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The first year I had Bruce I took him to the Christmas market in Love Park and we split a raclette sandwich. Last year we turned it into a formal tradition so here’s this year’s installment. Merry Christmas, bub.
December 13, 2024 at 1:10 AM
The first year I had Bruce I took him to the Christmas market in Love Park and we split a raclette sandwich. Last year we turned it into a formal tradition so here’s this year’s installment. Merry Christmas, bub.
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NEW: After reviewing leaked documents, we have found UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to a treatment for thousands of children with autism across the country in order to cut costs.
Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal.
www.propublica.org/article/unit...
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Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal.
www.propublica.org/article/unit...
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UnitedHealth Is Strategically Limiting Access to Critical Treatment for Kids With Autism
Leaked internal documents show that the insurance giant is culling providers of applied behavior analysis from its network and scrutinizing the medical necessity of therapy. Advocates say the company’...
www.propublica.org
December 13, 2024 at 1:34 PM
NEW: After reviewing leaked documents, we have found UnitedHealth is strategically limiting access to a treatment for thousands of children with autism across the country in order to cut costs.
Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal.
www.propublica.org/article/unit...
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Advocates say the company’s strategy may be illegal.
www.propublica.org/article/unit...
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Every museum should have a Little Guys Tour, and at the end of the tour you can buy reproductions of all the little guys
December 11, 2024 at 9:20 PM
Every museum should have a Little Guys Tour, and at the end of the tour you can buy reproductions of all the little guys
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Personally, I think it takes a deeply incurious moral observer to argue that knowingly implementing policies that will deny people lifesaving care, in a situation where you have a legal duty to provide that lifesaving care, is *not* premeditated murder.
December 12, 2024 at 5:43 PM
Personally, I think it takes a deeply incurious moral observer to argue that knowingly implementing policies that will deny people lifesaving care, in a situation where you have a legal duty to provide that lifesaving care, is *not* premeditated murder.
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Artist makes website that lets you take selfies through NYC's network of traffic cameras. NYC Department of Transportation sends cease and desist. Artist nails cease and desist to a very very very long pole & holds it up to one of the cameras to take a photo of it
www.404media.co/traffic-cam-...
www.404media.co/traffic-cam-...
December 12, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Artist makes website that lets you take selfies through NYC's network of traffic cameras. NYC Department of Transportation sends cease and desist. Artist nails cease and desist to a very very very long pole & holds it up to one of the cameras to take a photo of it
www.404media.co/traffic-cam-...
www.404media.co/traffic-cam-...
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republicans feel bold to openly claim they want to revert LGBTQ rights and public perception of LGBTQ people back to before the 2000s era
December 12, 2024 at 7:22 PM
republicans feel bold to openly claim they want to revert LGBTQ rights and public perception of LGBTQ people back to before the 2000s era
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nobody was bothered about trans ppl existing 7 years ago.
everything that pisses you off about us is entirely fabricated by news media and politicians.
every concern you have about our healthcare being ‘experimental’ is a lie.
nothing you think you know is accurate.
everything that pisses you off about us is entirely fabricated by news media and politicians.
every concern you have about our healthcare being ‘experimental’ is a lie.
nothing you think you know is accurate.
i wish ppl would stop doing that ‘what would be doing if this was 1930s germany? lol’ thing bcos trans ppl know exactly what you’d be doing.
December 11, 2024 at 8:52 AM
nobody was bothered about trans ppl existing 7 years ago.
everything that pisses you off about us is entirely fabricated by news media and politicians.
every concern you have about our healthcare being ‘experimental’ is a lie.
nothing you think you know is accurate.
everything that pisses you off about us is entirely fabricated by news media and politicians.
every concern you have about our healthcare being ‘experimental’ is a lie.
nothing you think you know is accurate.
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As in Tennessee, this ban does not apply to cis children, because the drugs themselves are not a safety hazard. The only thing at risk is a society’s discomfort with allowing young people to make their own decisions about their own bodies.
Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK
Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK
Health secretary says emergency measures banning sale and supply will be made indefinite after expert advice
Puberty blockers for under-18s with gender dysphoria will be banned indefinitely across the UK, except for use in clinical trials, the government…
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2024 at 2:49 PM
As in Tennessee, this ban does not apply to cis children, because the drugs themselves are not a safety hazard. The only thing at risk is a society’s discomfort with allowing young people to make their own decisions about their own bodies.
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Ever wondered why walking around museums is weirdly tiring? At normal speed our legs act like pendulums, swinging forward from the hip & saving us a huge amount of energy. In "museum shuffle" our muscles must do ALL the work of constant readjustment. So cake in the cafe is scientifically justified 🥳
December 8, 2024 at 11:20 AM
Ever wondered why walking around museums is weirdly tiring? At normal speed our legs act like pendulums, swinging forward from the hip & saving us a huge amount of energy. In "museum shuffle" our muscles must do ALL the work of constant readjustment. So cake in the cafe is scientifically justified 🥳
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Jesse Singal's life's work is laundering transphobia into language that that cocktail party set finds palatable. This technique attacks a weakness of liberalism and democracy, and it's being exploited ruthlessly right now.
You have to treat the shtick like the thing it's pretending not to be.
You have to treat the shtick like the thing it's pretending not to be.
