Willy Lee (they/them)
@advicepig.bsky.social
Enby 🏳️⚧️ learning to free themselves from the patriarchy and getting to know anarchy
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Lifetime maximums pre ACA were deadly.
Before the ACA, I met a young woman, maybe in her early thirties, and she told me that she had no insurance because she had maxed out her insurance at the age of 17 with a bone marrow transplant!
November 11, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Lifetime maximums pre ACA were deadly.
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Remember 25 years ago when a photo was taken of a fed pointing a gun at a crying refugee child and the image was so shameful it dominated the news cycle for a year
November 11, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Remember 25 years ago when a photo was taken of a fed pointing a gun at a crying refugee child and the image was so shameful it dominated the news cycle for a year
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I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
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A “promise” of an ACA subsidy vote by the 2nd week of December means jack shit when open enrollment is RIGHT NOW & the deadline to secure coverage by January 1st is… the 2nd week of December.
Whether that’s something they don’t realize or something they just don’t care about, they all need to go.
Whether that’s something they don’t realize or something they just don’t care about, they all need to go.
Tentative Senate deal to end shutdown, multiple sources tell me & @frankthorp.bsky.social:
—CR through Jan 30
—Approps minibus
—Fully funds SNAP
—Reverses Trump’s shutdown RIFs
—Promise of Senate vote on ACA subsidies by Dec second week (details/outcome uncertain)
—Led by King/Shaheen/Hassan
—CR through Jan 30
—Approps minibus
—Fully funds SNAP
—Reverses Trump’s shutdown RIFs
—Promise of Senate vote on ACA subsidies by Dec second week (details/outcome uncertain)
—Led by King/Shaheen/Hassan
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
A “promise” of an ACA subsidy vote by the 2nd week of December means jack shit when open enrollment is RIGHT NOW & the deadline to secure coverage by January 1st is… the 2nd week of December.
Whether that’s something they don’t realize or something they just don’t care about, they all need to go.
Whether that’s something they don’t realize or something they just don’t care about, they all need to go.
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Happy pogies and "should I have already put on the studded tires" day everyone! ❄️
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Happy pogies and "should I have already put on the studded tires" day everyone! ❄️
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11) The discussion about health care was useful PR, but covered up discussion over the power of the purse, which is fundamental. If the WH doesn't have to follow the law, it doesn't matter what you pass.
With the remaining approps bills + CR, Dems still could fight that fight. If they're smart
With the remaining approps bills + CR, Dems still could fight that fight. If they're smart
November 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
11) The discussion about health care was useful PR, but covered up discussion over the power of the purse, which is fundamental. If the WH doesn't have to follow the law, it doesn't matter what you pass.
With the remaining approps bills + CR, Dems still could fight that fight. If they're smart
With the remaining approps bills + CR, Dems still could fight that fight. If they're smart
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NEW: Buried in 141-page text of the latest draft text of the Senate's ag appropriations bill is a restriction on hemp-derived THC products w/ >0.4mg per container—an effective ban on the existing market. Would go into effect 1yr from passage: www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
November 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
NEW: Buried in 141-page text of the latest draft text of the Senate's ag appropriations bill is a restriction on hemp-derived THC products w/ >0.4mg per container—an effective ban on the existing market. Would go into effect 1yr from passage: www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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The only surprising thing about Democrats turning their backs on health care is that Klobuchar wasn't one of them.
November 10, 2025 at 12:10 PM
The only surprising thing about Democrats turning their backs on health care is that Klobuchar wasn't one of them.
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You know what that "Big Tent" thinking also got Democrats? The defeat of abortion rights. Because they long ago decided that your rights are negotiable under "reasonable disagreements"
"Hyde language" would be a ban on anything related to abortion. So, any Senate Democrat that caves is agreeing to vote to implement a nationwide abortion ban in exchange for healthcare subsidies.
Democrats are likely to get a vote on an extension later. But they've already gotten similar votes. Republicans already vowing to block an extension without major changes to the ACA, like adding Hyde language.
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
You know what that "Big Tent" thinking also got Democrats? The defeat of abortion rights. Because they long ago decided that your rights are negotiable under "reasonable disagreements"
It's time to remind centrist democrats that they are trapped in here with us...
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
It's time to remind centrist democrats that they are trapped in here with us...
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If your position is that Democrats have no choice but to agree, than you are impliedly admitting the Democrats are no longer an opposition party because the cost of opposition is too high, and we are effectively a one party fascist state.
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
If your position is that Democrats have no choice but to agree, than you are impliedly admitting the Democrats are no longer an opposition party because the cost of opposition is too high, and we are effectively a one party fascist state.
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Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.
November 10, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...
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the minute flights got canceled, Dems folded like a house of cards, leaving me to wonder why the fuck this post made some of you so angry
not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 AM
the minute flights got canceled, Dems folded like a house of cards, leaving me to wonder why the fuck this post made some of you so angry
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When you think about it. . .
Loyalist Dem voters never demand anything from the Democrats, and so. . . the Democrats never demand anything to protect the livelihood of their voters.
Another death cult.
Loyalist Dem voters never demand anything from the Democrats, and so. . . the Democrats never demand anything to protect the livelihood of their voters.
