@kaine.senate.gov @markwarner.bsky.social Senators, Virginians have your backs. ACA credits are too important to accept anything less than an iron-clad extension.

Game-tying home runs to tie a game in the 9th inning of World Series Game 7: Miguel Rojas tonight End of list!

What say you @nytimes.com ? your long-time readers are not pleased. I’ve already stopped buying the Post…

A year and a half of expiring ACA tax credits for 24 million Americans.

Virginia State Senate Dems just brought down fire and fury regarding the “Compact,” notifying the President and Rector that UVA would lose ALL STATE APPROPRIATIONS if it signs and cedes the University to “federal political control.” Notably, their letter directly restates points made here by @siva.

👀 Marjorie Taylor Greene breaks with Republicans on Obamacare funding, saying she’s not a fan of the law but demands action to prevent a premium hike. “I’m absolutely disgusted that health insurance premiums will DOUBLE if the tax credits expire this year.” She says GOP leaders don’t have a plan.

The story of 2024 is this: Trump had a plan to destroy American government called Project 2025, which had, literally, not a typo, a 4% approval rating. He lied constantly and said he wouldn't do it. Then he entered office and immediately implemented AN EVEN MORE EXTREME VERSION OF IT.

JD Vance straight-up lied about Dems wanting health care for illegals. They are barred from the medical assistance orgs.

Sound Up 🔊 ( ht: @stanrezaee.bsky.social )

So many of us came so very unwillingly to this place of viewing the Supreme Court as unworthy of being viewed as a judicial body. Unworthy of veneration, unworthy of respect. So profoundly reluctantly. But, good lord have they earned it.

Supreme Court rules 6-3 that congressional appropriations are optional: www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

good to see, but also kinda wild how the rubicon was Jimmy fucking Kimmel

Disney and ABC need to feel serious consequences for their collaboration with Trump and MAGA in censoring Kimmel. Economic consequences. Same with the owners of CBS and other organizations that capitulate. The only thing they understand or care about are their own bottom lines.

I'm not a late-night TV person (I find most of it cringe & stale). But the gov should not have the power to withhold licenses from TV corps as punishment for the content of their speech. If Biden had blocked Fox's sale of 21st Century to Disney b/c he didn’t like Tucker, that would have been wrong

I hadn’t seen this. Kirk, the moderate free speech guy who did politics the right way per some liberals (!), called for Biden to be executed. Meanwhile Joe Biden put out a very strong statement condemning Kirk’s killing. Both sides!

When Charlie Kirk called for the lynching of transgender individuals. Is this a respectful debate???

They may not want to hear it, and it may incense them, but the parallels between what the Nazis did then, and what Trump and MAGA are doing today, are striking, chilling—and as any expert on authoritarianism will tell you, straight out of the same toxic, but dog-eared, playbook.

This should go without saying, but Trump is not opposed to political violence. He’s opposed to violence against his political allies. He is either silent about, or approving of, violence against his political enemies.

This is what happens when you fire a non-partisan FBI director and give the job to an incompetent loyalist.

shit approaching fan

well, but--there was an interlude of Obama. in retrospect, yes it seems miraculous; but there it was. presumably Martin Luther King, Jr. could not have predicted Obama & that era of (relative) optimism. prophets are usually more prescient about doom, for obvious reasons.

🚨🚨🚨 Hey #VIRGINIA: Just a reminder that ~411,000 of you are looking at your health insurance premiums increasing by AT LEAST ~21% on average starting in January... acasignups.net/rate_changes...

Tedious to point this out, but: - When a tongue-tied Biden said "President of Mexico" instead of "Prez of Egypt," it was a several day story. -Hours after Trump says whoever appointed J Powell made a big mistake (it was him), the episode appears not to merit a story on any national-media sites.

Meanwhile, the ACA exchange carnage will kick in less than 6 months from now. And it will hit even more people.

@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Mr. Minority Leader, we are days away from passage of a bill which will rip health insurance away from millions of Americans. Talking about anything else just makes it easy for them to get away with this dreadful plan. And why has out party talked so little about the ACA

Brutal.

A top staffer to Sen. Tina Smith emailed Sen. Mike Lee’s top staffers on Monday about “how much additional pain you’ve caused on an unspeakably horrific weekend” Full emails below

Since Trump inauguration: Gaza escalated, Ukraine escalated, Israel-Iran escalated. Trump is a walking permission slip to every strongman to do whatever they want, and it propelling the world into ever-more violence and chaos

Trump’s go-to line about every foreign policy crisis and war - from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, to October 7th, to the Israel’s devastation of Gaza - was “It would never have happened if I was president.” Welp.

@jaketapper.bsky.social should we still be talking about Biden being old last year when the authoritarians are currently arresting US senators?

Bruce Springsteen speaks on the American moment

I don’t think there’s ever been a more irresponsible act in US history than putting RFK in charge of public health. You’d rather have Manson.

Trump is a world-class hater. But his hatred is only a means to an end, and that end is his own glorification. That's his spiritual nourishment.

Joan Jett in Toronto 🔥🤘

Four months. Given 7 Democratic appointees and 4 Republican appointees, the chance of a majority Republican panel four months in a row is about 0.6% (~1 in 166).

The US is a deeply sick country. www.news.com.au/travel/trave...

🔥 DENIRO AT CANNES: “In my country we’re fighting like hell for the democracy we once took for granted… Art looks for truth, embraces diversity — that’s why we are a threat to autocrats and fascists.” 🇺🇸

WHO DID THIS?!?!

How about some basic rules? --All law enforcement officers should wear identification --No law enforcement officers should be allowed masks --All law enforcement officers should wear and use body cams ...oh and... --All law enforcement officers should understand, respect & follow the law

Israel plans to occupy and flatten all of Gaza if no hostage and ceasefire deal is reached by the end of President Trump's trip to the Middle East two weeks from now. My story on @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/05/05/i...

The Secretary of the Navy, John Phelan, went to pay his respects to the servicemembers and civilians lost in Pearl Harbor on “June 7th, 1941.” It looks good, except Pearl Harbor happened on December 7th. It seems Mr. Phelan skipped that part of history class. Only the best people, right?

Men in plainclothes, one in a balaclava, raided the Charlottesville courthouse today. They abducted a local painter whose case (allegedly fighting with his roommate) was being dismissed, and another who was there paying fines. They took them away in unmarked vans. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

This is horrifying. When I was their age, I traveled the world for 3 months. Never had firm lodging plans. Can’t imagine ending up in a foreign detention center.