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You have to really, really, really fucking suck for your 8th grade teacher to come out and shame you like this. Damn.

Holy moley, that's wild.

I've been wondering how these turned out. The outcomes were not trumpeted as loudly as the program launches. And I haven't heard much about Social Impact Bonds lately at all.

This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY

I knew something was off with all those people who said "run the government like a business." Couldn't put my finger on it before, but now it's clear. They don't want citizens, they want serfs or worse slaves.

I want to know this too. Presumably the state Medicaid plan ALREADY has this clinical information about the member, so why all the performative paperwork?

When they announced DOGE I wondered how it was that the GAO with the same mission had become irrelevant. DOGE was a scam all the way down. More transparency my butt. When all is settled, it will turn out there were no true savings from the ignorant cuts.

With this administration, every time I see them use the word "empower" when it comes to a public program, my first response is to shudder and wonder how they have weakened it. Example: www.hhs.gov/press-room/a...

And what if the big gamble with children's lives doesn't work and all we get is a higher death and disability rate due to vaccine-preventable diseases and no change to the autisim identification rate? What then? This natural experiment brewing makes me uneasy.

This, from food safety attorney Bill Marler, is so much better than anything I've seen from the FDA.

The more I learn about the OBBBA Medicaid work requirements, the more I wonder if the folks in favor of this have ever been unemployed, had an unreliable car, or had a health condition that causes fatigue that doesn't count as a disability. You're gonna lose your health coverage if the car breaks.

Welcome to Puppy Court

I was happy to contribute to this new short documentary on Arizona’s voucher system, what i called the “gold standard for what not to do, and how to do what not to do.” @moreperfectunion.bsky.social youtu.be/JpmIaajDfcM?...

This hits the nail on the head: Aging and planning for what might be a long retirement requires thinking about purpose and what can be accomplished as physical and cognitive abilities permit. Watching TV just fills a vacuum. www.wealthmanagement.com/retirement/w...

It's time for resistance hobbies that don't intersect with or reward any media companies owned by jerks.

This is Bruce. He was rescued by two tour boat operators after his kayak broke loose and was carried out to sea by strong winds. 13/10 for all (IG: farne_islands)

Can anyone explain why these authors decided that the reason the US workers slowed down was b/c of Medicaid expansion? SNAP didn't change. TANF is still at 1990s levels. SSI is still hard to get. www.nber.org/papers/w35020

Judge orders jail time for former Gov. Matt Bevin over failure to produce financial information kentuckylantern.com/2026/06/05/j... They placed their adopted child at a residential facility for troubled youth in Jamaica and when the facility was found to be AWFUL, they left the child there.

This is extremely chilling - virologists being targeted for what appears to be minor (if any) "offenses". We all know _why_ this is happening, so I'm not going to belabor that point - but I want to provide some context on the technical details. 🧵 www.science.org/content/arti...

Oh yikes!!! Video: Police Tussle With Diabetes Experts at ADA Meeting www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

I think the tech bros are the types who would leave earth, and then return to loot it when their space lair doesn't work out.

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

OH no! where should we look first?

Amplify this: Corporations that want the rights of "people" in terms of speech, must also be bound by the full responsibilities of people, and not solely the duty to protect shareholder value.

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

Donald Trump has not only ROBBED YOU of $1.8 billion to reward his allies, but he just used his own government to permanently shield himself, his family, and his businesses from IRS accountability.

This is absolutely fucking insane. People should be screaming about this. There should be no other news than this and the slush fund created yesterday. It’s a brazen, massive heist and he’s all but admitting it.

Insurers are not directly the primary cause of health spending growth. But, with major insurers posting strong profits as health care costs grow, it’s reasonable to ask what value they provide for the overhead they consume.

Yeah, shipping jobs overseas didn't do American workers any good at all.

Love these things!

What if we all stopped consulting AI anything? What if what really mattered was human interaction?

NO thanks. Full stop.

I really like the fish tank on Comics Unleashed. The fish are beautiful.

Now do Florida! energycommerce.house.gov/posts/e-and-...

In all of the chaos that is today, I am loving this retro-chaos: hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/11/dogs...

The line items are so much worse - fraudwise- than I anticipated. AZ needs to fix this program and impose accountability.

@airtable.com where are you? My base has been down for more than an hour.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

HHS announcing $100 mill in substance use grants: harm reduction and housing first "enabled future drug use and were never intended to support people in their recovery to lead productive lives in their communities." #Psychsky #opioids #addiction #mentalhealth #homelessness

Shocking to account for what was nearly lost: - 417 programs to prevent suicide, 465 for alcohol, and 351 for HIV - 218 to help Americans with depression, 9 for schizophrenia - 573 program focused on rural areas. - Over 300 to support law enforcement dealing with mental health crises