Donald Trump has picked Project 2025 architect Russell Vought to lead the Office of Management and Budget.

In Trump's first term, Vought crafted budget proposals that recommended Social Security and Medicare cuts.

Your reminder that Project 2025 was always the MAGA agenda.

The largest private health insurance companies in the USA:

- UnitedHealth Group: $215 billion revenue
- Elevance Health (Anthem): $133 billion revenue
- Kaiser Permanente: $126 billion revenue
- Centene (Ambetter): 8.6% market share, $116 billion revenue
- Humana: $100 billion revenue

Not an exaggeration.

One thing I look for in a social network is not to have the CEO shove his reactionary political views in my face every time I open the app. So I’m happy here.

It took me twelve years (!) to build up my audience on Twitter. It took 5 days to surpass the 50% point of my Twitter following on Bluesky. I’m hopeful that the overall growth on this site will negate the need to go on Twitter altogether. Sad to see what it devolved into, but thrilled to see it die.

Another day at Bluesky, and it looks like growth is not slowing down! Welcome!

We’d like to take a moment to share our stance on AI and user data:

In "The Principles of Newspeak", the appendix to the 1949 novel, George Orwell explains that Newspeak usage follows most of the English grammar, yet is a language characterized by a continually diminishing vocabulary; complete thoughts reduced to simple terms of simplistic meaning. (...)

I choose my Daisy girl as my first post. I love her so much, she’s the bestest most goodest girl in the world!!!!

Do we post pictures of cats here or not?