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Aleksandra Vaca @transiticsnews.com · 16h

Arizona and Virginia, both of which are governed by Democrats, are ending Medicaid coverage of care for trans youth, Transitics has learned. The bans, which go into effect on October 13th, mark the most significant Democratic capitulation to Trump's anti-trans demands yet. Cowards.

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Democrat-led Arizona, Virginia Quietly End Medicaid Coverage of Care for Trans Youth, Acquiescing to Trump Demands

The policy changes, which go into effect on October 13th, see Arizona and Virginia join Kansas as states where Democrats have needlessly opted to restrict Medicaid coverage of gender-affirming care.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"Sometimes you have to choose the lesser of two evils," they say. Ah, and why does one sometimes *have* to do that? Because someone else, who could have chosen opposition to evil, instead opts to become a lesser evil for their own perceived advantage—leaving others to bear the burden of that choice

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jon christian @jonchristian.net · 17/09/2026

NEW: We spent months investigating a little-known media startup called Brown Brothers Media, which buys legit news sites and turns them into AI-powered zombie content farms What blew my mind was its traffic -- it appears to be getting more readers than NPR or CBS News futurism.com/artificial-i...

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How Three Brothers Built an AI Slop Empire by Buying Legitimate News Sites and Turning Them Into Zombie Content Farms That They Say Get 50 Million Page Views per Month

Brown Brothers Media is a media empire raking in millions of clicks with AI, fake writers, and plagiarism.

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

...all the animosity hurled towards trans ppl the last few days is completely misplaced. this is a *cisgender problem*: cis ppl need to decide whether you want us to be part of the anti-MAGA coalition or not. if you do, then call out the Dems pushing us out... juliaserano.medium.com/on-democrats...

screenshot from linked-to essay that reads:
Trans people are people. And politics works the exact same way on us as it does for everyone else. If you’re a politician or a political party, then you’re going to strive to build yourself a winning coalition. You will do this by saying what you are for and what you are against. Depending upon the principles and policies you forward, some voters will be drawn to you and others not so much. You can’t please everybody. But you are the ultimate “decider” of said policies and principles! And if you decide to ignore, discard, or demonize a particular constituency, it is inevitable that *some* of them will become disenchanted and may turn elsewhere when it comes to election day.
For the love of God, stop blaming trans people for all of this! Blame the cisgender politicians and consultants who are ignoring, discarding, and demonizing us. Call them divisive, as they are the ones who are attempting to divide our current anti-MAGA coalition in the name of (misguided) political expediency.

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Megolas @perpendorkular.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I watched a sad song that made me cry, then 2 more versions of it and now I’m super sad. How could Al Gore’s internet do this to me?

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.

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Megolas @perpendorkular.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Freaking the fuck out. Was at a vrbo and came back to car in the driveway, door unlocked. The owner said it was their handyman [name]. Looked up the name and he has 20 years of charges including DV. I packed and left but omg wtf

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Megolas @perpendorkular.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

What if theyre dying of the horrible diarrhea parasite that’s spreading super fast due to shortsighted spending cuts? Would be extremely on the nose but then everything really is these days

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Tim Longman 🏳️‍🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The Department of Education has now officially submitted proposals to eliminate International Education and Fulbright Hays programs, which have funded thousands of students and scholars to study languages and conduct research abroad. I encourage you to make public comments and contact your reps.

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GovInfo

Official Publications from the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

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Jared Holt @jaredlholt.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

nothing in the US is getting better until we start start treating this kind of thing as what it is: a form of bribery

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Megolas @perpendorkular.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

It’s cool and fun having 7 different portals for 7 different doctors especially when trying to figure out bills youve received in multiple across post, email and text

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 31/05/2026

• Submit a comment opposing the destruction of 🇺🇸 science; • Pressure every org, professional body, association, uni, etc. you are affiliated with to submit the strongest possible comment opposing this calamity (highest ROI move for most of us) • Make sure your electeds see those comments 🧪

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Trump's Russ Vought Is Trying To Kill American Science. We Can Try To Stop Him, | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland

Trump's Russ Vought Is Trying To Kill American Science. We Can Try To Stop Him, by Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland on Patreon. Join Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland...

