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Dania Palanker 🥄

@ipersist.bsky.social

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Health insurance, disability equity, pain policy. I will not sit quietly while they try to take health care and health research away from us. Never share a screenshot of text w/out the entire text in alt text so it's actually accessible.

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Dania Palanker 🥄 @ipersist.bsky.social · Jun 13

My grandmother was a young pregnant Jewish woman alone on a train in Poland during WWII when a German soldier told her to get off at the next stop because there wouldn't be any soldiers waiting at the station. She survived because, in that moment, a soldier chose the right thing over obeying orders.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 17h

Trapping women in motherhood is a highly effective way to force them to settle for less-than-ideal partners and/or less-than-ideal jobs.

Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 17h

NEW: 51 Senators urge RFK Jr. and Marty Makary to end telemedicine prescriptions of the abortion drug mifepristone— and to suspend its distribution as an "imminent hazard" under Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Collins and Murkowski only GOP members not to sign
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screenshot of letter dated 10/9/25
Today, your agencies have all the information they need to bring an end to previous Democrat-administrations’ abortion drug regulations while a comprehensive review is conducted. As a starting point,
we recommend the following:
1. Suspend the approval of any new generic versions of mifepristone pending the outcome of the REMS safety review;
2. Commit to ensuring that all generic versions of mifepristone are included in the ongoing reevaluation of prior REMS approvals;
3. Reinstate the in-person dispensing requirement for mifepristone and all its generic versions;
4. Suspend the distribution of mifepristone and all generic versions as an “imminent hazard” under Section 505(e) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FDCA); and
5. Withdraw FDA guidance permitting pharmacy distribution of mifepristone and all its generic versions.

We are committed to continuing to work together to give a voice to the voiceless and protect women from the dangerous effects of unregulated access to chemical abortion drugs. The life, safety, freedom, and health of millions of Americans, born and unborn, depend on it.

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Dania Palanker 🥄 @ipersist.bsky.social · 15h

The health insurance premium spikes will be worst in red states that did not expand Medicaid. The lowest income enrollees in these states will lose their entire premium subsidy. From low, or even no cost, health insurance to exceptionally high premiums with no subsidies.

Dania Palanker 🥄 @ipersist.bsky.social · 21h

Preexisting condition exclusions for all!!!

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Dania Palanker 🥄 @ipersist.bsky.social · 21h

I have taught myself to adjust my cooperative interruption style in professional settings, but I feel silenced when I am overly constrained in very personal settings.

Also, as an ashkenazi Jew from NY, there's a rhythm that is broken if there is even momentarily silence in a conversation.

Dania Palanker 🥄 @ipersist.bsky.social · 21h

We don't need to make more interactions with the medical system physically painful for kids. It increases medical anxiety and can have long term repercussions.

Mariah McCourt @monsterteatime.bsky.social · 22h

This. My kiddo doesn't like shots (who does?) so getting it all in one go, one time, is a LOT easier than freaking her out with a drawn out process that isn't even necessary.

Jessica Kant @jessdkant.bsky.social · 23h

Arbitrarily breaking these up means people who do get their kids vaccinated will still inevitably pick and choose, because that’s what always happens. This will drop uptake rates not just for “skeptics” but for people who believe in vaccination because 3 shots psychologically feels like too many.

Dania Palanker 🥄 @ipersist.bsky.social · 21h

Johnson and the GOP are playing dumb when they talk to the American people about this because they chose this path. They want many Americans, including many in their base, to have no health coverage and to skip medically necessary care.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 23h

Brace for the largest-ever spike in health insurance premiums

The GOP's backdoor plan to gut Obamacare: Kill the tax credits.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 22h

This is a person who is still taken seriously and published in left-wing spaces.

To be clear: No, most Israeli Jews are not descended from Polish Jews. And even for the minority who are, it would obviously not be safe for them all to go there now, given the Polish government.

Tweet from Axel Folio, PhD: "To Poland where they are from"

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SCARE-in Dwyer aka Ginger Is A Construct @erindwyer.bsky.social · 22h

Hell yeah, roller derby fighting transphobic laws. How inclusive our local league is makes it so welcoming.

