This is the type of thread that only gets written if you're unaware that the VA healthcare system already exists. Or that it provides healthcare for millions of Americans. Or that it consistently generates higher patient satisfaction numbers and better clinical outcomes than the private sector.

Student loans + "Total gross national debt amounts to $112,881 per person" 🤔 www.jec.senate.gov/public/index...

Don't wait for the BBC or Ch4 to report on the legal and human rights abuses of the Filton 24 – political prisoners jailed for trying to stop a genocide. We must rely on independent film-makers to tell their story. Please help here if you can: chuffed.org/project/oper...

ICE’s acting director ordered a Boston Catholic parish to tear down its Advent Nativity scene—stripped of baby Jesus and branded with the message “ICE WAS HERE.” The parish priest is refusing, citing he pope’s call to stand with migrants. It's another chapter in Kristi Noem's war on Christians.

taking hanania seriously is literally like taking the black hebrew israelites who loiter outside of chinatown station seriously. same level of sense and intellectual coherence.

arm the moderate orcas

yeah it does take some of the schadenfreude out of watching a horrible woman be appropriately punished for her horribleness when she is the only one it happens to 💀 but this is America, where sex is always punished worse than killing people, so

Ngl guys that we were all praying to the Gods of Capitalism that one consolidated media company submitted a higher multi-billion dollar bid over another in the hopes of preserving both US democracy and the medium of film seems like a baaaad place to be

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Whenever I hear the word gratitude I think of Oscar Wilde

another Lizza article is circulating, which reminds me to tap the sign reminding you to please support independent, worker-run, billionaire and felch-free news outlets when and how you can. if you can spare some $, here's some w/NewsMatch, which will 2x your donation through the end of the year!

the invasion of Afghanistan is among the most horrific recent chapters of the long history of elite impunity in the US. this coda is grim but fitting - the govt practically explicitly affirming that it should only be Afghans who live with the consequences amid fading public memory of the atrocity

I hope that this doesn't just become about "Nuzzi is bad" but fosters a wider recognition that our culture of political journalism that didn't just tolerate her, but promoted and celebrated her even after the allegations were known, is rotten to the core and has been for a long time.

"Attiah called balls and strikes & was shown the door; exiled, even. Meanwhile, Nuzzi was handed the keys to future fame & fortune in spite of proving the ease with which she deceives, and perhaps because of her alignment with right-wing figures. The locus of power has never been more clear..."

I called for a Canadian arms embargo and trade restrictions on the UAE until it stops funding the RSF and for Canadian weapons manufacturers to be held accountable for their complicity in the Senate today, I also called for Canada to adopt bill c-233 (1/4)

"Scientific orthodoxy" doesn't feel like the description....science.

I happened to be in the audience for the Colbert taping last night where @warren.senate.gov called out David Ellison *by name* and I'm honestly shocked it wasn't edited out. We love to see it.

please help if you can!

A lot of people, and in particular the media, have entirely lost their grip on the idea that there is a way things *should* work, that there are supposed to be rules. Coverage of Trump & MAGA is always this tacit might-makes-right garbage

New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

“Surgeons told the outlet that more Washingtonians want their procedures to be not unnoticed but obvious and overdone.” 🫠

“A practice out of Boca Raton, Florida – less than an hour away from Mar-a-Lago – calls it a procedure that ‘doesn’t scream surgery. Instead, it whispers refinement.’”

my wife and her entire team were fired over Zoom from their program manager jobs at a local nonprofit Seattle hospital this Spring because Trump just stopped paying Medicaid reimbursements. and this is a relatively affluent urban center we're really not prepared for what's coming

I am trying to imagine what these parties in NYC/SF look like now where you have policy guys, mouth frothing libertarians, demanding state securitization now

It's almost as if the entire "libertarian" think tank ecosystem was largely a front for this kind of brain rot bsky.app/profile/utop...

hey guys isn't it weird how they're all saying this at the same time? ignore the fact that this is now happening with Tyler Cowen, an economist who sits at the center of a sprawling system of think tanks and policy "influencers" who have been laundered into DC with both Koch and SV VC money

Israel is ramping up efforts to expel international activists from the West Bank during the olive harvest. This piece details how this year's harvest has seen a surge in violent settler attacks, military actions, and land closures. By Maya Rosen in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social buff.ly/2cmtiVu

some tight rhymes

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it's going to get so much dumber and funnier and bad and it's going to be hilarious watching everyone with beltway brain melt themselves in the face of an enraged mass that nobody actually can control after years of insisting that nothing could be done to begin with

every wants dem tea party and then cry when the dem tea party arrives lol

just learned about the delightful 1940s.nyc, which matches tax assessment photos with old maps for maximum street-view time travel. here's the almanac house, where pete seeger & woody guthrie threw basement gigs & partied with dashiell hammett & nicholas ray, among others.

Specially designed bricks that provide safe nesting spaces for swifts are being installed on properties around Shirebrook Valley as part of a council-funded environmental scheme.

My Facebook recon suggests the wine moms are incredibly radicalized.

SOMEONE: Fuck you! BOVINO: That’s not very nice. THE MOST MOM VOICE YOU’VE EVER HEARD: Well, are you doing nice things?

Things aren’t great but I am also going to say that random women in North Carolina telling the Head Goon “fuck you” to his face is a sign the authoritarian consolidation might not be panning out

One Battle After Another somehow predicted Greg Bovino almost perfectly.

please help if you can

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NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body." Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...

Peggy Hinaekian, Birds On A Wire, c. 2000s

Exactly! If Democrats need to focus on affordability, just ... focus on affordability. Don't constantly give lectures about how other people with the exact same job as you need to do it differently.

Congressional republicans have been spewing racist attacks on Mamdani for weeks and it’s almost never mentioned in our media. Not only that, the person leading the hate campaign—Randy Fine—is treated by the same media as a good faith expert on antisemitism. I wrote about this obscene double standard

Thank you everybody! We’ve been backing several efforts to halt data center developments in different communities, and it turns out you’re making a huge impact. A new analysis shows that, in just a three-month period earlier this year, the