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

If you're unfortunate enough to have a MAGA rep, please call and write and make sure they know this is a career ending idea.

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Megolas @perpendorkular.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I personally believe that all dem pundits involved in losing not once but TWICE to a rotting orange carcass should just fuck off into the sunset forever. Honestly, have you no shame? Go home and think about what you did

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Megolas @perpendorkular.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

The scary thing is, Iran made him look bad and he’s gotten rid of all the people who will say he can’t nuke them for embarrassing him.

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash. ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to. The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty. Budgets are moral documents.

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Megolas @perpendorkular.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Both of my very right wing boomer parents just told me they want to watch Bad Bunny at the superbowl tonight to support him. Which is great but omg, this is getting through to them in a very rural red state area. Gives me hope!

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 05/02/2026

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

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Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell

Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

in ≈20 states this year, sheriffs who have joined ICE's 287(g) program are up for reelection i found that a small number of sheriffs are actually representing counties that rejected Trump & voted Harris in 2024. and they're up for reelection in 2026. Learn more: boltsmag.org/criminal-jus...

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

it’s all i’ve got

4 panel comic

Panel 1:
Laptop screen that says: 2025 Accomplishments. 1.

Panel 2:
Purple guy looking thoughtful

Panel 3:
Purple Guy typing

Panel 4:
Laptop screen that says: 2025 Accomplishment: Didn’t die

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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Seven names for ailments / illnesses in the Victorian era… 7. The collywobbles (upset tummy) 6. A queer cog (a rotten tooth) 5. The horrors (depression) 4. Dropsy (oedema) 3. Strangery (rupture) 2. Scrivener’s palsy (writer’s cramp) 1. The unpleasantness (nothing good)

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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 17/12/2025

Here's Trump judicial nominee Justin Olson today, admitting than in 2015, he gave a sermon in which he said that “marriage was not intended for all people,” including “our handicapped friends or our persons with physical disabilities that might prevent the robust marriage that we’re called to.”

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Megolas @perpendorkular.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

The stupid thing is we all pay so much more in insurance premiums than we'd pay in taxes if they just covered our medical care directly. We all pay thousands of dollars to cover insurance CEO salaries and middlemen who will deny our claims anyway.

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Megolas @perpendorkular.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Pre-paying the estimated copay for my cancer surgery, as is tradition in this country

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 28/09/2025

I still think it’s backwards that every mass shooter owning an AR-15 is considered a right while their victims’ healthcare is considered a privilege.

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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

8 Democrats just joined Republicans in voting to enable 14-year-olds in DC to be tried as adults: Cuellar Davis (NC) Gillen Golden Lee (NV) Min Perez Vindman Harmful, heinous, counterproductive, and deeply racist clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 14/09/2025

This article focuses on cancer and uses @docsirianni.bsky.social and UMass to tell the story. But it’s not just UMass and it’s not just cancer. This is happening for Alzheimer’s research, depression, drug addiction, and chronic pain research too— all kinds of biomedical research.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

One thing that has become really clear since yesterday is that we live in at least two different realities. Talking to a friend who only knew Charlie as a Christian motivational speaker because that's all that ever came across her feed. Showed me videos I've never seen before of him saying perfectly reasonable and empowering things.

I showed her videos she'd never seen before of his racism, misogyny, homophobia, advocating for violence against specific groups of people. She was horrified by his remarks about Pelosi's husband's attacker being bailed out and celebrated for his violent act. She was horrified by a number of things that he said, but she had never seen or heard them before, the same as I had never seen or heard the generalized clips of him sounding like a perfectly nice loving man and father.

Neither of us had a whole picture of this man. I mentioned he was a known white supremacist and she thought I was joking.

She talked about him giving a speech about finding your purpose and doing good in the world and I thought she was joking.

I saw why this friend was mourning the loss of a person she thought was a good person.
My friend, bless her, saw why I feel the way I do about him. We understood each other better. In spite of a multi-billion dollar internet machine specifically focused on keeping us apart. Because we talked to each other with the desire to listen and to learn rather than the desire to change someone else's mind or to be "right".

