Hello friends, I recently lost my health insurance + benefits & am currently looking at a bill of over $16,000 for which I cannot pay. This would not necessarily be an issue if I were not visually impaired and currently out of full time work, but I am humbly asking for assistance now. Any bit helps.

could literally one thing anywhere not be Gender for like fifteen seconds

Trump take job

You ever think about how Matt Yglesias should be spat on every time he leaves the house?

related to this a lot of people in the pundit class need to learn how to just be annoyed by someone or something without turning it into What’s Wrong With America

i am fascinated by how nate silver turns everything he doesn’t like into a bespoke ideology. it’s not that he is annoyed by HCR, it is that she is a dreaded “ism” responsible for everything he doesn’t like about the democratic party. same with bluesky.

Only white man I have any interest in for 2028 other than the Khan.

Today, I spoke with Kilmar Abrego Garcia and his wife, Jennifer. In April, when I met with him in El Salvador, Trump said he would never set foot in the U.S. again. This case has never been about one man alone; if the govt can violate the constitutional rights of one, all our rights are threatened.

My best friend and I saw Transformers 2 in theatres, and at a moment where Shia Laboeuf and Megan Fox are running in slow mo with the quiet keening of an explosion behind them, he loudly say "YO THIS SHIT HAPPENED TO MY COUSIN ONCE"

Jesus fucking Christ.

Yes I can actually.

yeah man maybe you should stop before the white line

i think much of the camera discourse honestly is white affluent people who drive to work from the suburbs never getting tickets from racist cops and wanting things to mostly stay that way

I think Bovino's dad should have maybe died in prison.

excellent Times piece getting at the core of the US escalation with Venezuela Marco Rubio is a deranged anticommunist bent on overthrowing the Venezuelan and Cuban regimes and everything is downstream from that www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

We are going to have to fight immigration as a front in the messaging war, so we should consider picking our battlefield as much as possible rather than let the Republicans do it.

I think it is theoretically possible that an election entirely about health care would be better for Democrats than one fought over immigration. I also think the chance that the GOP *allows* that is approximately nil, and so it behooves us to try and figure out how to fight on immigration as well.

This article is sympathetic towards ICE but still a good read because it's clear that Minneapolis and Saint Paul are doing AMAZING work (with a little assistance from our weather). www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

the appropriate response to Gaza is South Africa-level BDS and a no-fly zone. the appropriate response to El-Fasher is full-scale UN intervention

So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified

Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s Nephew speaks out after ICE arrest: I think what I would have to say to Karoline is just because you went to a catholic school doesn't make you a good catholic.

"Speed cameras and ignition interlocks are carceral" really emphasizes that for many people, carcerality is about whether laws are enforceable at all rather than whether they are enforced through prisons.

I honestly don't think this is all that terrible of a poll for Talarico. It's definitely not a "Crockett entering ends the race" kind of lead for Crockett.

Jim Costa's district is safe, there's no reason for him to be doing this.

*most racist guy you've ever met voice* I am on the left and think it's bad when we focus on Palestine for purely tactical reasons

nobody is coming to save you, we can only build power together act.dsausa.org/s/4536.Xd0xHm

Listen I'm not going to front like I'm the best driver in the world. I absolutely have a lead foot. And this is a bad quality and if/when I get tickets, I deserve them.

No, Matty has actually been pretty consistent he doesn't just want people to compromise in candidate selection or in specific races, he wants to impose party discipline on anybody left-of-center to try and shift the entire range of acceptable popular opinion.

i'll say this, though, i think habitual speeding and reckless driving offenses should be treated with the same kind of seriousness that DUI/DWAI offenses are, because, as a pedestrian, i'm far more likely to be hit by someone not paying attention or speeding while stone sober than someone drunk

Somali Minnesotans can speak to this xenophobia so clearly because they feel the consequences of his hateful words. Read what Faisa has to say:

See also: debates about speed cameras. There's a problematic reflex among some progressive reformers to move from "conventional criminal legal responses are bad" to something too close to "accountability in general is bad." I think (as Jamelle argues here) it's rooted in not thinking abt victims.

As I never tire of reminding people, the two plausible alternatives to automated traffic enforcement are that we either rely on the discretion of individual police officers or we simply don't enforce traffic laws at all. We have been trying both alternatives now and they are failing us.

Ignition interlocks are a *less carceral* option! DUI is a common crime, many drunk drivers are not societal threats in other aspects, and we have a device that notably reduces proclivity to drive drunk without otherwise restricting their liberty.

It's been over a year and countless iterations but *finally* I can announce that my Masters thesis project, a historical strategy deckbuilder based on the Late Bronze Age is finally playable! Requires Tabletop Simulator to play as this is still just a prototype of the eventual game, but enjoy!

TBH there are circumstances you should probably be able to do this and keep your job, but none of those circumstances involve you also calling said customers a racial slur and saying "I'm a racist."

there is a very good book about transatlantic exchange of fascist, eugenicist and racist ideas in the early 20th century and how those ideas shaped the nazi government in its early years. this has been transformed in popular understanding to "the nazis copied jim crow"

Yeah people don't really realize it yet but in 2028 almost every single Democratic candidate for president is going to be attacked relentlessly by the pro-Israel lobby, even the most rightward flanking ones on the issue.

If I were a Member of Congress, I would not have voted with Republicans to censure Rashida Tlaib (like 22 House Dems did). But I sure would have already introduced a resolution to censure this bigot:

honestly, if i were trying to design a place for the political opposition to take a stand against trump, i couldn't have done better than abrego garcia. by trying to destroy basic constitutional protections, it was *trump* who made this a dispute over due process and the Constitution.

someone tell the California ACLU who is disproportionately more likely to be killed in traffic accidents including those involving people under the influence

In a shock to absolutely no one, the spineless dem’s “plan” to reopen the government and force an ACA vote didn’t work and healthcare subsidies are gone. Healthy people will take the tax penalty. Sick people will go broke or die. Those are the options in 2026.

the thing that makes me angriest about arguments from Yglesias and Bazelon is the bland, placid insistence that it is not just imperative to vote for politicians with no principles, but that if you as a private citizen have principles then you may as well be turning on the gas chambers yourself.

there are pundits who will say that immigration is trump's strongest issue and that picking fights around immigration helps him on the margins. but i think this misunderstands the way public opinion works, as evidenced by trump's declining fortunes on his handling of immigration.

it's why left-YIMBYism is, imo, the correct position from a political economy point of view. the trade offs of rent control vs zoning + development reform really mean that the costs of the former are offset by the latter

rereading this from four years ago, I was not nearly harsh enough about these people theweek.com/politics/100...

yeah i'm not being funny but most arguments against rent controls, while they may be /economically/ sound, are bad from the perspective of /political/ economy

Anti-vaxxism is an ideology with maybe the dumbest combination of pointless and evil that has ever existed bsky.app/profile/nyti...