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Freelance Editor, Dramatist, Medieval Studies. I want time to read, breathe, watch TCM, and walk on the beach. Trying to forget I used to work in all things DATA. > 120 days clean from MSM
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Jail or deportation!

apnews.com/article/gulf... Bristling at 'Gulf of Mexico' name change on maps, Mexico says it might sue Google

@kairyssdal.bsky.social thanks for your statement today on @marketplace.org

One virus. Thats all it takes to lose your health forever. Maybe, like me, you caught mono and your body fought hard and you recovered. But did you?

So they literally could have set up 400 people in a $1500 a month apartment for 29 YEARS for what they spent to abuse people. Or housed almost 1000 people for a year at the same rate.

Pfizer’s cancer drug commercial was beautiful, but their breast cancer drug Ibrance costs $10k per month and their prostate cancer drug Xtandi costs $22k per month. Beautiful commercials don’t change the fact that 42% of cancer patients exhaust their life savings in 2 years.

Unelected or unconfirmed officials and their surrogates should NOT be locking up government employees out of their office and downloading information from their computers. #MuskMask

Hey look, another instance of the total failure of Article I of the Constitution. This is an agency created by a law of Congress in 1961. The President does not have the power to do this. Except, he can if Congress does nothing.

DO NOT DISCLOSE ANYTHING.

When you punch a Nazi, claim it was an "awkward gesture"

I've been asked why, if my given name is a #traditionally #female one, I always supply my preferred pronouns (she/her/hers). (1/1) Here's my answer:

With the threat posed by Trump ahead of us, it’s never been more important to be connected to defenders of truth, democracy & American ideals. These are the vetted content creators & media sources that I trust & recommend who bring me information & inspiration every day. 💙🇺🇸 go.bsky.app/3Q31Ph9

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Fellow editors, writers, freelancers and friends: if you have ever used The Conscious Style Guide, you are familiar with its amazing creator, Karen Yin. Karen and her partner have lost their home in the LA fires. If you can donate, it would be much appreciated! @ gofund.me/7c76fd2f

While we’re banning books… Finland is teaching children in school how to recognize fake news and propaganda as part of critical thinking and civic responsibility. Some of this will seem very familiar. Be. Like. Finland.

The wild part is if schools here even tried to teach this the anti-public schools crowd would descend on school boards and accuse them of indoctrination. 🫤 Not great!

Our seventh most-read story of this year: When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients. Read more (published October) ⬇️

Is it sinking in?

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Just doesn’t get better than this. 🔥❤️❤️❤️

Psycho megalomaniac billionaire tries to seize power over Earth, Mars, Moon and do another hostile take over of governments & planets, not companies this time. What. The. Fuck.

Glad this popped up it was much needed.

Post Office Annual Loss: $9.5 Billion US Pop: 345 million Yearly Cost Per Person: $27.50 That seems like a pretty reasonable fee to live in a society where I can mail an envelope from Florida to Alaska for 55 cents. I spend more each month on Humble Bundles

With the appointment of Devin Nunes to the Intel Advisory, I remind you that 1. Devin is STILL suing @devincow.bsky.social after nearly 6 years 2. Running Devin's lawfare was his chief of staff KASH PATEL, who aims to sic the FBI on my Cow 3. Kash & Devin have to go through Weisselberger first

Elon is reading Twitter DMs of • Congressmen • donors • CEOs • federal employees • espionage rings & bot farms • heads of state As of 2022, DMs were accessible in admin god-mode unless BOTH parties deleted their correspondence. $44BB was a bargain for the kompromat. This was the "business plan."

It’s not funny. He’s handing the reins of the intelligence services to a man who already abused his office to target constituents with (ongoing!) lawfare. Watch how quickly civil and criminal law become one under his gestapo.

Grandma got run over by a reindeer, for real this time.

Blue Sky is strong - X is dissapating #Photography #BlueSky

The shadow hug works for me.

Muskrat wasn’t elected by anyone. He shouldn’t have a say in any legal or political matters pertaining to Americans. #SheShed

Reminder to Depeche Mode fans that Martin Gore has a 1989 EP (nearly a full album) called Counterfeit that is basically an extra double-secret DP album. I’m guessing synth fans of every era knew this already but as we say around here, “Better told twice than not at all.”

Yo. A 6.5 quake just hit off the coast of Alaska under the Bering Sea. #Earthquake

When they talk about privatizing Veterans’ care and Medicare, they mean allowing companies to provide healthcare for a profit. But how do companies make those profits? By *denying* care to many who need it. Don’t get fooled by the “privatization” label. It means “for profit” and YOU are the cost.

Expecting people to be sad about the murder of a man who leveraged a broken industry (that companies like his broke in the first place) to make personal millions while making healthcare a privilege and squeezing out the poorest people, is a fundamental misunderstanding of the mood in this country.

REALLY IMPORTANT UPDATE PLEASE SHARE #ASafeChoice physicians WILL prescribe medication abortion via telehealth FOR WOMEN WHO ANTICIPATE NEEDING THIS MEDICATION. REPEAT: You do NOT need to be currently pregnant to get this prescription. In an era of potentially draconian abortion bans, take note!

Two years ago today we were awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for protecting The US Capitol on January 6th 2021. Almost 4 years later the efforts to downplay, whitewash and minimize what happened appear to be succeeding. I won't ever stop standing up to them.

United CEO Andrew Witty gave an address to the company today (leaked to me), telling employees "we guard against...unnecessary care" and that "There are very few people in the history of the U. S. healthcare industry who had a bigger positive effect on American healthcare than Brian [Thompson]."

"Resentment for Thompson was widespread at the company, the employee said, citing an internal company announcement about his death that only garnered 28 comments despite being seen by 16,000 employees." UnitedHealthcare Tells Employees to 'Shut Up' www.kenklippenstein.com/p/unitedheal... #UHC #CEO