None of those motivational things he said change my opinion about him because they don't erase the negativity, the subtle calls for violence, the belittling and denigrating of other races religions genders etc. His negative and blaming comments about homeless people, the poor, and victims of domestic violence. His comments about rounding up people who didn't think like him and putting them in camps where their behavior could be corrected. That time he said empathy was a made-up word he didnt believe in. That other time he said the Civil Rights Act was a mistake. The time he said most people are afraid when they get on a plane and see that there's a black pilot. His anti-vaccination rhetoric and his active campaigning against people being allowed to wear masks for their own health. His open support of fascism and white supremacy. To me, all of those are fully unchristian sentiments. Those are undeniable and just one of them would be a deal-breaker for me. All of them together are a picture of a man who was polarizing,

enraged a lot of people and rightly so, but even with all of that I would never wish upon him or especially his children the end that he got.
Oh, and my friend had never heard, and God help me I don't know how she escaped the news, but she had never heard of the Minnesota legislators who were shot in June. The husband and wife and dog who were killed, one after throwing themselves over their child to protect the child. The other couple who somehow survived.

Politically motivated attacks specifically because they were democrats. She learned about those shootings that happened months ago because I showed her Charlie Kirk's comments about them. The kidnapping plot against a female Midwestern Democratic governor. The assassination attempt against Pennsylvania's democratic governor. All things Charlie had plenty to say about while supporting the Second Amendment and bashing the Democratic party. She didn't know about any of it because we're all living in two different worlds and none of us have the whole story.

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Megolas @perpendorkular.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Mt disability was suspended bc my address was wrong in one place? I'm on hold but got a letter that they're just stopping everything, that's their first step. It's elon's government so I'm not surprised but fuck me, I have cancer argh

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Megolas @perpendorkular.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Now seems like a very bad time to get diagnosed with thyroid cancer (pending genetic testing confirmation) ugh

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 31/08/2025

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

PUBLIC HEALTH ORDER
NEW MEXICO DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
SECRETARY GINA DEBLASSIE
AUGUST 29, 2025
Ensuring Availability of COVID-19 Vaccine for the 2025-2026 Season

THIS ORDER supersedes any previous order, proclamation, or directives to the extent they are in conflict. This Public Order shall take effect immediately and remain in effect until such time as it automatically expires one year from the date of issuance, or until such time as the New Mexico Department of Health Cabinet Secretary rescinds it.

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amy brown 👻 @amybrown.xyz · 22/08/2025

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Why should I write better when a machine can do it for me?
Because actually no one can do it for you, because your voice is unique among all the people on earth. Siri never petted a horse's neck. Alexa has never been ghosted by the captain of the football team. But you have lived, your heart is beating, you have suffered, and you have something important to say. It's a human's job, to use words, and whatever job you give to a machine, that part of your brain goes dark. Maybe it's worth it when it comes to remembering phone numbers and directions, but when that part of your brain that uses words goes dark, that's a vast area that's very close to your soul. Don't let some internet platform convince you that what you have to say and create isn't worthwhile. Words are the echo of your soul. Honing that echo matters.

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Now long covid and chronic wet dry cough from it has surpassed Asthma. It’s a major failing of Public Health. We need to clean the air in our schools and not just in classrooms but dining halls and staff rooms. SARSCoV2 spreads like smoke through the air when we talk or breathe.

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Megolas @perpendorkular.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I'm having such a hard time right now seeing other people's vacations or hikes and I can't even walk straight. I should be used to it by now. But I feel such intense grief sometimes that I can't do things with my son or my husband, I can't be the mom or wife I want to be and that they deserve.

