ken
@kenoodle.bsky.social
queer neurodivergent leftist. animal and nature lover. chronically ill and still masking. 🏳️🌈💛🌿🇵🇸
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This is a really important read for many people out there, as this has been erroneously reported.
The spending bill DOES ban HRT from Medicaid, which is horrific.
It does NOT ban ACA/Private plans from covering it, as Gillian Branstetter of the ACLU lays out in her thread here.
The spending bill DOES ban HRT from Medicaid, which is horrific.
It does NOT ban ACA/Private plans from covering it, as Gillian Branstetter of the ACLU lays out in her thread here.
Seeing a lot of confusion about the budget's provisions on trans care--it would strip Medicaid funds for trans care (which is awful enough) but it would NOT prohibit private insurers from providing coverage for trans care. It actually does something far more narrow and wonkier
Under the ACA, plans sold on the individual or small-group Marketplaces have to provide coverage for certain treatments called Essential Health Benefits (EHB). Only a few treatments (like abortion) are prohibited from coverage as an EHB by HHS--but insurers are not banned from covering it altogether
May 23, 2025 at 4:14 AM
This is a really important read for many people out there, as this has been erroneously reported.
The spending bill DOES ban HRT from Medicaid, which is horrific.
It does NOT ban ACA/Private plans from covering it, as Gillian Branstetter of the ACLU lays out in her thread here.
The spending bill DOES ban HRT from Medicaid, which is horrific.
It does NOT ban ACA/Private plans from covering it, as Gillian Branstetter of the ACLU lays out in her thread here.
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1. Terrifying news for transgender people across the United States. In a late night development, the House Spending Bill was amended to ban transgender coverage for transgender ADULTS on medicaid!
A manager's amendment removed the words "for minors."
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A manager's amendment removed the words "for minors."
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House Spending Bill Now Bans Medicaid For Transition Care For Adults
The provision was stricken late at night to appeal to hardline conservatives.
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May 22, 2025 at 5:18 AM
1. Terrifying news for transgender people across the United States. In a late night development, the House Spending Bill was amended to ban transgender coverage for transgender ADULTS on medicaid!
A manager's amendment removed the words "for minors."
Subscribe to support my journalism.
A manager's amendment removed the words "for minors."
Subscribe to support my journalism.
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love how every time I see the word “woke” I get to be reminded that for maybe eight whole months out of the entire time I’ve been alive, making an effort to be kind to one another was trendy, and now we’re all going to spend the rest of our lives being punished for it
May 7, 2025 at 1:14 AM
love how every time I see the word “woke” I get to be reminded that for maybe eight whole months out of the entire time I’ve been alive, making an effort to be kind to one another was trendy, and now we’re all going to spend the rest of our lives being punished for it
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Sorry but I just don't feel comfortable sharing public toilets with transphobes. At any moment they could just demand to have a look at my gennies. The law should protect women's spaces from these creeps.
April 18, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Sorry but I just don't feel comfortable sharing public toilets with transphobes. At any moment they could just demand to have a look at my gennies. The law should protect women's spaces from these creeps.
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Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.
April 17, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Guys, I love all of you, but the answer to RFK, Jr. is not that autistic adults hold jobs, pay taxes, and get laid, it's that everyone deserves to live even if they can't work, pay taxes, or get laid.
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Touching grass is not enough I need to get stuck in a hollow log
April 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Touching grass is not enough I need to get stuck in a hollow log
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If I may…
If you’ve put off medical appointments for awhile & can afford it, get that done now.
Just get it out of the way.
Take care of yourself.
We need you healthy.
And who knows what’s to come.
I’m doing this, bit by bit.
I put things off for waaaaay too long.
If you’ve put off medical appointments for awhile & can afford it, get that done now.
Just get it out of the way.
Take care of yourself.
We need you healthy.
And who knows what’s to come.
I’m doing this, bit by bit.
I put things off for waaaaay too long.
April 3, 2025 at 12:49 AM
If I may…
If you’ve put off medical appointments for awhile & can afford it, get that done now.
Just get it out of the way.
Take care of yourself.
We need you healthy.
And who knows what’s to come.
I’m doing this, bit by bit.
I put things off for waaaaay too long.
If you’ve put off medical appointments for awhile & can afford it, get that done now.
Just get it out of the way.
Take care of yourself.
We need you healthy.
And who knows what’s to come.
I’m doing this, bit by bit.
