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Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

me, picking up my toddler from day care: whoa! wearing a different shirt, buddy? haha *to the teacher* he’s such a messy little guy. *to my kid* don’t worry, buddy. you’ll learn as you grow up me, by myself at home getting chick fil a sauce on my shirt: ah well nevermind then

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Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

wait you’re trying to tell me a cutie called this death cab?

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Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

“There he is! My hairy man!” - my 4 year old when I walked into the room this morning

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Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Got the Duck Tales theme song stuck in my 4 year old’s head. Revenge is sweet.

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Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Virginia’s redistricting amendment could save 10 Virginia hospitals. I wrote about it, and new proposals from the Center for American Progress to bring down costs for everyone. open.substack.com/pub/chiglins...

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Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

I guess we’ll just never know what region of the US Noah Kahan is from.

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Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

our 4 year old with the most accurate depiction of parenting:

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Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

*a bird tweets outside the bathroom window* the 4 year old, to comfort me: that’s just a bird… … not a T-Rex

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Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

me: This is honey butter! It’s butter with honey mixed in. 4 year old: where’d you get it? me: the restaurant 4 year old (disappointed): oh I thought you were going to say bees

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Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Now starts the generation-long project to repair the damage DOGE did.

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J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

So about TrumpRx: We crunched the numbers today and about half of the drugs on there have cheaper generics available already. www.statnews.com/2026/02/06/t...

We found at least 18 of the drugs on TrumpRx have cheaper generics available ranging from potential savings of over $600 for Tikosyn to just around $2 for Diflucan. Most of the drugs are made by Pfizer.

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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 05/02/2026

This is exactly what they are doing, and every Medicaid agency absolutely despises them for it. Equifax is going over the agencies' heads, straight to governors, insisting that the agencies sign a contract with Equifax, even though they can get access to The Work Number for free from CMS!

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Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Credit Karma: hey man, looks like you’ve got a recurring subscription to… something called… “student loans”? want us to cancel that for ya?

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Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

🤔 solid points here. tough to argue with this guy.

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Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

“hey Brian, you’re turning 40 this month. how does it feel?” united healthcare:

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Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

daycare closed tomorrow. the parents whatsapp now reads like a cormac mccarthy novel.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

You should read everything @adamserwer.bsky.social writes, but this one really stands out. He's given a gift link below.

After Friday’s protest, when thousands marched in frigid downtown Minneapolis, chanting, “No Trump, no troops, Twin Cities ain’t licking boots!” I spoke with a young protester named Ethan McFarland, who told me that his parents are immigrants from Uganda. He had recently asked his mother to show him her immigration papers, in case she got picked up. This kind of state oppression, he said, is exactly what his mother was “trying to get away from” when she came to the United States.

McFarland’s remarks reminded me of something Stephen Miller, the Trump adviser, had written: “Migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homelands.” In Minnesota, the opposite was happening. The “conditions and terrors” of immigrants’ “broken homelands” weren’t being re-created by immigrants. They were being re-created by people like Miller. The immigrants simply have the experience to recognize them.

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Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

The pure unfiltered hope coming out of Richmond and the dread from Washington has been a little on-the-nose this week.

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Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

UVA Class of 2001. Congratulations, Virginia. We now officially made history with our first Dave Matthews Band Governor.

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Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

our one year old: it’s not bah-bah - it’s dah me: you do this with chatgpt, buddy?

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Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I wrote a thing about why Virginia’s next Governor should join a new group of governors working to protect public health despite the chaos from HHS and the White House. Read it in today’s @richmond.com

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Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

showed up to the two princes rally instead. cops told me to just go ahead now.

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Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

He’s not dead. He’s just molting.

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Zev Karlin-Neumann @zkarlinn.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Just 15 years ago, we had: 🐘Democratic governors in WV, WY, and OK. 🐘Democrats representing SD and IN in the U.S. Senate. 🐘Dem control of the AK and MS statehouses. Majority Democrats is how we get back to winning all across the country. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...

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These Younger Democrats Are Sick of Their Party’s Status Quo

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Sen. Danica Roem @pwcdanica.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

As someone who unseated a 26-year, 13-term Republican legislator who voted against Medicaid expansion, I can say the hubris of telling your constituents "we're all going to die" when they're concerned about you denying them health insurance and then doubling down by mocking them may just backfire.🧵

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Nick Kristof @nickkristof.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

SecState Rubio claims that no on has died because of USAID cuts and suggested that I had lied in my reporting. So here I show him photos of specific children who have died because of the Trump administration's reckless cancelation of aid: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.

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Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

that silly little moment when you're trying to get the kids ready for a birthday party and you realize there's only enough time left for one parent to get showered and dressed:

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Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

“yeah, that’s a picture of our nation’s first dictator at the easter egg roll. no not him the human one.”

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Luke Kawa @ljkawa.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

SELLING AMERICA The 2011 S&P downgrade of the US government’s credit rating was a fart in the wind for markets. Now, we’re in the midst of the biggest downgrade of US stocks relative to their global peers on record, laid bare on the screens. sherwood.news/markets/the-...

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Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

become a Democrat! *special offer for the first 4 R reps to flip!*

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Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

congratulations, America. you’re gonna pay for a trade war instead of universal health care.

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Adrianna McIntyre @adrianna.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

What a grim fucking day for the future of science, medicine, and health in this country.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.com · 27/03/2025

sorry aesop, but now we have fed your fables into our llm we have to let you go; we can generate our own version of the goose that laid the golden eggs without having to pay *anyone*.

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Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

“May you lurk in interesting group chats” - ancient curse

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Larry Levitt @larrylevitt.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

15 years of public opinion of the ACA. www.kff.org/interactive/...

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Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

If a D official said this, R's would have instantly clipped, shared, commented on, and distributed this soundbite (and their rage) through countless content creators and various platforms. So much that it would wash into mainstream outlets, too. We're not there yet.

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Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

unitary executive but hold on wait not *that* executive

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Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

One ancestral line had become a high-powered attorney in the city. The other ancestral line stuck to its roots as the town carpenter. But when their hometown’s Christmas market was about to go bankrupt, they realized they had more in common than met the eye…

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Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

“no I can’t marry you,” she says. “I can’t take any more of your jurassic park references.” I’m frozen. Like a prehistoric mosquito in fossilized amber. “But honey…” I stammer. “I… I spared no expense.”

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Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

tfw you just got another fundraising text from the rebel alliance

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Brian Chiglinsky @chiglinsky.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

strange to watch conservatives make voting harder right as they become the party of low propensity voters

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