I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

same, brother

I remember 25 years ago putting on headphones and feeling the hair on my skin bristle at the synthesizer on Kid A's opening track. I wasn't sure how I felt about it. It was nothing like OK Computer. But I couldn't stop listening. Never my favorite album, but it started my love affair with Radiohead.

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 president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

We'll never recover from the "pivot to video" era. Its false premise–that videos were useful, informative, adequate substitutes for nuanced, carefully crafted writing–weakened society's collective intellect, buried important journalism, and opened doors to the AI sloppification of all media content.

The real generational divide is people who refuse to watch a video if it could be an article versus people who refuse to read an article if it could be a video

Do you know how crazy you have to be as a person to make a husky seem like the reasonable one in the situation?

Mina knows ball[ing up your feelings into competitive trade offers, waiver wire pickups, and start/sit decisions]

this is gaslighting, plain and simple. No, it's not the worker producing workslop, it's the fucking AI!

Fox scrambled the Silent Generation's brains, Facebook locked down the Boomer nostalgia slop demo, Twitter slow frog-boiled a good portion of Gen X, and now the Ellisons are going to propagandize another generation into Hitler-Jugend. Anyway, here's why BlueSky is an echo chamber...

Covid is gonna shape American politics for years and years because it was the first time most Americans were asked to make sacrifices and they lost their minds because of it.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

It is the job of the Democratic party to sell and defend the policies that most Democratic voters want, not to present a candidate slate that is palatable to moderate Republicans who might switch if they hate their own candidate enough.

Nothing more Democrats than looking at how Republicans got a large swath of voters to vote against their own economic interests by pushing culture war shit and thinking what if we did the same but backwards? Surely this will work.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

This is false. For example, the libertarian @cato.org breaks down the numbers, showing about 6 deaths from right-wing politically motivated attackers for every 1 from left-wing attackers. Moreover, the claim that shooters represent anyone other than an unhinged fraction of society is the deeper lie.

Desperate Kash Patel Asks Shooter’s Family If They Can Solve Any Other Cases

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

This is just objectively the exact opposite of the truth. Every serious effort to actually quantify the ideological valence of political violence has found the reverse of what Vance claims.

Interesting polling data: Those with unfavorable views of Donald Trump are the LEAST LIKELY to support political violence.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

If the right *truly* believed Charlie Kirk was a defender of free speech and someone who was fine with dissenting opinions, they wouldn't be engaged in a massive campaign to punish anyone who didn't "mourn him properly." They clearly know all of that is bullshit. Only the media was conned.

Putting away all the "CIVIL WAR NOW" banners at the news station and bringing out the "Mental Health Crisis in America" banners with a heavy sigh

It’s almost like letting young white men marinate their brains in an algorithm-driven toxic stew of nihilistic hate 24/7 and giving them ready access to guns is a bad idea

Time to break out the chart

it's been pretty revelatory that in order to do Kirk the kindness of painting him in a wholesome light here on the hour of his death, one must go to gymnastic lengths to avoid any mention of his literal statements and beliefs which is pretty odd for a celebrated debater

Worth also asking them: Do you still want a war against the people who support the ideology that motivated this attack?

Even Grok is calling the shooter a groyper. Lmao

fbi puts another one in the books. closing the case the way most crime is solved: someone calls and tells them who did it.

It’s also worth noting that as soon as it became clear the Trump shooter had no real legible politics and certainly not from “the left” he completely vanished into anonymity. No one knows his name.

Each alleged mass shooter is even more On the Computer All the Time than the previous one. Probably nothing to worry about there

God its so disingenuous to pretend that all CK did was “have horrible opinions”. The man co-founded an organization that’s sole function was to fight tooth and nail to indoctrinate children at school into violent white nationalism. He wasn’t even just a pundit. He was ceo of the baby Nazi factory.

Kirk didn't serve in the military or hold office. The war hero treatment -- half-mast flags, military guard, Air Force Two escort, calls for a statue at the Capitol or to lie in the Rotunda -- shows that for MAGA, service to Trump has become the highest, most honorable form of service.

Glanced at twitter for the first time in a while out of morbid curiosity and the place is wall to wall actionable threats. Some from relatively prominent fascists. And not a single one will ever get investigated, let alone prosecuted, because in America, some people have more free speech than others

rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”. -Charlie Kirk

You can write this only if, by virtue of your income, identity, or both, you are utterly removed from the consequences of politics. To pretend that the racist, misogynistic, anti-gay vileness that Kirk spent his life spreading is secondary to the fact that he spread it "the right way" is appalling.

I assume this means we will see the president promptly deploy National Guard units to patrol Utah's city streets?

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

We have a bit of a natural experiment here. Compare the tone, quantity and duration of Charlie Kirk coverage with that of the two Dem lawmakers gunned down in their homes in Minnesota 6 months ago. May be revealing.