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Brian Chiglinsky
@chiglinsky.bsky.social
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dad who pays for daycare and snack pouches with health care comms and speechwriting
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jaspar.bsky.social
So about TrumpRx: We crunched the numbers today and about half of the drugs on there have cheaper generics available already. www.statnews.com/2026/02/06/t...
We found at least 18 of the drugs on TrumpRx have cheaper generics available ranging from potential savings of over $600 for Tikosyn to just around $2 for Diflucan. Most of the drugs are made by Pfizer.
February 6, 2026 at 11:09 PM
Reposted by Brian Chiglinsky
waldo.net
This is exactly what they are doing, and every Medicaid agency absolutely despises them for it. Equifax is going over the agencies' heads, straight to governors, insisting that the agencies sign a contract with Equifax, even though they can get access to The Work Number for free from CMS!
nytimes.com The New York Times @nytimes.com · 3d
Three Democratic senators accused the credit-rating company Equifax of price gouging states for a service many will use to comply with the new work requirements for Medicaid and food assistance passed by Republicans in Congress last year.
Senators Accuse Equifax of ‘Price-Gouging’ Medicaid Programs
The company’s data will be essential for many states to comply with new work requirements for the health insurance program that take effect next year.
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February 5, 2026 at 3:18 AM
chiglinsky.bsky.social
Credit Karma: hey man, looks like you’ve got a recurring subscription to… something called… “student loans”? want us to cancel that for ya?
February 5, 2026 at 1:07 AM
chiglinsky.bsky.social
true with writing, too
katiecandraw.bsky.social Katie Cook @katiecandraw.bsky.social · 5d
In today's installment of Old Lady Yells At Clouds:
I note saying that I believe that even if you think you have no artistic skill, I'd rather see your effort than your A.I.
February 4, 2026 at 8:45 PM
chiglinsky.bsky.social
🤔 solid points here. tough to argue with this guy.
cardinalnews.org Cardinal News @cardinalnews.org · 6d
Opinion: Health care consultant: Spanberger’s Health Financing Task Force should seek advice from technology community
Health care consultant: Spanberger’s Health Financing Task Force should seek advice from technology community
" data-medium-file="https://i0.wp.com/cardinalnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/capitol.jpg?fit=300%2C225&quality=89&ssl=1" data-large-file="https://i0.wp.com/cardinalnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/capitol.jpg?fit=780%2C585&quality=89&ssl=1" /> The task force should also reach out to Virginia’s tech community — proposing contests, hackathons and other ways to find new tools and consumer-friendly ways to cut through bureaucratic red tape and make the process of verifying income and eligibility as easy as possible. The post Health care consultant: Spanberger’s Health Financing Task Force should seek advice from technology community appeared first on Cardinal News.
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February 4, 2026 at 12:01 AM
chiglinsky.bsky.social
I wrote a thing!

Because apparently I’m Sisyphus forever doomed to write about how Medicaid work requirements are dumb and dangerous

(but this time I tried a marginally hopeful note)

cardinalnews.org/2026/02/02/s...
Health care consultant: Spanberger’s Health Financing Task Force should seek advice from technology community
The task force should also reach out to Virginia’s tech community — proposing contests, hackathons and other ways to find new tools and consumer-friendly ways to cut through bureaucratic red tape a…
cardinalnews.org
February 3, 2026 at 11:55 PM
chiglinsky.bsky.social
“hey Brian, you’re turning 40 this month. how does it feel?”

