the "who will the public blame for the shutdown?" handwringing is asinine. the vast majority of voters have no idea how government shutdowns work, and by the time midterms roll around they won't remember anything that didn't impact them directly

help my job says i have to do my job what do i do help

We're getting a wave of articles that are like, "gee willikers it sure seems like the people who complained about 'cancel culture' for years really like canceling people." Yes! This was extremely obvious at the time and a lot of us pointed it out!

The biggest reason for longer waits is staffing shortages, which are driven by more people leaving healthcare practice than entering, esp nursing, due to bad management practices (often related to private equity). This administration’s immigration policies will significantly worsen these shortages.

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Jellyfish cannot support their own weight out of water. Stephen Miller is a jellyfish.

- Should you ever, under any circumstances, take the Arkansas job? - The return of Bobby Petrino as well as Bobby Petrino voice - Our favorite players, teams, and games of September, a good and special month that counts the same as all the others

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit

nobody on earth wishes you more harm than the people in power and their financial backers

every single person claiming to yearn for this would kill themselves if they were subjected to the tyranny of the 56k modem for one hour

Justice Kavanaugh: “If the person is a U. S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter.”

I really do hope the phrase “Kavanaugh Stop” or “Kavanaugh Encounter” sticks.

Is that effective campaign messaging? I don’t know & I don’t care. It’s true. It’s my job to discover and say things that are true. The radicalization of the American right is *the* political story of my lifetime and the public should know about it. Politicians can do what they like with that.

Klein is also obsessed with solving Democrats’ “condescension problem” but it’s not condescending to talk about how your political opponents are wrong! That’s kind of how it works.

now that eric adams has ended his campaign for mayor it’s time to stroll down memory lane

Yesterday’s photo is a tough act to follow lol, but it’s ok, we’re all smiles for Friday over here! #corgi #corgicrew #dogsofbluesky

fifty years after the second nuremberg trials there are gonna be kids going into their grandfathers basement and finding these in carefully hidden display cases

Every time this guy opens his mouth now it’s like listening to someone who just stepped out of a time machine from 2006.

I am beginning to think orange man bad

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Engraving two bullets with "this bullet only lies" and "this bullet only tells the truth" to really stump the FBI

Henry Kissinger? He did what now?

chotiner’s real gift is very quickly revealing how many powerful and influential people are complete morons. Sunstein is asked about his friendship with Kissinger and it’s pretty clear that he’s never really thought about it.

This month's bonus episode is about the pundit reaction to the death of Charlie Kirk, from Ezra Klein to the freaks at National Review.

I will not link to it. I just want to reiterate that thousands of books have been banned by the right. And American Dirt sold millions of copies.

Strange, the bully is kicking my ass even though I've been telling everyone how much I respect him. Maybe he hasn't heard

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

The greatest innovation billionaires have come up with is they found a way to have billions of dollars and still be miserable and angry all the time

[logging on every day] man what

one day, everyone will have always been against this

I know antifa isn't a real organization because I don't get 40 texts a week from them asking for donations.

We can't talk about what's going on without talking about the deplorable state of law enforcement in this country and Democrats can't do that until they discard reflexive rhetoric like "Of course we have to respect the police." No we don't! Not when they act like this! And you should say it!

AND THEN THEY LOST. THEY ALL FUCKING LOST TO REPUBLICANS. IT WAS FIFTEEN YEARS AGO AND THEY NEVER GOT ELECTED AGAIN BECAUSE PEOPLE JUST VOTED FOR THE REPUBLICAN. DO ACTUALLY NOT FUCKING COMPREHEND WHY THAT HAPPENED

Oh no not no DV convictions!! Add DUI and no one could stay in office.

I would love for a single democrat to reckon with the fact that conservatives are not in fact motivated by reasonable concerns. They are — just as they were with ‘concerns’ over blacks and gays and numerous other minorities over the last five decades — motivated by bigotry.

Somewhat but not especially surprised to know Mississippi beat Indiana to the punch on this pattern-matching prophecy

Dear Jeffrey,

Judas: Thanks for inviting me to the Last Supper Jesus: The what? Judas: what?

sick of living in the Stupid Bitch Extended Multiverse

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

the people who loudly proclaim your kids shouldnt go to college all went to yale and duke. the people who are working tirelessly to ensure your children work in factories send their own kids to stanford and give them control of their own investment banks in their 20s

zero sauce. none. its got to be fucked up to wake up one day a 50-something single mom who's sole source of income is cosplaying as camille paglia and find that the act has grown irreparably stale

i can’t believe people think Twitter is better than this

what ezra doesn't seem willing to accept is that charlie kirk was part of a political movement that does not think that "we are going to have to live here with each other" and is fact very interested in the elimination and/or subjugation of many, many people