Please understand that "reward people for being healthy", in health insurance, also translates to "punish people for being disabled." The people who are most vulnerable, most in need, will be asked to bear higher costs, in many cases, pricing them out of accessing health care, into early graves.

“Jared Kushner Invited Jeffrey Epstein to Party With Trump and Harvey Weinstein in 2013” 11/17/25 … 1/ www.mediaite.com/politics/jar...

More proof that the current US regime does not care about or understand Ukrainians, and they especially don't understand President Zelenskyy. #StandWithUkraine #RussiaIsATerroristState

i reiterate my case that the true alpha in any given group is the mum friend with spare pads and cheesy crackers and a mysterious number of packs of wet wipes

Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.

Fox Biz: "A new Reuters poll shows President Trump's approval rating falling to its lowest level. This is because, apparently, of prices and the Epstein files."

It's not a foolproof plan but every political debate from now on should be a Normal Guy competition. Ask them to describe grocery shopping in detail. Talk about what it's like to have a friend

one thing about this is that in the wake of all of this kirk is basically forgotten. he was barely cold in the ground before his allies — before his *wife* — started scheming over what they could take for themselves. a real life parable.

"The media outlets and tech platforms that settled with Trump chose to give him money because they *wanted* to. They could have fought and won, since Trump’s lawsuits (and his lawyering) are universally terrible."

The extent to which healthcare, the nation’s top-ranked industry per capita dollar-spent, is on the verge of collapsing is woefully underreported. There is nothing short of a New Deal level of legislation that will save the industry.

People can be mad that Providence is a Catholic medical system and I'm not even gonna say they're wrong to be mad about it. But also: in a lot of Western Washington, Providence is the only medical provider accepting Medicaid payments. Providence having to downsize is going to hurt the poor. A lot.

I’ve got family in deep exurban pa one hospital closed entirely, another just cut almost all the nurses closed cancer ward and icu. There are still options but these smallish centers aren’t able to handle their own load plus that of 2 other facilities.

never thought I could see federal law enforcement so depraved that it would negatively polarize local cops to the left, but nothing is impossible for ole Donny Trump

you genuinely wonder what happens if we get a bird flu outbreak during Trump II

We were already deep in a rural healthcare crisis - what we're going to see now is a collapse in healthcare access and hospital availability outside of urban cores, whose systems are already overburdened.

The important thing to bear in mind as Trump's popularity begins to wobble is that the disastrous economic consequences of the things he's done in the first 10 months of this term have not even *begun* to hit. We've been coasting on the fumes of the economy he inherited and soon they'll be gone.

I can say that in Vermont, informal estimates are that we will lose 10-20% of our government employees. The state government is one of our largest employers.

Trump's economy is being held up by a massive AI bubble. A recent study found that of 300 companies that owned generative AI tools, 95% reported zero return on their investments. We will not entertain a bailout of these companies should this bubble pop.

I know that at this point it's a subplot in the Epstein files drama, but I feel compelled to point out, once again, that Larry Summers HAS NO BUSINESS teaching students at ANY university ever again! My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Love it when Jasmine is on🔥 “Mike Johnson is full of shit. We know that he didn't even bring the House back in because he was trying to avoid us dealing with Epstein. He would not even swear in a duly elected member of Congress to avoid this. So miss me on pretending that this is about the victims.”

The panel is Obama, Trump, Trump, but signed as a "per curiam" opinion, which means "by the court." That's usually reserved for when judges want to speak with one voice, especially in political cases, and the name of the opinion's author is not really relevant. Or else the law is well settled.

U.S. grocery prices have hit a record high — the monthly cost for a family of four is now $1,030.

They are really treading on thin ice here. Even if a document is privileged, the fact of its existence is not.

President Zelenskyy came to the White House, looking for help from his longstanding ally. He was ambushed, humiliated and berated for not being grateful enough. Prince Bone Saw bin 9/11 came to the White House, for the first time since he ordered the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. He was revered.

