For years I’ve wondered why businesses don’t generally support single-payer health care, which would save them tons of money in the long run. The only answer I can really come up with is that for them, the leverage employer-funded care gives over the workforce is worth the price.

Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · yesterday

“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility

We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.

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NYT editors (and nepo baby owner) put "Claudine Gay" in "top 5 featured on the New York Times homepage Dec 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 17, 22, 25" While they put Trump calling for Constitution's "termination" on page 15 and chief of staff "tyrant" warning on 12 Chris Rufo openly bragged about it:

NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo@originalist.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Chris Rufo "a total product of right-wing affirmative action and you literally would never have heard of him if he was a liberal" bsky.app/profile/chri... NYT front page coverage all the time! By powerful, mediocre editors who push "meritocracy" narrative yet hired each other with legacy privilege

Actually, one more - I feel like I should say this directly, so here goes. In the 90s and 00s, the groups I remember pursuing this strategy (hyperpublicize mugshots, Black crime statistics, etc) were Stormfront, the Klan, etc. Now it's the New York Times and the Telegraph. That is the story here.

This is what we see. Mugshots don't come with sociology explainers; spread enough images of Black criminals and white victims and a kind of project is off and running. even lies exploit this architecture: JD Vance makes up something about cats and suddenly Haitians have ankle monitors. 9/

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.

Sophie Hurwitz@hurwitz.bsky.social · 3d ago

This story’s got everything: Spiderman-villain weaponry, Black Hawk Down, vaccine conspiracy theories, weird YouTube videos www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

We can’t begin the Nuremberg-style trials quickly enough.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3d ago

Wow. Proponents of the ICE taser gloves are openly saying that one reason they love the gloves is that they doesn’t leave any marks or proof that they were used, making it harder for people to sue when they’re shocked excessively.

"no one will be normal about AOC if she runs for president" is both true and a bad reason for her not to run. you could run the most milquetoast middle of the road clean cut straight white man alive and the right is still going to act like the deranged freaks they are

I have seen so many dif accounts and like paid commentators make variations on the argument that trans people need to sit down and shut up as if what’s happening to trans people isn’t literally part of the fascism they’re so worried about

"Unsanitary food and water, lack of medical care, widespread physical abuse... along with racist abuse and a complete absence of justice and due process" ICE spends $14 million PER DAY on detention, and its facilities are still hellscapes rife with abuse.

Hunger strikes spreading in ICE jails amid due process violations, advocates say

Immigrant rights advocates say more detainees are risking their lives to protest inhumane conditions and legal rights violations

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It has always been clear that most "gender-critical" proposals only work in the context of a society that has completely purged trans people from public life; the only distinction is between those who understand what they were demanding and those who successfully lied to themselves.

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 4d ago

And they're all losing their minds in the replies, suggesting increasingly fascistic steps that should be taken to purge us from society. These are just evil people. Absolutely rotten to the core.

i heard someone say tgirl spider-man??

yeah man "woke 1" sucked ass. I "woke 1" morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed into a giant insect

yet another horror due to the pervert glasses Also the fact he was in there for a breast lift appointment. So the patient was half naked and he had on pervert glasses

SWOP Behind Bars@swopbehindbars.bsky.social · 6d ago

We've seen stories about men wearing meta glasses to film women for content. Filming sex workers without consent. It was inevitable that we would eventually doctors wearing them in rooms with patients. www.msn.com/en-us/health...?

JFC. The org that “rescued” sex workers with sexual assault. “HHS is trying to give a contract to a nonprofit that is highly problematic and has no expertise in providing legal services to unaccompanied children. … children are going to be harmed and that seems to be the point of these actions."

NPR@npr.org · 6d ago

Utah-based Our Rescue was founded by activist Tim Ballard. It was previously known as Operation Underground Railroad and it says it helps law enforcement perform sting operations and rescues human trafficking survivors. n.pr/45l6Asb

THREAD. Contrary to what you are being told, 40 years of polling have established that shifting money away from police/prisons toward social services is one of the most popular public policies among *all* political demographics. But it's not just that, it goes way deeper.

The "centrist" think tank Third Way is looking to pay someone between $140,000 and $150,000 to spend their days trying to dig up dirt on DSA members. They're trying to sell this gig as "anti-extremism" work, which I find completely disgusting.

I woke up to an email that my YT channel had been removed. I have had this account for nigh 20 years, same as my email, and I don’t even remember the last time I posted a video to it—whatever I posted was CERTAINLY not sexual. But, I’m a sex worker, so my existence goes against community standards.

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 3w ago

a bunch of popular ASMR artists lost their channels forever this week, after YouTube cited them for violating terms against "sexually gratifying" content: www.404media.co/youtube-asmr...

For the last time: censorship isn't about content, it's about identity. It's about who gets to speak.

Merrick Monroe 💜🖤@merrickmonroe.com · 7d ago

I woke up to an email that my YT channel had been removed. I have had this account for nigh 20 years, same as my email, and I don’t even remember the last time I posted a video to it—whatever I posted was CERTAINLY not sexual. But, I’m a sex worker, so my existence goes against community standards.

If you have enough money that you can blow $100,000,000 on avoiding taxes, you have enough money to pay $100,000,000 *on* taxes that will help your fellow citizens, you self-centered prick.

"Whenever you build an age-gating system, you are effectively building a censorship system. You are deciding that some people may access certain content while others may not. At the moment, policymakers may have good intentions, but systems like this can easily be repurposed in the future."

Conversation with Dr. Wouter Lueks

CISPA researcher Dr. Wouter Lueks has assessed effectiveness, side-effects and acceptance of age assurance technologies (AAT).

cispa.de

Now's as good of a time as any to reiterate that I have never seen anyone in a mainstream newspaper or magazine write about how Mamdani, El Sayed and Hamawy are representing positive masculinity.

Abdul El-Sayed@abdulelsayed.bsky.social · last wk.

Don't get me wrong, I lift every morning. But being a man is not really about how you show up in the gym. It's how you show up for your family. It's about how you show up for your community.

Chuds started realizing she can win the 2028 election this weekend.

Rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have again been caught trying to disrupt servers and software—and leaving instructions for future bad behavior.

OK, Well, Rogue AI Agents Are Hacking Again

Rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have again been caught trying to disrupt servers and software—and leaving instructions for future bad behavior.

wired.com

El-Sayed: "Imagine if instead of paying that to your health insurance company, whose CEO makes $20m a year, you paid a little bit more in taxes for healthcare you wouldn't lose. I think all of us would a lot more interested in that system if we knew our healthcare would be free at point of care"

AOC: Millennials are not punk kids anymore. We're grown adults with mortgages and kids, and that generation is starting to be decisive at the polls. And there is anger at being ignored, having our economic futures mortgaged by the generations that came before us and we're taking the reins

ppl forget that the biggest victims of 9/11 were muslims. 1 million innocent iraqis murdered. legislation introduced to legalise mass surveillance of muslims. innocent muslims detained at gitmo indefinitely to this day. and the "war on terror" has destroyed & genocided country after country non stop

Muslim leftists winning elections has broken the brains of many centrists and liberals who had managed to mostly hide their Islamophobia for years

oh my god you guys the republicans might try saying their opponents are communists, a thing they haven't done since every day of my adult life

Karen Geier@karengeier.com · last wk.