So now that we see that Dak spit first, is he going to get suspended too? #eagles
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So now that we see that Dak spit first, is he going to get suspended too? #eagles
Well, if you don’t care about the Constitution, it’s not a crisis.
There's a increasingly wide gulf between what you might call "local abundance"—which largely consists of liberal and progressive activists and local electeds trying to do YIMBY-type things—and "DC abundance," which hosts conferences where Oren Cass is a speaker for some reason.
MAGA voters are going to be absolutely FURIOUS at immigrants, trans people, and blue state Democrats for murdering their children with preventable diseases.
California is key. Its nation-sized population provides the large risk pool necessary to make a three-state public option pencil out.
Lucky you. I’d retire to Canada but none of the Anglo countries offer retirement visas anymore except for the very wealthy.
Just imagine if the Alliance were to, say, contract with Kaiser to provide an affordable three-state public option?
Yup. They're still working on the pharmacy side of the equation. But pharmacists are licensed by the states, so my hope is that this is coming.
To fully appreciate the potential of the West Coast Health Alliance you need to appreciate the size of its combined economy. CA alone would be the fourth largest economy in the world. The Alliance together would be third, after only the US and China. Big enough to provide single-payer healthcare.
The news I was waiting to hear: "By late Wednesday afternoon, however, several Washington insurance companies — including Premera Blue Cross, Kaiser Permanente and Regence BlueShield — had affirmed their commitment to covering updated COVID vaccines for all patients, regardless of federal changes."
This tactic - pressuring corporations financially until they put a regime friendly voice in charge - is exactly how Orbán took over the free press in Hungary
What I take from this is that NBA owners and players are really bad at creating fake companies to hide the money trail. Kawhi Leonard, who wears #2 on his jersey, had a company called "KL2 Aspire LLC." Read a mystery novel already, sheesh.
It’s not a “perk.” It’s a basic feature of how Prime worked. I canceled Prime last year after Bezos stripped the WA Post of editorial independence, but I’d only kept it that long because I shared it with my daughter. This makes Prime twice as expensive or half as useful. Bad value proposition.
Pritzker should mobilize the Illinois National Guard to oppose them. Extreme? Maybe. But I don’t see why he should just let another state effectively invade his.
Pritzker should also be prepared to block roads and cut off water and electricity from buildings occupied by invading troops.
This is an encouraging start to the new federalism. But unless and until CA, WA, & OR require pharmacies to administer the COVID vaccine and insurance companies to cover the cost, this is just symbolic.
I don’t know who needs to hear this but the National Guard of one state can’t invade another state. They are separate sovereigns
Drinking Liberally still meets at the Roanoke every Tuesday night at 8pm.
Just like Bruce Willis in “The Sixth Sense.” (Or sadly, just like Bruce Willis IRL today.)
How about, whatever Trump announces tomorrow, we just refuse to accept the fact that he isn't dead in the same way that he refused to accept the fact that he lost the 2020 election?
I'm not suggesting that everybody should apply for these ICE jobs just to waste the recruiters' time and resources but it sure would be funny.
Oh, come on... you couldn't let us enjoy this for one second without focusing on the Trump thing. Classic Eagles fan.
It is literally illegal in most states to refuse to vaccinate your dog for rabies.
Doesn’t instill a lot of confidence in the Coast Guard when their gear starts washing up on shore.
RFK Jr would tell you that only the weak will die, allowing a superior race of heat-resistant Übermenschen to evolve.
If by "malaria region" you mean Florida or Texas, then sure. (In fact, suspected locally acquired cases are popping up across the country, but they're mostly concentrated in the hot and humid South.)
Drain the swamp!
Rural Americans are going to be very ANGRY at blue city liberals for doing this to them!
It was in fact Grant's willingness to suffer greater casualties that made him such an effective general.
People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.
as funny as it is to imagine a scenario where Trump just randomly keels over and dies because he is an unhealthy senile 80 year old, it's important to keep in mind that the scenario where he has a stroke or heart attack and is merely severely incapicitated but remains alive is MUCH FUNNIER
We'll know he's dead when Fox News starts playing Swan Lake.
I think a lot of journalists misunderstand the First Amendment. They think it is the Constitution's job to protect freedom of the press, when in fact it is the job of a free press to defend the Constitution.
