megan
@mayor-tangle.bsky.social
I lift heavy things 🏋️, green up my urban jungle 🌳, care for rescued cats 🐾 and build community. Front-end engineer 👩💻 crafting a grassroots organizing app. On the hunt for the next great bite 🍽️. Queens is my playground, and I take no prisoners. 🌆
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🚨House Democrats' discharge petition to force a vote on extending the Affordable Care Act tax credits has reached the necessary 218 signatures.🚨
We call on Speaker Johnson to bring this bill to the floor IMMEDIATELY to ensure Americans' health care costs don't skyrocket.
We call on Speaker Johnson to bring this bill to the floor IMMEDIATELY to ensure Americans' health care costs don't skyrocket.
December 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🚨House Democrats' discharge petition to force a vote on extending the Affordable Care Act tax credits has reached the necessary 218 signatures.🚨
We call on Speaker Johnson to bring this bill to the floor IMMEDIATELY to ensure Americans' health care costs don't skyrocket.
We call on Speaker Johnson to bring this bill to the floor IMMEDIATELY to ensure Americans' health care costs don't skyrocket.
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Please find some small thing you can do today to take a stand against fascism. I mailed over 2,000 whistles to Minneapolis last night and walked some kids to school this morning.
I can’t reliably do my own laundry or take out the trash, but I can do this. What can you do?
I can’t reliably do my own laundry or take out the trash, but I can do this. What can you do?
December 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Please find some small thing you can do today to take a stand against fascism. I mailed over 2,000 whistles to Minneapolis last night and walked some kids to school this morning.
I can’t reliably do my own laundry or take out the trash, but I can do this. What can you do?
I can’t reliably do my own laundry or take out the trash, but I can do this. What can you do?
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The regime is doing all it can to launch a wholly unjustified, non-Congressionally-approved-&-thus-illegal war.
I just called Rep. Danny Davis; I got through immediately, could hear the staffer taking notes, he thanked me, then said he'd pass the message on.
It took two minutes. Please call.
I just called Rep. Danny Davis; I got through immediately, could hear the staffer taking notes, he thanked me, then said he'd pass the message on.
It took two minutes. Please call.
House Democrats have introduced War Powers Resolutions to block further military assaults on Venezuela. We’re expecting a House vote this week, so call your representative ASAP and demand that they vote YES to check the regime’s lawless violence: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
December 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The regime is doing all it can to launch a wholly unjustified, non-Congressionally-approved-&-thus-illegal war.
I just called Rep. Danny Davis; I got through immediately, could hear the staffer taking notes, he thanked me, then said he'd pass the message on.
It took two minutes. Please call.
I just called Rep. Danny Davis; I got through immediately, could hear the staffer taking notes, he thanked me, then said he'd pass the message on.
It took two minutes. Please call.
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IWQ-ies did a ton of fun things this week!! It was our holiday happy hour and book swap, we tabled at open streets AND we made 300 whistle kits! (Give or take a few)
If you’d like to join us in building a stronger community through action click the link in our bio 🔗
If you’d like to join us in building a stronger community through action click the link in our bio 🔗
December 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
IWQ-ies did a ton of fun things this week!! It was our holiday happy hour and book swap, we tabled at open streets AND we made 300 whistle kits! (Give or take a few)
If you’d like to join us in building a stronger community through action click the link in our bio 🔗
If you’d like to join us in building a stronger community through action click the link in our bio 🔗
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We love to see it. Let’s keep it going.
A quite startling overperformance for Democrats in tonight's special election for a state Senate seat in Kentucky:
Democrat Gary Clemons won 72% to 25%.
He was defending a Dem-held seat where Kamala Harris beat Trump by 5% last year.
Democrat Gary Clemons won 72% to 25%.
He was defending a Dem-held seat where Kamala Harris beat Trump by 5% last year.
December 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
We love to see it. Let’s keep it going.
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Remember kids, if you buy boxes, shipping supplies, office supplies, or industrial supplies DO NOT SHOP ULINE.
Vance: "Why have rents gone down for 4 consecutive months? Because we're starting to get those illegal aliens out of the USA. Those criminals, those gang members, those people that are taking homes that ought by right go the people in this room. It's simple economics."
December 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Remember kids, if you buy boxes, shipping supplies, office supplies, or industrial supplies DO NOT SHOP ULINE.
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Yesterday I announced a new award for small-scale, community-focused, fiercly independent journalism. And I named it after a Magic: The Gathering Card. Read all the who what where why and how: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
December 16, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Yesterday I announced a new award for small-scale, community-focused, fiercly independent journalism. And I named it after a Magic: The Gathering Card. Read all the who what where why and how: dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
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Not me, baby, I'm going to be busy lighting candles and eating latkes
JUST IN: Donald Trump says he will address the nation at 9 PM ET on December 17
December 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Not me, baby, I'm going to be busy lighting candles and eating latkes
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NOR IF YOU FAIL TO GO TO SLEEP.
