Joy Hui Lin
@joyhuilin.bsky.social
Writer-surfer. Depends on the continent.
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I looked into if Medicaid-funded providers who oversee disabled people living independently are ready for worsening climate events. The support they need from the federal government isn’t there, and it’s worsened under Trump. My latest for @motherjones.com.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Home care wasn't ready for the climate crisis—even before Trump's Medicaid and FEMA cuts
As extreme weather mounts, disaster relief for millions of people is being systemically gutted.
www.motherjones.com
March 26, 2026 at 12:32 PM
I looked into if Medicaid-funded providers who oversee disabled people living independently are ready for worsening climate events. The support they need from the federal government isn’t there, and it’s worsened under Trump. My latest for @motherjones.com.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The real masculinity crisis is that it took less than one generation for women to outcompete men in higher ed and home ownership once the legal barriers to both were both were removed and they are collectively losing their minds faced with the reality that they were never naturally superior.
May 12, 2025 at 11:37 AM
The real masculinity crisis is that it took less than one generation for women to outcompete men in higher ed and home ownership once the legal barriers to both were both were removed and they are collectively losing their minds faced with the reality that they were never naturally superior.
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No remote work
No assistance in childcare
No abortion
Coming for birth control
They want (white) women pregnant and at home but it won't work because they've gutted all the systems that made it possible for white women to stay at home post wwii
No assistance in childcare
No abortion
Coming for birth control
They want (white) women pregnant and at home but it won't work because they've gutted all the systems that made it possible for white women to stay at home post wwii
Republicans don’t want more “parents” at home. They want women at home, out of the public sphere, economically dependent on men for their whole lives— permanently relegated to second class citizens.
Fixed it for you, NYT.
Fixed it for you, NYT.
May 12, 2025 at 11:54 AM
No remote work
No assistance in childcare
No abortion
Coming for birth control
They want (white) women pregnant and at home but it won't work because they've gutted all the systems that made it possible for white women to stay at home post wwii
No assistance in childcare
No abortion
Coming for birth control
They want (white) women pregnant and at home but it won't work because they've gutted all the systems that made it possible for white women to stay at home post wwii
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*Writing a letter to my line manager*
Hi as one of your transsexual cyber witches, you will be aware that we have recently been deemed too grotesque by the Eye of Sauron to frolic among the fae and elves.
I am asking therefore as a reasonable adjustment for the provision of a transsexual grotto.
Hi as one of your transsexual cyber witches, you will be aware that we have recently been deemed too grotesque by the Eye of Sauron to frolic among the fae and elves.
I am asking therefore as a reasonable adjustment for the provision of a transsexual grotto.
May 2, 2025 at 10:33 AM
*Writing a letter to my line manager*
Hi as one of your transsexual cyber witches, you will be aware that we have recently been deemed too grotesque by the Eye of Sauron to frolic among the fae and elves.
I am asking therefore as a reasonable adjustment for the provision of a transsexual grotto.
Hi as one of your transsexual cyber witches, you will be aware that we have recently been deemed too grotesque by the Eye of Sauron to frolic among the fae and elves.
I am asking therefore as a reasonable adjustment for the provision of a transsexual grotto.
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It’s not dysfunction. It’s design. The GOP uses a ruthless disinformation playbook to confuse, divide, and exhaust the public. They don’t want you informed—they want you disoriented. Here’s how their machine works—and how we expose it.
#Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue
It’s not dysfunction. It’s design. The GOP uses a ruthless disinformation playbook to confuse, divide, and exhaust the public. They don’t want you informed—they want you disoriented. Here’s how their machine works—and how we expose it.
#Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue
April 30, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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It’s not dysfunction. It’s design. The GOP uses a ruthless disinformation playbook to confuse, divide, and exhaust the public. They don’t want you informed—they want you disoriented. Here’s how their machine works—and how we expose it.
#Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue
It’s not dysfunction. It’s design. The GOP uses a ruthless disinformation playbook to confuse, divide, and exhaust the public. They don’t want you informed—they want you disoriented. Here’s how their machine works—and how we expose it.
#Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #USDemocracy #ProudBlue
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Elon Musk may or may not fulfill his promise to step back from DOGE.
But his legacy is already clear: He is assembling a sprawling domestic surveillance system — the likes of which we have never seen in the United States.
My latest for NYT Opinion (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...
But his legacy is already clear: He is assembling a sprawling domestic surveillance system — the likes of which we have never seen in the United States.
My latest for NYT Opinion (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...
Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy: DOGE’s Construction of a Surveillance State (Gift Article)
DOGE is rapidly assembling a sprawling monitoring system, the foundation of many authoritarian regimes.
www.nytimes.com
April 30, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Elon Musk may or may not fulfill his promise to step back from DOGE.
