COMMENTARY: "Quite literally, what in God’s name are we doing? The measure of a person, a city, a state or society is more than how we treat those labeled, ‘most important.’ A better measure is how we engage with the most vulnerable among us."

noted bob dylan smoocher!

Simple cost-benefit analysis that makes AI too expensive cannot be remedied by a faster or smarter tool. prospect.org?p=140643

Medicare Advantage is a corporate handout for insurance companies

Correction: Over 3 million have ALREADY lost their healthcare and counting.

🚨 #WYOMING only has around ~40,000 ACA enrollees, but they already have some of the highest premiums in the nation, and their overall healthcare expenses just shot up an estimated $2,300 APIECE...due almost entirely to Trump/GOP policies. acasignups.net/enrollee_cos...

Excellent work from NBC News outlining the vicious piece of garbage that is HR 1 and the transfer of money from poor people to wealthy people now starting to leave millions without food and health care. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

My god

Great piece con the inherent limitations of AI. Gifted here. The Unstoppable Force of A.I. Hype Is Meeting One Immovable Fact www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/o...

An excellent analysis in my favorite political journal which shows that the Supreme Court is commemorating the 250th by destroying the Constitution. (And look for a piece of my own in the days ahead). The Roberts Court and the Disappearing Congress washingtonmonthly.com/2026/06/30/t...

www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

Tell me you don’t understand the concept of a risk pool on which all insurance is based. Wow.

Everyone running for office needs to be asked what they will work to do to repair the damage from HR1.

The American people overwhelmingly reject even a penny of cuts to Social Security benefits. They overwhelmingly prefer more revenue, ideally paid by the wealthiest. They also strongly support benefit increases. - Social Security Works President Nancy Altman

What are your favorite songs from Bob Dylan’s seventh studio album ‘Blonde on Blonde’ (1966), originally released 60 years ago this week? Listen to the album + read our tribute by @jesseducker.bsky.social here: album.ink/BobDylanBOB

My gateway album

And four days short of Olmstead's twenty-seventh birthday, Donald Trump's DOJ issues an OLC opinion that essentially rejects that ruling and all but directs DOJ and HHS to pull their community integration regulations and end their community integration work: www.justice.gov/olc/media/14...

It’s Juneteenth. On June 19, 1865, Gen. Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston Island & issued General Order No. 3. It announced that “all slaves are free.” This story of this one event was commemorated through the diaspora of Black Americans for more than 150 years before becoming a national holiday.

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Federal grants are intended to be awarded through an open, fair, and merit-based process. A new Trump Administration proposal would instead allow grant decisions to be based on political preferences and presidential priorities. www.cbpp.org/research/fed...

Dylan is represented with 1965’s “Highway 61 Revisited,” although the mag notes his “entire 60-plus-year career has been an exploration of American music.”

This episode with @raypadgett.bsky.social and @henrybernstein.bsky.social is incredible fun. Bob Dylan and Weird Al? Who knew? youtube.com/watch?v=weX7...

This is very dangerous: voter registration group being treated as criminal www.ms.now/news/ohio-pr...

#Politics #Trump Overnight from AP: Workers started to remove Trump's name from the #KennedyCenter but left around 3:30 AM EDT. They placed tarps around the scaffolding so the public can't see, but a photographer found a gap and got a picture of a letter being removed. apnews.com/article/trum...

In a big loss for Trump and Mike Johnson, the House voted down the reauthorization of a little-known law that lets the regime sidestep the Constitution to spy on American citizens. That means FISA’s 702 has expired for now, but this fight to protect our civil liberties isn’t over.

Stay away from Medicare Advantage plans.

"unreliable new search interfaces owned by unethical rich people that redirect money away from academics, journalists, and creators" just doesn't sound as sexy as "AI"

Buttigieg: We sit in a in a country that's got the wrong number of people on the Supreme Court, possibly the wrong number of representatives in the House of Representatives. And by the way, when you consider the disenfranchisement of the people of DC, we have the wrong number of states in the US

This is a theme I've pursued in my writings and a few amicus curiae briefs. The "mirror" image of political representation was a commonplace of Revolutionary era thinking. A decision that violates it is inconsistent with the original intent of the Framers. washingtonmonthly.com/2026/06/10/v...

My brother @jrakove.bsky.social on the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act washingtonmonthly.com/2026/06/10/v...

Treatments based on the same mRNA technology that delivered COVID vaccines to market in record time are showing lasting benefit against the deadly skin cancer melanoma and early promise in pancreatic and ​brain cancers. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

The world’s ten richest people — almost all Americans — saw their collective net worth increase by $220 billion in May. These ten people are now worth a combined $2.9 trillion. The bottom 50% of U.S. households, is worth $4.3 trillion. Wondering if inequality is out of control?

Baby, won't you be my baby!

Is anyone surprised?

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs are savings.

The economy was better under 🔵 Biden 70% 🔴 Trump 30% Harris X #B - Independent voters - 5/31

The Obama Presidential Center isn't just a library, but a sprawling campus designed by the architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, featuring a monumental collection of art, a replica of the Oval Office, a basketball court, and a branch of the Chicago Public Library. https://cnn.it/43OOrlw

Generic ballot (Marquette) Democratic 53% Republican 43% law.marquette.edu/poll/2026/04...

Yippee!

This is how you do it.

When Ted Lieu cornered Rubio with video of Trump sleeping, it forced Rubio to choose, says @brianbeutler.bsky.social: "I either have to lie and debase myself, or tell the truth and lose my job." On the pod Brian is good on why Dems should use such tactics more often: newrepublic.com/article/2113...

Your Medicaid and Obamacare dollars paid for this

Great essay from Jamelle Bouie about the vision we need to recover from the Trump years. America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...

Today, I signed an Executive Order temporarily repealing bedtimes in the City of New York so that kids of all ages can watch our team in the NBA Finals. As Mayor, you’re forced to make many difficult decisions. This was not one of them. Go Knicks.