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Christina S. Ho
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law professor, former House and Senate staffer, ex Clinton White House, etc. Health policy and ballet are both embodiment practices. Book: https://tinyurl.com/Normalizing-Right-to-Health

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Christina S. Ho @christinasho.bsky.social · May 3
Alright: the ballet/health policy crossover content that you didn’t even know you needed this weekend—me talking with the Royal Academy of Dance about embodied rites of social cooperation, about the agitprop adult ballet collective we organized in Beijing 1/ podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...
S10 E7: Christina Ho
Podcast Episode · Why Dance Matters · S10 E7 · 35m
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Dean Frey @dean.bsky.social · 13h
Roy Scheider with Bob Fosse on the set of All That Jazz, 1979

The still photographer on the set was Josh Weiner.
Fosse show Scheider how to wear his hat at the properly jaunty angle.

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Bertha Coombs @berthacoombs.cnbc.com · 16h
Insurers are down because a one-year tax credit extension credits won't stabilize ACA market.
Folks on the federal exchange have until December 15th to sign up. And passing credits at year-end does nothing to resolve uncertainty for setting 2027 rates.
A "Doc Fix' cadence won't work for insurance.

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Christina S. Ho @christinasho.bsky.social · 16h
And how’d that one work out?

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Christina S. Ho @christinasho.bsky.social · 16h
And today’s outcome is in no small part downstream of that original misstep

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Christina S. Ho @christinasho.bsky.social · 16h
I’ve been saying that Democrat should never have cast the stakes of the shutdown as ACA premium subsidies when the public understood it the stakes as trying to throttle an Administration otherwise reveling in the unfettered power over spending and violence it had appropriated for itself
warrenterra.bsky.social Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 18h
The disruption of air travel was presumably a factor, but it's still a choice to stress it as federal workers were missing their second paycheck (and being fired) and the administration was starving kids and fighting to keep starving kids.

The Dems caved and got nothing, but the hostages were real.

Reposted by Christina Ho

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 17h
Hilarious seeing @punchbowlnews.bsky.social provide cover for @schumer.senate.gov here. The Democratic whip did not "break" with his party. This was orchestrated by Schumer with a unified caucus.
This was a huge moment. Eight Senate Democrats broke with the party in voting to end the shutdown in exchange for a commitment from Senate Majority Leader John Thune to hold a vote by mid-December on expiring Obamacare subsidies — an offer Thune first made weeks ago. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who’s faced tremendous criticism from both the left and right during the impasse, was a no. That’s not saving Schumer from progressive fury, however.

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Warren Terra @warrenterra.bsky.social · 18h
The disruption of air travel was presumably a factor, but it's still a choice to stress it as federal workers were missing their second paycheck (and being fired) and the administration was starving kids and fighting to keep starving kids.

The Dems caved and got nothing, but the hostages were real.

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Christina S. Ho @christinasho.bsky.social · 18h
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joshuaerlich.bsky.social Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 1d
not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not

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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 18h
Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"

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Parkrose Permaculture ❌👑 @parkroseperma.bsky.social · 1d
The fact that there was no demand about Trump putting the military in our cities, and the funding of ICE terror was always a big tell.

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LeCaffeinated Doesn’t Like The Vehicle @thetirednurse.bsky.social · 1d
What do you want to bet that administration at least *considers* blaming her for what happened here

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Union demands action after nurse allegedly strangled by patient at OSU
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Ohio’s top nursing union is demanding action after a nurse was allegedly strangled by a patient at the Ohio State University Hospital. Rick Lucas, president of O…
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Rhosyn Goodfellow @faerytaleonfire.bsky.social · 1d
Also, mass layoffs are happening across a growing number of industries, and the job market is BRUTAL. Anyone who thinks they won't need a marketplace plan in 2026 just because they have employer-sponsored healthcare right now needs a serious reality check

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 1d
not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 1d
I asked Georgetown law prof David Super wtf is going on with this latest demand for states to claw back benefits already sent out.
He says the law doesn't allow for this, and if the USDA is mad that states already sent out SNAP money, too bad—they were following USDA's own guidance. Full comments:

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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 1d
Anabel Maler is this year’s winner of the Society for Music Theory’s Emerging Scholar Book Award, for her incredible book,

Seeing Voices: Analyzing Sign Language Music

She is amazing!!!

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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 2d
Absolutely sadistic.

