semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

Welcome to the resistance, Jerome Powell.

I want to make another point: We in healthcare understand that prevention is nowhere near as sexy as treatment, but it saves a whole lot more lives. Krasner is directly preventing deaths by doing this. Other DAs who follow suit would also be saving lives.

Every DA in every big city in America should be saying this right now, and be fully prepared to back it up. share.inquirer.com/bPy1NT

It's kinda funny how every third political post on has some variation of "oh so you think there's going to be elections how cute" in the replies while the daily news is of Republicans getting boatraced in elections, manufacturing the reality you desire to be outraged about isn't just a rw phenomenon

look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts

"You have to use AI." ...why?

Seriously cannot understand all the hullabaloo over this. It doesn’t much matter whether light drinking is *beneficial*. The real point is that the evidence of *harm* from light drinking is so modest as to be fairly trivial. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/h...

The thing about this is that’s it’s applicable to so much more than creativity. There’s a whole techno-utopian mindset that’s just grossly out to lunch about so many things: science, healthcare, politics, education, law. Don’t buy anything these people say about anything. They have no notion.

It’s hard to know what the longer-term future holds, but in 2026 the GOP is fucked. Wonder if we’ll see a slew of Republican retirements in Congress soon.

The aggressive gerrymandering stuff that the GOP is doing is undemocratic, unconscionable, and should be illegal. But it won’t even be close to enough to save their House majority.

Yes-and-half to all of this. I don’t understand why they haven’t started already. Make SCOTUS the issue and refuse to shut up about it.

"Ventricular fibrillation flare-up"?!?

Accurate.

More good evidence that John Fetterman does not plan to run for another Senate term. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/b...

"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org

Hard agree

If Subway were smart, they’d start a whole ad campaign touting the aerodynamic properties of various footlong subs. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

Pretty amazing how quickly the narrative can turn after… <checks notes>… entirely predictable results. Now imagine what the stories will look like a year from today.

I literally just finished re-reading The Great Gatsby this evening.

ALL of this. If Republicans actually abolished the filibuster to pass a clear CR, that would be the best thing that could possibly happen for our entire system of government. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...

Just went to Costco today to flip mine from LFL to LFP. #ChingaTuMAGA

American football is a bloodsport that ruins players’ brains and I cannot support it.

Now we know at least one Dem who plans to challenge Fetterman. I wonder if Fetterman thinks his positions are politically savvy, or if he really believes this stuff. Either way, he clearly learned nothing from Kyrsten Sinema, and he's serving his sole Senate term. share.inquirer.com/mIJDGE

separate from everything, the idea that 2020 was a squeaker but 2024 represents a historical mandate will simply be the death of me

It is very unwelcome to say this about America’s most popular sport, especially here, in America’s best sports town, home of the defending champion Eagles. But: tackle football is a bloodsport that ruins players’ brains and likely cannot be made safe. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

BTW: this is why his approval rating matters. The lower it is, the more vulnerable this administration is to resistance.

Apparently the backlash against Disney has been both internal and external, involving streaming subscriptions and theme park bookings, and is quite fierce. screenrant.com/disney-scram...

This and this and more this.

Considering how much the right wing cares about gun violence and its victims, I expect Charlie Kirk will be forgotten in a week.

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

The US minimum wage has been $7.25 for the entire time the ACA has existed. Fuck your work requirements for Medicaid.

In case you’ve ever wondered, “Why does a bathroom need a window anyway?” The answer is, of course, that it’s for your cat.

Not sure how I feel about this. 38% approval of a major action is quite low. But also, it’s only -8, which, given the absurd and pathetic pretext, should be much lower.

What a fantastic use of a real estate site: finding Nazi-looted art.

I don’t give a shit about Neo-Con Yosemite Sam and you probably don’t either, but that doesn’t change the fact that this is completely insane and should be denounced by everyone. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/u...

Satire, art, humor, beauty, pleasure, creativity. These are not luxuries, they are necessities. We need all of these things to keep bringing light and hope to the world, in a dark time.

This strikes me as kind of a big deal. When even straight-arrow No Drama Obama says to stop bringing sporks to knife fights... maybe the rest of the party will listen. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

Local bar near my house had cans of Heady Topper, a Vermont beer of great repute. I have never before seen a recommendation to drink a beer straight from the can.

You’ll know the message has really gotten through when Governor Shapiro of Pennsylvania starts aggressively resisting.

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

I used to think that self-intoxication was some uniquely pathetic human form of debasement. Then I got cats. And the avidity with which cats snarf up catnip demonstrates that there is some fundamental, inborn, animal desire to get fucked up.

Had a patient call me “Scott” today. That used to happen all the time, but it’s happened a lot less as I’ve gotten older. Always makes me chuckle.

This is from an actual, longstandjng, respected mainstream JOURNALIST.

Absolutely disgraceful.

Doctors have a series of abbreviations that we use for medication dosing schedules. E.g., BID = twice a day, QOD = every other day, etc. These are Latin-derived. TIL that veterinarians have completely different Latin-based acronyms for the same dosing schedules in animals. How did that happen??

One of the bitterest parts of being a physician is watching a patient make a terrible decision about their health with their eyes wide open, knowing that you will have to be there to watch them go to pieces, and be unable to pick up the pieces, taking anti-joy in I-told-you-so through the heartache.

An important step, if you are setting up modern-day slavery. wapo.st/40e4rfK