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eeseidler.bsky.social
Health policy nerd * Former Dem politco * Twitter recovery
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Movie you’ve seen more than six times, no Wars or Trek or LOTR because Millennial teenagers couldn’t relate to those movies but rode hard for boomer divorcees screwed over by their husbands

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

This exchange is so triggering for women in a way I can’t even explain

These people are irredeemable. www.mediamatters.org/immigration/...

This part right here

CMS's proposed #ACA marketplace rule would mean fewer people with health coverage, more red tape, higher costs, less time to enroll, plus decreased access for certain groups. People currently struggling to afford the basics would once again lose out. Some highlights (lowlights?) - a 🧵:

“Dr. Wendell Parkey, a physician in Gaines County with many Mennonite patients, said the idea that the community was malnourished was mistaken. Mennonites often avoid processed foods, raise their own livestock and make their own bread, he noted.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/h...

One simple way to think about federal cuts to Medicaid is as cuts to state budgets. That reality has consequences for policy--and politics. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/b...

“U.S. Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend as part of a broader purge of the federal workforce”

I really like Bluesky so far but I seem to be in a debate that audiobooks are in fact books, but no one seems to say otherwise #booksky

The way by son (not watching the TV) just said, “who’s that girl dying laughing?” about @andersoncooperfnz.bsky.social laughing at Ralph Fiennes doing “very demure, very mindful”

The way my kid ran in the room and said, “my song!” when Beyoncé sang Spaghettii does make me question my parenting

Just wait until the “good fats”, MAHA crowd realizes they can’t get their avocados

Trump announces blanket tariffs on goods imported from Canada, Mexico, and China