A country that can give 900 billion to the military can afford to provide its citizens food, shelter and healthcare. There’s always money for war. There’s never money for social supports.

Victim blaming helps the privileged keep their power. Got raped? You were asking for it. Disabled? You didn’t take care of yourself. Getting deported? Should have followed the process. Don’t make enough money? Should have made better choices. Stop blaming the oppressed.

Everyone is talking about how bad the flu is. Media & healthcare facilities are pleading with people to get their flu shot. To stay home when sick. To wash their hands. Very few are recommending masks. When we had mask mandates we eliminated an entire flu strain. Mask up!

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

What makes Law Dork different? Here's an example. In my discussion at the end of today's newsletter about the Indiana redistricting vote, I gave you a link to the bill and the actual vote. It's a little thing, but important, and so few media sources do it. www.lawdork.com/p/abrego-gar...

This the core problem with the White House Press Corps encapsulated: Karoline Leavitt just lied right to your face, you know she's incorrect, and you just move on to your next topic. It matters that she's wrong and/or lying about it! Stay there!

I know they have manipulated the audience to be filled with toadies and unprofessional "journalists," but I still don't understand how you could sit and listen to this bullshit and not call it out or ask the exact same question when called upon. It's embarassing.

Stop celebrating vile bigots just because they oppose Trump. MTG here shows how the enemy of my enemy can still be a total fuckwad 👇🏼

NEW: Emil Bove, thumbing his nose at America, is making a mockery of the rule of law. Attending Trump's rally on Tuesday, Judge Emil Bove let it be known that his DOJ actions were just the beginning. Bove must face accountability, and ultimately impeachment. Today, at Law Dork:

I just want to remind you that if you are seeing this: YOU ARE LOVED

If you've never seen this — or if you have! — and you need a push today, here it is. Cynthia Erivo, almost a decade ago, in The Color Purple on Broadway: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKtF...

Drunken thoughts: It's turtles all the down. And Idiots all the way up.

Remember there is no reason for alarm. You can easily protect yourself with a well-fitted respirator. Back it up with air filtration and vaccination.

“wearing a face mask can help significantly stop the flu and other respiratory viruses from spreading.” When The Mirror is suggesting people mask… things must be bad. Mask up folks! Ideally N95 or better! A good respirator will protect you and those around you from flu, covid, rsv and more

THIS. There can be no uncontested races. Anywhere. Absolute props to the TX Dems who organized this.

everyone involved in this--from that nameless fuckface guard to john roberts himself--should spend their rest of their lives in prison

Josh Marshall is absolutely right about this as a matter of constitutional restoration BUT ALSO You can't do ANY of the "kitchen table" agenda EITHER without abolishing the power of the six corrupt GOP justices. They'll kill any good Dem policy (eg student loan forgiveness) just to watch it die.

Timelime BOOP

It costs the average taxpayer $34 a year to fund SNAP. It costs nearly $200 a day to detain an immigrant in an ICE camp. Your tax dollars are paying to detain people without due process instead of providing healthcare, food & housing. Let that radicalize you.

Inspired by an exchange here yesterday, I wrote up a short piece at CAMPAIGN TRAILS about an infamous Lee Atwater quotation that just about everyone gets wrong.

Now I kind of want to have a ton of ordinary people read and annotate the Constitution in a Google doc and then try to compile all the annotations into the Folk Constitution.

Republicans use the "I'm not familiar with that" dodge several times a day now, and if a reporters or anchor isn't ready and willing to shut them down as soon as they try it, that means they're either incompetent at their job or a willing accomplice to the lies. Either way, never trust them again.

Almost everyone I know is sick right now. They’ve got a “bad flu” or a “nasty stomach bug”. Almost no one will utter the word Covid. It’s not too late to start wearing a mask. It’s a great way to practice community care while keeping yourself healthy. Ideally an N95 or better!

