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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccasaltzman.bsky.social · 23d

And for the next generation, a meme

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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccasaltzman.bsky.social · 23d

I noticed that too. The vibes were different this year.

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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · Apr 29

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The city’s swankiest tweens lived it up over the weekend at dueling lavish bar mitzvahs, we hear.

Uptown, Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick’s son Ryan was fêted at the Metropolitan Museum’s Temple of Dendur — the same setting as Vogue’s annual Met Gala — with music by Rich the Kid and DJ Irie.

An insider told us the performance by Kid probably cost “between $200,000 and $300,000.”

One hundred kids attended with 200 adults, including Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson, Melania Trump’s former adviser Stephanie Winston Wolkoff and publicist Alison Brod, taking part in the festivities that included catering by Paris’ iconic Caviar Kaspia.

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · Apr 30

"So, what would happen without Medicaid?My patients will be forced to forgo lifesaving care, and they will die. My hospital could face closure entirely or the shuttering of units or services." www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

I'm a nurse. If Congress cuts Medicaid and Social Security, my patients will die.

So, what would happen without Medicaid? My patients will be forced to forgo lifesaving care, and they will die.

www.usatoday.com

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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccasaltzman.bsky.social · Apr 30

On this day 80 years ago, the mustache guy unalived himself in a bunker. We defeated fascism before and we can defeat it again.

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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccasaltzman.bsky.social · Apr 29

A lot of hospitals are going to be in trouble if Republicans gut Medicaid. E.g, we have had a problem with labor and delivery wards closing for decades. Medicaid pays for 40% of US births. What’s going to happen to the remaining L&D wards if Medicaid goes away?

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Apr 29

really can’t be said enough how none of these republicans know a gotdamned thing about anything

Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · Apr 29

These guys are about to kick millions of people off their health insurance and they don't have the faintest idea of how these programs work, just throwing out numbers in an incoherent jumble. It's like a football coach saying "We've got a 10-yard redzone in our offside flea flicker so we'll be good"

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · Apr 29

House E&C Chair Brett Guthrie: “We have an expansion population that gets 90% federal money, and you have traditional [Medicaid], so a disabled child in Kentucky gets 72 cents when they go to the doctor. And we know that’s just unsustainable.”

“We want to fix that” www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

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Paul Waldman @paulwaldman.bsky.social · Apr 29

These guys are about to kick millions of people off their health insurance and they don't have the faintest idea of how these programs work, just throwing out numbers in an incoherent jumble. It's like a football coach saying "We've got a 10-yard redzone in our offside flea flicker so we'll be good"

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · Apr 29

House E&C Chair Brett Guthrie: “We have an expansion population that gets 90% federal money, and you have traditional [Medicaid], so a disabled child in Kentucky gets 72 cents when they go to the doctor. And we know that’s just unsustainable.”

“We want to fix that” www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Republicans consider unraveling a key part of Obamacare in Trump agenda bill

The chair of the House committee overseeing health care policy said they're looking at unwinding the federal promise to cover 90% of the 2010 law's Medicaid expansion.

www.nbcnews.com

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Good Boy @goodboy.bsky.social · Apr 29

A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here

Marisa said she is eft with nothing BUt questions.
"What if I would have been armed," she 2 said. "You're breaking in. What am 1 supposed to think? My initial thought was we were being robbed-that my daughters, being females, were being kidnapped. You have guns pointed in our faces. Can you just reprogram yourself and see us as humans, as women? A little bit of mercy. Care a little bit about your fellow human, about your fellow citizen, fellow resident. We bleed too. We vork. We pleed justlike anybody else bleeds. We're scared. You could see our faces that we were terrified. What makes you so much more worthier of your peace? What makes you so much more worthier of protecting your children? What makes you so much more worthy of your citizenship? What makes you more worthy of safety? Of being given
the ight t that they took from me to protect my daughters?"

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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccasaltzman.bsky.social · Apr 29

Could not be happier for Canada 🇨🇦

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Canada Conservative Leader Poilievre Loses His Own Seat in Election, CBC Projects

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is projected to lose his own seat in the Canadian election, despite delivering the best result for his party since 2011.

www.bloomberg.com

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · Apr 25

Screaming at these people works. They’re fundamentally wimps, we just have to actually DO the screaming instead of preemptively admitting defeat.

