Order up: Just posted new explainers on the state of Medical Research Funding, Food Safety, and USPS as they experience various attacks from the Trump administration. [unbreaking.org](
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Hi! We just released three new pages. First up, we break down the devastating defunding of medical research in the US, including grant terminations...
Absolutely vital work here. There is so much weird narrative manufacturing happening right now that has come unglued from knowable facts. RE:
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I subscribe to the @newyorker.com, I was part of ACT UP, I knew Larry Kramer well and know Tony Fauci too. Daniel Immerwahr's piece on RFKJr, featu...
Elon Musk was always ablative in his DOGE role is the thing I keep thinking about
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It may seem as though the worst excesses of DOGE have passed. The reality is, the whole government is DOGE now.
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Elon Musk Says He'll Step Back From the Government. DOGE Isn't Going Anywhere
It may seem as though the worst excesses of DOGE have passed. The reality is, the whole government is DOGE now.
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We just pushed an update to our [@unbreaking.org](
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 ) Medicaid and Trans Healthcare explainers with a ton of links (and short explanations) about the effects of the House bill, what happens next, etc: [unbreaking.org/issues/medic...](
Medicaid — Unbreaking
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Transgender Healthcare: Explainer — Unbreaking
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the private equity era of US governance
You couldn't make me touch the substance of this thread with Inspector Gadget extendo-arms, but PSA, Bsky already has "prioritize replies by people I follow" in Settings > Thread Preferences + reply controls for every post you make that you can change after the fact. The tooling's pretty good. RE:
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i think they need much better reply tools .
I am not and will never be a uspol wonk but it sure feels to me, an ordinary human who reads a lot, like they threw in targeted cruelty to trans people as a way to get the GOP hardliners to accept the debt increase in the House bill. As a sweetener.
Love too be waking up at 4:30am with The Fear again.
The more up-to-date estimate on this (Dec. 2022) from Williams is 267,000 trans people enrolled in Medicaid, about 164,000 of whom had access to gender-affirming care in their state Medicaid programs in 2022 and another 74,000 with ambiguous access. [williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/publications...](
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Eric Michael Garcia (@ericmgarcia.bsky.social)
FWIW, about 152,000 transgender people use Medicaid. https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/trans-adults-medicaid-press-release/
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