I've worked in restaurants long enough that missing opportunities that fall on weekends and holidays doesn't really bother me anymore. But every now and then it fucking sucks. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

People don’t understand that stripping the guardrails of regulation and oversight doesn’t just apply to like better business bureau type shit but also like on a practical level when I get into an elevator I expect that it has passed a safety inspection & that type of security will be gone soon

Safety. Regulations. Are. Written. In. Blood.

I don't think transgender athletes are the problem facing girls and women in sports.

It confuses me, but some people take other people's stated boundaries as a challenge to their entitlement instead of as a signpost with directions for smooth travels.

The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public

the unfortunate thing about professional athletes is that they have spent their lives trying to wring every tiny little edge out of their bodies and this makes them extremely susceptible to medical quackery, which is currently having a renaissance

Senator Cassidy betrayed his oath as a physician when he confirmed Kennedy. He doesn’t get to cry crocodile tears now. He should have voted “No” and protected the American public. We won’t forget.

I was talking to a friend today, and her son is a class at school that is I guess supposed to promote financial responsibility and planning—learning about things like investing in the stock market and the like—and the teacher is hyping PolyMarket. Chat, we're cooked if we don't ban this stuff.

The media has cast it as a sex scandal so they're mostly focusing on the smutty texts but it's an extremely straightforward ethics scandal: "If Trump gets elected my boyfriend has a job."

Isn't it funny how little regulation there is for this tech (genAI) that is so easily making CSAM?

That's the part that sticks with me. This isn't some Tom Clancy novel where they do war crimes because it's the only way they can get at the evil terrorist criminal mastermind or something. Even if we believe them -- and, ha ha, no! -- they murdered low level drug runners. That's it!

The Supreme Court paved the way for a felon to return to the presidency — where, behind the shield of office, that felon has ordered a string of murders.

📌That's a damn fine job in TN-07, and just the latest example of why Democrats need to compete EVERYWHERE. 📌Fully 100 current Republicans seats were less pro-Trump than TN-07 in last year's elections. If we hit these bastards where they are, it will be a bloodbath for the repulsive GOP next year.

This thread is dedicated to everyone on the internet whining about maskers. We’re not getting you sick. You’re welcome.

Also very common in the hospitality industry. For structural and economic reasons people are so reluctant to stay home if sick. Obv, the people we interact with are not as vulnerableas those already in a Healthcare setting, but we interact closely with SO MANY people everyday. (Easy 2-400+/day avg)

"'Everyone knows' this thing, I'm gonna try to find out whether it's true" is the recipe behind some of the most interesting journalism of the century. Sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't but you need to do the work of finding out rather than just assuming the 'everyone knows' part is enough.

A friend with a new baby asked guests to mask in order to hold her baby. A relative refused to mask & broke down in tears about her "restrictions" As a reminder, babies <6 months have the 2nd highest hospitalization rate from Covid after adults 75+ & are too young to be vaxxed

Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

Donald Trump is a gutter racist and we to start reporting on him as such.

Very similar to the trans-kids panic, where the prestige media narrative is that it's far too easy but you talk to any trans person, expert or parent and it's obvious that it's way too hard.

Fuck you if you support him.

Just imagining how much better it would be if ALL news stories about vaccine-preventable illnesses were illustrated with pictures of people with the disease, not pictures of needle injections. If you must show something that people will find scary & unpleasant, make it the disease, not the cure.

“AI is clearly sticking around so you have to get used to it” wrong. I don’t have to get used to shit. I am a practiced hater and I can keep this going for decades if I am required to

Look if you're running for office as a Dem and ever say you're working across the aisle, you're a white supremacist, or, at best, the person who wants to work with the white supremacists so you're a white supremacist. Anyway. Just a note for anyone running

His use of that slur has emboldened his followers and there’s already been a considerable uptick in trolls using it as well. Protect your digital space. Block quickly and without guilt. No one deserves to be treated this way and we must all unite and fight back.

This is also why we shouldn’t use similar language when talking about Trump. He’s objectively a bad person. We shouldn’t say it’s because he has brain damage, dementia or is stupid. We can call out bad behaviour without bringing ableism into it.