Erin Alberty

A Closer Look at What’s Driving the Rising Rate of Uninsured Children - Public Health Watch Decades of progress on children’s health coverage is being slowly erased, with the U.S. rate now at a 10-year high. Texas still has the highest rate of uninsured kids, with a total of over 1 million.

Decades of progress on children’s health coverage is being slowly erased, with the U.S. rate now at a 10-year high. Texas still has the highest rate of uninsured kids, with a total of over 1 million.
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You know what it is

That's my MAN(sard)

photo of a bee covered all-over with bright orange pollen.

this is the most pollen ive ever seen on a single bug, shes having the time of her life

Just think of how many TT faculty lines, graduate stipends, and resources for teaching and research this kind of money could buy...

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

This video frightened me.

OOOPS! UPDATE: Two HHS officials tell me that disease detectives, measles response officers, global health officials and the MMWR staff were laid off by mistake and will be reinstated. But Washington office is still RIFed

Qatari Pilot: Idaho?

Qatari Pilot #2: You da ho!

We need fewer stories about the “male loneliness epidemic” and more about why men need to evaporate a small lake to come up with “hi, it was nice to meet you.”

I'm giggling at "F+" as a grade.

I think it took until high school for kids in my classes to stop asking why you couldn't get an F+ or F-, or why it went from D to F rather than E. 😅

I'm curious how competitive all these seats are. Gerrymandering has generally made House districts less competitive — i.e. less risk for affected Ds to move left. Senators' boundaries at least can't have been manipulated into uncompetitiveness (though some of them are organically uncompetitive).

I think it's harder on the governors. Some of these are matters of federal policy. Governors have little incentive to spend political capital defending measures their office can't even take. And they risk looking weak if they focus on actions where all they can do is beg the federal government.

To account for the surprise — the missing categories are federal actions. Governors can be accused of neglecting their constituents if they talk too much about nat'l policy their office can't directly affect. And they risk looking weak when they fixate on issues where all they can do is beg others.

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

Awww thanks.

We can't just swap out another pot because they're bolted to the ground. Hubs wants to find a way to salvage the display, but as far as I can tell there's zero reason to put time and effort into any community you have to share with bros. They'll always ruin it.

My husband and I planted cacti on this brutally hot, shadeless roundabout so drivers would actually see the hazard and stop speeding. Hubs got the pots & watered them for two summers. Last night some bros on scooters crashed into this one, cackled with laughter and ran away.

It's been 20+ years of frantically trying to game ever-changing algorithms on platform after punishing platform, all while watching the news industry deteriorate around me.

I feel like that fairy tale girl who put on magic shoes that forced her to dance until she dropped dead.

A DeSantis supporter posted a mild critical comment about Hegseth's speech on X, and Kristina Wong, the Navy spox, has been posting proudly about how she caused the woman to have to lock her account due to harassment after Wong targeted her. Wong also asked on X who the woman's military husband was.

Judge blocks federal agents from using force on journalists in Chicago A White House spokesperson told Axios "we expect to be vindicated by a higher court."

Judge blocks federal agents from using force on journalists in Chicago

Wow! Sucks!!

Me, a guy who covers a lot of protests: Uhhhhhhhh what.

103.1 "The Wave" switches to all Christmas music — in October The new wave and alternative hits of the 1980s and '90s weren't getting audiences, per program manager.

My kid and I were driving around and looking at Halloween decorations, when we tuned into 103.1 The Wave — SLC's 80s-90s alternative rock station — and heard ... Christmas music.

See the video (and read the story) here at @axios.com: www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

Salt Lake's best haunted houses and home displays We've found scores of spooktacular haunts — most of them free to visit.

Salt Lake Halloween map 2025 is up! We have nearly 100 displays & haunts already! www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

Two cats observe ice melting in a kitchen sink. One cat paws at the ice.

Uh-oh. This isn't likely to end well.

He's enjoying multiple views of the ice today.

Megyn Kelly has now made multiple denigrating posts about me across X, YouTube, her podcast so I’m sharing this. Unlike her, I don't perform dislike and disdain in public,then become my real self when the cameras are off. That's the definition of the grift she accuses me of;I find it profoundly sad.

Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows

The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.

if you’re a visual learner i made you some maps of where the people quoted in this article as supporting portland being occupied by troops live