Rebecca Bitton
@rebeccabitton.bsky.social
@rebeinstein on Twitter
I have no idea why I’m here or anywhere
I have no idea why I’m here or anywhere
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⚠️ Americans are choosing between health insurance and groceries. Meanwhile, UnitedHealth quietly told investors it expects even bigger profits, no matter what Congress does.
The shutdown is chaos for you. For insurers? It’s a payday.
www.levernews.com/unitedhealth...
The shutdown is chaos for you. For insurers? It’s a payday.
www.levernews.com/unitedhealth...
UnitedHealth Is Cashing In On The Open Enrollment Crisis
Whether or not Congress extends the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced premium tax credits, health care giants are poised to extract new profits from patient pain.
www.levernews.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
⚠️ Americans are choosing between health insurance and groceries. Meanwhile, UnitedHealth quietly told investors it expects even bigger profits, no matter what Congress does.
The shutdown is chaos for you. For insurers? It’s a payday.
www.levernews.com/unitedhealth...
The shutdown is chaos for you. For insurers? It’s a payday.
www.levernews.com/unitedhealth...
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LITERALLY HOURS. THEY COULD HAVE WAITED HOURS.
BREAKING
The 1st Circuit REJECTS Trump DOJ's request to pause a judge's order to pay up Nov's SNAP funds to the states.
The SCOTUS stay will expire within 48 hours absent further action from the justices, per its terms.
Doc ecf.ca1.uscourts.gov/n/beam/servl...
The 1st Circuit REJECTS Trump DOJ's request to pause a judge's order to pay up Nov's SNAP funds to the states.
The SCOTUS stay will expire within 48 hours absent further action from the justices, per its terms.
Doc ecf.ca1.uscourts.gov/n/beam/servl...
November 10, 2025 at 5:13 AM
LITERALLY HOURS. THEY COULD HAVE WAITED HOURS.
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They should invent a California where you can afford to live
November 8, 2025 at 3:56 AM
They should invent a California where you can afford to live
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Oh man what
November 8, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Oh man what
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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FYI this is what you do when your business is great and you are very liquid and creditworthy
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 12:51 AM
FYI this is what you do when your business is great and you are very liquid and creditworthy
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“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.” —Mike Davis
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 AM
“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.” —Mike Davis
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Debra Messing has joined the Proud Boys.
November 5, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Debra Messing has joined the Proud Boys.
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Mamdani was unaware Dick Cheney had died when I asked just now:
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Mamdani was unaware Dick Cheney had died when I asked just now:
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Dick Van Dyke has OUTLIVED Dick Cheney
November 4, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Dick Van Dyke has OUTLIVED Dick Cheney
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Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.
buff.ly
October 8, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
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October 8, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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Abrego is the *only* prisoner ever released from CECOT, so this is the sole account we have of the horrifying conditions in the prison in El Salvador where Trump has sent over 260 people from the US.
Abrego said he shared a cell with 20 people, who were forced to kneel overnight, “with guards striking anyone who fell from exhaustion.”
He was denied bathroom access and soiled himself. Detainees were confined to metal bunks w/no mattresses in an overcrowded cell w/no windows, bright lights…
He was denied bathroom access and soiled himself. Detainees were confined to metal bunks w/no mattresses in an overcrowded cell w/no windows, bright lights…
Politico - Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was illegaly deported by the Trump administration, details his mistreatment in a Salvadoran prison, claiming he suffered "severe beatings," sleep deprivation, malnutrition and other forms of torture at the hands of his jailers.
July 3, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Abrego is the *only* prisoner ever released from CECOT, so this is the sole account we have of the horrifying conditions in the prison in El Salvador where Trump has sent over 260 people from the US.
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Hi BlueSky. I’m trying to see something. A good thing finally happened! How’s everyone feeling about it here?
Re: Mamdani
Re: Mamdani
June 25, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Hi BlueSky. I’m trying to see something. A good thing finally happened! How’s everyone feeling about it here?
Re: Mamdani
Re: Mamdani
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Analysis of Israel’s own data "shows it murdered 377,000 Palestinians during genocide so far—half of them kids"
June 23, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Analysis of Israel’s own data "shows it murdered 377,000 Palestinians during genocide so far—half of them kids"
This is bad bad
The US Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to resume deporting migrants to countries other than their own without offering them a chance to show harms they could face reut.rs/4689uSo
June 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
This is bad bad
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Los Angeles, 2025
📸 afpphoto
📸 afpphoto
June 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Los Angeles, 2025
📸 afpphoto
📸 afpphoto
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NEWS: ICE agents are camped outside immigration courts to arrest people after they've had their cases dismissed in court. Other agents spotted in AZ, CA, IL, MA, MD, TX. w/ @noahhurowitz.bsky.social & Jose Olivares theintercept.com/2025/05/21/i...
ICE Agents Are Camped Outside Immigration Courts to Make Arrests
The tactical shift accelerates the erosion of past limitations — and appears to be aimed at speeding up the pace of deportations.
theintercept.com
May 21, 2025 at 7:30 PM
NEWS: ICE agents are camped outside immigration courts to arrest people after they've had their cases dismissed in court. Other agents spotted in AZ, CA, IL, MA, MD, TX. w/ @noahhurowitz.bsky.social & Jose Olivares theintercept.com/2025/05/21/i...
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I hope everyone working on LLMs has reckoned with their role in building a technology that, so far, has offered little to no benefit to humanity — while causing real harm by degrading art, undermining labor in creative industries, and straight up automating political propaganda
May 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I hope everyone working on LLMs has reckoned with their role in building a technology that, so far, has offered little to no benefit to humanity — while causing real harm by degrading art, undermining labor in creative industries, and straight up automating political propaganda
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FUCK. THIS. All of this.
The Washington Post now willingly handing reporting to OpenAI
The Washington Post now willingly handing reporting to OpenAI
www.avclub.com
April 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
FUCK. THIS. All of this.