A reminder of whom Republicans when they attack Medicaid
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A reminder of whom Republicans when they attack Medicaid
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Usually, for me, somehow, both.
To my fellow chronically ill people… if you’re flaring right now please don’t discount the impact of the news cycle on your nervous system.
We need to stay informed, but take breaks. Find joy wherever you can. Lean on one another.
Save your strength for the long fight ahead.
The first is to flood the zone. He believes that those he regards as Mr. Trump’s enemies — Democrats, the media, groups like the American Civil Liberties Union and portions of the federal bureaucracy — are depleted and only have so much bandwidth for outrage and opposition. Mr. Miller has told people that the goal is to overwhelm them with a blitz of activity.
Not joking
You have some time to strategize — not a lot of time, but some.
If you're relying on SNAP, about 25 states participate in this program, if it's potentially available to you, I want you to know about it.
doubleupamerica.org
Trump and Musk are trying to do to the federal government what Musk did to Twitter. They want to break it, turn it into a playground for extremists—as they enrich far-right billionaires at the expense of working people.
OpenAI says it has proof that Deepseek used its work without permission to create something meant to undermine and destroy its product.
On behalf of all the authors whose novels and stories were taken as training data, oh no that must be so hard for you.
Cosign
Text messages that read: "But your overwhelm makes a ton of sense in the context you're in. Of course you're flooded, you are BEING flooded. Have you been able to care for yourself by being creative, moving your body, meditating, or socializing today or yesterday? Are any of those something we can find a way to add in? Those are the things that ground us and keep us in the moment so we can move forward."
It's a hard day. Tomorrow will be too. If you can't be there to make your friends dinner, can you check on them and remind them you care?
Same here.
Did you also get to read her Dreamblood duology? Gorgeous, ethereal prose and an amazing, incredibly built world.
I know the joke is that Mercury is in Gatorade but I actually think Liquid IV is the retrograde of electrolyte drinks. #POTS #Astrology #electrolytes
If you're at a Southern university/institution that is closing your LGBTQ or DEI/DEIA offices please reach out to us. We are helping people preserve their department's archival history and will work with you to help ensure folks remain anonymous.
Pizza! I had a successful doctor appointment today, now no thoughts head empty.
I hope you find support and answers at your next appointment!
It's at 2pm Eastern and will last 45 minutes or less.
Sign up here if you want to: calendly.com/careerhealth.... There won't be a call to action or sales pitch. I'm just trying to help with this hard time where I can.
Saturday I'm hosting a free call on stress management. My qualifications are that I've read a lot about it, I manage several stress-linked health conditions in my own body, and I start all my clients with a conversation about stress in my career and resume work.
Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
For all of you longing to clog up govt bureaucracy, here's an email address. Note that plausible sounding reports that are difficult to machine filter will take more effort to handle than eg the Bee Movie script. Also it's possible they'll wind up just binning everything not from a dot gov
today, on one side of the country kids are running out of their schools bc they’re about to burn down, on the other side they’re running out bc there’s a shooter on campus—but don’t worry guys, we’ll be doing everything to keep kids safe by *checks notes* conducting ICE raids at their schools!
I need, like, a sugar baby situation, but instead of I do sexual favors and get a purse, I wanna complain about my disability and some rich guy pays my mortgage.
The Germans press is not having as much trouble discerning what happened as the American press. www.zeit.de/kultur/2025-...
Every word you write down is one word closer to a draft you can edit, which can then become your book. I'm on my first draft too. We can do it together.
it would be the first time in recorded history that an autistic man was given the benefit of the doubt for stimming with his hands. that's how you know it's a bullshit excuse. when he was jumping up and down like an asshole, he was mocked. now a sieg heil pops and everyone's solemnly anti ableist
A cousin of mine used to do pageants. She talked about how she practiced to only wave with an open hand and a bent elbow, how everyone did, so there could be no confusion based on still images.
Let there be no confusion now.
I think about this too. That and my thyroid medicine.
