Don't call the cops on someone in a mental health crisis unless you want them dead.

Why doesn’t Chewy accept client emailed rxs? They will accept the very same prescription if I print it out and mail it to them. A neat cherry on top of the week that is my dog being diagnosed with cancer (the vet charges $12 per pill for the med and won’t send rx directly to Chewy anymore).

@durbin.senate.gov and @duckworth.senate.gov VOTE NO.

And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons. State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

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Regular reminder that Axios stories saying Dems are about to cave are likely sourced from GOP staffers trying to make it happen. Doesn't mean it definitely won't happen. But it's like those NYT stories that Harvard is considering caving (they haven't). The anonymous source was trying to manifest it.

8 November 1942 | A transport of some 1,000 Polish Jews - men, women, and children - deported from ghettos in Ciechanów region (part of German-occupied Poland annexed to the Third Reich). After the arrival selection, all of them were murdered in gas chambers.

50 year mortgage is so crazy. to put it in perspective, 2016 was 50 years ago

What’s happening with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson is a really important lesson. It is so dangerous when all we do is read a headline or, if you’re an influencer, all you do is post a headline. There is no way a headline can capture the nuance of how to outwit her fellow justices. 1/2

this actually still fucking sucks because it’s still mocking disability and framing it as punishment. this dem influencer account posts shit like this regularly, and it sucks that some of my oomfies still follow it

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MAHA actually stands for "Make America Hungry Again" apparently.

All while pretending to care about making America healthy. 😡

It’s never your job to decide who you think it lazy. Keep your eyes on your own paper.

People want more affordable health insurance, not a savings account. This is just a Republican bait-and-switch to repeal Obamacare for the 70th time. Let’s get serious — extend the health care tax credits and open the government.

Anyway, I laid out how all this was going to happen over a year ago. Wish I'd been wrong. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Feels like the Democrats should maybe put up a website showing all of the Trump Flight Cancellations?

1) that 44% is terrifying and also unsurprising because all these college polls have basically said that many men would happily commit SA as long as the q isn’t phrased that way 2) where is the option that goes, “*all* people who might be involved in a sexual experience must actively choose it”???

The party of “family values” is, as usual, mocking people who have the audacity to not be rich. There will be no political repercussions for this cruelty.

I always get drawn back to Al Gore telling voters that he’d only raise taxes on the top 1% and then after the election a poll showed that something like 20% of voters thought they were in the top 1% and another 20% thought they would be in the next five years. Just a total tragic disconnect.

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year. UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year. Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M. This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

I like how Zohran Mamdani scandals are like "He called his old cousin his aunt one time" and Andrew Cuomo scandals are like "He sexually assaulted 13 women."

Even if the House was fully functional, they're in session for an avg of 147 days and out for 218. Under Speaker Johnson, Congress has been in session only 12 of the last 97 days, and he still won't swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva. These are the people who demand Work Requirements.😐

uh, that’s not “reimagining” the novel. that’s…the novel.

I wish we as ethicists could agree to stop calling patients “noncompliant.” The word compliant suggests patients *must* comply with medical instructions, rather than engaging in shared decision making about whether they wish to adhere to recommendations. #ASBH25 #ASBH2025 #Bioethics

dental insurance: we only exist to make regular health insurance seem better™

More talks about disability justice & the importance of increasing the diversity of ASBH & as usual not one word was uttered about or accommodation made for anyone whose disability leaves them immunocompromised, which is about 6.6% of Americans, some of whom are ethicists. #ASBH2025 (1/2)

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Too much of US society (& these replies) are based on blaming individuals for systemic problems. Folks buy cheap things at big box stores because it takes time & money to visit multiple small businesses. Or they use delivery apps because they need accessible shopping while others need flexible jobs.

I truly do think, looking back on this period in history, the main thing we'll be known for is the death of truth, and the rise of misinformation and scams and lies. As a name, the "Information Age" was hopelessly naive, it turns out.

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

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it’s never okay to mock people using terms related to weight, health, mental health, medical aids, or sexual orientation, even if they are fascist assholes. Non-assholes who take psych meds or use adult diapers are listening too.

Michael Broadway died from an asthma attack on a scorching day inside an Illinois prison. Witnesses said a nurse didn't want to climb the stairs to his cell. A friend in a nearby cell put it plainly: “staff in these prisons DO NOT see us as human beings.”

This story is extraordinary even by 2025 standards. Marco Rubio, the nation's top diplomat, made a deal with Bukele and agreed to renege on informant agreements in a years-long DOJ investigation into MS-13, totally undercutting credibility of such agreements. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

The huge No Kings protests, an estimated 7 million people addressing America's worst crisis since the Civil War, get a tiny headline on the New York Times homepage, with no photo. Why does NYT think change happens only when politicians hold news conferences and not when everyday people take action?

We've seen it before. About 250 years ago.

It’s been said but it bears repeating: in addition to the people being abducted, all Chicagoans are being psychologically terrorized. Seeing feds driving/walking around and videos of violent attacks in places you know and love will fuck you up. Get ready, it’s coming to all of America soon.

Learn it, live it, especially ahead of the No Kings protests.

we are in an unprecedented untenable situation: wanton destruction of federal public health apparati (already reduced by biden), on top of a precarious, ever consolidating for-profit “care” system that’s been inching toward collapse for yrs as insurance rates soar—& you won’t help prevent illness? 🤨

This is real. Chicago today.

alt text added. @mollyjongfast.bsky.social reskeeted NY Times graphic on federal judges www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

It also shows solidarity to everyone disabled or chronically ill for any reason. Mostly what we are seeing is you don’t care if we are left out of society.

Terrific post. The current administration is comfortable killing us, especially the poor, brown, and/or disabled. If you want to resist that and show solidarity to those groups (and maybe save an insurance copay), wear a high quality mask in indoor public spaces.

Before singing a song to Stephen Colbert tonight, Bette Midler brought up how she sang to Krusty on The Simpsons. Both surreal and awesome to hear her reference an episode from over three decades ago. Now I kinda want to put it on.

These issues are YET MORE reasons that masking in public during an ongoing pandemic, during collapse of healthcare systems, during an attack on public health, while fascism grows stronger, in a world where healthcare isn’t a universal right… is, in fact, the reasonable, scientific, & moral choice.