Another death cult.
Major concession from Democrats here is enhanced ACA funds aren’t extended. Preserving them was Dems’ central demand in this fight. They secured a promise of a vote (which Thune has been offering for weeks), but that could still fail. Even if it passes, Johnson has made no promise of a House vote.
Tentative Senate deal to end shutdown, multiple sources tell me & @frankthorp.bsky.social:
—CR through Jan 30
—Approps minibus
—Fully funds SNAP
—Reverses Trump’s shutdown RIFs
—Promise of Senate vote on ACA subsidies by Dec second week (details/outcome uncertain)
—Led by King/Shaheen/Hassan
—CR through Jan 30
—Approps minibus
—Fully funds SNAP
—Reverses Trump’s shutdown RIFs
—Promise of Senate vote on ACA subsidies by Dec second week (details/outcome uncertain)
—Led by King/Shaheen/Hassan
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
When you think about it. . .
Loyalist Dem voters never demand anything from the Democrats, and so. . . the Democrats never demand anything to protect the livelihood of their voters.
Another death cult.
Loyalist Dem voters never demand anything from the Democrats, and so. . . the Democrats never demand anything to protect the livelihood of their voters.
Another death cult.
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GOP to Senate Dems soon.
a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag
ALT: a cartoon girl in a blue dress is kneeling in a field holding a bag
media.tenor.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:16 AM
GOP to Senate Dems soon.
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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I often think about how the government hounded Aaron Swartz to death for scraping Jstor, yet all these AI companies scraped almost literally all of human knowledge (and continue to do so even when they're told to stop) and have had no criminal consequences.
November 8, 2025 at 9:16 PM
I often think about how the government hounded Aaron Swartz to death for scraping Jstor, yet all these AI companies scraped almost literally all of human knowledge (and continue to do so even when they're told to stop) and have had no criminal consequences.
This must be the end of the world, right?
November 8, 2025 at 1:57 AM
This must be the end of the world, right?
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So energized by the MFPS rally tonight to settle the contract!
Big thanks to CMs @jchavezmpls.bsky.social @robin4mpls.bsky.social @aurinmpls.bsky.social and @elliottpayne.org and CM Elect @jamisonwhiting.bsky.social for coming out to support, along with hundreds of families!
Big thanks to CMs @jchavezmpls.bsky.social @robin4mpls.bsky.social @aurinmpls.bsky.social and @elliottpayne.org and CM Elect @jamisonwhiting.bsky.social for coming out to support, along with hundreds of families!
November 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
So energized by the MFPS rally tonight to settle the contract!
Big thanks to CMs @jchavezmpls.bsky.social @robin4mpls.bsky.social @aurinmpls.bsky.social and @elliottpayne.org and CM Elect @jamisonwhiting.bsky.social for coming out to support, along with hundreds of families!
Big thanks to CMs @jchavezmpls.bsky.social @robin4mpls.bsky.social @aurinmpls.bsky.social and @elliottpayne.org and CM Elect @jamisonwhiting.bsky.social for coming out to support, along with hundreds of families!
Post you from a different era
November 7, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Post you from a different era
My new mermaid monofin came in and it fits! Getting monofins for large feet is a real struggle
November 7, 2025 at 9:53 PM
My new mermaid monofin came in and it fits! Getting monofins for large feet is a real struggle
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it doesn’t get any clearer that america’s betrothal to fossil fuels is about letting energy companies pick our pockets to prop up their obsolete industry
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
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electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
it doesn’t get any clearer that america’s betrothal to fossil fuels is about letting energy companies pick our pockets to prop up their obsolete industry
I lost my cat. Has anyone seen Xena?
November 6, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I lost my cat. Has anyone seen Xena?
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The Carols of Nextdoor had a silent majority theory that higher turnout would take down Chowdhury. I don't know if pro-Chowdhury or anti-Thompson sentiment got people to the polls, but the 35% increase in turnout went almost entirely for Chowdhury (around 85%).
November 6, 2025 at 1:22 AM
The Carols of Nextdoor had a silent majority theory that higher turnout would take down Chowdhury. I don't know if pro-Chowdhury or anti-Thompson sentiment got people to the polls, but the 35% increase in turnout went almost entirely for Chowdhury (around 85%).
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She’s right. The government started putting gender on passports in 1972 out of concern that men and women were getting too hard to tell apart, what with all the hippies with long hair and feminists in pants and whatnot.
Strike gender from IDs. Everywhere. It serves no purpose. @murray.senate.gov
Strike gender from IDs. Everywhere. It serves no purpose. @murray.senate.gov
@murray.senate.gov When the government is back in session, will you introduce a bill to take “sex/gender” off passports? There is no reason for it to be there, and, indeed, it’s only been there because of the misogyny of our government in 1972?
I’d appreciate a response.
I’d appreciate a response.
November 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
She’s right. The government started putting gender on passports in 1972 out of concern that men and women were getting too hard to tell apart, what with all the hippies with long hair and feminists in pants and whatnot.
Strike gender from IDs. Everywhere. It serves no purpose. @murray.senate.gov
Strike gender from IDs. Everywhere. It serves no purpose. @murray.senate.gov