Jessica Chastain slams Apple TV for preemptively caving to Trump www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

“In my opinion, every company that has caved to their demands has contributed to the harassment and climate of fear the rest of us are enduring, and game companies that have done so, in particular, have painted a target on the back of every single person in this industry” 👏

Introducing federal Medicaid work requirements for enrollees in the ACA’s Medicaid expansion will lead to coverage losses that will reduce hospital revenues, increase uncompensated care costs, and lower operating margins.

To a great degree we’re dealing with the fallout from a generation of men who got lucky once during a specific moment in tech evolution, made to feel as gods, but are all now suffering their mid-life crises having accomplished nothing else of note. These men have made nothing other than money.

A billion dollars in the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work with the same intensity and ruthlessness to prevent the former as we do the latter.

GOP lawmakers cite Georgia’s experiment as a model for the federal Medicaid work requirements set to take effect in 2027. A new report by a government spending watchdog found that the nation’s only Medicaid work requirement program spent twice as much on administrative costs as on health care.

What the fuck.

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

Surprise surprise, I've been saying this for years. petapixel.com/2025/09/23/m...

"The fantasy—and it is a fantasy—isn't one of space travel and exploration and some bright Star Trek future for humanity, but one of winnowing and eugenics, of cold actuarial lifeboat logic, of ever greater reallocation from the dwindling many to the thriving few." This read is always a 🎯

When you see it all in one place, it is a damning, damning score card. newrepublic.com/article/1997...

How is long Covid going today? Well, just added vanilla to the list of food allergies, which is now over 60 foods I used to eat daily. Don’t get long covid.

Been talking to people quite a bit about how it's easy to understand "cancel Disney+!" but harder to understand the initial and bigger problem is with Nexstar and Sinclair, so lemme make it easier. Find your local Nexstar channel Find your local Sinclair channel

Aw fuck, you guys, it's Zam Zongo.

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

yes! congressional control of the purse applies to the white house as well. you can defund stephen miller.

This is part of resisting fascism. If you need every hand peacefully organized against it, that includes making room - and making it safe - for disabled/high risk people to stand beside you. We face an existential threat from the other side. Don’t make us face it from both.

I wrote about the experience of government of, by, and for people who have been driven insane by screens. (This is a gift link, please Consider Defector if you are interested in subscribing to a website) defector.com/the-united-s...

The key problem with what Ezra Klein says here is that he fails – or is unwilling – to grapple with the fundamental reality of the political conflict: The movement that dominates today’s Right fully rejects the very idea of “living here with each other” as equals. That’s their defining position.

"If standing up against fascism is what cost me my dream job I held for 10 years, I would do it again 100x stronger."

Billions of dollars, and entire communities now rationing water and electricity, just for this. Billions of dollars for a wrong answer.

Good reminder that public/private censorship of mass media was common in the 20th century. The Hays Code, the Comics Code, blacklisting; we have been here before and arguably more oppressive in the past. It took 75 years of 1A jurisprudence to make us all believe It Can’t Happen Here. But it did.

Jesus Christ.

Scoop: Business Insider informed its staff this week that they are allowed to use ChatGPT to generate first drafts of their stories, while also indicating the newsroom will not disclose such A.I. use to readers. Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/business-i...

I'm so very grateful to all who have helped. We are bringing Max home today to stop the financial hemorrhage. There's a long road ahead, but hopefully with everyone's help, we think there's a path to recovery. gofund.me/da8f80527

There's info downthread about how to request an opt out to your air travel records being sold.

Oh, this is nice. I like this.

We're going to need to claw all this back. prospect.org/labor/2025-0...

This is hugely important: If you use the Atlantic's author search tool, a TON of comics don't come up because they don't have creators listed. I just found like all my comics work looking directly and it sucks. So, make sure you're very thorough in your search.

tabletop game writers search your games as well, i found one of mine in here a couple months ago when it first circled around!

"The real kick in the teeth is no matter how much manufacturing is brought back to the US these items will never be made in the USA. There is no upside." As we predicted, the end of de minimis has made every hobby that requires the purchase of items more expensive. 🔗 www.404media.co/its-just-a-m...

Oh What a surprise Too bad everyone I know hasn't been loudly warning everyone they know about the inevitability of this exact situation for like two full years now

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

The Kickstarter for Ersatz is LIVE! Consider supporting the production of a solo-animated indie pilot! When a nameless amnesiac wakes up in a bunker, they're immediately thrust into the trenches of an endless war. Trailer below 🌟

I’m selling folkloric linocut prints at the Turner Contemporary in Margate tomorrow with Brighter Days. Come and marvel at my carving skills and inept sales patter!

read this thread. absolutely chilling. forcibly inserting ICE ads into a podcast, and deliberately manipulating the mechanism through which creators have any control at all over which ads are included. this is horrible

Trump’s deployment of the national guard in LA has cost taxpayers $118 MILLION so far.   This administration cuts health care in the name of “efficiency”, but has no problem wasting your hard-earned $$ on an unconstitutional power grab designed to create chaos. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

Get your jabs, AND ALSO: - Mask up - Test *with reliable tools* (in the U.S., unless you’re already plugged in to the PlusLife system, look into Metrix)

The evisceration of where we are right now I needed today. (gift link) defector.com/no-courage-n...

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I will consider it over when it doesn’t have globally widespread waves and vaccines or prophylaxis that are strong enough to withstand the constant mutations of the virus to make outcomes predictable. IE, when it’s actually not a pandemc by definition, words mean things.

I don't really think it's appropriate for Forbes to call Flock "a startup," implying that it's a smoll bean Andreessen Horowitz VC corp valued at $7.5B billion that is giving cops worldwide the ability to stalk and hunt and surveil us even more than they usually can, in this dick sucking PR piece

Tickets now on Sale! watch.eventive.org/wd/play/68b1... You’ll be able to watch my 2hr solo animated feature film for 15 days only from Sept 15-30! Excited to share the last 3 years of my life with the world!

As far as I can tell, not even a pretense that this strike complies with international law in any way shape or form. How exactly are we supposed to complain when the United States is on the receiving end of such strikes by other countries? Or do we just not care anymore?

"Imagine knowing electricity or the internet were coming ... before both fully and wholly upended business, culture and life. That's the AI moment we see unfolding today" - possibly one of the stupidest things i've seen written about AI, great work Axios!

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