We in this group are concerned about maladministration cruelty to diabetics and to their friends and relations and doctors and everyone else involved. H/T Adam Serwer, of course, but it’s worse than he said. It’s cruelty to everyone, including the MAGA faithful. It includes threats to health, freedom, the rule of law, every human right imaginable, life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, sanity, and themselves.
I’ll have more to say about all of that in my Good News Roundup tomorrow, but for today, I’m going to stick to cruelty over diabetes, which is plenty bad enough.
Diabetic inmate sues, says toes amputated due to lax care in state prisons
A diabetic Southern Nevada prison inmate is alleging in a lawsuit that shoddy care in the state’s prison system led to all of the toes on his left foot and one toe on his right foot being amputated while he was behind bars.
“It’s been traumatic,” said Luis Sandoval, 56. “It’s frustrating because I feel like I’m being ignored by the system. My requests have been ignored.”
The lawsuit, filed March 17 in U.S. District Court against the Nevada Department of Corrections and a number of other plaintiffs, alleges that what Sandoval has gone through since entering the state’s prison system in August 2023 has been “nothing short of cruel and unusual punishment.”
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“In the past four months, the total, at universities across the U.S., is about $11 billion. The cuts affect things like cancer research, diabetes treatments, new wearable technology, farming solutions and studying domestic violence: research across nearly every discipline and subject.”
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— Alicia D Wright (@aliciadwright.bsky.social) May 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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Yes. Harvard research has been “cancelled”…NIH funding to other research institutions “frozen.” Who pays? We do. Diabetes, Alzheimer’s, ALS, cancer…someone you love. Story needs more coverage!
— beedaisy2.bsky.social (@beedaisy2.bsky.social) May 17, 2025 at 12:49 PM
The Bureau of Prisons' Casual Cruelty to Families of Those Who Die Behind Bars
Families whose loved ones died in federal prisons describe outrageous delays in being notified, ignored phone calls, and troubling discrepancies in the official reports.
Blanca Valencia's son, Anthony Maseda, was incarcerated at FCC Coleman, a federal prison complex in Florida, before he died on March 12. He was a 22-year-old with Type 1 diabetes.
"He was always complaining about how his blood sugars were always high, and they didn't listen to him, nobody would pay attention to him," Valencia says. "I remember he called me one day and he told me, 'Mom, I've been really sick, but I feel a little bit better today.' And then he stopped calling me out of nowhere. They called me from the hospital a week, maybe two weeks later, saying that he was at the hospital really, really sick, and that he was probably not gonna make it."
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Republicans are now coming after Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood does more than reproductive care –– they provide everything from clinic services to diabetes and hypertension medications.
I’m lacing up my pink gloves & fighting back. 🥊
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— Rep. Ami Bera, M.D. (@bera.house.gov) May 15, 2025 at 1:03 PM
It isn’t only the US.
BBC: 'Lesson not learned' by slap therapist after boy's death
Hongchi Xiao is accused of manslaughter by gross negligence after he allegedly congratulated diabetic Danielle Carr-Gomm for stopping taking insulin.
She died at a slapping workshop run by Mr Xiao in Wiltshire, 18 months after six-year-old Aiden died at one of his workshops in Australia, Winchester Crown Court heard.
