IDK how auto safety regulations work, but it blows my mind that we're years and years into Tesla being allowed to sell cars where you simply burn to death or drown or whatever when there's no electricity to open the doors. Mitch McConnell's sister-in-law died like this...and nothing changed.

I need to know who put the money up for all this media placement of a non story this week

is this ezra’s burner account?

and they were making a hype video.

some people told dave chappelle his jokes weren’t funny and this ego maniac has been having a meltdown over it for ten years

Who is furloughed, and who isn’t, remains uncertain, according to agency employees and observers interviewed by High Country News; it is not being carried out in an orderly or consistent fashion across the agency.

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

this is truly fucking vile.

No they fucking didn’t—they said another manufacturer can make generic mifepristone, the same drug that’s been on the market for 25 years

How I Was Canceled By The Liberal Media by Bari Weiss

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

given that 100,000 Mexicans alone have been *confirmed* as repatriated, do we have any surveillance, whatsoever, as to what is happening to their property and belongings on this side of the border.

one thing about the aca plans exploding in price is that it’s going to tip a lot of people back to being uninsured. which sucks. i do wonder when the reckoning about preexisting conditions and getting reinsured will come, because hoo buddy, folks under about 40 really don’t know that life.

The cost to real people’s lives is going to be high, but at this point the electorate needs to actually appreciate how destructive this regime is. If Thune wants to let Vought go wild, so be it. Then the GOP will have to own responsibility for the harm they cause.

“The Govt sometimes makes brief, investigative stops to the check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where ppl are hired for day jobs; who work or appear to work in jobs such as landscaping, construction, agriculture, or car washes…” -Justice Kavanaugh

But what's genuinely crazy-making is that even that leverage is in a true sense illusory. At any moment it's in the Republicans' power to jettison the 60-vote requirement and pass whatever they want.

But the vibe *I’m* perceiving from “Dems need to fight” types seems surprisingly congenial to this position. It has the benefit of being true and making sense: We can’t make a deal with you because you’re going to reneg, so go ahead and take ownership of your own terrible budget.

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The Saudi government murdered Jamal Khashoggi seven years ago today. His editor @karenattiah.bsky.social wrote this two years ago.

You could not more perfectly invert the whole point of the power of the purse than this false notion the legislature cutting off appropriations means the executive gets more power.

I'm concerned that the ground is being prepared for ICE to function as a Gestapo-like body dealing out politically motivated arrests and torture with no legal accountability.

I realized I’ve been sort of mourning the internet lately. It’s odd. This ‘place’ that used to contain a wealth of actually valuable information, and introduced me to many people I now call friends, and which paved the way for my career, has almost completely rotted away. It’s not coming back.

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NEW: Judge William Young's ruling against Rubio and Noem is a lesson for all in the Trump era. Young lays bare the unconstitutionality of the Trump administration's student deportation efforts — and issues a challenge to America. Today, at Law Dork:

As with Charlie Kirk, Republicans are fiercely loyal to the general idea of Donald Trump but will furiously refuse to grapple with anything specific that he actually says or does.

There’s a pretty clear pattern in recent lower court rulings suggesting that SCOTUS has lost and respect & legitimacy not only in the eyes of the general public, but with the rest of the judiciary, which is saying so with increasing frankness. slate.com/news-and-pol...

I wasn't ready for this lol

the best thread it brought me genuine joy.

fortunately the H1-B fees will help with this. wait, what? nurse.org/news/trump-h...

The biggest reason for longer waits is staffing shortages, which are driven by more people leaving healthcare practice than entering, esp nursing, due to bad management practices (often related to private equity). This administration’s immigration policies will significantly worsen these shortages.

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

The GOP have furloughed hundreds of thousands & are blocking access to key services over “Democrats wanting to give healthcare benefits to immigrants,” so Democrats should take advantage of that and demand healthcare for everyone instead of saying “we agree that some people don’t deserve healthcare”

now all i need is an opposition party that panders to my love of solidarity, immigrants, trans people, abortions and not just losing everything all the time

i dunno it's kind of weird and sad that i'm taking solace from being pandered to by a dictionary but i guess that's where we are and i must admit it is nice to be pandered to sometimes

listen, i’m trying to keep it together, but this shit is fucking dangerous and bananas, and i am beginning to lose my grip.

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Per a source, the entire Federal Acquisitions Service, part of GAS, apparently got a notice today saying they will ALL be furloughed in a shutdown. Even though it is self-funded, meaning it does not receive Congressional appropriation. So. That's cool.

Something that stood out to me: the constant DOGE cuts to the federal workforce kind of inoculated Democrats to Trump’s threats of laying off the federal workforce. “I mean, they got rid of department education,” Ruben Gallego said “whether we pass this or not, he's gonna fire whoever he wants.”

Imagine getting owned this hard by Hakeem Jeffries

The thing is, this isn't even the first time US ag has wrecked itself with foolish trade wars. In the runup to the Civil War, US cotton plantations decided to stop exporting cotton. Why? Because the British Empire's textile mills ran on cotton from US plantations.

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better." Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better. Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand. We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

"These young Koreans see their struggle as a modern crusade. And as their predecessors did, they regard America as a staunch Christian ally against morally corrupting influences. Their oppressor is no longer colonial Japan, however, but the forces of multiculturalism, feminism, and progressivism."

"Republicans run the entire government but can't keep it open" That's it. That's the whole story.

at this rate I estimate that by next March we will be getting six hundred page judicial opinions that resemble House of Leaves

They found 38 unmarked graves of Indigenous children at Immaculate Conception Mission in South Dakota and it didn't make the news outside of Indian Country.

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