Lindsey Hurd
@lindseyhurd.bsky.social
Writer, mother, anti-fascist, e-bike curious. West Seattle for life or until the earthquake comes for us all. She/her. Ukrainian drone fan. Personal crusader against hyphenated adverbs.
They should have to get their health care plans on the marketplace.
Congress is poised to leave for a scheduled holiday recess without a solution for addressing the expiration of enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act marketplace plans.
How the long-running Obamacare fight came to thwart enhanced subsidies in Congress
Congress is poised to leave for a scheduled holiday recess without a solution for addressing the expiration of enhanced subsidies for Affordable Care Act marketplace plans.
n.pr
December 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
They should have to get their health care plans on the marketplace.
It's the holiday season, and my husband refuses to let me share my religion, which is Adidas track suits, with our children. I just want to share the good news!
December 18, 2025 at 9:08 PM
It's the holiday season, and my husband refuses to let me share my religion, which is Adidas track suits, with our children. I just want to share the good news!
It cost me $148 dollars this year *with good insurance* just to confirm that my daughter did not need stitches. 2k ain’t gonna cover shit.
“Giving money to the people” is code for cutting a check to a health savings account.
That’s not health insurance. It’s smoke in mirrors. $2K in your pocket won’t cover a fraction of a major medical need (procedure, hospitalization, ER visit).
Don’t buy the nonsense.
That’s not health insurance. It’s smoke in mirrors. $2K in your pocket won’t cover a fraction of a major medical need (procedure, hospitalization, ER visit).
Don’t buy the nonsense.
December 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
It cost me $148 dollars this year *with good insurance* just to confirm that my daughter did not need stitches. 2k ain’t gonna cover shit.
I have seen four or five tik toks, full of footage from national media, saying that the national media is not covering the flooding here or that THEY are intentionally hiding it. It's insane. My aunts in Ohio and Missouri don't have tiktok but SOMEHOW they know enough to call and ask if I'm okay.
December 17, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I have seen four or five tik toks, full of footage from national media, saying that the national media is not covering the flooding here or that THEY are intentionally hiding it. It's insane. My aunts in Ohio and Missouri don't have tiktok but SOMEHOW they know enough to call and ask if I'm okay.
I love good news.
Amazing!! Women Help Women (womenhelp.org) is manufacturing their own abortion pills in order to make abortion safer, simpler and more accessible across borders. They designed an eco-friendly combi-pack that's easier to mail discreetly and centred around women’s experiences and needs.
A Global Telehealth First: Women Help Women Begins Producing Abortion Pill Combipack
The feminist telehealth provider Women Help Women cuts out pharma middlemen to make its new mifepristone-misprostol abortion pill combo pack.
msmagazine.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I love good news.
I don't really have many feelings about traffic revisions, but everytime I drive by this stupid change I question who the hell this is for. It's so dumb.
![ROB: [talking into his phone on a street corner] Hi, it's councilmember Rob...*sigh* yes, "the curb guy"
-I'm over here at the new turnaround on Delridge and 22nd, and there's a problem
-Now, I know you folks at SDOT don't like this project, you've been dragging your feet every step of the way
-but I have to object to this sign you put up
-What do I mean? You know exactly what I mean!
THE SDOT SIGN: "The Rob Saka Triangle of Death
This Pedestrian Danger Zone is being constructed at the behest of Councilmember Rob Saka as a result of his public feud with an 8" traffic safety median that prevented him from turning left into his children's preschool"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:carj4mhaflwfubqzioy5wxl3/bafkreibcako6u7owhvvgae2rolnjpwvryhiqg2psrgtbvk7pazv7m6j7di@jpeg)
December 15, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I don't really have many feelings about traffic revisions, but everytime I drive by this stupid change I question who the hell this is for. It's so dumb.
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This is what happens when the FBI is run by two right-wing conspiracy theorist podcasters who spent the last 11 months purging almost anyone with institutional knowledge from the bureau. They're going to keep fucking this kind of thing up.
BREAKING: Authorities will release the person of interest in the Brown University shooting, officials said, as the investigation continues.
Live updates: Person of interest identified after 2 killed and 9 injured at Brown University
Live updates: 2 dead, 9 wounded in Brown University shooting; person of interest in custody
nbcnews.to
December 15, 2025 at 5:45 AM
This is what happens when the FBI is run by two right-wing conspiracy theorist podcasters who spent the last 11 months purging almost anyone with institutional knowledge from the bureau. They're going to keep fucking this kind of thing up.
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If you haven't listened to @maddow.bsky.social's new podcast series Burn Order, then you should remedy that asap. It's a very timely and well-told story about the last time (before now) that the US invoked the Alien Enemies Act in an unconstitutional manner.
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
RACHEL MADDOW PRESENTS: BURN ORDER
Rachel Maddow tells the story of one of the most shocking decisions in American history in her new podcast, “Rachel Maddow Presents: Burn Order.” This six-part series reveals how an executive order au...
www.ms.now
December 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
If you haven't listened to @maddow.bsky.social's new podcast series Burn Order, then you should remedy that asap. It's a very timely and well-told story about the last time (before now) that the US invoked the Alien Enemies Act in an unconstitutional manner.
