They finally figured out how to reduce health care insurance costs! Just take your insurance away when you get sick. And of course all those expensive preventative procedures

Trust me, disabled people feel this hostility acutely.

A huge problem in Bed-Stuy, where I live, is deed theft. A very organized and courageous group is bringing attention to this, but the battle is hard.

Last week, they arrested a victim of this, district leader candidate Carmella Charrington. This morning, they arrested our CITY COUNCIL MEMBER.

Sen. Warren: If you’re buying a drug on TrumpRx, there is a more than 1 in 4 chance that Trump’s discount is actually a price hike. For an anti-big Pharma guy, you sure don’t seem worried about steering patients toward more expensive drugs that are going to pad big Pharma’s profits.

CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits The report, which had cleared the agency’s scientific-review process, had been delayed. It now won’t be published at all, people familiar with the decision told The Post.

SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2
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MAHA's leaders claim they want to end sickness, but they intend to do it by ending chronically ill and disabled people's access to the care that keeps us alive.

The MAHA plan for ending chronic illness is simply ending chronically ill people.🧵

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"Cleaning up the risk pool" is a euphemism for eugenicist depraved heart murder. When the Trump regime takes health insurance away from people who rely on it to pay for the medically necessary services that keep us alive, we die. RFK Jr knows that 🧵

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RFK Jr. told the House E&C Committee today that the way to bring down healthcare costs is to "clean up the risk pool" — remove the people who cost too much. He said the $4.3 trillion we spend on chronic disease is the emergency. He said most of Minnesota's autism services funding was stolen. 🧵

This is horrific. I feel physically ill.

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In 1777, George Washington mandated that all members of the Continental Army be inoculated for smallpox.

In 2026, Pete Hegseth—citing the Biden administration's COVID vaccine mandate—ended the requirement that service members receive a flu vaccine.

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I was catheterized by 2 new graduate nurses (one of whom had never done the procedure on a patient before), using incorrect technique, without adequate pain control, after a delay that doubled my volume past the hospital's own intervention threshold

it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

I belong to the generation of people who resist getting diagnosed for anything because any such diagnosis becomes a pre-existing condition for which you will absolutely be penalized if ever you succeed in getting health insurance

Pennsylvania Court Overturns Abortion Coverage Ban, Ohio Judge Mad He Can't Deny More Abortions: April 20 News Roundup Plus, more good news from Michigan and Montana.

In today's roundup, we have three "actual good news" items, which may be a record.

(Don't ask how many not-good items there are.)

fucked up that polymarket is a dystopian tech company rather than a place you go to buy fresh produce from the local farmer and her three boyfriends

seven months on beehiiv, by the numbers was leaving substack worth it?

There's a lot of talk about leaving Substack & whether it will be the death-knell of your newsletter. I have been on Beehiiv for 7 months now & @tlpavlich.gay helped me run some numbers. So, was leaving Substack worth it? The answer, for me, has been a resounding "yes."

Here are the hard numbers:

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Alligator Alcatraz phones were cut off. Then the beatings began, court docs say One attorney wrote in a sworn declaration that officers broke a detainee’s wrist and “pepper sprayed everyone.”

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That sports bra thing? Keeps women in hot climates from jogging. Keeps them from gyms. Keeps them from getting strong. Also this is your reminder to lift heavy; you can’t get bulky by accident or quickly. Advice that tells women not to lift weights is about keeping women weak.

There is a huge desi population in Texas and this very deliberately fucks an extremely large number of people.

As usual this is not going to go well - it’s unfair to trans women; intersex women & ppl who don’t yet know they’re intersex are going to face trauma; and this will be used to harass cis queer, athletic, and military women in pageantry

All these crooks need to have their entire estates appropriated by the next administration. Nationalize their assets. Sell all their belongings off, including their tee vees and furniture. Give the proceeds to mutual aid groups.

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.

ZOHRAN: “TBH, I don’t think too much about how Republicans portray me. The power of an ideology is judged in the worth of its delivery— to be told a city-run grocery store is implausible but $500 MILLION/day to kill ppl in Iran & Lebanon is necessary speaks to a broken politics.”

There’s such an easy case to be made for real universal healthcare here. One less major thing to worry about = less stress = less political instability.

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

And life insurance policies for female children pay out at significantly lower rates than those for male children.

In real dollars-and-cents terms, women's lives are worth less.

A Prominent PR Firm Is Running a Fake News Site That’s Plagiarizing Original Journalism at Incredible Scale A PR firm is running a strange AI-fueled plagiarism mill that's ripping off — and mangling — a huge amount of local and national reporting.

NEW: We caught a site run by a buzzy PR firm ripping off local and national journalism at an almost incomprehensible scale -- it's like a fully automatic machine gun spraying bullets of pure plagiarism directly into the internet

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I called for this prosecution three months ago (blacksky.community/profile/did:...).

It is my sincere and fervent hope that zealous competence prosecuting these ICE criminals in defense of the people of Minnesota is all we see from this point forward.

i'm going to be beating my "get off substack" drum again.

because seriously: get off substack.

stop helping literal sex traffickers make money.