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Megolas @perpendorkular.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

So pooling money together (oin the form of taxes) to pay for police is not socialism, but pooling money together to pay for a flood warning system IS socialism? Good logicking

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𝐉𝐞𝐫𝐢 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐫𝐭 🩷 @jastuart68.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Medicaid goes by different names in every state, but no matter what it’s called, millions rely on it. With this vote to cut nearly $1T from Medicaid, your coverage could be next. Check this list to see what Medicaid is called in your state: #VoteNo

MEDICAID PLANS BY STATE
AK DenaliCare, Denali KidCare
AL Alabama Medicaid
AR ARHOME and ARKids First
AZ AZ Health Care Cost Containment
System (AHCCCS)
CA
Medi-Cal
CO Health First Colorado
CT HUSKY Health
DE Diamond State Health Plan (DSHP)
FL Statewide Medicaid Managed
Care (SMMC) Program
GA Georgia Medicaid, PeachCare
For Kids
HI
Med-QUEST
IA
lowa Health Link
ID
Idaho Medicaid
IL
HealthChoice Illinois
IN
Indiana Health Coverage
Programs (IHCP)
KS KanCare
KY Kentucky Medicaid, KCHIP
LA Healthy Louisiana
MA MassHealth
MD HealthChoice, Medical Assistance
ME MaineCare
MI Michigan Medical Assistance
MN Medical Assistance (MA),
MinnesotaCare
MO MO HealthNet
MS MS Medicaid, MississippiCAN
MT Montana Medicaid
NC NC Medicaid
ND North Dakota Medicaid
NE Nebraska Medical Assistance
Program (NMAP)
NH New Hampshire Medicaid
NJ NJ FamilyCare
NM Turquoise Care
NV NV Medicaid Medical
Assistance Program
NY New York Medicaid Choice
OH Ohio Department of Medicaid (ODM)
OK SoonerCare
OR Oregon Health Plan (OHP)
PA Pennsylvania Medical Assistance
RI Rhody Health Partners, Rite Care SC Healthy Connections Medicaid
SD South Dakota Medicaid
TN TennCare
TX STAR Medicaid Managed
Care Program
UT Utah Medicaid
VA Cardinal Care
VT Green Mountain Care
WA Apple Health
WI BadgerCare Plus
WV West Virginia Medicaid
WY Wyoming Medicaid
WDC DC Healthy Families Program
@RogueCitizenOne

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Every time a republican goes on live TV to lie about this budget bill, reporters should push back with some basic facts like these from @pkrugman.bsky.social: "the vast majority of Medicaid recipients either are working or can’t work — they’re disabled or need to stay home to care for others"

graphic showing breakdown of medicaid reciepients in 2022:

37% were children

9% were 65 or over

54% were working age.
out of those: 48% worked that year
7% worked the next year
27% were disabled
12% would soon leave medicaid

6% were not working long term, which is only 3% of the total receiving benefits

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AltSSA @altssa.altgov.info · 03/07/2025

All workers deserve a fair and living wage, but if that’s not possible, they should at least be getting the federal minimum wage. Please read and share this! The disabled community deserves better 🤬🤬🤬🤬

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Iaia @keepingfaithnow.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Each state should do this

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 01/07/2025

As someone who did molecular simulations in undergrad and grad school, I’m telling you now that a computer cannot fucking know about drug interactions.

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Michael Lowry @michaelrlowry.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

A huge blow was dealt to hurricane forecasters this week as a critical tool was abruptly terminated by the Department of Defense and NOAA. The immediate discontinuation of data from three weather satellites will severely impact hurricane forecasts this season and beyond. More ⬇️

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Critical Hurricane Forecast Tool Abruptly Terminated

U.S. Department of Defense announced Tuesday it would no longer process and deliver data essential to most hurricane forecasts

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Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 25/06/2025

“I think history is so important. Even from a former English teacher, if you don't have the history, you have a very hard time understanding the literature,” said Mary Werner, the lone member of the Mississippi State Board of Education to vote against axing the U.S. history assessment.

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Mississippi Students No Longer Need U.S. History Test to Graduate

The Mississippi State Board of Education voted on June 19 to eliminate the U.S. History end-of-course assessment as a requirement for graduation.

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Sergio Perez @sergioperez.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

When I finally spoke to the person I sought, they detailed a room crammed tight with ~70 people where: It is always cold. There is one toilet & one sink, open to plain view. You sleep on the floor. You maybe get fed, once a day. No medical attention to those in need. The lights never go out.

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