Darcy Conaty
@dconaty.bsky.social
Old queer nerd, recently retired. Books, games, currently LOTS of politics
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I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
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Before ACA, many Americans couldn’t afford insurance
Alex Smith was a diabetic who got kicked off his Mom’s insurance at 26
He made 35k a year which was “too much” for Medicaid, but not nearly enough to cover insurance premiums
He had to ration his insulin & died a month after losing insurance
Alex Smith was a diabetic who got kicked off his Mom’s insurance at 26
He made 35k a year which was “too much” for Medicaid, but not nearly enough to cover insurance premiums
He had to ration his insulin & died a month after losing insurance
Insulin's High Cost Leads To Lethal Rationing
Alec Raeshawn Smith was 23 when diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes and 26 when he died. He couldn't afford $1,300 per month for his insulin and other diabetes supplies, so he tried to stretch the doses.
www.npr.org
November 10, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Before ACA, many Americans couldn’t afford insurance
Alex Smith was a diabetic who got kicked off his Mom’s insurance at 26
He made 35k a year which was “too much” for Medicaid, but not nearly enough to cover insurance premiums
He had to ration his insulin & died a month after losing insurance
Alex Smith was a diabetic who got kicked off his Mom’s insurance at 26
He made 35k a year which was “too much” for Medicaid, but not nearly enough to cover insurance premiums
He had to ration his insulin & died a month after losing insurance
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Obviously, America's BBC fans are not MAGA. I'd advise the Beeb not to blow it and bow to this public (derogatory) school bully.
Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Obviously, America's BBC fans are not MAGA. I'd advise the Beeb not to blow it and bow to this public (derogatory) school bully.
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Nobody Asked Me: Client, Not Friend
Welcome back to Nobody Asked Me, the column where I answer advice letters that were sent to someone else. Today's letter was sent to Ask A Manager, and I believe this is the first time I have stuck my nose into one of their letters. When I read the column, I had…
Welcome back to Nobody Asked Me, the column where I answer advice letters that were sent to someone else. Today's letter was sent to Ask A Manager, and I believe this is the first time I have stuck my nose into one of their letters. When I read the column, I had…
Nobody Asked Me: Client, Not Friend
Welcome back to Nobody Asked Me, the column where I answer advice letters that were sent to someone else. Today's letter was sent to Ask A Manager, and I believe this is the first time I have stuck my nose into one of their letters. When I read the column, I had opinions, and we all know that I have a medical condition where if I have an opinion and do not share it, I will die.
resiliencymentalhealth.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Nobody Asked Me: Client, Not Friend
Welcome back to Nobody Asked Me, the column where I answer advice letters that were sent to someone else. Today's letter was sent to Ask A Manager, and I believe this is the first time I have stuck my nose into one of their letters. When I read the column, I had…
Welcome back to Nobody Asked Me, the column where I answer advice letters that were sent to someone else. Today's letter was sent to Ask A Manager, and I believe this is the first time I have stuck my nose into one of their letters. When I read the column, I had…
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Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.
November 11, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Bluesky suspended Sarah Kendzior today for no reason whatsoever. She just shared excerpts of her articles, which were as always incisive and not offensive at all. Hey @pfrazee.com this is super not OK. I know her- we've interacted a fair bit via chats and her work is essential.
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For the first time all year, Democrats were riding high and the regime was on the ropes.
If Senate leadership’s goal was to demobilize and depress rank-and-file Democrats, they could not have played their cards better.
This is why we’ve launched the largest primary program that we’ve ever run.
If Senate leadership’s goal was to demobilize and depress rank-and-file Democrats, they could not have played their cards better.
This is why we’ve launched the largest primary program that we’ve ever run.
Democratic leaders have failed us again. It's time to get new leaders.
After yet another capitulation by Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats, it's clear we need new leadership capable of mounting a serious opposition to Trump's authoritarian regime. We're launching our la...
www.indivisible2026.org
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 PM
For the first time all year, Democrats were riding high and the regime was on the ropes.
If Senate leadership’s goal was to demobilize and depress rank-and-file Democrats, they could not have played their cards better.
This is why we’ve launched the largest primary program that we’ve ever run.
If Senate leadership’s goal was to demobilize and depress rank-and-file Democrats, they could not have played their cards better.
This is why we’ve launched the largest primary program that we’ve ever run.
