Reposted by Zig Zag
Then, about a month ago, I learned that the only hygiene center in my neighborhood was being shut down. The property was being sold...destined to be developed.
🧵 2 of 9
🧵 2 of 9
December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Then, about a month ago, I learned that the only hygiene center in my neighborhood was being shut down. The property was being sold...destined to be developed.
🧵 2 of 9
🧵 2 of 9
Reposted by Zig Zag
So, I purchased the center and the land it sits on — the best $2 million I can imagine spending.
🧵 6 of 9
🧵 6 of 9
December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
So, I purchased the center and the land it sits on — the best $2 million I can imagine spending.
🧵 6 of 9
🧵 6 of 9
Reposted by Zig Zag
Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did
Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...
www.propublica.org
December 17, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban.
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
Here’s how we did our analysis.
(Published Feb. 2025)
Reposted by Zig Zag
Journalists also recalled being bludgeoned, shot at, pepper-sprayed and tackled by officers.
They were treated as potential participants or even “agitators,” and a camera and notepad seen as threats rather than instruments of accountability.
They were treated as potential participants or even “agitators,” and a camera and notepad seen as threats rather than instruments of accountability.
Press arrests used to silence protest coverage in 2025
More than 30 journalists detained, nearly all released without charges or with them quickly dropped
pressfreedomtracker.us
December 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Journalists also recalled being bludgeoned, shot at, pepper-sprayed and tackled by officers.
They were treated as potential participants or even “agitators,” and a camera and notepad seen as threats rather than instruments of accountability.
They were treated as potential participants or even “agitators,” and a camera and notepad seen as threats rather than instruments of accountability.
Reposted by Zig Zag
The Tracker documented nearly as many assaults of journalists in 2025 — 170 — as it did in the previous three years combined.
Half of those arrested this year were assaulted by officers in the lead-up to or in the course of being detained.
Half of those arrested this year were assaulted by officers in the lead-up to or in the course of being detained.
Press arrests used to silence protest coverage in 2025
More than 30 journalists detained, nearly all released without charges or with them quickly dropped
pressfreedomtracker.us
December 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
The Tracker documented nearly as many assaults of journalists in 2025 — 170 — as it did in the previous three years combined.
Half of those arrested this year were assaulted by officers in the lead-up to or in the course of being detained.
Half of those arrested this year were assaulted by officers in the lead-up to or in the course of being detained.
Reposted by Zig Zag
This year, nearly 90% of the arrests and detentions of journalists in the U.S. occurred at demonstrations.
They centered around one issue: immigration.
pressfreedomtracker.us/blog/press-a...
They centered around one issue: immigration.
pressfreedomtracker.us/blog/press-a...
December 15, 2025 at 9:06 PM
This year, nearly 90% of the arrests and detentions of journalists in the U.S. occurred at demonstrations.
They centered around one issue: immigration.
pressfreedomtracker.us/blog/press-a...
They centered around one issue: immigration.
pressfreedomtracker.us/blog/press-a...
Reposted by Zig Zag
From LA to Chicago, press arrests were used to silence protest coverage across the country in 2025.
Each arrest signaled a shift in how authorities police information and those who gather it.
Read @pressfreedomtracker.us's new report by @stephaniesugars.bsky.social:
Each arrest signaled a shift in how authorities police information and those who gather it.
Read @pressfreedomtracker.us's new report by @stephaniesugars.bsky.social:
Press arrests used to silence protest coverage in 2025
More than 30 journalists detained, nearly all released without charges or with them quickly dropped
pressfreedomtracker.us
December 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
From LA to Chicago, press arrests were used to silence protest coverage across the country in 2025.
Each arrest signaled a shift in how authorities police information and those who gather it.
Read @pressfreedomtracker.us's new report by @stephaniesugars.bsky.social:
Each arrest signaled a shift in how authorities police information and those who gather it.
Read @pressfreedomtracker.us's new report by @stephaniesugars.bsky.social:
Reposted by Zig Zag
It may be a sign that I'm getting old but it seems incredible to me how fast people forgot about (or never learned about) the whole "pre-existing conditions" thing.
If you lost a job the only way to ensure you didn't lose coverage entirely was a expensive program named after a deadly snake (COBRA).
If you lost a job the only way to ensure you didn't lose coverage entirely was a expensive program named after a deadly snake (COBRA).
December 15, 2025 at 12:09 AM
It may be a sign that I'm getting old but it seems incredible to me how fast people forgot about (or never learned about) the whole "pre-existing conditions" thing.
If you lost a job the only way to ensure you didn't lose coverage entirely was a expensive program named after a deadly snake (COBRA).
If you lost a job the only way to ensure you didn't lose coverage entirely was a expensive program named after a deadly snake (COBRA).
Reposted by Zig Zag
My friend's husband was denied insurance in those days for ... plantar fasciitis.
December 15, 2025 at 12:42 AM
My friend's husband was denied insurance in those days for ... plantar fasciitis.
Reposted by Zig Zag
I was once denied health insurance because, get this, I had broken an ankle within the last two years. That somehow qualified as a “recent major injury” that made me an unacceptably high risk.
December 15, 2025 at 12:41 AM
I was once denied health insurance because, get this, I had broken an ankle within the last two years. That somehow qualified as a “recent major injury” that made me an unacceptably high risk.
Reposted by Zig Zag
you younger freelancers, self-employed comrades, I cannot even begin to explain what a fucking horror this was, back in the day.
December 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
you younger freelancers, self-employed comrades, I cannot even begin to explain what a fucking horror this was, back in the day.
