they're voting for harsher faster cuts to Medicaid stop clapping [www.politico.com/news/2025/05...](https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/16/house-budget-panel-approves-gop-megabill-for-floor-action-as-leaders-mull-tweaks-00353326 ) RE:

Bluesky Social

Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur.bsky.social)

SETBACK. The GOP's big sweeping bill just failed in the Budget Committee, 16-21. Five Republicans voted NO. "The NOs have it. The committee stands ...

[House budget panel rejects GOP...](https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/16/house-budget-panel-approves-gop-megabill-for-floor-action-as-leaders-mull-tweaks-00353326 )

Did Politico just fall into the other timeline what is happening [www.politico.com/news/2025/05...](https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/16/house-budget-panel-approves-gop-megabill-for-floor-action-as-leaders-mull-tweaks-00353326 ) https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke&cid=bafkreie3gicahrzjpbzqauvsvfnwkn5rg2a6adgpdb6b6a3kylwlxmeffq

sorry, your query seems unrelated to the analysis of Kill the Wabbit

I asked my kid to grab my water bottle for me and this is what happened https://lionsmane.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:qrt5rykojeg5sbsajbu4zdke&cid=bafkreify5tne63s7ps2j2huyp5pw5cy4tiznmltxmyofkmg2amcm3kcldm

making fiddly edits to link text in google docs while retaining their linkedness is somehow exactly as awful as it's always been, so I guess I should be grateful for that

Why am I only finding discussion of the implications of threatening to alter Medicare+Medicaid CoPs to exclude hospitals that provide gender-affirming care to minors on, like, law firm sites? Can any CMS understanders help me here? [HHS Previews Future Restrictio...](

HHS Previews Future Restrictions on Care for Trans Youth under Medicare and Other Federal Funding - Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

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just let me use my goddamn password to log in you dorks

My hot take before I put my phone back in the woodshed is that almost every tech-ish person theorizing about the role of (quasi-)spiritual belief in our moment has the causality backward and needs to go hang with the scholars of religion for a year or two.

I reread Waking the Moon (Elizabeth Hand) for the first time in ~20 years after reading it obsessively as a kid and it was such an uncanny jolt. So many of my lodestone figures and curiosities are just right there on the page. Who would I even be if I hadn’t found that book the year it came out?

I’ve been off most networks so long that I didn’t know people were still doing those top-down photos of books/steaming tea/artistic class-signifiers and I just saw one here and threw my phone like it was a snake