Rebecca Saltzman
@rebeccasaltzman.bsky.social
Irregular contributor at The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, Electric Literature, etc. Your Jewish mom friend.
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okay, actually, everyone needs to see this.
From the wonderfully funny @rebeccasaltzman.bsky.social - it reeks of glorious COVID-era creative weirdness but predates it by a couple months!
From the wonderfully funny @rebeccasaltzman.bsky.social - it reeks of glorious COVID-era creative weirdness but predates it by a couple months!
omg yes. I remembered this like a fever dream after you said Muppet Fear and Loathing: www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...
The Muppets Take Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas
We were somewhere east of Fraggle Rock when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like, “I feel a bit light-headed, Miss Piggy....
www.mcsweeneys.net
November 20, 2025 at 3:29 AM
okay, actually, everyone needs to see this.
From the wonderfully funny @rebeccasaltzman.bsky.social - it reeks of glorious COVID-era creative weirdness but predates it by a couple months!
From the wonderfully funny @rebeccasaltzman.bsky.social - it reeks of glorious COVID-era creative weirdness but predates it by a couple months!
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"So, what would happen without Medicaid?My patients will be forced to forgo lifesaving care, and they will die. My hospital could face closure entirely or the shuttering of units or services." www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
I'm a nurse. If Congress cuts Medicaid and Social Security, my patients will die.
So, what would happen without Medicaid? My patients will be forced to forgo lifesaving care, and they will die.
www.usatoday.com
April 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"So, what would happen without Medicaid?My patients will be forced to forgo lifesaving care, and they will die. My hospital could face closure entirely or the shuttering of units or services." www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
On this day 80 years ago, the mustache guy unalived himself in a bunker. We defeated fascism before and we can defeat it again.
April 30, 2025 at 4:00 PM
On this day 80 years ago, the mustache guy unalived himself in a bunker. We defeated fascism before and we can defeat it again.
A lot of hospitals are going to be in trouble if Republicans gut Medicaid. E.g, we have had a problem with labor and delivery wards closing for decades. Medicaid pays for 40% of US births. What’s going to happen to the remaining L&D wards if Medicaid goes away?
April 29, 2025 at 5:38 PM
A lot of hospitals are going to be in trouble if Republicans gut Medicaid. E.g, we have had a problem with labor and delivery wards closing for decades. Medicaid pays for 40% of US births. What’s going to happen to the remaining L&D wards if Medicaid goes away?
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really can’t be said enough how none of these republicans know a gotdamned thing about anything
These guys are about to kick millions of people off their health insurance and they don't have the faintest idea of how these programs work, just throwing out numbers in an incoherent jumble. It's like a football coach saying "We've got a 10-yard redzone in our offside flea flicker so we'll be good"
House E&C Chair Brett Guthrie: “We have an expansion population that gets 90% federal money, and you have traditional [Medicaid], so a disabled child in Kentucky gets 72 cents when they go to the doctor. And we know that’s just unsustainable.”
“We want to fix that” www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
“We want to fix that” www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
April 29, 2025 at 4:57 PM
really can’t be said enough how none of these republicans know a gotdamned thing about anything
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These guys are about to kick millions of people off their health insurance and they don't have the faintest idea of how these programs work, just throwing out numbers in an incoherent jumble. It's like a football coach saying "We've got a 10-yard redzone in our offside flea flicker so we'll be good"
House E&C Chair Brett Guthrie: “We have an expansion population that gets 90% federal money, and you have traditional [Medicaid], so a disabled child in Kentucky gets 72 cents when they go to the doctor. And we know that’s just unsustainable.”
“We want to fix that” www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
“We want to fix that” www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Republicans consider unraveling a key part of Obamacare in Trump agenda bill
The chair of the House committee overseeing health care policy said they're looking at unwinding the federal promise to cover 90% of the 2010 law's Medicaid expansion.
www.nbcnews.com
April 29, 2025 at 4:33 PM
These guys are about to kick millions of people off their health insurance and they don't have the faintest idea of how these programs work, just throwing out numbers in an incoherent jumble. It's like a football coach saying "We've got a 10-yard redzone in our offside flea flicker so we'll be good"
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A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here
April 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here
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Screaming at these people works. They’re fundamentally wimps, we just have to actually DO the screaming instead of preemptively admitting defeat.
I am talking about my fellow Americans, not the Democrats. We actually need to scream, gang, not just complain that Schumer isn’t.
I am talking about my fellow Americans, not the Democrats. We actually need to scream, gang, not just complain that Schumer isn’t.
Breaking: HHS says there will NOT be an autism registry after all, walking back earlier claims from the NIH director www.statnews.com/2025/04/24/n...