Reposted by Zig Zag
The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
I'm dubious about Amazon's commitment to keeping pre-existing conditions a thing of the past.
December 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
Reposted by Zig Zag
The RFK, jr effect.
December 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The RFK, jr effect.
Reposted by Zig Zag
OPINION: In my research, I explore how the insights gained by practicing meditation can change how we live our daily lives.
religionnews.com/2025/12/05/m...
religionnews.com/2025/12/05/m...
Meditating on the connectedness of life could help reunite a divided country – here’s how ‘interbeing’ works
(The Conversation) — Meditation can change our perceptions about things we encounter in our daily lives − revealing the interconnectedness of reality.
religionnews.com
December 14, 2025 at 12:00 AM
OPINION: In my research, I explore how the insights gained by practicing meditation can change how we live our daily lives.
religionnews.com/2025/12/05/m...
religionnews.com/2025/12/05/m...
Reposted by Zig Zag
Today in America
“Oh, only two students were killed and 8 wounded.”
If the American is the more sensitive type
“Thank god it wasn’t worse”
Fully conditioned to the regular occurrence of men being violent with guns.
“Oh, only two students were killed and 8 wounded.”
If the American is the more sensitive type
“Thank god it wasn’t worse”
Fully conditioned to the regular occurrence of men being violent with guns.
December 14, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Today in America
“Oh, only two students were killed and 8 wounded.”
If the American is the more sensitive type
“Thank god it wasn’t worse”
Fully conditioned to the regular occurrence of men being violent with guns.
“Oh, only two students were killed and 8 wounded.”
If the American is the more sensitive type
“Thank god it wasn’t worse”
Fully conditioned to the regular occurrence of men being violent with guns.
Reposted by Zig Zag
SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.
My story:
My story:
Conspiracy theorist election denier given FEMA’s second-most important role
Gregg Phillips will lead the Office of Response and Recovery, “the heart of what FEMA does.”
www.thehandbasket.co
December 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
SCOOP — Gregg Phillips, a conspiracy theorist with no emergency management experience who helped produce the election-denying documentary ‘2000 Mules’ with Dinesh D’Souza and has faced numerous legal inquiries, has been named head of FEMA’s Office of Response and Recovery.
My story:
My story:
Reposted by Zig Zag
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
How Chiropractors Became the Backbone of MAHA
Why they love Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — and he loves them.
www.politico.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:15 PM
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Reposted by Zig Zag
As a society we must better explain why "eliminating information silos" is such a dangerous goal at the fed level.
Some data sharing is good! But only in a privacy-preserving way, with individual consent. A significant engineering challenge that SV billionaires don't want to see completed.
Some data sharing is good! But only in a privacy-preserving way, with individual consent. A significant engineering challenge that SV billionaires don't want to see completed.
Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:Section 1. Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov
December 1, 2025 at 3:20 AM
As a society we must better explain why "eliminating information silos" is such a dangerous goal at the fed level.
Some data sharing is good! But only in a privacy-preserving way, with individual consent. A significant engineering challenge that SV billionaires don't want to see completed.
Some data sharing is good! But only in a privacy-preserving way, with individual consent. A significant engineering challenge that SV billionaires don't want to see completed.
Reposted by Zig Zag
This is a factory approach to 4th amendment violations. And a dangerous precedent in building a citizen data system in secret, something which should never exist in a free society.
So what’s going on is that the federal government is running a massive domestic spying operation and getting local cops to do their dirty work once a car is stopped. They call this siloing of data “walling” it off from their true source.
December 1, 2025 at 3:13 AM
This is a factory approach to 4th amendment violations. And a dangerous precedent in building a citizen data system in secret, something which should never exist in a free society.
Reposted by Zig Zag
The story here is not just about the hidden cameras, like this one.
This is also about data consolidation. It rhymes with what DOGE is doing at the federal level.
This is also about data consolidation. It rhymes with what DOGE is doing at the federal level.
December 1, 2025 at 2:51 AM
The story here is not just about the hidden cameras, like this one.
This is also about data consolidation. It rhymes with what DOGE is doing at the federal level.
This is also about data consolidation. It rhymes with what DOGE is doing at the federal level.
Reposted by Zig Zag
Big Border is watching you
December 1, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Big Border is watching you
I've been offline all day....wtf is happening
Dog Doggo GIF
ALT: Dog Doggo GIF
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I've been offline all day....wtf is happening
Reposted by Zig Zag
Trump calls for Democratic members of Congress to be hanged
November 20, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Trump calls for Democratic members of Congress to be hanged
Reposted by Zig Zag
The President of the United States is publicly calling for the political prosecution of his political opponents, urging the death penalty because they urged soldiers to uphold the rule of law.
This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.
This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.
November 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The President of the United States is publicly calling for the political prosecution of his political opponents, urging the death penalty because they urged soldiers to uphold the rule of law.
This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.
This should be front page news everywhere. It is not, which tells much about how we got to this point.
Reposted by Zig Zag
The Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas and nooses as hate symbols.
This action, coupled with the President's call to hang Democratic members of Congress - both in the past few hrs - are more than "potentially divisive."
They are vile, unconscionable, and dangerous.
This action, coupled with the President's call to hang Democratic members of Congress - both in the past few hrs - are more than "potentially divisive."
They are vile, unconscionable, and dangerous.
November 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
The Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas and nooses as hate symbols.
This action, coupled with the President's call to hang Democratic members of Congress - both in the past few hrs - are more than "potentially divisive."
They are vile, unconscionable, and dangerous.
This action, coupled with the President's call to hang Democratic members of Congress - both in the past few hrs - are more than "potentially divisive."
They are vile, unconscionable, and dangerous.