@prof-babski.bsky.social
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NEW: My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.
Illinois shut out of Medicaid after Trump administration halts federal grants and loans chicago.suntimes.com/politics/don...
Illinois shut out of Medicaid after Trump administration halts federal grants and loans
The Trump administration's federal freeze has shut Illinois out of Medicaid, according to Gov. JB. Pritzker's office. The government-funded health insurance program covered about 3.9 million people in...
chicago.suntimes.com
January 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
NEW: My staff has confirmed reports that Medicaid portals are down in all 50 states following last night's federal funding freeze. This is a blatant attempt to rip away health care from millions of Americans overnight and will get people killed.
@margoshe.bsky.social it's your old grad school buddy Babette
January 28, 2025 at 7:43 PM
@margoshe.bsky.social it's your old grad school buddy Babette
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My favorite part of Zuckerberg's Joe Rogan interview is when he suggests there is not enough masculine energy at his company, where two out of every three employees is a man.
January 12, 2025 at 5:34 PM
My favorite part of Zuckerberg's Joe Rogan interview is when he suggests there is not enough masculine energy at his company, where two out of every three employees is a man.
I expected some anticipatory compliance but the degree to which this is already happening in big tech and media is making me nauseous.
December 18, 2024 at 3:58 PM
I expected some anticipatory compliance but the degree to which this is already happening in big tech and media is making me nauseous.
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More than ever, democracy needs help to survive. But who can save the US? | Editorial
More than ever, democracy needs help to survive. But who can save the US? | Editorial
With illiberal regimes advancing across the globe, youthful voters are standing up to make their voices heard
It has been a testing week for democracy across Europe and Asia. But the good news is that, by and large, countries that trust the people to…
www.theguardian.com
December 8, 2024 at 7:06 AM
More than ever, democracy needs help to survive. But who can save the US? | Editorial
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Yikes!!!
Yikes!!!
Scoop: Internal Project Esther documents describe conspiracy of Jewish ‘masterminds’ seeking to dismantle Western values
A presentation meant to win supporters for the Heritage Foundation’s plan to fight antisemitism draws a line from George Soros to pro-Palestinian protests.
forward.com
December 8, 2024 at 4:16 PM
forward.com/news/680626/...
Yikes!!!
Yikes!!!
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arguments in Skrmetti
Supreme Ct. Hears Case on Medical Treatments for Transgender Minors
The Supreme Court heard oral argument in United States v. Skrmetti, a case on whether Tennessee's ban on transgender medical treatments for minors violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amen...
www.c-span.org
December 4, 2024 at 3:09 PM
arguments in Skrmetti
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Also works in reverse!
I actually backed into writing about history many years after graduating college with a mismash of classes. Too many people think it's irrelevant, but history IS current events.
I actually backed into writing about history many years after graduating college with a mismash of classes. Too many people think it's irrelevant, but history IS current events.
Moderating a panel of past History majors, telling our current students about the career paths they took — from politics and law to cultural work and consulting. Really impressive, and that’s with a Pulitzer Prize winning reporter missing due to being sick.
History: Just Do It
History: Just Do It
December 4, 2024 at 2:35 AM
Also works in reverse!
I actually backed into writing about history many years after graduating college with a mismash of classes. Too many people think it's irrelevant, but history IS current events.
I actually backed into writing about history many years after graduating college with a mismash of classes. Too many people think it's irrelevant, but history IS current events.
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Trump is trying to appoint an FBI Director who wants to imprison journalists—and this is the front page of the New York Times.
December 3, 2024 at 6:18 AM
Trump is trying to appoint an FBI Director who wants to imprison journalists—and this is the front page of the New York Times.
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I believe some people can be comforted and helped by AI companions, but it seems clear that the companies making them are not acting responsibly. Excellent from Josh Dzieza www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...
December 3, 2024 at 7:49 PM
I believe some people can be comforted and helped by AI companions, but it seems clear that the companies making them are not acting responsibly. Excellent from Josh Dzieza www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...
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This is getting worse quickly, too. At the end of August I had identified 3,495 accounts that X was withholding in Turkey at the request of the government. Today that number is 3,826:
November 30, 2024 at 8:57 PM
This is getting worse quickly, too. At the end of August I had identified 3,495 accounts that X was withholding in Turkey at the request of the government. Today that number is 3,826:
Call your Senators people!!!!
November 30, 2024 at 8:10 PM
Call your Senators people!!!!
