Unlike most vaccine-preventable diseases, hepatitis B is asymptomatic and spreads silently until infected people develop liver cancer or cirrhosis in their midlife. It’s one of the cancers with the highest mortality in the U.S with a 6 month life expectancy. www.latimes.com/california/s...

From The Betrayal of Anne Frank, by Rosemary Sullivan. #booksky

Well said 🤣🤣🤣

In addition to stealing all the jobs and buying all the homes and getting free healthcare & social security benefits and eating cats & dogs, they're hiding the cattle in their shirts? Throwing them over the wall? And why are they only bringing the sick cattle? They're leaving the healthy ones home?!

Leavitt, this week: "President Trump kicked him out because Jeffrey Epstein was a pedophile and he was a creep." Trump, asked in 2019 if he had “any suspicions” that Epstein was molesting underage women: "No, I had no idea. I had no idea." @sbg1.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...

Do political science profs have to explain to their students that, for most of American history, it was actually borderline unthinkable that elected officials and their spokespersons would constantly talk like trashy reality show contestants?

This is the defense they are floating?

I kinda liked this one :)

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

Trump and Hegseth booed mercilessly for 2 minutes straight tonight by Washington Commanders fans.

Maybe Trump can borrow $40 billion from Argentina to help keep our air space open and feed our starving children.

After those results, the Democratic response to GOP pressure to cave on the shutdown should simply be

Someone's determined to find a bag of shit in this pile of ponies

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

I feel like I'm back teaching a class where I have to issue a blanket prohibition on using ChatGPT. I'm gonna start handing out Blue Blooks and pens and making people leave their phones and laptops at the door.

Democrats had one of the best nights in a long time. From NY to GA to CA, there wasn't a single bright spot for Republicans. Yet, some people are so addicted to doom they almost get aroused by it. Worse, they are smug, self-righteous, and proud of such an attitude.

Neal Katyal's opening volley against Trump's tariffs: "May it please the court: Tariffs are taxes."

Abby Spanberger will now be governor of Virginia, Mikie Sherrill governor of NJ. I wrote about both of them, and their friend group, last year www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.

Just arrived: Romanian translations of Death of Expertise, 2nd ed., and Our Own Worst Enemy. The Death of Expertise has now been translated into Korean, Japanese, Chinese (2 versions), Finnish, Russian, Ukrainian, Indonesian, Italian, Portuguese, Armenian, Turkish, Arabic, and Vietnamese.

Fortunately, there's no big holidays in November. Or anything... 🤔

this looks like a trick daffy duck would put up to get bugs bunny into "the oval office"

Of course, you cannot really appreciate The Death of Expertise until you have read it in the original Klingon

Ukraine war briefing: Bulgaria moves to seize Russian refinery while Poland seeks to be US gas conduit

Isn't starving your own troops a security issue.

It’s an embarrassment to be an American these days, thanks in whole to little donnie tiny wanker!

American friend, her husband active US military based in Australia now. Getting no pay, expected to work & if he takes ANY time its a mark on his record, grounds for dismissal. They had an email telling them to ask Aust. landlords for delay paying rent, Aussie’s flabbergasted at the treatment.

NEW: The US Army website for its bases in Bavaria, Germany told its soldiers and employees that it might need to obtain free food from the German government during the US government shutdown. The Army later altered publication to remove a list of food banks, but we have the original text here:

There are more of us than there are of them.

Trump’s voters have become like the members of the administration, delighting in the crassness and obscenity that pours out of the president and his circle whenever they are challenged. But policies suffer and the public is poorly served. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Big show today as I’ll speak with @joycevance.bsky.social about her new book, “Giving Up is Unforgivable,” plus DCCC Chair @suzandelbene.bsky.social and I’ll introduce you to the new doc unit @evidentmedia.org exposing ICE tactics. See you at 4p ET / 1p PT on Substack and later on YouTube.

This is the president of the United States taking a break from gold-and-marble interior renovations to say he’ll defy a court order to feed hungry Americans. Nero would be proud.

This bathroom looks like the set for an unpleasant scene in a Ingmar Bergman film where the storyboard just says GRETEL CONFRONTS ALIENATION

Popok: The blue states and cities effectively brought the cases. The red states are suffering, and their AGs are sitting on the sidelines. There’s no red state that brought a case. Think about that: not one red state attorney general brought a case to help prevent starvation and suffering. None.

It is all ONE BIG SCAM!!!

Yes, this is a real post made by the Department of Homeland Security. None of this is normal.

That's only part 1. In the sequel, he is even more despicable.

Somebody is keeping the Receipts...🤔👍

This is so fucked up.

In the 1970s, I was promised a future with giant needle nose cars

Newsom: The New Testament and Old Testament have one dominant thing in common—Matthew, Isaiah, Luke, Proverbs, go down the list—it’s about food, about serving those who are hungry. It’s not a suggestion; it’s core and essential to what it means to align with God’s will.

Yeah, sure, this shows Trump to be batshit insane and if I were one of the Sailors watching, I might rethink my commitment to serve under a batshit CINC. But imagine how excited China is seeing Trump disavow the technology on which China is eating America's lunch, FOR THE MILITARY?

I'm up again at the crack of dawn serving breakfast to Merlin.🐈‍⬛️ #CatsOfBlueSky

I post this a lot. But it is YET ANOTHER day when it is appropriate to remember that, when Greg Bovino took the stand in trial of someone falsely accused of assault, the FPD caught him lying about HOW MUCH of a bigot he is. www.latimes.com/california/s...

I don't know if it's a lack of sleep 😴 or this dreary weather, 🤔 but I'm feeling kind of crappy 💩 today. I did take a nap. Now I feel worse. 😞 I'm not looking forward to my drive to the VA hospital in the morning for my ultrasound. #CatsOfBlueSky #CatsAreFamily

ROLLING STONE: “The current Congress has dropped the pretense of public service altogether… Congress enjoys ultraluxe health care as it fights to gut yours.” @RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn why don’t you care about anyone but yourselves? www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

It’s the Trump administration. Be grateful they didn’t say 500%.

In response to "A House of Dynamite," the Pentagon's Missile Defense Agency sent around an internal memo with the talking point that US defenses are *100 percent accurate*. Ah, no. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...