Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment.

(Published April)

bob hope understood something a lot of people still can't reconcile: apologizing is actually really easy and you can do it as much as you want

The correct response to “parents rights activists” is: our children are whole human beings in their own right, not our property. We should not claim rights over our children but instead accept the *responsibility* to give them the space to grow into the people they are.

I must say this as clearly as possible: if you have, in the last ten years, thought "I just don't get tech" or that you're "getting old" or "you're not technical," you are the victim - so much of the tech industry is now oriented around making you do stuff rather than doing stuff for you.

There are 1000 grandmas in a kilogran

So, either the system is *not* healthy – or the Trumpist regime is not an acute threat. The latter is a much more comfortable proposition, especially as Democratic / liberals leaders have struggled to meaningfully transcend politics as usual. Their ineptitude fuels the normalization.

The way some establishment Democrats and leading Liberals have acted suggests they feel a kinship with their Republican opponents that is rooted in class politics. They seem incapable of viewing leading rightwing operatives as anything but fellow elites.

For me it isn't the Swifties or whomever that changed the place... it was the fence sitters who didn't mind and weren't personally impacted who followed the large fandom groups that started messing up the vibe.

if you're wondering which people on the right had a genuine, principled interest in meritocracy and which of them were simply grabbing the most noble sounding language facially to the left of "resegregate now", simply look around and try to find the resisters of the emerging status quo. I'll wait

I hope everyone has a fantastic Bell Riots day

I try to remember that whenever we talk about how much of a fucked up horror show the world is, what we mean is that the world is full of good people being wronged and beauty being destroyed, that we risk losing all of it—not a denial of the good in the world but its affirmation.

This is Sylvia Gonzalez. At age 72, she won an upset victory for city council after campaigning to oust the city manager. The mayor didn't like that.

So he had her arrested & jailed.

The Supreme Court is about to hear her case, which has largely gone unnoticed. A thread.

happy St Patrick’s Day from the agency whose actual job it is to dye water for investigatory purposes.

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Detective: You’ve painted yourself into a corner. There’s no way out.

M.C. Escher: We’ll see about that.

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