December 7, 2024 at 7:45 AM
Jesse Singal's life's work is laundering transphobia into language that that cocktail party set finds palatable. This technique attacks a weakness of liberalism and democracy, and it's being exploited ruthlessly right now.
You have to treat the shtick like the thing it's pretending not to be.
You have to treat the shtick like the thing it's pretending not to be.
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I told our dog “Think about the choices you are making!” and istg he rolled his eyes at me
December 6, 2024 at 4:04 AM
I told our dog “Think about the choices you are making!” and istg he rolled his eyes at me
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Every Thursday, I make spaghetti for myself and Pierre, and every Thursday, Pierre gets very excited to get his tiny dish of spaghetti
December 6, 2024 at 4:27 AM
Every Thursday, I make spaghetti for myself and Pierre, and every Thursday, Pierre gets very excited to get his tiny dish of spaghetti
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I had an emergency appendectomy just three weeks ago and almost didn’t go to the ER because it could potentially bankrupt me and that’s the risk many of us weigh when we potentially need emergency care and don’t know how bad the problem is.
December 6, 2024 at 1:19 PM
I had an emergency appendectomy just three weeks ago and almost didn’t go to the ER because it could potentially bankrupt me and that’s the risk many of us weigh when we potentially need emergency care and don’t know how bad the problem is.
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the South Korean presidential system can be difficult for Americans to understand. Presidents can only serve a single five-year term, but their prison sentences vary in length.
December 3, 2024 at 11:46 PM
the South Korean presidential system can be difficult for Americans to understand. Presidents can only serve a single five-year term, but their prison sentences vary in length.
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You're not going to be able to develop a highly informed, nuanced take on every conflict in the world, but I'll give you a good heuristic
Always, in every circumstance, be opposed to the wanton slaughter of civilians, no matter what elaborate excuses folks throw up about why this time is different
Always, in every circumstance, be opposed to the wanton slaughter of civilians, no matter what elaborate excuses folks throw up about why this time is different
December 3, 2024 at 3:38 AM
You're not going to be able to develop a highly informed, nuanced take on every conflict in the world, but I'll give you a good heuristic
Always, in every circumstance, be opposed to the wanton slaughter of civilians, no matter what elaborate excuses folks throw up about why this time is different
Always, in every circumstance, be opposed to the wanton slaughter of civilians, no matter what elaborate excuses folks throw up about why this time is different
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Reading the pardon coverage...I don't think the significance of the Gaetz/Patel/Bondi nominations has sunk in. People still aren't getting what a politicized DOJ and FBI, with the power to arrest/bug/harass anyone for any reason, would be able to do.
December 3, 2024 at 6:59 AM
Reading the pardon coverage...I don't think the significance of the Gaetz/Patel/Bondi nominations has sunk in. People still aren't getting what a politicized DOJ and FBI, with the power to arrest/bug/harass anyone for any reason, would be able to do.
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🫡 heading out to see what I can clumsily report on the declaration of martial law in south korea
December 3, 2024 at 2:45 PM
🫡 heading out to see what I can clumsily report on the declaration of martial law in south korea
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A few important fact to remember:
S. Korea lived under some form of military dictatorship from 1965-1988!
Brazil lived under a military dictatorship from 1964-1985!
Democracy is not an abstraction to these folk, it's a vulnerable thing that they want to protect.
S. Korea lived under some form of military dictatorship from 1965-1988!
Brazil lived under a military dictatorship from 1964-1985!
Democracy is not an abstraction to these folk, it's a vulnerable thing that they want to protect.
December 3, 2024 at 6:07 PM
A few important fact to remember:
S. Korea lived under some form of military dictatorship from 1965-1988!
Brazil lived under a military dictatorship from 1964-1985!
Democracy is not an abstraction to these folk, it's a vulnerable thing that they want to protect.
S. Korea lived under some form of military dictatorship from 1965-1988!
Brazil lived under a military dictatorship from 1964-1985!
Democracy is not an abstraction to these folk, it's a vulnerable thing that they want to protect.
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The U.S. Constitution has many flaws, but some of our biggest problems aren't in the Constitution. It doesn't have a filibuster. It forbids default on the debt. It authorizes the Voting Rights Act. It bars insurrectionists from office. It makes no one immune from the law.
December 3, 2024 at 6:48 PM
The U.S. Constitution has many flaws, but some of our biggest problems aren't in the Constitution. It doesn't have a filibuster. It forbids default on the debt. It authorizes the Voting Rights Act. It bars insurrectionists from office. It makes no one immune from the law.
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I think the problem for Democrats is that a lot of people do not like Democrats or the party.
November 27, 2024 at 10:17 PM
I think the problem for Democrats is that a lot of people do not like Democrats or the party.
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sorry I can’t tonight, I’m crawling into the soft hollow of a fig and laying all my eggs and dying
February 19, 2024 at 3:29 AM
sorry I can’t tonight, I’m crawling into the soft hollow of a fig and laying all my eggs and dying
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Americans are losing the right to exercise state power to restrict the fundamental human rights of a tiny minority of marginalized people without being criticized for that online, and Jeremy Fucking Peters is on it.
November 26, 2024 at 3:02 PM
Americans are losing the right to exercise state power to restrict the fundamental human rights of a tiny minority of marginalized people without being criticized for that online, and Jeremy Fucking Peters is on it.