You know who's the real winner in all of this? Medical tourism.

we are going to win

Oh, so he totally stole the money

Sean Duffy’s been telling us for months that we have a critical shortage of air traffic controllers in this country which is causing serious safety issues in air travel, then Trump comes out today & calls them a bunch of traitors if they took a day off & encourages them to quit.

Breaking News: The Supreme Court denied a request to consider overturning its landmark decision to legalize same-sex marriage a decade ago. nyti.ms/3Ju2Ayd

NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs. So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract. Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:

My wife and I pay for life insurance even though we have never died. I pay for fire insurance even though my house has never burned down. That's not because we want to throw money at insurance companies. It's because THAT'S HOW INSURANCE WORKS.

In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies

The 8 Dems who surrendered: @SenAngusKing @timkaine @SenCortezMasto @JohnFetterman @SenatorDurbin @SenatorHassan @SenatorShaheen @SenJackyRosen

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.

Was really struck by what a lovely inspiring exercise this is, like a primary school version of Mary Oliver’s Instructions for living a life Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it

OPINION: At this hour, enough Senate Democrats seem willing to cave to give Republicans the 60 votes they need to end the shutdown without agreeing to Democratic demands to restore Obamacare subsidies starting next January.

Looking Back On When President Reagan Fired The Air Traffic Controllers (2021) Thursday marks 40 years since former President Ronald Reagan fired more than 11,000 striking air traffic controllers. That dealt a serious blow to the American labor movement. www.npr.org/2021/08/05/1...

Assistant Prof job in history of science (related to water?) at Madison. Strong program, nice town (aside from winter) jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69456

Having been looking for a better word than 'retirement'. Current front-runner, 'restoration'.

And not trans.

Shouldn’t we be asking “where is all that money DOGE saved us?” Billions slashed from agency budgets, but that funding was already appropriated. Where’s the billions in funding congress directed under the bipartisan infrastructure bill? Where’s that? It’s all papering accounts, but where is it?

Denmark’s government aims to ban access to social media for children under 15 www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

“‘Some people say this; however, others say this.’ Only when you stand a little closer do you notice the fact that there is zero, less than zero, stress put on the relation between those two “sides,” or their histories, or their sponsors, or their relative evidentiary authority, or any of it.”

“A Nigerian official was told by a U.S. counterpart that, with Thanksgiving coming up, Nigeria should go quiet and wait for the president’s attention to shift, a Nigerian official said.” Ladies and Gentlemen, the commander in chief of the U.S. military.

Some of you didn’t read P2025 and it shows. There’s really no excuse at this point. static.heritage.org/project2025/...

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Something I’ve noticed is there seems to be a sort of pervasive assumption that the status quo has gravity. That there’s a natural, comfortable way things should be and that deviations from the normal state of the world will correct themselves in time. But as a paleontologist, I know this is false.

The first election Republicans stole.

"The average voter believes a SNAP recipient gets $20/day, more than 3 times the actual amount of $6."

For Steve McQueen's 3rd Norton Lecture, during Meshell Ndegeocello's performance (more like musical remarks)— after her presentation on the evolution of bass in Black music with sample clips and audience participation— she played a few seconds of the bass riff from this song and I almost hollered! 🎶

There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were: Black Baptist Churches A Mosque A small Appalachian church

Soooo it seems like the video has been taken down cause he raised enough money but Mamdani actually crowd funded his transition team money. There was a lot of criticism from the usual sources for "already asking for money" but transition teams are usually funded by hidden donors

“When all the tech bros sat in the front row at Trump's inauguration, many said that this is now the kneeling of the tech industry in front of Trump. I said this is a hostile takeover of the state with Trump's help," says lawyer Katharina Pistor in an interview with Jacobin.

Demand an audit of USDA’s budget now. Senate is still around. Call all of them day and night. Why are they fighting distributing the SNAP funds??? It’s beyond absurd.

The Border Patrol Has Been a Cult of Brutality Since 1924 theintercept.com/2019/01/12/b...

The secret police of the 40+ year, right-wing European dictatorship I was born under started as border/immigration enforcement and trained w/ the Gestapo. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PIDE Seems like our civilization is going to keep repeating the same mistakes until we insist on *universal* human rights.

But we're gonna have a big beautiful famine and I think you'll be very happy. And we'll have plenty to eat. We'll have plenty to eat

I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

I’ve never seen an American elected official fight so hard to starve people.

There should be a German word for white men who cannot conceive of possibility they'll be held accountable for their own actions.

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Did Donald Trump raid the 6 billion dollar contingency fund for SNAP? Because suing for the right to starve people is beyond the pale

“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.” ― Edward O. Wilson

“They didn’t just walk in chasing one person, they went into multiple rooms asking and looking for teachers while children were present,” Ramirez said. “This is an agency that has gone rogue and it an agency that believes that as long as they can cover their face, they can get away with anything.”

The most corrupt administration in American history.

Listen to more Nina Simone.

"Europeans recognize his vision about free public transit and universal childcare. We expect our governments to make these kinds of services accessible to all of us,” said Verbeek. “We pay higher taxes and get civilized societies in return."

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women 🧵

I always find it interesting how the story changes when a lawyer gets to court. They can say anything they want outside of court without accountability but the rules are vastly different in court where you can get seriously penalized for lying.

BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...