Dctrojan
@dctrojan.bsky.social
neither here nor there, whether that's my citizenship or my opinions
I'm for immigrant rights and also - importantly - immigrant wrongs
I'm for immigrant rights and also - importantly - immigrant wrongs
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Why is a health insurance company even talking about “swagger”
They sound like 50 Cent begging for a 10th bullet
They sound like 50 Cent begging for a 10th bullet
United Health wants its ‘swagger back’.
How? By dropping a million seniors from Medicare Advantage
Why? America's largest insurer wants to improve its profit margins, medical costs are skyrocketing because the GOP cut Medicaid and ACA subsidies.
How? By dropping a million seniors from Medicare Advantage
Why? America's largest insurer wants to improve its profit margins, medical costs are skyrocketing because the GOP cut Medicaid and ACA subsidies.
November 25, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Why is a health insurance company even talking about “swagger”
They sound like 50 Cent begging for a 10th bullet
They sound like 50 Cent begging for a 10th bullet
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I wonder how many people are gonna catastrophically fuck up thanksgiving by using chatgpt for their recipes
November 25, 2025 at 4:07 PM
I wonder how many people are gonna catastrophically fuck up thanksgiving by using chatgpt for their recipes
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yes people call the friday after thanksgiving Brown Friday.
yes plumbers get lots of holiday calls.
yes it's because you overwork your disposals, pour fat/gravy/grease in your sink, and clog hosts' toilets.
holidays are hard enough as it is.
don't make them harder.
yes plumbers get lots of holiday calls.
yes it's because you overwork your disposals, pour fat/gravy/grease in your sink, and clog hosts' toilets.
holidays are hard enough as it is.
don't make them harder.
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
yes people call the friday after thanksgiving Brown Friday.
yes plumbers get lots of holiday calls.
yes it's because you overwork your disposals, pour fat/gravy/grease in your sink, and clog hosts' toilets.
holidays are hard enough as it is.
don't make them harder.
yes plumbers get lots of holiday calls.
yes it's because you overwork your disposals, pour fat/gravy/grease in your sink, and clog hosts' toilets.
holidays are hard enough as it is.
don't make them harder.
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Still the greatest rule in any wargame in history.
November 25, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Still the greatest rule in any wargame in history.
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Then: How did {wildly silly and incompetent person} ever get appointed to {position of power}?
Now, as I reach the age typical of people in {position of power}: Oh.
Now, as I reach the age typical of people in {position of power}: Oh.
November 25, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Then: How did {wildly silly and incompetent person} ever get appointed to {position of power}?
Now, as I reach the age typical of people in {position of power}: Oh.
Now, as I reach the age typical of people in {position of power}: Oh.
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I wonder if I spent all day, every day, for years, calling Graham Linehan - or the judge - a nonce and then, when I saw him in the street screamed it in his face and smashed his phone, would a judge find I had done no harassing?
And that's not even factoring in the age of his victim
And that's not even factoring in the age of his victim
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I wonder if I spent all day, every day, for years, calling Graham Linehan - or the judge - a nonce and then, when I saw him in the street screamed it in his face and smashed his phone, would a judge find I had done no harassing?
And that's not even factoring in the age of his victim
And that's not even factoring in the age of his victim
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“This year I’m thankful for paper towels. Holiday travelers deserve better than inadequate and unsanitary hand dryers.”
November 25, 2025 at 2:31 PM
“This year I’m thankful for paper towels. Holiday travelers deserve better than inadequate and unsanitary hand dryers.”
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![R. H. Bing (October 20, 1914 – April 28, 1986)[1] was an American mathematician who worked mainly in the areas of geometric topology and continuum theory.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreid62wy3dekb2kzbisjfdlimlb35j4rlgew5iof7vi32byfszmg26a@jpeg)
![Bing's father was named Rupert Henry, but Bing's mother thought that "Rupert Henry" was too British for Texas. Thus she compromised by abbreviating it to R. H.[5] Consequently, R. H. does not stand for a first or middle name.
When Bing was applying for a visa, he was requested not to use initials. He explained that his name was really "R-only H-only Bing", and ended up receiving a visa made out to "Ronly Honly Bing".](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreigmfj53q4uy33spga2bxdkllqm3ag5sffovg5g7ddmu3vqzkb6k24@jpeg)
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Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
November 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
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November 25, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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I mean, the guy’s afraid of Scouts. Don’t know what to tell you
November 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
I mean, the guy’s afraid of Scouts. Don’t know what to tell you
for the last several years we've hosted Thanksgiving w/ my father in law, his wife, my sister in law & her family. My stepmother in law (is that a term?) is parting ways from my father in law (she's very much the aggrieved party) and my sister in law & her husband weren't sure they would make it.
November 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
for the last several years we've hosted Thanksgiving w/ my father in law, his wife, my sister in law & her family. My stepmother in law (is that a term?) is parting ways from my father in law (she's very much the aggrieved party) and my sister in law & her husband weren't sure they would make it.
