Kathryn Brightbill ✒️
@kebrightbill.bsky.social
Sometimes writer, focusing on the religious right & homeschool movement history | UF Law & Covenant College alum | Manatee Dems
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Because of the price of eggs, I give you the classic Great Depression-era recipe for Crazy Cake, both in the original chocolate and vanilla versions. No eggs, no milk, all deliciousness.
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People definitely did pay for health care in the 19th century US. It was extremely cheap and almost totally ineffective. When people had serious health problems they usually just died, regardless of how much health care they got. (Often a lot! It was extremely cheap!)
I just saw someone say that people back in the day (1800s) didn’t pay for healthcare and (1) y’all there was a lot of advertising for health products!
It was just that without any real regulation, nobody knew what worked.
It was just that without any real regulation, nobody knew what worked.
November 11, 2025 at 7:40 AM
People definitely did pay for health care in the 19th century US. It was extremely cheap and almost totally ineffective. When people had serious health problems they usually just died, regardless of how much health care they got. (Often a lot! It was extremely cheap!)
Relevant falling iguana comic is relevant again
[Repost] Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #115: It rains iguanas in Florida sometimes.
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#iguanas #reptiles #florida #weather #strangeweather #bizarre #wtf #butwhytho #strangebuttrue #webtoons #comics #webcomics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
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#iguanas #reptiles #florida #weather #strangeweather #bizarre #wtf #butwhytho #strangebuttrue #webtoons #comics #webcomics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn
November 11, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Relevant falling iguana comic is relevant again
Already had malaria in Florida a few years ago, it was limited to a small part of Sarasota and eliminated in a few weeks because of aggressive spraying and distribution of repellents and treated mosquito netting to unhoused people.
I'm honestly starting to think Americans are going to end the decade with either universal health care or malaria.
November 11, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Already had malaria in Florida a few years ago, it was limited to a small part of Sarasota and eliminated in a few weeks because of aggressive spraying and distribution of repellents and treated mosquito netting to unhoused people.
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Getting talked to by the people's police isn't so fun now is it you stupid bastard
American tankie influencer gets interrogated by actual Chinese state police while visiting Tiananmen Square sounds like a comedy sketch and yet it's real lmao
www.reddit.com/r/Livestream...
www.reddit.com/r/Livestream...
From the LivestreamFail community on Reddit: Chinese security police harassed Hasan Piker while he was live streaming in Tiananmen Square
Explore this post and more from the LivestreamFail community
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November 11, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Getting talked to by the people's police isn't so fun now is it you stupid bastard
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SNAP embarrassed him. So now he's against SNAP. SNAP is now the James Comey of government assistance programs.
President Trump criticized the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) during a Fox News interview tonight, saying people "get it automatically now so the number is many times what it should be, it's disgraceful."
Trump says "we can reform" SNAP
"SNAP is supposed to be if you are down and out," Trump said on Fox News this evening.
www.axios.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:20 AM
SNAP embarrassed him. So now he's against SNAP. SNAP is now the James Comey of government assistance programs.
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one of the weirdest things that people believe on a website where the collective mood changes every thirty-six hours is that events completely unknown to 60% of the population, where 90% have the facts wrong, will have persistent effects eighteen months later
November 11, 2025 at 5:55 AM
one of the weirdest things that people believe on a website where the collective mood changes every thirty-six hours is that events completely unknown to 60% of the population, where 90% have the facts wrong, will have persistent effects eighteen months later
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Like I was saying. Rugpulling the expanded premium tax credits suddenly dumps a few million people out of the market and leads to shit like this as insurance cos react, which quickly becomes self perpetuating.
And that’s how you de facto repeal the aca.
And that’s how you de facto repeal the aca.
![(Screenshot shows monthly healthcare premiums going from $44.47 to $2619.83, among other cost increases)
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I didn't share the damn picture because I'm so upset!
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November 11, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Like I was saying. Rugpulling the expanded premium tax credits suddenly dumps a few million people out of the market and leads to shit like this as insurance cos react, which quickly becomes self perpetuating.
And that’s how you de facto repeal the aca.
And that’s how you de facto repeal the aca.
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The historian in me feels the need to note that contests between cities and their rural hinterland are not new things and they do not generally go great for the rural folks.
California alone produces a third of all the food America eats. So this is a lie.
But let’s break down the food produced by the red states:
Guess what percent is harvested by people from Latin America?
But let’s break down the food produced by the red states:
Guess what percent is harvested by people from Latin America?
