Living the horror and wonder lurking behind the usual surface of health. I play with words in bed. Book and tea hoarder cliche. Write erratically at behindthesurface.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/behindasurface.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/behindasurface.bsky.social/post/3mkth7rod4s26Even the National Association of Evangelicals oppose this as anti-family values: https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-social-security-ssi-disability-benefits-cuts-parents-children02 May 2026 01:05 +0000at://did:plc:pp4fw6omcz5tbityzlaeqwnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkth7rod4s26https://bsky.app/profile/behindasurface.bsky.social/post/3mktfjvyyx22iFrom "May Day [1892]" by William Morris from his Chants for Socialists https://www.marxists.org/archive/morris/works/1894/chants.htm#chap-802 May 2026 00:35 +0000at://did:plc:pp4fw6omcz5tbityzlaeqwnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mktfjvyyx22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/behindasurface.bsky.social/post/3mkly7wesik2sYep. Straight out of the decades-long neoliberal playbook to encourage privatization by making your interaction w/government intolerable. Thomas Frank talked about this in his book The Wrecking Crew nearly 20 years ago. [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Apr 2026 01:48 +0000at://did:plc:pp4fw6omcz5tbityzlaeqwnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkly7wesik2shttps://bsky.app/profile/behindasurface.bsky.social/post/3mklxkeomfk2sThe implosion of American healthcare---decades in the making---is here: https://youtu.be/7mdIwgwBBgY?si=MtG_BDnO8l-tIOLt29 Apr 2026 01:36 +0000at://did:plc:pp4fw6omcz5tbityzlaeqwnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mklxkeomfk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/behindasurface.bsky.social/post/3mklxgkf5wk2sGreat news! Tangentially, what sort of coalition building could we do w/other patient groups? It's not just #mecfs patients who struggle w/the sensory environment of EDs. Elderly, neurodivergent, etc. [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Apr 2026 01:34 +0000at://did:plc:pp4fw6omcz5tbityzlaeqwnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mklxgkf5wk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/behindasurface.bsky.social/post/3mk6qbevvas22Just donated my widow's mite to @meactnet.bsky.social 's Emergency Dept guidelines fund. When I was at my sickest, most dehydrated, I could not tolerate a visit to the ER. How many #mecfs patients have died because they couldn't either?23 Apr 2026 19:21 +0000at://did:plc:pp4fw6omcz5tbityzlaeqwnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6qbevvas22https://bsky.app/profile/behindasurface.bsky.social/post/3mimhjyatbc25In 6th grade a boy tried to make fun of me for being fat. Except he ended up being the one marginalized: https://burningword.com/2026/01/michelle-strausbaugh/03 Apr 2026 19:32 +0000at://did:plc:pp4fw6omcz5tbityzlaeqwnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mimhjyatbc25https://bsky.app/profile/behindasurface.bsky.social/post/3mimh3s5kc225Especially seeing how boomers are many of the ones suffering most from our crumbling health care system, the alphabet soup of Medicare Advantage plans, and the predation of enshittified capitalism. [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Apr 2026 19:24 +0000at://did:plc:pp4fw6omcz5tbityzlaeqwnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mimh3s5kc225https://bsky.app/profile/behindasurface.bsky.social/post/3mikjv5a77c2ghttps://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-says-not-possible-us-pay-medicaid-medicare-daycare-re-fighting-w-rcna26638103 Apr 2026 01:08 +0000at://did:plc:pp4fw6omcz5tbityzlaeqwnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mikjv5a77c2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/behindasurface.bsky.social/post/3mifqd43ztc2a"...beauty/is no alchemy: it merely means making more space for things/that shine... Gorgeous sonnet. Love the allusion to the old gospel hymn "Precious Lord" at the end. poets.org/poem/precious https://poets.org/poem/precious01 Apr 2026 03:20 +0000at://did:plc:pp4fw6omcz5tbityzlaeqwnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mifqd43ztc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/behindasurface.bsky.social/post/3mhqydsrqmk2sYou know a poem is good when it sucks you away from all the many tabs open on your browser. Lovely stories and assonances: https://therumpus.net/2026/03/18/two-poems-7/23 Mar 2026 21:18 +0000at://did:plc:pp4fw6omcz5tbityzlaeqwnd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhqydsrqmk2s