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One reason that there's so much sanewashing and downplaying of RFK Jr. is that his focus on sickness and health as an issue of individual responsibility appeals to the class prejudices of a lot of elite reporters/editors www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/09/the-...
This is, I swear to Christ, the lead story at the Atlantic Monthly right now
Clearly not the brightest bulb in the chandelier.
Wait just a minute. No badmouthing Stuart Stevens.
Thank you for remembering and mentioning the very honorable Richard Lugar.
[CUE MUSIC: “IN THE ARMS OF AN ANGEL” PLAYING SOFTLY] [FADE IN BACKGROUND SOUND: A solemn voice reads names] Nate Silver. Matthew Yglesias. Megan McArdle. Mark Cuban. [FADE IN: SALLY STRUTHERS sits on a stool in a pool of light on a minimalist set. She looks SAD.] /1
Well, alrighty then. Nate has just decreed that progressives are not normal people. The oracle has spoken.
You guys see where this is going? Right?
It'll be in the book... maybe.
Russia tried to assassinate the President of European Commission Ursula von der Leyen by jamming her plane while landing. So far Europe has ignored the issue as to not give Russia the attention it wants and to quietly prevent themselves from reacting to this significant escalation by the Kremlin.
Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
This is an actual congressman. People heard the words that came out when this man opened his mouth and said, yes, this minor character from a Faulkner novel is indeed the best person we could find to represent our interests in the national government.
This fetid scumbag has bigger ambitions: news.ballotpedia.org/2025/05/13/r...
This one feels like it's taunting me personally. Yes, "under God" is in the Pledge. Please tell me more about how that came about, please.
Pure fucking evil. Everyone involved in this shit needs to be held accountable.
Yep. The grift has always been strong in that one. Poor Donnie. Still trying to be accepted by all the cool kids in Manhattan who've been laughing at him since the 1960s.
Gaza Ministry of Health: 9 died from starvation in the last day, 3 kids among them. From the start of the war, 348 people have died from starvation, 127 of them are kids IPC have declared famine in Gaza. Silence is Complicity
It's often said he sounds terrible because he has spasmodic dysphonia but that's not the whole story. He's had that for decades but his voice used to be much better; the dumbass didn't "trust the experts" so stopped his approved Botox treatment that was working and got an unapproved useless implant.
Not to make light of your point but abusers sound a lot like Trump voters. I think I understand those voters (within your context), which helps me to understand your point about abusers.
Apparently it's also the abbreviation for the Sioux Falls Regional Airport. Who knew?
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
We can do better for this #furry baby with reposts to find her a foster before she’s euthanized @nycacc.bsky.social ! JUDY NEEDS YOU! Her life depends on you! She hates Florida politics too! DeathSantis is a tyrant! She wants to live anywhere but there! Pls repost her! URGENT ‼️
This from the guy who is well known for hiring, then stiffing, contractors on all of his projects. Then filing frivolous lawsuits against them until they shut up and go away. I'm shocked.
Why do you appreciate unions? I’ll start: Weekends off Paid vacations Work breaks Sick leave Paid holidays No child labor Safer working conditions Health care and retirement benefits
My BIL married a Swedish woman and moved there. I’m liking him more and more…
🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump said in a weekend social media post he plans to issue an executive order to impose voter ID requirements. And he reiterated his desire to ban mail voting. The president lacks the authority to take either step. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
"In short: It’s a fiction that the court is untouchably powerful. And now, more than ever before, the high court is pretending to be omnipotent when it’s not; it’s all just green smoke, cracked mirrors, and big words." Great piece, @dahlialithwick.bsky.social ! slate.com/news-and-pol...
RIP to legendarily corrupt Congressman Duke Cunningham. I believe I am now clear to share one of the wildest off record anecdotes I ever heard. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/08/28/d...
I'm still laughing... 🤣
Corporate America’s playbook: 1) Exploit workers to maximize profits 2) Use profits to buy Congress 3) Use Congress to pass union-busting laws 4) Use these laws to further exploit workers 5) Repeat Let's break the cycle and keep building back a powerful labor movement.
