“I don’t know about that.” “I just saw a headline as I walked in.” “I didn’t see it.” “I was a little busy.”

Ramesh Ponnuru: Dick Cheney was right not to get over Jan. 6, and the rest of America shouldn’t either. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I'd love to see a piece interviewing Republican voters who were promised the Republicans would enact a lot of conservative priorities and, as a bonus, also release the Epstein Files and now have a reality where Republicans shut down the whole House just to prevent the release of the Epstein Files.

Any politician who votes to give more of our tax money to the grifters who have already gotten too much deserves to be primaried into the sun

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

Chris Coons: "He's not listening to concerns about lowering costs. Instead he's worried about decorating his new Marie Antoinette ballroom or engaging in trying to figure out how to get his name on more statues and stadiums, or he's sitting across the table in the Oval Office with authoritarians."

Not enough money for school lunches, plenty of money to bail out grifters though

His post from this morning (below) said he wanted people to buy their own “healthcare.” But his new use of the word policy above suggests he thinks people are going to buy insurance, right? I don’t feel equipped to understand what the fuck he’s even proposing.

The people can buy their own……. policy? From who, Don?

Alright, Intellectual Zambonis, have at it.

Trump saying Biden didn’t know who he was pardoning is an accusation. Trump saying Trump didn’t know who he was pardoning is an admission. Plus, can we talk about the guy Trump pardoned?

If you meet someone and they tell you they're part of the Washington Post editorial board, be sure to pat them on the shoulder, tell them to hang in there and maybe they'll get a respectable job someday.

There are simple, one- or two-word ways that various Trump cabinet ghouls will be remembered (the quack, the zealot, etc) but I think the easiest shorthand will eventually be that Pete Hegseth was a joke.

Senate Dems, do not cave. Ensuring healthcare premiums don’t surge is an 80-20 issue. They want to gut the ACA because their disdain for Obama far outweighs their concern for anyone’s health.

Senate update: Republicans are now trying to sneak a backdoor national abortion ban into their government funding bill. Republicans will stop at nothing to control women's health care decisions.

See? We don’t actually need free speech or a House of Representatives to exist as a nation, give in to your 38 percent approval rating god emperor

“It’s almost like he thinks my needs are unimportant. Like he doesn’t care about my opinions, or that he doesn’t think about me at all. Now obviously that can’t possibly be true, because I am a big important boy.”

“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”

If you are a corrupt Republican elected official or a crooked cop, Trump is ready to protect you. apnews.com/article/chin...

wrote about PATRIOT, a double great show, over at @rollingstone.com for its anniversary, with thoughts from Steven Conrad, Terry O’Quinn, and Kurtwood Smith: www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

The same guy who "doesn’t want to hear about affordability" posted about his new marble bathroom 7 times last week.

The left has no idea what it has unleashed 😠 *does nothing*

Cornell, like other capitulators, shamefully justifies this by saying it preserves *our* independence. Even if that were true, it is pure moral cowardice to take the every-institution-for-itself approach when extortionist is rampaging through our academic community.

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

Washington Post blathering about the “danger” of Mamdani while Trump literally starves children and destroys the federal government, is beyond pathetic. #BoycottAmazon

"I'm going to bankrupt HEALTH ensurance companies so Americans can get their health ENSURANCE directly from . . . well, I haven't figured that part out yet. Thank you for you inattention to this matter." (He's killing health insurance because it's named after a man who made fun of him at a dinner.)

Flights are being cancelled. Food assistance is suspended. Government employees are going without pay. But priorities are being taken care of:

Richest nation in human history

Seriously? He has no idea how insurance works or how to govern. I’ll never get over 77 million people thinking a man this incompetent belongs anywhere near the Oval Office.

Just canceled my subscription over this, finally. RIP, WaPo. May rewatch "All the Presidents' Men" tonight, to mourn.

bezos somehow made an editorial page worse than the one at the wall street journal

and i thought his understanding of Grocery was bad

i think this is the one that convinced me. he's really losing it. his mind and his sauce, all at once. this is incoherent, firstly. secondly, even his superfans arent dumb enough to think that a thousand buck check or whatever is fine for buying healthcare services retail out of pocket

Aside from just being 80 years old I think this is mental flabbiness caused by impunity and being surrounded by sycophants 24/7. Autocracy doesn't just suck for everyone else it also makes the autocrat stupid

Hey kids the Trump Healthcare Plan just dropped!

starting to think the whole sports gambling promotion thing might be an issue just a feeling i am getting tbh

just not getting a good feeling from this whole weird sports betting push

Text from a low income neighbor. His family hasn’t eaten in 2 days because they didn’t get their SNAP benefits He works 60 hour weeks at a min wage job & it just isn’t enough. He has young children. This is the horrific cruelty Trump is imposing on ordinary Americans😓 (We bought them 2 weeks food)

Hey fellow alums: if you'd like to voice your displeasure, here is the contact info for Cornell President, Michael Kotlikoff. (607) 255-5201 [email protected]

I’ve long thought Trump is good at picking fights that benefit him politically but the fact he’s fighting right now to starve Americans is making me reassess

I understand why we shut down American airspace for a few days after 9-11 to avoid a repeat attack but imagine shutting down American airspace to avoid releasing the Epstein files.

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

The New York Times says federal agents‘ abduction of a toddler “alarmed immigrant rights groups.” How about “alarmed all decent human beings“?

people who can compartmentalize elon musk’s actions and are able to keep using his app must better at navigating social realities than i’ll ever be

Is it good politics to ask the Supreme Court if you can continue starving people?

SOCRATES: No god is a philosopher or seeker after wisdom, for he is wise already; nor does any man who is wise seek after wisdom. PLATO: Neither do the ignorant seek after wisdom. DARRYL, SOCRATES AND PLATO’S FRIEND: well well well if it isn’t the blowjob brothers

It’s shit like this that makes me think the GOP doesn’t care about winning elections and they’re just not planning on having them. Because no one who thinks they have to win elections does this.

So Trump and the GOP, fresh off a massive electoral rout, are digging in behind starving people and kicking millions off health care? Make it make sense

You can tell how much money is tied up in chatbots because it's getting the kind of fearful leeway even as it demonstrably causes the deaths of children that we normally only allow for guns