Julia Bascom

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She/her. Taller than you. Congress has a secret train and it should belong to the people.

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How Netanyahu has systematically foiled talks to release hostages from Hamas captivitywww.haaretz.com ***

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The 2024 GOP platform doesn’t *technically* oppose abortion or IVF. But it leaves the door open for states to establish “fetal personhood” under the 14th Amendment that would have the practical effect of banning abortion at all stages of pregnancy and would leave IVF in a tricky legal position.

RNC approves platform that would give rights to fetuses, endangering abortion, IVF19thnews.org Republicans have adopted a slate of policy positions ahead of next week’s convention that does not call for a federal legislative abortion ban, but opens the door to establishing fetal personhood.

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Mr. Am I Being Detained

Israeli TV news rarely actually shows anything happening to Palestinians in Gaza. It’s astonishing.

On Israeli TV News, Scenes of Palestinian Suffering Are Rareforeignpolicy.com The coverage could be contributing to a perception gap about the war in Gaza.

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Senior Israeli officials are on TV every day going “we don’t consider civilians innocent,” the apologists are more committed to the bit than they are

Do people think that all of those buildings were empty? That the dead kids aren’t actually dead and are on vacation in Aruba after washing off the fake blood? That somehow a majority of Gazans are combatants? I just don’t get it.

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I don’t really understand how people can look at how completely flattened Gaza is and still be skeptical that a large number of Palestinians have been killed. I want to ask but I also don’t want to get into a yelling match with my family again.

In the US, counting the dead in Gaza has become a gruesome political gamewww.motherjones.com The House passed a ban on citing the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty counts, saying the numbers are pro-Hamas “propaganda.” But researchers say the Ministry is not even counting all deaths.

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Mark Armstrong

you know you just made a really good point – this particular program (i.e. Medicaid) pays for almost all of the long term care in America. What's long term care? It's nursing homes, among other place. The vaaaast majority of seniors in nursing homes? Medicaids paying the bills.

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I have re-read chapter 14 of project 2025 for work and i'm genuinely going to go take a benzo now "Add targeted time limits [on Medicaid] or lifetime caps on [Medicaid] benefits to disincentivize permanent dependence"

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IRS Direct File is going nationwide next year www.nbcnews.com/business/tax...

Tax preparation company Intuit to lay off 1,800 as part of an AI-focused reorganization plan

Tax preparation company Intuit to lay off 1,800 as part of an AI-focused reorganization planapnews.com Tax preparation and financial software company Intuit announced an AI-focused reorganization plan Wednesday that includes laying off about 10% of its workforce.

IRS announces Direct File as permanent free tax-filing option starting next yearwww.nbcnews.com The program was rolled out on a limited basis this year.

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Some personal news: I am now @19thnews.bsky.social’s aging and disability reporter. I am still mostly covering the same things, but now there’s more room for the parts of aging and disability that are beyond caregiving. I’m really stoked for this evolution of my beat.

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You don't win elections by telling a majority of the electorate that they're wrong.

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Lenacapavir did so well at preventing HIV infection that it hit the threshold where the only ethical thing to do was stop the randomized trial and immediately offer it to literally every participant. That's huge news. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

A new way to prevent HIV delivers dramatic results in trialwww.npr.org The testing of lenacapavir was halted because results were so impressive — 100% effectiveness. The decision was made to give all participants the injection rather than the alternative daily pill.

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bad luck for biden to run in an electoral cycle where "are you old" is the most important issue instead of in one of the cycles where email security procedures or accuracy of vietnam war medal citations was the most important issue in the country.

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The main character of The Acolyte is named Osha as a clever reference to obscure lore (federal agencies with regulatory authority)

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Ashley Shew | Against Technoableism

Walkers repeated used to point out infirmity/old age becomes fewer people being willing to use walkers or being seen using one. Walkers are mobility/stability tools: we might think of that as a neutral or even as a positive thing, if not for the cruddy way walkers are maligned - like in that cover.

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A lot of ableism isn't deliberate: that makes it more pernicious! A walker is representing being at lower faculty, by your description. I tweeted this on the other site: "The way walkers are used in media/culture is truly revolting -- & this rep prevents ppl from using what is a useful tool."

Using the walker on the magazine cover is not deliberately ableist. And at some point people are going to have to learn discernment and how to view creative media within the context it’s presented. The walker on the cover is to the point of an elderly person no longer being at full faculty.

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People who want to make the web accessible need to understand the many different ways that people with disabilities use the web. This W3C resource offers a good introduction to how disabled people navigate the web, and barriers they commonly encounter. www.w3.org/WAI/people-u...

How People with Disabilities Use the Webwww.w3.org Introduces how people with disabilities, including people with age-related impairments, use the Web.

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Twelve (12) articles about Biden's age on the NYT home page. Scroll down for a good while and at the bottom of the right column you can find just two (2) articles about the Supreme Court's immunity decision, neither of which state in the headline that the president is now a king.

Yeah.

How to Fix $1.6 Billion Long COVID Program: Experts Weigh Inwww.medscape.com Critics contend the NIH's RECOVER program needs to expand its focus and pivot in new research directions. RECOVER researchers cite gains and stress patience.

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Kaitlin Has Had Enough

The United States has always been a democracy for some and a brutal authoritarian regime for others, and the effort to expand it to democracy for all has led to a 70+ year backlash culminating in SCOTUS claiming that kings are totes cool and also judges are the ones to coronate them

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Again, Black people are an exception here, as basically anyone who stayed in the Jim Crow South has a living memory of living under what amounted to fascism, including the “always walking on eggshells/lack of social trust/long periods of boring endurance/randomized terrifying violence”

Pretty much. What it mostly boils down to is that most Americans really don’t have the faintest idea what living under modern authoritarian regimes actually looks like, and how it’s often at the same time way more boring and way more scary than they’d imagined.

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Alito always spit in my matcha late

it's fucked up that in the united states there are so many jobs that require tips to make a living wage. like baristas and supreme court justices

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SCOTUS is fucked.

SCOTUS is still fucking up people’s rights.

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I realize that Jimmy Carter is trying to die peacefully in hospice but that man still has a 4 year term of eligibility left.

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It's not just that they're tasked with meeting the challenge, it's not just that they volunteered to meet the challenge, it's that they actively campaigned to convince the American people that they're the ones who can meet the challenge

that the stakes are high is precisely why I expect more of those tasked to meet the challenge

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Latinos and African Americans suffer the nation’s highest rates of Long Covid. Yet systematic health care inequality and poor outreach have resulted in clinics with mostly white patient lists. By @lygianavarro.bsky.social, republished from palabra & WHYY: thesicktimes.org/2024/06/21/t...

The short reach of Long Covid care - The Sick Timesthesicktimes.org Latinos and African Americans suffer the nation's highest rates of Long Covid. Yet systematic health care inequality and poor outreach have resulted in clinics with mostly white patient lists. Editor’...

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Elizabeth Picciuto

The other thing that I didn’t grok until my kid was that I thought the ADA had made everything pretty much accessible. I mean, I saw ramps on some buildings, so… Anyway, lol. lmao, even

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One of my kids has a genetic disorder, is non-verbal, uses a wheelchair, is fed by g-tube, and if you knew how frequently I have to prove to various agencies that he is disabled. And then update each agency (yup, still disabled!) repeatedly. And we still need to fight denials all the time!