After Republicans refused to extend ACA subsidies, 4 Michigan insurers are dropping out of the ACA marketplace altogether. That’s 200,000 Michiganders who just lost their plans.

There’s definitely a socialism of fools going on—men are being offered domination over women so that they won’t notice how brutally and sadistically they themselves are being dominated by the rich.

I’ve found another reason why the cosmos won’t let me be a multimillionaire. (Yeah, I’d buy the crap outta that place…tho there’d be much redecorating.)

i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”

If the Democrats had a hair on their ass they would start a nationwide campaign where they had commercials showing all the Republicans convicted of sex scandals plus the emails with they’re not like us playing in the background.

RE starbucks picket line--the relevant detail is "picket line, do not cross." Pass that along. Proclaiming that you are in no danger of doing so because you are too aesthetically pure to let Starbucks coffee pass your lips is...unhelpful and does not give the impression you perhaps imagine it does.

The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.

in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies

Perfect example of political media operating under the post-truth standard that (1) distorts the facts until the parties look approximately equal, and (2) holds “do MAGA voters care?” as a higher standard than “is it true?” or “is it important for the public to know about this?”

turns out the emails we should have been reading in 2016 were from the NYT

No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?

What the Epstein files show is the *solidarity* of many men-across class, race, religion, profession & party affiliation-in the global political project of keeping the boot on women's necks. People have no problem understanding class solidarity among the rich. Why can't they see gender solidarity?

Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.

Why can’t America’s most prominent racist dirtbags and hate-mongering kooks have a sense of the basic boundaries of known science? They live in a comic book world — where Tony Stark *really could* make a powered suit appear from his lapel pin, but cars MUST run on gas. slate.com/news-and-pol...

these epstein emails are pretty damning. i sure hope that we haven't spent the last couple years in a cultural backslide where men are seemingly allowed to openly and gleefully fantasize about dominating young women without any threat of reproach

i am starting to think larry summers should not be listened to

Fox News is VERY upset with politicians who make unrealistic promises

Do North Carolina police officers work with ICE? Here's what to know about ICE detainers and immigration status checks in local jails, as well as the new HB318 law in North Carolina, a potential vote on Nov. 17 to override Gov. Stein's veto of SB153, and more. nclocal.org/2025/11/06/l...

What if the Manosphere podcasters aren't the best political theorists?

IOW, the US government has stopped making cents.

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

At some point embarrassment MUST come

"Events have their own mysterious logic" yes, wow, who could have imagined that "we must purge our beloved volk of the communist profiteers and race traitors who use cosmopolitanism to degrade the Fatherland" would just end up being antisemetic, truly just the world-spirit moving as it will.

There's an exclusive, closed-to-media MAHA summit tomorrow. Here's the full agenda I was leaked In attendance will be JD Vance, RFK Jr, Bhattacharya, Makary, actor Russell Brand (who is facing rape and sexual assault charges), and dozens of other MAHA influencers and people in Trump's orbit

Would love to know if others who read this article spent an hour texting & calling family to be certain their cousins/nieces/nephews weren’t exposed to this “three-cueing” business. “Yeah, I’m good… but hey, so is Olivia learning phonics? Seriously, I need you to TELL ME SHE’S LEARNING PHONICS!”

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

Turns out poor people spent a lot of money on tea and sugar *because they were poor* and that was their inadequate replacement for unaffordable things like cooking fuel, food with actual nutritional content, and enough calories to slave away over a loom for 12 hours.

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

Dignity wraiths, female edition.

I don’t do predictions, generally. But man, I predict this is gonna piss off MILLIONS of Americans. And many of them will be more than willing to actually VOTE about it.

I waited a day to say this bc I respected everyone's right to vent some anger, but *remember to focus on what you can do*. Whether it's defending your community, taking action around what you've been venting about, whatever — but don't let all of your energy get captured in the social media space.

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

So, on the one hand, the last 5-6 years of low/no licensed “hemp” industry have been a mess, and lost of bullshit has accrued with minimal oversight. On the other hand, given all this: I think we have a good case for “how bad can uncontrolled weed get?” and…not that bad!

Sheesh zeteo.com/p/senate-dem...

There will be a book on right wing men and sydney sweeney someday

People are mad at Democrats over on Threads. Do you understand? THREADS.

This is so insightful:

Plastic surgeons in DC are being asked by Trump insiders to get plastic surgery that's obvious and in keeping with "Mar-a-Lago face." Paging @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social, whose episode on Republican Makeup (another term for the same tendency) was an eye-opener for me.

just fogging random people with chemical weapons for fun. of a piece with the Caribbean fisherman turkey shoot

Okay. That hurts.

Most people never have a house fire. So why are we wasting money on a fire department?

SOLICITOR GENERAL SAUER, last week: “.. They are not revenue-raising tariffs.” 🤡

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

creating a fake bag of Gun-flavored Doritos that men can use to hide their books if they feel the urge to look at words

It really is! (fwd’d a ton last nite— h/t @moiradonegan.bsky.social) But, as @adamserwer.bsky.social notes in the replies, the head makes for a classic case of “didn’t open it, but enjoy my half-baked feels!”. So, give it a read? It’s a helpful corrective to the popular “men in disarray” mythos.

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

The least most politically engaged people I know are texting me before 8am to say, “we won’t forget.” So I don’t know man.

Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything

Dear Chuck Schumer, FYI, tomorrow the Baileys are getting matching tattoos that say: “We have bowed at the altar of caution and we have paid a mighty price.”