Iowa's report skewers agriculture for fouling waters with nitrates and pesticides, but the $400k publicity stash evaporated under new county brass, burying truths that sting farm barons. #WaterPollution
Is this some sort of cosmic joke on Trump's part? Deport all the (hardworking and law-abiding) immigrants and have the National Guard take over all the landscaping jobs--?
NEW: my office has received disturbing whistleblower reports that the Trump administration plans to separate 700 children from their families, lawyers, and support systems. Disappearing vulnerable children beyond the reach of American law and oversight is beyond depravity.
“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...
How do we get the Democratic party leadership to throw out their worthless (and outrageously expensive) consultants and hire Stuart?
Yes
Luckovich is a genius and more truthful than 99% of popular media.
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
Solid choice.
“Erik, you’re not crazy. Your instincts are sharp, and your vigilance here is fully justified,” the bot replied.
ATLANTA: “The city is opening a grocery store to clear up a downtown food desert… City leaders say the market will help those in the area who have not previously had easy access to healthy food.” (cc: everyone acting like @ZohranKMamdani is crazy🤔) www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...
The ghost of Reinhard Heydrich approves.
Long past time.
Wonderful idea. Listen up, New York!
Hmmm... 🤔 After she leaves who will take over her place as the stupidest member of the Senate? My money would be on Tuberville, but he's running for governor of Alabama.
I for one can't wait until this whiny little cockroach is out of a job. C'mon, Louisiana. You know what to do.
This painting is classic Lost Cause revisionism; it was commissioned after Truman ordered desegregation of the military. Army Secretary Gordon Gray was a nepobaby (daddy was chair of RJ Reynolds) who led the dubious "Gray Board" that yanked Oppenheimer's clearance. Real piece of work all around.
Ah, yes, for all you young people: there was a relentless effort to manufacture a consensus that Columbine was caused by Goth culture, industrial music, and videogames. The neo-Nazism was buried, and anyone who pointed to easy access to guns was denounced as a liberty-hating tyrant.
I imagine I speak for a lot of people when I say that I want FSD about as much as I want to live on Mars. But then, unlike Musk, I'm not a socially awkward teenage male obsessed with sci-fi.
Frankly, I don't see how FSD is legal in the first place. It's not certified or approved by anyone. It's no different than if I was selling people a fake autonomous driving upgrade that I falsely described as "full self-driving" and which was programmed to manipulate/destroy data in crashes.
This Thiel lieutenant / eugenics freak thinks billionaires should have their own lawless artificial island countries ("seasteading"), there should be markets for selling human organs, and the FDA should allow drugs to be sold without evidence they're effective. www.citizen.org/article/jim-...
I’ll be real with you: not even a Cybertruck owner deserves this
I will never understand why anyone would drive one of these deathtraps.
Starbucks CEO pay: $96 MILLION Starbucks worker pay: $15,000 Coca-Cola CEO pay: $28 MILLION Coca-Cola worker pay: $14,000 CEOs used to make like 20x the average worker. In 2024, the average CEO earned 632x more. The system is rigged.
There is a massive walk out at the CDC by staff unfolding right now. It is NECESSARY. I stand in solidarity with my CDC colleagues. standing up for science and public health. It is a moral imperative.
Via @chrisgeidner.bsky.social, here’s the Trump administration’s 23rd emergency application to #SCOTUS, this one seeking a partial stay of the latest injunction in the foreign aid funding case: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
three guesses which party this guy is in
Three senior CDC leaders who resigned told The Post they were asked to participate in an unscientific vaccine recommendation process that they believe could harm the health of Americans.
Family member of survivor: “God was looking over him.” Not really sure what that’s saying about the deceased.
Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.
The only precedent this corrupt Roberts court follows is their own giving Trump total immunity and granting every Republican wishcast. So the answer to that question would be a no.
He's a traitor. We must treat him like one.
A months-long investigation estimates that the profits from the Trump family's ventures in private clubs, hotels, golf courses, crypto currencies, NFTs, and other businesses has raised Trump’s net worth by billions of dollars.
