Matt E Allen
@matteallen.bsky.social
Kidney transplant recipient, living in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. I'm also lazy on social media.
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NEW: In a five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” ProPublica’s @gingerthompson.bsky.social pursues the question:
Why are people in Albany, Georgia, so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?
Start with Part 1 here:
Why are people in Albany, Georgia, so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?
Start with Part 1 here:
Sick in a Hospital Town, Part 1: The Business of Care
Welcome to Albany, Georgia, where one hospital dominates the political and economic landscape. The story of Phoebe Putney Memorial is the story of American health care.
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December 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
NEW: In a five-part series, “Sick in a Hospital Town,” ProPublica’s @gingerthompson.bsky.social pursues the question:
Why are people in Albany, Georgia, so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?
Start with Part 1 here:
Why are people in Albany, Georgia, so sick when its most powerful institution is a hospital?
Start with Part 1 here:
Box Office Game
Box Office Game based off the idea from Blank Check
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December 7, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Why would Dr. Colker want to seal medical records and receipts related to Janel Grant and her case against Colker's clinic and Vince McMahon?
I can't imagine why he wants them kept private. I think it would be very insightful if they were made public.
Hopefully, the judge will agree.
#wrestlesky
I can't imagine why he wants them kept private. I think it would be very insightful if they were made public.
Hopefully, the judge will agree.
#wrestlesky
LATEST: Vince McMahon doctor asks court to seal 700 pages of documents in Janel Grant case
www.sescoops.com/article/vinc...
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Vince McMahon’s Doctor Asks Court to Seal 700 pages of Grant Documents
Vince McMahon's doctor requests the court to seal 700 pages of Janel Grant's documents in an ongoing legal battle. Read the latest wrestling news now.
www.sescoops.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Why would Dr. Colker want to seal medical records and receipts related to Janel Grant and her case against Colker's clinic and Vince McMahon?
I can't imagine why he wants them kept private. I think it would be very insightful if they were made public.
Hopefully, the judge will agree.
#wrestlesky
I can't imagine why he wants them kept private. I think it would be very insightful if they were made public.
Hopefully, the judge will agree.
#wrestlesky
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I’m excited for the AI bubble to collapse and leave us with enough electrical infrastructure to finally make electric vehicles viable en masse
December 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I’m excited for the AI bubble to collapse and leave us with enough electrical infrastructure to finally make electric vehicles viable en masse
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This is a decision that can only happen when the people who founded the company lost sight of the reason they established this tier / how they themselves started. The whole reason that simulcasting+free ad-supported tiers were innovated in the first place was to deter people from pirating the shows!
Crunchyroll Announced that they are ending the Free Ad-Supported Streaming on December 31st, 2025
(This allowed you to watch certain titles for free without an active sub with ads)
As of reporting there is no changes with the other tiers
(This allowed you to watch certain titles for free without an active sub with ads)
As of reporting there is no changes with the other tiers
December 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM
This is a decision that can only happen when the people who founded the company lost sight of the reason they established this tier / how they themselves started. The whole reason that simulcasting+free ad-supported tiers were innovated in the first place was to deter people from pirating the shows!
Box Office Game
Box Office Game based off the idea from Blank Check
boxofficega.me
December 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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I am so infuriated to be told this by someone who flopped around in feigned helplessness for four years that I don't even know where to start.
Biden: So, folks, that's my message to all of us today, to all who love our country, to all of us are dismayed by the present state of the union: it's time to get up, get up and fight back. Get up. Continue to fight. What's the fight all about? Protecting the constitution.
December 6, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I am so infuriated to be told this by someone who flopped around in feigned helplessness for four years that I don't even know where to start.
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ok great, time to definitively end the one thing that made the service popular to begin with
have they fired the CEO yet??
they are gonna miss the “25 by 25” milestone and that is the sort of thing that results in fired executives. just wondering, just wondering…
have they fired the CEO yet??
they are gonna miss the “25 by 25” milestone and that is the sort of thing that results in fired executives. just wondering, just wondering…
Crunchyroll Announced that they are ending the Free Ad-Supported Streaming on December 31st, 2025
(This allowed you to watch certain titles for free without an active sub with ads)
As of reporting there is no changes with the other tiers
(This allowed you to watch certain titles for free without an active sub with ads)
As of reporting there is no changes with the other tiers
December 6, 2025 at 7:07 PM
ok great, time to definitively end the one thing that made the service popular to begin with
have they fired the CEO yet??
they are gonna miss the “25 by 25” milestone and that is the sort of thing that results in fired executives. just wondering, just wondering…
have they fired the CEO yet??
they are gonna miss the “25 by 25” milestone and that is the sort of thing that results in fired executives. just wondering, just wondering…
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Cisgender women keep winning and confirming that all this hatred and exclusion of trans people is almost solely the domain of morally reprehensible men (a techbro owns this league).
This wouldn't even be a gendered hobby if certain men weren't incredibly creepy about women wanting to take part.
This wouldn't even be a gendered hobby if certain men weren't incredibly creepy about women wanting to take part.
Several teams of female gamers have dropped out of the Dead by Daylight Women's World Cup after trans women were banned.
