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Aging tech nerd, but never a bro. Cocktail aficionado. I have been told I make the best Old Fashioned some folks have ever had. I enjoy cooking almost as much as eating. Longtime Delawarean.
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I don't think enough people realize that the Republican budget will make healthcare more expensive for millions of people—not just those on Medicaid. If you get your healthcare through the Affordable Care Act, your bills will skyrocket. All to give billionaires tax breaks.

I don't understand how dem leaders look at a senator being tackled at a noem briefing and say, "we need answers." You have the answers. You need to do something.

RFK Jr’s ACIP pick, Martin Kulldorff, said one of the most disturbing images from the pandemic was a toddler crying about having to wear a mask. I see toddlers cry about everything all the time, and I found it far more disturbing to see refrigerator trucks full of body bags outside of the hospitals…

They keep talking about punishing protestors as if this country wasn’t FOUNDED BY PROTESTERS WHO ENSHRINED THE RIGHT TO PROTEST, I AM SO TIRED OF HOW STUPID THINGS HAVE BECOME

Well this is awkward

“‘There’s been an intelligence community chatbot that’s been deployed across the enterprise,’ Gabbard said, according to MeriTalk. ‘Opening up and making it possible for us to use AI applications in the top secret clouds has been a game changer.’” I’m sorry, they…WHAT?!

NBC Sports Philly might have forsaken our beloved P00P scorebug, but the MLB app still has our back. If you squint.

New York has a higher per-capita income, a lower crime rate and a functional insurance system.

THIS 1. When people lose their healthcare, the costs for people who still have healthcare go up 2. Many hospitals rely on patients with medicaid. Big cuts to medicaid close hospitals 3. Higher medical costs mean people have less money for other things, hurting/ruining UNRELATED small businesses

My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut *everyone* loses services.

seriously though why DON’T the biggest accounts use alt text?

This whole thread is absolute gold and should be required reading for anyone who complains about taxes, the postal service, or “government waste.”

1) USPS did not lose $3.3b. It provided a service that cost $3.3b. *The Pentagon* loses you money, however, every time it accidentally yeets a fighter jet off the deck of a carrier

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Alt text, because that’s what Mr. Rogers would do.

"How did the West fall, granma?" "Well, a bunch of incredibly fragile man-babies with more money than humans should be allowed to have decided to light it all on fire because somehow, somewhere, a minority was being treated like a human being. And pronouns. They hate pronouns."

It’s a lovely spring day on the water to relax and tune out for a bit. I hope you find a way to do the same today in whatever fashion resonates with you.

Hey Amazon it’s now April 22. Where is my pre-order?! I’ve been waiting a long time for this.

A THREAD 🧵: Why “studying” the vaccine-autism link again is dangerous pseudoscience and not “open-minded inquiry”

they are segregationists, it has been obvious from the jump, and i think that pundits who dismissed the charge as hyperbolic should explain why they couldn’t see the fact pattern

Just another reminder that NECROBANE is $3 on ebook platforms all month, and Book 3, ADVOCATE comes out next month bookshop.org/p/books/necr...

Same. I just don’t believe that, when Republicans are in the minority, they can throw up roadblocks to basically anything the Democrats wanna do, but when Democrats are the minority, they can’t do anything.

Fourteen retired federal judges, including Nancy Gertner and Shira Scheindlin, argue that if Judge Dale Ho finds that DOJ's request to dismiss the Eric Adams case is part of a quid pro quo, he should reject the request and maybe appoint a special prosecutor. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

huh weird!

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

My husband, as a disabled person, is a Medicaid recipient. The number on the left is how much his upcoming surgery (which he needs to BREATHE NORMALLY) would cost w/o Medicaid. The number on the right is what it’s costing us. The end of Medicaid would kill disabled folks.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who killed so many children in Samoa they ran out of child-sized coffins, has been confirmed to lead Health and Human Services. The vote was 52-48. All Dems and Mitch McConnell, whose fault this is, voted no. All other Republicans voted yes. The blood will be on their hands.

An unelected South African has taken control of the US Treasury and is deciding to stop payments on American obligations, in violation of numerous court orders, and admits in the Oval Office that he has done so upon incorrect information, while the President sits impotently behind the Resolute Desk.

If you're wondering why Trump, Musk, and Vance are attacking the judiciary👇

I'd rather continue to fund the banking police (who have returned billions to consumers) rather than giving everyone a check for $2.15

Pitchers and Catchers in 3 days!