He’s not dead. He’s just molting.

end stage renal capitalism

Just 15 years ago, we had: 🐘Democratic governors in WV, WY, and OK. 🐘Democrats representing SD and IN in the U.S. Senate. 🐘Dem control of the AK and MS statehouses. Majority Democrats is how we get back to winning all across the country. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...

As someone who unseated a 26-year, 13-term Republican legislator who voted against Medicaid expansion, I can say the hubris of telling your constituents "we're all going to die" when they're concerned about you denying them health insurance and then doubling down by mocking them may just backfire.🧵

SecState Rubio claims that no on has died because of USAID cuts and suggested that I had lied in my reporting. So here I show him photos of specific children who have died because of the Trump administration's reckless cancelation of aid: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/o...

Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

that silly little moment when you're trying to get the kids ready for a birthday party and you realize there's only enough time left for one parent to get showered and dressed:

“yeah, that’s a picture of our nation’s first dictator at the easter egg roll. no not him the human one.”

SELLING AMERICA The 2011 S&P downgrade of the US government’s credit rating was a fart in the wind for markets. Now, we’re in the midst of the biggest downgrade of US stocks relative to their global peers on record, laid bare on the screens. sherwood.news/markets/the-...

become a Democrat! *special offer for the first 4 R reps to flip!*

congratulations, America. you’re gonna pay for a trade war instead of universal health care.

What a grim fucking day for the future of science, medicine, and health in this country.

sorry aesop, but now we have fed your fables into our llm we have to let you go; we can generate our own version of the goose that laid the golden eggs without having to pay *anyone*.

“May you lurk in interesting group chats” - ancient curse

Tom Clancy + The Coen Brothers

15 years of public opinion of the ACA. www.kff.org/interactive/...

If a D official said this, R's would have instantly clipped, shared, commented on, and distributed this soundbite (and their rage) through countless content creators and various platforms. So much that it would wash into mainstream outlets, too. We're not there yet.

unitary executive but hold on wait not *that* executive

One ancestral line had become a high-powered attorney in the city. The other ancestral line stuck to its roots as the town carpenter. But when their hometown’s Christmas market was about to go bankrupt, they realized they had more in common than met the eye…

“no I can’t marry you,” she says. “I can’t take any more of your jurassic park references.” I’m frozen. Like a prehistoric mosquito in fossilized amber. “But honey…” I stammer. “I… I spared no expense.”

tfw you just got another fundraising text from the rebel alliance

strange to watch conservatives make voting harder right as they become the party of low propensity voters

everything’s computer is a Radiohead album

as a PR professional, I can assure you that nothing sells quite like desperation

Trump voter who spent all his money on Trump merch, Trump meme coins, inauguration tickets that were never refunded: honey i guess we have to buy a tesla now

These proposed changes are at risk of flying below the radar because they are highly technical. But CMS's own estimates suggest that marketplace coverage losses *in 2026* will be 34-90% higher than the coverage losses from expiration of enhanced subsidies alone.

This is what the American people voted for: more expensive eggs and health insurance that’s marginally less convenient to get

man, the 60th anniversary of Selma feels a bit different than the 50th

Important political science insight: no one below 30 has any idea what a sister souljah moment is

On the one hand, we’re never getting off this planet. On the other hand, we’ll get to fight easily preventable diseases and veterans won’t be able to get health care.

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

To me, the most interesting health care piece last night, and the tragedy of being Trump, is that the one benefit to the world that he could legitimately claim: accelerating the mRNA vaccine that turned the tide against COVID-19 He can’t. Not bc of Dems, but bc he needs anti-vaxxers to win.

A lot of discussion about tax cuts. Nothing yet about up to $880 billion or more in Medicaid cuts to help pay for them.

I don't plan on watching tonight's speech. The visual of watching the guy who sent an armed mob to sack the Capitol and overturn an election, now being welcomed and cheered is just a bit on the nose. Maybe next year.

not gonna be R+4 with federal job losses and a recession

I knew it'd be bad, but not "spark a recession in Q1" bad.

The new Secretary is going to find that most people aren’t okay with being responsible for the deaths of children. Samoa is looking more like a preview of things to come, unfortunately.

For generations, the federal government has been a good, reliable employer. What the jobs lack in salary are made up for in stability. Untold millions have been lifted into the middle class or kept out of poverty by having a single family member in a federal job. Now that’s gone.

Soon the United States government will be an insurance company with a standing army that mostly just deports people.

in 7th grade I was playing goldeneye, but ok man

“if the answer isn’t ‘hell yes,’ then it has to be ‘no’”

18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was demolished by Musk’s team shortly after midnight. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 billion.

people were right. you have to keep your eyes on the vice president in this Oval Office spat.

This. It's morally abhorrent and corrosive to democracy, of course, but I also don't understand the business case for limiting your opinion section like this.

wow. health care people really rode the roller coaster with that headline.

"shoot for the moon. even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." - grand moff tarkin

Wild timing to come at federal employees on the eve of Virginia elections.

Presidents don’t usually give up center stage as easily as Trump has.

in retrospect, it all started going downhill when we stopped addressing one another with "cool beans"

2029: Ira Glass steps into the Hoover building for his first day on the job.