mjfrombuffalo
@mjfrombuffalo.bsky.social
Cats, social welfare policy, child welfare, advocacy, social work, bad puns, and random things that tickle my fancy. #BillsMafia
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I had my students submit for extra credit a meme reflecting something they learned this semester, along with an accompanying paragraph connecting the meme to the course concept. There were some gems.
December 6, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I had my students submit for extra credit a meme reflecting something they learned this semester, along with an accompanying paragraph connecting the meme to the course concept. There were some gems.
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ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
December 5, 2025 at 3:24 PM
ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:
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Jared Kushner is now a billionaire.
It’s almost like his insertion into US government foreign policy is for self-enrichment rather than in the service of the interests of the United States.
www.forbes.com/sites/monica...
It’s almost like his insertion into US government foreign policy is for self-enrichment rather than in the service of the interests of the United States.
www.forbes.com/sites/monica...
Jared Kushner Is Now A Billionaire
Thanks to some good investments, new funding from his Middle Eastern backers and higher home values in south Florida, Ivanka Trump’s husband has joined his brother and his father-in-law in the three-c...
www.forbes.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Jared Kushner is now a billionaire.
It’s almost like his insertion into US government foreign policy is for self-enrichment rather than in the service of the interests of the United States.
www.forbes.com/sites/monica...
It’s almost like his insertion into US government foreign policy is for self-enrichment rather than in the service of the interests of the United States.
www.forbes.com/sites/monica...
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The only reason not to follow the Prison Rape Elimination Act is if you do not want to eliminate rape
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:16 AM
The only reason not to follow the Prison Rape Elimination Act is if you do not want to eliminate rape
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Many men feel the stripper really likes them. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something
November 26, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Many men feel the stripper really likes them. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something
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The NYC Young Republicans are pivoting from having Nazi-sympathizers in their ranks to featuring them at their galas.
When people show you who they are, believe them.
When people show you who they are, believe them.
December 4, 2025 at 3:34 PM
The NYC Young Republicans are pivoting from having Nazi-sympathizers in their ranks to featuring them at their galas.
When people show you who they are, believe them.
When people show you who they are, believe them.
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Medicaid’s new work rules leave “medically frail” folks in a gray area. Without clear definitions, vulnerable clients risk losing coverage. Social workers need to stay alert and push for protections. #Medicaid #SocialWork
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Medicaid Work Rules Exempt the ‘Medically Frail.’ Deciding Who Qualifies Is Tricky. - KFF Health News
People on Medicaid deemed “medically frail” won’t need to meet new federal requirements that enrollees work 80 hours a month or perform another approved activity. But state officials are grappling wit...
kffhealthnews.org
December 4, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Medicaid’s new work rules leave “medically frail” folks in a gray area. Without clear definitions, vulnerable clients risk losing coverage. Social workers need to stay alert and push for protections. #Medicaid #SocialWork
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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feels like the wrong year to make white supreme
Pantone’s 2026 color of the year is technically not a color at all — meet Cloud Dancer, the first-ever white shade to receive the designation from the world’s color authority.
Pantone makes a surprising choice for its 2026 color of the year
We did not see that coming.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
feels like the wrong year to make white supreme
I am old enough to remember when garages used to try to have a somewhat comfortable waiting room. Coffee even.
My old garage changed owners and took out chairs. New mechanic actively discourages people from waiting. Now at muffler specialist in room with only a small couch and no heat.
My old garage changed owners and took out chairs. New mechanic actively discourages people from waiting. Now at muffler specialist in room with only a small couch and no heat.
December 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I am old enough to remember when garages used to try to have a somewhat comfortable waiting room. Coffee even.
My old garage changed owners and took out chairs. New mechanic actively discourages people from waiting. Now at muffler specialist in room with only a small couch and no heat.
My old garage changed owners and took out chairs. New mechanic actively discourages people from waiting. Now at muffler specialist in room with only a small couch and no heat.
Accurate description of why he did it
open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...
open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...
EXCLUSIVE: New Details Emerge About Why That Raccoon Robbed the Virginia Liquor Store
What pushed this furry bandit to break the law.
