So according to SCOTUS it would seem that states have the right to ban gender affirmative care that professional organizations support but do not have the right to ban conversion therapy that professional organizations condemn. Professional expertise literally has no legitimacy anymore.

Bookshop is having an Anti-Amazon sale, with cheap e-books and free shipping for print today and tomorrow:

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“My biggest fear is going to the hospital,” she said.

Extraordinary reporting and storytelling by Mel Leonor Barclay and @shefali.bsky.social for @19thnews.org.

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Why do I have the Sunday scaries? I mean, the government has been shut down and cities are being invaded, but everything is fine.

Without the ACA enhanced premium tax credits, Marketplace premiums could more than double.

A new KFF poll finds 7 in 10 Marketplace enrollees say they could not afford their coverage if premiums doubled — and 4 in 10 say they’d likely go uninsured. https://on.kff.org/4q7ElGy

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

The Trump administration is preparing a plan that will make it harder for older Americans to qualify for Social Security disability payments, which could result in hundreds of thousands of people losing benefits, according to people familiar with the plans (GIFT LINK). wapo.st/4qa8yoq

North Carolina and Idaho have cut their Medicaid programs to bridge budget gaps, raising fears that providers will stop taking patients and that hospitals will close even before the brunt of a new federal tax-and-budget law takes effect.

the usual story. rich guy wants to punish universities for not clamping down on pro-palestinian protests and for doing too much to recruit minorities. at base these guys want the top tier of american universities to become, once more, safe-spaces for their dunderheaded failsons

Yep, I ordered some clothes from the UK and DHL messaged me and said I had to pay an extra $180 for the tariffs in order to receive them so I said oh. Ok, send it back I guess. 🤷🏻‍♀️ everything is fine.

The dedication to visually representing each of the 4,304 deliveries in the background scroll is admirable and conveys the loss to food banks.

The personal interviews and portraits are concise but powerfully relate these cuts’ impact on peoples' lives.

Everyone’s’ “must read” today.

“They had a big, 15-inch chainsaw with round blade on it, cutting this fence down. We're under siege. We're being invaded by our own military."

The worst of what we feared when Trump’s spending bill gave ICE a blank check is happening.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

Honey, wake up: New unconstitutional extortion just dropped. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

And I don’t think I’ve posted my book here so: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/708739...

Medicare, as of today, will no longer cover telehealth visits.

I can’t imagine a bigger slap in the face to our patients.

Everyone knew OMB and the White House would make cuts right away in a shutdown. The first ones hit New York City, holding back $18 billion in infrastructure funding. On what grounds? "To ensure funding is not flowing based on unconstitutional DEI principles."

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you give a list of the prescriptions you take to a federal government that has directly targeted people with chronic illness, mental illness, disability, autism, etc, with the eugenic language of elimination and stated outright they’re everything wrong with the country.

What a day to be teaching my sci & tech studies class about Robert Moses’ racist bridges on Long Island! archive.pinupmagazine.org/articles/jon...

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JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

💯 miserable

DEI offices support first gen students, student parents, veterans and disabled people in addition to people of color and women, but when racism and white supremacy is official government policy, everyone gets thrown out with the bath water.
hate always rebounds back on the haters.