Blue Cross: We won’t approve your patient’s hysterectomy until she’s had an endometrial biopsy Also Blue Cross: Once the biopsy is done, the hysterectomy will be approved. We don’t need to wait for the result This is an insurance company insisting I inflict violence on a patient for no reason

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.

it's been hard to put this feeling into words, but we've spent the past couple of decades being lectured to and patronized by an elite class that spent its free time joshing with jeffrey epstein about his little sex abuse empire while lecturing us about how out of touch we are

This isn't politics anymore. This is morality, and the dismantling of the Patriarchy....these nasty, disgusting men, AND the tratiorist women who support and defend them must be exposed and removed from public discourse for the safety of all of the women and children of the world.

it's 🏳️‍⚧️ transgender awareness week 🏳️‍⚧️, so : donate to trans support organizations if you can, hire trans people, defend them in public & private spaces when necessary, & just don't be an asshole in general

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.

I dunno about Trump but I sure hope these emails take down the NYT

> 20 years practice. Also thousands of vaccines. Not a single case of Guillain-Barre

All these men touching their penises and then touching freaking everything. Penis on the doorknob, penis on the table, penis on the serving utensils at the buffet

On May 27 2025, these 3 MAHA/MAGA dudes took to X to say they were no longer recommending COVID vaccination in pregnancy This was terrible advice: First, pregnancy is a risk factor for severe COVID-19 (discussed at www.acog.org/womens-healt...) 1/2

Here are the Democrats who sold out the American public: Sen. Dick Durbin Sen. Angus King (independent who caucuses with Democrats) Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto Sen. Jacky Rosen Sen. John Fetterman Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia Sen. Jeanne Shaheen Sen. Maggie Hassan Vote them out.

I'm hearing the same thing. Dems are nearing a surrender. I'm shocked. Largest protest in history + best election night in years + polling showing we're kicking their ass in public opinion. And now Dems may cave. It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.

I’m at a conference and it’s all AI this and AI that and I just want to hear about how I can use my own intelligence to help people. Can we please focus on improving our own brains and stop farming out thought?

Food prices are up. SNAP is being held hostage. Millions of government workers are going on 6 weeks without pay. Unemployment has been rising and as of August more than 7 million Americans were unemployed. And the minimum wage hasn’t increased since 2009, when a dollar was worth >50% more than today

Great. I’m really looking forward to RFK Jr weighing in on fetal monitoring

The Trump administration is now literally *fighting* to deny food to 42 million people, more than a third of them children. Read that again. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

The 6th Circuit has been competing to be the most anti-trans circuit in America and is now carving out a right to bully transgender kids. Despicable.

If you work in healthcare and aren’t constantly appalled by the suffering people endure over something as stupid and unnecessary as people going without food or proper nutrition (or housing or medicine etc) in the wealthiest country in the history of the world then why are you working in healthcare?

Oopsie they didn’t voter suppress hard enough

When your cause is for hope and to improve society for all, and when you bank on our collective humanity, you will win. There will always be more of us than them.

Amid attacks on such work, NIH-led research links structural racism to increased heart disease. Story by @aniloza.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/10/31/s...

What is so silly about this is Scott Adams isn’t even asking for help with a denial of coverage. This privileged and apparently hapless man is asking the president for help scheduling an appointment with Kaiser

"Why don't people support welfare programs?" Racism. More specifically, anti-Blackness. White folks asked about who welfare serves overestimate the number of Black people on welfare. Not only that, but just the mere THOUGHT of who welfare supports led less white people to support it. #blacksky

How silly that the republicans think Congress managed to pass universal basic income

Being an ob-gyn practice we care for a lot of patients who rely on SNAP. We are posting notices at our front desk to let any staff member or clinician know if they’re having trouble getting enough food and our company and individual donors are providing grocery store gift cards

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

Let’s be clear, most EBT users are white. The reason he’s specifically lying about “weaves” and we’ve seen so many AI fakes of Black women ranting about food stamps is they need to make BW the face EBT because they know many Americans don’t care if Black people suffer, and some actually wish for it.

Dude you are mansplaining America to a group of Americans who are dressing up in inflatable animal costumes from Temu to protest this administration. We are literally fighting tacky with tacky. You are simply reveling in being a snob

In this study of 220 #trans adolescents who received gender affirming medical care, only 4% expressed any regret about treatment, and half of those continued with treatment, suggesting the benefits outweighed the downsides. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39432272

Really really exemplary of the sad state of affairs middle aged straight women face that these two are squabbling over JD Vance. I mean ew. Not if we were the last two people on earth, my vibrator was out of charge, and I’d lost all my fingers

Didn’t you know when you were born that you shouldn’t expect even the tiniest bit of happiness. The billionaires need all of the happiness because their souls are insatiable black holes

1. A new guide has been released by some of the top names in Democratic politics encouraging Dems to act more like Republicans on "identity and cultural issues." It becomes clear exactly what that means: queer and trans people. I argue against it in my latest. Subscribe to support my journalism.

The elimination of the filibuster at the start of the Trump administration would be the most disastrous thing to happen for trans people federally. The policies it would usher in would make what we've seen the first 11 months feel like a cakewalk.

“Maternal SARS-CoV-2 infection in pregnancy was associated with increased risk of adverse neurodevelopmental diagnoses by age 3 years, with effects most pronounced after third-trimester exposure and in male offspring.”

An estimated 15.7 million workers use SNAP. It’s a lifeline for those in low-wage jobs. Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker. Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps. Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.

Literally your phone should taze you if you say something along the lines of poor people shouldn’t have any nice things or eat anything tasty, let alone that poor people shouldn’t have a device that is essential to do anything in this society

1. This week, news emerged that former trans athlete, student at Middlebury, and advocate for trans rights, Lia Smith, was found dead. Her death was ruled a suicide. But I argue that it's not only a suicide. Every trans suicide is a murder by those in power. Subscribe to support my journalism.

Particularly politicians. Oh you want to end online sports betting? Great. What have you done to raise the minimum wage so far?

Trans rights are human rights. Newsom is fascist trash.

Heretic Coffee and Nan’s Taqueria have stepped up to fill the need starting in November.

Participants on SNAP receive an average of $187 per month. Now if only 40 million of us chip in this amount or Elon gave 2% of his net worth, we’d be set for November.

Hostile monkeys with COVID, herpes, and hepatitis C are the new bear in the would you rather be alone in the woods with a man or a *** scenario

just told my parents about my ai girlfriend and now i'm the only 35 year old in this orphanage

World Central Kitchen is mobilizing to Jamaica, please consider donating

Seems like a good time to resurface my story on the health benefits of SNAP: Federal food assistance program may slow cognitive decline, study suggests New research links receiving food assistance through SNAP to better brain health. share.google/TqhDCjqKQPMF...

1. AOC scathingly rebuked anti-trans activist Riley Gaines Monday in the form of a single sentence. "Maybe if you channeled all this anger into swimming faster you wouldn’t have come in fifth." Its part of a new wave of Dems being fearless on trans rights. Subscribe to support our journalism.

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

💡Did you know: SNAP benefits have a contingency fund that can be used during a gvt shutdown? This 💵 has already been appropriated by Congress. The Rs refuse to use the 💵 so they can force their fucked up agenda down our throats. apnews.com/article/snap...