Addy Hatch
@addyhatch.bsky.social
Ex-journalist, now a brand writer, goes without saying I’m a stationery enthusiast.
“Only 3 percent of Medicaid recipients were non-disabled working-age adults persistently not working… So what do work requirements actually accomplish? They take away benefits from people who are legally entitled to aid, because they can’t overcome the paperwork and administrative barriers.”
Attack of the Sadistic Zombies
The GOP budget is incredibly cruel — and that’s the point
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May 19, 2025 at 2:40 PM
“Only 3 percent of Medicaid recipients were non-disabled working-age adults persistently not working… So what do work requirements actually accomplish? They take away benefits from people who are legally entitled to aid, because they can’t overcome the paperwork and administrative barriers.”
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There is no need for Medicaid work requirements because almost everyone who can work is working.
What we are getting instead is Medicaid work *reporting* requirements, where people lose coverage because of administrative burdens.
What we are getting instead is Medicaid work *reporting* requirements, where people lose coverage because of administrative burdens.
May 19, 2025 at 12:55 PM
There is no need for Medicaid work requirements because almost everyone who can work is working.
What we are getting instead is Medicaid work *reporting* requirements, where people lose coverage because of administrative burdens.
What we are getting instead is Medicaid work *reporting* requirements, where people lose coverage because of administrative burdens.
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The Republican "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" certainly doesn't want to display its beauty in daylight.
May 19, 2025 at 11:56 AM
The Republican "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" certainly doesn't want to display its beauty in daylight.
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say it again:
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university.
University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.
A must read
May 18, 2025 at 1:45 PM
say it again:
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
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DOGE stole all of the government’s data about everyone in America and only cost taxpayers $135 billion.
What a deal!
What a deal!
DOGE's firings, and the ways they did it, will cost the federal government $135 billion this fiscal year, www.nytimes.com/2025/04/24/u...
Elon Musk and DOGE’s Savings May Be Erased by New Costs
An expert on the federal work force estimates that the speed and chaos of Mr. Musk’s cuts to the bureaucracy will cost taxpayers $135 billion this fiscal year.
www.nytimes.com
April 25, 2025 at 4:02 AM
DOGE stole all of the government’s data about everyone in America and only cost taxpayers $135 billion.
What a deal!
What a deal!
Idaho lawmakers are making ivermectin available over-the-counter to give constituents “the opportunity to look after their own health.” Worth noting that this is an opportunity they do not extend to pregnant women in the state.
April 18, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Idaho lawmakers are making ivermectin available over-the-counter to give constituents “the opportunity to look after their own health.” Worth noting that this is an opportunity they do not extend to pregnant women in the state.
Also lifetime caps on what the insurers would pay. Quite literally the value of a life.
About the ACA: go talk to elder Millennials who were dropped from their parents' insurance at the height of the Great Recession because they aged out... when no one was hiring.
Go talk to anyone living with pre-existing conditions.
Was the ACA enough? No. Better than what existed before? Yes.
Go talk to anyone living with pre-existing conditions.
Was the ACA enough? No. Better than what existed before? Yes.
March 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Also lifetime caps on what the insurers would pay. Quite literally the value of a life.
Official statement from official Pentagon spokesman. Totally normal.
(Government PR used to be a serious profession).
(Government PR used to be a serious profession).
March 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Official statement from official Pentagon spokesman. Totally normal.
(Government PR used to be a serious profession).
(Government PR used to be a serious profession).
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If we really want to “make America healthy again,” we’d have Medicare for All.
March 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM
If we really want to “make America healthy again,” we’d have Medicare for All.
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There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security.
Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."
Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."
Elon Musk says he wants to “eliminate” programs like Social Security and Medicare: “Entitlements... That’s the big one to eliminate”
March 11, 2025 at 12:35 AM
There were howls of protest and denial from the GOP any time we pointed out that Republicans want to cut Social Security.
Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."
Now the most powerful official in the White House goes on TV and calls it "the big one to eliminate."
“It comes three weeks after Education Secretary Linda McMahon said at her Senate confirmation hearing she would keep the program intact.”
www.npr.org/2025/03/07/n...
www.npr.org/2025/03/07/n...
