Kat Abughazaleh supports retaining private insurance while her opponent Daniel Biss backs Medicare for All, which gets rid of it. What are we doing here people

"The only version of single-payer healthcare that can work is the one with multiple payers."

WE WON! After 42 days of striking we have a tentative agreement in hand that protects our existing 4 day work week, establishes a minimum salary, and adds protections against AI replacing jobs at our workplace!

Sounds good, but … what hammer?

Larry Krasner has won his third term tonight against D->R former judge Pat Dugan by a larger percentage (50% > 44%), and by far a larger vote margin (168K > 95K), than he won four years ago against the criminal defense lawyer who had a section on his campaign website titled "The Girl In My Bathtub."

This is a misleading framing. There was a faction in the Constitutional Congress that was (or claimed to be) concerned about executive authority, but the faction that won the first presidential election (Washington and Hamilton) were very interested in wielding that authority to their advantage.

Gotta get a shirtless pic of a candidate to be really sure.

What is the theory of iconography that asks us to beware of the guy who is obviously not a Nazi because of his tattoo?

I will take the internet's word that that's a Nazi symbol but if you're just looking at it on the wall of a parlor without the internet it looks more Grateful Dead than Nazi.

Every few months everyone around here is like "ah, the seven pointed star with the eye in the center. Classic Nazi symbol" and I find out that evidently this was a thing I am supposed to know

Just Smoke.

If you want to make a company pay a certain amount in wages, we already have a tool for that: minimum wage! You can just write down the number, you don’t have to build a Rube Goldberg machine. And if you feel you’ve maxed out on minimum wage, just boost those benefits. EZ!

Vance is going to be president soon, isn't he, dammit.

In the spring of 2008, I feared America was on the verge of war with Iran — and, believing that it’s good style to get to know people before you bomb them, I made “Rick Steves’ Iran,” a one-hour special that could (and would) only debut on PBS. Sadly, this special has become pertinent again today.

Liberals don’t typically use a phrase like “mind virus,” but the theory of ideology in threads like this seems remarkably Muskian.

No Kings includes Draft Kings

Coach Malone looks like this is the first time he’s put on a suit since confirmation.

14,000 babies at risk of starving to death in Gaza. What is it doing to us, what is it doing to our souls to see this and to be helpless to stop it

“The technology is great, just need better users” is such a funny thing to say when your base product is free and there are still no popular use cases.

We’re all trying to find out who did this dot png.

The only players I'm attached to us keeping after this season are Jokic, Braun and Mr Nugget

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Every time I see Al Gore I'll always think of what might have been. Man really should have stepped aside instead of costing Nader the election

I thought they fired Malone to ensure Westbrook would not be on the court.

This is going to be goddamn hard to get rid of because there is no civil liberties wing of the Democratic Party anymore.

getting tired because i keep placing then removing the first brick of my iphone assembly plant

Have we ever seen two coaches from winning teams fired within the final 10 games of the season (and in Malone's case, with less than a week to go in the regular season)?

I’m a former IIE Fulbright recipient. I hope to see a statement from Fulbright about the detention of Rumeysa Ozturk, doing doctoral research at Tufts’ Child Study and Human Development program. Her work addresses childrens’ media. She is the co-founder of an independent children’s media initiative.

Man, I wish Obama was still alive. He’d have something to say about all this

People have limited bandwidth so they quite rationally focus on the things that have the most direct and immediate impact on their lives. And for much of America, that's stuff like prices and threats to Medicaid. The consequences of corruption are generally less immediate.

"Surrounded and Detached" 8"x 10" gouache on board 2025.

NEW: Liberals hoped to "disrupt the economy" yesterday with their Economic Blackout, but it was a good day for the stock market. Why did they fail?

BREAKING: Gwynne Wilcox, illegally removed from the NLRB by Trump, is suing the President. The lawsuit calls her firing "a blatant violation of the National Labor Relations Act" and says that if she doesn't challenge her firing Trump will have nullified the NLRA’s protections.

Fetishizing the Constitution is not going to stop would-be autocrats. Pieces of paper need human actors, working in concert, to promulgate them.

Just to add: I know about this because of the work I do for the HIV nonprofit @motherchild.bsky.social. With proper treatment, you can reduce the chances of HIV being transmitted to a baby from 25% down to about 1%. But if you take away the meds—well, there are going to be a lot more kids with HIV.

They got Stephen A. calling into SportsCenter right now like this is Desert Storm

this is a small thing in the midst of all this devastation but this is a good reminder to get renter's insurance if you don't have it, it's pretty inexpensive

We've succeeded as a podcast if you observe after listening, oh, no, no, they spent way too much time on this.

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Bluesky already has that Be All You Can Be energy, let's get those invite codes flying.