Shorter NY Times: "Appeals Court Rules That President Trump Can Continue To Do Illegal Things."
If we ever get through this I want everyone employed by ICE in any capacity imprisoned for life.
The Trump administration wants to murder your children and grandchildren.
Yet another good reason to retire abroad in a civilized country.
If Ted Bundy were alive today he'd be an elder statesman of the Republican Party.
The Dallas Cowboys are in fact "America's Team" in that Jerry Jones is running his franchise the way Donald Trump is running America.
Look, I'm not saying that prospective @kuow.org board member Joe Fain is a rapist. But his alleged victim has—something that KUOW credibly reported at the time. Hate to break it to you public radio, no matter how pro-rapist you become, the Rapist-In-Chief is still not going to restore your funding.
KUOW has long been obsessed with displaying partisan balance on its board, and it's really saying something that when dredging the WAGOP for a board member a notoriously accused rapist was the most respectable GOPer they could find.
To be fair, there are currently no rapists on the @kuow.org board so maybe they're just trying to be more diverse and inclusive?
It's bad enough that this guy is in charge of the Bellevue Chamber, but @kuow.org should have nothing to do with him. It would be a blow to their reputation, and a stain on their credibility.
Was going to get the shot at CVS, now apparently it's not happening. I hope RFK's worm reanimates.
Regardless, it would literally be impossible for all vote-by-mail states like WA and OR to spin up a working in-person voting infrastructure by November 2026. There's no infrastructure, no institutional memory, no resources, no volunteers, no people to train volunteers, etc.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
All of the Democratic governors should do this together. No showboating, no soft presidential campaign theatrics. A unified front.
Good on Governors Pritzker and Newsom for all their defiant speeches, but this sort of righteous defiance is something practical and meaningful that governors can actually do!
But seriously, I am fucking furious. We need state officials to step up now and provide some local leadership.
They're doing to COVID shots what they intend to do to your vote: maintaining the fiction of the "right" while making it as inaccessible as possible.
Pharmacists are licensed, and insurers are regulated, by the states. Blue states need to defy the FDA (and likely the CDC) and require pharmacists to administer COVID vaccines to all who want it, and require insurers to cover the costs. Alternatively, free public vaccination clinics.
Guess I'm going to have to put on 40 pounds. #MAHA
I cannot overstate how angry I am that at 62 years old, I am now technically INELIGIBLE to get the COVID vaccine under the FDA's new ruling. This administration is filled with irredeemable monsters.
We should all try to muster the courage to be that guy standing in front of the tank in Tiananmen Square—at first figuratively, and if necessary literally.
Agree with this. Make them fight for every inch. Worth reading this thread.
This is a public health issue. Even a co-pay will discourage some people from getting vaccinated. And we are all better off with as high a vaccination rate as possible.
If some enterprising lawyer wants to file a class action suit against RFK and the Trump administration, count me in. It's not about winning. It's about making their lives as miserable as they are making ours.
@pattykuderer-waoic.bsky.social Can you please assure the citizens of Washington that insurers here will be required to cover the full cost of COVID-19 vaccinations regardless of the FDA's unscientific actions?
When the next pandemic comes (and it will come) we will all be royally fucked.
If I'm forced to pay even a penny out of pocket for the COVID vaccine due to this offensively stupid FDA decision I'm send the bill to RFK Jr and taking him to small claims court if he refuses to pay. And so should you.
I've always found the most offensive thing about Rand's writing to be the writing. Even her sex scenes are boring.
For example, let's say you are a server in Alabama where BLS says the average wage including tips is $10.75/hour. If you earn the average, that means you're averaging $8.62/hour in tips, $5.12 of which subsidizes your employer in the form of the tip credit, and only $3.50 goes to you.
Also, the first $5.12/hour of those tips go directly to the employer, not the employee. The server is guaranteed a minimum of $7.25/hour including tips. For many servers outside of big cities, their employer gets a bigger share of the tips than they do.
So I guess maybe Fukuyama was right about this being The End of History?
Honestly, democrats (both big "D" and small) need to stop constraining their ideas and ambitions by adhering to dead things like norms or institutions or the law or the Constitution. We won't defeat fascism with one or two hands tied behind our backs. There is no rule of law. There are no norms.
