Kelly Joy, MD

OB/GYN. Feminist. Wife.👶🏻&🐱mom. Swiftie & 1975 fan. Comic relief. #medtwitter. thoughts. perennial millennial snark. Such a nasty woman. Tweets mine. she/her

[Kelly Joy, MD @kjoyMD]

With sorrow—for this Court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitutional protection—we dissent.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Save a family in LA from homelessness: https://t.co/zUYSuBJmj5

Every landlord has a lawyer. The families they evict don’t.

I work with BASTA Universal because we give families that same protection, completely free.

Predatory landlords evict for profit. We defend, because housing is a human right.

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

What a privilege it is to have your bed occupied by a tiny human who thinks it’s the safest place in the world.

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

“The students who cannot read a 20-page article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill, or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow.”

[Cxspxxr✘🧸 @_6signxxx]

Mamdani is the Democrats’ worst nightmare because he’s living proof that they’re simply not doing their jobs.

[Mr Brute @BuddyNoLove]

Celebrities getting on social media ruined the mystique. Turns out the allure was just distance. A lot of them are genuinely insufferable.

[Ron Barbosa MD FACS @rbarbosa91]

That people can now exit the profession and find something else to support themselves, rather than being involuntarily trapped here until retirement is a good thing, actually.

Over time, this will mean that the people remaining in practice are the ones who want to do it.

[Chilly @chillywillers]

Y’all ever get so deep in Candy Crush that you forget to start a family

[eve @eveforamerica]

This is hilarious.

“What mom doesn’t want for Mother’s Day”

[Just T @Floridagirl0850]

What your wife really wants for Mother's Day is a giant dumpster so she can rage clean and throw away everything that overstimulates her.

[Zack Ruskin @zackruskin]

@TheWapplehouse I never cease to be shocked by humanity's willingness to heavily document its own sins for my eventual enjoyment via HBO Max true-crime miniseries.

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

I just want to point out....

The amount of money the United States has spent on war in the last 67 days, is roughly the same cost that Bernie Sanders proposed for universal college. So the real question is never can we afford it, it's what we choose to prioritize.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

how it feels to live through one trump news cycle

[soup🍓 @thrluv]

“male loneliness epidemic” ohhh you mean the male consequence epidemic

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

In news that will get very little coverage, Mariska Hargitay's "End the Backlog Campaign" achieves rape kit reform in ALL 50 states, DC, and Puerto Rico.

It's women who are going to save us. Thank you Mariska Hargitay.

[Maryam @hell_line0]

2022: “Stop overreacting, they won’t overturn Roe.”
They did.

2023: “Stop overreacting, they won’t let women die rather than get an abortion.”
They did.

2024: “Stop overreacting, they won’t arrest women for miscarriages.”
They did.

2025: “Stop overreacting, they won’t turn women into incubators.”
They did.

2026: “Stop overreacting, they won’t attack mifepristone.”
They did, today.

Now: “Stop overreacting, they won’t go after birth control next.”
They will.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

It's really funny how debt is forgivable when it's tied to yachts, hedge funds, or failed businesses, but suddenly becomes a character flaw when it's tied to education, healthcare, or survival.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Universal Music is selling $1.4 billion in Spotify shares. It paid nothing for them. Spotify handed the shares over in 2008 just for letting Spotify play music, and the deal was set up so almost none of that money would ever reach the artists who made the music. Taylor Swift's 2018 contract changed that.

Back in 2008, Spotify was a small Swedish startup that needed songs to play. The big record labels had the songs. They had no reason to hand them over cheap, so the two sides cut a deal. Spotify gave them shares. The labels gave Spotify the right to play their music. Universal walked away with 5%. That stake later grew to 7% when Universal bought EMI and rolled EMI's 2% into its own. Then it drifted back to 3% as Spotify took on more investors and shrank everyone's slice. At today's prices, 3% of Spotify is worth about $2.7 billion. Universal sat on those shares for 18 years and never sold a single one. Until yesterday.

Most artists never see royalty money. When a label signs you, it pays you an advance to live on while you make the album. It also covers your studio time, your music videos, your marketing, your tour. All of those costs go on a tab. The label keeps every dollar your music earns until you clear that tab. Berklee, the music school in Boston, says as many as 96% of major-label artists never earn enough to clear it. They stay in the red their entire careers.

Sony moved first in 2018. It sold half its Spotify shares for $768 million and paid $250 million directly to its artists in cash, no matter how much each one still owed. Warner followed a few months later. It sold all of its Spotify shares for $504 million and said $126 million would go to its artists too. Warner played it differently. Most of that money went to pay down what those artists already owed, instead of putting fresh cash in their pockets.

Taylor Swift was negotiating her own deal with Universal that same year. She refused to sign unless Universal put the Sony version of the rule in her contract. Cash to artists, no matter what they owed. She wrote at the time that the clause "meant more to me than any other deal point." Universal had said publicly in March 2018 it would share Spotify money with artists. But it had not put the cash-not-credit rule in writing. Swift's contract, signed eight months later, did.

Universal is finally selling. Hundreds of millions of dollars in cash are about to land in artists' bank accounts, including artists who have spent years or decades in the red and would otherwise get nothing from a sale like this.

Most of those artists have never met Taylor Swift. All of them benefit from a single line she insisted on eight years ago.

[bully maguire @d3adxclaws]

they wanted to be 252,756 miles away from him again soooo bad

[Bobby Fakename, Esq. @BobFakeNameEsq]

Because leftist freaks couldn't bring themselves to vote for Hillary Clinton, we've lost Roe v. Wade, The Voting Rights Act, made (Republican) presidents immune from criminal liability... and we won't have the chance to fix it until our grandkids have grandkids. Way to go, guys.

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

It's the 250th anniversary of America's independence, and the King of England made a trip to address our Congress and subtweeted the tyranny and foolishness of our president. Lovely.