lmao, sure, go ahead, antagonize people that are going to see huge price hikes while you’re taking subsidies away from them, great strategy

the thing is, they hate the ACA, they don’t particularly care about replacing it with anything (let alone improving it) and they’ve so totally cocooned themselves in right wing news and groups that they think everyone else agrees

Had missed this detail: Paramount’s David Ellison talked to Trump at the Kennedy Center Awards on Sunday and sat next to FCC Chair Brendan Carr www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The GOP plan is to let premiums massively spike for 21 million Americans. And then it gives them $1k per year ONLY IF they switch to bronze plans — which it also raises the cost of. Awful awful plan that fucks over sick people.

I'm sure they just think zeppelins are neat

Extremely helpful and thoughtful analysis on the Senate GOP alternative to enhanced premium tax credits.

it is similar to the trick conservatives are trying to pull with the birthright citizenship clause. take something whose meaning is absolutely clear from just a plain reading of the text and transmogrify it into something that says its opposite through obfuscation and esoterica

Burn this with fire and scatter the ashes to the wind

Europe needs no lectures on "decaying" from this guy.

Ryan Grim taking the attaboy from…Steve Bannon.

I hate how true horseshoe theory is. If Steve Bannon said I was doing a good job I would instantly review all my life choices.

I think we're at a real turning point in "Western Civilization" (the concept, not the actual thing, whatever it is) when the people most likely to invoke the term do so to align themselves with Russian despotism over NATO allies.

Remember when MTG spread insane bs about the Democrats controlling the weather, and regular meteorologists were getting death threats? Pepperidge farm remembers. bsky.app/profile/chad...

Yes but in the sense of "wow, this is the worst person who has ever existed" not "Hitler was right," as Farage said.

This is sooooooo fucked up

I think MTG is a bad person but I am glad she is doing what she is doing. I also think Richard Hanania is a bad person and it is bad he is doing what he is doing. I guess MTG will end up making the GOP slightly less bad (the world's lowest bar) and RH is evilizing the center left.

Trump 1 -> catch and kill tabloid stories Trump 2 -> catch and kill entire media corporations

could we bring back Being a Goddamn Adult?

Habba out

Kinda crazy how Stephen Miller is personally responsible for a significant amount of Trumps nosediving popularity

That Miller reportedly wants Noem gone because she's not being aggressive enough really shows how high on their own supply these guys are. What they're doing is already historically unpopular, and they want to do it even harder.

IMO this also gets at another fundamental MAGA divide which is that most of them like Noem primarily want to pump out deportation content, which is going very well, while Miller genuinely wants to permanent reshape the demographics of American society, which is not

*JIMMY KIMMEL EXTENDS DEAL WITH DISNEY’S ABC FOR AT LEAST A YEAR

i am never again going to let a conservative get away with complaining about the liberal nanny state because these assholes actually *are* the nagging, inappropriately intrusive boogeymen conservatives have been bleating about for my entire adult life, mind your fucking business

Ok, and? I’m serious. Thing aren’t great, for sure. And? Telling ppl things are bad is easy. Figuring out the path to someplace better is hard. And risky. So: And? There’s no thread here. Just “it suck.” Ok. And? All that matters is what comes after the “and.” The only things that matters.

Roberts is a doomed troll not to be taken seriously

Olivia Nuzzi is eligible to be elected as a United States senator, she is not a kid

I miss when Republicans thought communist countries were bad and poor and unfree and said so.

This passage gets at why Nuzzi is both interesting and frustrating as a figure in contemporary life: “I had never been interested in politics, exactly. I was interested in characters..:”

The one bit of sympathy I feel so far is that it seems like she surrounded herself with (shallow, empty) people who told her “you are the Joan Didion of your generation” and she believed them.

“I do not wish to be understood, which no one seems to understand.” This is what’s missing from the book. It is a 300-page meandering navel-gaze. A Joan Didion impression from someone with nothing to say, vaguely offended that readers would *expect* her to have something to say.

Is the administration that destroyed USAID making an argument for USAID here

We don’t need aircraft carriers, okay than how the fuck do you get AirPower across the Pacific Ocean?

This whole book is a hate crime. She's burning a cross on the front lawn of the English language.

Yeah can't wait for plane to smell like gym.

a *lynching*? huh.

Team Oligarch Suits Up to Torpedo Netflix/WBD Merger talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/team-...

that would be the correct play here

Ben will write it however you want for the right price.

Stephen and Katie Miller going anti-vax over aryan purity bullshit is underexplored and underdiscussed.

like so much of authoritarian disinfo and propaganda, the messaging over the next few months will be a total inversion of the truth, claiming that Ellison and Trump are preventing a Biden/Obama takeover of media while in cahoots with Netflix

Just so we're clear how this works 👇

Yeah I think he’s a predatory monster, full stop

Oh look, another pair of pervert glasses that should not be legal.

The depressing part is that Netflix winning would be objectively terrible for viewers and society and yet somehow a successful Paramount bid would be far more terrible

It’s very funny to me that countries are trying to pass laws banning teens from social media until they’re older and can “handle it” as if the last decade hasn’t been about watching rich middle aged men nuke their brains on Twitter and then run the USA via shitpost.

It is beyond fair in a common language sense, to call somebody who denies the clear and obvious benefits of vaccines in pursuit of avoiding (mostly made up) harms, "crazy."

What if Jesus WAS the devil?

Good on Penn Jillette. Having to come to terms with your entire political identity and philosophy being wrong is not easy and most people could never do it.

It doesn’t take imagination to wonder how weaker Hep B vaccine recommendations will kill people, because it’s happened before And now—thanks to RFK Jr.—it’s likely to happen again www.thebulwark.com/p/this-is-wh...