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Accurate description of why he did it
open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...
open.substack.com/pub/drstacey...
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A Medicare pilot program will allow private companies to use artificial intelligence to review older Americans’ requests for certain medical care — and will reward the companies when they deny it.
via @stateline.org
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/medi...
via @stateline.org
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/medi...
Medicare’s new AI experiment sparks alarm among doctors, lawmakers
A Medicare pilot program will allow private companies to use artificial intelligence to review older Americans’ requests for certain medical care — and will reward the companies when they deny it.In…
www.newsfromthestates.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A Medicare pilot program will allow private companies to use artificial intelligence to review older Americans’ requests for certain medical care — and will reward the companies when they deny it.
via @stateline.org
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/medi...
via @stateline.org
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/medi...
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Cool update to last week’s story on why language doesn’t equal intelligence: a Michigan judge cited it to justify imposing sanctions over a ChatGPT-assisted filing that mentioned real cases but misstated their facts. Congrats to author @benjaminjriley.bsky.social!
![Court filing: LLMs are tools
that “emulate the communicative function of language, not the separate
and distinct cognitive process of thinking and reasoning.” Benjamin
Riley, Large language mistake, The Verge https://www.theverge.com/aiartificial-intelligence/827820/large-language-models-ai-intelligenceneuroscience-problems [https://perma.cc/7EHD-PLLZ]. When an LLM
overstates a holding of a case, it is not because it made a mistake when
logically working through how that case might represent a
“nonfrivolous argument for extending, modifying, or reversing existing
law or for establishing new law;” it is just piecing together a plausiblelooking sentence – one whose content may or may not be true.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:7exlcsle4mjfhu3wnhcgizz6/bafkreicn2dgmwtlqwhdwlaijx5g66yqghjogfszcdp4d4afeyjfgwht2pi@jpeg)
December 4, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Cool update to last week’s story on why language doesn’t equal intelligence: a Michigan judge cited it to justify imposing sanctions over a ChatGPT-assisted filing that mentioned real cases but misstated their facts. Congrats to author @benjaminjriley.bsky.social!
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HAPPENING NOW: Rep @jayapal.house.gov is leading a shadow hearing exposing Trump’s detention abuses — from skyrocketing ICE detentions, to medical neglect, to families and children being detained.
Watch live: youtube.com/live/r0jCS4uSjQM?feature=share
Watch live: youtube.com/live/r0jCS4uSjQM?feature=share
Kidnapped and Disappeared: Trump’s Detention Abuses
YouTube video by Representative Pramila Jayapal
youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:32 PM
HAPPENING NOW: Rep @jayapal.house.gov is leading a shadow hearing exposing Trump’s detention abuses — from skyrocketing ICE detentions, to medical neglect, to families and children being detained.
Watch live: youtube.com/live/r0jCS4uSjQM?feature=share
Watch live: youtube.com/live/r0jCS4uSjQM?feature=share
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ICE won’t tell anyone where 6-year-old Yuanxin is. He was separated from his dad at a mandatory check-in. The cruelty is unfathomable & makes us all unsafe. We must fight for freedom from fear & tyranny. We must abolish ICE & reunite all families separated by ICE.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i...
December 2, 2025 at 11:55 PM
ICE won’t tell anyone where 6-year-old Yuanxin is. He was separated from his dad at a mandatory check-in. The cruelty is unfathomable & makes us all unsafe. We must fight for freedom from fear & tyranny. We must abolish ICE & reunite all families separated by ICE.
www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i...
www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i...
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Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
I'm so tired of measles.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
I'm also tired of people using needle shots on stories like this.
Show what measles looks like.
Gallatin Co. reports 2nd measles case, warns of exposure sites nbcmontana.com/news/local/g...
December 2, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.
Amidst immigration court backlogs, judges with immigration advocacy background or higher asylum ruling rates are being fired without cause. documentedny.com/2025/12/01/s...
December 2, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Amidst immigration court backlogs, judges with immigration advocacy background or higher asylum ruling rates are being fired without cause. documentedny.com/2025/12/01/s...
