Medicaid for All solves this extremely common problem people have with their private insurance carriers

Once all the Nobel Prizes have been assembled in the Oval Office the president gets to summon the Nobel Dragon and it must grant him or her a wish

I've seen "Apocalypse Now" probably 100 times because whenever I threw parties in high school I would put the VHS on my family's 6 inch TV and when it got to the end, I'd rewind it and put it on again. One of the worst movies ever made

"For all the hate D.C.'s traffic cameras get" is a hilarious starting point. Why would I hate them? I don't speed

this is fucking incredible

I don't know what a "celsius" is but a grocery store clerk today told me their lunch was "doritos and a celsius" so I hope that has all the vitamins children need these days

Amount to consider here is off the charts. Is there an episode of the King of the Hill reboot where Hank finds out about REI and assumes it's where a lot of straight white republicans get together to chat about carabiner weight thresholds?

It's called unethical non-monogamy and it's more popular than ever

Evelyn Normielib is demonstrating good opsec here by not revealing her intentions but only alluding to them

I'm sorry but isn't gold like, the most notoriously soft metal? Why would you name your protection after something you can make impressions on with your teeth? May as well call it the Brie Dome

In DC our progressive councilmembers have this bizarre affectation whereby whenever you point out some crime being committed they say, "we're just the legislature!" The obvious response to which is, "then legislate!" which never seems to amuse them.

Why would public law schools have to account for state politics when making decisions about who to hire as their next dean, for better or worse?

It's so cool we are paying a trillion dollars for this blight

Either Palestine becomes free, or every place gradually becomes Gaza.

Every single word in this story is a delightful surprise

The place that the NYT found people talking about how awful Minneapolis is is 138 miles away from Minneapolis. It's further from Minneapolis than Wilmington, Delaware is from New York City.

She's running

I forgot the rifftrax guy was from Minnesota even though they record all their specials there

They'll stop when they're stopped

what a long week. i wish we could just skip ahead to Whiskey Fridays with Tony Dokoupil

We somehow integrated health insurance premium underwriters back into the productive economy after 2009

Somehow talked my way into watching "Crimes of the Future" tonight and that movie is neither very good nor does it contain as much body horror as I was expecting based on the maximum-body-horror promised by the reviews back in 2022. The body horror is, I would say, "nominal"

Yglesias's point here should be taken extremely literally. He believes in a country where "you" are expected to have "your" papers on "you" in case "your" citizenship is challenged [by whom?]. This is a very safe belief for someone who is certain their own citizenship will never be challenged.

when you're to the right of jim rogan

I have a lot of exchanges like this every day that I like to categorize as "booty call, bank heist, or trying to figure out how to get into your own apartment building"

There is a new autistic barbie out, but no one is talking about her mother, undiagnosed computer engineer barbie about to get the surprise of her life when she starts to argue with the evaluator that these are all normal childhood behaviours that she had when she was the same age.

I've never understood why we're supposed to care about the "sincerity" of people's beliefs versus the "truth" of their beliefs, like is their sincerity supposed to make up for how wrong they are?

A month away from the game and I didn't lose a step

Say what you will about Trump, like many of his followers he's had a lifelong devotion to the integrity of womens athletics competitions.

Lipstadt is the Biden apparatchik that @ichotiner.bsky.social embarrassed last year by asking basic questions about why she supported the Trump administration's crackdown on campus speech under the guise of anti-semitism: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

After much instigation I wrote about Aligned Incentives, which I sure hope never pulls a rug or any similar floor covering freequentflyerbook.com/blog/2026/1/...

In DC we passed a law so that insurance companies were forced to cover IVF treatment would you say that's something "Conservatives" "shaped" "debate" "over" or something actual progressives passed into law in order to make a concrete change in living standards at the expense of private corporations?

Conveniently, the state being able to specifically articulate why it’s stopping a vehicle happens to be the longstanding legal test for whether it’s constitutionally permissible to do so.

"Tired, sad, sick, and unbelievably rich" is an archetype that fell out of favor after Kennedy but it's one we're seeing more and more of again, from Steve Jobs to Jordan Peterson to Scott Adams. Really harkening back to an earlier era of feeble aristocrats. I recommend strong broth and leeching.

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

sauvignon bloc

People are talking about how much weekend sentiment, when the public markets are unfortunately closed, is moving against some carefully timed catastrophe so I'm guessing markets are up 2-3% in the morning.

I think it's funny that there are Americans who looked around at the state of the world and solemnly decided they know who should run Iran. How about we sit this one out fellas

And Godzilla can help fix overcrowding and social isolation in Tokyo, but guess what? Godzilla is not interested in implementing coherent policies to achieve ends that serve the nation. He's a rapid onset complex disaster that follows a random path and leaves only irradiated rubble behind him.

Like I always say, most high-level international sporting competitions just sort of "work out" (not least because most world-class athletes are already used to staying in shitty hotels and training on faulty equipment). The LA world cup and olympics should sure be interesting though!

i remember when the computer still demanded blood. my dad's Tandy took a mere pinprick from your finger, which was a revolutionary advancement from the bulky machines of the 80's that required a thimbleful to access usenet for a day. that itself was an improvement on the pint needed to join ARPANET

King George Was Right To Enforce The Stamp Act — But Not Like This

The streateries disappear on 18th street -- a series of photos taken about 5 weeks apart. Where there was once room for 20 or so people to eat, now there's room for just a single car to park.

Achtung-tied. @theonion.com

You might think this would make cannabis less accessible in DC but in fact it has had the opposite effect, in that formerly "unregulated" business converted into legal dispensaries, of which there were only 4 or 5 left before the change in the law