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Joan Biskupic is a worthless piece of shit

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/19/politics/john-roberts-transgender-care-opinion

Reading Biskupic’s piece, I had to actively resist the instinct to put a finger down my throat—not metaphorically, but with real, committed intent—to expel the poison she spooned out with her usual velvet ladle. It’s like she wants us to feel grateful that Roberts didn’t personally come down from the bench to rip hormone patches off kids with his own hands.

Her tone carries the exhausted reverence of someone chronicling royal decrees rather than judicial decisions that dictate real, urgent pain for real, marginalized people. I kept expecting her to interrupt her analysis with a curtsey. It’s not journalism; it’s palace intrigue cosplay.

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Tim Noel arrives, another apparition in the sterile corridors of American healthcare. UnitedHealthcare coronates its new monarch, the bloodless transfer of corporate power occurring mere weeks after Brian Thompson's body cooled on a New York City street—murdered, they say, by Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old whose rage crystallized into a moment of terrible clarity.

Thompson: shot. Noel: appointed. The machinery of profit churns, indifferent.

Noel emerged from UnitedHealth's internal labyrinth in 2007, most recently shepherding Medicare and retirement—those liminal spaces where American bodies transform from productive units to maintenance problems. His resume, a liturgy of corporate advancement: strategic, calculated, removed.

UnitedHealth Group—a behemoth touching every capillary of medical access, every billing cycle, every denied claim. A company so large it breathes its own weather system of algorithmic compassion.

"The health system needs to function better," says Andrew Witty, a statement so neutrally phrased it could be mistaken for wind passing through empty corporate hallways.

The system. Always the system.

Mangione's alleged motivation hangs like a question mark: how many denied treatments, how many bankrupted families, how many silent deaths construct the architecture of a single violent moment?

Noel is respected. Noel is unknown. Noel will continue.

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In a stark display of political retribution, former President Trump has terminated federal security protection for Dr. Anthony Fauci, the infectious disease expert who became a prominent critic during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite ongoing credible threats to Fauci's life, Trump callously suggested that Fauci and other former officials "can hire their own security."

This action follows a pattern of removing security details from administration officials who have publicly challenged Trump, including former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and national security adviser John Bolton. Both the Trump and Biden administrations had previously renewed these protections due to verified threats.

Fauci, who faced numerous death threats for providing scientific guidance during the pandemic, now must arrange and fund his own private security. The move sends a chilling message about the potential personal risks of speaking truth to power and represents a troubling erosion of professional respect for public servants who prioritize scientific integrity over political expediency.