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ALJ Dredd-Pizzaballa @unionsaltbae.bsky.social · Dec 16
It is no longer enough for me to get to Inbox Zero. I need to set Outlook on FIRE
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keithdunn.bsky.social
The 2026 Barkley Marathons is over. There are no finishers. #BM100
February 16, 2026 at 1:36 AM
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propublica.org
ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from.

We'll let their words speak for themselves.
“I Have Been Here Too Long”: Read Letters from the Children Detained at ICE’s Dilley Facility
Hundreds of children are currently being held with their parents at an immigration detention center in Dilley, Texas. In letters and drawings, eight kids convey the pain of feeling trapped with no end...
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February 16, 2026 at 2:00 AM
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acara333.bsky.social
Matthew's guide made it easy for me to write a public comment opposing the proposed Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services rule banning GAC.

Sex-variables researchers, please join in contributing your expertise to debunk sex bioessentialist myths being used to deny care to trans kids
matthewcort.land Matthew Cortland, Esq (they) @matthewcort.land · 8h
Public comment on Dr Oz's proposed rules to ban gender-affirming care for youth closes 2/17

One rule bans hospital-based care, the other eliminates Medicaid/CHIP coverage

Together they'd make care virtually unavailable nationwide, including in shield law states

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COMMENTING GUIDE: Opposing Two Trump Regime Rules Banning Gender-Affirming Care, Deadline 2/17/26 Creator profile picture Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland January 26 Edit I. Bottom Line Up Front The Trump Regime's Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has published two companion proposed rules designed to eliminate access to gender-affirming care for minors nationwide. Together, these rules would: Ban hospitals from providing this care (CMS-3481-P) — regardless of how the care is paid for Prohibit Medicaid and CHIP from covering this care (CMS-2451-P) — cutting off funding for lower-income families You have the opportunity to help defend trans kids by submitting comments against these vile proposed rules. Because even if a state wanted to continue covering gender-affirming care through Medicaid, the hospital rule would prevent hospitals from providing it. The two rules use different regulatory mechanisms to accomplish the same policy goal: eliminating access to gender-affirming care for anyone under 18 (or under 19 for CHIP). You should submit your comment to both dockets. The deadline is 5PM ET on February 17, 2026.
February 16, 2026 at 2:03 AM
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emilyhughes.bsky.social
sinners in the hands of a hangry god
February 16, 2026 at 1:05 AM
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jcsalterego.bsky.social
(at the ayn rand roast) more like the fountainbutt
February 16, 2026 at 2:10 AM
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carolinesiede.bsky.social
This little North American summit between Mexico’s Donovan Carrillo, USA’s Ilia Malinin, and Canada’s Piper Gilles is adorable
February 15, 2026 at 10:09 PM
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aeneas-nin.bsky.social
Grainy image of a horse standing atop a low building. Text above reads, "I will always succeed because I am insane"
February 15, 2026 at 9:15 PM
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tacobellquarterly.org
Change your gender, become a poet, catapult yourself into the sun. There are no rules. You can do anything you want.
February 15, 2026 at 7:41 PM
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courtneymilan.com
Look I don't wanna boost that Elon post about English / Scots / Irish stuff more than it needs to be boosted but anyone claiming that English / Scots / Irish culture are the same inherent base culture is inherently disqualified from any further commentary on English / Scots / Irish culture.
February 15, 2026 at 10:41 PM
unionsaltbae.bsky.social
It's a good thing I don't make big law money bc if I did I'd spend it all on Bring a Trailer
February 15, 2026 at 8:01 PM
unionsaltbae.bsky.social
Going to watch pairs bc I'm not emotionally attached to anyone and maybe that will stop figure skating from hurting me this one time
Gif of Johanna Mason, played by Jena Malone, a thin white woman with brown hair and bangs, in Catching Fire. She is standing in a jungle and saying "there's no one left that I love"
February 15, 2026 at 8:00 PM
unionsaltbae.bsky.social
The difference between Ilia Malinin and Lisa Blatt is that Ilia is a generational talent with good sportsmanship, and Lisa is... not
joedudekjd.bsky.social Joe Dudek @joedudekjd.bsky.social · 10h
Man, it was tough last night, watching Ilia Malinin just Lisa Blatt all over the ice like that.
February 15, 2026 at 6:13 PM
unionsaltbae.bsky.social
🎶you got a fast car
But I forgot my wallet and we're out of gas🎶
February 15, 2026 at 5:03 PM
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contingencyfee.bsky.social
Ghost posting about Finding Mr. Christmas meant I learned about it and got to take credit when I introduced it to the Mrs.

🙏👻
February 14, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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juristired.bsky.social
I like that Ghostie is honest about how difficult it is to be a nice/kjnd person and care deeply about others in the world. I like being able to laugh about how shitty life is sometimes, and Ghost is good at those jokes.
February 14, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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wstafrican.bsky.social
I will be the first to admit that I’m just very easy to make laugh a little but @ghostesq.bsky.social will pop out with something so ridiculously funny and witty that I will actually burst out laughing over here. Happy birthday, angel!
February 14, 2026 at 9:39 PM
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ozymandamus.bsky.social
Ghost is 100 out of 35 to 50 feral hogs and I love her for it.
February 14, 2026 at 10:29 PM
unionsaltbae.bsky.social
This is so evil. PCA makes up so much of the volume not because of fraud, obviously, but because hands on assistance with activities of daily living (bathing, dressing, transferring, toileting, etc) are incredibly common needs among physically disabled people.
matthewcort.land Matthew Cortland, Esq (they) @matthewcort.land · 1d
A chart HHS DOGE put on their "Examples" page for the Medicaid data release shows personal care services, residential habilitation, attendant care, i.e. the services that let disabled people live at home. DOGE is inviting the public to treat community living as fraud