I am talking about my fellow Americans, not the Democrats. We actually need to scream, gang, not just complain that Schumer isn’t.

J. Emory Parker 🏳️‍🌈 @jaspar.bsky.social · Apr 24

Breaking: HHS says there will NOT be an autism registry after all, walking back earlier claims from the NIH director www.statnews.com/2025/04/24/n...

No new autism registry, HHS says, walking back NIH director's claim

The federal health department is not creating a new registry of Americans with autism, an HHS official said Thursday.

www.statnews.com

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · Apr 25

Love to see it! Immediate push back.

Marco Foster @marcofoster.bsky.social · Apr 25

HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protesters have now gathered outside a federal courthouse in downtown Milwaukee to support Judge Hannah Dugan

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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccasaltzman.bsky.social · Apr 25

Are people really subjecting us all to another round of Junot Diaz discourse in the year 2025?

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Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · Apr 23

Al gore is pissed off and I’m here for it

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Toussaint Egan @thesaintoftous.bsky.social · Apr 24

Words to live by.

Screenshot of a tweet by @louisethebaker

The text reads, "I’m almost 50, and here is the best thing I have learned so far: every strange thing you’ve ever been into, every failed hobby or forgotten instrument, everything you have ever learned will come back to you, will serve you when you need it. No love, however brief, is wasted."

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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccasaltzman.bsky.social · Apr 24

Hey so if DOGE fired thousands of federal workers and cut all these programs, where is all that money now? Is it in a shoebox under the government’s bed? Siphoned to someone’s foreign bank account? Just wondering!

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Lauren Groff @legroff.bsky.social · Apr 23

They’re trying to siphon the little margin we get. But indies put 67% of every dollar back into their local economies. Am*zon puts 4% back. Barnes and Noble returns 45%. What they are doing is calculated expressly to hurt small independent bookstores.

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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccasaltzman.bsky.social · Apr 23

The damage this administration is doing will not be undone in my lifetime

Gabriel Bosslet @gbosslet.bsky.social · Apr 23

Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history

It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women

Unreal

www.science.org/content/arti...

NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women

The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

www.science.org

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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccasaltzman.bsky.social · Apr 23

That’s actually adorable

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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccasaltzman.bsky.social · Apr 23

Ok but this one is objectively hilarious. The boomer retirement satire we all need!

Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccasaltzman.bsky.social · Apr 23

I still have space in my short story workshop that starts tonight! I’ll give you my best writing tips, and you’ll leave with a story draft and guidance on how to keep revising. On Zoom!

writingpad.com/classes/onli...

Short Story 1 | Writing Pad

In this 5-wk Online short story workshop, Rebecca Saltzman (The New Yorker, McSweeney’s) helps you write, revise, and publish a short story.

writingpad.com

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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · Apr 22

my plan to get people to start having more kids? make climate change worse. abolish the department of education. also milk is poison

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StrictlyChristo 🦋🇺🇦🌻❌👑 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · Apr 22

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

Two NYT headlines stating the WH wants to promote more childbearing and the EPA is ending testing for chemicals that hurt children.

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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccasaltzman.bsky.social · Apr 22

The administration that brought us military Signal chat leaks is now promising to be, like, totally careful with millions of Americans’ sensitive medical records

www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...

RFK Jr.'s autism study to amass medical records of many Americans

The autism study is planning to link confidential data "with broad coverage in the U.S. population" in one place for the first time.

www.cbsnews.com

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Rebecca Saltzman @rebeccasaltzman.bsky.social · Apr 22

“My luxury NYC apartment is a shithole” is one of my favorite genres, as someone who also lives in an NYC shithole apartment for 1/3 of the price.

www.curbed.com/article/gree...

Mice, Hairballs, and ‘Poltergeist’ Noises

Residents paying up to $10,000 a month at Greenpoint’s Eagle + West say life there is not very luxurious.

www.curbed.com