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Forseeing a time when the judiciary is infested by the same "Rishi Sunak isn't even English" radicalisation that's taken the right, and some people are blindsided because they thought "this trans girl said she was alarmed and distressed, but I don't believe her" was impartial application of the law
To tie back to my comparison to other online radicalisation, even if you don't give a shit about trans people, the judiciary becoming increasingly partial on a specific issue should be seen as the canary in the coal mine giving the current direction of travel in this country
Like it was obvious when the Supreme Court randomly decided to rewrite the Equality Act, but I think there's a large amount if journalistic negligence that no one really treats judges as anything other than neutral conduits through which the word of law moves
November 25, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Forseeing a time when the judiciary is infested by the same "Rishi Sunak isn't even English" radicalisation that's taken the right, and some people are blindsided because they thought "this trans girl said she was alarmed and distressed, but I don't believe her" was impartial application of the law
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Really something to think that one man--Donald Trump--is letting his minions freelance the fate of not one but two countries' citizens (Ukraine and Venezuela), and those minions don't agree on much but most want to sell out one and bomb the other, and the world is reduced to tantrum management.
One man -- Marco Rubio -- serves this country as both National Security Adviser and Secretary of State.
And he was nowhere near the drafting of that Ukraine 'peace plan,' which was instead devised by the president's real-estate buddy and his son-in-law.
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www.wsj.com/world/russia...
And he was nowhere near the drafting of that Ukraine 'peace plan,' which was instead devised by the president's real-estate buddy and his son-in-law.
🎁
www.wsj.com/world/russia...
November 25, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Really something to think that one man--Donald Trump--is letting his minions freelance the fate of not one but two countries' citizens (Ukraine and Venezuela), and those minions don't agree on much but most want to sell out one and bomb the other, and the world is reduced to tantrum management.
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If Isaac Chotiner ever said this to me, I would move to the woods.
November 25, 2025 at 1:12 AM
If Isaac Chotiner ever said this to me, I would move to the woods.
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A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
November 25, 2025 at 1:09 AM
A new kind of rapid Chotining. Please appreciate the alt-text.
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I generally try not to comment on Twitter but Isaac Chotiner is over there giving Semafor body blows right now and I just want to say I find it alarming that he's allowed to come for you without warning (asking for an interview)
November 25, 2025 at 12:37 AM
I generally try not to comment on Twitter but Isaac Chotiner is over there giving Semafor body blows right now and I just want to say I find it alarming that he's allowed to come for you without warning (asking for an interview)
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Subject: Five Things Accomplished This Week
1. Skulked off into obscurity forever
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1. Skulked off into obscurity forever
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November 25, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Subject: Five Things Accomplished This Week
1. Skulked off into obscurity forever
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1. Skulked off into obscurity forever
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If Keir Starmer is Daddy, I'd tell everyone I was adopted.
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
If Keir Starmer is Daddy, I'd tell everyone I was adopted.
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November 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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What’s bullshit is known 5th place anti trans bigot Riley Gaines, her husband is from the UK and had overstayed his visa and she went public with it. Instead of arresting and detaining him they helped push his citizenship through. Funny how that works huh?
ICE arrests, detains British woman with US husband and newborn when she shows up for her green card interview. She’s now in a detention center, separated from her 6-month-old. No criminal record. She had overstayed her visa.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
British mum detained by ICE agents in California as six-month old baby and stunned husband watch on | LBC
Katie Paul, 33, was in the process of applying for a green card when she was ambushed by immigration agents
www.lbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
What’s bullshit is known 5th place anti trans bigot Riley Gaines, her husband is from the UK and had overstayed his visa and she went public with it. Instead of arresting and detaining him they helped push his citizenship through. Funny how that works huh?
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I was a terrible hangman. I let everybody down.
November 25, 2025 at 12:21 PM
I was a terrible hangman. I let everybody down.
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Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
Billionaire Binance founder Changpeng Zhao, pardoned by Donald Trump, has been accused of facilitating millions of dollars’ worth of payments to Hamas in the wake of its attack on Israel on October 7 2023. Zhao also financed the Trump family's entrance into the cryptocurrency market.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao accused of facilitating payments to Hamas
Crypto tycoon pardoned by Donald Trump faces US court complaint from families of victims of October 7 attack
www.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Cannot overstate how, from my perch as a national-security reporter, this would have been an earth-shattering scandal in a prior era.
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I'd previously seen reports of this in San Diego specifically. I'm assuming they're testing this for a wider rollout, which is horrific. They've always deferred to USCIS to make a decision (in which the overstay is not a factor) before enforcement.
But these are lazy people with arrest quotas.
But these are lazy people with arrest quotas.
ICE arrests, detains British woman with US husband and newborn when she shows up for her green card interview. She’s now in a detention center, separated from her 6-month-old. No criminal record. She had overstayed her visa.
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...
British mum detained by ICE agents in California as six-month old baby and stunned husband watch on | LBC
Katie Paul, 33, was in the process of applying for a green card when she was ambushed by immigration agents
www.lbc.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I'd previously seen reports of this in San Diego specifically. I'm assuming they're testing this for a wider rollout, which is horrific. They've always deferred to USCIS to make a decision (in which the overstay is not a factor) before enforcement.
But these are lazy people with arrest quotas.
But these are lazy people with arrest quotas.