I put things off for waaaaay too long.
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March 31, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Good morning. Cory Booker has now been speaking on the Senate floor for 12 hours straight. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...
Inside Cory Booker’s Plan To Disrupt ‘Business As Usual’ On The Senate Floor
A member of the U.S. Senate took the floor at 7:00 p.m....
talkingpointsmemo.com
April 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Good morning. Cory Booker has now been speaking on the Senate floor for 12 hours straight. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...
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some are wondering how this is all happening so fast. it's because we are watching the crumbling of a facade, the thin outer layer of something that has been consistently and relentlessly hollowed out by both parties, bit by bit, for decades. this shell was the fantasy world to which liberals clung.
March 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
some are wondering how this is all happening so fast. it's because we are watching the crumbling of a facade, the thin outer layer of something that has been consistently and relentlessly hollowed out by both parties, bit by bit, for decades. this shell was the fantasy world to which liberals clung.
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It's so important right now to give yourself dumb little reasons to keep going. You haven't had the best sandwich you've ever tasted. You haven't laughed the hardest you've ever laughed. You haven't gotten the best hug you've ever felt. I know these things feel small but that's why they help me.
March 18, 2025 at 1:25 PM
It's so important right now to give yourself dumb little reasons to keep going. You haven't had the best sandwich you've ever tasted. You haven't laughed the hardest you've ever laughed. You haven't gotten the best hug you've ever felt. I know these things feel small but that's why they help me.
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trying a new, positive outlook. going to wake up every morning thinking to myself: maybe It Will Happen today
March 13, 2025 at 12:50 PM
trying a new, positive outlook. going to wake up every morning thinking to myself: maybe It Will Happen today
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did you enjoy creating it? did you have fun? does it make you happy thinking about it and sharing it? then that's it. you did it. you found the secret sauce. "was that a waste of time?" of course not, fuckface. expressing yourself creatively is always worthwhile. you're doing great
March 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
did you enjoy creating it? did you have fun? does it make you happy thinking about it and sharing it? then that's it. you did it. you found the secret sauce. "was that a waste of time?" of course not, fuckface. expressing yourself creatively is always worthwhile. you're doing great
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Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.
March 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.
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AOC was right.
It's probably the right time for a lot of people to start entering the fray and running establishment Dems out of office.
It's probably the right time for a lot of people to start entering the fray and running establishment Dems out of office.
March 6, 2025 at 4:48 PM
AOC was right.
It's probably the right time for a lot of people to start entering the fray and running establishment Dems out of office.
It's probably the right time for a lot of people to start entering the fray and running establishment Dems out of office.
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
March 6, 2025 at 5:45 AM
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
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Don’t let this administration take away your joy. Yes, what they’re doing is wrong and terrifying, but don’t let them take away the one thing that’s yours. Surround yourself with community. Do things you love. Yes, things look bleak, and you also need joy. Don’t let them take that away.
March 2, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Don’t let this administration take away your joy. Yes, what they’re doing is wrong and terrifying, but don’t let them take away the one thing that’s yours. Surround yourself with community. Do things you love. Yes, things look bleak, and you also need joy. Don’t let them take that away.
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Me and the homies pregaming a little nature in the park before we head into the woods
February 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Me and the homies pregaming a little nature in the park before we head into the woods
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in this episode, Bluey learns how to administer Narcan
February 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
in this episode, Bluey learns how to administer Narcan
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Now is a good time to stock up on masks and get used to wearing them again if you stopped. Wear them and be cognizant of how diseases spread. Wear them even if anti-mask legislation passes. Protest that legislation before it does.
February 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Now is a good time to stock up on masks and get used to wearing them again if you stopped. Wear them and be cognizant of how diseases spread. Wear them even if anti-mask legislation passes. Protest that legislation before it does.
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Every time I fly, I always pick a window seat.
I stare out of it and watch the world go by.
We live in such a beautiful world. It’s big enough for all of us.
I stare out of it and watch the world go by.
We live in such a beautiful world. It’s big enough for all of us.
February 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Every time I fly, I always pick a window seat.
I stare out of it and watch the world go by.
We live in such a beautiful world. It’s big enough for all of us.
I stare out of it and watch the world go by.
We live in such a beautiful world. It’s big enough for all of us.
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sending my cats an email asking what they've done in the past week that contributed to the household
February 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
sending my cats an email asking what they've done in the past week that contributed to the household