Much of the cardboard and paper goods strewn about our homes are sold by a single private company, with its name, Uline, stamped on the bottom. Many may not know that a multibillion-dollar fortune made on those ubiquitous products fuels far-right candidates across the country. (Published 2022)

Of course.

There is no plan B. If you can't afford insurance, it goes away and you can only hope you don't get sick which is actually better than the folks who are already sick and going to suffer financial ruin or stop treatment

Bye Felicia!

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Sounds about right.

When our government sheds this authoritarian nonsense, hopefully, there needs to be accountability for everyone involved in this and better protections for our civil rights and those of people who are here but not citizens to prevent this from happening again.

Scott Bessent is the Treasury Secretary.....

What’s crazy about this is not only how people are okay being so cruel to these kids, but that the thing they say they’re afraid of doesn’t exist. You’re talking about an infinitesimally small number of student athletes who are playing at the same level as their peers. Just let the kids play!

Lmao

“This is not how a civilized nation should act, just murdering people on the high seas without proof, without trial.”

Wtf

I’m really starting to hate this place

What a lede on this story: Man who complained about narrowing a road in order to protect pedestrians, so much that the city eventually reversed the change, then kills a woman on that very road with his car www.washingtonpost.com/business/int...

Lmao

Perfect example of the cowardice and uselessness of Dem leadership. This is why trump got elected, because Jeffries and Schumer are not even remotely interested in doing anything.

Well he is a techno facist. There’s a reason these were the bad guys in all the 80s sci-fi movies. Palantir is basically a Weyland-Yutani like character.We should also remember that those movies were blueprints for destroying companies like this

From a blown up boat???

Donald Trump’s first appearance in the NYT— “Major Landlord Accused of Antiblack Bias in City” from 1973

The Republican Party at least tells us to our face they hate us. Dems stab us in the back like cowards in the dark.

That’s practically a requirement to serve in this administration

This is so stupid. Another win handed to China while we try to revive industries that kill us and the planet.

Ex-Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández orchestrated a drug trafficking conspiracy that brought more than 500 tons of cocaine into the U.S. over the span of 20 years. President Trump has pardoned him. It makes a mockery of Trump’s claim to be stopping drug trafficking.

870 out of 1201 (72%) surveyed Americans support ramping down harmful/unnecessary production/consumption, taxing the rich, universal basic services and guaranteed jobs, democratizing business, and ending exploitation of disadvantaged countries. As long as nobody gave a name to those policies!

trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!” also trump:

Also a good day to share The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus before Stephen Miller and Peter Thiel have it replaced on the Statue of Liberty with something about how work will set you free

Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.

Zohran Mamdani is apparently the most charming person alive

Chuck Schumer and Don Jr hiding in the curtains shaking with anger

The only federal agency I trust with my life:

Seeing a lot of folks who either don’t know what the usual numbers look like or who didn’t go look at the demographics and methodology and are treating this as a _meh_ data point when anything close to this would be earth-shaking. Believe it when you see it, etc, but these are GOP extinction numbers

They attack people, charge them, prosecutors chuck said charges in the trash, start again in new city

Medicare for all, now

Lying about being victims is the current gop platform

They’re on a roll this week

EXCLUSIVE: A lawyer at U.S. Southern Command, which oversees the strikes against alleged drug-smuggling boats near Venezuela, disagreed with the Trump administration’s position that the operations are lawful and was overruled, according to six sources.

Did you hear that? Sounded like a Big Mac smashing against a wall

Conned? lol it’s a business model that guarantees every item will be more expensive and less capable. Military grade means junk most of the time. There are like 3 companies eligible so there is no incentive to try hard and profit is the only goal www.reuters.com/business/aer...

If you’re keeping score, trump has ended zero wars and is starting another one www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

WTF

WTF

Incredibly, there's been no real discussion of the positions on immigration that Abigail Spanberger took en route to her blowout victory. So I took a look. What I found challenges a lot of pundit narratives. It's all in this piece and thread:

Geee I wonder why??????? www.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

In other words, it was very very very bad news

Democrats in office need to know: all of us with very few exceptions want all of you with very few exception to lose your god damn jobs because you refuse to do them.

In a normal democracy, a total collapse of party leadership would result in an no-confidence vote and immediate snap elections to find leaders who can lead

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Lots going on but from outside it seems that at least part of the calculus was that flight disruption for middle class and up travelers matters more than life disruption for untold numbers who’ll be deprived of health care.