort Riley). Infected soldiers headed to WWI battlefields carried the flu to Europe. Millions died It’s not *vaccination* that weakens force readiness.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

I can just shuffle the meme cards in the archives and find something that works.

Trump: open the Straits Iran: no Trump: you are totally destroyed we won Iran: we’re good Trump: we don’t need the damn Straits Iran: ok cool Trump: someone help World: new phone who dis Trump: the Straits will open themselves Iran: lol no Trump: we will blockade the Straits Iran: um ok thanks

This is such phenomenal news! 🎉Congratulations to the coalition that has been tirelessly pushing the Community Trust Act, which includes @acluofmaryland.bsky.social, @wearecasa.bsky.social, and so many individuals contacting their MD reps every day till this got done.

Whil we’re waiting to see what happens in the Hungarian election, here’s something I wrote in 2013 about Orbán attacking cultural dissenters and handing control of arts institutions to loyalists. Remarkable how much of this has now been replicated in the US www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...

YouTube keeps feeding me anti-DPA ads that are all trying to play on my sympathy to older people who won’t be able to afford their medication deliveries and I’m sorry, but the Duane Reade will still deliver your prescriptions for free. This is about paying deliveristas for the work they do.

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

Narrow networks. Denials. Delays. A 13% overhead rate. Things don't have to be this way.

my what an invigorating cocktail of relief, anger and anxiety

Counterpoint: Every year, "means-testing" across Medicaid, CHIP, SNAP, etc entails a multi-billion dollar transfer of state and federal tax dollars to third party consultants who build and maintain these systems of administrative burden

"Imagine trying to roll over maturing sovereign debt equivalent to 24 percent of your national GDP at the exact moment your fuel import costs are exploding and foreign capital is fleeing for safety."

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I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but usurping the power of the purse isn't just one constitutional violation among all the many others. It is, uniquely and singularly, the death of constitutional government altogether. Game over, end of story, you now live in an autocracy.

“We’ll be able to fire so many of you! And the remaining few will need to do the work of six people while strapped to a hallucinating machine that obliterates your ability to think critically!” Has not been an enticing sales pitch 🤔🤔🤔

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)

"Instead of trying to assist him, officers tased and arrested him. He was incarcerated for a year before his release, when Border Patrol in effect dumped him."

A single vote for Trump in the birthright citizenship case would be as bad as anything the Court has done since Bush v. Gore. This issue has been settled for more than a century. It is the jurisprudential equivalent of asking what 2+2 is. Any answer other than 4, something is deeply, deeply wrong.

I live down the street from a place that makes 7 million songs a day

Murderous neglect. Don’t forget the immigrant who died from an untreated tooth infection

Former ICE officials question promises on planned detention facility for Western Maryland www.thebanner.com/politics-pow...