Really loved this one.

If you were just a savvier shopper! Maybe you could take a different totally random drug that's cheaper - that's what my insurance always suggests!

Then have to do the same 100 calls every year to re-up the prior auth/cost reduction. Sir, I do actually know how much my drugs cost because I have the pleasure of fighting w ins over them every year - a practice which weirdly hasn‘t made my chronic illness stop being chronic.

I actually think that they‘re having real mil/intel/law enforcement orgs LARP the fake ones in Sicario (which I explain in the end of my Good Authority piece from today)

Teaching soc movements and pol protest this semester and my late gen z students have not described anything as cringe (that’s prob slightly older folks), but keep calling things performative. Finally I was like: guys, it is performative...it’s literally a performance. This had not occurred to them.

Read this essay in Santo Domingo, where everyday I walk by a pet shop/vet office with cages of budgies, love birds, and cockatiels always joined by a few to many pigeons on the cages and the ground nearby eating the caged birds’ cast off seeds.

@indivisibleononcty.bsky.social

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Just a heads up, if it’s chronic, in addition to celebrating, write down all the asinine things that you did that worked because you’ll have to go through it all again next year.

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This has bothered me about the coverage of the Salvadoran CECOT - it’s not a gulag, it’s a modern prison. There are a million reasons we shouldn’t be sending people there, but not because it’s an institution out of some faraway and foreign past. It’s actually an exemplar of a heinous modern prison.

Soon by @benehrenreich.bsky.social in @flaminghydra.com

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My guess of what makes this an actual diplomatic problem- and another reason none of these people should be in CECOT- is because there’s no human rights monitoring and no one leaves so no info exists about actual unscripted conditions. Bukele would surely be pissed about such high profile release.

Just got around to this post and can't stop laughing imagining an advice blog for my 4 tendencies cat, someone who resists both outer and inner expectations. Perhaps finished phd/got tenure solely driven by a burning desire to avoid becoming a win for the patriarchy by falling out of the pipeline.

True, but sometimes this white bread: