Here are 3 minutes from Yes, Prime Minister, a BBC sitcom from 1986, that I would show to every single Congressional Democrat if I could

I've been thinking quite a lot about the necessary preconditions for disabled and chronically ill Americans to be able to rely on a guarantee of healthcare. With every new public health low (e.g. PH leaders praising Oz as he murders disabled Americans), it seems increasingly difficult

if you do public facing work, people *will* just make shit up about you

Friends, have you translated your lived experiences into meaningful comments in support of gender-affirming care for youth? Please take the time to read @matthewcort.land's outstanding guide, linked below, & then get to commenting... the window of opportunity is closing. #ProtectTransKids

Something small you can do today that might actually matter! Highly recommend reading Matthew's entire post before commenting, they know how to run an effective comment campaign. I would appreciate it if you joined me in commenting. :>

I'm sometimes asked why I focus on gender-affirming care for trans youth. It's because the regime chose to start there, and if they succeed, it won't end there. New post on why this is the front line and what you can do before tomorrow's 5PM ET deadline. www.patreon.com/posts/150939...

If you’ve ever wondered who this truly impacts? My family. My child. We’ve already been hit by the shutdown of care from major hospitals in Wisconsin. Even though my insurance covers gender affirming care, my child can’t access it here, which means I can’t afford it. Please say something

Submitted a comment for each of these rule changes. It did take me a little while, but it's worth it, and this guidance is very good.

deleted a thread because someone whose surgery i helped pay for asked me to

when the 'nip hits

Matthew's guide made it easy for me to write a public comment opposing the proposed Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services rule banning GAC. Sex-variables researchers, please join in contributing your expertise to debunk sex bioessentialist myths being used to deny care to trans kids

what are you doing on a sunday night?

someone asks, "matthew, why are you on patreon, why not substack?" it's the nazis. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

It’s so funny how true this is and how pissed off the founders are this happened

I think I've set DMs so that anyone can ping me, if you have questions about commenting, I'm happy to field them. You can also message on patreon.

I'm adding a reply at the top of this thread to link to the Ars comment on the story - arstechnica.com/staff/2026/0... And the comment from Ben Edwards about how it happened. bsky.app/profile/benj...

Chris Mooney published "The Republican War on Science" in 2005.

A Washington Post columnist whose beat is food and science was whining on here yesterday about how scientists fleeing to Bluesky meant science was "hard left" - the truth is that if science has a leftward bias, it's because the right has decided to destroy science.

I did this. You can too! Clicking the Patreon link leads to this very helpful guide with the links to the actual submission forms for both shitty, stupid rules at the bottom. #SupportTransKids

Thanks to Matt for writing this guide. It took me 30 minutes to write a letter based on it. You need to write a substantive comment that argues the evidence, but it's worth it and important.

By the way, those public health leaders rushing to praise Oz — do you think they care that he's in the files?

I mean, I'm just going to keep detaching this from people who quote post with direct links to the regs dot gov page to bypass the guide — my whole thing is "here's how you submit a comment that /matters/" — if you want people to spam the register with nonsense, that's fine but do it on your own.

“Under the Administrative Procedure Act, agencies must consider substantive comments and respond to them in the final rule. When a rule is challenged in court, judges review the ‘administrative record’ which includes the public commenting docket.”

Public comment on Dr Oz's proposed rules to ban gender-affirming care for youth closes 2/17 One rule bans hospital-based care, the other eliminates Medicaid/CHIP coverage Together they'd make care virtually unavailable nationwide, including in shield law states www.patreon.com/posts/149210...

As a matter of black letter law, housing has enforceable standards of habitability. Assuming that the warehouses-converted-into-ICE-detention-jails will meet those same standards of habitability is contradicted by the available evidence provided by the conduct of the regime's secret police.

Some day I really hope patreon's social previews get fixed 🙃

DOGE is doxing Medicaid healthcare providers who provide treatments the administration demonizes, such as gender-affirming care and Mifepristone prescriptions. Must-read from @matthewcort.land

i'm just a simple country lawyer, not any sort of columbia j-school grad, but if a former president of the united states told me "aliens are real" - i'd ask a fucking follow up question

spent some time talking to a 62 year old trump supporter this afternoon its really, really important to get outside the bubble 🫠

This is actually quite helpful as we think about why the tech industry seems so blindsided by the pushback against their “innovations” from creative folks and scholars in the humanities.

Yes. Vote Blue. But maybe this time it shouldn’t be no matter who. The who matters. So be diligent

well theres a mental image that sticks with you

😬 I currently use this type of shit

i thought pam bondi was in her late 20s / early 30s based on how she behaved at that hearing ....she's 60

It's very clear that they aren't satisfied with cutting $1Trillion from Medicaid, they won't be satisfied until the only people with access to healthcare are the billionaires

#medsky you need to know that HHS released a Medicaid dataset today, with your NPI in it, linked to procedure codes and volume

Seems to me this is a BFD ... ... Trump Admin is juicing their anti-abortion supporters ... ... and whether or not they expect targeted attacks on abortion providers, Ah betcha they wouldn't mind. Linear extrapolation suggests extreme violence come November.

Biting my fingers not to type what I’m thinking. 🤬🤬🤬🤬 The evil & audacity of this so called “administration…” Four decades of violent attacks on abortion clinics & providers. Thousands of attacks. This of course waves the red cape.

they are so fucking evil. nb: most of Matthew's articles on Patreon are free to read without a membership. (i am a paying member because i value their work & want to help them keep it free)

IT'S HAPPENING! @nora.zone is setting up a Gavin's Priors bot and we need YOUR HELP to populate it. Email or DM me for spreadsheet access so you can contribute!

If you can spare a couple bucks a month, reader support lets me do this work and still pay my health insurance 🫠

#medsky you need to know that HHS released a Medicaid dataset today, with your NPI in it, linked to procedure codes and volume

🚨 The Trump regime released an HHS Medicaid dataset that can be used to build a ranked hit list of abortion and gender-affirming care providers, organized by patient volume, with names and addresses. They called it open source transparency. www.patreon.com/posts/150728...

Done.

Holy fuck

#important #trans #transgender #LGBTQ #feedback #comment #gender #medicine #treatment #health The deadline for this is coming up in just over one week. If you're a clinician, parent of a trans child, trans adult or just an informed ally who cares, please take a look at the attached post.

And of course there’s this piece about Oz in the Epstein files staging.blacksky.community/profile/did:...

Here‘s the first post looking at some of the rest of the despicable, vile things Oz has done as CMS administrator staging.blacksky.community/profile/did:...

Important and even more disturbing…