There is NO FUCKING EXCUSE for this to be happening. I had a baby die in my arms of pertussis some fifty years ago. It was a HORRIBLE death. But my fellow nurses said to me, "It's almost stamped out now, they're all getting the shots, we won't be seeing this again." HOW THE FUCK ARE WE HERE. 😡

Maybe I'm missing an important point, but the Ford gov's claim that "Landlords will lower rents if they can rent out more of their properties now that we've given them more power over tenants" feels like something you'd say if you'd never literally never heard of capitalism before in your life.

Someone (Rubio?) is MEGA pissed at the Ukraine peace plan situation if they leaked a full on *recording* of this Witkoff call (with transcript, lol).

Nothing to worry about, just a US official advising our nuclear-armed adversary how to manipulate the President of the United States, a notoriously weak-minded mark

The good news: the president has pardoned the turkey. The bad news: two hours later the turkey was arrested for running a ponzi scheme and committing acts of gross sexual imposition.

Does the BBC think it's improper for a speaker to state their opinion that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history? Because I think almost all historians would readily agree that Donald Trump is the most openly corrupt president in American history.

You cannot rationally govern an electorate guided by hallucinations

Wow — Senators Van Hollen, Smith, Murphy, Sanders, Warren, Markey, Merkley, Heinrich have created an official internal "Fight Club." They're challenging Schumer & Gillibrand's leadership, arguing the party is using an old, corporate-friendly playbook insufficient to take on Trump or win elections.

they tanked search on purpose so people spent more time looking at ads (this is documented )

What if Dems ran on sacrificing James Carville's human rights?

People are always like real job stability is in medicine or the law, but the most secure job is actually white guy writes op-eds about how he’s sick of the minorities.

absolutely incredible -- CNN host introduces a segment about Trump's "new healthcare proposal," but less than two minutes later breaks into her script to announce "breaking news" that Trump's healthcare proposal is being postponed

If I'm following correctly, Vanity Fair had no problem with Nuzzi sleeping with one politician she was covering, but the news that she slept with *two* politicians she was covering is a crisis. Squinting, trying to discern some kind of principle here ...

This is identical to Russia invading Ukraine. Illegally invading a country for their resources and likely killing thousands—if not more—is immoral and should not be supported by anyone with any shred of moral conscience.

What’s amazing is the administration ran a month and half long case study 6 months ago using air power to coerce a political outcome and it didn’t do shit so why is this going to be different? secretaryrofdefenserock.substack.com/subscribe?si...

genuinely says so much about what twitter has become that the biggest rightwing grift accounts pushing US fascist narratives aren’t real people and not even close to the united states

One sign of a bubble is when the major players do gimmicks to hide the cost of the bubble. If the thing was clearly a good value, they'd just say "look at us investing in this valuable thing," rather than this obvious shell game to avoid booking the cost of building a data center.

Don’t sanewash this, media. The Trump White House forfeited benefit of the doubt a while ago. They pushed an awful, very Russia-friendly plan for Ukraine, and are now lying to save face. You can tell because the plan aligns with their year-long efforts, and the current lies contradict each other.

The bill last numbered H.R. 9495 would empower the Treasury Secretary to designate any nonprofit the Secretary wishes to kill a “terrorist supporting organization” and revoke the tax-exempt status on which it depends for survival. Unconstitutional but lethal in the harm it would do while in force.

“I can do whatever nobody stops me from doing” turns out to be a powerful rationale all of a sudden

In normal democracy terms, we've in bad shape and things are getting worse. In consolidated authoritarianism terms, we're doing pretty well, as the regime is haphazard, meeting resistance, and growing increasingly unpopular. Depends on one's perspective. I started using the latter standard in Jan.

I think they told Trump to give MTG the Ned Beatty speech from Network about “messing with powers beyond your comprehension” and instead he gave her Ned Beatty from Deliverance and told her to squeal like a piggy

This hack's partner is the hack at vanity fair who hired his best friend who's the hack who was fucking every source she could while cheating on the hack who was her then boyfriend

If the 28-point plan came from Russia and somehow ended up in the hands of U.S. lawmakers, then we don’t have a “leak” problem we have a foreign influence problem. And anyone downplaying that should not be anywhere near national security decisions.

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

The same Russian criminals keep popping up time & time again…bribing the same GOP bottom-feeders & feeding them talking points again & again & again. THIS is the kind of betrayal that should be spotlighted. Not Democrats who simple remind service members of their legal oaths.

You have to wonder if the strikes on the "drug boats" were just a way to test which generals would follow illegal orders wrt an undeclared war with Venezuela and weed out those who wouldn't.

Extremely niche take: The fact that Lizza had <2k followers on here when he posted Part I, and now only has ~2k is evidence of how BlueSky DGAF about clout-chasing, insider-y, access-trading “journalists.”

Just remembering how one of the most important and widely read and dropped-with-maximally-damaging-timing "Biden is old and senile" pieces was reported by Nuzzi. It makes you think!

Hakeem Jeffries was literally voting for a resolution condemning socialism while this meeting was taking place

This shouldn’t stop Dems from confirming more of Trump’s govt appointments

I’m beside myself. We all have to be the presences in our own abortion networks telling people don’t talk to the press just like we don’t talk to cops. I know it feels like it’s supposed to be different, but it’s not. You are gonna get all your people and the people you’re helping in deep shit.

We got the pee poem for free. Gotta pay up for the felching poem. That's just good business

Learning to deal with loneliness is not a solution

I wonder if right now, zohran is talking to his wife about the smell

Three-Song Peel Session of The Specials from October 15, 1979. Length: 11:59. #Ska m.youtube.com/watch?v=UoLA...

Raptors are really surprising And Magic are playing better w/o Pancho… too many Cowboys?

Not absolutely positive but Celtics seem to be playing for the draft pick

Great last shot plan by Minnesota I’ve seen high school JV teams get better looks in 8 seconds

Woofies trying to choke this away

at no point does this article get close to pointing out she's a weird billionaire-allied troll with no actual experience in journalism who was hired to blow smoke up the ass of power most of the media journalism I read is so uninformative and feckless you'd be better off watching the muppet show

"Accountability is coming." That's a good campaign slogan for Democrats in 2026 and 2028.

Trump ran just to stay out of prison. He likes the pomp and pageantry of being president. That's the most important thing to him. He doesn't really give a fuck about all the damage the underlings are doing because they insulate him from it.

Dear @wallgreens.bsky.social If you were wondering if ii switched my scripts because of your recent absolutely predictable bad behavior toward employees as part of the Private Equity M.O. and I am following “human” m.o. & giving you the 🖕

LEFT: Grok lying about what the Dems said RIGHT: Chat GPT fact-checking Grok on what the Dems actually said Bottom Line: Elon is building a weapon of mass disinformation and right wing propaganda in Memphis

Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

It's hard to get neurotypicals to understand "I didn't do the task because I was so intensely aware of the need to do this that my brain built a wall around the concept of doing it", so we just say "I didn't do the task because I forgot."

honestly a toss up whether I’m more disturbed by his casual invocation of war for oil or by his getting the effect of Venezuelan war on oil prices totally backwards