There is long established legal precedent that read Art. I, Sec. 10 to permit most interstate compacts without congressional approval. But regardless, the Constitution is broken and unenforceable. If it doesn't apply to the president it doesn't apply to the states. This is about exercising power.
The Trumpsters are itching to provoke a violent confrontation with protesters somewhere. Given its history, Portland might give them what they want.
Same here. Though I don’t necessarily agree with my blue merle Aussie, Rita, being so vocally NIMBY when it comes to other dogs walking by.
The whole point of sanctions is to create hardship for civilians, not because they deserve it, but in order to incite them to bring popular pressure on their government. That’s how sanctions work. And they’re less reprehensible than invading cities.
Blue states should sign an interstate compact imposing economic sanctions on states that send their national guard, uninvited, into any of the compact member states. Refuse to do business with states that violate other states’ sovereignty.
Target cities should pass poison pill ordinances that say that if local police are "federalized"—or in any way break the local civilian chain of command—the city stops paying way. No way local taxpayers should be made to pay for their own military occupation.
Target cities should hold military takeover referendums. Get the population on record on whether this is what they want. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/think...
If a Democratic president was doing the same fascist shit that Trump is doing, rank and file Republicans would just be straight up murdering random Democrats in retaliation.
I’m 62 years old and the fascist shit show unfolding at home has me seriously considering retiring abroad. And I wonder what kind of economic impact this might have if those of us Boomers and Xers who can afford to flee expatriate our retirement spending with us? Anybody study this?
Just one year? Even if Trump is wrapped in it? Hmm.
You are living through the unthinkable: the president of the United States using the military to seize domestic power. The greatest crisis of executive power in American history, at the hands of the worst, most corrupt, and most unfit president in American history.
I wasn’t really tempted to burn an American flag until Trump wrapped himself in it.
read trump's new executive order on domestic military dplymt + vigilante "portal." one of the reasons i am happy to be an independent journalist is so I can say that this is crazy, fascist, brownshirts shit without getting pulled into a meeting with PR for "opening us up to criticism from the right"
If only all Democratic electeds could meet the moment the way Gov. Pritzker is we might have a chance.
"Brownshirts." They're called "brownshirts."
I really object to people disparaging the U.S. as a "banana republic." In reality, we grow very few bananas. (Also, we're no longer really a republic.)
I just fired the president.
You are way too forgiving.
There are no norms and there is no rule of law.
Roberts' brilliant strategy is that if he never tells Trump "no" then Trump will never expose how utterly powerless SCOTUS is simply by ignoring its decisions.
I saved it as a heirloom of a bygone era when scammers had to put a little more elbow grease (not to mention postage) into their scams. I've been a connoisseur of scams ever since:
The only rational and patriotic response to this is to publicly burn an American flag.
I’m so old I actually once got a physical scam letter in the mail, postmarked from Nigeria.
It should be like Kaiser Permanente, but subsidized through taxes.
As you would expect from the CEO of Wells Fargo.
I dunno, this seems really official. I should respond, right?
Whatever the cutoff is it'd be per annum, not per loan. No, not a HELOC. Billionaires aren't like us. They live in an entirely different world. You don't need to worry about accidentally taxing the things regular people do.
The difference is, City Light's investments are far longer term than the typical homeowner, opening up a lot of creative financing options. For example, City Light might pay for the install and own the panels, and the homeowner might get discounted rates in return.
Sure, we need multi-megawatt projects too. But if the rate of return on rooftop solar is higher than the cost of money then it’s kinda free. And City Light could scale this up far more efficiently than individual homeowners.
Ordinary folks don’t take out 8-, 9-, or 10-figure loans. But yes, large loans collateralized by unrealized gains can and should be taxed as income.
We don't need a difficult to administer unrealized capital gains tax. Billionaires like Cuban fund their lavish lifestyle by borrowing against unrealized gains at low rates. It's a tax dodge. So we simply need to tax the proceeds of these loans as regular income. Problem solved.
I really enjoyed this @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social pod about Covid & MAHA, but one thing it repeatedly revealed is a habit of liberals that drives me crazy. A short 🧵.
So, if the grid is the bottleneck, why doesn't Seattle City Light invest more in locally generated rooftop solar? We know the ROI pencils out over 10 to 15 years, even in Seattle, and City Light can borrow money far cheaper than consumers. Seems like an opportunity.
#AffirmativeAction
