15 years old. The magic number where an adult can take victimize you sexually without consequences, but another adult would need be executed by firing squad if they get too close with a puberty blocker or a sexual education comic book.

Private equity firm Sycamore Partners bought Walgreens. Now Walgreens has stopped giving most workers paid vacation on Thanksgiving, Christmas and other major holidays. Private equity takeovers are a disaster for workers, and customers.

they are taking a wrecking ball to our healthcare system every chance they get, i swear

Single-dose #malaria treatment as effective as multi-dose regimen, trial shows At day 28, 93% of recipients of the single-dose therapy were free of parasites in their blood, compared with 90% of multiple-dose recipients. www.cidrap.umn.edu/m...#malaria Photo: Ken Doerr / Flickr cc

Guess what was done in Australia. Modelling of infection spread so businesses could manage shortages, rather than for prevention.

This is obviously very bad all by itself for many reasons, but I feel like this is the road that leads to Chinese diaspora families being locked up in camps.

“The prohibited activities would include joint research, co-authorship on papers, and advising a foreign graduate student or postdoctoral fellow. The language is retroactive, meaning any interactions during the previous 5 years could make a scientist ineligible for future federal funding.”

So... now MAGA is at war with both acetaminophen *and* ibuprofen?

Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.

Roy Scheider with Bob Fosse on the set of All That Jazz, 1979 The still photographer on the set was Josh Weiner.

Insurers are down because a one-year tax credit extension credits won't stabilize ACA market. Folks on the federal exchange have until December 15th to sign up. And passing credits at year-end does nothing to resolve uncertainty for setting 2027 rates. A "Doc Fix' cadence won't work for insurance.

I’ve been saying that Democrat should never have cast the stakes of the shutdown as ACA premium subsidies when the public understood it the stakes as trying to throttle an Administration otherwise reveling in the unfettered power over spending and violence it had appropriated for itself

Hilarious seeing @punchbowlnews.bsky.social provide cover for @schumer.senate.gov here. The Democratic whip did not "break" with his party. This was orchestrated by Schumer with a unified caucus.

It seems almost weekly now that there is a headline about a healthcare worker who has been violently assaulted by a patient. When will it stop?

Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"

Also, mass layoffs are happening across a growing number of industries, and the job market is BRUTAL. Anyone who thinks they won't need a marketplace plan in 2026 just because they have employer-sponsored healthcare right now needs a serious reality check

The fact that there was no demand about Trump putting the military in our cities, and the funding of ICE terror was always a big tell.

Congratulations to Anabel Maler, whose book Seeing Voices, Analyzing Sign Language Music won SMT’s Emerging Scholar Book Award! @oupacademic.bsky.social

I have been actively watching contracts and surge funding over the last few days and what I would say to my friends in Baltimore is “be absolutely ready, right now.”

I asked Georgetown law prof David Super wtf is going on with this latest demand for states to claw back benefits already sent out. He says the law doesn't allow for this, and if the USDA is mad that states already sent out SNAP money, too bad—they were following USDA's own guidance. Full comments:

Across Eastern Europe, they have what are known as "lustration" laws that do exactly this for people who were in the Stasi and its various equivalents. It's a model we should be examining.

When I was in the senate, my job was digital comms. Silly me thinking my boss being on the Health committee got me access to good resources on how to tell millions about the worst public health emergency in a century. Nope! Never even got a single briefing! Was told to YOLO vaccine messaging!

Tell me you don’t understand the ACA without telling me you don’t understand the ACA

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

“He inspired generations of students to see medicine as an art and musicians to see music as a form of care.”

Societies that can’t keep commitments also can’t have rights. Or a currency. bsky.app/profile/aaro...

ICYMI, yesterday, far-right-wing federal district court judge Reed O’Connor approved a deal to dismiss criminal fraud charges against Boeing for the 737 Max air disasters There had been a *stronger* Biden-era plea deal in 2024, which O’Connor rejected, but now he approves a weaker Trump deal

Have been thinking of putting together slides of contemporary and historical accounts and having the students guess which is which

clip to encourage click thru's: highly recommended read and Max Read is a great account to follow. see alt text

More people have died in ICE custody in last 9 months than in the entire prior 4 years. We hear of a few, but most barely make the news. Cases like Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel. He was in perfect health when ICE detained him. He disappeared in June & by August was in a vegetative state.

Brand new data: Republicans blamed for the shutdown (+12) and for health care premiums going up (+28!!). These are stunning numbers. Republicans aren't immune from the pressure this creates. Time to press our advantage. Stand for what we believe in.

We’re back in court today because President Trump is refusing to fully fund SNAP benefits. We’re filing a motion asking the court to force the administration to comply with their order and ensure 42 million people won’t go hungry.

"The...women revealed new qualities of themselves as they approached this unfamiliar style, so different from the straighter, more frontal, longer lines of the Balanchine style. Pliés were deeper; shoulders were tilted and twisted...backs bent deeply; cheekbones tilted..."

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social out here doing all the side quests

They want riots.

The Dems who voted to confirm Brooke Rollins: Baldwin (WI) Bennet (CO) Booker (NJ) Cortez Masto (NV) Durbin (IL) Fetterman (PA) Gallego (AZ) Hassan (NH) Heinrich (NM) Hickenlooper (CO) Klobuchar (MN) Ossoff (GA) Peters (MI) Rosen (NV) Schiff (CA) Shaheen (NH) Slotkin (MI) Warnock (GA) Welch (VT)

I do not want a robot to load the dishwasher, or a flying car, or data centers in space that create automatic email summaries, I just want to stop feeling constant anxiety about losing access to health care

Drug testing people for food assistance is just telling people who have addiction (which is a disease) that they should fuck off and starve to death. I don't believe in starving people because of health conditions.

The key thing re. Moderna and other companies in the same situation - when the next pandemic hits, which it will, they won't be there to save us. The same will be true for scientists and other responders who immediately stood up in the face of a devastating pandemic - they too will be gone.

"Our Republican focus groups found that taking away food from struggling parents is a surefire way to increase the birth rate. I have no idea why it's not working."

A pregnant mom is four times more likely to die in Louisiana than in California… yet more than 80% of pregnancy-related deaths are preventable apple.news

Here Trump takes his entire theory of governance to its logical conclusion by demanding Democrats improve the parts of government he keeps trying to destroy

GISAID is now blocking genomic sequencing access to critical resources like Nextstrain, Covspectrum, Outbreak-info, & others. This makes us less safe, as live tracking of viral evolution remains critical for assessment of emerging threats. This needs to be escalated.

Ahead of the 1st shutdown of US food aid to hungry Americans in 60 years, some of the 200,000 Little Free Library locations are converting into food pantries. Thanks @littlefreelibrary.bsky.social

Ah, but you see, “male breast cancer” is different from “female breast cancer” and therefore this discriminates based on “medical use” and not sex — the Supreme Court, probably

Link's perma ban is wrong and should be reversed.

UnitedHealth traditionally holds an investor day in early December to provide its new year outlook. With the anniversary of Brian Thompson's murder coming up, they are not doing that this year. They will be providing 2026 guidance with the Q4 earnings call in the new year.