November 11, 2025 at 1:14 AM
The historian in me feels the need to note that contests between cities and their rural hinterland are not new things and they do not generally go great for the rural folks.
Oh. I think I know what part of the problem in Brevard County is. Their mosquito control division is actively spreading misinformation that DEET is the only mosquito repellent that works, and if they're getting that wrong, what else are they getting wrong?
www.brevardfl.gov/MosquitoCont...
www.brevardfl.gov/MosquitoCont...
November 11, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Oh. I think I know what part of the problem in Brevard County is. Their mosquito control division is actively spreading misinformation that DEET is the only mosquito repellent that works, and if they're getting that wrong, what else are they getting wrong?
www.brevardfl.gov/MosquitoCont...
www.brevardfl.gov/MosquitoCont...
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I sometimes wonder if perhaps Rome was started by exiles from Ferrix. It's not completely out of the question.
At some point in antiquity, and few ships of very competent soldiers (with almost no glup shittos) landed on Mina-Rau. Where did they come from?
At some point in antiquity, and few ships of very competent soldiers (with almost no glup shittos) landed on Mina-Rau. Where did they come from?
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
I sometimes wonder if perhaps Rome was started by exiles from Ferrix. It's not completely out of the question.
At some point in antiquity, and few ships of very competent soldiers (with almost no glup shittos) landed on Mina-Rau. Where did they come from?
At some point in antiquity, and few ships of very competent soldiers (with almost no glup shittos) landed on Mina-Rau. Where did they come from?
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Just in case someone doesn’t know this: one reason individual health insurance was so expensive before was that it’s generally a lot cheaper to insure groups. (Not just bulk discounts but the fact that you don’t need to do individual underwriting.) The ACA turned individuals into a big group.
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Just in case someone doesn’t know this: one reason individual health insurance was so expensive before was that it’s generally a lot cheaper to insure groups. (Not just bulk discounts but the fact that you don’t need to do individual underwriting.) The ACA turned individuals into a big group.
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I didn’t watch any Buffy until like ten years ago, and I remember dudes in high school identifying really hard with Xander, and once I saw that first season, like…the dude is fucking repulsive, and the show doesn’t know it.
Oh God rewatching that show knowing what we know now is amazing, it's like he wrote Xander to tell himself what an asshole he is but the message never reached its intended audience
November 11, 2025 at 4:12 AM
I didn’t watch any Buffy until like ten years ago, and I remember dudes in high school identifying really hard with Xander, and once I saw that first season, like…the dude is fucking repulsive, and the show doesn’t know it.
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combine this knack with being a very charismatic con artist (it's nerd charisma but he does have it), a high risk appetite, and a world where hype can be translated directly into money and you can be very successful
but you can never deeply understand or enjoy anything because you are a clout demon
but you can never deeply understand or enjoy anything because you are a clout demon
November 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
combine this knack with being a very charismatic con artist (it's nerd charisma but he does have it), a high risk appetite, and a world where hype can be translated directly into money and you can be very successful
but you can never deeply understand or enjoy anything because you are a clout demon
but you can never deeply understand or enjoy anything because you are a clout demon
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in trying to fathom how he runs his companies more or less successfully I basically decided he was a clout demon who could smell good nerd vibes and walk towards them.
he knows blade runner is cool but has never seen Blade Runner. he knows Diablo is cool but does not play diablo
he knows blade runner is cool but has never seen Blade Runner. he knows Diablo is cool but does not play diablo
so joyce carol oates owned elon so hard he's been taking out ads on X saying he has in fact read a book and watched a movie and he's clearly spiraling and unable to recover from such a vicious own i say to my wife as she frantically pulls out of the driveway
November 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
in trying to fathom how he runs his companies more or less successfully I basically decided he was a clout demon who could smell good nerd vibes and walk towards them.
he knows blade runner is cool but has never seen Blade Runner. he knows Diablo is cool but does not play diablo
he knows blade runner is cool but has never seen Blade Runner. he knows Diablo is cool but does not play diablo
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Anytime I mention this story theres a few dozen people who never heard about it, so for those unaware
Tesla engineer was concerned about known thermal runaway problems in the batteries, elon and his head of security concoted a mass shooter threat pretending to be him, leaked it to the press and got a bolo issued to tried to get him swatted, Elon then stiffed his head of security
November 11, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Anytime I mention this story theres a few dozen people who never heard about it, so for those unaware
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Ok, but—hear me out—what if the government of, by, and for the people did the “getting better deals” bit? Does that count as working collectively?
I was at an event yesterday where Rand Paul spoke via video and talked about how great it was to send ACA money "directly to the people" so that they could work collectively to get better deals on health care.
