🧵 The MAGA Congress that voted for a trillion dollars in Medicaid cuts will never be catheterized by a new grad on a float pool. They will receive VIP care for the rest of their lives while voting to make ours worse. This piece traces the full chain from DC to the bedside.
Watching the Democrats trot out 70+ year olds like Mills, Brown, Cooper, etc in all these must win senate races really drives home the importance of state legislatures. It’s a testament to how thin the Democratic bench is in many states, because the state legislative pipeline is in shambles 1/3
It will be extremely interesting to see what institutions like Fenway Health and NYU Langone do now. The ostensible reason for their ending of youth gender care is now gone - will they resume care for all the trans kids they abandoned?
i am a broken record on this, but i would have been much more willing to take everyone who wanted to end NPIs before I did way more seriously if were even half as loud about increasing indoor air quality
1. This weekend, a federal judge permanently blocked funding threats to providers and hospitals that provide trans youth care.
The judge also blocked "any similar policy."
Hospitals have NO excuse and must return to providing care under many blue state laws.
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What we already know about Jared Kushner is infinitely worse, from any possible angle, than anything we ever learned about Hunter Biden. And yet the media is completely ignoring it.
Open corruption is tolerated from one of the two parties. But only one.
@alexhanna.bsky.social I always tune in right at the end of the show :/
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Erin Reed does a deep dive on the federal ruling that lambasted Kennedy for illegally issuing a non-binding legal opinion that HHS used to bully scores of hospitals into closing gender clinics while saying it was just his opinion and protected as free speech.
NEW: Small business owners at Minnesota’s largest Latine shopping center are calling for government support in the wake of Trump’s ICE surge. The Plaza México shopping mall and food court on Lake Street is home to more than 80 businesses that are seeking funds, and many face the threat of eviction.
because I include allowing harm to happen without trying to fight back as "causing" it (for this context).
I'll never live up to what I want, but I try to always understand the needs better?
I donno if it makes sense.
I think it might also help that my rules are simple in concept, structured similarly, and are little bit vague.
The basics are
1) Don't be an asshole unintentionally
2) Don't cause harm that you can avoid
The thing is the implications of those mean I have to constantly be evaluating and learning
hm interesting. I would say I'm close to 10, not because I think I'm right, but rather because I've grown comfortable with being incorrect and needing to shift small things to better live up to or express the core of my morality.
accountability my ass, they will never face anything. he will go through life injured because of them, and they will go on and have a Tuesday
I am not even a purist and I hated it :/
but yeah understanding the flow is key to a lot of sports, especially skating team sports
and terrible is sometimes its own form of wonderful
The death camps etc were deliberately designed to reduce the toll that engaging in mass death did to the executioners.
If humans were innately cruel they wouldn't have had to seek out ways of reducing the harm.
This is also true of US military training.
I had one conservative teacher who hated my guts and screamed at me for 5 minutes in the hallway with the door open, and another conservative teacher who begrudgingly admitted I was right about a lot of stuff but disagreed with my prioritization and analysis. the rest were... yeah not great either
Things to Know
#1. Commercially available DNA tests don't mean what you think they mean. You might as well be asking a Magic 8 Ball if you're looking at ethnicity.
#2. Your high school civics/government/history teacher 9 times out of 10 was teaching propaganda
# 3. Companies don't care about you.
Pope defenders: uwu he's just a wittle birthday boy look at his big birthday hate
Trans people who can't get healthcare from like half of the hospitals in their state: what
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
"The Pope isn't responsible for the American Congress of Bishops banning trans healthcare" so the thing about the power of the Pope is that he could just overwrite them if BANNING ALL TRANS HEALTHCARE FOR EVERYONE ADULTS AND MINORS ALIKE was something he cared about
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Elon Musk basically accused Trump of being a pedophile and then got dinner with him again a few months later. Joe Rogan acted shocked and dismayed about ICE and Iran and now he’s standing behind Trump in the Oval Office. These guys only care about holding onto power through any means necessary
this is like a miracle
They called him crazy for that song and then spent the next 30 years doing exactly what the song said they'd do.
I am too. hell of a movie in basically all the ways.
Love this!!!
I missed it in theaters because last year was shit for me, and I wanted to make sure I was in a place to WATCH it, y'know?
anyway long story short I was snotting into a tissue last night as I finally got to watch it. glad I waited till I was in a good place for the story because holy shit.
This was revelatory for me because I've never heard of a woman being lauded in the context of AIDS drug expertise. I've only heard about genius white guys.
Iris Long was the woman who taught ACT-UP and who initiated what became ACT UP’s famous treatment and data committee.
Democrats being urged by politically toxic consultants not to oppose the politically toxic tech so as to not lose donations that are politically radioactive. Absolutely perfect Democrating.
Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history
you don't get to misgender me if I say something you don't like, sue.