The DOJ has been pressing states since May for their registration rolls, which include sensitive personal information of every single voter, claiming the agency wants to ensure compliance with federal voter laws. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

WATCH: Speaker Johnson says he’s “deeply disappointed” the senate passed a bill he voted for 🤔 @rokhanna.bsky.social : “Johnson looks frazzled. He’s lost it, attacking a bill the survivors wanted without talking to them… that he voted for. He has lost the confidence of half his caucus.”

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.

BREAKING: Prosecutors in the Comey case just told the judge that they’re under orders from the Deputy Attorney Generals’s office not to disclose whether career prosecutors wrote a memo recommending *against* indicting Comey prior to Halligan going to the grand jury.

This makes me so angry.

on the one hand it would be ludicrous for them to release extremely damaging information when they control what gets released on the other hand they are very, very bad at their jobs

Obviously the Trump administration doesn't give a shit what it's legal obligations are. But this could give the Dems a way to keep making noise.

Noem is mad about the whistles. Good job everyone.

Today I read my kids a book about Louis Pasteur, discussing the discovery of germ theory: the idea that microbes float in the air, land on things, & cause trouble (& are lessened if you go up a mountain, so fewer would blow by). This was established scientifically by the 1880s. Meanwhile, in 2025:

This isn't very comforting. It's as if the US gov. wants a virus to rip through the population. "After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing hens & spiking egg prices, the USDA didn’t investigate whether the virus was airborne. ProPublica did." www.propublica.org/article/bird...

Pay attention to how Mike Johnson is trying to shift the narrative today - he’s saying some Epstein files can’t be released because they’re intelligence products and would harm national security.

The crime is not what we were doing protesting in the 10th floor elevator lobby of 26 Federal Plaza. The crime is what ICE agents are doing on the other side of the door.

Medicare for All would save $450B a year. Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity. Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall. It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

You might not have caught what just happened on the Senate floor, but the Senate just “deemed as passed” the Epstein resolution. That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk. Wow.

That they have lived with this trauma & pain for so long is truly heartbreaking. How anyone can support protecting the perpetrators any longer is hard to believe & a complete disgrace! #Justice4TheEPSTEIN_SurvivorsNOW ✊

Today, the House finally passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Survivors have waited years for answers, and the American people have been kept in the dark for far too long. Every name, every meeting, and every document must be released—no excuses, no delays. (1/2)

I don't know if the Epstein vote is a one-off or not, but I've been thinkin of that very thin, translucent sticker film that comes when you order, say, a new monitor. It's devilishly hard to get the first little bit of the corner to separate but once you do, the entire thing pulls off very easily.

This feels like a pretty clear way of saying they condemn JD Vance, and I’m damn glad they said it.

Old guard Christian right leadership has been pretty quiet on Epstein files lately, but last week Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council, close friend of Mike Johnson, and important ally in Trump I, wrote this: washingtonstand.com/article/perk...

sex predators going to the white house like it's the hub world where you visit between missions

Good men do not have a history of sexual assault accusations long enough to have its own Wikipedia article. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_...

He was held civilly liable for sexual abuse and slandered his accuser. He’s been accused by roughly two dozen women of rape and sexual assault. He was best friends with a pedophile. He bragged about grabbing women by the pussy and said Ivanka had to beg him not date younger than her when she was 17.

Important finding: 18% of immigrant parents report they’re avoiding signing up for government health care and other programs This is the “chilling effect” in action which will lead to more uninsured kids 1/4 kids in U.S. have an immigrant parent; most kids are citizens www.kff.org/immigrant-he...

Okay, so, on judicial power. Many many countries have what's called a "judicial commission" that's an independent body that manages the judicial branch, *specifically including* hiring and promotion of judges. They administer exams & peer review to determine who should advance in the profession.

The House will vote today to release the Jeffrey Epstein files. This is not a hoax.

The amazing thing about this is that in the past Fox has led multi-day freakouts over people offering tips like this. Specifically, I remember them losing their minds over a HuffPost blog about reducing travel during Thanksgiving.