Really in the "purely because I can" era of political corruption

Thanks to Congressional Republicans, a 60-year-old couple making $85,000 a year will pay more than $22,000 EVERY YEAR to keep their health insurance. $22,000. Some families will decide between keeping health insurance or giving it up—and that could be a matter of life or death.

Time is up. I gave Speaker Mike Johnson two days to swear in Adelita Grijalva. Arizona's 7th congressional district 813,000 Arizonans are now being taxed without representation. I have lawyers downstairs right now drafting litigation. youtu.be/9OBdjsGntQI?...

Hey! Where are my Royal-watchers at? Because people are making Artist Formerly Known jokes about Andy Windsor but what he’s losing is Duke of York and I want to know how much INCOME he’s losing from the duchy. (Losing the Garter is just dishonor on you, dishonor on your cow stuff.)

doesn’t seem like a great time for anyone to be getting covid. really sucks that about a half of covid infections are asymptomatic. and that covid can linger in the air for hours. another good reason to mask up—so that you don’t accidentally get other people sick when so many of us are struggling

not-fun fact that covid and long covid can cause chronic fatigue and chronic pain. you too could be anxiously fixated on money and survival like i and many others am. protect yourself: mask up, get vaccinated, ventilate and purify the air. #MaskUp #CovidIsntMild #CovidIsntOver

And the firings at my company have begun. This is fine, and not a problem at all, as we head into recession, the job market dries up, and the ACA is being torched.

Your health insurance premiums could double or even triple thanks to Republican health care cuts. But instead of helping American families facing double costs, Trump plans to DOUBLE his bailout for Argentina. Whatever happened to “America First”?

The goal is death. They are killing us, on purpose. Slow eugenics. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Well, now.

This is exactly what Im talking about. 50501 is a KNOWN snitch organization that be coordinating with LAPD ABOUT PROTESTS to set people up Its all over socials.

Anyone who criticizes Democratic officials for not seeing the problem, not taking it seriously enough, not speaking plainly about it, or not working to counter it should listen to this. Rep. Adam Smith, ranking member of the House Armed Service committee, sure sounds like he's taking it seriously.

Jim Ross’s voice narrated my childhood. His affect and inflections are iconic to this day. The storytelling of men is so impactful and powerful. Real and raw. I would know his voice in my sleep. Replacing that impact with computers? They could never.

"Cuomo's background before state politics was almost completely in governing the housing sector and now he's losing an election defined by how unaffordable housing is. Hoisted by his own petard, it seems." www.burnsnotice.com/he-doesnt-ev...

Y'all MUST read this. The whole thing is like "Alexis from the upper east side left her pilates class via helicopter and facetimed her husband who was spending the weekend at one of their three summer homes (this one in Rome) to express her concern about zohran: 'What ever shall we do if he wins?'".

Harvard’s School of Public Health is broken & is now essentially on life support. This is what happens when Trump gets his way with science www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...

People underestimate how long broken systems can just keep tumbling along. People also underestimate just how fast systems can collapse and fall apart. *shrug* (Perpetual subtweet.)

French philosopher and novelist Jean-Paul Sartre knew what made fascists tick. badfaithtimes.com/its-one-long...

If I could offer students one bit of…advice: be brutally traditional about what is printed on your degree. If you are first-gen or in any way non traditional, this goes double. Let rich kids get degrees in AI. You get something called “English”.

Okay! This is going to take a while so I had to finish some stuff first, but: Why Da Pope Fucking Up Opus Dei Is A Huge Fucking Deal: a thread

BY THE WAY If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2. There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security. Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation." TURN IT OFF.

If youre protesting this weekend, please wear a mask! Covid and other viruses are circulating - I know several people who are/were just sick. It is important to make things accessible, especially because most minorities, especially disabled people, are much more likely to have the worst outcomes.

Speaker Mike Johnson hits a new low as he tries to shame Adelita Grijalva for not “doing her job” He’s the one stopping her! He’s refused to swear her in to Congress for three weeks (and counting). He’s the one who needs to do HIS job.

"One of them told her he had consulted ChatGPT to find tide times before deeming it safe to venture out to the island early on Wednesday. He said: “I made the mistake of using ChatGPT for research to see when the low tide was" The death toll from this tech is only going to rise

U.S. AG Pam Bondi has basically said anyone visiting the US is subject to arrest and incarceration at any point, if law officials deem the individual a “threat”. Bang goes the rest of the international tourism trade!

this tweet turns 10 today 🎂🥳

Good.

Pirro loses misdemeanor assault trial after failing three times to get felony indictment www.rawstory.com/jeanine-pirr...

Oscar-nominated star of ‘Coming Home’ and ‘Heathers’ dies at 77

We banged our heads against the true costs of healthcare cuts this week and JFC. It's not just ACA price hikes + people losing Medicaid coverage, though that's already bad It's also hundreds of hospitals and nursing homes poised to fall like dominos. Healthcare will be worse for all of us.

To repeat it: the reason why Young Republicans are talking about loving Hitler and FedSoc judges are destroying the jurisprudence is because *they've never in their lives seen someone suffer for promoting those polices*. Not Newt, not Rush Limbaugh, not Scalia or Thomas, no one!

Chicago's federal appeals court upholds block on National Guard deployment: "Political opposition is not rebellion" DEVELOPING from @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/donald-trump...

Despite repeatedly promising not to cut Social Security, the Trump Admin is reportedly preparing a proposed rule that could reduce the share of applicants who qualify for Social Security Disability Insurance by up to 20%--which would be the largest cut ever. 🧵 www.cbpp.org/blog/trump-a...

Increase a little bit? Who is he talking to?? Health care premiums are set to increase in Leader Thune's home state of South Dakota by TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY FIVE PERCENT (235%!!!) next year.

I will never forget the rage I felt at finding out that Walensky and Jha sent their children to schools with advanced ventilation systems while encouraging the rest of us to send our kids (and ourselves) back to regular schools without mitigation. mronline.org/2022/09/28/h...

A third university says no.

PayPal and Venmo are both experiencing outages as of the morning of October 16, with thousands of reports suggesting a widespread issue.

BREAKING: War torn Portland completely out of control last night 😱 We did the Hokey Pokey at the ICE facility 🐸🦄🦓🦖🦛

Oh, by the way, I wrote in @thenation.com about how Trump is condeming millions of Americans to hunger this Thanksigiving with his accelarated timeline of adding work requirements for SNAP benefits. I also discussed how work requirements provably don't work, for the neoliberals in your life.

This. "Regardless of what you think about any individual person, food assistance should not be predicated on meeting your personal definition of deserving. People shouldn’t have to perform feats of social worth to get food; in our incredibly wealthy society, people should just get food."

Here's my full breakdown of yesterday's voting rights case, where the Supreme Court will likely say that overrepresntation of whites in Congress is constitutionally mandated. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Second article of impeachment of Richard Nixon: “He has endeavoured…to cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income tax audits or other income tax investigations to be intitiated or conducted in a discriminatory manner.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

BREAKING: Immigration officers in the Chicago area will be required to wear body cameras after the use of tear gas and other actions against protesters, a judge rules.

The Trump admin is preparing sweeping changes at the IRS that would allow the agency to pursue criminal inquiries of left-leaning groups more easily. A senior IRS official involved in the effort has drawn up a list of potential targets that includes major Democratic donors.

If you were “prematurely anti fascist” about this you were a hysterical lib, if you were wrong about it you’re a respectable intellectual with lots of billionaire connections bsky.app/profile/gtco...

Hundreds of homeowners in western NC can’t move on with their lives because FEMA has not approved a single application of its homeowner buyout program since Hurricane Helene hit last year. That’s simply unacceptable.

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

You don't find out until the 12th paragraph of this story that what Trump is doing is illegal. Just from a newsworthiness standpoint, how do you not lead with that? www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

AOC: You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to keep people from getting poisoned, from dangerous chemicals  You're damn right that it's a Democratic priority to bring down the cost of housing If they want to say that that's a Democratic priority, they're right,

This entire thread explains why Trump's money laundering to pay the troops is a crime. Here's the key bit.