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This business will get out of control. It’ll get out of control, and we’ll be lucky to live through it.

Only someone who fundamentally does not understand anything about health insurance would make this suggestion. Grouping all the sick people together does not lower the average cost for that group. It would be like putting all the most hurricane-prone houses in a homeowners insurance pool.

Billy we’re all gonna die dot gif

These guys really do not get how big of a mess this is going to be.

I’m not familiar with NYC local brands. Is that considered a “good” bag of chips?

Thinking of @maura.bsky.social today

Bad idea. Literally, like a dozen movies were made about this. They were popular. Perhaps you’ve heard of them.

Hewlett *and* Packard? In this economy?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH

The average American has three friends: Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson.

Law professor here: Things are F-U-C-K-E-D up.

Me in the national security group chat:

You’re out, Chuck. You’re not a wartime consigliere.

Ran into a celeb while out trying to walk off my rage. Northwestern, pay your foodservice workers.

Judge Reyes is now explaining John Rawls' Veil of Ignorance to the attorney, and I think my soul is trying to leave my body.

Make Crystal Pepsi Great Again?

This is pretty dark. At best, it’s utterly incompatible with an administration that claims to be advancing the cause of free speech. I would like to know how many other schools received this.

There’s a storm coming.

No one in DC can bargain in good faith with Trump because he will not follow laws passed by Congress. No one internationally can bargain in good faith with Trump because he will not respect agreements made by the United States. Being a counterparty just makes you a target for another shakedown.

18f were a bunch of badasses who actually *did* make government more efficient in a way that actually worked. And they did it while also being good people who cared deeply for the work, for each other, and for the people that used it.

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Behold: My unified Terminator Theory of parenting through the Trump Era into the apocalypse he has created for our children. ...I'm serious you guys, I wrote a whole thing on parenting through this nightmare. My latest in @thenation.com

Who?

College freshman today were 6 years old in the 2012 election. A student of mine (age 20) told me after class that he appreciates when I explain how US politics and media were different before, because the Trump era is all he’s seen. This is what young Americans think politics is. It’s normal now.

Sorry, I’m sure some people will find this appointment mordantly funny, but JFC this is depressing.

France's government has collapsed after historic no-confidence vote in parliament

It is 2004. I am doing laundry while I rewatch all of Deep Space Nine. It is 2014. I am doing laundry while I rewatch all of Deep Space Nine. It is 2024. I am doing laundry while I rewatch all of Deep Space Nine.

Google Gemini not hip to squigglevision, but otherwise not bad I guess.

It’s embarrassing that I live in a country where we put up with this

That… is not how this works.

Happy partially muscled skeleton screaming before vanishing day to all those that celebrate.

Hoping this is a joke: Guardian reports Tulsi Gabbard may be appointed Director of National Intelligence.

Twexit must be continuing apace because even I am starting to get a few more followers

Boy, we are in for some prime doomscrolling, aren't we?

AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Sounds like somebody’s bucking for minority leader

<eyebrows raised>

St Louis County early voting is uneventful but busy, I should have peed first.

There are things I don’t like about ACA. It really did not go far enough to be completely effective, and employer based health insurance is a bad system. But what they tried to do in 2017, a straight up repeal, would have been like lighting 17% of GDP (the amount spent on health care) on fire. 🔥

Aaron Rupar has been doing some amazing work, watching hours of crazy BS so you don’t have to.

Every Chicago mayor: