Metaphors getting ever more didactic bsky.app/profile/zach...

FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years. It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.

Rufo's entire political project and success as a far-right activist are built on a conspiracy theory: That insidious "leftist" forces have taken over the major institutions of American life, pursuing a radically anti-American agenda from these institutions as their power centers.

He's said this so many times, so here are the options: 1. Nobody around him has the courage to tell him how stupid this makes him sound 2. They told him, and he said "It's OK, my people are morons, it sounds great to them" I'd go with #2. His faith in the stupidity of his supporters is boundless.

Susie Wiles told NYT she didn't call Elon Musk "an avowed ketamine" in one of her ELEVEN interviews with Vanity Fair. "That’s ridiculous. I wouldn’t have said it and I wouldn’t know." Vanity Fair: Cool here's a recording of you saying that. www.huffpost.com/entry/brown-...

I'd love to see every Democratic state and local official start a Get Tough On Wage Theft campaign. Start doing some perp walks, distribute the mug shots, toss criminal employers who steal from their employees in the slammer. And loudly point out that Republicans are "soft on crime" if they object.

Righteous anger. Much love to my neighbors.

Gift link to an Interview with the Vanity Fair photographer who took photos of Trump’s staff. I’m struck by his response to the response: “If presenting what I saw, unfiltered, is an attack, then what would you call it had I chosen to edit it and hide things about it?” wapo.st/49ixYtq

83% of Americans have a favorable view of Medicaid: www.kff.org/medicaid/7-c... Republicans simply can't believe that's true. It's government insurance, surely everyone hates it! But guess what: People don't want to be "health consumers," they just want secure coverage.

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I appreciate this critique of the anti-Cassandra position. In my experience, the Cassandras weren’t “liberal east coast elites,” they were people like me who grew up in and/or currently lived in reddish or purple places, among people who were warming (or just acquiescing) to fascism.

This could be any woman in the North Shore

very weird feeling watching a seemingly coked out president yell at you for 20 minutes straight

Conservatives spent decades talking about how everyone else besides them wanted “free money.”

These are the places where American students learn about the world. These cuts are one sign — I know there are others — of a country that is shrinking away. www.dailytarheel.com/article/a4ee...

Source, this article: www.wired.com/story/elon-m... Illustrations really capture the feel of the layer of grease and dirty diapers that DOGE left all over the top floor of the GSA building.

Look, all I know about Venezuela and the economy is, if you think voters didn’t like gas prices at $3, they’re gonna hate them at $4.50

This would be a very good moment for Democratic leaders to increase the political salience of unnecessary wars

A large chunk of MAGA is against new American wars. Trump's decision for regime change in Venezuela, in addition to all the other crises caused by his chaotic id, will be yet another crack to be exploited.

“The Trump administration’s policies on illegal and legal immigration would reduce the projected number of workers in the United States by 6.8 million by 2028 and by 15.7 million by 2035 and lower the annual rate of economic growth by almost one-third.” www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

everything is so fucking stupid

I know that I don't have to point out that the oil, the land all of it belongs to the Venezuela people. But I guess that doesn't matter anymore. Trump is now officially using the Vladimir Putin playbook.

watch a clip from Warnock's Meet the Press interview below and then consider that what he said prompted Trump to have this batshit crazy meltdown:

"Not since the ransacking of the Library of Alexandria have we witnessed such a wanton, intentional assault on scientific knowledge."

Short sighted and vindictive- a self-inflicted wound. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

the three genders:

This is Ranger. He has picked you as the chosen one for this dinner party. Or as he calls it, the weakest link. 13/10 an honor (TT: sunnycorina)

Well, this is incredibly disappointing. I was just organizing some of our philanthropy for next year, and ProPublica is always near the top. They need to listen to their workers, and not do this kind of thing. I want to know EVERYTHING that is presented to me that has LLM content.

Water your tree.

Those essays / articles were making a clear white supremacist argument — that white dudes are superior by nature and should dominate every space, and the only reason anyone else would be hired is discrimination against them. And watching people seriously consider those arguments was enlightening.

This is a vivid, well-reported story about poverty in McDowell County, WV, but there's a problem with the framing, and what's left out. The story talks about some of the ways the Trump administration has cut off funds to the place, but... www.wsj.com/us-news/pove...

Many of you have seen the photos of Lake Street’s nativity, and I appreciate this one for its focus.

One of my own creations, this cubic origami structure. While the diagrams for the pieces appear in a book, I came up with a mathematical formula to count the pieces of paper for this design when assembled into a large cube. This took 5,046 pieces.

Here is the Department of Homeland Security touting this new ban by describing the (among others) spouses and children of U.S. citizens coming on visas as "foreign invaders." It has never been about legal versus illegal. They hate legal immigration. They want to stop it. That's the story.

I mean, you have to know Medicare policy to commit fraud like that, he probably knows more about it than the average republican in congress. I watched Cassidy, an MD, talk about his ACA reform plan and it was clear the man has no clue how medical billing or insurance works.

I don't often venture to Facebook, but the comments are amusing and well worth browsing. Enjoy. www.facebook.com/nih.gov/post...

Appreciate all the folks standing up for #science, #vaccines and #PublicHealth www.michiganpublic.org/health/2025-...

Sad commentary on health insurance by @erohealthcomms.com www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/busi...

*Chef's kiss*

Legacy Democrats want to be Republicans so bad, man.

NEW: Without USAID funding to help buy food for refugees, the World Food Program rushed to prioritize families based on need, determining that only half the population would get food. Refugees learned which half they were in from a number stamped on the back of their ration card.

Setas de Sevilla is one of the coolest buildings I’ve been to in a long time. Architecturally daring and built entirely of engineered wood. (1/x)

Up in Washington county, the biggest employer in the whole county was Mackey's Ferry Sawmill - until recently. The family-owned sawmill was forced to shut down and go out of business this year because of the Trump tariffs. They laid off all 50 employees. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Listen to Chris when he taps the sign...

No thesis more vindicated www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/622555... bsky.app/profile/rgoo...

I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along

This is Millie. She just learned how to sled. Hopes you brought a second land frisbee, because she will not be taking turns. 13/10 (TT: millietheredlab)

good luck staffing up those rural hospitals bsky.app/profile/reic...

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