Haley Quinn

if you ever recieve an email from me with the phrase "CMS Administrator Dr. Oz" in it please know it was edited from the original "The CMS Administrator, who is somehow literally Dr. Oz"

it is that time again

Based on my first 4 days of doing it, I think supervising undergrad interns might be my calling. I'm passing on Valuable Labor Movement Knowledge and getting compliments on my outfits, what a dream!

Still processing that they released the maha commission report that spends tens of pages on the importance of nutrition for children's health while they're literally trying to cut SNAP benefits for 4 million kids. An almost aspirational level of tolerance for cognitivie dissonance.

ALARMING: More people prescribed medication following its invention

how big is the niche of people who also went through catechism during the time period they were really pushing the rebrand of confession to "reconcilation" who also have to read about budget reconciliation for work & keep imagining this image ??? there must be tens of us.

New self care hack that's worked for me: every time rfk pisses me off I schedule a medical appointment that I've been avoiding. Getting an overdue COVID booster this weekend thanks to his latest hearing ❤️

transitioning into a promotion & having it be so well-received by colleagues has really affirmed by belief that the greatest professional asset you can have is being generally pleasant to work with and normal to people

11 years ago I accepted an internship at AFT and tomorrow I start as acting deputy director of our healthcare team, so I *may* be biased but I really cannot recommend the AFT internship experience enough. Please share with anyone you know looking for (paid) DC internships!

www.aft.org/careers

will someone please explain the definition of epidemic to this champion of gold standard science

archive.cdc.gov/www_cdc_gov/...

The incredibly high rate of People With Political Ambitions per capita in the dc suburbs makes for some truly fascinating local elections

My mom takes sending chocolate bunnies from the local chocolate shop in her hometown to us so serious & it's very cute. I am both Jewish and fully 30 years old, but she had to check which kinds of chocolate both my wife and best friend would prefer for their Easter baskets. Genuinely love this.

he's in charge of programs that provide health coverage to 1 in 3 people in this country and it's not even in the top 5 worst headlines of today 🫠

The Musk Detox begins

Also I do really need people to understand that you cannot buy your way out of being impacted my Medicaid cuts unless you have access to a billionaire-only emergency room & I think we lay out the case very clearly in this factsheet: www.aft.org/sites/defaul...

Re-upping this offer & noting that it looks like several unions are actively posting positions in DC right now: unionjobs.com/location.php...

obviously rooting for him for many reasons but definitely one of them is the slow death of trivia questions about strom thurmond

Hear more from our members & other experts about how Medicaid cuts put all patients in danger of understaffed hospitals and losing essential community health services here: www.aft.org/protect-medi...

I do think Signalgate offers a throughline i.e. if you think they're being careless with war plans what do you think they're doing with your social security, tax, and banking info

Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid

if you're mad about the NIH cuts (and you should be), this is an *amazing* resource to help with calling your reps and talking to the media: www.nihforamerica.org

#episky
#medsky

Once again I have been left out of the group chat

finally a use for my religious trauma soundtrack lfg

-Sing a New Song
-Be Not Afraid
-Christ Be Our Light

for more of your David Hass journey: Blest Are They, We Are Called, We Are Not Alone

Literally became a paid subscriber specifically to see if we had the same take on Here I Am Lord and I can confirm that we do & I will continue to trust JP's taste moving forward

This is so excellent I will add alt text so all can read it

one of the projects I've done that has been the most genuinely useful to organizers & members is documenting every single argument we've heard from opponents of a certain issue & then writing thorough rebuttals with citations. tell debate kids they don't have to go to law school i'm so serious!

we need to strengthen the debate kid to union researcher pipeline because it is one of the few noble uses of an extremely specific skillset that is annoying in basically every other context

Screen grab of Twitter post my pundit Matt Yglesias saying that California governor Newsom is not only correct on merit to oppose trans athletes, but that it's bizarre to see the Democratic party line up on an issue that is opposed 70-30.

Interracial marriage did not cross 50% approval in the US until 1996, when I was 30 years old. Good political messaging drives opinion, it doesn't follow it.

deeply grateful to my colleagues on reddit dot com for knowing how to get a broken suitcase handle to go down right before boarding a flight they truly never fail