A Dem Congress should pass a law banning anyone who is currently serving with ICE or CBP from future Fed employment.

The Feds should condition all future Fed grants to police depts on blanket refusals to hire ppl who were in ICE/CBP right now.
broadwaybabyto.bsky.social Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d
Or Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been in America since he was two years old.

He was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE grabbed him

His health is declining, they won’t let him get his legs and they’ve placed him in solitary

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Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE
Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.
www.disabledginger.com

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Senate Gabe @senategabe.bsky.social · 2d
When I was in the senate, my job was digital comms. Silly me thinking my boss being on the Health committee got me access to good resources on how to tell millions about the worst public health emergency in a century.

Nope! Never even got a single briefing! Was told to YOLO vaccine messaging!

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Tom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 2d
Hey kids the Trump Healthcare
Plan just dropped!

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Christina S. Ho @christinasho.bsky.social · 2d
“He inspired generations of students to see medicine as an art and musicians to see music as a form of care.”
healthsciences.mcgill.ca McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 2d
We are deeply saddened to announce that our dear friend, colleague and mentor Ante L. Padjen, MD, PhD, founding director of I Medici di McGill Orchestra and retired Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, has passed away.
➡️ https://ow.ly/qAy150XosH8
Ante L. Padjen

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McGill Medicine and Health Sciences @healthsciences.mcgill.ca · 2d
We are deeply saddened to announce that our dear friend, colleague and mentor Ante L. Padjen, MD, PhD, founding director of I Medici di McGill Orchestra and retired Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, has passed away.
➡️ https://ow.ly/qAy150XosH8
Ante L. Padjen

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 3d
OVER A MILLION USERS

DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT

EVERY *WEEK*

what the fuck are we DOING here
ryanmarino.bsky.social Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 3d
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
jonathancohn.bsky.social Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 4d
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

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Michael Wriston @mwriston.bsky.social · 3d
I have been actively watching contracts and surge funding over the last few days and what I would say to my friends in Baltimore is “be absolutely ready, right now.”
ICE poised to ramp up raids in Baltimore by Thanksgiving
The Trump administration has rush-ordered infrastructure to conduct raids, abduct residents, and detain people for months.
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Christina S. Ho @christinasho.bsky.social · 3d
Societies that can’t keep commitments also can’t have rights. Or a currency. bsky.app/profile/aaro...
rbreich.bsky.social Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d
SNAP has existed for 60 years. Benefits have gone out every single month over those six decades, including during government shutdowns. Until now.

Make no mistake: The money is available to fund SNAP during this shutdown. Trump is making a choice to withhold it.

Don’t forget this.

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Christina S. Ho @christinasho.bsky.social · 3d
Have been thinking of putting together slides of contemporary and historical accounts and having the students guess which is which
henryhenryhenry.com C. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 3d
I have read similar accounts from testimony at truth and reconciliation commissions after civil conflict and mass violence under repressive regimes:
lyndab08.bsky.social Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 4d
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

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C. Henry @henryhenryhenry.com · 3d
I have read similar accounts from testimony at truth and reconciliation commissions after civil conflict and mass violence under repressive regimes:
lyndab08.bsky.social Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 4d
A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 4d
SNAP has existed for 60 years. Benefits have gone out every single month over those six decades, including during government shutdowns. Until now.

Make no mistake: The money is available to fund SNAP during this shutdown. Trump is making a choice to withhold it.

Don’t forget this.

Reposted by Christina Ho

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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 4d
O’Connor now accepts the Trump Administration‘s revised non-prosecution agreement, which does not include any independent monitor

So O’Connor is ok with no monitor, but was not ok was an independent monitor whose hiring had a diversity policy involved

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Memorandum Opinion and Order – #358 in United States v. The Boeing Company (N.D. Tex., 4:21-cr-00005) – CourtListener.com
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER: Because the Government has not acted with bad faith, has given more than mere conclusory reasons for its dismissal, and has satisfied its obligations under the CVRA, the ...
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 4d
More people have died in ICE custody in last 9 months than in the entire prior 4 years.

We hear of a few, but most barely make the news.

Cases like Randall Alberto Gamboa Esquivel.

He was in perfect health when ICE detained him.

He disappeared in June & by August was in a vegetative state.

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Christina S. Ho @christinasho.bsky.social · 5d
Samesies
Streaked peach and blue sky over campus grounds to try to capture the otherworldly light over New York City this dusk