Transgender World @transgenderreport.com · 22h

Judge halts New York county from enforcing transgender athlete ban after roller derby league sues

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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

Judge halts New York county from enforcing transgender athlete ban after roller derby league sues

A New York county’s law banning transgender women from playing on female sports teams at county-run parks and recreational facilities has been halted for now.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 1d

"Black people are tired. Not metaphorically tired—actually tired. The kind of tired that turns every group chat into a mix of gallows humor and emotional triage."

I write about white ignorance and how exhausting it is to hear white ppl insist "this isn't who we are, when it's ALWAYS who we've been.

White People’s Performative Ignorance Is Exhausting—Opinion

Disbelief over authoritarianism in America isn’t a cutesy personality trait. It’s a confession: You haven’t been paying attention.

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Dania Palanker 🥄 @ipersist.bsky.social · 22h

Where have I heard this before?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23h

Thune: "The president would like to overhaul Obamacare and give people health insurance that is higher quality and more affordable."

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Dania Palanker 🥄 @ipersist.bsky.social · 1d

Fox News video of veteran antifa soldiers talking about the day they stormed the beaches of Vichy France about 11 years after the end of the Weimar Republic

www.foxnews.com/video/604540...

Dania Palanker 🥄 @ipersist.bsky.social · 1d

A reminder that the US military and our allies in World War II were antifascist.

Dania Palanker 🥄 @ipersist.bsky.social · 1d

"Some insurance companies"

Not only must all health insurance plans on the marketplaces send out letters with 2026 rates by the end of October...

The federal government must send letters with 2026 rates to everyone enrolled in a federal marketplace plan before November

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

JOHNSON: That is a Dec. 31 policy issue

TAPPER: But doesn't open enrollment start Nov. 1?

JOHNSON: Some insurance companies will send out notices in November, that's right, and that's why the Democrats are so wrong to close this govt and burn up the time in October

Dania Palanker 🥄 @ipersist.bsky.social · 1d

Pritzker doesn't just tell it as it is, he tells it as we need to hear it

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

Dania Palanker 🥄 @ipersist.bsky.social · 1d

I thought I was doing incredible with 1,260 tabs open on my phone.

Dania Palanker 🥄 @ipersist.bsky.social · 1d

Can't help you now, but I've now added it to my list of books to read. So perhaps next year?

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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 1d

Since it needs to be said: states' #Medicaid reimbursement rates to hospitals don't vary by eligibility group, the applicable federal matching rate or if it's for emergency Medicaid. Like within Medicare & private insurance, Medicaid rates will only vary based on patients' diagnosis/severity.

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Dania Palanker 🥄 @ipersist.bsky.social · 1d

If the rabble rouser is a man, then there is a good chance the hospital is reimbursed less for the pregnant woman because procedure codes for women's reproductive health services are often lower than for comparable male services...but I don't think that's what he means

Dania Palanker 🥄 @ipersist.bsky.social · 2d

I'm going to find myself an excellent slice of carrot cake to eat tomorrow as a personal act of a resistance against Oz

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Anthony Wright @awright2care.bsky.social · 2d

“We shouldn’t need a shutdown to prevent a massive spike in health insurance premiums. After an election on affordability, GOP leaders are betraying their own voters to shut down the government to avoid extending tax credits that help 20M Americans afford health care"
medcitynews.com/2025/10/heal...

How Healthcare Leaders Are Reacting to the Government Shutdown - MedCity News

The government shutdown is drawing backlash from healthcare leaders over its potential to disrupt ACA subsidies, Medicare telehealth access and programs like SNAP.

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Dania Palanker 🥄 @ipersist.bsky.social · 2d

I like 7-11 pizza.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

Dania Palanker 🥄 @ipersist.bsky.social · 2d

I think I felt this way before puberty.

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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 2d

Feel free to attribute the following to a former OMB General Counsel: The supposed "new legal analysis" is, to use a technical legal term, horseshit. What the law actually says is that when Congress enacts a law ending a lapse, furloughed employees get paid at the earliest date possible. Period.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Johnson: "It's true that in previous shutdowns, many or most furloughed employees have been paid for the time they were furloughed, but there is new legal analysis - I don't know the details, I just saw a headline - but there are some legal analysts saying that might not be appropriate or necessary"

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Dania Palanker 🥄 @ipersist.bsky.social · 3d

I think it would have required common sense