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Finished reading @juliagaffield.bsky.social 's biography of Jeans-Jaques Dessalines, one of the founding fathers of Haiti. The book is a story of what Dessalines did versus the way he has been sometimes inaccurately portrayed for political reasons as a bloodthirsty unthinking man unfit to rule. 1/
November 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Finished reading @juliagaffield.bsky.social 's biography of Jeans-Jaques Dessalines, one of the founding fathers of Haiti. The book is a story of what Dessalines did versus the way he has been sometimes inaccurately portrayed for political reasons as a bloodthirsty unthinking man unfit to rule. 1/
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attn fountain pen friends:
Also I got my husband this ink advent calendar a few years ago and he loved it, it took him a year to go through all the ink. cultpens.com/products/dia...
Diamine Inkvent Calendar 2025 Teal Edition
Diamine's annual Inkvent calendar has become the stuff of legend, and this year's is probably the best yet. It's filled, not with chocolate (that doesn't last anyway), but with... ink! Naturally. This...
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November 11, 2025 at 1:09 PM
attn fountain pen friends:
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Rick Scott was CEO of a large, for-profit healthcare company called HCA. While Rick Scott was CEO, HCA stole so much money from Medicare they were fined $1.7 Billion.
Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
November 11, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Rick Scott was CEO of a large, for-profit healthcare company called HCA. While Rick Scott was CEO, HCA stole so much money from Medicare they were fined $1.7 Billion.
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Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue."
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Today is the publication day for WITHOUT CONSENT, a book I am so proud to share with the world, and that the New York Times Book Review says "is years — decades — overdue."
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
Read more, and order in your preferred format from your favorite retailer here: www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...
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"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
Indivisible Launches its Largest Primary Program in Response to Senate Democrats Surrendering on the Shutdown Vote
indivisible.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
"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
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This #RemembranceDay we invite you to think on the enduring effects of conflict on modern landscapes. Near Vimy 🇫🇷 is a patch of fenced-off forest along the old Western Front. These exclusion zones materially and ecologically 'remember' armed conflict.
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
November 11, 2025 at 1:15 PM
This #RemembranceDay we invite you to think on the enduring effects of conflict on modern landscapes. Near Vimy 🇫🇷 is a patch of fenced-off forest along the old Western Front. These exclusion zones materially and ecologically 'remember' armed conflict.
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
Learn more 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy...
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i’m not sure the US can still produce national vital statistics (live births, deaths, etc). this is a shocking thing to say for a high income nation. very short thread.
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
i’m not sure the US can still produce national vital statistics (live births, deaths, etc). this is a shocking thing to say for a high income nation. very short thread.
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Head's up indie authors wanting to participate in the Anthropic class action.
WriterBeware has noted the ads this post warns about, and has some goods links and information on Anthropic: writerbeware.blog/2025/10/31/t...
WriterBeware has noted the ads this post warns about, and has some goods links and information on Anthropic: writerbeware.blog/2025/10/31/t...
November 11, 2025 at 4:01 AM
Head's up indie authors wanting to participate in the Anthropic class action.
WriterBeware has noted the ads this post warns about, and has some goods links and information on Anthropic: writerbeware.blog/2025/10/31/t...
WriterBeware has noted the ads this post warns about, and has some goods links and information on Anthropic: writerbeware.blog/2025/10/31/t...
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SEATTLE CURE YOUR VOTES PLEASE
SEATTLE!!!
We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!
We’ve now taken the lead by 91 votes! 🤯 This thing is certainly not over! Over 1,000 ballots have been challenged, so if you haven’t tracked your ballot yet get on it! Our trusty volunteers have been working hard to "cure" ballots so they count! We're so close!
November 11, 2025 at 12:37 AM
SEATTLE CURE YOUR VOTES PLEASE
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People don’t want to feel like entrepreneurs when it comes to their healthcare.
They don’t want it to feel like big business.
They want their tax dollars to cover it for everyone.
They want to show up for care, get it and go home.
No bills. No payment plans. No negotiating. Just care.
They don’t want it to feel like big business.
They want their tax dollars to cover it for everyone.
They want to show up for care, get it and go home.
No bills. No payment plans. No negotiating. Just care.
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 2:44 AM
People don’t want to feel like entrepreneurs when it comes to their healthcare.
They don’t want it to feel like big business.
They want their tax dollars to cover it for everyone.
They want to show up for care, get it and go home.
No bills. No payment plans. No negotiating. Just care.
They don’t want it to feel like big business.
They want their tax dollars to cover it for everyone.