Goodnight Bluesky.
Goodnight Bluesky.
YOU CANNOT GRIND THE BONES OF YOUR ENEMIES INTO DUST TOMORROW IF YOU DO NOT HAVE SOMETHING TO EAT.
December 16, 2025 at 4:45 AM
NOR IF YOU FAIL TO GO TO SLEEP.
Goodnight Bluesky.
Goodnight Bluesky.
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UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate.
ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs.
Here’s what we found.
(Published Nov. 2024)
ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs.
Here’s what we found.
(Published Nov. 2024)
How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk
United used an algorithm system to identify patients who it determined were getting too much therapy and then limited coverage. It was deemed illegal in three states, but similar practices persist due...
www.propublica.org
December 16, 2025 at 4:00 AM
UnitedHealth is the nation’s largest health insurance conglomerate.
ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs.
Here’s what we found.
(Published Nov. 2024)
ProPublica obtained what is effectively the company’s internal playbook for limiting and cutting therapy costs.
Here’s what we found.
(Published Nov. 2024)
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28 Democrats voted yes on a bill that motherfucking TED CRUZ voted no on. It could not have passed without those 28 so check the list and if one of your senators is on it don't forget to write or call to tell them they're a bigot and a quisling and worse. Than. TED. FUCKING. CRUZ.
Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->
By a vote of 76-23, S 1071 passes the motion to proceed to the motion to concur. Won't know who voted for this until the roll call is uploaded, but safe to say it passed with the support of at least 24 members of the Democratic caucus. (Rand Paul probably voted nay and Steve Daines has been absent).
December 16, 2025 at 2:38 AM
28 Democrats voted yes on a bill that motherfucking TED CRUZ voted no on. It could not have passed without those 28 so check the list and if one of your senators is on it don't forget to write or call to tell them they're a bigot and a quisling and worse. Than. TED. FUCKING. CRUZ.
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Covid rates are already surging past the summer wave in the northeast, & the rest of the US isn’t far behind. It happens every Dec & Jan, but that doesn’t make it any easier for those who are sick or those who will get sick because too many refuse to acknowledge the public part of public health.
Here’s some more long covid statistics presented in a digestible format. This is not someone else’s problem. It’s yours too.
Long COVID (Post-COVID Conditions, PCC)
Long COVID refers to new or recurring symptoms that occur four or more weeks after an infection with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.
www.yalemedicine.org
December 16, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Covid rates are already surging past the summer wave in the northeast, & the rest of the US isn’t far behind. It happens every Dec & Jan, but that doesn’t make it any easier for those who are sick or those who will get sick because too many refuse to acknowledge the public part of public health.
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May the memories of Rob and Michele Reiner always be a blessing; may those who mourn them be comforted. 💔
It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
this is such a painful loss. my heart is broken.
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that,...
wilwheaton.net
December 16, 2025 at 12:54 AM
May the memories of Rob and Michele Reiner always be a blessing; may those who mourn them be comforted. 💔
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NYC, PLEASE call your New York City Council member and DEMAND they vote to censure Vicky Paladino immediately.
Find your council member here: council.nyc.gov/districts/
Also, follow the @nycprogressives.bsky.social. They're on the job here.
Find your council member here: council.nyc.gov/districts/
Also, follow the @nycprogressives.bsky.social. They're on the job here.
A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker.
This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.
December 15, 2025 at 10:35 PM
NYC, PLEASE call your New York City Council member and DEMAND they vote to censure Vicky Paladino immediately.
Find your council member here: council.nyc.gov/districts/
Also, follow the @nycprogressives.bsky.social. They're on the job here.
Find your council member here: council.nyc.gov/districts/
Also, follow the @nycprogressives.bsky.social. They're on the job here.
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I made a journalism award named after a Magic: The Gathering card.
Small-scale, fiercely independent journalism rarely gets recognition when awards are handed out, but it's vital in our communities—especially this year. So I made an award and am thrilled to announce @unraveledpress.com and @lataco.bsky.social as the inaugural winners. dansinker.com/posts/2025-1...
Announcing the Inaugural Snooping Newsie Awards for Excellence in Independent Journalism | dansinker.com
dansinker.com
December 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
I made a journalism award named after a Magic: The Gathering card.
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TRL
December 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
TRL
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2025 is coming to a close BUT IWQ still has events in the works! Join you community members in standing together in resistance ❤️
Link in bio for event sign-ups! 🔗➡️
Link in bio for event sign-ups! 🔗➡️
December 15, 2025 at 3:22 PM
2025 is coming to a close BUT IWQ still has events in the works! Join you community members in standing together in resistance ❤️
Link in bio for event sign-ups! 🔗➡️
Link in bio for event sign-ups! 🔗➡️
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some day, some how, we're gonna do a nuremberg.
Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.
Federal agents use chemical irritant on crowd in Somali neighborhood of Minneapolis amid Trump crackdown
Federal agents have used chemical irritant to disperse a crowd in a heavily Somali neighborhood in Minneapolis. This happened Tuesday during a identification checks amid the Trump administration's cra...
www.mprnews.org
December 14, 2025 at 8:26 PM
some day, some how, we're gonna do a nuremberg.
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What a relief.
PHILIPSBURG, Pa. (AP) - Kilmar Abrego Garcia leaves immigration detention after federal judge's order Thursday, his attorney's office says.
December 12, 2025 at 1:28 PM
What a relief.
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Kids Aren’t Pawns Rally we held on Sunday 12/7 in Astoria, Queens.
📸 by Jessica Robyn Johnston
Yuanxin, a 6-year-old child who attends P.S. 166Q in Astoria. He is currently being detained separately from his father after they were taken into ICE custody at an asylum check-in on November 26, 2025.
📸 by Jessica Robyn Johnston
Yuanxin, a 6-year-old child who attends P.S. 166Q in Astoria. He is currently being detained separately from his father after they were taken into ICE custody at an asylum check-in on November 26, 2025.
December 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Kids Aren’t Pawns Rally we held on Sunday 12/7 in Astoria, Queens.
📸 by Jessica Robyn Johnston
Yuanxin, a 6-year-old child who attends P.S. 166Q in Astoria. He is currently being detained separately from his father after they were taken into ICE custody at an asylum check-in on November 26, 2025.
📸 by Jessica Robyn Johnston
Yuanxin, a 6-year-old child who attends P.S. 166Q in Astoria. He is currently being detained separately from his father after they were taken into ICE custody at an asylum check-in on November 26, 2025.
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As always, my position on emdashes is use them they are wonderful. I even made a tool to get em. emdash.fan
December 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
As always, my position on emdashes is use them they are wonderful. I even made a tool to get em. emdash.fan
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Keep doing what you’re doing, Republicans. Voters clearly just *love* it.
JUST IN: It appears Democrats will win the mayor's office in Miami.
This would be a flip from GOP.
It's not final yet, but Democrat Eileen Higgins is up 61% to 39% as the first 23K ballots are counted. That's *the majority of votes cast*, & Election Day is no less Democratic today.
More soon!
This would be a flip from GOP.
It's not final yet, but Democrat Eileen Higgins is up 61% to 39% as the first 23K ballots are counted. That's *the majority of votes cast*, & Election Day is no less Democratic today.
More soon!
December 10, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Keep doing what you’re doing, Republicans. Voters clearly just *love* it.
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Please try every cookie you want to try.
(In the Talmud we're taught that we'll be held to account in the world to come for every good thing we refused to eat or drink, so if you choose *not* to try every cookie you want to try, you might want to start planning how're you'll explain yourself.)
(In the Talmud we're taught that we'll be held to account in the world to come for every good thing we refused to eat or drink, so if you choose *not* to try every cookie you want to try, you might want to start planning how're you'll explain yourself.)
NEW: Dr. Oz is quite literally telling his federal employees to eat less.
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services employees.
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services employees.
Dr. Oz Tells His Federal Employees to Eat Less
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services staffers.
www.wired.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Please try every cookie you want to try.
(In the Talmud we're taught that we'll be held to account in the world to come for every good thing we refused to eat or drink, so if you choose *not* to try every cookie you want to try, you might want to start planning how're you'll explain yourself.)
(In the Talmud we're taught that we'll be held to account in the world to come for every good thing we refused to eat or drink, so if you choose *not* to try every cookie you want to try, you might want to start planning how're you'll explain yourself.)
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These are the same men who won't
-create private nursing or pumping spaces
-provide funding to support new mothers who struggle with nursing (not all bodies with breasts are capable of what most bodies with breasts are capable of)
-give men parental leave so they can support new mothers
-FUND SNAP
-create private nursing or pumping spaces
-provide funding to support new mothers who struggle with nursing (not all bodies with breasts are capable of what most bodies with breasts are capable of)
-give men parental leave so they can support new mothers
-FUND SNAP
RFK Jr: "All of the ingenuity of corporate America has not produced an infant formula that is superior in nutrition and all the qualities that we want to the infant formula that God made, which is the infant formula in a mother's breast."
December 8, 2025 at 10:14 PM
These are the same men who won't
-create private nursing or pumping spaces
-provide funding to support new mothers who struggle with nursing (not all bodies with breasts are capable of what most bodies with breasts are capable of)
-give men parental leave so they can support new mothers
-FUND SNAP
-create private nursing or pumping spaces
-provide funding to support new mothers who struggle with nursing (not all bodies with breasts are capable of what most bodies with breasts are capable of)
-give men parental leave so they can support new mothers
-FUND SNAP