Erin Carroll
@hidinginalabama.bsky.social
Reproductive health researcher || Proud Georgia Bulldog || Total history nerd
What strikes me is how very stunted Republican ideology is across the board. My teenagers could recognize the benefits they’ve received that get them to where they are, yet Republicans for generations have built their ideology around either “got mine” or “it’ll never happen to me.”
How to bankrupt people with cancer, who may not be able to earn $ to deduct against while they're sick, and whose treatments will cost wildly more than $25k.
WITH my insurance I pay more than $25k in premiums and out-of-pocket cost shares. Without it would be game over.
WITH my insurance I pay more than $25k in premiums and out-of-pocket cost shares. Without it would be game over.
Hawley is pitching his colleagues — and Trump — on a new health care plan that would allow all tax payers to deduct up to $25K/person in medical expenses.
Hawley told us he recently discussed the idea with Trump: “I said...'no taxes on tips, no taxes on health care’, and he goes ‘oh I like that."
Hawley told us he recently discussed the idea with Trump: “I said...'no taxes on tips, no taxes on health care’, and he goes ‘oh I like that."
December 3, 2025 at 6:48 PM
What strikes me is how very stunted Republican ideology is across the board. My teenagers could recognize the benefits they’ve received that get them to where they are, yet Republicans for generations have built their ideology around either “got mine” or “it’ll never happen to me.”
Aw, yes, because we all know how famously simple, transparent, and affordable most healthcare is.
Hawley is pitching his colleagues — and Trump — on a new health care plan that would allow all tax payers to deduct up to $25K/person in medical expenses.
Hawley told us he recently discussed the idea with Trump: “I said...'no taxes on tips, no taxes on health care’, and he goes ‘oh I like that."
Hawley told us he recently discussed the idea with Trump: “I said...'no taxes on tips, no taxes on health care’, and he goes ‘oh I like that."
Hawley pitches new health care tax plan
The Missouri Republican is proposing making it easier for more tax payers to deduct medical expenses — and has pitched Donald Trump on the idea.
www.politico.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Aw, yes, because we all know how famously simple, transparent, and affordable most healthcare is.
My YT home recs are basically just NYT cooking videos and Jen Barkley compilations. I was influenced by the former to make this tonight in light of the cold and wet outside. I cut up a whole chicken and used 1 breast, both thighs, and 2 drumsticks for 3 people. cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017...
Skillet Chicken With Tomatoes, Pancetta and Mozzarella (Published 2016)
cooking.nytimes.com
December 3, 2025 at 2:01 AM
My YT home recs are basically just NYT cooking videos and Jen Barkley compilations. I was influenced by the former to make this tonight in light of the cold and wet outside. I cut up a whole chicken and used 1 breast, both thighs, and 2 drumsticks for 3 people. cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017...
I was reading the New Yorker article about Decca Mitford and it mentioned she had a daughter who died of measles at six months in 1940. In the US. During the lifetime of all my grandparents.
I don’t think people are prepared for this.
I don’t think people are prepared for this.
Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.
December 2, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I was reading the New Yorker article about Decca Mitford and it mentioned she had a daughter who died of measles at six months in 1940. In the US. During the lifetime of all my grandparents.
I don’t think people are prepared for this.
I don’t think people are prepared for this.
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CALLOUT: I am looking to interview individuals who have sought health care at crisis pregnancy centers, whether intentionally or unintentionally, and want to talk about their experience. The center can be located anywhere. If you or someone you know might be interested, please email or send me a DM.
December 1, 2025 at 8:19 PM
CALLOUT: I am looking to interview individuals who have sought health care at crisis pregnancy centers, whether intentionally or unintentionally, and want to talk about their experience. The center can be located anywhere. If you or someone you know might be interested, please email or send me a DM.
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In the Holocaust, Nazis captured my grandpa’s sister Sheinale (Yiddish for "beautiful") & her family & executed them in a forest in Lithuania. Their bodies are in an unmarked forest grave.
In contrast, Covid vaccines saved an estimated 20 million lives in their 1st year of use.
See the difference?
In contrast, Covid vaccines saved an estimated 20 million lives in their 1st year of use.
See the difference?
Just when I thought I'd seen it all........
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December 1, 2025 at 11:22 PM
In the Holocaust, Nazis captured my grandpa’s sister Sheinale (Yiddish for "beautiful") & her family & executed them in a forest in Lithuania. Their bodies are in an unmarked forest grave.