November 11, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Ok, but—hear me out—what if the government of, by, and for the people did the “getting better deals” bit? Does that count as working collectively?
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JFC is this bad. Straight up cash transfer to the shadiest Republican senators and an assault on the rule of law.
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:48 AM
JFC is this bad. Straight up cash transfer to the shadiest Republican senators and an assault on the rule of law.
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so Paul is asking for the hemp provisions to be removed otherwise he'll refuse UC
Shutdown update: Sen. Rand Paul asking for “vote on an amendment to remove language in the current package that would restrict the production and sale of certain hemp-derived products and result in significant economic harm to farmers and small businesses in Kentucky.” Wants guv reopened ASAP tho
November 10, 2025 at 6:36 PM
so Paul is asking for the hemp provisions to be removed otherwise he'll refuse UC
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I actually looked at the site and did some filtering and
- the amounts are small (Kaine largest with $7k)
- many 'NO' voting senators also got money
- King nowhere to be found for 2024
Wtf are we doing here.
- the amounts are small (Kaine largest with $7k)
- many 'NO' voting senators also got money
- King nowhere to be found for 2024
Wtf are we doing here.
November 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I actually looked at the site and did some filtering and
- the amounts are small (Kaine largest with $7k)
- many 'NO' voting senators also got money
- King nowhere to be found for 2024
Wtf are we doing here.
- the amounts are small (Kaine largest with $7k)
- many 'NO' voting senators also got money
- King nowhere to be found for 2024
Wtf are we doing here.
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Jesus, this is stupid. Why did Bernie hand pick Fetterman? Was it his support for Israel? Do you see how nutty and offensive that sounds? Tim Kaine lives in a state filled with furloughed government workers, FFS! It doesn’t have to be some payola scheme.
November 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Jesus, this is stupid. Why did Bernie hand pick Fetterman? Was it his support for Israel? Do you see how nutty and offensive that sounds? Tim Kaine lives in a state filled with furloughed government workers, FFS! It doesn’t have to be some payola scheme.
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Looooolllll My god the Airline Company Conspiracy is even *dumber* than the AIPAC conspiracy theory.
“Democrats are caving for $7k“ is just utterly brain dead nonsense.
“Democrats are caving for $7k“ is just utterly brain dead nonsense.
I actually looked at the site and did some filtering and
- the amounts are small (Kaine largest with $7k)
- many 'NO' voting senators also got money
- King nowhere to be found for 2024
Wtf are we doing here.
- the amounts are small (Kaine largest with $7k)
- many 'NO' voting senators also got money
- King nowhere to be found for 2024
Wtf are we doing here.
November 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Looooolllll My god the Airline Company Conspiracy is even *dumber* than the AIPAC conspiracy theory.
“Democrats are caving for $7k“ is just utterly brain dead nonsense.
“Democrats are caving for $7k“ is just utterly brain dead nonsense.
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This is another wealth transfer, because the DOJ won't defend these suits, they'll settle. This is a $500k payout to the Jan 6ers in Congress.
Look at this new outrage. To open govt, we're retroactively letting 8 Senators sue for $500K each over having had their J6 phone toll records looked at. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Spending Bill Would Pave Way for Senators to Sue Over Phone Searches
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:54 AM
This is another wealth transfer, because the DOJ won't defend these suits, they'll settle. This is a $500k payout to the Jan 6ers in Congress.
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White Afrikaners looking at Trump and saying “don’t associate us with this racist!”
That’s quite a legacy.
That’s quite a legacy.
Prominent Afrikaners are pushing back after President Trump announced no U.S. officials will attend the G20 in Johannesburg, rejecting his claims of "white persecution" in South Africa as false and politically driven.
Prominent Afrikaners refuse to be 'pawns,' and hit back at Trump's claims about South Africa
Prominent Afrikaners are pushing back after President Trump announced no U.S. officials will attend the G20 in Johannesburg, rejecting his claims of "white persecution" in South Africa as false and politically driven.
n.pr
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 AM
White Afrikaners looking at Trump and saying “don’t associate us with this racist!”
That’s quite a legacy.
That’s quite a legacy.
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LOT going on here obviously so i will add my own specialist knowledge, which is the penguin classics versions of the odyssey and iliad are terrible prose translations that do not benefit from being read aloud
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 2:13 AM
LOT going on here obviously so i will add my own specialist knowledge, which is the penguin classics versions of the odyssey and iliad are terrible prose translations that do not benefit from being read aloud