This. But also imagine this was all fraud somehow. There are about 42 million SNAP recipients. So they are focusing on about 0.4 percent of the caseload.

I want you to understand just how badly the new York times has damaged its credibility over the last decade plus and why people might not be inclined to give them the benefit of the doubt at this stage. I suspect you do understand though.

From my perspective, it seems like the issue is more that those tougher, reasonable standards do not seem to be universally applied.

Or you know the Clinton email scandal

ISP decided to do upgrades today during business hours so cannot access my draft or the new data that just arrived.

Scheele's Green, in fact. 💀 www.slam.org/blog/arsenic...

Kessler is an opinion columnist, and The Post has simply been presenting his editorialized assumptions as facts.

Breaking on MSNBC: Mike Johnson says he intends to put the Epstein resolution on the House floor NEXT WEEK.

To be fair this could be read as concern about what the GOP and Trump would do without the filibuster now as opposed to a general defense of the filibuster going forward. But not great.

feels relevant today

The sad thing is that "elite social networks and credentialing institutions explain how capital influences state behavior" is generally seen as a weak and outdated explanation. But over the past couple years all the most vulgar theories of state/capital relations are looking correct

Jeffrey Epstein was developing a series, moderated by @lkrauss1.bsky.social, to bring scientists and celebrities together. The first season would include an episode where "Woody Allen talks about the human condition with Linguist Noam Chomsky." drive.google.com/file/d/14Sla...

Our elite seem to not have the firmest grasp on the English language.

The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.

My god (sorry I’m late on a bunch of this stuff. But wow!) According to this NYT report, the head of the FBI and the Attorney General are holding meetings *in the Situation Room* with GOP lawmakers they are trying to pressure to rescind their votes to release the Epstein info. This is madness.

Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?

Rep. Adelita Grijalva has officially signed the discharge petition to force a vote on the Massie-Khanna bill to release the Epstein files. That's 218, meaning House GOP leaders cannot block it from the floor. (That's 214 Dems + Massie, MTG, Mace, Boebert.)

man we need a way to say "the moral rot and depravity of this country's elite must be burned out of it with cleansing fire" that isn't wildly reactionary-coded

People with intellectual and developmental disabilities rely on SNAP. In my latest @19thnews.org, I talk to a bunch of policy people and economists, as well as Kajeana Tillman, who lives in the Bronx and just wants to get groceries like she usually does.

Ooh look it is a Larry Summers being a mysogynist ass... Again.

probably something an innocent man would do

I know this but I have a really hard time with it. It's an old habit that is hard to kill. www.cultofpedagogy.com/two-spaces-a...

Griffith did nothing wrong

My friends in Chicago and beyond inform me that I have not aged in the last decade plus. I think what is happening that instead of general aging evenly distributed across the body, all my aging is concentrated in my lower back. Specifically the L4-L5 disc. I have the back of a 113 year old.

Ok but will I be able to use the steam machine to browse, download, and install 350 semi-compatible Skyrim mods and filters and then watch smoke waft from the unit as I attempt to take super sweet screenshots at 3 fps?

This is a solution in the same way the Sweet Meteor of Death is a solution.

The first rule of Fight Club is:

Gnostic mystery cults be like:

Surely there couldn't be anything damning in the files. Merrick Garland would have acted upon them. Wait...why are you laughing?

Larry Summers really hates women. He should be persona non grata at this point. Harvard should have been harsher.

One positive thing I will say about Biden is that Biden has no interest in Larry Summers being in his administration.

It's...uh...a great day for certain conspiracy theories. That's all I'll be saying.

Ooh look it is a Larry Summers being a mysogynist ass... Again.

Ok this is what gets reporters interested/excited.

My head did some talking on CBS News Chicago on Monday night. CC: @cjkarr.bsky.social @cobey.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

I would really like to play a video game based on the box art for Mega Man 1.

Dec 2015: Epstein to Wolff: 'Trump knew, what should I do?' Dec 2015: Wolff to Epstein 'blackmail him!' Mid-2016: Wolff gets full access to the Trump campaign and then White House. Hmmmm

My head did some talking on CBS News Chicago on Monday night. CC: @cjkarr.bsky.social @cobey.bsky.social www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

📣 OK, as promised, here's my *deeper* dive into how 14 states have instituted #ACA pricing policy which will *dramatically* mitigate the expiring tax credits for a significant portion of enrollees...IF enrollees take advantage of it: acasignups.net/25/11/11/the...

You'd need 4 times more to do the $2000/person tariff rebate that is not going happen.

Oh yeah....nice timing.

Once again, if you wrote a story in which the jetsetting corrupt FBI chief took a government plane to the "Boondoggle Ranch" an editor would tell you to get a different job, because you're not cut out for writing believable stories.

I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here

"Mom, Dad, we are going to bake brownies and cookies and sell them to make money to donate to a foodbank." "aww" ::wakes up at 6am to the sounds of clanging pots, a mixer and two children screaming at each other about the various food items they have spilled all over the floor::

The far right is obsessed with Lord of the Rings and Musk keeps posting about "hobbits" because modern scientific racism owes more to fantasy worlds and gaming systems than genetic science, and they see both as effective mediums for right-wing propaganda www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Personally, I think alternatives to the ACA worth exploring are national insurance (actually existing Medicare for All), Medicare for All, or Medicaid for All (Canada). I think an NHS would never be well-funded in the US and I think Singapore's model (HSAs) suck. But that's just me.

Big reveal at beginning of next bond movie: the cloning vat where Q oversees the development of the next Bond unit. Each is given a set of synthetic memories; each believes itself to be the original Bond. But there never was an original. Bond was a creation of British science.

Prof. Wolfers has reignited the econ 101 debate! Battle stations, @besttrousers.bsky.social !

Good morning. Did you catch the 10 minutes of snow? pix11.com/news/local-n...