As always, #GoHabs. But if Buffalo won that wouldn’t suck. They haven’t made it to the playoffs in like 15 years and have never won a cup and I love an underdog.

They’re not normally my team, but I went to high school outside Buffalo and I am genuinely excited for the Buffalo Sabres.

It Could Lead to Tens of Thousands of Deaths. In the Meantime, It’s Wreaking Havoc on Americans’ Sanity. Imagine not being able to feed your kid because of a mistake on a piece of paperwork.

For @slate.com & @economichardship.bsky.social, I reported on how chaos and changes surrounding SNAP benefits are taking a toll.

People described endless fear and worry over feeding their kids, where their next meal will come from, and whether SNAP could become even more difficult to access.

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In Connecticut, Doctors Now Sue Patients Most Over Medical Bills, Surpassing Hospitals - KFF Health News Physicians, dentists, and other nonhospital providers account for more than 80% of health care debt collection cases in Connecticut courts, a CT Mirror-KFF Health News investigation finds.

Lawsuits by doctors and other nonhospital providers now dominate health care collections in Connecticut, accounting for more than 80% of cases filed against patients and their families in recent years.

The lawsuits are typically over bills of less than $3,000, but the impact can be devastating.

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

This Beanie Is Designed to Read Your Thoughts California-based startup Sabi is developing a thought-to-text wearable that could usher in the cyborg future.

this will be helpful for those who need it (eg, people who have strokes or lost the ability to type/communicate), but will have terrifying repercussions for everything else (companies having your neural data?!)

www.wired.com/story/this-b...

Do you live near a data center?

Do you know anyone who lives near a data center?

I want to talk to you!

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Ohio’s nursing homes are dumping patients at homeless shelters Long-term care facilities in Ohio are increasingly discharging their residents to homeless shelters, according to interviews and facility inspections.

Shocking story: Ohio’s nursing homes are dumping patients at homeless shelters

Adult bathhouses were a part of Minneapolis nightlife. Then police and panic pushed them out Forty years after the adult bathhouse ban was passed, the city council is considering reversing it. A myriad of components led to the ban, but for several decades, public sexual spaces in Minneapolis ...

In the 1970s and '80s, Minneapolis had numerous public sexual spaces. In the years to come, they would close until the final bathhouse ended service in 1988, one day before the ban took place. Raids and public fears about the AIDS crisis contributed to the city council unanimously passing a ban.

I *love* living in a society.

@jdcmedlock.bsky.social talks about tax positivity, and IMO the way to get there beyond meming is helping people understand what their tax dollars do. Because it is actually a lot! Even if you’re not personally, currently on a poverty program like Medicaid or SNAP.

Something I find very impressive about Mamdani is the way he highlights existing programs and how they serve New Yorkers.

I live in DC and the paid family leave here after my daughter was born has basically guaranteed I’m never complaining about city taxes again.

Which really just lends to the “cursed by a witch” hypothesis.

I am traveling for a family issue and it was too difficult to try to bring the baby. So. Not a fun time or a vacation. I just don’t have any responsibilities in the early morning here.

I slept in past 7 AM for the first time since before my daughter was born and somehow it made me feel more tired. Have I been cursed by a witch?

Ask A D.C. Candidate: A 51st Mayoral Forum Get the answers YOU need to (ranked-choice) vote for mayor.

For the first time in over a decade, D.C. is facing an open mayoral race — and it’s coming at an uncertain time.

Get the answers *you* need to (ranked-choice) vote for mayor at our April 20 forum with @washingtoninformer.com, Spotlight DC, + @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social.

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I am unclear on why anyone would accept a management position when the CEO says he’s going to lay them off as soon as he figures out how.

“New and improved” also. No one wants that! Absolutely no one!

Apparently the soda brand went out of business. RIP Cott cherry soda, Dr. Brown’s could never.

My favorite deli in Montreal switched cherry soda brands after like literally a hundred years of having the same one and I’m not saying it’s an anti-autistic hate crime but I’m also not not saying that.

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NEW: Where is the money that's supposed to help survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking and trafficking? $200 million in FY2025 appropriations is missing. for @19thnews.org 19thnews.org/2026/04/doj-...

Federal grants can save the lives of abuse victims. $200 million is sitting unspent. Changes made by the White House are preventing the distribution of funds meant to help survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking and trafficking. This year’s grants are missing too.

Federal grants can save the lives of abuse victims. $200 million is sitting unspent.

@jazzmyth.bsky.social reports

States change custody laws to keep children of detained immigrants out of foster care As parents become separated from their children because of ICE arrests, legal advocates worry immigrants’ children are at risk of being placed in foster care systems.

States change custody laws to keep children of detained immigrants out of foster care 19thnews.org/2026/04/ice-... via @19thnews.org

GOP states are taking up voting laws modeled after Trump’s SAVE America Act Ahead of midterm elections, some states are putting into effect new measures, including requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote.

Republican governors in Florida, Mississippi, Utah and South Dakota recently signed bills that would require documentary proof of citizenship for people looking to register ahead of state and local elections.

Under pressure, Swalwell says he’ll resign from Congress In the wake of separate allegations, Rep. Eric Swalwell dropped out of California's governor race and Rep. Tony Gonzales dropped his bid for reelection in Texas.

Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell of California announced Monday he’s resigning from Congress. In a statement, he apologized to his family and staff for “mistakes in judgment” he’d made while vowing to fight the “serious, false allegation made against me.”

Government Workers Say They're Getting Inundated With Religion “This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.”

“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.” www.wired.com/story/govern...

DC Metro sign for the “Pentagon City” station.

Where the grass is [redacted] and the girls are [redacted].

She should do what’s best for her — I have some friends’ spouses in similar situations. It’s pretty bleak.