People living in countries with Universal Healthcare don’t envy the US system

They don’t want for profit healthcare

There are some Americans who insist on defending their healthcare system even as it bankrupts (or kills) people for profit…. But most would happily switch systems if they could

The National | Canada loses measles elimination status Nov. 10, 2025 | Canada loses its measles elimination status after more than 12 months of sustained transmission. U.S. President Donald Trump pardons Rudy Giuliani and other loyal allies. Plus, the rac...

Yesterday Canada lost its measles elimination status after a year of continuous transmission. Like measles itself, this was preventable. We need to step up our efforts to make vaccination available to all. I talked to CBC about it live from @astmh.bsky.social:

www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies

Senator Durbin voted for the Republican bill to end the shutdown. I wonder if this is what he got in return for his vote?

Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy

Bracing and necessary read.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa.

Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality.

In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.

Capitalism says productivity is the most important metric in determining value

That you must “earn” everything, even food, housing and healthcare.

How do you earn it? By working until you die.

It teaches people to see children, the elderly & disabled as expendable.

It enriches the wealthy only

Transgender Athletes Could Be At A Physical Disadvantage, New Research Shows An IOC-funded study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine earlier this month suggests transgender athletes could be at a physical disadvantage.

Plus, this

One of the biggest studies ever done, showing that not only do we not have an advantage, we may have a disadvantage, commissioned by who? The IOC

Its not like they don't know this

Since the olympics are being held in LA, this policy would violate state civil rights law and I hope trans and intersex athletes challenge such a policy.

What this policy will do is wreak havoc on intersex women who will have had no idea they were intersex until they are forced to undergo an invasive DNA test. They will be disqualified and have their entire lives upended. Athletes have completed suicide over this.

White Afrikaners looking at Trump and saying “don’t associate us with this racist!”

That’s quite a legacy.

The energy is... changing.

TPUSA attendees are starting to meander through the protest, throwing their phones up in front of peoples' faces, and some are being interviewed by mainstream media.

There's full-on clickbait type shit going on all around me right now. Folks in suits are showing up and provoking arguments from protesters. At least two separate "teams" with one person to provoke and another to record.

We are literally mad about your failure to fight the real dangers.

fresh off caving, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is going on Fox & Friends

Greg Sargent tweet on Mikie Sherrill's statement "slamming the Senate's proposed shutdown deal"

Statement from Mikie Sherrill "sharply criticizing Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as 'malpractice' and a betrayal of the people who are 'counting on us to fight for them'." bluevirginia.us/2025/11/sen-... h/t @gregsargent.bsky.social

That said I am lifting up the Senators who I KNOW fought, like my own @vanhollen.senate.gov. We need to press those Senators to demand a different kind of leadership internally. There’s still a lot more work ahead and we need the leadership to be chastened.

How Trump's support for white South Africans led to a U.S. boycott of the G20 summit U.S. President Donald Trump says his government will boycott the Group of 20 summit this month in South Africa over his claims that a white minority group there is being violently persecuted.

U.S. President Donald Trump says that his government will boycott the Group of 20 summit this month in South Africa over his claims that a white minority group there is being violently persecuted. Those claims have been widely rejected.
https://to.pbs.org/4nPnWEf

Listen Kaine, Hassan, King, Cortez-Masto, Durbin, Shaheen, Rosen, and Fetterman. You're NOT gonna take away my 2025 election joy. We voted in that election for folks to FIGHT for us. That doesn't include YOU.

YOU are what we voted AGAINST last Tuesday. So I'm gonna hang on to that.

I think people should have the freedom to be whoever they want to be. I found this event very endearing, and it makes me sad that they were heckled and harassed by right wingers, both online and in person.

"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org

this is literally never not accurate

You think we're stupid? You greenlit this deal. If you couldn't stop Dems from breaking away, then you don't deserve to be the leader.

jessica.substack.com/p/ny-times-d...

Speaker Johnson has literally said he's "not promising anyone anything."

For once, I believe him.

My daughter was beaten, spat on, outed & bullied AT SCHOOL, btw. The only reason she wasnt beaten worse was because she got away, locked herself in the toilet and FUCKING PHONED ME.

How would removing her phone have kept her safe?!

"My father remained at the Texas detention center until October. During those six months, he went completely blind in one eye and lost most of the vision in the other, because he wasn’t receiving adequate medical care for his Type 2 diabetes."

Imagine the levels of contempt you must have for your voters to post this. Playing in their faces like this. Incredible.

US skips human rights review by UN body as countries appeal for its return next year The United States on Friday snubbed a U.N. body charged with keeping tabs on the human rights records of all its member countries, on orders of the Trump administration — which has turned its back on the Human Rights Council.

The Trump administration is setting a dangerous precedent.

The world is watching this administration's attempts to limit our constitutional and human rights.