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.

Pope Leo condemns suffering in Gaza in first Christmas sermon

Insurance giants Allianz and Aviva have dropped coverage for Elbit Systems after months of direct action. Campaigners say sustained pressure works—real consequences for companies tied to war crimes.

These perspectives aren’t emerging. They’re buried.

@lizjackson.bsky.social's framework of #DisabilityDongle remains very useful to understand one aspect of this: how technologies are created or pitched as "fixing" disabled bodyminds without disabled people's feedback or input. The result is millions of dollars raised and spent on alleged access tech

For one part of this story, see @fractalecho.bsky.social and @lizjackson.bsky.social’s piece for @thenewrepublic.bsky.social on war, tech and disability: newrepublic.com/article/1793...

hey everyone. tough week for people who are grieving. we have had a lot of loss this year. be gentle with yourselves. i love u.

Good heavens this is infuriating! Excellent article about some very odious grifters.

We wrote this because we needed to build a foundation for a broader analysis we’re conducting. Notably, while men have occasionally faced consequences for abusing their positions, girlbosses seem to be the most egregious and protected perpetrators. bsky.app/profile/lizj...

from The Trauma of Abandonment — Louise Bourgeois, 2001

Just sharing this, can’t think of anyone better equipped to speak on this topic than Rua

Looking for some Christmasy podcasts or articles this festive week? Look no more: my gift to you all is a thread of all sorts of reads and listens from or featuring yours truly so you can drop some knowledge at the dinner table this Thursday! First up, Unsung History with @feministkelly.bsky.social

New from @fractalecho.bsky.social and me. Our piece focuses on one person and organization, but it's about a seedy grift that permeates disability inclusion, in which those who aspire to “be the only” emulate those whose power they worship. buttondown.com/TYFYFL/archi...

When I was growing up my elders used to call this “cooperation” and warned us to be vigilant to prevent it from happening to “our movement.” We shouldn’t let self-absorption and individual ambition trick us into becoming accomplishes in the cooperation of your (or other folk’s) movement.

New from @fractalecho.bsky.social and me. Our piece focuses on one person and organization, but it's about a seedy grift that permeates disability inclusion, in which those who aspire to “be the only” emulate those whose power they worship. buttondown.com/TYFYFL/archi...

Absolutely asinine to publish this while artists are literally starving and still making art anyway Humans are not out of ideas, it’s just that most of them are out of cash because of a few dipshit hoarders

It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love. youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng

everyone loves architecture criticism until it’s time to actually challenge anything

Is the MTA making merch with the F M Swap icon cause they should be

In their defense they never intended to address it because they want poor people to die.

I can’t believe someone who won the FIFA Peace Prize would act like this.

I would choose Ahmed al Ahmed over pretty much all of our elected officials at this point

Practicing peace is hard. It means practicing justice and it means not indulging an understandable desire for revenge. This is hard. But practicing peace is practicing survival for our species and our ecosystems.

Anyway lol pre-order The Extended Universe out in April apparently only getting more and more topical by the day bookshop.org/a/5522/97988...

He responded to my post. What feels most strange is that he seems to believe I (and so many others) have access to something we don't. That I (and so many others) are going to lose something we already lost or never had. I shouldn't have QT'd him, but I was surprised by his obliviousness.

I didn't realize there were people who could see specialists without seeing a primary care doc first...

Apple forced me to update iOS to 26, and they seem to have hidden some AI features, versus the clear toggle from before? 1. Settings --> Screen Time --> Content & Privacy Restrictions 2. Turn on Content & Privacy Restrictions 3. Go to Intelligence & Siri 4. Switch the AI features to "Don't Allow"

if we could stop demonizing people with borderline personality disorder that'd be great

So impressive how he ID'd this dud

The issue with Neoliberalism isn't that it doesn't work, it's that it only works once. You can sell the family silver once, you can strip the copper out of the walls once, you can burn the furniture to keep warm once. But then you have to come up with something else!

In terms of what’s understood to be socially acceptable behavior, normalizing the filming/taking pictures of people in public who are minding their own business (and putting it online) is one of the worst developments of the past 15 years.

microsoft promised to "empower every user" and google to "revolutionise knowledge and technological innovation" but in reality what they have given us is an invasive surveillance dystopian nightmare hard to escape www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

Michigan's housing crisis is a public health crisis. Thank you to Kalamazoo County Commissioner Monteze Morales for leading the way by calling attention to this emergency. We need to build more housing that everyone can afford. www.mlive.com/news/kalamaz...

wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics

TORRE: “What’s it like to watch CBS right now?” CHUNG: “We don’t.” @pablo.show $PSKY

People are all sharing this approvingly, but the reason Halle Berry is mad at Gavin Newsom is because her scam AI menopause supplement health woo company can't bleed taxpayers because of the bill he vetoed. A pox on all of their houses.

Yes, disturbing. And also do they not have social media? Have they not seen what we have all seen happening in Gaza?

Ches Smith's Clone Row with Mary Halvorson, Liberty Ellman, and Nick Dunston at Reveller on 1/12. Reveller is one of my least favorite venues in town but I'll show up that one.

Great piece of reading advice in here

Respect the hell outta this

Are there any productive functions left in American society that aren’t run by people who despise and intend to disrupt or tear down the things they are ostensibly responsible for?

Given the cost of living, I don't really think a $25k grant makes a dent in what most city employees need to buy a home. This program only benefits the three people who could afford to buy anyway.

ICE was blocked and impeded by people all the way to the Lincoln Tunnel

New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street

ICE garage blockaded in lower Manhattan with dozens of agents stuck inside as more and more New Yorkers gather. NYPD observed staging on Canal & Broadway, expected come over for crowd control.

I don’t think that you can get a Pulitzer or Nobel for a single McSweeney’s piece but

Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?! & more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward? www.nature.com/articles/s41...