The Journal-Constitution will stop publishing a print newspaper at the end of the year, Mr. Morse said, and divert all of its resources into the digital news operation. The company has published in print since 1868. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/b...
He’s laying the groundwork to fuck with & overthrow the 2026 election. He’s laying the groundwork to stay in the White House after the 2028 election. Donald Trump is America’s enemy. It must be said. He is an enemy to this country. And he must be stopped.
🚨ICE agents are racially profiling and arresting Hispanic drivers in the DC area today, targeting work vehicles like trucks and vans. A friend who was targeted sent me video today. Here’s a picture that shows one of two agents before he pulled on his mask. Unmarked black Ford truck, plate: NTV9211.
It's simple really. If VBM didn't favor Democrats then Republicans wouldn't care about it.
He is wrong on the facts. 1. The data is clear, VBM benefits Democrats electorally and it remains true. Rejected mail ballots skew Democratic as well. 2. Strict photo ID laws also disadvantage Democrats, particularly young voters and those in urban areas. Again, this is data not opinion.
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The leaders would be a good place to start.
No rebranding/return to democratic norms/rebuilding will matter if it is not accompanied by Nuremberg-style tribunals for the traitors, starting with Trump and Vance. We should have learned that lesson already from the failed post-Civil War reconstruction and the Nixon pardon.
We coulda had someone. We coulda had a contender. We coulda had Katie Porter.
Remember when John McCain died and Trump refused to fly the American flag at half-staff because he didn’t like the guy? thehill.com/policy/defen...
Shame on them for going along with this charade.
Yeah. It’s happening here.
The new normal: Move fast, break things, then break some more things.
In a significant policy shift following the firing and departure of over 100 immigration judges, the Department of Justice announced Wednesday that temporary immigration judges will no longer need to have experience in immigration law.
En direct : Gaza se trouve au « point de rupture » en raison de la famine, selon la directrice du Programme alimentaire mondial
Dying to know what RFK thinks mitochondria are.
Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."
I can’t get over how old and sickly Trump seems in every setting now. The fact that the DC press corps is making this the lead question and topic in DC is astounding. He’s clearly not well—even by Trumpian standards of clarity.
Let’s be clear about what is happening: This man is being punished — and disappeared — because he embarrassed our pretender king. They trumped up a criminal case against him because he was embarrassing.
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These AI products are so not ready for prime time. And we are boiling our planet and pillaging the world’s intellectual property to let them loose on the world.
This is insanity. This is the sign of a government that has lost its mind.
I didn't originally catch this about the return of the Confederate Memorial to Arlington National Cemetery. It's going back in the same place as before. But instead of saying "the Confederate section," both Hegseth and ANC say it will be "near" or "at" the gravesite of sculptor Moses Ezekiel.
Wow
Just stop it. She's a hack, and you certainly know it better than most. Another media fail.
It’s also what his techno fascist donors want. Specifically Greenland.
A terrorist attack on CDC. A (pre)Labor Day purge of leadership. Vaccine access being cut. Science being destroyed. We are out of time. Sign the letter. Get your reps to care. Run for their seats if they don’t.
NEW: Today, the Republican Party is pushing a judge to jail Fulton County commissioners. Why? They refuse to vote to appoint two far-right election denial activists to the Fulton County Election Board who have a history of undermining elections. Here's what they had to say – video thread. ⬇️
The only thing more disgraceful than having groveling cabinet members so willing to debase themselves in this shameless way is having such a damaged, insecure, and needy president that they know desperately needs to hear this BS.
Brutal. A humiliation ritual.
Schools Theaters Concerts Malls Churches Synagogues Mosques Parks Nightclubs Offices Festivals Stores Military Bases Bars Post Offices Yoga Studios Super Bowl parades Nowhere is safe from the scourge of gun violence in America. You can't tell me we must simply accept it.
NEW: Yesterday, I posted that I was unable to get the COVID vaccine at my VA clinic, and many of you assured me that the new one would be available soon and that I was overreacting. I was not overreacting. I am no longer eligible for the vaccine. apnews.com/article/vacc...