Please know that this is one of my few legitimate areas of actual, high-level professional expertise: Kicking the healthiest people off of a health insurance program will bankrupt it. Not 'could;' not 'might,' not 'probably," but absolutely will, with mathematical certainty.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7h ago

Dr Oz says the Trump administration will kick more than a million people off health insurance because some of them have "never filed a claim"

Look at how the Right has elevated George Soros to the level of FUNDER OF ALL COMMUNISM IN AMERICA - even people who don't know shhit about politics prob have heard righties hissing about Sorossssss Musk throws up Nazi salutes to Republicans and Democrats in power just...let it go. Inexplicable.

8 years after Repeal, those seeking abortion in Ireland are still subject to an unnecessary 3 day waiting period, an unworkable 12 week cut off, and a lack of providers throughout the country. If that doesn't sound very much like Repeal to you, join the march in Dublin this Saturday!

Abortion Rights Campaign@freesafelegal.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hear us Now! at the 15th annual March for Choice, this September 26th in Dublin. Meet us at 2pm outside the Department of Health before we march to the Dáil. Share this post far and wide and show your interest by clicking "interested" on our facebook event page, link in our tree.

Not to be all "My Wife" but my wife works in this field on the government side, and every time somebody says that the kids are being taken away for no reason or for some politically charged reason I really challenge you to stop and think about whether that's the whole story

Andrew Quemere@andrewqmr.bsky.social · yesterday

A couple went on a Fox News podcast and claimed the state of #Massachusetts took away their teen because they won't help the teen transition. But it's actually because the father was charged with beating and threatening to kill the teen and the mother was charged with witness intimidation.

Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was delivering an order when his car was rammed by an ICE agent and he was shot in the clavicle. He was transferred to a processing centre with the bullet still inside him and spent the night without a bed. jrnl.ie/7169585

Man shot by US immigration agent was detained with bullet still inside him

Wilber Rafael Garces Perez was taken to a room with no bed at the detention centre, with a bullet still inside him.

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Medieval people loved making lists! But are there any good overviews of medieval lists and their uses, or particularly good studies of listing practices and their significance, that are student-friendly? Help a teacher out!

I'm also noticing fewer trans writers being published at book-length in the UK this year, or announced for early next year. Fewer writers of colour as well, fewer picture books with non-white characters, a decrease in translation of non-European writers.

Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 11h ago

Has anyone else noticed there are fewer prominent trans writers around than there used to be? assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Russian sabotage activity in Europe has intensified in recent weeks, with 50 incidents reported since Sep 1. Source: @clementmolin.bsky.social

There are some people in this administration who are imbecilic true believers (e.g., Hegseth, Kash). There are others who know exactly what they're doing and why it's wrong, but who want power. Rubio is in the latter group. To quote Dylan, "All the money you made / Will never buy back your soul."

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11h ago

Marco Rubio claims that if it wasn't for Trump, diesel prices would be $18 a gallon 🙃

Having painted Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian, I'm taking a run at his Tahitian wife, Mauatua. She was the matriarch of Pitcairn Island who held the community together after the bloodshed of 1793, which likely claimed Christian's life. Here she is after a couple of mornings' brushwork. #art

Free-to-read article about how and why I painted the lost face of Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian: tealcartoons.substack.com/p/capturing-... Reposts much appreciated! #art

Capturing a Mutineer

Painting the lost face of the Bounty’s Fletcher Christian

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The outright refusal to treat white supremacy as an ideology which motivates action and treat it as generally objectionable is what allows this strategy to be viable for Elon Musk.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · yesterday

When Elon Musk's groups spent $20M+ on Wisconsin's 2025 Supreme Court race, his involvement backfired and his candidate lost by 10 points. Now his super PAC has quietly spent $14M+ on key midterm races, including the Texas Senate race. Would be a shame if people found out.

I must once again emphasize that if you are putting art on the internet, you need your own website in case some fucking management ghoul decides the platform they paid too much money for isn't worth how much they paid for it

Swords | The Webcomic@swordscomic.bsky.social · 15h ago

End of an era

I don’t think rerouting a bus is like Nazi Germany

Doug Gordon@brooklynspoke.bsky.social · 11h ago

"As an elder, this feels like Nazi Germany in 1933. What are you gonna do next? Kill me because I’m elderly?” This is a real thing a person said about a plan to reroute a bus and make it safer for people to bike. People are not okay.

For example the main problem with Hurricane Katrina wasn't "big storm," it was "whoops we left New Orleans to die lol"

Atrios@eschatonblog.com · 17h ago

I think you had to be very online at a time when most people weren't to know that the bush administration was comically evil to the extent that it was, but for those of you who weren't: trust us! these were stupid evil people, not so different from the current ones!