Women gamers boycott global esports tournament over trans ban
Several teams of female gamers have dropped out of the Dead by Daylight Women's World Cup after trans women were banned.
bit.ly
December 6, 2025 at 8:41 AM
Cisgender women keep winning and confirming that all this hatred and exclusion of trans people is almost solely the domain of morally reprehensible men (a techbro owns this league).
This wouldn't even be a gendered hobby if certain men weren't incredibly creepy about women wanting to take part.
This wouldn't even be a gendered hobby if certain men weren't incredibly creepy about women wanting to take part.
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I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore
December 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore
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what follows immediately after the birthright clause? the privileges and immunities and due process clauses? and what follows them? the equal protection clause. all of this is explicitly to say, "the declaration is the constitutional law of the land"
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
what follows immediately after the birthright clause? the privileges and immunities and due process clauses? and what follows them? the equal protection clause. all of this is explicitly to say, "the declaration is the constitutional law of the land"
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the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality
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dred scott, in their minds, established the united states as a place of tiered citizenship and permanent inequality among americans. it was a ruling that said, in effect, that all men *were not* created equal and would *never* be treated as such.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
dred scott, in their minds, established the united states as a place of tiered citizenship and permanent inequality among americans. it was a ruling that said, in effect, that all men *were not* created equal and would *never* be treated as such.
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i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
December 6, 2025 at 6:03 PM
i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.
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The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
December 2, 2025 at 3:08 PM
The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"
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Minnesota last year eliminated prison gerrymandering. A law, signed by Governor Tim Walz, will end the practice of counting incarcerated people where prisons are located, which skews political power within the state.
Minnesota Just Became The Latest State to Eliminate Prison Gerrymandering
A new law will end the practice of counting incarcerated people where prisons are located, which skews political power within the state.
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December 6, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Minnesota last year eliminated prison gerrymandering. A law, signed by Governor Tim Walz, will end the practice of counting incarcerated people where prisons are located, which skews political power within the state.
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What an interesting coincidence.
December 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
What an interesting coincidence.
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"Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the Constitution"
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration. n.pr/48E1oko
Supreme Court agrees to hear arguments in birthright citizenship challenge
The Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the longstanding principle that grants citizenship to the children of non-citizens born in the U.S., following a legal challenge by the Trump administration.
n.pr
December 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"Supreme Court will ultimately decide whether to uphold the Constitution"
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I can’t get over how Barbie succeeded because it offered tangible ways for women and girls to celebrate each other (and dress up and go to the movies together) but studios thought it worked because it’s about toys so now they’re making like Bananagrams the movie
December 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I can’t get over how Barbie succeeded because it offered tangible ways for women and girls to celebrate each other (and dress up and go to the movies together) but studios thought it worked because it’s about toys so now they’re making like Bananagrams the movie
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It's an actual game plan on the right. They use it for book bans as well. They start with something easy: no porn in libraries. That hooks in the low information folks. Then you slowly broaden the scope until you're yanking any YA that violates Christian nationalism.
one of many parallels between anti-vaxxers & those who oppose gender-affirming care: they start by pretending they have a very specific concern (MMR vaccine, puberty blockers, etc), but once given any sway or say on the matter, they quickly strive to eliminate all of it
Kennedy's zombie ACIP panel just voted to restrict hepatitis B vaccine for newborns. Experts say it will harm children for no reason. www.ms.now/news/rfk-cdc...
ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner:
"'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."
ACIP member Dr. Cody Meissner:
"'Do no harm' is a moral imperative. We are doing harm by changing this wording. And I vote no."
December 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
It's an actual game plan on the right. They use it for book bans as well. They start with something easy: no porn in libraries. That hooks in the low information folks. Then you slowly broaden the scope until you're yanking any YA that violates Christian nationalism.
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The Data Doesn’t Lie: How ProPublica Reports the Truth in an Era of False Claims, by @propublica.org Editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social
The Data Doesn’t Lie: How ProPublica Reports the Truth in an Era of False Claims
As federal data becomes less available, our journalists are doing shoe-leather reporting to provide readers with the precise numbers.
www.propublica.org
December 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
The Data Doesn’t Lie: How ProPublica Reports the Truth in an Era of False Claims, by @propublica.org Editor-in-chief @sengelberg.bsky.social
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This stage of capitalism in a nutshell
The issue with Neoliberalism isn't that it doesn't work, it's that it only works once. You can sell the family silver once, you can strip the copper out of the walls once, you can burn the furniture to keep warm once. But then you have to come up with something else!
December 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
This stage of capitalism in a nutshell
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"Biological people" was always where this eugenicist rhetoric was headed - ie "biological women", "biological pronouns" - because they genuinely don't believe trans people are even human. This dehumanizing language is essential for them to paint trans people as genetically incompatible with society.
Kishwer Falkner in The Times talking about the rights of "biological people". As compared to trans people, who are, of course, non-biological.
December 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"Biological people" was always where this eugenicist rhetoric was headed - ie "biological women", "biological pronouns" - because they genuinely don't believe trans people are even human. This dehumanizing language is essential for them to paint trans people as genetically incompatible with society.
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"This is an easy market to serve, and an impossible one to serve in a remotely dignified way."
Via @davidjroth.bsky.social: The conservative grievance business is always hiring defector.com/the-conserva...
The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector
Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was…
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December 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
"This is an easy market to serve, and an impossible one to serve in a remotely dignified way."