Jelloarm

Ronin geek, freelance writer, and recovering musician.

Some men just want to watch Michael Caine say "Some men just want to watch the world burn."

[g. @GeauxGabrielle]

Speaking of gerrymandering, have you heard of prison gerrymandering?

White Republicans use incarcerated people to be counted by the census as residents of the town the PRISON is located in rather than their home communities. This increases their political representation and FUNDING for those districts while incarcerated people themselves cannot vote.

What you allow to happen to incarcerated people will happen to you.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Cool story. On a related note, here's a pic of The Atlantic's owner with Ghislaine Maxwell.

[SorryHat 𝕬𝖙𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖓𝖊𝖞 𝖆𝖙 𝕲𝖍𝖔𝖘𝖙 𝕷𝖆𝖜📓 @sorry_hat]

The metaphor for slopping your way out of any slight discomfort at the detriment of learning any self improvement or reflection is so damn on the nose here.

[David Klion @DavidKlion]

The good news is, this type inevitably filters out. There are all sorts of arbitrary bullshit shibboleths for what makes a “real New Yorker” involving bagel orders and subway trivia, but maybe the best answer is: loving New York enough to stay makes you a real New Yorker.

[Leigh Beadon @leighbeadon]

This is 100% what happened. Landlord called in ICE to brutalize tenants and clear out the building.

[Jelloarm @Jelloarm]

@DedhamThrives Ew. Please don't use AI art? Waste of energy and resources.

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

Today’s news confirms it: Cuomo is Trump’s choice for Mayor. The White House is considering jobs for Adams and Sliwa to clear the field.

New Yorkers are sick of corrupt politics and backroom deals. No matter who’s running, we will deliver a better future on November 4.

[Ray Dalio @RayDalio]

https://t.co/mFuuK7sgzU

[Jelloarm @Jelloarm]

@NYCMayor Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
You're a fucking cop DINO,
And a corrupt POS too

[Jelloarm @Jelloarm]

@freauxmama Now counterpoint: Kendrick performing the front half of Poetic Justice and dropping into Not Like Us right when Drake's verse is due to start...

[Isi Breen @isaiah_bb]

Now that Darren Beattie has been tapped to serve at the State Department, the ADL has dutifully removed the press release on their website where they call him a Nazi white supremacist.

[Zephyr Teachout 🇺🇸 @ZephyrTeachout]

"Power that controls the economy...should be scattered into many hands so that the fortunes of the people will not be dependent on the whim or caprice, the political prejudices, the emotional stability of a few self-appointed men.”

U.S. v. Columbia Steel, Justice Douglas, 1948

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

Stock buybacks were considered 'illegal manipulation' until 1982, then Ronald Reagan changed that

[Tina Smith @SenTinaSmith]

This is how the Postmaster General reacts when Members of Congress demand accountability.  He’s the reason your prescriptions, paychecks, and bills are late.  Embarrassing.

[David Dayen @ddayen]

In all the talk about UnitedHealth, there's been one missing discussion: its primary partner in Medicare and Medicare Advantage, which leverages its massive audience to steer to the insurer, is AARP. This never gets enough attention. Big numbers involved:

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

A lawsuit by chronically ill patient whom UHC had denied care for surfaced recorded phone calls in which UHC employees laughed long and hard about the denied claims, dismissing the patient's desperate, tearful pleas as "tantrums" :

https://t.co/GQT1TGjOlP

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[𝕏qole @qole]

A free link to the @doctorow story, "Radicalized," which has suddenly become very relevant after the United Healthcare CEO's murder.

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

The shooter's politics are irrelevant to everyone other than elites in both parties who want to convince their respective bases to not care about our broken healthcare system because it's "the other guy's" issue.

[David Dayen @ddayen]

Cory wrote a short story in 2019 about an online support group for people screwed over by the health system who encourage each other to wage violence against insurance CEOs.
Cory let us publish the the story given the obvious timeliness. It's free to read:
https://t.co/fRQ6YpyZgp