They want to show up for care, get it and go home.
No bills. No payment plans. No negotiating. Just care.
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Cherry Hill NJ wants to restrict "sensitive" topics in its school libraries after one parent complained about an LGBTQ+ title. That uninformed over-reaction violates principles of librarianship, the NJ Freedom to Read Act, and students' 1st Amendment Rights. Hat trick! 🙄
Cherry Hill schools may require parental approval for students checking out ‘sensitive’ books
Cherry Hill public schools may begin requiring parental permission for students to check out sensitive books, according to an internal memo obtained by The Inquirer.
www.inquirer.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Cherry Hill NJ wants to restrict "sensitive" topics in its school libraries after one parent complained about an LGBTQ+ title. That uninformed over-reaction violates principles of librarianship, the NJ Freedom to Read Act, and students' 1st Amendment Rights. Hat trick! 🙄
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“The President sent his lawyer to negotiate a settlement with a convicted sex trafficker to provide cushy accommodation in exchange for her silence on his participation in said sex trafficking” is a cold description of the facts of an insane story that the media doesn’t find worthy of scrutiny
November 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
“The President sent his lawyer to negotiate a settlement with a convicted sex trafficker to provide cushy accommodation in exchange for her silence on his participation in said sex trafficking” is a cold description of the facts of an insane story that the media doesn’t find worthy of scrutiny
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Many people think this race could be decided by only a handful of votes (here’s former Seattle mayor Greg Nickels). Have YOU checked to make sure that yours was counted? Check our link in bio to check on your vote with King County elections!
November 9, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Many people think this race could be decided by only a handful of votes (here’s former Seattle mayor Greg Nickels). Have YOU checked to make sure that yours was counted? Check our link in bio to check on your vote with King County elections!
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Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
Pepper-sprayed Berwyn family rattled after getting caught up in federal blitz
Southwest Side politicians condemned Saturday’s pepper spraying and the federal sweep of Little Village as “state-sponsored terrorism” at a news conference Sunday.
www.chicagotribune.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Arianna Sofia Veraza and her parents were driving to Sam's Club for milk, eggs and diapers yesterday when they heard helicopters and horns blaring yesterday. They had turned around to leave when a federal agent pepper-sprayed them through a car window.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/09/c...
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Either he can’t keep them in line or he orchestrated and approved this. The result is the same: he has to go. He should’ve been gone months ago.
Chuck Schumer must be replaced as leader since he cannot keep his caucus in line.
America is in the midst of a Republican-made health care crisis—a crisis so severe, so urgent, and so devastating for American families that I cannot support a continuing resolution that fails to address it.
I am voting NO.
I am voting NO.
November 10, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Either he can’t keep them in line or he orchestrated and approved this. The result is the same: he has to go. He should’ve been gone months ago.
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American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
March 14, 2025 at 10:24 PM
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
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Hearing from more people after this went out.
"We're all pissed. This was a lot of unnecessary stress on people and their families for nothing. And if I win the lottery tonight I absolutely will spend millions to hire people to follow these 8 Dems around for a year and make their lives miserable."
"We're all pissed. This was a lot of unnecessary stress on people and their families for nothing. And if I win the lottery tonight I absolutely will spend millions to hire people to follow these 8 Dems around for a year and make their lives miserable."
I heard from a bunch of federal employees last night and this morning. They aren't happy.
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something. All this for a fucking meaningless vote."
'A Slap in the Face': Federal Employees Feel Betrayed by Democrats' Shutdown Cave
"I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something."
www.gravityisgone.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Hearing from more people after this went out.
"We're all pissed. This was a lot of unnecessary stress on people and their families for nothing. And if I win the lottery tonight I absolutely will spend millions to hire people to follow these 8 Dems around for a year and make their lives miserable."
"We're all pissed. This was a lot of unnecessary stress on people and their families for nothing. And if I win the lottery tonight I absolutely will spend millions to hire people to follow these 8 Dems around for a year and make their lives miserable."
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To Courtney's point, it's hella important that you look up your state's policies. For example, in CA, you can vote in primaries for any party regardless of affiliation EXCEPT presidential which is either closed or modified-closed. Before you switch, make sure you can still vote.
Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado.
One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.
November 10, 2025 at 5:29 PM
To Courtney's point, it's hella important that you look up your state's policies. For example, in CA, you can vote in primaries for any party regardless of affiliation EXCEPT presidential which is either closed or modified-closed. Before you switch, make sure you can still vote.