The terribleness continues. But I’m a bit confused. Could this be a step towards Medicaid not beig required to cover vaccines? www.newsweek.com/trump-admini...

Well deserved

Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Not that the rape allegations against Trump are new, but this latest Epstein release is so chilling. Such a stark reminder of how unsafe women are in society, how closely to the surface the threat of sexual violence always looms, how it’s normalized and even lauded up to the highest levels of power.

American food safety could be headed for a breakdown www.statnews.com/2025/12/22/a...

"The project—[Bari Weiss's] and that of her backers—is to establish herself and her cohort not as new-right media, but as the new liberal media, staking out the leftmost acceptable position within the new right-wing paradigm." (This is a gift link, from October) defector.com/bari-weiss-s...

Important overview by @laurenleffer.bsky.social (from May) on RFK Jr and the ways he pulls from the eugenics playbook.

Reeks of censorship.

We’re over halfway through our end-of-year fundraiser, and we’re not where we need to be to keep our vital work going. We have three weeks left to hit our goals of $60,000 and 200 monthly supporters. The #LongCOVID community needs us — we need you! the-sick-times.fundjournalism.org/donate/

Republicans can’t outrun the healthcare conundrum they’re created. @ddayen.bsky.social writes “They are reduced to replaying the “repeal and replace Obamacare” debate forever, as voters seethe with anger.” trib.al/lfPSPrt

This is extremely important

The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.

Slashing subsidies & increasing health care costs for the people who need it most is “eugenics policy.” The ACA makes discrimination against people with “underlying conditions” illegal, expands Medicaid & allows people to stay on their parents’ insurance until 26, @lauralew105.bsky.social reports.

A report published in a CDC journal reaffirms the effectiveness of COVID vaccines at preventing severe disease in children

Truly horrifying.

Unsurprisingly the vote to extend ACA subsidies failed. As I wrote this week in @prismreports.org, many will die due to the sharply rising cost of healthcare under the Trump administration -- especially those who need it most. prismreports.org/2025/12/10/a...

Applications for unemployment benefits plummeted to a three-year low the prior week.

all i'm saying is that there were better options

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported? NOEM: We haven't deported veterans MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

Thanks for interviewing me. Without ACA premium subsidies, disabled workers will have fewer career choices and many may not be able to afford health care.

Ending ACA subsidies will kill people, especially disabled people like me. Thank you @lauralew105.bsky.social and @prismreports.org for amplifying our message.

"The impact of ending the subsidies, alongside the myriad other attacks on health care access, is hard to overstate." My latest for @prismreports.org: prismreports.org/2025/12/10/a... Thanks to @thetattooedjew.com @jz-or-not.bsky.social @seemiaroll.bsky.social for your comments and advocacy!

For disabled people, slashing expanded health care subsidies is ‘eugenics policy,’ advocates say. Millions rely on the Affordable Care Act, especially disabled people who benefit from flexible jobs & often have more health care needs, reports @lauralew105.bsky.social.

Please read this excellent, imperative piece by @gregggonsalves.bsky.social. This is not the time to cede ground to the right-wing effort to destroy public health, and it won’t save anyone anyway.

These Republicans need to listen to their constituents -- "More than eight in ten (84%) Marketplace enrollees – including nearly all Democrats and about seven in ten Republicans – say Congress should extend the ACA tax credits", according to www.kff.org/public-opini... @kffhealthnews.org

Wow, this Hep B vaccine policy rollback is like the scariest anti-vax thing that's happened yet. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

"Censorship is being used as a business tactic. Silencing is happening because people are scared for their jobs, careers, & sometimes even their lives." --a TV writer on threats to free speech under Trump. My latest for @prismreports.org: prismreports.org/2025/12/04/t...

Television & film writers say they’ve faced increasing censorship threats under Trump, @lauralew105.bsky.social reports. Attempts to curtail free speech present an existential threat to the Writers Guild of America’s 11,000 members, who are finding their footing amid an industry-wide contraction.

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Tens of millions of Americans have #LongCOVID, a number we can only expect to grow as people become reinfected multiple times. Yet despite this increased need for healthcare, the government is slashing Medicaid. Read more from @lauralew105.bsky.social: bit.ly/3MhxU48

Great news and a win for public health! We need pillars like Planned Parenthood around to continue providing quality accessible sexual and reproductive healthcare. And a friendly reminder that today is Giving Tuesday should you feel so inclined to support any of your favorite worthwhile causes.

Pop star Sabrina Carpenter slams the White House for using “Juno” in an ICE arrest video: “This video is evil and disgusting. Do not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.”

Medicaid is the bare minimum for people with Long COVID and other complex conditions. But instead of improving it, amid skyrocketing disability claims, the Trump administration is making it worse. The impact could be catastrophic. My feature for @thesicktimes.org: thesicktimes.org/2025/12/02/t...

This morning, we published a detailed feature by @lauralew105.bsky.social examining how upcoming cuts and changes to Medicaid under Trump will harm people with Long COVID. It includes suggestions for how people can push back against these policies. (2/10)

Straight-up Nazi shit

I cannot even begin to express my rage at this lie reading this through me back into my pandemic EMT life, attempting to resuscitate a child experiencing a cardiac arrest secondary to COVID while a father says “we heard that the vaccine was riskier than COVID for kids” and a mother wails in agony

“I felt like I lived a double life. How could this sick side of me be so central, so enormous, yet so unseen by those who knew and loved me?”please read this beautiful essay in @thesicktimes.org: thesicktimes.org/2025/11/28/y...

WHOA. Trump says he will pardon Juan Orlando Hernandez, who once said that he wanted to “shove the drugs right up the noses of the gringos.” He had people killed as part of his narco-trafficking ring, which he at times operated directly out of his presidential office.

So personally I’d love universal healthcare

“Testing the ceasefire” What are words anyway?

i know we've all laughed about the worm and the affair but this is a profoundly dangerous person who should be expelled from the government.

Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.

RFK Jr’s CDC posting lies about vaccines and autism on their website isn’t just misinformation, it’s intentionally weaponized eugenicist rhetoric that will kill people.

Everyone in the US knows: Swastikas and nooses ARE hate symbols. They do not belong anywhere, including the Coast Guard. (WTAF?)

KEEP SHARING YOUR STORIES about increased ACA premiums due to the disappearance of subsidies. The stories clearly are having an impact, they help people feel less helpless, and they create solidarity that leads to action. Mine went from $395→ $821. What happened for you?

Just gave. Join me!

Rest in Power, Alice Wong.

Immigrants had their visas revoked and were deported over jokes about Charlie Kirk on social media. Why? Because the regime claims it won’t tolerate any violent political speech. Yet Trump just pardoned Suzanne Ellen Kaye, a woman who threatened to kill FBI agents in the wake of Jan 6th.

Interesting how ICE flights weren't impacted by the shutdown. Just commercial flights. Yet we had to end the shutdown for the airlines? Sure, Jan.

So proud of the amazing students at @indykidsnews.bsky.social for their latest issue! Working with these kids is a bright spot amid the horrors. Check it out!! indykids.org/wp-content/u...