Trump signs executive action targeting public service loan program
The program forgives the loans of borrowers who work in public service. The executive action would exclude those who work for certain organizations.
www.npr.org
March 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
“It comes three weeks after Education Secretary Linda McMahon said at her Senate confirmation hearing she would keep the program intact.”
www.npr.org/2025/03/07/n...
www.npr.org/2025/03/07/n...
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SpaceX has received over $15B in government contracts and state grants and the only thing Nazi Musk’s company has produced consistently is failed launches and high velocity explosions. This is what I’d call actual fraud and a real waste of tax dollars.
March 7, 2025 at 5:20 AM
SpaceX has received over $15B in government contracts and state grants and the only thing Nazi Musk’s company has produced consistently is failed launches and high velocity explosions. This is what I’d call actual fraud and a real waste of tax dollars.
If you go to the CDC website to see whether you need a measles booster, it says it depends on whether you have “evidence of immunity.” But all links are dead to the page that tells you that. Seems important.
March 7, 2025 at 12:09 AM
If you go to the CDC website to see whether you need a measles booster, it says it depends on whether you have “evidence of immunity.” But all links are dead to the page that tells you that. Seems important.
Six bird strikes on my windows so far this morning. Hundreds of them are feasting on little red berries that might be fermented? So far there appear to be no deaths, just a lot of drunk, stunned feathered friends.
March 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Six bird strikes on my windows so far this morning. Hundreds of them are feasting on little red berries that might be fermented? So far there appear to be no deaths, just a lot of drunk, stunned feathered friends.
Guess we’re doing things #SovietStyle in America now. People afraid to speak because they fear retribution, managers sacked for writing or saying something that goes against the party.
March 3, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Guess we’re doing things #SovietStyle in America now. People afraid to speak because they fear retribution, managers sacked for writing or saying something that goes against the party.
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Trump is a disgrace to the United States and the human race.
February 28, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Trump is a disgrace to the United States and the human race.
Kids who have chronic illness need flu shots. So do their families. Seniors need flu shots. This is madness.
The FDA just cancelled a meeting to select flu strains for next season's flu shots.
"It's unclear what the canceled meeting will mean for Americans who want to get a flu vaccine next season."
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
"It's unclear what the canceled meeting will mean for Americans who want to get a flu vaccine next season."
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
FDA cancels meeting to select flu strains for next season's shots
The canceled meeting comes just days after a CDC vaccine advisory committee meeting was abruptly postponed.
www.nbcnews.com
February 27, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Kids who have chronic illness need flu shots. So do their families. Seniors need flu shots. This is madness.
As a former reporter I’m amazed every day that the White House and all federal agencies don’t respond to journalists anymore. Every story: “did not respond to a call seeking comment.” I guess that’s better than responding with a poop emoji. But that’s probably next.
February 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
As a former reporter I’m amazed every day that the White House and all federal agencies don’t respond to journalists anymore. Every story: “did not respond to a call seeking comment.” I guess that’s better than responding with a poop emoji. But that’s probably next.
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If you’ve ever taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, this is the time to live up to it.
February 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
If you’ve ever taken the oath to uphold the Constitution, this is the time to live up to it.
As a parent of a daughter with cystic fibrosis this makes me physically ill. The drug developed thru NIH is the difference between life and death for people with CF.
New: Project 2025, which Russell Vought is the architect of, advocates for cutting NIH funding. But, it has been NIH-funded research that contributed to Vought’s own daughter having better treatment options for cystic fibrosis.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Project 2025 is gutting medical funding that helped Russell Vought's own kid
Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.
www.motherjones.com
February 12, 2025 at 12:50 AM
As a parent of a daughter with cystic fibrosis this makes me physically ill. The drug developed thru NIH is the difference between life and death for people with CF.
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Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?
February 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?
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I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵
January 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵
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is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?
February 2, 2025 at 6:36 AM
is it good or bad that a billionaire oligarch with close ties to foreign dictators is currently downloading the most sensitive information the us federal government has about its citizens to his own private servers?
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Is there a word for when a bunch of private citizens following orders from an unelected billionaire occupy government buildings and cut off communications
January 31, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Is there a word for when a bunch of private citizens following orders from an unelected billionaire occupy government buildings and cut off communications