If you live in California, call your senators and tell them to oppose the internet age-gating law.

Hi! I need some serious help with ideas for a campaign. It is for Masks: A New Generation and it is set in the world of My Hero Academia! All I know about it so far is would take place in the epilogue of MHA. So it'll be eight years after the Final War arc and my players would be first year students as UA. I want to give them as much of an MHA experience as I can with a touch more every day teen superhero nonsense. I just can't think of an overarching BBEG like All for One, Shigaraki, or any organizations or even just a general problem. Any help here would be super appreciated!

Black people fight for everybody. We stand in solidarity with women, lgbt people, poor people all over the world of every skin color and background. Every religion and nationality.

Today, stand with us. Be with us. Tell a black person you love them. Hug a black person (with consent). Ask that hot black girl out today. Make a black person smile. Black lives matter to everybody and you matter to us.

Stand with us on Juneteenth like we stand with you all year round, and I hope a happy Pride month continues for all of us

Hey Californians! This bill is due to be voted on this year, and health insurance corporations and other such interests are going to fight it BIG TIME. I expect many, many, many misleading ads about it. Probably the kind of ads where they say it will make costs go up. That's corporations favorite lie. Their go-to, if you will.

HOWEVER, this is a bill to protect the health care and rights of patients to be treated promptly according to what they and their doctor require, not what an insurance company says.

Things included in this bill:

SB 351 by Senator Christopher Cabaldon (SD 3): Private equity firms are gaining influence in our health care system, leading to rising costs and undermining the quality of care. SB 351 empowers the Attorney General to hold private equity groups accountable for interfering with the practice of medicine, allowing the Attorney General to investigate and take action against private equity firms that unlawfully interfere in the patient-physician relationship. The goal is to restore trust in the health care system, ensuring that medical decisions are made in the best interest of patients, not financial shareholders.

AB 489 by Assemblymember Mia Bonta (AD 18): While AI can be a useful tool in health care, it should not replace physician decision making. This bill would ban companies from marketing artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots as licensed medical professionals.

SB 32 by Senator Akilah Weber Pierson (SD 39): California is facing a maternity care crisis, with at least 56 hospitals shutting down or suspending labor and delivery services since 2012. This bill would enhance access to maternity care services by requiring the Department of Health Care Services (DHCS), the Department of Manage Health Care (DMHC), and the California Department of Insurance (CDI) to establish time and distance standards for perinatal units in collaboration with stakeholders.

AB 967 by Assemblymember Avelino Valencia (AD 68): California is facing a physician shortage, leaving millions of residents waiting weeks and months to get critical care. This bill will streamline the process for licensing out-of-state physicians looking to practice in California.

Additionally, CMA is sponsoring a bill package entitled “Prioritizing Patients, Empowering Physicians” to cut bureaucracy in the health system that harms patients and delays the ability to provide care. The red tape, called prior authorization, has been shown to unnecessarily delay care and lead to serious adverse events such as hospitalizations, permanent bodily damage and even death. The Prioritizing Patients, Empowering Physicians package includes:

AB 510 by Assemblymember Dawn Addis (AD 30): Requires that appeals of prior authorization denials be performed by a provider of the same or similar specialty. This will help ensure that providers can discuss prior authorization denials with a professional peer who understands the recommended treatment and underlying condition. 

AB 539 by Assemblymember Pilar Schiavo (AD 40): Extends the validity of an approved prior authorization to one year (current industry standard is 60 to 90 days). This will provide patients with a longer window of time to receive medically necessary care and avoid the cumbersome prior authorization review and appeal processes.

AB 512 by Assemblymember John Harabedian (AD 41): Requires health plans to respond to urgent prior authorization requests within 24 hours and respond to nonurgent requests within 48 hours. Currently, health plans have 72 hours for urgent requests and five days for nonurgent requests. This change will ensure more patients can receive care or appeal denials in a timely fashion.  

SB 306 Senator Josh Becker (SD 13): Requires health plans to remove the requirement for prior authorization from any service that they approve more than 90% of the time. This will reduce the overall volume of prior authorization requests and ensure that patients can receive the care they need with minimal delay and physicians can spend more time focusing on patient care.

So, I need to share this and keep sharing it, and I would love it if everyone started bringing this up to their possibly confused relatives and coworkers *now*. Waaaay ahead of the ads that are going to start airing. We are going to educate and inoculate people before they ever get to see those ads.

And yes, also mention that the health insurance companies are going to create orgs without their names on them to pay for those ads. When you see a political ad and it says "paid for by" at the bottom... those organizations are usually just fronts for corporations or special interest groups. And they LIE to save themselves money.

This is open for public comment until the end of May 19th. Please comment and make your voice heard.

In honor of NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK we've got a new post!

Our libraries have been under attack for years now. Book bans and outright censorship are one thing, but extremists are also attempting to restrict library access for marginalized people; fire highly trained and educated librarians and replace them with untrained ideologues; privatize libraries to turn them into for-profit businesses; and close some libraries altogether, effectively killing community access to all the great services I talked about above.

And with the killdozer that is Project 2025 rampaging through our federal government, things are likely only going to get worse. We know from history that the people trying to ban books and censor diverse viewpoints are never the good guys. So I will just call these most recent attacks on our library system exactly what they are: an attack on our democracy itself.

Megan Phelps Roper, a former member of the Westboro Baptist Church, actually credits trips to her local library with getting her out of the viciously bigoted cult. The resources and librarians she encountered there helped release her from the hateful indoctrination she’d been fed since birth. And if that ain’t proof of concept, I don’t know what is!

The Library Is a Magical Place and You Should Fucking Go There

The deadline is 9 July 2025.

Trans rights are always wavering in safety and are not stable and well protected in the UK. Please sign.