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I'm curious. During the campaign, fact-checkers routinely dinged the Harris campaign for calling Project 2025 Trump's playbook, saying "Trump has denied this."
Have any of them admitted how badly they got rolled in the most obvious of ways?
Have any of them admitted how badly they got rolled in the most obvious of ways?
During the campaign, Donald Trump swore he had “nothing to do with” Project 2025. Now, as president-elect, Trump has filled his administration with people who have ties to the right-wing policy blueprint that would overhaul the federal government. nyti.ms/3BhAxxA
November 30, 2024 at 5:51 AM
I'm curious. During the campaign, fact-checkers routinely dinged the Harris campaign for calling Project 2025 Trump's playbook, saying "Trump has denied this."
Have any of them admitted how badly they got rolled in the most obvious of ways?
Have any of them admitted how badly they got rolled in the most obvious of ways?
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Happy publication day to my @uchicagopress.bsky.social's sibling @sethrockman.bsky.social whose book Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery is officially out today. Use code UCPNEW for 30% discount at check out #slaveryarchive press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
November 29, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Happy publication day to my @uchicagopress.bsky.social's sibling @sethrockman.bsky.social whose book Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery is officially out today. Use code UCPNEW for 30% discount at check out #slaveryarchive press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Fifty. Six. Percent. Increase. In. The deaths. Of. Pregnant. People.
"Across Texas, residency applications in ob-gyn dropped significantly. Data from the Gender Equity Policy Institute revealed a fifty-six-per-cent spike in maternal deaths in the state between 2019 and 2022."
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
November 29, 2024 at 3:11 PM
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Don't need to guess ....
I have covered both Musk and Alex a lot, and only one of them is a useful idiot for Putin and also a heinous person. The other is a patriot who did his job with distinction and is a very good man. Guess which is which: thehill.com/policy/techn...
Musk accuses Trump whistleblower Vindman of ‘treason,’ says ‘he will pay’
Elon Musk on Wednesday suggested retired Army Lt. Col Alexander Vindman “committed treason” and “will pay” after the former Trump impeachment witness accused the tech billio…
thehill.com
November 29, 2024 at 10:57 AM
Don't need to guess ....
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It’s time :3
November 25, 2024 at 10:54 PM
It’s time :3
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Again: mob violence is the intended outcome of the “use your birth gender bathroom” laws. The intent is to provoke violence against trans people and drive them from public life.
November 28, 2024 at 2:28 AM
Again: mob violence is the intended outcome of the “use your birth gender bathroom” laws. The intent is to provoke violence against trans people and drive them from public life.
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Like this. Dangerously unhinged.
November 27, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Like this. Dangerously unhinged.
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Public school funding has been leaking out into private schools for some time. Especially concerning when these schools are religious.
This leakage was slow. Now, it's approaching "firehose."
We can't put it back. They were too smart. So now.... it's Satanic School o'clock. It's the only way.
This leakage was slow. Now, it's approaching "firehose."
We can't put it back. They were too smart. So now.... it's Satanic School o'clock. It's the only way.
Ohio Republicans have given nearly a billion dollars to private schools through vouchers.
Now, one group is steering a portion of that money to *Christian* schools by having taxpayers cover construction costs for new and expanding buildings.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/in-ohio-on... using
Now, one group is steering a portion of that money to *Christian* schools by having taxpayers cover construction costs for new and expanding buildings.
www.friendlyatheist.com/p/in-ohio-on... using
In Ohio, one Christian group is using tax dollars to fuel a network of private schools
The Center for Christian Virtue is destroying public education in Ohio through taxpayer-funded scholarships and grants
www.friendlyatheist.com
November 27, 2024 at 2:21 PM
Public school funding has been leaking out into private schools for some time. Especially concerning when these schools are religious.
This leakage was slow. Now, it's approaching "firehose."
We can't put it back. They were too smart. So now.... it's Satanic School o'clock. It's the only way.
This leakage was slow. Now, it's approaching "firehose."
We can't put it back. They were too smart. So now.... it's Satanic School o'clock. It's the only way.
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Imagine thinking there's "too much negativity" and thinking the solution is Donald Trump, someone who can't even wish people Merry Christmas without throwing in a jab about the "losers and haters"
Ingraham: Trump is fun. He is a fun factor in politics and my gosh, we need to have more fun in this country. Too much negativity all the time.
November 27, 2024 at 12:31 AM
Imagine thinking there's "too much negativity" and thinking the solution is Donald Trump, someone who can't even wish people Merry Christmas without throwing in a jab about the "losers and haters"