Seven names for ailments / illnesses in the Victorian era…

7. The collywobbles (upset tummy)
6. A queer cog (a rotten tooth)
5. The horrors (depression)
4. Dropsy (oedema)
3. Strangery (rupture)
2. Scrivener’s palsy (writer’s cramp)
1. The unpleasantness (nothing good)

Ok, this is breaking me. How can we ever vote for a party complicit in this?

Ellis on the use of tear gas Saturday: "That was the instance, as well, where children were present and they were dressed up in their Halloween costumes. … Those kids were tear gassed on their way to celebrate Halloween in their local school parking lot."

Paying way more just to have insurance than we'd pay in taxes for total medical care in any other country

They'll find out their new aca costs before the election which could really change some minds

This article focuses on cancer and uses @docsirianni.bsky.social and UMass to tell the story.

But it’s not just UMass and it’s not just cancer. This is happening for Alzheimer’s research, depression, drug addiction, and chronic pain research too— all kinds of biomedical research.

I've had people share news articles with me from fake newspapers like the Phoenix Star or whatever, with an author who has literally zero internet presence and is clearly fake. But they don't understand that it's a fake paper because they don't know which sources are real. It's scary!

Interesting: "They got paid minimum wage — $1.40 an hour back then — plus 5 cents for every crate filled with about 30 to 36 fruits"
$1.40 in 1965 would be $14.42 per hour with inflation according to BLS' CPI calculator.
Minimum wage is still $7.25

A job doesn't guarantee health insurance. Many minimum wage workers rely on medicaid. Of course, Republicans already know this