Riley D

Best news I've seen all day!

It couldn't be 6 out of 6 or you would simply be unstoppable

Also learned this this year, and would prefer to have remained ignorant! How is a childhood filling coming back to haunt me now

My annual "I hate copay accumulators" rant is here. Pharmaceutical cos set up programs to help people on very expensive meds afford them, and insurance cos said "sure, you can pay for it, but it can't actually reduce the patient's cost lol. We get extra $$ now." Disability poverty is a policy choice

I swear apartment management companies should be required to provide a document with all the things they expect you to clean but should not expect anyone to know about, as well as how to clean the specific versions that building uses! So many of us don't just know these things

The constant admin to access maintenance medication really wears you down. No one, certainly not insurance companies, wishes that it would go away more than the person experiencing it!

Go buy books at Loyalty Bookstore! They also have a website (loyaltybookstore.com) or you can support them by selecting their shop when you shop on bookshop.org. DC community is a beautiful thing, & we have to keep our bookstores alive

The Trump White House Is Trying to Price Law Students Out of Public Service A proposed Department of Education rule would make borrowers ineligible for loan forgiveness if the administration doesn’t approve of their work.

The Dept of Education is now accepting comments on a proposed rule that would overhaul Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and make it too expensive for students to go into work that threatens the Trump administration

Folks have til *Sept. 17* to oppose the changes

ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

Here are four ways anyone can support and help their local library:

• Get a library card ⭐️
• Use your library card 🌟
•Visit the library 💫
•Tell everyone to get a library card and support their local library ✨

Oh no 😩 Wishing you a less wild week this time around!

It's one too many pieces of tech to always be thinking about and checking your bag for

Woohoo! I just finished the first week of my fellowship, so it's a "tired on the couch" evening, probably with some knitting. Tomorrow a neighborhood art market!

Sounds like you've got a great weekend ahead!

Vomit-proof: how close are we to a norovirus vaccine? An oral vaccine shows early promise in preventing infection and limiting norovirus transmission

Researchers are working on this! Here's an article I remembered seeing a couple of months ago

When these bills are up for a vote, I hope those of you with federal representation call your House and Senate members to oppose them. We District residents don’t have any representatives to lobby.

And we better not see a single Democrat vote for these anti-DC bills. They need to hold the line.

Days like that suck. Hoping tomorrow is a better one for you!

Gerisuits and other age simulations are no better than disability simulations. They don’t have the outcomes they purport, and we could just, you know, listen to older and disabled people about their experiences and believe them?

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28287757/

We need to talk about something very important. There is a myth spreading in both irl and online left and progressive spaces that is doing real, material, lasting harm.

THREAD.

Been a fan of Loyalty Books ever since we did a kick ass event together back in 2023, sounds like they’re in real trouble thanks to DC being occupied by the military. Go buy some books!

The no bills in federal grand juries are heartening but I don't think we should be jumping straight to "juries are anti-fascist"! Yes, it's great to see an institution that typically rubber stamps prosecutors not doing that, but it isn't happening bc of the nature of grand juries but in spite of it

Wild that Wisconsin released bar exam results today (the first state as far as I know) but some of us still have to wait a whole two months yet

Haha it's so fine! I'll have to go this week bc mango creme cruffin sounds like it could fix a multitude of problems

A google has led me, potentially, to Saku Saku Flakerie. Does that ring any bells?

Do you remember the name? I'm always interested in finding a good pastry

Big yikes!

That sounds incredible

Sometimes you just need a predictably not good dessert

Thank you for your bravery, now *I* never need to try one

I'm looking forward to taking my first sewing class tomorrow!

Welp. I was so excited to finally have finished knitting a sweater sleeve in half fisherman's rib. Only to look at the pattern and realize I was supposed to decrease every inch, and didn't decrease at all. Now to agonize: to redo, or to not redo?