In contrast, Covid vaccines saved an estimated 20 million lives in their 1st year of use.
See the difference?
In contrast, Covid vaccines saved an estimated 20 million lives in their 1st year of use.
See the difference?
I think GOOP primed a lot of people to be open to all the anti-vax stuff that’s thrown at people during pregnancy and their children’s early years.
my hot take based on nothing is: GOOP is part of why we landed here.
One of the things about trust is that it is efficient. It saves you having to invest a lot of time and effort in verification, and if placed in the right places, saves you a lot of pain.
"The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.
"The diseases will do the education" is what we get when we don't trust.
December 1, 2025 at 11:24 PM
I think GOOP primed a lot of people to be open to all the anti-vax stuff that’s thrown at people during pregnancy and their children’s early years.
I have never seen this Christmas in Conway movie and would like to ask Andy Garcia who inspired his very bad southern accent. Mary Louise Parker and Mandy Moore are both a bit better (sadly, Parker isn’t using her Fried Green Tomatoes accent).
December 1, 2025 at 11:10 PM
I have never seen this Christmas in Conway movie and would like to ask Andy Garcia who inspired his very bad southern accent. Mary Louise Parker and Mandy Moore are both a bit better (sadly, Parker isn’t using her Fried Green Tomatoes accent).
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I would be like Nora Ephron finding out that Mark Felt was Deep Throat and bringing it up in conversation constantly for years and years and years and then being really annoyed when he finally came forward and it was like "WASHINGTON'S BIGGEST MYSTERY SOLVED" and she was like "wow exCUSE me"
December 1, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I would be like Nora Ephron finding out that Mark Felt was Deep Throat and bringing it up in conversation constantly for years and years and years and then being really annoyed when he finally came forward and it was like "WASHINGTON'S BIGGEST MYSTERY SOLVED" and she was like "wow exCUSE me"
There’s an episode arc of ER with Lucy Liu as the mother of a little girl with AIDS. IIRC, it aired in the fall of 1995, right as HAART was getting to patients.
The leaps are still in progress & the government wants to stop them
20 years ago I sat next to an AIDS doctor on a plane. He told me that if I got HIV & came to see him 'you'd get sick sometimes, but you'd get better' & 'you'd probably die of old age' - the trouble was he couldn't get the drugs into people's hands. He was working on funding that. The leaps...
December 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
There’s an episode arc of ER with Lucy Liu as the mother of a little girl with AIDS. IIRC, it aired in the fall of 1995, right as HAART was getting to patients.
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9 in a row over Auburn.
9 in a row over Tennessee.
8 in a row over Tech.
5 in a row over Florida.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: my favorite thing about Kirby is that he *personally* enjoys beating these rivals.
9 in a row over Tennessee.
8 in a row over Tech.
5 in a row over Florida.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: my favorite thing about Kirby is that he *personally* enjoys beating these rivals.
November 29, 2025 at 3:04 AM
9 in a row over Auburn.
9 in a row over Tennessee.
8 in a row over Tech.
5 in a row over Florida.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: my favorite thing about Kirby is that he *personally* enjoys beating these rivals.
9 in a row over Tennessee.
8 in a row over Tech.
5 in a row over Florida.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: my favorite thing about Kirby is that he *personally* enjoys beating these rivals.
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The next Democratic president cannot fail like Biden did by appointing Garland.
It is hard but necessary to bring up murder charges on Hegseth and other top level officials who did this.
It is hard but necessary to bring up murder charges on Hegseth and other top level officials who did this.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 29, 2025 at 12:08 AM
The next Democratic president cannot fail like Biden did by appointing Garland.
It is hard but necessary to bring up murder charges on Hegseth and other top level officials who did this.
It is hard but necessary to bring up murder charges on Hegseth and other top level officials who did this.
Has anyone considered that Mercedes Benz might be cursed for us
November 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Has anyone considered that Mercedes Benz might be cursed for us
My husband took my phone, his phone, and our son’s phone and put them on the basement stairs during that last drive so we’d all see the outcome at the same time.
November 28, 2025 at 11:57 PM
My husband took my phone, his phone, and our son’s phone and put them on the basement stairs during that last drive so we’d all see the outcome at the same time.
