So the feds ARE NOT considering an mRNA vaccine for the flu, which could save countless lives, but ARE backing research into whether horse dewormer can cure cancer, because the right views vaccines as elite and ivermectin as populist. Cool. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Republicans - Refuse to wear masks to save lives, but gleefully put them on to end lives.

Still waiting with bated breath for the Supreme Court to decide whether this is just fine because we are functionally a monarchy now.

Quite possibly the most substantial scientific breakthrough of my lifetime, developed in my country, and the government is deliberately throttling it in the cradle in an effort to curry favor with the dumbest people alive

I don’t know who this guy is, but he makes a good point about how important the rule of law and due process are. Imagine if a government agency dramatically disrupted an innocent person’s life without following all of the proper procedures. This guy would be outraged I’m sure.

During the Japanese Internment, their property was confiscated by the government and/or sold for as little as 10% of their value to locals. I just wonder what happens to immigrants' homes and other property when they're send to a camp and deported?

Has anyone read or seen anything ab out what's happening to all the property left behind by the immigrants ICE is snatching and deporting?

This is America, he should sing in English. Am I doing this right? youtube.com/shorts/lqb5r...

These absolute chuds have no idea what the word "politics" means. The US regime has tried to make ethnic identity (outside of white Christian male) a matter of shame. Last night's show was an unapologetic celebration of ethnic identity. That's political.

And we wonder how Donald Trump could have possibly won in 2016 and 2024.

There's no "centrist" difference-splitting on this. We have to make clear that some beliefs held by loud pressure groups are simply contrary to democracy, and we can't indulge them.

I don't know why conservatives complain about Bad Bunny singing in Spanish. They never listen to lyrics anyway. They think "Born in the USA" is an upbeat patriotic song. They played "We will rock you" on Trump's rallies to rev up the crowd. Trump jerks off two invisible dicks to YMCA.

The most fun history/political lesson ever.

Billie Holiday avoids making political statement, sings Strange Fruit instead

Lots that is grotesque here, but I think the key thing to notice is the zero-sum worldview: if we take in a 5yo immigrant, this somehow displaces or harms at 5yo American kid. There's a finite pool of "American" to distribute. A zero-sum worldview is the molten core of reactionary thinking.

It's like I always tell people who rag on New York: if you can't afford the best, you can always settle for less.

Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?

Gotta take your own food to Italy.

The Department of Education has launched investigations into two universities’ student voting programs, targeting efforts to expand ballot access for young people. The administration’s stance: “Universities should be focused on teaching, learning, and research — not influencing elections.”

Almost a year ago @joshtpm.bsky.social posted: “The situation at NIH and for biomedical research in the US is MUCH MUCH WORSE than you realize.” I can confirm that this remains true. It is today MUCH MUCH WORSE than the way everyone is acting in public.

It really pays to remind ourselves frequently that this whole immigration "crisis" is made up out of whole cloth. There was no emergency,danger or problem, only a demagogue stirring up racist grievances for political advantage.

Well, it looks like those concentration camps just got a big thumbs up. It seems like only yesterday that the government was apologizing for the Japanese internment. I guess it was really, "sorry, not sorry."

This is the money quote. He admitted that he found it and gave it to the staffer.

Q: A number of Republicans are calling on you to apologize for that post. Is that something you're going to do? Trump: No, I didn't make a mistake. It was fine. I guess it was a takeoff from The Lion King. And certainly it was a very strong post

J.D. Vance was booed so badly at the Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony that even the announcers commented on it. “There is the Vice President J.D. Vance and his wife Usha—OOP, those are not… uh… those are a lot of boos for him. Whistling, jeering, some applause.”

Every time I re-read Trump v. United States, it feels like getting hit in the head with a mallet.

In exchange for the money, Schumer had to agree to rename New York’s Penn Station and Washington’s Dulles International Airport after Trump. open.substack.com/pub/politicu...

Yes. And when they do it, everyone else should just hold up their hand in a stop gesture and chant "Donald Trump. Donald Trump" We never have to.liaten to any of these people again and anyone who tries to use them as moral arbiters should be shut down immediately

RFK is using his position to push things that have never shown any benefit in autism & have shown serious harms, including numerous dead kids thru the years. Why push for things known to harm instead of looking for things that could actually provide benefit? Because the harmful things are profitable

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Wasn't the reason "disastrous" become an obligatory attachment to Biden's withdrawal from Afghanistan that he wasn't able to get all the Afghans out who had worked with us? Now that Trump is just sending them back, I guess this was just the media's way of trashing Biden in "news" stories.

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A growing number of Americans are learning that many if not most people who announce themselves as Christians have nothing whatsoever to do with Jesus Christ.

US job openings drop to more than five-year low in December reut.rs/4tl5as6

I literally just remarked on this phenomenon yesterday. bsky.app/profile/digb...

Lolololol!!!!! There has never been a bigger whiner and complainer in world history!

He cannot be clearer. There is no difference to him between bombing random fishermen on boats and shooting Americans protesters in the face

Wow! What sounded like the entire AEW Dynamite audience in Las Vegas tonight chanted "Fuck ICE! Fuck ICE!" in unison before the main event

America is being destroyed because it elected a man so psychologically deformed that not only can't he admit he lost an election, he can't admit that *anyone* didn't vote for him. (Recall he also investigated the 2016 popular vote as well.) It's like something out of an ancient Greek myth.

Watch how JD Vance’s reasoning shifts here within seconds:

Denaturalization as criminal punishment is not a thing in American law, it's unconstitutional under any circumstances. It can only be done in the narrow case of somebody who fraudulently obtained the naturalization itself. Otherwise they are no different from natural-born citizens who commit crimes.

My favorite was the time we all found out that we were laid off when we were greeted at the door by security guards with boxes of our stuff and stern warnings that we'd all be prosecuted if we stole anything. Good times.

I wonder if we will ever be able to go back to the "norm" that had administration officials such as the Treasury Secretary not behaving like little snotty bitches in congressional oversight hearings?

Karl Marlantes is one of the great writers of our time ('Matterhorn' et al). I'm glad to say that he has been a friend for decades For him—USMC combat vet of Vietnam, author of unforgettable novel about combat—to write this, for NR, about Noem/Bovino/ICE/CBP cosplaying, is significant. Pls read

He's building a Grecian temple in his name: the God of Greed.

The second. Rehmet sounds fine for his district --- whatever it takes --- but he sounds like he's from another planet anywhere else.

This sounds as close to a tear down as possible for a headline that says he won’t tear it down 🤦‍♂️

This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.

Agent: These guys were all threatening us yesterday with hand guns. ... Agent: *Hand* guns, like threatening to shoot us. Reporter: You mean like with hand symbols? A: Pulling them out, trying to engage us. R: Pulling out literal guns? A: No. Making... assuming we were going to do something.