united healthcare:
January 29, 2026 at 2:09 PM
chiglinsky.bsky.social
daycare closed tomorrow. the parents whatsapp now reads like a cormac mccarthy novel.
January 27, 2026 at 11:42 PM
Reposted by Brian Chiglinsky
kevinmkruse.bsky.social
You should read everything @adamserwer.bsky.social writes, but this one really stands out. He's given a gift link below.
After Friday’s protest, when thousands marched in frigid downtown Minneapolis, chanting, “No Trump, no troops, Twin Cities ain’t licking boots!” I spoke with a young protester named Ethan McFarland, who told me that his parents are immigrants from Uganda. He had recently asked his mother to show him her immigration papers, in case she got picked up. This kind of state oppression, he said, is exactly what his mother was “trying to get away from” when she came to the United States. McFarland’s remarks reminded me of something Stephen Miller, the Trump adviser, had written: “Migrants and their descendants recreate the conditions, and terrors, of their broken homelands.” In Minnesota, the opposite was happening. The “conditions and terrors” of immigrants’ “broken homelands” weren’t being re-created by immigrants. They were being re-created by people like Miller. The immigrants simply have the experience to recognize them.
January 27, 2026 at 2:09 PM
chiglinsky.bsky.social
The pure unfiltered hope coming out of Richmond and the dread from Washington has been a little on-the-nose this week.
January 18, 2026 at 4:44 PM
chiglinsky.bsky.social
UVA Class of 2001.

Congratulations, Virginia. We now officially made history with our first Dave Matthews Band Governor.
January 17, 2026 at 9:10 PM
chiglinsky.bsky.social
our one year old: it’s not bah-bah - it’s dah

me: you do this with chatgpt, buddy?
January 12, 2026 at 3:40 PM
chiglinsky.bsky.social
I wrote a thing about why Virginia’s next Governor should join a new group of governors working to protect public health despite the chaos from HHS and the White House.

Read it in today’s @richmond.com
October 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
chiglinsky.bsky.social
showed up to the two princes rally instead. cops told me to just go ahead now.
October 18, 2025 at 10:52 PM
chiglinsky.bsky.social
He’s not dead. He’s just molting.
August 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
chiglinsky.bsky.social
end stage renal capitalism
July 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Reposted by Brian Chiglinsky
zkarlinn.bsky.social
Just 15 years ago, we had:

🐘Democratic governors in WV, WY, and OK.

🐘Democrats representing SD and IN in the U.S. Senate.

🐘Dem control of the AK and MS statehouses.

Majority Democrats is how we get back to winning all across the country. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...
These Younger Democrats Are Sick of Their Party’s Status Quo
www.nytimes.com
July 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Reposted by Brian Chiglinsky
pwcdanica.bsky.social
As someone who unseated a 26-year, 13-term Republican legislator who voted against Medicaid expansion, I can say the hubris of telling your constituents "we're all going to die" when they're concerned about you denying them health insurance and then doubling down by mocking them may just backfire.🧵
June 1, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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nickkristof.bsky.social
SecState Rubio claims that no on has died because of USAID cuts and suggested that I had lied in my reporting. So here I show him photos of specific children who have died because of the Trump administration's reckless cancelation of aid: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...
May 31, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Reposted by Brian Chiglinsky
minakimes.bsky.social
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.
May 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
chiglinsky.bsky.social
that silly little moment when you're trying to get the kids ready for a birthday party and you realize there's only enough time left for one parent to get showered and dressed:
May 10, 2025 at 10:30 PM
chiglinsky.bsky.social
“yeah, that’s a picture of our nation’s first dictator at the easter egg roll. no not him the human one.”
April 22, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Reposted by Brian Chiglinsky
ljkawa.bsky.social
SELLING AMERICA

The 2011 S&P downgrade of the US government’s credit rating was a fart in the wind for markets.

Now, we’re in the midst of the biggest downgrade of US stocks relative to their global peers on record, laid bare on the screens.
sherwood.news/markets/the-...
April 9, 2025 at 4:29 PM
chiglinsky.bsky.social
become a Democrat! *special offer for the first 4 R reps to flip!*
ljkawa.bsky.social Luke Kawa @ljkawa.bsky.social · Apr 7
If you’re a Republican in the House up for election in 574 days...
April 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
chiglinsky.bsky.social
congratulations, America. you’re gonna pay for a trade war instead of universal health care.
April 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM