If JD Vance has real evidence of fraud, by all means, prosecute every last one of the fraudsters. Instead, he’s withholding $1.3 billion in Medi-Cal funding from California.    Prosecuting fraud and withholding care from vulnerable people are not the same thing, and one doesn’t require the other.

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

I want someone who thinks the US is a truly god-blessed, Exceptional ™ "city on the hill" to explain this fucking phenomenon to me.

really insightful and horrifying stuff from @thefarce.org

For you to understand how much the world has changed, in the 1970s as a second grader we were REQUIRED to watch the TV show adaptation of ROOTS. REQUIRED. www.knoxnews.com/story/news/e...

I really do think Trump misheard Talarico saying "cisgender" as "six genders," and that's just a thing he says now. The first person I saw make this observation deleted the post saying it, but yeah.

Please read and share this story. Grateful to @nbcnews.com for running this series on how cuts to Medicaid will dramatically alter how families care for disabled sons, daughters, and spouses. Great work, @mikehixenbaugh.com, and thank you for reporting. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

You know, a President accusing a NYT reporter of committing treason just for asking a question is actually quite a big deal, and this bunch just standing there listening to it and doing nothing is not encouraging the public to think of journalism as a serious business or of words meaning anything.

I'm sure after a few years we'll find out this "detransition" clinic treated fewer than a dozen patients. Just completely chickenshit stuff by the general counsel and admin at Texas Children's.

This is batshit crazy antivax nonsense We aren’t giving babies extra vaccine. We give them the minimum effective dose, like pretty much every medical intervention. Wanting smaller shots is just stupid because smaller shots don’t work, so that means no shots. It’s sane washing antivax.

Disabled people desperately need safe, secure and affordable housing. Control over one’s environment is essential when you’re chronically ill. Housing insecurity worsens overall health. We could easily provide for everyone, but ableism makes society blame the sick instead.

“We moved 4.5 million people off SNAP” is a crazy way to say you took food away from 4.5 million people, mostly needy families. And also crazy to think this works for them politically!

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

"Musk pledged two years ago to build a state-of-the-art water recycling plant in Memphis to guarantee that his xAI servers wouldn’t deplete the city’s groundwater" "Now that Musk’s first data center is up and running, construction on the recycling facility has come to an abrupt halt"

destroying the trees themselves instead of the peaches is where this goes from unmitigated greed into actual evil

There it is. Republicans’ SAVE Act is not about protecting the right to vote – it’s about putting up barriers to make it harder for certain people to vote. Senate Democrats will block this anti-democracy garbage from ever becoming law.

Trump threatened to nuke Iran during the same press event where he called a woman reporter "baby" and a "bitch" and we'll all just supposed to continue on tomorrow as though any of this insanity is normal or acceptable

Multiple women serving sentences for nonviolent crimes at the minimum security prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is now serving time were punished for speaking to reporters about the special treatment Maxwell receives. At least two women were transferred to higher security facilities as punishment.

Ag secretary confirming 1 in 4 US farmers has no fertilizer secured, American Farm Bureau survey says up to 70% can’t afford enough fertilizer for the season under the spiked costs Honestly shocked this isn’t bigger news. 25% of farms are just not planting at all this season. Farm bankruptcy up 46%

Update on ICE's "Detention Reengineering Initiative": GEO Group's CEO said today that "the warehouse project has been paused, and [DHS] is evaluating how to proceed with this initiative..." He also acknowledged that, as part of the plan, ICE is looking to buy upwards of 10 of GEO's existing jails.

One party always spends money like a drunken sailor, the other always cleans up after them.

As the death toll reaches 190, it's time for another reminder that the boat strikes are unlawful under both international and domestic law--and they are a stain on our national conscience. For much more, take a look at this @justsecurity.org collection: www.justsecurity.org/120753/colle...

I guess it wouldn’t be an attempt to return to Jim Crow without some abuse of state authority against uppity negroes.

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Trump's Housing and Urban Development is angling to bypass Congress and put time limits and work requirements on aid to low-income Americans. Experts believe this move could put millions at risk of losing their housing. trib.al/oGUbR4y

Turning a big dial that says “teen pregnancy” and constantly looking back at the White Christian Nationalists approval like a contestant on price is right.

"The COVID pandemic is a labor issue. Both the acute disease and Long COVID diminish the ability to work. At the same time, the value of human life cannot be reduced to its capacity to perform labor." People's CDC, COVID-19, Weather Report, May 4, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/peoplesc...

This means that hundreds, if not thousands of labs all over the country will close. Tens of thousands of jobs will be lost. This is in defiance of Congress's will and in defiance of good stewardship of the US economy. This is entirely because Russ Vought hates science

Amen

Shameful, disgusting, cowardly.

WELL worth reading, folks.

Cartoon by John Deering 💯💯💯🎯🎯🎯

Hell of a graph

White Christian supremacist court. White Christian supremacist President. White Christian supremacist Congress. And the result is the most profound series of setbacks for the rights of people of color and women in over a century. It is a nauseating time to be alive in America. Fight back harder.

Battering ram?? kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

Meanwhile they've doubled the military budget request to $1.5 trillion.

1/ So angry. First, this is what "elections have consequences" really looks like. In addition to big stuff like wars and Liberation Day tariffs, the whole vast US machinery of state is now working everywhere, on everything, to make the world worse in every way. Thanks guys.

Just in case you thought DOGE was dead...they most definitely are not. They're taking over login.gov in order to create a nationalized ID database including passport and DL information. www.wired.com/story/a-doge...

Release the FULL EPSTEIN FILES!

Terrific take on the intellectually bankrupt use of "both sides" by the lazier members of the corporate media.

The monetization of US healthcare, particularly in the ED, is a public health crisis. Long wait times for critical, high-need patients are compounded by the ED serving as first and last resort for care among people without adequate insurance. Our hellaciously expensive system does not serve us.

This is a really good encapsulation of my Monday AM feelings as well.

Reminder: We are not in a “Democrats vs Republicans” fight. We are in a Ruling Class vs Everyone Else fight.

Steve Witkoff's son Zach is the CEO of World Liberty Financial. World Liberty Financial has a business partnership with the Pakistani government. \_(ツ)_/¯ www.radio.gov.pk/14-01-2026/p...

There are currently 1.2 million healthcare workers from 69 of the 75 countries that are listed in the DOS visa ban. (which accounts for roughly 8% of all healthcare workers) 55% of those workers are in support roles, which includes home health aides, direct support professionals, and nursing aides

ICE has violated almost 100 court orders. Let me say that another way. 100 times ICE was caught brazenly ignoring the law. 100 times a court told them to immediately stop. And 100 times they ignored the order. That's an out-of-control agency that shouldn't get another dime.

WHOA. In less than 12 hours, tens of thousands of Americans have helped launch GTFOice.org. People don’t want warehouse prison camps in their communities. Amazing to see the outpouring of defiance.

if you are "sick" — which, again for RFK is a function of race, class and perceived purity — then there is nothing you can do in the face of disease and death, you are destined to succumb. the upshot either way is we do not need vaccines or most modern medical interventions.

the way this makes sense for RFK is that "healthy people" and "sick people" are ontological categories.