Addy Hatch

Attack of the Sadistic Zombies The GOP budget is incredibly cruel — and that’s the point

“Only 3 percent of Medicaid recipients were non-disabled working-age adults persistently not working… So what do work requirements actually accomplish? They take away benefits from people who are legally entitled to aid, because they can’t overcome the paperwork and administrative barriers.”

There is no need for Medicaid work requirements because almost everyone who can work is working.
What we are getting instead is Medicaid work *reporting* requirements, where people lose coverage because of administrative burdens.

The Republican "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" certainly doesn't want to display its beauty in daylight.

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

DOGE stole all of the government’s data about everyone in America and only cost taxpayers $135 billion.

What a deal!

Idaho lawmakers are making ivermectin available over-the-counter to give constituents “the opportunity to look after their own health.” Worth noting that this is an opportunity they do not extend to pregnant women in the state.

Also lifetime caps on what the insurers would pay. Quite literally the value of a life.

Official statement from official Pentagon spokesman. Totally normal.
(Government PR used to be a serious profession).

If we really want to “make America healthy again,” we’d have Medicare for All.

Kennedy Links Measles Outbreak to Poor Diet and Health, Citing Fringe Theories In a recent interview, the health secretary also suggested that the measles vaccine had harmed children in West Texas, center of an outbreak.

Dr. Bill Cassidy, you could have stopped this.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/h...

There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security.

Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."

Trump signs executive action targeting public service loan program The program forgives the loans of borrowers who work in public service. The executive action would exclude those who work for certain organizations.

“It comes three weeks after Education Secretary Linda McMahon said at her Senate confirmation hearing she would keep the program intact.”

www.npr.org/2025/03/07/n...

SpaceX has received over $15B in government contracts and state grants and the only thing Nazi Musk’s company has produced consistently is failed launches and high velocity explosions. This is what I’d call actual fraud and a real waste of tax dollars.

If you go to the CDC website to see whether you need a measles booster, it says it depends on whether you have “evidence of immunity.” But all links are dead to the page that tells you that. Seems important.

Six bird strikes on my windows so far this morning. Hundreds of them are feasting on little red berries that might be fermented? So far there appear to be no deaths, just a lot of drunk, stunned feathered friends.

Guess we’re doing things #SovietStyle in America now. People afraid to speak because they fear retribution, managers sacked for writing or saying something that goes against the party.

Trump is a disgrace to the United States and the human race.

Kids who have chronic illness need flu shots. So do their families. Seniors need flu shots. This is madness.

As a former reporter I’m amazed every day that the White House and all federal agencies don’t respond to journalists anymore. Every story: “did not respond to a call seeking comment.” I guess that’s better than responding with a poop emoji. But that’s probably next.

If you’ve ever taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, this is the time to live up to it.

As a parent of a daughter with cystic fibrosis this makes me physically ill. The drug developed thru NIH is the difference between life and death for people with CF.

Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?

I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?

Is there a word for when a bunch of private citizens following orders from an unelected billionaire occupy government buildings and cut off communications

miss this man

Oh, and this is being done to protect the women, naturally.

Coming soon to a red state near you: An Indian state adopted a new civil code where unmarried adults must register with the state if they live together w/o being married. Their application asks intrusive questions, is shared with police, and can be denied on “sundry grounds.”

If you didn't like the price of eggs going up, vote for people who will increase pandemic preparedness and response funding.

That's how this works.

Elon Musk makes surprise appearance at AfD event in eastern Germany Tycoon tells 4,500 people at campaign event in Halle to be proud of German culture in speech via video link

On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Musk tells an audience of far-right Germans their country suffers from "too much focus on past guilt, and we need to move beyond that.” Will the ADL feel bold enough to criticise him this time? #NeverAgain www.theguardian.com/technology/2...