I did some research to try and figure out when my death date would be if there had been no treatment for my cancer. I don't know why I assumed it would be some date in the future, but, in fact, I passed the middle of the "no treatment survival" bell curve more than a year ago. Thanks chemo.

Well! It’s been so long since I used Bluesky that I had to re-log in. Oops. I’ll try to be better.

A recent study found that for every $1 invested in the National Weather Service, it produces $73 in value to Americans. Not only is the NWS a life-saving government resource, it's actually quite efficient.

Trump is forcing Americans who are seeking their earned benefits to sign up for Elon Musk's app. Pure corruption.

The most corrupt administration in American history wants you to look the other way from this. We can't. We need answers.

Today would be a great day to ban members of Congress and their families from trading stocks.

A Delaware judge finds the right-wing network aired false and defamatory statements about Dominion Voting Systems' role in the 2020 presidential election. A jury trial is slated for late April.

“She describes [Zuckerberg] as a cross between a truculent teen and a toddler: he doesn’t like to get up before midday, even to meet prime ministers, and his obsequious colleagues feel obliged to let him beat them at board games.” Sigh. The tech bros are all the same.

One thing Trump didn't talk about last night: his plans to abandon American women’s right to abortion care in medical emergencies. I wonder why he wouldn't want anyone to know that.

In Oversight today, my colleagues stuck to their usual script: blaming immigrants for all crime & claiming Dem mayors are too soft. Well, I was curious to know if they’ve ever had an immigrant with a criminal record that they could recall. Tune in!

Alina Habbard posted: NOTHING CAN STOP THIS MAN FROM FIGHTING FOR HIS COUNTRY. David Simon had a succinct 2-word response: “Bone spurs.”

Well said!

Etymology of the day: ‘book’ comes from an ancient root shared by ‘beech’, a wood that people used for engraving inscriptions. ‘Paper’ comes from ‘papyrus’, and ‘volume’ is from the Latin for a ‘roll’ of parchment. Happy World Book Day.

Donald Trump promised he wouldn't cut Medicaid. This week, his friends in DC voted for a bill that would leave 3.4 million Illinoisans, including 1.4 million children, in the dust. Another middle finger to working families and the most vulnerable in our state.

So increasing the minimum wage to a livable wage is “socialism”? But Amazon union busting, keeping wages low, and forcing workers onto public assistance while its founder increases his net worth by $7.9M an hour is the "free market"? Perhaps this could be a WaPo opinion piece.

@meidasjordy.bsky.social Saw you guys on MSNBC (via YouTube) and you all did a great job. I also found out I wasn’t subscribed to the podcast—now sorted!

“If our Christianity causes kids to go hungry, the sick to go without healthcare, the stranger to be unwelcome, the elderly on social security to be called a ‘parasite,’ all while billionaires get richer, we’ve profoundly misunderstood the most basic elements of Jesus’ teachings.” (Benjamin Cremer)

“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

With utmost respect, HOW does resigning make them A “hero”?! Wouldn’t a hero say, “fuck you” (figuratively speaking) and wait to be fired? I’m sincerely struggling to grasp this take.

I’m often asked what I think the sign of the end is, and it’s this: When the convicted felon publicly says he’ll defy court orders. No one who can stop him—in other words, Republicans—will in any way object or oppose him. Neither will the Republican Supreme Court. When he does that, it’s game over.

Just when you think Republican politicians have hit peak idiocy, another one takes the crown. 🤣

this is the sort of thing you post when you’re ramping up to defying lawful court orders

Apparently, allowing Americans to file their tax returns for free is a bad thing. A big gift to the Big Tax lobby and a big middle finger to Americans.

Putin is full out celebrating our idiocy.

“The controller who was handling helicopters in the airport’s vicinity Wednesday night was also instructing planes that were landing and departing from its runways. Those jobs typically are assigned to two controllers, rather than one.”

Right?

"Wannabe authoritarians' modus operandi is no great mystery. How do you undermine a healthy democracy? Scapegoating minorities is a good start. How do you consolidate power? Purging the security agencies is a key to success." www.thebulwark.com/p/a-wannabe-...

I feel seen…

lolll

This is a slap in the face to American women. Pete Hegseth has a track record of disrespecting women service members, and multiple credible sexual assault allegations. Our troops deserve better.

Somehow “we told you this would happen” doesn’t seem strong enough.

She said, “May I ask you to have mercy Mr. President on those in our communities whose children fear that their parents will be taken away." If Mike Johnson thinks that’s “radical,” perhaps he has a fundamental misunderstanding of his own religion.

As the son and grandson of preachers, I underscore this message.

Because, of course! Corruption is the point.

What exactly does it say about a political party which will not speak out against the absolution of the men and women who only a few short years ago, tried to kill them where they sit at the behest of the madman they now serve?

Pin this, save it, we’ll need it. “When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.” AOC 🔥🎯

I thought this article was chilling, not just because it documents how easy it was to destroy German democracy in the 1930s, but also because of the number of times it was obvious the Orange One directly quoted Hitler. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Part One of the DOJ Report on Trump’s crimes has been released. Grab it while you can. www.justice.gov/storage/Repo...

Former “Washington Post” columnist Jennifer Rubin’s first column for “The Contrarian” torches Jeff Bezos and his deliberate degradation of “The Washington Post” in order to bend the knee for Trump, when free & fearless journalism is needed the absolute most: contrarian.substack.com/p/i-have-res...

Nothing new about that, of course.

One of America's most famous cities is on fire and the richest man in the country hasn't paid a penny to assist people whose lives have been destroyed by the fires. He has, however, been busy spewing disinformation and encouraging people to loot. Because worthless trolls are like that.

Hmm… why is legacy media avoiding this story? They’ve had wall-to-wall coverage of silly stuff Democrats supposedly did, but crickets about Republicans OPENLY stealing a state supreme court seat and disenfranchising 60,000 voters to help their theft. Weird, huh? 😉

Democracy Docket is a fantastic resource for keeping track of court actions on voting and democracy.

Republicans constantly whine about how “government doesn’t work”because they’re the ones always breaking it.

JUST IN: The U.S. added 256,000 jobs in December, surpassing expectations and bringing the total for 2024 to 2.2 million. The unemployment rate dipped to 4.1%, and wages grew 3.9% over the past year, far outpacing inflation.

I think we’ve probably all been there at some point.