“we heard tale of expanding the tent”

The @slate.com art team remains elite

I would have continued keeping that a secret

NEW: 10 fellowship spots in complex family planning (the OBGYN subspecialty focused on abortion and contraception) went unfilled in this year’s match. Only 1-2 spots have typically been open in recent years. When I reported this story in the spring, I heard anecdotally that applications were down:

Need hallways the width of a gurney

No they fucking didn’t—they said another manufacturer can make generic mifepristone, the same drug that’s been on the market for 25 years

I was sent this by a Georgian this morning. 2025 premiums vs 2026 premiums for someone making $65k a year. Republicans in Washington did this. This is what I'm fighting to stop. This is what’s at stake in this shutdown fight.

Another one from me, this time focused on two places with many geographical hurdles that make accessing care difficult to begin with: Alaska and Hawaii

Actual Russell Vought

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

EMTALA mentioned!!!

ER wait times are going to be much longer when 13.7 million Americans lose their Medicaid coverage over the next decade due to this administration’s billionaire tax cuts, not to mention the higher premiums from expiring ACA subsidies, the thousands of jobs being lost every month, & massive inflation

Furthermore, the current law of the land - the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act - says that ERs cannot turn anyone away based on their ability to pay (or legal status), and nothing that is currently being debated in Congress relating to coverage/benefits would change that federal law

The biggest reason for longer waits is staffing shortages, which are driven by more people leaving healthcare practice than entering, esp nursing, due to bad management practices (often related to private equity). This administration’s immigration policies will significantly worsen these shortages.

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

This guy? Who literally said he wants to put civil servants “in trauma?”

We contacted more than 40 Planned Parenthood affiliates for this story on the state of care now that the GOP budget law is fully in effect. Service journalism with @garnethenderson.com:

@susanrinkunas.com and I contacted every Planned Parenthood affiliate potentially affected by the Medicaid “defund.” Here’s what we learned about whether people with Medicaid can still visit their local PP:

@autonomynews.co received a tip yesterday about concerns that the FDA seemed to have made some sort of change regarding mifepristone. As it turns out, it wasn’t bad news—a new generic has been approved.

If you let your push alerts pile up, they sure do tell a story

Neither the President nor the OMB Director, even though he was also an affiliate of Project 2025, has the authority to "cut" agencies, which are established by Congress - and can only be "cut" by Congress. (Also I see that DJT is now familiar with Project 2025 and is seemingly embracing it.)

Six Democratic senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee (Durbin, Schiff, Whitehouse, Klobuchar, Coons, and Welch) voted yes on two Trump district court nominees this morning, and my question remains, why do senior members of this party keep voluntarily ceding political capital to Donald Trump

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friends with large accounts, I'm not going to pester you personally but just generally speaking, I would sure appreciate a signal boost on this thing. We seem to have leveled out, and since this is a one-shot (won't be in bookstores) I'd like to get it out there as much as possible.

*Democratic consultant voice* “see! you should still pay me gobs of money to make you completely different and much shittier TV ads”

I based my renewal lease length on this possibility

It is October 1 and I received an invite to a holiday party

cannot stop thinking about Peanut

We contacted more than 40 Planned Parenthood affiliates for this story on the state of care now that the GOP budget law is fully in effect. Service journalism with @garnethenderson.com:

It's important to name the tools of authoritarianism so we can identify and condemn them with precision. I'm glad we now have a term for ICE's openly racist, degrading immigration arrests: Kavanaugh stops. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Unfortunately our government is drone striking random fishermen in the Caribbean

I lived in DC for a few months in 2010 when I was a congressional intern and even with Metro bomb threats and an NPR intern who was stabbed in the neck that summer I still felt like the scariest thing about the Metro was having to walk to the station in professional clothes with the humidity

Another devastating consequence of the Republican budget bill attacking Medicaid funding for abortion providers, which provide all kinds of essential healthcare

Cervical cancer has a known path of prevention with the HPV vaccine. But that also means it falls at the intersection of three cultural issues that are facing strong political opposition — broad access to low-cost or free reproductive health care, access to vaccines for children, and sex education.

Bari Weiss, an opinion writer, running CBS News? A real newsroom? With real reporters covering real beats? Via @oliverdarcy.bsky.social www.status.news/p/washington...

This is a direct result of the provision in the July reconciliation bill from Congress that was mainly meant to target Planned Parenthood.

NEW: Maine Family Planning, a key health care provider in Maine, is closing its primary care practice on Oct. 31 because it was kicked out of Medicaid by Trump's Big Beautiful Bill. This is the same bill that has defunded Planned Parenthood. From Maine Family Planning's statement:

With government funding lapsing last night, this marks the fourth shutdown under Trump: 1. Jan. 19, 2018 - Jan. 22, 2018 2. Feb. 9, 2018 - Feb. 9, 2018 (lasted over five hours) 3. Dec. 21, 2018 - Jan. 25, 2019 (longest shutdown in U.S. history) 4. Oct. 1, 2025 - ???

Leave the military or accept that you will be on the wrong side of history. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/leave-the-...

Put me over 50K you cowards

consuming the news in 2025

This is a ratfuck to keep the case alive in a very friendly venue, and potentially end telemedicine prescriptions of abortion pills nationwide. *1 in 4* abortions reported in the US last year were done with mifepristone via telehealth

I'm an independent journalist and somehow I keep being the first one to share big stuff like this. Support my work—and help my pay my rent—via @autonomynews.co. Worker-owned!! www.autonomynews.co/support/

we need evidence of two things: first, that trump can distinguish fantasy from reality and second, that trump is actually president

can never forget that Fred Trump spent his later years totally gaga but surrounded by a gaggle of senility-denial-enablers who drove him to a make believe office where a make believe secretary had him sign make believe papers—which sounds cute til you see the sequel & the secretary is Stephen Miller

This is on the HUD website