The refusal to go after Musk is a serious validator of the notion democrats have no real interest in winning. No serious party would let someone like him emerge as a major funder of the opposition and just… not say anything about it.

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11h ago

Not sure if they're cowards who don't want to take him on or if they're complicit in taking money from him and people like him, but it's staggering. Standing up to Elon Musk should be an easy layup for any Democrat.

“Fathered children” is a lot of letters to spell rape.

NPR@npr.org · 13h ago

A lock of hair, 15 years of sleuthing and a 200-year-old question. In History by a Hair, Smithsonian Institution scholar Richard Kurin follows the DNA trail back to Thomas Jefferson. n.pr/4ry46Ru

Feels like illegally funneling money to politicians in exchange for government contracts should be against the law, you know? 

ProPublica@propublica.org · 13h ago

Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵

I don't have the energy to rebut everything in this piece, but it reaffirms the impression that these people did not know or care how government works and never bothered to find out. The reporter's framing is pretty credulous "many people disagree" with stuff that is easy to fact check.

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · yesterday

Sad excuse for journalism: Big profile of DOGE lord doesn’t say a word about all the damage he did. And it was not an “ill fated cost-cutting effort.” It was a malignant, catastrophic attack on the government and its workers by arrogant and ignorant assholes. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

If it's an LLM then there *will* be unavoidable errors. I would sooner trust an actual human expert with years of experience at reconstructing texts. Otherwise people will be basing what they think is research on what is actually just unverifiable text prediction.

WIRED@wired.com · 14h ago

In the hope of uncovering new details about ancient life, researchers have developed a large language model that fills in the gaps in papyrus fragments. www.wired.com/story/apollo...

Mussolini's economic model was basically: force every sector of the economy into a vertical monopoly, have the CEOs of those monopolies get together and run the economy, and have the state use force of arms if anyone (unions, communists, Ethiopia) objected to the CEOs' wishes

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15h ago

Well, *fuck*. California AG Rob Bonta just surrendered to the Trump-aligned billionaires who want to take over and destroy Warners, merging it with the chudded-out husk of Paramount, leaving these two corrupt assholes to control Warners, Paramount *and* Tiktok: www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.

LLM's don't hallucinate, they generate errors. But they are unusually good at making humans hallucinate. We imagine the LLM like the Velveteen Rabbit that just needs a little love to come alive. A nice story. Not a good basis for policy. pluralistic.net/2026/09/21/s... @doctorow.pluralistic.net

So much of what we know about the lives of enslaved people is through the limited personal autobiographies of the few who gained literacy and freedom, or fictional accounts that we have imagined after research. Giving an identity to this many lives, in this way, is transformational

Athena Kugblenu@athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 16h ago

www.theguardian.com/news/2026/se...

TRUMPS PANIC OVER US DIESEL PRICES IS A PEVERSE JOKE He started the war he cannot end. That war is the direct cause of the crude shortage that has forced up the price of US diesel - and diesel globally. Russian exports of diesel were never that vast that they made much of a difference- it certainly

There was, in fact, a legal framework governing slavery, hence the need for changes in the law to make it illegal. It was not some private hobby like knitting or stamp collecting.

Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · 17h ago

I have found Lilico's logic on slavery: It was nothing to do with Britain, only Britons. Apparently.

is it not a bit odd that we have to keep begging labour pms to condem fascist violence?

Guy Shrubsole@guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 16h ago

“The rise of anti-migration neofascism is more threatening than anything I’ve seen in my lifetime.” Good piece by @pollytoynbee.bsky.social challenging Burnham to confront the rise of the far right in his conference speech next week. Features @hopenothate.org.uk www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In no surprise at all, access to diagnosis helps people get a diagnosis. Rather than focusing on PIP costs, or how people who can afford to go private do, surely this should be a sign of how we need faster, better, diagnosis on NHS for neurodivergent individuals. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Young people’s Pip claims for ADHD and autism ‘rising fastest in affluent areas’

Experts say trend across England probably reflects swifter access to diagnoses as wealthier families go private

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Researchers have discovered that the more you tell yourself what to do via rainbow-coloured blocks of “focus time”, the more your brain will rebel and restrict you to playing House Flipper until your eyes bleed.

Study finds colour-coded calendar not going to save you from yourself

A recent study has reportedly found that the beautiful colour-coded schedule you made to help you get your life together is not a substitute for a working frontal lobe. Researchers have discovered…

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“We should stop and think about the tech we are using, or even discussing, and what it actually does.” “AI” does not think. “AI” does not feel. “AI” does not have agency. We need to stop talking about “AI” like it is a person and talk about it instead as technologies with specific functionalities.

How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization

Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie In our op-ed for Tech Policy Press ("We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"), we made the case against the...

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