I don't know where this bizarre idea that China has universal health care comes from, but it very much does not by any normal standard. It has a highly tiered system that brutally discriminates against rural patients and imposes often crippling financial costs.

"It [the Constitution] is intended to be the charter of a self-governing and free people, not a secret code that can only be interpreted by those who have been read into the proper mystery cult. The Constitution belongs to us, more than it does the faculty of Yale Law School."

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

They’re doing reparations for the January 6 guys.

Damn. Shoulda squared up!

This was a strong start. I enjoyed this bracket. We got drama, we got delusion, we got a nail biting finish. And I want more of the queens I saw, which is the point of their return! As long as we don't get a Ginger Minj type bracket of bullshit, this is shaping up to be a good season. #AllStars11

Why the hell didn't they make them lipsync for the tie!?? GIVE US ENTERTAINMENT! What on earth?!?! The point is going to who Ru wants anyway, give us television! #AllStars11

This point ceremony is gaaaaaagggggggggyyyyy. #AllStars11

In truth, I think Morgan won the lipsync, but I don't mind Ru giving Dawn the win to secure her entrance to the next round. #AllStars11

Ru was more harsh than usual with her critiques this week. She usually likes to play the kindly mother not the stage mother. #AllStars11

Is Mystique wearing Morgan's entrance look wig? #AllStars11

Now *this* is the shit I want from Lucky. However, I wish she would think about the whole 360° of the illusion. The back is nothing and we're looking at an orange panty. #AllStars11

This might be the best Morphine has ever looked. Incredible. #AllStars11

Dawn discovering too late that All Stars is indeed a social game, winning is not enough in this format. #AllStars11

None of the queens picked up on the joke of who the callers were. Or at least they didn't show us the queens picking up the joke. #AllStars11

Stacey Rusch would have been a perfect guest judge for this challenge. #AllStars11

I've got to hand it to Mystique, she was absolutely correct about needing to keep Lucky on track. That said, she is mean as hell in this challenge. 😭 #AllStars11

Mystique, we've seen your runways, we KNOW you aren't on Dawn's level. #AllStars11

A'keria was a Cutco knives girlie? #AllStars11

Here's that season 2 Mystique we know all too well at this table talk. #AllStars11

Incredibly clever of Morgan to give her point to A'keria. It forces Morphine, Mystique and Lucky to win (only Morphine is likely able to do so) or gather all the points at the last ceremony, helps her alliance member, and essentially makes the bracket a battle of her A'keria and Dawn. #AllStars11

Let's finish out this bracket. #AllStars11

Virginia should just proceed with the map anyway tbqh 🤷🏾‍♀️ reinstate the map their damn selves

Can you spot the point where he learned a Black woman was going to be in a movie

The reason to do this is to assert that the pardon power is in fact NOT plenary, & that asserting such a power for the executive is contrary to both the law as written & to republican/democratic government as such. The executive is not sovereign, pardoning can never be the “free gift of the monarch”

7. James and I are about to cut up. I need all the tea on who he has hunched in Hollywood. And Thurgood and I need to talk about why he didn't wait until Clinton was elected to retire from SCOTUS and how he is the greatest lawyer of all time. Also, I want the legroom.

Yes. Polis is a 1/6 accessory after the fact bsky.app/profile/mine...

WHAT THE FUCK, WHAT THE ABSOLUTE FUCK THIS FUCKING CROOK IS STEALING OUR SHIT!!! Literally picking our pockets to line his own and his friends'!!!! He is stealing THOUSANDS of dollars from my family in lost health care subsidies and higher costs. And yours!! We should all react accordingly!!!!

“do crimes on behalf of donald trump and you will be rewarded even by democrats” is the message this sends, which is the precise opposite of what we need in this country right now thank fuck this asshole is term limited

Polis remains a strong candidate for the Dem with the most negative WAR in the entire country as the governor of what has become a solidly blue state just an absolute clown, freeing an unrepentant wannabe election thief at the behest of a failing tyrant with a 35% approval rating

Unforgivable. I hope he enjoys the music, because this is the swan song for his political career.

The money you put into libraries, parks, schools, and museums you get back a thousandfold. Without indulging cliches about social class, it literally raises the conversation. You’ve got people wondering about van Gogh’s colors instead of ranting and complaining. We all see this in our own lives

Really makes you think! 🤔

i don't think we need to do "everyone who disliked mayor pete is a homophobe" discourse. i don't think that's true

The story of the AMA killing universal health care (and almost killing Medicare)...in the QJE????????? So important I'm not even upset that it doesn't cite the sociologists who studied this like Jill Quadagno :)

My latest free newsletter is about one of The New York Times's specialties: publishing the opinions of wealthy elites as if they are news.

Indictments for anyone involved (line agents on up) should be a Day 1 priority in 2029.

There are some things I definitely don't like about Buttigieg that can only be characterized as gut feelings, as if I'm not a part of the audience he wishes to talk to. That said, I also don't think he's bold enough, and I don't mean politically, but his unwillingness to run for anything else.

Say what you will about old school Tammany hall style machine politics, but at least those people actually wanted to keep their political party in power Modern right wing democrats are constantly out to destroy their own ability to get elected because they simply hold views too close to republicans

Bail is for people who haven't been convicted of a crime. This is voter disenfranchisement. This keeps eligible voters from voting & creates justifiable distrust of electeds among families, who then may not vote. When you blame your problems on non-voters, perhaps ask what disenfranchised them.

Archibald! Not Archibald Beador! Such a sweet dog. All dogs go to heaven*, so I know he's eating carrots in the sky. He was one of the best parts of Shannon. He'll be missed. *except those Bull Connor police dogs, they're roasting extra crispy

you've got to respect this. jim crow's on its way back and black democrats have decided to trust their colleagues enough that they're going to fucking take one for the team once again. we gotta make it worth it.

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

Alan really gets at it here:

Syndergaard is such a perfect avatar for the MAHA movement – a guy who probably cost himself several hundred million dollars via his persistent belief in quack medicine, most famously the time he refused an MRI while playing with a partially torn muscle then pitched again and fully tore it

"The oligarchs want a permanent ruling class. The extremists want a permanent underclass to grind a boot into. The deal between them is straightforward enough: the oligarchs get captured courts and permanent tax cuts, the extremists get their hierarchy of human worth written back into the law"

there are a lot of trump voters we aren’t ever going to convert and what we need to do is make them feel like the suckers they are and withdraw from electoral politics entirely