After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)

Y tu, A24? www.engadget.com/2199010/a24-...

If Texas’ MMRC is not reauthorized, Texans will lose the most important source of data about preventable reasons for maternal deaths and severe illness.

Sucks that this 64 year old Rocky & Bullwinkle joke still hits now

This is your periodic reminder that The Fall and Rise of Reggie Dinkins is incredibly funny. And Tracy is one of the great treasures of Knicks fandom.

The world's first trillionaire did this

"You want to snatch it from us again?" Here is how a farmer donated land to a city to be turned into a park. Instead, the city sold the land and its now being turned into a massive data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...

If you, like me, feel your heart rate spike every time you search for a coffee shop table, then this piece I wrote with Kerry Elson and Sarah Garfinkel is for you

If you, like me, feel your heart rate spike every time you search for a coffee shop table, then this piece I wrote with Kerry Elson and Sarah Garfinkel is for you

“I was most vexed by a distressing discovery: all tables were occupied.” By @ericaliesalot.bsky.social Kerry Elson & Sarah Garfinkel Full piece: thebelladonnacomedy.com/searching-fo...

It’s wild that a human correcting our grammar is rude but when a tech company does it in our emails, it’s suddenly a genius innovation.

“Once we transform this broken, corrupt system, we can start unrigging this economy. We can start raising our pay, cutting our taxes, lowering our cost. We can finally, start to get ahead.” - James Talarico for U.S. Senate. Let’s go @jamestalarico.bsky.social! #txlege

Reporter: Ken Paxton has taken to calling you ‘Talafreako’ @JamesTalarico: If Ken Paxton is worried about freaks, he should stop giving Epstein-style sweetheart deals to pedophiles. This is the guy who just released Adam Hoffman from jail, an admitted child rapist.

“The plan will essentially transform school buses into roaming surveillance vehicles, taking a technology that was originally designed to issue tickets to people illegally passing stopped buses and using it for much wider and general law enforcement, likely without a warrant.”

Imagine being a Russian troll assigned to Bluesky: “Comrade, today you will destabilize Western democracy by arguing with poets, policy nerds, and a raccoon avatar with tenure.”

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... Repost this everywhere .NAACP, call on pro athletes to do something also. The pressure for $$ in college now could cause athletes to be blind to what is at stake. @barackobama.bsky.social time for you to lend a voice on this topic🙏🏻

Might have lost my mind at Lorde last night

When satire is just the truth but 20 years early

Mo’s book is funny and entertaining and yet also emotional, highly recommend! (Also, pubbed by WVU Press, of which I am a FAN.)

Never thought I’d be living in a world so shitty that I’d find myself saying WHO CARES ABOUT UFO PICS RIGHT NOW

They want to memory-hole slavery like the way China erased the Tiananmen Square Massacre. “The Trump administration is ordering the removal of information on slavery at multiple national parks in an effort to scrub them of “corrosive ideology.”

Or…Trump could just reopen TSA! Democrats have put legislation on the floor a half dozen times to reopen TSA and Republicans block it every time.

I highly recommend watching the new history channel documentary “The West,” if for no other reason than to giggle uncontrollably hearing Kevin Costner self-seriously declare a fur trader knew where to find a “dense population of beaver.”

My favorite part of this year’s Oscars is Matt Berry doing all the announcements so I can pretend I’m watching a real-time episode of Toast of London

A mother and daughter in Kentucky have rejected multimillion-dollar offers for their land, offers made by an anonymous tech company trying to build a data center. Ida Huddleston has turned down $4,260,000. Her daughter turned down $22,224,000. www.lex18.com/news/coverin...

Leaving a public comment is easy and took me less than a minute. Link toward bottom of article. Super worth-it.

For International Women's Day you should uhhhh hire a trans woman 🥴

They are literally running with “we have always been at war with Eurasia.” Unreal.

Why isn't this a WAY bigger story? Planning to be retired in 2040? Or still alive and on Medicare any time after that? Good luck with your healthcare.

I tried these delicious monstrosities so you don’t have to. New piece in @mcsweeneys.net this week! www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/tro...

I tried these delicious monstrosities so you don’t have to. New piece in @mcsweeneys.net this week! www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/tro...

Some crimes need to be documented. Thanks to @ericaliesalot.bsky.social and @mcsweeneys.net for doing this important work.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thrilled to be back in Slackjaw Humor today with this satire about one of patriarchy’s favorite apples of discord: the married name change! Should you change or keep your name when you get married? Either way, here’s why you’re wrong! (Free, and no need to subscribe) medium.com/slackjaw/the...

For context: Wayne Connell is the bitch-ass motherfucker who was forcing people back to the newsroom and taking fucking attendance in 2022, and now he doesn’t even have the balls to lay people off to their fucking faces.

Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests

University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme. dailyillini.com/news-stories...

Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning

The real way that AI tools have revolutionized my life is that now I spend precious time searching in vain for a setting that turns them off.

“I used ChatGPT once, so I’m obviously the best prepubescent robot inventor in the history of the world.” By Erica Lies & Leila Sales Full piece: thebelladonnacomedy.com/if-i-reacted...

When I saw the NPR headline "Trump says he's pursuing Greenland after perceived Nobel Peace Prize snub" (🙄🤦🤯), the first thing I did was text @ericaliesalot.bsky.social to say "We NEED to write a humor piece about this." Less than a week later, here it is in @belladonnacomedy.bsky.social!

This is the sort of thing that defines fascism more than most other aspects. The installation of secret police to monitor everyone for suspicion not of doing anything wrong, but of being the wrong kind of person.

"License plate readers and personal data from car registrations are only supposed to be accessed for an active criminal investigation... “Following or observing or reporting on federal agencies is not a criminal activity — it's protected 1st Amendment activity...” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

White folks. Watch this. Twice if you have to. And don’t just listen to her. Understand what it is she is saying.

Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager

Hundreds of anti-ICE demonstrators are making noise outside the Graduate hotel on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota. bit.ly/49SpwBk 📷️: Richard Tsong-Taatarii

Every dictator in history has claimed that they’ll only use their powers to go after the worst of the worst. Every dictator in history has lied. Donald Trump is no different.