Since they’ve been doing this with the Bible for decades, it was only a matter of time.
Caught: Republican Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Annette Ziegler invented a fake quote in her dissent to the court’s new congressional redistricting decision on Tuesday. It marks a continuing trend in the adulteration of legal precedent in right-wing jurisprudence. slate.com/news-and-pol...
Conservative Justice Uses Fake Quote to Justify Wisconsin Republican Gerrymander
It is not clear how Ziegler’s misquotation wound up in the published opinion of a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice.
slate.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Since they’ve been doing this with the Bible for decades, it was only a matter of time.
If I didn’t already believe strongly in tribalism, watching college football constantly reinforces the truth of it for me.
November 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
If I didn’t already believe strongly in tribalism, watching college football constantly reinforces the truth of it for me.
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People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
November 26, 2025 at 11:30 PM
People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.
Doing my annual rewatch of the thanksgiving episodes of Felicity and realized Felicity’s mom is younger than I am now. 😩
November 26, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Doing my annual rewatch of the thanksgiving episodes of Felicity and realized Felicity’s mom is younger than I am now. 😩
My 16 year old is downstairs watching Stranger Things and I’m in my office listening to West End Girl. That means I snicker when I go downstairs and see David Harbor on the tv.
November 26, 2025 at 8:04 PM
My 16 year old is downstairs watching Stranger Things and I’m in my office listening to West End Girl. That means I snicker when I go downstairs and see David Harbor on the tv.
LOL, my nephew’s name is one of the red state ones listed and the other day my sister had an absolute shit fit because a bartender assumed she was a Republican.
I'll be approaching retirement when Rayleigh goes to college
To zoom in on the partisan names, here, we're looking only at names used >100 times (in 2023) and only 50 names on the outskirts of the partisan divide, labelling the 5 outliers on each side and the 5 most commonly used on each side. inequalitybyinteriordesign.wordpress.com/2025/04/03/p...
November 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
LOL, my nephew’s name is one of the red state ones listed and the other day my sister had an absolute shit fit because a bartender assumed she was a Republican.
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Qual researchers who work in the repro field: if you use Zoom for interviews, are you also using Zoom to record the interviews or do you use an external recorder?
November 24, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Qual researchers who work in the repro field: if you use Zoom for interviews, are you also using Zoom to record the interviews or do you use an external recorder?
I’m also really interested in this line of thinking that’s really prominent where people who are vaxxed (or who use other mainstream treatments, like chemo) insist that their outcomes are a result of the supplements rather than the vax or treatment.
Vaccine-preventable diseases are unimpressed with your consumption of beef tallow and peptides and supplements in lieu of vaccines.
You’re the antelope and the lion is going to track you down.
You’re the antelope and the lion is going to track you down.
November 24, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I’m also really interested in this line of thinking that’s really prominent where people who are vaxxed (or who use other mainstream treatments, like chemo) insist that their outcomes are a result of the supplements rather than the vax or treatment.
Quit a job I hated, was unemployed for 3 months and happened to be the first person to apply for a job and the receptionist begged the folks doing the hiring to hire someone her age. Fun fact: 20 years later, we’re both tangentially still in the field and still friends.
November 23, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Quit a job I hated, was unemployed for 3 months and happened to be the first person to apply for a job and the receptionist begged the folks doing the hiring to hire someone her age. Fun fact: 20 years later, we’re both tangentially still in the field and still friends.
But I’ll never do it better than I do it with you
So long
So long
And I would do anything for love
Oh, I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love
But I won’t do that, no
No, I won’t do that
So long
So long
And I would do anything for love
Oh, I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love
But I won’t do that, no
No, I won’t do that
The screen door slams, Mary's dress sways
Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays
Roy Orbison's singing for the lonely
Hey, that's me and I want you only
Don't turn me home again
I just can't face myself alone again
Like a vision she dances across the porch as the radio plays
Roy Orbison's singing for the lonely
Hey, that's me and I want you only
Don't turn me home again
I just can't face myself alone again
November 23, 2025 at 2:18 AM
But I’ll never do it better than I do it with you
So long
So long
And I would do anything for love
Oh, I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love
But I won’t do that, no
No, I won’t do that
So long
So long
And I would do anything for love
Oh, I would do anything for love
I would do anything for love
But I won’t do that, no
No, I won’t do that