But what makes this especially tragic for me is that we are winning the battle against cancer. We have it on the ropes. And I don’t want any other families to suffer through what mine endured, whether or not they’re veterans. We could save lives. Instead we’re saving money for billionaires. 5/x

Every pundit who said anything along the lines of “RFK Jr and MAHA address real concerns” should consider if they think yesterday’s announcement was a good faith effort to improve the health of the nation. And then ponder what that means re MAHA when they inevitably conclude the answer is no

It’s sad that Jordan Peterson died before the Charlie Kirk assassination, he would’ve loved this shit

Your editorial standards cannot allow opinion pieces to frame a debate as being between President Trump and Fauci, a man Trump appointed and always had the authority to remove during the relevant time frame

Douthat is on that Adrian Vermeule shit

Love the image of Tesla’s “lineup,” half of which is products that don’t exist and of the ones that do only the flop has come out in the last decade

Will Stancil posted for your sins (laudatory)

The public often conflates designating terrorist orgs and the authority for drone strikes flowing from the AUMF, but it’s unacceptable for the DEA to make that mistake. This is why you don’t have incompetents run your agencies

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The thing that dives me insane about so much coverage of MAGA is the way it demands you be a rube

wild stat of the day: by wins, the 2025 colorado rockies are twice as good as last year's super bowl champion philadelphia eagles

American Catholic leadership somehow giving Catholic leadership a bad name

good morning

We talk a lot about what the politics of the Reconstruction post-Trump will have to look like, but I also don’t think we can come through to the other side with the same class of people considered “elite.”

What actually happened is that Republicans always wanted to do this, grabbed power, and then just used whatever rhetorical justification was handy to do whatever the fuck, and would have done so regardless of whatever hand wringing happened left of center about hate speech

“There is, after all, a pervasive worry, among the political class, that college students, ensconced in their own bubbles, could use a bit of shock therapy from a man unconcerned with preferred pronouns, trigger warnings, and the humanity of Palestinians” the man still writes bangers

A press interested in self preservation would do drumbeat coverage of this and the CBS/CNN suits as the scandals they are. A new story every day about Trump’s deranged attacks on the 1st Amendment.

With 2:56 left to play, the Minnesota #Lynx have outscored the Golden State Valkyries 53-23 in the second half. Minnesota leads 99-63 in what has turned into a blowout at Target Center. #WNBAPlayoffs

@megloria.bsky.social maybe?

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stroke on 9/11 just like Ted Cruz

Glenn greenwald-Steven crowder clasped hands meme above “fucking over your source”

This is what Trump is picturing happening here youtu.be/Gd06jurJoH4?...

happy 14th anniversary to this strip

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Growing up, Faces of Death was like the biggest taboo film I could name. I don’t know anyone who actually saw it, and the idea of seeing people die on screen was way outside of mainstream. Now it’s just on twitter for whoever

If that 1 in 5 fbi agents number is right that means in absolute terms more FBI agents were reassigned to immigration in 2025 than were reassigned to terrorism in 2001/2

Whenever an authoritarian government enters a failure state, everything that happens is the subsequent government’s fault. Can’t possibly be the likely end state of poorly run authoritarian governments

WaPo adopting the absurd position that the provenance of the letter is determined by signature analysis

Katie Johnson should sue CNN for defamation (not really I just hate this shit)

Happy @defector.com renewal day to all those who celebrate

I wish I believes in anything as much as these people believe in the power of money. Imagine looking at the state of this race and thinking “I can still buy this”

Vikes special teams are brutal so far

The legal right has been grinding on the modern state and law for decades, and some folks have been noting it and saying their nominees were terrible bad actors. Those folks' real opposition wasn't FedSoc, it was the liberal institutionalists who said "our liberal system can accommodate these ppl".

I appreciate a clear statement of what the law Should Be. If our jurisprudence has led us to a place where this is not true, it is the jurisprudence that is wrong, not the Constitution

Unlike the Renaissance, the beginning and end of the Darnoldaissance will be extremely well defined (Fall 2024)

A significant portion of the American public believes we are currently giving immigrants free jobs, housing, and money, all while paying no income tax. “Tax them at a higher rate” won’t even dent the illusion.

This is why our leaders are so ineffective at responding to things like Vance’s will to power statements about murdering alleged cartel members. They can’t see that he is weak and cowardly for abandoning the liberal heritage so many American soldiers died for

The Ride the Float ad is AI right? It looks like shit

Kamala's election campaign, whether one agrees with the chosen tactical moves thereof, had as its stakes the entire literal fate of the entire world. Thompson and Klein are simply not that important. They just arent.

yikes, this is terrible

I give that new interpretation of taunting 3 weeks before the NFL backtracks out of embarrassment

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

What I have learned from watching the generation before mine is that if your liberal aunts say anything even sort of liberal on social media, your conservative family members will read it as a personal attack and now everybody’s got to deal with that for the next month

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

The Free Press’ business is essentially “what if we published the group chat” and it’s paying off because the people with money are in the chat and can’t recognize nobody else cares

btw, Roberts’ hands are tied here wrt the shadow docket. If 5 justices want to stay an injunction pending final disposition or appeal, he can’t stop them, as was evident in the recent NIH grants funding shadow docket ruling on which he dissented SCOTUS is simply too right-wing to operate normally

It’s all well and good to hate in Bari for her bad politics, but it’s going underreported that she is also very bad at doing news. The editorial standards at FP are shockingly low.

I don't think our Reasonable Discourse Havers have any idea what a 5 alarm fire this is. They're asserting the right to kill anyone at any time! This is like Step 10 of the Death Camp 12 Step Program