This entire weekend

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.

Game isn't over yet, but there's a special satisfaction that JCU is beating the southern Jesus school sponsored by Chickfila 21-6 with 4:34 left.

Fun day today volunteering at the middle school's "give back" event. Last year I got to help since daughter is in 8th. This year they got to actually go shop on their own and we helped with the wrapping.

fortune.com/2025/12/12/a... Good guy Amtrak

Classic White Supremacy! Just forget how we treated you it’s all good now! Nah “if God is for you he is more than the whole world against you”. We won’t let WS forget their evil. Now let’s make money. #wristup💪🏾

The Supreme Court is working hard to turn this country into a despot's dreamscape—while making it nigh impossible for good people to make lasting change for the better. Those of us who begged folks (and national media) to put SCOTUS before everything else in 2016 are in an endless Cassandrian hell.

Just started “Death by Lightning.” If you haven’t already discovered Stephen Sondheim’s musical “Assassins,” find it. It’s SO good. The Ballad of Charles Guiteau is playing in my head as I watch.

TGINXS Fridays

Watching "A Christmas Carol" starring the great Patrick Stewart. You know, we rekindle this story every December, and yet, with each passing year, the ghouls who run our society insist with ever-increasing callousness that Scrooge's approach to humanity should be embraced, rather than condemned.

Went to my alma mater for their Christmas tree lighting. Got to celebrate the Streaks victory with the limited edition GLBC 1886 lager. Ran into one of my best college friends as well as my parents.

John Carroll defeats Mount Union!!!!!!! Onward On!!! Go Blue Streaks!!

I didn't do photo cards this year because Lifetouch refused to take my daughter's picture. I don't even want to send paper Christmas cards because of how many names I have to cross off my annual list. I'll probably scrape a few out but Maybe next year will be better than the last.

Corruption at its finest! What in the actual HELL are you doing #Ohio?! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

RIP you ol crazy kook! Shout out you for your integrity 🙂‍↕️

Bernie Moreno wants to end dual citizenship. My niece and nephew have been dual citizens their whole lives. This bill would force them to renounce one of the citizenships within one year of passing. They are children. This also affects my brother in law who only became a citizen last year

Spent several hundreds of dollars this Cyber Monday! . . . . . On my health insurance premium for January! Yay not being able to afford to stay alive. America is the best!

Watching the only game that matters to me, my alma mater in the Div 3 playoffs! Go Blue Streaks!!

Ashley Klein is a snitch!!! I cannot wait for Christmas.

JOLENE THE SHEEPDOG

Happy Thanksgiving Bluesky friends!

Daughter's intervention specialist wrote that they had an active shooter drill today and that she handled it well. And I think -She's been doing them since kindergarten and is desensitized to the thought of gun violence in school -She probably enjoyed her classmates being quiet and still for once

Was gonna go to the funeral mass this morning but the rain + bald tires + 45 minutes across town wouldn't be a wise decision, esp with the bridge out. I feel incredibly guilty not going, but my husband says I've been to enough funerals this year.

I just want to rage at the cruelty of age and death. I didn't go to the wake tonight for my childhood next door neighbor. I just forever picture him playing in his Little Tikes car.

A health care industry rag featured a story on how hospitals want to use AI for nursing the day after the administration declares nursing degrees will no longer be considered professional degrees. So there’s the endgame folks. Same for public education.

Democrats will do anything but LEARN A FREAKING LESSON.

Husband is at a library conference downtown today and I'm jealous because I miss going to professional conferences. Plus he got cool bookish stickers yesterday!

The Ohio legislature passed SB 293, the bill that takes away the 4-day acceptance window for absentee ballots. It heads to the governor's desk now, our last chance to protect Ohio voters against this harmful & unnecessary change. Call Governor DeWine now to urge him to veto SB 293! bit.ly/MikeDeWine

ACTION NEEDED: Pick 1 or 2 of these #Ohio bills that make you the angriest, and make some calls! open.substack.com/pub/rachelco...

Just a reminder that Jim Jordan is NOT for protecting innocent victims.

"Kids my age aren't supposed to be the ones correcting you. We aren't supposed to the moral compass in a room full of adults who should know better." #MegynKelly #Epstein

And he’s not wrong, either.

welcome back. if you're just joining us, nazis are defending pedophiles

I love how my mom's group email inviting people for Thanksgiving highlights my daughter as a problem picky eater, while putting her same age cousin on a pedestal as a useful, helpful baker. My daughter loves to bake and is not the only grandchild with food issues.

Watching The Kids go up against the nonprofit industrial complex that's been entrenched in this city for a hundred years makes me wish that someone would write that great American nonprofit industrial complex novel.

On this day, 33 years ago, Bram Stoker’s Dracula was released in cinemas. Starring #GaryOldman, #WinonaRyder, #KeanuReeves and #AnthonyHopkins it was an Oscar-winning, critically acclaimed success and one of the most revered #vampire movies ever.

His people don't care about right and wrong and they especially don't care about girls and young women. The Trads and the Manosphere would applaud if he "just" committed the horrific crime of abusing teenage girls. What is in those files?

If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle

I'm trying to see how much my medical test to see if I still have a blood clot in my liver in February will cost. Southwest would be $3300. UH would be $2900 Metro won't freaking let me get an estimate unless I put in my insurance number which I can't do yet.

Senate Democrats voting Yes.

In other news, since my husband, biggest Great Lakes boat nerd on the planet, has to work late tomorrow night, we're having GLBC Edmund Fitzgerald's tonight. Such a good beer.

Just imagining the meeting where they must have been like “they might cancel my flight? Time to kill the sick.”

Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.

Feeling absolutely defeated right now. How am I going to afford health insurance on top of the monthly payments I'm making to pay off my hospitalization this year? Should I just cancel my Feb ultrasound to see if the blood clot in my liver is gone?

I stopped getting calls and texts from Democrats when I told them "I'm not donating a single fucking dime to any candidate who is not making an open and affirmative defense of trans rights."

I've looked at all the details of this deal to end the shutdown reached by a small group of Senate Democrats. I've talked to a number of friends on the Hill to see if there's anything I'm missing. Sadly, I am not. This is a shit deal. It's a betrayal. It's cowardice.

The Senate has reached a "deal". Federal workers can return to work. I get to wait another month for a vote to see if I can actually afford health insurance next year. The deadline to apply for ACA is Dec 15th, so hopefully they'll have the vote in before that.

I'm extra cranky because people don't know how to celebrate holidays during the actual holiday season you're celebrating.

Cleveland folks! Do you need cheap produce and a hot meal? Check this out today! Meal is cheesy potato soup, garlic bread, mixed green salad, spinach dip with bread, snickerdoodles, coffee and strawberry lemonade to drink.