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Bar chart from HHS Open Data titled 'Top 20 Procedures by Spending: Highest-cost HCPCS procedure codes across all providers, FY2019–FY2023.' Personal Care Services is the largest bar by a wide margin at approximately $90 billion. The remaining 19 categories in descending order are: Clinic Visit/Encounter (approximately $30B), Residential Habilitation (approximately $20B), Office Visit Level 3 (approximately $20B), Attendant Care Services (approximately $18B), Office Visit Level 4 (approximately $18B), ED Visit Level 4 (approximately $12B), Community Support per Diem (approximately $11B), Community Support 15 min (approximately $11B), ED Visit Level 3 (approximately $10B), ED Visit Level 5 (approximately $10B), Psychotherapy 60 min (approximately $6B), Adult Day Care per Diem (approximately $5B), Psychotherapy 45 min (approximately $5B), Psychosocial Rehab 15 min (approximately $4B), Personal Care per Diem (approximately $4B), Day Habilitation 15 min (approximately $4B), Targeted Case Management (approximately $4B), Unlisted Dialysis Procedure (approximately $4B), and ALS Ambulance Emergency (approximately $4B). The bottom right corner shows the HHS // OPENDATA watermark.
February 14, 2026 at 8:19 PM
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matthewcort.land
🚨 The Trump regime released an HHS Medicaid dataset that can be used to build a ranked hit list of abortion and gender-affirming care providers, organized by patient volume, with names and addresses. They called it open source transparency.

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Patreon post header image for 'Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer' by Matthew Cortland, dated 02/13/2026. The title reads 'HHS DOGE Released Medicaid Billing Data That Can Be Used to Target Abortion and Gender-Affirming Care Providers by Name.' The right side shows an embedded screenshot of a post from the @DOGE_HHS account on X reading: 'Today the HHS DOGE team open sourced the largest Medicaid dataset in department history. This dataset contains aggregated, provider-level claims data for a specific billing code over time. For example, using this dataset, it would have been possible to easily detect the large-scale autism diagnosis fraud seen in Minnesota. Download the data yourself:' with a link card to opendata.hhs.gov. The bottom left shows a line graph from the dataset. The footer reads 'Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer' with the Patreon logo and patreon.com/mattbc.
February 14, 2026 at 5:05 AM
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yrfatfriend.bsky.social
This is part of the current surge of anti-fatness & the emboldening of anti-fat bigotry. The response to a congressman arguing for the deportation of a congresswoman isn't to call him The Whale.

Also, fat shaming was never "verboten in the liberal playbook"?? I WISH, but definitely not!
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d
No. This guy isn’t even a Democrat and fat-shaming is not what people mean when they talk about ‘dark woke’ or ‘woke 2’.

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In January, Florida Rep. Randy Fine made a typically bigoted post on X about his colleague in the House of Representatives, Ilhan Omar. The post was in conversation with a specious right-wing conspiracy alleging that Omar's net worth had increased, nefariously, through a variety of unspecified means-perhare cryptically linked back to her Somali heritage. Fine asserted that to "solve all this," Omar ought to be "denaturalized and deported." The ugliness of the comment prompted Rick Wilson-former Republican strategist, he of the magnanimous Lincoln Project-to step forward. In earlier eras of discourse, the Lincoln Project attempted to coalesce an anti-Trump movement by appealing to our better angels; brandishing Sorkin-ish platitudes about the Soul of America. (There is a Lincoln Project-to step forward. In earlier eras of discourse, the Lincoln Project attempted to coalesce an anti-Trump movement by appealing to our better angels; brandishing Sorkin-ish platitudes about the Soul of America. (There is a reason the rganization name-checks the 16th president.) But Wilson took a much different approach here. Rather than addressing the content of Fine's character, Wilson homed in on something else: The congressman is very, very fat. "Hunting you with harpoons and whaleboats would solve all this," said Wilson, parroting Fine's diction. Among the responses threaded below Wilson's retort, one is an edit of promotional materials for a 2011 television adaptation of Moby-Dick. In it, Fine has been photoshopped in place of the whale. It goes without saying that for a very long time, fat-shaming a politician was previously verboten in the liberal playbook. I also do not possess the wherewithal to cast judgement on whether Fine —who has expressed some genuinely bloodthirsty sentiments about Palestinians— deserves to be bullied in ach a way. But what I can say is that, right now, we are in the midst of a marked pivot in the way the Democratic Party interfaces with its opposition. The shift in attitude hasn't been firmly diagrammed; instead, what's going on here is mostly subconscious, like a collective unlocking of forbidden territory.
February 14, 2026 at 8:10 PM
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sethcotlar.bsky.social
In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
crindivisible.bsky.social Cooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 2d
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social
February 14, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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13jenns.bsky.social
I love watching boys playing soccer through Ghost’s skeets. (see also skeets about bailey and running and books and … )
February 14, 2026 at 7:13 PM
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lenaa80z.bsky.social
@unionsaltbae.bsky.social After the devastating war in Gaza and the collapse of medical services, my son Qais contracted a serious virus. With no access to proper treatment, especially in this extreme cold, I am unable to help him. Any support could make the difference between life and suffering
February 14, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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hells-beekeepers.bsky.social
I love nerding out with @ghostesq.bsky.social about her very serious book club picks and our seriously unserious ASoIaF sickness. She’s also one of the kindest and funniest people I know
February 14, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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whenisayj.bsky.social
I appreciate how much @ghostesq.bsky.social loves Bailey and posts pictures.
February 14, 2026 at 5:23 PM