Dr. Lisa Corrigan

NEWS — Senate R's expect there WILL be a vote on a GOP alternative to Dems' 3-year Obamacare subsidy extension bill. Almost everyone at lunch spoke up in favor, per 3 attendees. This is a shift Sounds like it will be Crapo-Cassidy bill Thune to announce shortly w/@bresreports

The GOP plan is to let premiums massively spike for 21 million Americans.

And then it gives them $1k per year ONLY IF they switch to bronze plans — which it also raises the cost of.

Awful awful plan that fucks over sick people.

Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.

One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.

When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?

Could someone just try being honest with students and parents about job outcomes and what it means to get an education and how it affects you if your instructor is struggling to piece together a living wage by teaching 5 different classes at different colleges at the same time?

I love this so much. 🙌🏻

Issue 19 — Free Float LLC

This is awesome. Matt Moscardi and @freefloat.bsky.social ran the numbers and found that companies dismantling their DEI programs in response to the Trump Admin have boards with more political connections - and also lower measures of shareholder value, like TSR.

www.freefloat.llc/boardroom-th...

Absolutely buzzing over this new video of a rarely seen giant squid

If you call it a “male immaturity epidemic,” a very different set of phenomena come into focus, as this thread shows

Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities They want to escape from regulation and ‘failing’ democracy — but are they more opportunistic than libertarian?

I would say this because I edited it but @mshannahmurphy.bsky.social's piece on tech bros founding their own for-profit cities really is unmissable reading www.ft.com/content/b127...

"Distinguishing between different bad things is making excuses for bad things" is a catastrophic position to hold and I see it all the time

Jay Bhattacharya is advocating a eugenicist public health policy.
🎁🔗

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

Incredible video from Reddit (too large to upload the screencap). CBP agents attempt to detain a flower vendor and end up getting chased into a vacant lot by a crowd of teenagers. What a bunch of impotent sad sacks.

www.reddit.com/r/EyesOnIce/...

There are way too many people in the world that have not heard 'fuck off' enough.

Sexual Assault Apps.

NEW: The Trump administration sent Head Start employees a six-page list of "prohibited words" for grant applications, including terms like: disabilities, tribal, Black, and women.

The administration wants to erase communities and block access to early childhood services. We'll see them in court.

Hepatitis B vaccine guidance set to be rolled back for US babies: what the science says A panel of US vaccine advisers voted to rescind a recommendation that all newborns should receive a hepatitis B vaccine at birth.

This is an excellent read. The more you know. #Science 🧪

“… we were advancing toward elimination of hepatitis B in the United States,” says Ward “I am deeply concerned that if the ACIP rescinds this policy, they’re going to contribute to the spread of hepatitis B rather than its elimination.”

For the First Time This Century, Child Mortality Is Likely to Rise The latest report from the Gates Foundation predicts an alarming trend for the health of children around the world.

Good job everyone. Esp the brainworm cokehead narcissist.

For the First Time This Century, Child Mortality Is Likely to Rise | TIME share.google/IFX2baTfhGpy...

Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.

Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.

paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...

MAGA 101: Inside Trump’s fast-track masterclass in undermining academic freedom - Index on Censorship A report on the impact of the Trump administration’s assault on research and teaching in the United States and what the future might hold for free expression in academia in other democracies

"Scholars At Risk have warned that the Trump administration’s assault on universities is turning the US into a “model for how to dismantle” academic freedom."

And there are hints the Trump model could be applied in the UK.

An essential read from @emma-briant.co.uk in
@indexoncensorship.org

Yes. Gamification plus sports betting on steroids. The incentives to fuck up legislation to affect this market? Insane.

Hang in there and take all the PT you can!!

This is an abomination. Mass-scale political demobilization.

BERMAN: Would it be legal for police in Arkansas to kill suspected drug dealers on a boat in a lake?

TOM COTTON: The premise of your question is not well-founded


BERMAN: The answer is no. It would not be legal to kill them.

This is what government censorship actually looks like: defunding entire fields, deporting researchers, and quite effectively chilling speech that helps people understand how our information systems are being exploited and calls out powerful people and platforms for their bullshit.

The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.

Holy shit.

Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

JUST IN: The NY Times lawsuit names names, saying the Pentagon's new press restrictions violate the First Amendment by forcing out journalists who ask adversarial questions and replacing them with avowed MAGA supporters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

loudly guffawing in the coffee shop 😂

*looks directly at camera*

See also: university presidents/administrators, editors/journalists at the papers/networks of record, CEOs, etc. etc. The skills that secured peak elite status in every societal institution pre-2025 are precisely those least suited for countering a far right authoritarian threat to the Republic.

Chart showing an enormous July spike in ICE arrests in DC of people without criminal records

File under "charts that need no explanatory context to make the story clear" wapo.st/4iC8oCR