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
I really think the loss of shame is at the core of this. We need to bring back shame. Bleach-blonde Botox people should not be able to tell us that they don’t put “toxins” in their bodies when it comes to vaccines.
I think about this, also in terms of vaccines, and really struggle with how you have a free society that doesn’t fall into this trap in one way or another. solved problems become invisible and the solutions become the source of conspiracy theories.
This seems logical but Dems solved* the whole problem of old-age health care costs in the mid-1960s and then they lost five of the next six presidential elections because by 1968 it was a solved problem and no one cared about it.
*Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.
*Yes oversimplifying here and the rest of course.
December 13, 2025 at 2:33 AM
I really think the loss of shame is at the core of this. We need to bring back shame. Bleach-blonde Botox people should not be able to tell us that they don’t put “toxins” in their bodies when it comes to vaccines.
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Doubly offensive because the architects are never the ones sitting out on the beam
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Doubly offensive because the architects are never the ones sitting out on the beam
The southbound viaduct genuinely felt like you were gambling your life every time. I know that’s generally life in America but it always felt ominous.
And the more recent transformation in Seattle has been amazing.
December 12, 2025 at 6:59 AM
The southbound viaduct genuinely felt like you were gambling your life every time. I know that’s generally life in America but it always felt ominous.
And importantly, executive orders are *NOT* laws.
That's great, but Congress doesn't need to "overturn" executive orders! Congress makes laws!
BREAKING: Democrats and Republicans in Congress just voted to pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act to restore federal workers’ union rights – the first time the House has voted to overturn a Trump executive order in this term. https://bit.ly/4oNyBQc
December 11, 2025 at 11:04 PM
And importantly, executive orders are *NOT* laws.
My middle schooler's coding class is being visited by somebody from Google who is going to tell them about problem-solving with AI.
a close up of a man 's face with a beard looking at the camera .
ALT: a close up of a man 's face with a beard looking at the camera .
media.tenor.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
My middle schooler's coding class is being visited by somebody from Google who is going to tell them about problem-solving with AI.
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I'm looking to speak with people who receive their health care through the ACA marketplace and are worried about their premiums rising next year, for a story for @theintercept.com please email me at [email protected]
December 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I'm looking to speak with people who receive their health care through the ACA marketplace and are worried about their premiums rising next year, for a story for @theintercept.com please email me at [email protected]
I wish we could all recognize that there's a difference between "writer" and "reporter." She was never a reporter.
Breaking: Vanity Fair and Olivia Nuzzi agreed to part ways after new revelations and allegations about an affair with RFK Jr. and her behavior while reporting on him.
Exclusive | Vanity Fair to Part Ways With Journalist Olivia Nuzzi
Nuzzi’s contract with Vanity Fair expires at year-end, following new allegations and revelations about her conduct while she reported on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
on.wsj.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
I wish we could all recognize that there's a difference between "writer" and "reporter." She was never a reporter.
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“We want people to make as many giant buckets that say ‘insert money here’ as we possibly can. No, they won’t do anything. Why do you ask?”
The co-founder of Kalshi says: " The long-term vision is to financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion."
December 3, 2025 at 11:01 PM
“We want people to make as many giant buckets that say ‘insert money here’ as we possibly can. No, they won’t do anything. Why do you ask?”
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We're going to find out if books really can kill.
I cannot believe I am going to force myself to read this thing
slate.com/culture/2025...
slate.com/culture/2025...
December 2, 2025 at 11:50 PM
We're going to find out if books really can kill.
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when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
November 30, 2025 at 7:48 PM
when someone tells me not to use em dashes because AI uses em dashes
I’m a cat person but this account is so wholesome. Brings me joy every week.
November 28, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I’m a cat person but this account is so wholesome. Brings me joy every week.
I just heard a podcast ad that urged me to "take advantage of the last weeks of summer." Why are podcast ads so irrevocably broken?
November 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I just heard a podcast ad that urged me to "take advantage of the last weeks of summer." Why are podcast ads so irrevocably broken?
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Wow this is bad.
CPSC Warns Consumers to Immediately Stop Using Batteries for E-Bikes from Rad Power Bikes Due to Fire Hazard; Risk of Serious Injury or Death www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/202...
November 24, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Wow this is bad.
"where attention is the only currency that still spends."
That's been her project since day one.
That's been her project since day one.
"She’s not trying to rebuild her reputation as a journalist—she’s building a different kind of brand entirely, one where being interesting matters more than being ethical, where attention is the only currency that still spends."
The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
The best thing I have read about her. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...
The Olivia Nuzzi Comeback Is Everything Wrong With Modern Media
Olivia Nuzzi’s comeback isn’t a personal scandal story—it’s proof that today’s media rewards access, personality, and controversy more than ethics.
www.mediaite.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:32 PM
"where attention is the only currency that still spends."
That's been her project since day one.
That's been her project since day one.
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*Gasp* I can't believe Russia has been flooding the internet with far-right propaganda bots pretending to be Americans.
X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based.
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
Here’s an “influencer from Texas”
November 21, 2025 at 7:25 PM
*Gasp* I can't believe Russia has been flooding the internet with far-right propaganda bots pretending to be Americans.