But his legacy is already clear: He is assembling a sprawling domestic surveillance system — the likes of which we have never seen in the United States.
My latest for NYT Opinion (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...
But his legacy is already clear: He is assembling a sprawling domestic surveillance system — the likes of which we have never seen in the United States.
My latest for NYT Opinion (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/o...
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I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
April 29, 2025 at 10:26 PM
I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points
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Nice and helpful read here by @michaelalewis10.bsky.social about why universal basic income is superior to guaranteed income. Targeting on the front-end introduces big problems and would be better accomplished by taxes on the back-end. UBI provides true security without stigma for all at all times.
An Equal Playing Field: Why UBI Is Preferable to GI - Roosevelt Institute
Given the current climate, one might wonder whether this is the time for a report on universal basic income (UBI). But speaking as two people who’ve advocated UBI since the early 2000s: Current prospe...
rooseveltinstitute.org
April 30, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Nice and helpful read here by @michaelalewis10.bsky.social about why universal basic income is superior to guaranteed income. Targeting on the front-end introduces big problems and would be better accomplished by taxes on the back-end. UBI provides true security without stigma for all at all times.
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This Podcast Will Kill You just did an ep on raw milk and a hundred years ago there was so much tuberculosis in it that when a NYC children's hospital switched from raw to pasteurized their mortality rate went from 40something % to 20something
We used to do this. Babie's died after consuming products even from "reputable" sellers. One of the biggest advocates for milk pasteurization was Nathan Strauss who lost his son to dipthertia he caught from milk. Strauss was rich. He co-owned a business called...Macy's
4/ He promotes what sociologists call "intensive parenting," as a superior way to ensure kids are safe. That's a time/labor-intensive & stressful form of parenting many US *mothers* feel pressured to follow due to cultural norms/expectations around mothers as primary caregivers.
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April 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
This Podcast Will Kill You just did an ep on raw milk and a hundred years ago there was so much tuberculosis in it that when a NYC children's hospital switched from raw to pasteurized their mortality rate went from 40something % to 20something
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We used to do this. Babie's died after consuming products even from "reputable" sellers. One of the biggest advocates for milk pasteurization was Nathan Strauss who lost his son to dipthertia he caught from milk. Strauss was rich. He co-owned a business called...Macy's
4/ He promotes what sociologists call "intensive parenting," as a superior way to ensure kids are safe. That's a time/labor-intensive & stressful form of parenting many US *mothers* feel pressured to follow due to cultural norms/expectations around mothers as primary caregivers.
...
...
April 30, 2025 at 11:44 AM
We used to do this. Babie's died after consuming products even from "reputable" sellers. One of the biggest advocates for milk pasteurization was Nathan Strauss who lost his son to dipthertia he caught from milk. Strauss was rich. He co-owned a business called...Macy's
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The $7.25 federal minimum wage is a poverty wage in every state.
Meanwhile S&P 500 CEOs made $40k/hr in 2024.
There’s a minimum wage because employers would pay less if they could, but no maximum wage because the rich write our laws to benefit the rich.
Meanwhile S&P 500 CEOs made $40k/hr in 2024.
There’s a minimum wage because employers would pay less if they could, but no maximum wage because the rich write our laws to benefit the rich.
What $7.25 buys you in 2025
Americans who work 40 hours a week, 52 weeks a year, at the federal minimum wage no longer make enough money to keep themselves out of poverty.
open.substack.com
April 30, 2025 at 11:35 AM
The $7.25 federal minimum wage is a poverty wage in every state.
Meanwhile S&P 500 CEOs made $40k/hr in 2024.
There’s a minimum wage because employers would pay less if they could, but no maximum wage because the rich write our laws to benefit the rich.
Meanwhile S&P 500 CEOs made $40k/hr in 2024.
There’s a minimum wage because employers would pay less if they could, but no maximum wage because the rich write our laws to benefit the rich.
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Well here's a real shocker.
Mother Jones (@motherjones.com)
The funding for some of Trump’s “data” on an alleged ActBlue “fraud” seems to have come from just such a source: an opaque super-PAC bankrolled by none other than Elon Musk.…
bsky.app
April 30, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Well here's a real shocker.
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Instead of Amazon listing tariff costs next to product prices, let’s list how much companies and billionaires donated to Trump next to every executive order that made them richer — and same for Congress with the bills they pass.
April 29, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Instead of Amazon listing tariff costs next to product prices, let’s list how much companies and billionaires donated to Trump next to every executive order that made them richer — and same for Congress with the bills they pass.
