One insurance denial for Teressa's husband stated, “your newborn does not meet the criteria for coverage.”

“This is when I really start to think they’re just denying,” she recalled. “They’re not even looking. They’re just ‘deny, deny, deny.’”

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i’m not going to be lectured about political violence by people whose politics is violence

National rates for four major vaccines, which had held steady before the COVID-19 pandemic, have fallen significantly since, according to our analysis of federal kindergarten vaccination data.

In fact, measles vaccination rates were below herd immunity in most states in 2023: propub.li/3YxYNnw

HOLY SHIT. You need to read this in its entirety. Way too much to even begin to summarize but it's really, REALLY bad. It's just one agency, NLRB, but it's likely happening at others. We are under attack, seemingly from the inside. What's happening here should put folks in prison

the boys when it turns out Strom Thurmond and Elon Musk are having to devour feculence on the same night

And as companies like Meta, Google, and Amazon follow President Trump’s moves to roll back diversity initiatives, trans and genderqueer devs worry their already struggling industry could follow suit.

“When a marginalized dev is harassed, they’re on their own."

On #TransDayOfVisibility, we revisit our piece on how researchers and volunteers—in the face of the Trump administration's anti-trans efforts—are backing up federally-funded studies, and vowing to keep the resources online.

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This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

1. Gavin Newsom launched his podcast where he "completely aligned" with far-right activist Charlie Kirk on some transgender issues.

Now, members of his party says he's worked behind the scene to kill pro-LGBTQ+ bills in California.

The latest from S. Baum.

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The topics being flagged for scrutiny touch on the personal priorities of Kennedy, a longtime anti-vaccine activist who has repeatedly promoted medical conspiracy theories and false claims:

Are the next 4 years really going to be logging on everyday to sentences like "a 19 year old doge intern called Big Balls has your social security number" because I'm already at capacity for this sort of thing

A weighted blanket isn’t enough — I need to be slowly flattened under a hydraulic press.

If you’re in the L.A. area and you’re looking for the helpers:

give john waters control of the sphere