NEW: My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.
@margoshe.bsky.social it's your old grad school buddy Babette
@margoshe.bsky.social hello there!
My favorite part of Zuckerberg's Joe Rogan interview is when he suggests there is not enough masculine energy at his company, where two out of every three employees is a man.
I expected some anticipatory compliance but the degree to which this is already happening in big tech and media is making me nauseous.
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Also works in reverse!
I actually backed into writing about history many years after graduating college with a mismash of classes. Too many people think it's irrelevant, but history IS current events.
Trump is trying to appoint an FBI Director who wants to imprison journalists—and this is the front page of the New York Times.
I believe some people can be comforted and helped by AI companions, but it seems clear that the companies making them are not acting responsibly. Excellent from Josh Dzieza www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...
This is getting worse quickly, too. At the end of August I had identified 3,495 accounts that X was withholding in Turkey at the request of the government. Today that number is 3,826:
Call your Senators people!!!!
I'm curious. During the campaign, fact-checkers routinely dinged the Harris campaign for calling Project 2025 Trump's playbook, saying "Trump has denied this."
Have any of them admitted how badly they got rolled in the most obvious of ways?
Run
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Don't need to guess ....
It’s time :3
Again: mob violence is the intended outcome of the “use your birth gender bathroom” laws. The intent is to provoke violence against trans people and drive them from public life.
Like this. Dangerously unhinged.
Public school funding has been leaking out into private schools for some time. Especially concerning when these schools are religious.
This leakage was slow. Now, it's approaching "firehose."
We can't put it back. They were too smart. So now.... it's Satanic School o'clock. It's the only way.
Imagine thinking there's "too much negativity" and thinking the solution is Donald Trump, someone who can't even wish people Merry Christmas without throwing in a jab about the "losers and haters"
Maybe my actual most controversial opinion is that I don’t think feminists have an obligation to stop critiquing the world so as to spare people’s feelings.
Jack Smith will now write a report on Jan 6 investigation. He must include declinations to prosecute. It will be interesting to see if he and his team found evidence of crimes by members of Congress – who have seemingly gotten off scot-free – but declined to bring charges for constitutional reasons
