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IMPORTANT UPDATE

HHS has now finalized a much reduced version of the planned rule. The previous proposed rule would have denied funding to any hospital found to be advancing "gender ideology," and not just medicaid reimbursement for trans procedures but instead a total defunding of all Medicaid and Medicare payments, which would put any hospital that didn't comply out of business and would have had huge nationwide effects for trans care.

The current version is much narrower and meant to survive legal scruitiny: it only says that federal Medicaid and CHIP money will not cover gender affirming care for anyone under 19. Hospitals can still provide said care and keep their funding for other procedures, and there is no threat of funding being withdrawn over "gender ideology."

Still, what this rule would mean, if it goes into effect, would be that low-income families relying on Medicaid and CHIP would have to pay out of pocket for their trans children's care. The rule is slated to go into effect in October, although it will face legal challenges and the courts could hold this thing up for a while.

An innocent man is home with his family instead of spending his kids' whole childhoods in jail for "resisting arrest" when none of the cops could agree on why he was being arrested in the first place. (But it definitely had nothing to do with him being a Black man in a nice car, honest! 🙄)

And it still took like two hours of delibration after we'd heard all the evidence because one lady was so gung ho about believing everything the cops said, even when not a single goddamn one could agree with their own testimony, let alone their colleagues'.

Pointing out all the inconsistencies and admitted misconduct and letting people slowly come to their own conclusions as the trial played out was fucking hard, I won't lie. I can be patient, but it doesn't come naturally to me.

But. Yelling about how this was obviously a bs case would have shut everyone down and made them stop listening. Asking questions and letting people discuss how the cops tried to make xyz sound suspicious but it was totally normal, or about how if things played out the way the cops said then logically events should have proceeded in a totally different direction, and positing different theories that actually lined up with the evidence presented?

That got people thinking, and everyone realized that for a variety of reasons we all had reasonable doubts that the defendent had committed any of the crimes of which he was accused.

Image 1: A WIP screenshot of a digital illustration of a purple cat with a shooting star with a rainbow trail above their head.

A) resource guarding

And

B) Harry Potter

So naturally, every time someone didn’t have a pencil she would charge them 10 house points (which, even in schools where there is an actual house point system, probably doesn’t fucking happen). She openly held the belief that she had to ascribe value to these precious writing implements or else no one would appreciate them, a concept evidenced by, i kid you not, how when homeless people are given houses for free they let them fall into disarray, because they didn’t pay for the house and therefore didn’t care about it. I, a pissed off 13 year old with a vendetta against power hungry teachers and also JK Rowling, brought a 100 pack of pencils to school so that whenever someone had to ask for one, instead of being charged a fictional currency and upsetting their fellow, deeply competitive students, i would just give them one. If the pencil didn’t come from the teacher, she couldn’t charge points for it.

This upset her. She couldn’t assert her power over the 1st period Advanced 8th Grade Math Class anymore. For i, The Pencil Liberator, had come to put an end to her tyrannous behavior.