Under Donald Trump, 688 prescription drugs have gotten MORE EXPENSIVE. And last night, he shut down the government to avoid lowering Americans’ health care costs. Donald Trump is making your life more expensive.

It's becoming difficult to hide that a major purpose of the Trump administration is siphoning tax revenues from Blue states and redirecting them into subsidies for Red states. At what point does this become intolerable?

Shanda on you. Shanda on your cow.

This short passage from a Politico afternoon newsletter captures a huge amount of the advantage gained by lying at scale and the why the DC press corps remains wired for the GOP.

inbox, from Democratic Assembly nominee Katie Brennan (LD-32, Jersey City/Hoboken): Brennan Calls for New Jersey to Withhold Federal Taxes, Seize Trump’s Bedminster Golf Course After Gateway Tunnel Funding Freeze

The unquestioned leader of the Democratic Party.

"The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything in space in the past, some as they were before the Earth came to be. Telescopes are time machines." - Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

I so appreciate @nytimes.com for tackling the most important issues of the day.

It’s very disturbing that so many Democratic politicians don’t see this simple fact. The days of appealing to the “decency” of Trump and his Republican cult are gone.

“Please Mr. President.” I think I’m gonna hurl.

I hate AI with a passion. It’s a culmination of so much that is wrong with the world. A theft-machine that puts profit and product over people. It turns out… I can hate it more.

I still think it’s backwards that every mass shooter owning an AR-15 is considered a right while their victims’ healthcare is considered a privilege.

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

Whoa! SNAP! How is Trump gonna recover from this?!?! The gloves are OFF.

categorically impossible to run as an anti-corruption party with Jeffries in leadership, he and Schumer must be removed or we will squander this moment

You know how you'll hear a really terrible singer and think, "they must truly be horrible and have no idea, because no one faking it could be that bad, and anyone who knew would never perform in public"? That's what it's like whenever Hakeem Jeffries does politics.

This is a horrible tragedy. Everyone deserves to get home safe in New York City. There’s no protected bike lane on this street. Mayor Adams has built just a fraction of the protected bike lane miles he's legally required to build. The result? Dangerous streets like this one.

Good lord, man, hang it up.

Note to Crunch marketing team: you need more X’s

So much for the "crackdown" on fake and obscured license plates.

A tourist was killed, so brutally and callously, right in Midtown, and her husband’s skull fractured. Sounds like drivers were ILLEGALLY blocking the crosswalk and a minivan driver reversed, pinning them against a box truck. Blocking the box is NEVER ENFORCED. This is sickening

That's how you write a headline

On the same day that the Adams administration implemented a 15-mph speed limit for e-bikes, these poor people were crushed by someone driving around the city with a novelty license plate. NYC needs real leadership, not asinine scapegoating and demagoguery. www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/24/g...

Why is @nytimes.com claiming to know that FCC chair Brendan Carr's motives for state censorship of liberals are authentically felt, as opposed to an invented pretext? NYT headline writers can't see into Carr's mind.

This is how it's done, folks

the sycophancy for trump aside, very hard to overstate the arrogance of this majority in dispensing with a precedent that has served this country and both of its political parties well for nearly a century.

this is actually my great frustration of walking around in new york.

Trump had his accounts suspended on January 7, 8, and 9th 2020. WHEN HE WAS STILL PRESIDENT. It was not Joe Biden because Biden was not President.

I'm so old that I remember when dudes would give players crap for missing a game for the birth of their children. I suppose attending a political rally disguised as a funeral for a podcaster is more defensible. www.nytimes.com/athletic/665...

Trump trying to send a DM to Pam Bondi but actually posting it on TruthSocial instead raises new questions about Joe Biden's mental acuity.

He barely won the popular vote, and he would lose if he ran today. The counties he won are much smaller in average population, so this stat is meaningless. And he gets terrible press because he’s a terrible leader.

The real cancel culture is liberals cancelling their Disney+ subscriptions, not Trump firing Jimmy Kimmel.

Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way. by Ezra Klein

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

If every politician cared as much as this one, what an amazing country this country would be!

This is good but where is, like, RDJ? “No Doc Doom for you.” Or all these other influential Marvel actors. Why is it only Damon?

Part of our constitutional crisis is that Republicans are stopping Congress from playing its fundamental oversight role.

Respectfully disagree: 1) in fact it is unusual for a democracy w/ this level of GDP to turn authoritarian & so quickly; 2) the weakness of both institutions (congress & courts) and individuals (Schumer etc) is shocking. Would take less than 10 people in congress or 2 SC justices to stop all this.

I don’t admire any other Democrats, says the loser of the Democratic primary for mayor. What an egotistical tool. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/u...

This is one of the biggest nonstories I’ve seen in a long time from @gothamist.com, just trying to stoke controversy within @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social’s campaign where none really exists. gothamist.com/news/progres...

There's probably nothing a CEO does that can't be replaced by AI beyond demanding a ridiculously high compensation package. Perhaps @fiverr.bsky.social should have done that before replacing free-lancing grunts just making a living.

Robert Redford acted the hell out of a role in Captain America when he was 78. He absolutely did not need to do that at that point in his career or life. 🫡

The Candidate, Butch and Sundance, Condor, All The President’s Men, The Quiz Show, Sneakers, and even something like Spy Game.

Not a headline that can appear in an actual democracy. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Question for the white liberals who have written columns praising Charlie Kirk in the name of "free speech." Where are you columns actually DEFENDING THE FREE SPEECH of people who are being fired for [checks notes] quoting Charlie Kirk? (Which most of you white praisers didn't have the guts to do)

staring straight into the camera and lying. just a despicable person and a poor excuse for a national leader.

This is why I'm not exactly comforted by the "DOJ doesn't have the capacity" to go after liberal groups. Vance and others aren't exactly looking for DOJ to do this work for them!

In all seriousness, Vance’s unhinged diatribe really reminds me that this country is in dire straits. I can’t even wrap my mind around how bad things are and how impossible everything feels. How are we supposed to stay here and write and stay like… alive?