We learned—and keep learning—so much stuff about Medicaid and not all of it fit into the [@unbreaking.org](
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Unbreaking (@unbreaking.org)
How the administration is breaking the government and what that means for all of us. All of our content is free to republish and remix. https://unb...
 ) Medicaid explainer so here is a blog post I wrote about all those “able-bodied” people the administration and its allies claim are on Medicaid. [unbreaking.org/blog/medicai...](
Medicaid’s “Able-Bodied” Adults — Unbreaking
In building out our Medicaid explainer, we uncovered a lot of actual complexity *and* plenty of plainly inaccurate information about who’s enroll...
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Medicaid’s “Able-Bodied” Adults — Unbreaking
In building out our Medicaid explainer, we uncovered a lot of actual complexity *and* plenty of plainly inaccurate information about who’s enroll...
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but *why* do hundreds of minuscule biting gnats crawl through my office windowscreen and then immediately lie down on my desk/floor/shelves and begin enacting teeny tiny death scenes
I guess the thing I realized a few years ago is that it's both more important and just harder to think and write about networks when all the network stuff is so entangled in the global authoritarian slide. I wish I could think faster, but it's even harder now, trying to work on so many fronts.
I think when every sector puts junior workers through a decade+ of professionalization into the norm that ethical qualms are either nice-to-haves or active disloyalties, what you get are institutions that collapse in a brisk breeze🤷🏻 RE:
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Charles Johnson (@charles.littlegreenfootballs.com)
The most disheartening thing about America’s descent into fascism has been the abject cowardice of virtually all the people and institutions that...
always already reading a PDF so long and upsetting I may require a book club: the @Erin Kissane story
I saw someone argue here yesterday that it’s reasonable for people to unsubscribe to news publications because the Trump administration *might find out and persecute them for reading things it doesn’t like* and…I am haunted. Idk if it was a real person or an op but it seems like a problem.
oh thank god for sara gran [dreamlandbooks.substack.com/p/crab-a-la-...](
Crab a la Bell Jar
Summer recipes from Brooklyn, Upstate New York, Sebastopol, the Jersey Shore, and Los Angeles
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Crab a la Bell Jar
Summer recipes from Brooklyn, Upstate New York, Sebastopol, the Jersey Shore, and Los Angeles
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oh and shoutout to the little countertop HOCL maker for getting me through a huge disinfecting project without ruining my lungs for a week like regular bleach does, robot of the decade tbh
I have spent the last 12 hours bleaching and steam-cleaning every part of the house our dog touches so he doesn’t re-infect himself with a locally surging parasite and like…idk it’s not how I would choose to relax but Death Steaming is pretty cathartic actually
I think the main difference between me now and me in my 20s (besides whatever time does to bodies) is that although I am so susceptible to stress that I went the wrong way to the animal hospital, now-me knows what is up and left 15 minutes early to accommodate it.