Tom Breen
@tombreen.bsky.social
UConn news director, former reporter, occasional traveler, very occasional writer
Distilled essence of Reddit
December 12, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Distilled essence of Reddit
For the last 35 years at least, opponents of national health care have presented the actual current state of health care as a scary hypothetical that could only happen in a dystopia of socialized medicine
For all Universal HC/Single Payer/M4A advocates.
What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?
Who in the USA gov runs the program?
R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?
Who in the USA gov runs the program?
R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
December 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
For the last 35 years at least, opponents of national health care have presented the actual current state of health care as a scary hypothetical that could only happen in a dystopia of socialized medicine
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Surprising that a billionaire doesn’t know anything about anything
For all Universal HC/Single Payer/M4A advocates.
What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?
Who in the USA gov runs the program?
R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
What do the biggest, expensive hospital chains do. Do they opt out and only serve the rich ?
Who in the USA gov runs the program?
R U ok with having to see a primary care doc before you can see a specialist ?
December 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Surprising that a billionaire doesn’t know anything about anything
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December 11, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Farewell positivity rabbit
December 10, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Farewell positivity rabbit
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“New Lizza post is up!” I shout from my room. The only reply is my own echo; this house has been empty for thirty-five years.
December 11, 2025 at 2:14 AM
“New Lizza post is up!” I shout from my room. The only reply is my own echo; this house has been empty for thirty-five years.
This book is great, but it’s weird for me to think of a scene I remember very well as the equivalent of Teddy Boys in the 1970s or something. We should have dressed more distinctively
December 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
This book is great, but it’s weird for me to think of a scene I remember very well as the equivalent of Teddy Boys in the 1970s or something. We should have dressed more distinctively
Young people may not realize that once upon a time, you bought software on a physical disc and just owned it without having to pay rent on it
December 10, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Young people may not realize that once upon a time, you bought software on a physical disc and just owned it without having to pay rent on it
Wikipedia really holding nothing back in this entry
December 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Wikipedia really holding nothing back in this entry
The latest additions to the Shelf of Champions. They’re really starting to phone it in with the national championship bobbleheads
December 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The latest additions to the Shelf of Champions. They’re really starting to phone it in with the national championship bobbleheads
I made a “beautiful downtown Burbank” reference today to a medical assistant who was maybe 26 years old, and gave me the Gen Z Stare in response. I’m really embracing early onset old coothood
December 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I made a “beautiful downtown Burbank” reference today to a medical assistant who was maybe 26 years old, and gave me the Gen Z Stare in response. I’m really embracing early onset old coothood
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Eugenics on the Q train
December 10, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Eugenics on the Q train
Yeah I read theory
Available for purchase at the school Book Fair
December 10, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Yeah I read theory
While I don’t doubt his chart success, today is the day I learned of this man’s existence. You couldn’t have done that with chart-bestriding giants in previous decades. Fame has become one of the most devalued commodities of the 21st century, probably for the best
December 9, 2025 at 11:54 PM
While I don’t doubt his chart success, today is the day I learned of this man’s existence. You couldn’t have done that with chart-bestriding giants in previous decades. Fame has become one of the most devalued commodities of the 21st century, probably for the best
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12 years ago today the world lost a legend
December 9, 2025 at 10:37 PM
12 years ago today the world lost a legend
🎶 It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, evvvvvverywhere you go 🎶
December 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
🎶 It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, evvvvvverywhere you go 🎶
Incredible that human beings have somehow managed without it for 250,000 years
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Incredible that human beings have somehow managed without it for 250,000 years
Why don’t they make wholesome toys like this anymore?? Paper cutouts of famous characters like Moon Mullins and “Lillums,” and a paper mask you put over your mouth to crudely conceal your lips moving as you enact a grotesque parody of ventriloquism! I suppose this would be a VIDEO GAME today!!!
December 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Why don’t they make wholesome toys like this anymore?? Paper cutouts of famous characters like Moon Mullins and “Lillums,” and a paper mask you put over your mouth to crudely conceal your lips moving as you enact a grotesque parody of ventriloquism! I suppose this would be a VIDEO GAME today!!!
Whichever weird trad staffer they got to write this statement managed to mischaracterize the doctrine of the Incarnation and contradict the Catholic Church’s teaching on abortion in the same sentence, very impressive
December 9, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Whichever weird trad staffer they got to write this statement managed to mischaracterize the doctrine of the Incarnation and contradict the Catholic Church’s teaching on abortion in the same sentence, very impressive
The Gen X subreddit is pretty much what you’d expect
December 9, 2025 at 1:15 AM
The Gen X subreddit is pretty much what you’d expect
Are we really going with “semiquincentennial” for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence? Really trips off the tongue, doesn’t it?
December 8, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Are we really going with “semiquincentennial” for the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence? Really trips off the tongue, doesn’t it?
An SSD shirt in a Wall Street Journal article popping out like a jump scare
(I think Matt Pincus is cool and doing a cool thing, don’t get mad at me)
(I think Matt Pincus is cool and doing a cool thing, don’t get mad at me)
December 8, 2025 at 3:12 AM
An SSD shirt in a Wall Street Journal article popping out like a jump scare
(I think Matt Pincus is cool and doing a cool thing, don’t get mad at me)
(I think Matt Pincus is cool and doing a cool thing, don’t get mad at me)
As someone who has long thought Tarantino’s films are impressively stylish but essentially vapid and empty, I don’t know where to plant my flag in the current discourse.
December 8, 2025 at 1:21 AM
As someone who has long thought Tarantino’s films are impressively stylish but essentially vapid and empty, I don’t know where to plant my flag in the current discourse.
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How about you just watch the tv show like a normal person?
December 8, 2025 at 12:43 AM
How about you just watch the tv show like a normal person?
I could never pull this shirt off, but it’s so good looking
December 7, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I could never pull this shirt off, but it’s so good looking