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Freelance journalist and true crime TV researcher/booker. Bylines in places notable, shuttered, or best left unsaid. Day to day, note to note - aren't we all? https://www.clippings.me/danreilly11
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just flashing back to the 2020 primary when the "but how will they pay for it, huh?" Dems lined up against universal healthcare. There's always money in the banana stand for death and explosions.

From two years ago: www.theguardian.com/world/2023/a...

I bet Morgan Wallen’s bar is going off right now

My feature on how musicians deal with the American medical system is here, with artists detailing their struggles to get decent care for cancer, gender-affirming care, chronic illnesses, substance abuse, and catastrophic injuries. This one is important to me, so please take a few mins to read it!

Confirming this is true

This is one of many ways the trans rights and disability rights are linked: “Having to take medicine for the rest of your life” is not something to avoid at all costs, it’s something that comes for us all eventually as we get older. Disabled rights are your rights, trans rights are your rights

In which I say way too much but for a good cause.

Seeking help for an upcoming story: iimmigration/civil rights groups/attorneys who are representing people -- especially children --- who were seeking medical care in the U.S. but face deportation or have already been deported. Email me at: [email protected] Thanks!

"I gotta say protect trans youth. I gotta say fuck ICE. And with my whole fucking chest, I gotta say free Palestine. Anybody watching at home, anybody walking by, you wanna know who said it, you tell em it's the mother fucking Wonder Years from Philadelphia." youtu.be/xIj2Ozlp1y8?...

thinks he has his finger on the pulse of NYC when he barely has one himself

ICE arrested Job Garcia while he was running errands in LA. Job is a US citizen, a scholar, and a brilliant photographer. He’s also my friend. But none of that should determine his humanity. ICE must release Job Garcia immediately.

the Mets will continue until morale improves

NYCers, this is really good and quite smart.

A hearty “Fuck the Dodgers” chant from protestors present.

Those pop star days: Sly & the Family Stone's absurd 1969, one of the greatest years of pop dominance + cultural relevance we've ever seen. Includes: -Sly Stone, one of one (two max) -Jim Brown's unwanted sexual advances -Many many classic sample sources -HIGHER www.billboard.com/music/pop/sl...

Seeing reports of ICE going to restaurants in Brooklyn so wanted to note some guidance I’ve heard from sources while working on an update to this piece (which itself will be updated next week) www.eater.com/24364171/ice...

Thrilled to say I'll be interviewing @mymorningjacket.bsky.social's Jim James on Sunday night at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee, for the NIVA conference. Registration is free if you're in town: www.nivassoc.org/conference

if you put your ear to the head of anyone who believed Trump was anti-war, you can hear the ocean

Not to be petty but I’m happy to see the story I battled through for months is finally getting more hits than a recap of whatever ‘The Valley’ is.

Essential reporting from @danreilly.bsky.social

Really poignant and magnificent reporting illustrating how terrible the US health insurance “system” is. In reality not a system, just a patchwork of coverage that many people fall through the cracks in, and others find out that even though they “have” insurance, it’s woefully inadequate 1/4

Today is a particularly good day to support trans mutual aid as a concrete way to fight back against the fuckers trying to take their healthcare and other rights away. 🧵 of a few groups, campaigns, and individuals you can donate to:

the strange thing about getting this done is, for the first time in years, I seem to have nothing pending. No work on the horizon, no surgery and months of recovery looming, no sick parent or dying relative to worry about. It'd be freeing if I wasn't worried about getting writing gigs ever again.

It’s diverting care and basic humanity from a vulnerable population, not attention. Maybe read a book instead of writing an instantly forgettable one.

“Some lower-income musicians fall into that hole where they’re not making enough for a subsidized ACA plan but aren’t eligible for Medicaid in their state. There’s a lot of acute financial anxiety.” American healthcare is a scam