Hubby: I need to change my address
Medicare Part D: Done, hold for the sales department
Hubby: Why the sales department?
MPD: B/c your zip changed and you could be eligible for other plans
Hubby: I like my plan. I just had to change my address
MPD: We're going to talk to you about other plans anyway
Medicare Part D: Done, hold for the sales department
Hubby: Why the sales department?
MPD: B/c your zip changed and you could be eligible for other plans
Hubby: I like my plan. I just had to change my address
MPD: We're going to talk to you about other plans anyway
December 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Hubby: I need to change my address
Medicare Part D: Done, hold for the sales department
Hubby: Why the sales department?
MPD: B/c your zip changed and you could be eligible for other plans
Hubby: I like my plan. I just had to change my address
MPD: We're going to talk to you about other plans anyway
Medicare Part D: Done, hold for the sales department
Hubby: Why the sales department?
MPD: B/c your zip changed and you could be eligible for other plans
Hubby: I like my plan. I just had to change my address
MPD: We're going to talk to you about other plans anyway
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Sadly, I assume the best ones have already been eaten
November 29, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Sadly, I assume the best ones have already been eaten
Accurate.
Incredibly funny how much political discussion is driven by the four things at the bottom while everyone else is getting cooked on Facebook looking at pictures of AI Eminem opening nursing homes for crying veterans
November 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Accurate.
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Indigenous actress Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Indigenous actress Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake
Got my letter for my high-deductible plan through a trade union for self-employed people... 11% increase. $1,030 a month for one person and a $6,000 deductible, but still better than what I could get on ACA (because of spouse, I'm not eligible for subsidies).
November 26, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Got my letter for my high-deductible plan through a trade union for self-employed people... 11% increase. $1,030 a month for one person and a $6,000 deductible, but still better than what I could get on ACA (because of spouse, I'm not eligible for subsidies).
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The CSWE licensing exam doesn’t measure how good you are at social work. It measures how well you can afford, memorize, and survive a biased test.
Racial & neurodivergent bias, high cost, high anxiety. It’s time to scrap it and build equitable licensing paths.
#TruthBombTuesday
Racial & neurodivergent bias, high cost, high anxiety. It’s time to scrap it and build equitable licensing paths.
#TruthBombTuesday
November 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The CSWE licensing exam doesn’t measure how good you are at social work. It measures how well you can afford, memorize, and survive a biased test.
Racial & neurodivergent bias, high cost, high anxiety. It’s time to scrap it and build equitable licensing paths.
#TruthBombTuesday
Racial & neurodivergent bias, high cost, high anxiety. It’s time to scrap it and build equitable licensing paths.
#TruthBombTuesday
everyone please send good moving juju my way ty
November 22, 2025 at 12:58 PM
everyone please send good moving juju my way ty
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The Queens Daily Eagle remains undefeated.
Queens men meet — Queens Daily Eagle
The first man from Queens to be elected president and the first Queens resident to be elected mayor of New York City met for the first time in the Oval Office on Friday.
queenseagle.com
November 22, 2025 at 12:33 AM
The Queens Daily Eagle remains undefeated.
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My god.
After 4 days in ICE custody, they found the man in a shower stall hog-tied, with a sheet around his neck.
The medical examiner claimed there were other instances of this.
Which means this is not an isolated case.
Trump's Lynching America
After 4 days in ICE custody, they found the man in a shower stall hog-tied, with a sheet around his neck.
The medical examiner claimed there were other instances of this.
Which means this is not an isolated case.
Trump's Lynching America
Man detained by ICE found dead, hanging with hands and feet tied—attorney
The Chinese national died in Pennsylvania in August, but his family's requests for answers from DHS have gone unmet.
www.newsweek.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:04 AM
My god.
After 4 days in ICE custody, they found the man in a shower stall hog-tied, with a sheet around his neck.
The medical examiner claimed there were other instances of this.
Which means this is not an isolated case.
Trump's Lynching America
After 4 days in ICE custody, they found the man in a shower stall hog-tied, with a sheet around his neck.
The medical examiner claimed there were other instances of this.
Which means this is not an isolated case.
Trump's Lynching America