This pretty much sums up a lot of what's wrong with the *actual* American elite. They confuse their personal relationships with people, and what those relationships mean about their own proximity to power, with whether those people and the actions they take are good.

The main story today should not be about whether Tylenol causes autism, but whether someone who stands to directly benefit from drugs being labeled as harmful by the government without evidence should be allowed to run the HHS. www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...

"'When we spoke to executives, they would often say the internal tool was very successful,' said Challapally. 'But when we spoke to employees, we found zero usage.'" 🎯

While I don't believe in the Rapture, I do get the desire to not be on this planet anymore.

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

i know it is all intentional but boy howdy is it crazy-making to have ICE killing people in the street and watching the once “mainstream” media still carrying water for the idea that the left has a violence problem

Half of voters are okay with the DHS secretary taking a $50k bribe, the HHS secretary firing researchers and replacing them with conspiracy theorists to destroy vaccine programs, and the president fomenting violence at a white nationalist's televised memorial. I don't give them credit for shit.

Pete Buttigieg talking about how he "gives more credit" to voters, believing they'd be fine with a Black woman and a gay man on a presidential ticket (when they weren't okay with just the Black woman), when he's repeatedly thrown trans kids under the bus to pander to bigots is something.

Regular people being mad at you for being a bigot or serial sex pest is not the same as the government getting you fired for making a joke about them.

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

Ah, so we've reached the "rehabbing the reputation of a guy who resigned his Senate seat to prevent a deeper investigation into the *8* women who accused him of being a sex pest" stage of centrist Dems being willing to do absolutely nothing useful to stop Trump's attacks on democracy.

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

What sticks out to me is that all these big tough dudes in body armor are so terrified of a middle aged woman in a cardigan and ballet flats, they repeatedly, violently assault her.

Once again, please stop yelling "BREAKING" about news you did not break

Trump administration cancels annual hunger survey The government has been measuring food insecurity since the mid-1990s, but now says the report has become ‘overly politicized’

Not only for quality but also now many huge retailers now act as "platforms" for middlemen meaning you now also risk getting counterfeit or stolen goods even if you buy what you think is the brand name

hey, there's a thread linked below about why this shutdown matters for trans people specifically & why senate democrats need to hear that, yes, a shutdown is worth it & people only don't hate you when you actually fight for something. read @ericmgarcia.bsky.social; read the thread. make some calls.

"In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents—who were posing as business executives—win government contracts in a second Trump administration." www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

“Pelayo said her dad described being held in a room with at least 150 other men as ICE officers constantly yell at them and call them slurs. He also told his daughters detainees are only given food and water based on good behavior.” These are the conditions at the site of yesterday’s protest.

Mike Morath, TEA commissioner of education, launches a witch hunt on teachers who can't toe the Republican party line on Charlie Kirk's death.

One might argue this is at least as important as Jimmy Kimmel's indefinite suspension--and it's not new, just getting worse.

I truly don't understand how democratic leadership think they are going to move forward after voting to honor a white nationalist who essentially called Black women—the base of the party—stupid. It's insulting. I find it personally insulting.

The man was 37. He blew the whistle Zuckerburg’s child-porn lite games. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The new reality that is emerging in Texas is that certain topics or ideas are simply off the table in the classroom. The censorship of academic speech and entire fields of knowledge in service to an ideology poses an unprecedented danger to the future of higher education. #AcademicFreedom

A key consideration in the $100k H-1B bounty situation: the Feds can waive the requirement for any person, company, or industry. It is structured to encourage graft, and to force companies to ingratiate themselves to the administration.

Like if your strategy is "principles be damned, let's just win," then what did you even win????? You won nothing except the consolation prize of ratcheting society further to the right, which sucks. We should run on issues that are actual moral imperatives.

They haven’t finished faking the numbers yet.

The only opinion on phones that matters.

“Several board members have expressed their concerns internally over the optics of holding a free speech event at the home of the man who yanked Kimmel off the air” Via THR

Weird how the only people they're okay with expanding the tent for are Republicans, while they continually elbow out the people already in it.

"The note appears 'to have been added after the beverage was handed off, likely by someone else,' the spokesperson said." "The controversy started with a post from Jacqueline Garretson, who, according to her X bio, is the Illinois state director for The Conservative Caucus..." 😒

I've had Gen X bosses my whole career and increasingly Gen Xers in leadership roles. While my favorite managers have been Gen X, the overall experience has been chaotic. The expectations are unrealistically high, the guidance is non-existent, and the professionalism is nowhere to be found.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere. It means more power for them and less freedom for you.

They keep doing this study, and they keep learning that it works, and they keep withholding money from people anyway.

Unity to these people simply means “why won’t everyone just believe what I believe?”

The most impactful way to complain about Kimmel. Fellow Portlanders: We do have a Sinclair station, and it's katu.com (ABC). (Reposting for alt-text).

If I were a Democratic elected, there is no amount of money you could pay me to talk about Joe Biden. Every single question would be answered with, "Biden is not currently in any public office. Let's talk about the people who are."

"Biden old" is such a deeply weird thing to be talking about right now, when there are about 500 awful things the Trump administration is doing on any given day, and the only thing this man has given us is lowering flags for a white supremacist and attacking his own party for his own personal gain.

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

The university said the history professor's comments amounted to misconduct.

I spoke with five families in the D.C. region about what it's like raising trans kids in Trump's backyard. They shared fears about being personally targeted by the federal government and their joys in raising kids that are learning to express themselves authentically in a difficult world.

Front loaders don't get clothes as clean as top loaders, and you'll never convince me otherwise. I can count on 1 finger the number of times I had to run clothes through the wash multiple times with a top loader to get them fully clean, and that was because my husband left chapstick in his pocket.

Here’s what a Ball State University employee said that led to their termination:

Following pressure from Federal Communications Commission, ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel’s late night show off the air Wednesday night over remarks he made following the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk. Here's what we know:

Also worth noting, many of the things 1930s progressives criticized the program for are exactly what endanger it and make it less effective today. Namely: the regressive tax structure that has failed to scale puts its solvency at risk, and the low payouts leave more seniors in poverty every year.

Coming from years of working in marketing/advertising where "authenticity", "brand values" and "target demographics" were constant buzzwords, it's absurd watching consultants and think tanks argue Dems can win voters through malleable values tied to public opinion and chasing people who hate them.

It is insane to me how much Dem donor money is spent targeting one "moderate" Republican vs. one disengaged Democrat.

Searchlight Institute here punching left, when the only reason Congress/FDR were able to pass social security is because the further left Townsend Plan and Share the Wealth programs were so popular. If they hadn't existed, neither would social security.

Walz, Pritzker, and Mamdani are all using this framing with total success. You don't need to say a word about throwing various constituencies under the bus. Just say we're getting back to affordability and American values of freedom, ethics, respect, and looking out for one another. It's not hard

Digging into the Searchlight Institute's website, and immediately got the ick. "Can liberals build broad-based support for strengthening the social safety net by frontally addressing questions of deservingness in ways not seen since the New Deal?" Gross.