Caitlin Howell

“Without widespread theft, my industry can’t survive” is an argument against your industry surviving, and is not an argument for allowing widespread theft

The more people who are denied care and left to die, the more profitable it is for health insurance companies.

Your reminder that for-profit healthcare isn't healthcare.
It's an exploitation of sick people and transfer of wealth from the working class to the mega-rich.

gender-affirming care has regret rates significantly below completely uncontroversial interventions like knee replacement surgery

no study will ever tell you differently

let trans people get the care they need

You ever just sit and think about how as a society we've decided that the muppets are real people

'We're citizens!': Oklahoma City family traumatized after ICE raids home, but they weren't suspects A woman says her family’s fresh start in Oklahoma turned into a nightmare after federal immigration agents raided their home, taking their phones, laptops, and life savings – even though they were …

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ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago.

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personally would like to see every store show what part of the price increase is due to tariffs bc if these tariffs ever come down, i need to see that price go right back down

The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is the defining statement of Canada, Canadian sovereignty, and a living promise of dignity, fairness, & justice for all. 🇨🇦

@mark-carney.bsky.social said it best — when Pierre Poilievre starts stripping away rights, where does he stop?

Pierre Poilievre is living in the past.

#Debate2025

Wisconsin man who showed up to support an anti-trans bill does something amazing - Queerty “I have a very little knowledge of gay people and things like that there…” “I have a very little knowledge of gay people and things like that there…”

This elderly man showed up to support an anti-trans bill in my home state and then, because he had to wait hours to testify, he was stuck listening to queer folks rally against it

By the time it was his turn to speak, he'd changed his mind

Never doubt that speaking out can change hearts and minds

a man is covering his eyes with his hands in front of a group of men . ALT: a man is covering his eyes with his hands in front of a group of men .

Me: I can’t believe UK voters chose to torch their economy with Brexit. That can never be topped.

American voters:

I honestly think it would be hilarious if there was one family on White Lotus that was having just the best time, like we get two miserable storylines and then occasionally cut to this family going “We saw three dolphins!”

As a joke took someone’s pen, took photos of torturing it in various ways then sent ransom note asking for 3 cents in unmarked bills.

When principal held out photos and said what do we think that is I said “funny”

When he asked what my parents would say I said “who do you think took the photos?”

I just finished Sign Here by Claudia Lux (loved it) and need to read a million books like that. Recommendations?

It’s the author’s debut book or else I would buy everything they have 😫

#booksky #books

Lesson for this Trump tariff shakedown bullshit is that you can call him up and say "well okay, we'll do [list of things we're already doing], that's a really good idea" and he will take that as a win. It's like putting a blanket over a budgie's cage

The remote work debate was funny because it forced the question "Is a job something valuable you do or is it a place you go to be watched like daycare" and the answer for a lot of them was yeah it's the daycare thing now come on inside recess is over

there’s a baseline level of annoyance now in knowing that the worst people on the planet are making obscene amounts of money in the stupidest ways possible

Far from Hollywood's wealth, Los Angeles fire survivors feel forgotten Residents say that insurance companies might shortchange less affluent households.

The media has focused on wealthy, White neighborhoods. But the fire in Altadena--a racially and economically diverse suburb--deserves more attention, because insurance may not cover their rebuilding costs, forcing families out and leading the neighborhood to gentrify.
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a man wearing a santa hat says twas the night before christmas while sitting in a chair ALT: a man wearing a santa hat says twas the night before christmas while sitting in a chair

Spending Christmas morning with my spirit animal: John Malkovich SNL reading of The Night Before Christmas

Bakers always say the secret ingredient is love, but I’m pretty sure it’s butter.

If a fool and their money are soon parted, how did I just save 80% on a timeshare

The Mystery of Food Deserts They didn’t materialize around the country for no reason. Something happened.

1. The conventional explanation for food deserts—that these places are too poor or too rural to generate enough spending on groceries, or too Black to overcome racist corporate redlining — fail to grapple with a key fact: food deserts didn’t used to exist. My new piece in The Atlantic.

With December almost here, it’s just about time for book people to put on their favorite publishing Christmas film, The Holiday, where Jude Law is a book editor with an estate that has a name.

Reading the article, the group will charge people $5k to run an "AI" spell check on their manuscript, slap some "AI" art on the cover and then shove the book out of the door. It's a vanity press. Who was gullible enough to fund this?

That is the face of innocence but also no regrets.

Suing Kendrick for having a superior diss track is something Kendrick would say Drake does in a diss track

a man in a suit says it 's hard when things end in front of a store ALT: a man in a suit says it 's hard when things end in front of a store

The writers from #themanontheinside have experience with dementia as so many details hit close to home.

Everyone go watch. Watched in a day and already miss it.

i love how cats just slap everything they don't understand