No new autism registry, HHS says, walking back NIH director's claim
The federal health department is not creating a new registry of Americans with autism, an HHS official said Thursday.
www.statnews.com
April 25, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Screaming at these people works. They’re fundamentally wimps, we just have to actually DO the screaming instead of preemptively admitting defeat.
I am talking about my fellow Americans, not the Democrats. We actually need to scream, gang, not just complain that Schumer isn’t.
I am talking about my fellow Americans, not the Democrats. We actually need to scream, gang, not just complain that Schumer isn’t.
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Love to see it! Immediate push back.
HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of protesters have now gathered outside a federal courthouse in downtown Milwaukee to support Judge Hannah Dugan
April 25, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Love to see it! Immediate push back.
Are people really subjecting us all to another round of Junot Diaz discourse in the year 2025?
April 25, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Are people really subjecting us all to another round of Junot Diaz discourse in the year 2025?
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Al gore is pissed off and I’m here for it
April 23, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Al gore is pissed off and I’m here for it
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Words to live by.
April 24, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Words to live by.
Hey so if DOGE fired thousands of federal workers and cut all these programs, where is all that money now? Is it in a shoebox under the government’s bed? Siphoned to someone’s foreign bank account? Just wondering!
April 24, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Hey so if DOGE fired thousands of federal workers and cut all these programs, where is all that money now? Is it in a shoebox under the government’s bed? Siphoned to someone’s foreign bank account? Just wondering!
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They’re trying to siphon the little margin we get. But indies put 67% of every dollar back into their local economies. Am*zon puts 4% back. Barnes and Noble returns 45%. What they are doing is calculated expressly to hurt small independent bookstores.
April 23, 2025 at 11:57 PM
They’re trying to siphon the little margin we get. But indies put 67% of every dollar back into their local economies. Am*zon puts 4% back. Barnes and Noble returns 45%. What they are doing is calculated expressly to hurt small independent bookstores.
The damage this administration is doing will not be undone in my lifetime
Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 23, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The damage this administration is doing will not be undone in my lifetime
Ok but this one is objectively hilarious. The boomer retirement satire we all need!
April 23, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Ok but this one is objectively hilarious. The boomer retirement satire we all need!
I still have space in my short story workshop that starts tonight! I’ll give you my best writing tips, and you’ll leave with a story draft and guidance on how to keep revising. On Zoom!
writingpad.com/classes/onli...
writingpad.com/classes/onli...
Short Story 1 | Writing Pad
In this 5-wk Online short story workshop, Rebecca Saltzman (The New Yorker, McSweeney’s) helps you write, revise, and publish a short story.
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April 23, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I still have space in my short story workshop that starts tonight! I’ll give you my best writing tips, and you’ll leave with a story draft and guidance on how to keep revising. On Zoom!
writingpad.com/classes/onli...
writingpad.com/classes/onli...
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my plan to get people to start having more kids? make climate change worse. abolish the department of education. also milk is poison
April 22, 2025 at 9:44 PM
my plan to get people to start having more kids? make climate change worse. abolish the department of education. also milk is poison
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Two headlines in the New York Times today.
April 22, 2025 at 3:25 AM
Two headlines in the New York Times today.
The administration that brought us military Signal chat leaks is now promising to be, like, totally careful with millions of Americans’ sensitive medical records
www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
RFK Jr.'s autism study to amass medical records of many Americans
The autism study is planning to link confidential data "with broad coverage in the U.S. population" in one place for the first time.
www.cbsnews.com
April 22, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The administration that brought us military Signal chat leaks is now promising to be, like, totally careful with millions of Americans’ sensitive medical records
www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
“My luxury NYC apartment is a shithole” is one of my favorite genres, as someone who also lives in an NYC shithole apartment for 1/3 of the price.
www.curbed.com/article/gree...
www.curbed.com/article/gree...
Mice, Hairballs, and ‘Poltergeist’ Noises
Residents paying up to $10,000 a month at Greenpoint’s Eagle + West say life there is not very luxurious.
www.curbed.com
April 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM
“My luxury NYC apartment is a shithole” is one of my favorite genres, as someone who also lives in an NYC shithole apartment for 1/3 of the price.
www.curbed.com/article/gree...
www.curbed.com/article/gree...
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Larry David writing a NYT guest essay as a man having dinner with Hitler, just to roast Bill Maher as a smug, self-important clown, is the stuff of comedy legend.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...
April 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Larry David writing a NYT guest essay as a man having dinner with Hitler, just to roast Bill Maher as a smug, self-important clown, is the stuff of comedy legend.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...
A good, urgent piece. Time is running out. “Capitulation is contagious. But so, too, is courage.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
A Ticking Clock on American Freedom
It’s later than you think, but it’s not too late.
www.theatlantic.com
April 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
A good, urgent piece. Time is running out. “Capitulation is contagious. But so, too, is courage.”
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...