We're at "Jonathan Chait just made a great point" o'clock in case anyone's keeping track [www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...](
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The Cynical Republican Plan to Cut Medicaid
Work requirements set up a thicket of paperwork that leads eligible Medicaid recipients to lose their insurance. That’s the point.
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The Atlantic
The Cynical Republican Plan to Cut Medicaid
Work requirements set up a thicket of paperwork that leads eligible Medicaid recipients to lose their insurance. That’s the point.
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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:
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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 ...
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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?