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"As @margaret.bsky.social, who launched the prominent anarchist-prepper podcast Live Like the World Is Dying at the beginning of the Covid pandemic, put it: “There’s not much preparedness you can do for the end of the world.”' www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
‘All of his guns will do nothing for him’: lefty preppers are taking a different approach to doomsday
Liberals in the US make up about 15% of the prepping scene and their numbers are growing. Their fears differ from their better-known rightwing counterparts – as do their methods
www.theguardian.com
April 29, 2025 at 8:23 PM
"As @margaret.bsky.social, who launched the prominent anarchist-prepper podcast Live Like the World Is Dying at the beginning of the Covid pandemic, put it: “There’s not much preparedness you can do for the end of the world.”' www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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The Finnish did not have to publicly embarrass me like this. 😂
What's the most brutal insult you've ever heard in your language? I think the most savagely specific one that I've ever encountered was from Finnish... sun gradu oli varmaan 20 sivua. It means "your thesis was probably 20 pages long"
April 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The Finnish did not have to publicly embarrass me like this. 😂
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Here's my newsletter on me trying to make the math in Graydon Carter's memoir make sense:
www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...
www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...
a close up of a woman 's face with a triangle and a mathematical formula .
ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with a triangle and a mathematical formula .
media.tenor.com
April 29, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Here's my newsletter on me trying to make the math in Graydon Carter's memoir make sense:
www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...
www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...
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your child will toil valiantly in the factory. it will be masculine. it will restore our national character. it will make america great again. oh my child? my child will run a lucrative rightwing podcast
April 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
your child will toil valiantly in the factory. it will be masculine. it will restore our national character. it will make america great again. oh my child? my child will run a lucrative rightwing podcast
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I wrote about the harder, less-expensive, smaller scale, and to me most interesting part of the Mets' ongoing process of becoming a real, good baseball team. defector.com/the-mets-are...
The Mets Are Doing The Hard Stuff Now | Defector
When Steve Cohen bought the New York Mets near the end of the 2020 season, he acquired a property that was valuable, scarce, and absolutely lousy with toxic mold and crawling with skunks. The value wa...
defector.com
April 29, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I wrote about the harder, less-expensive, smaller scale, and to me most interesting part of the Mets' ongoing process of becoming a real, good baseball team. defector.com/the-mets-are...
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Hi, @motherjones.com disabled disability reporter here, I really want to hear about how tariffs are impacting disabled, chronically ill, and aging folks. Reposts appreciated and my email is [email protected].
April 29, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Hi, @motherjones.com disabled disability reporter here, I really want to hear about how tariffs are impacting disabled, chronically ill, and aging folks. Reposts appreciated and my email is [email protected].
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Give this a listen. Trump and Rubio are locking up people for engaging in speech, without any tangible evidence of wrongdoing or even hateful speech. So it's good to hear from the people they are demonizing.
April 29, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Give this a listen. Trump and Rubio are locking up people for engaging in speech, without any tangible evidence of wrongdoing or even hateful speech. So it's good to hear from the people they are demonizing.
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Not all disabled people can boycott Amazon. Many are housebound with no other affordable or accessible delivery options.
Be kind. We all resist in whatever way we can.
If you want to help, offer to deliver goods to someone. Or take them shopping.
Build networks of community care.
Be kind. We all resist in whatever way we can.
If you want to help, offer to deliver goods to someone. Or take them shopping.
Build networks of community care.
April 29, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Not all disabled people can boycott Amazon. Many are housebound with no other affordable or accessible delivery options.
Be kind. We all resist in whatever way we can.
If you want to help, offer to deliver goods to someone. Or take them shopping.
Build networks of community care.
Be kind. We all resist in whatever way we can.
If you want to help, offer to deliver goods to someone. Or take them shopping.
Build networks of community care.
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A) Democrats should be doing blanket opposition at this point.
B) David Perdue has declared China is waging a new kind of war against the US and could be easily opposed for this specific position
C) David Perdue is a NOTORIOUS insider trader who could have been easily opposed on corruption grounds
B) David Perdue has declared China is waging a new kind of war against the US and could be easily opposed for this specific position
C) David Perdue is a NOTORIOUS insider trader who could have been easily opposed on corruption grounds
April 29, 2025 at 7:51 PM
A) Democrats should be doing blanket opposition at this point.
B) David Perdue has declared China is waging a new kind of war against the US and could be easily opposed for this specific position
C) David Perdue is a NOTORIOUS insider trader who could have been easily opposed on corruption grounds
B) David Perdue has declared China is waging a new kind of war against the US and could be easily opposed for this specific position
C) David Perdue is a NOTORIOUS insider trader who could have been easily opposed on corruption grounds