Pretty friggin' simple.

If you've wondered how/why private equity firms got into providing healthcare (which truly is a bizarre connection), this may help you understand the details. And the impacts. We can do better. Thanks, @motherjones.com for more great reporting! Such a worthwhile subscription.

Really good assessment of the current reality - and what's to come soon - from a company owner.

A President with true comfort lying, frequently, should be worrying to all. (And I'm not freaking naive, I understand that there are times when a lie is truly needed by a National leader, but it should be incredibly rare, not every day.)

This gives me a fond memory of the archeology dig I spent a month on, forever ago. Every morning we were woken up EARLY by herons "Kronnnking." Yeesh, never got used to that....

Well, then. Isn't that ... interesting. They care so much about fraud and abuse of government that they're doing it themselves....

Thank you for pointing this my way. So well said....

Don't lose site of some of the .. stuff .. they're working to distract from. (Not just this, but also the whole tanking the economy, manipulating elections, doing everything they can to sell off our National Monuments and other publicly-owned lands, and maybe being a disgusting pedophile, too....)

Never thought I'd find myself saying this, but: Thank you, Justices Thomas & Gorsuch, for trying....

I mean it's worked so well, so far.

And on a much worse note.... As Liza knows, at some point each day I wonder out loud: "So what new fuckery have I missed during the day?" as I turn on NHPR or some other news source. This one ranks extremely high in the "fuckery" rankings, though apparently not new.

Very 'interesting' political scenario is building for swing-District GOP Members, like this one in AZ. Do you support 'your' President's current will, or the needs of your constituents??

This is a new image from #JWST. The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is a galaxy. Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

100 days in. Things are going great, if you like crap results, a weakened economy, diminished world respect, shrinking of Americans freedoms, and general chaos. If those are your jam, the first 100 days have been .. well, they've been something.

It turns out that you probably need this in your life today. Volume ☝️

Visiting Montreal from the USA right now. Here at a historic time, when they can, quite clearly, tell us what they think about our National choices .. and show us how to look out for their own, and others, with dignity, empathy, and a little care....

Seen on the Sons of Liberty feed....

Spot on!!

That's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off....

Elbows up, Canada.

Watching people in various FB groups think they can disentangle their "interests" from politics, in these wild days, is very .. wow!!! Politics is in everything, whether they want to accept that reality or not. It's real. Onward.

NEW: A federal judge in CA just entered a TRO (temporary restraining order) against the Office of Personnel Management & its Acting Director, Charles Ezell, finding that OPM illegally terminated probationary federal employees because it had no authority to do so. www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-r...

In addition to the glee they get from pain and chaos, there's always more profit/greed/grift to be made by someone. If it effs up our National treasures, well that's just too bad....

The Trump DoJ lawyers pushing this stuff can’t be humiliated enough for my taste. So many people should spit at their feet that they need galoshes.

I feel this....

VITAL KNOWLEDGE: "This is the 3d time [Trump has] capitulated on a tariff threat .. (don’t forget Colombia), and it’s possible there could be a 4th .. ".. stocks will be struck in a standoff between healthy macro fundamentals and Trump-related noise for at least the next few months."

We could have had Kamala Harris. Instead, we have the most immature, petulant, stupid, needy, incompetent dipshit to ever enter American politics. What a tragically stupid country we are.

Another thing not on my 2025 bingo card: "Fringe vegan activist group appears linked to fatal border patrol shooting in Vermont and other murders." Wow!!

Bwahahaha...

I see he's back to his usual intensive work approach.

I feel just a shred better, knowing Manny civil service employees are responding this way....

That people take this guy's statements as having anything to do with reality is astounding. His threats, demands, and statements about what he will do, we should take very seriously, but nonsense like this is just ... wow.

we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.

TikTok took it down, so let’s share the shit out of this reading list. #HolocaustRemembranceDay #NeverAgainIsNow #BookSky #StateMediaCensorship

WTAF?? Tribal police should start demanding visas of ICE agents and information establishing when their families came to this continent. (Yes, I know the context isn't quite right, but I'm all in on the sentiment/intent.... And I'm still on first cup of coffee.)

Sadly, I think that this assessment is correct. They'd be altogether concerned at the ramifications of accidentally/easily manipulating as fickle a species as ours.... (And the violence and chaos that would ensue.)

Useful context and tips as people strive to keep up with an onslaught of policy information, institutional changes, and other intentional chaos....

What kind of crazy, overinflated, sense of self must Pete Hegseth have to believe he's remotely qualified to manage an institution as massive as the Department of Defense? I can't fathom that level of sheer gall. (And feeling "relieved" that since he got the job, he'll quit drinking.... 🫤)

There are no limits to their efforts to whiten the definition of "American."

You're welcome to watch the next phase of the dismantling today, if that's how you get your joy. Me, I'll be enjoying some fresh powder with the kids at Ragged and thinking thoughts of MLK and what this country can strive for, on good days (and should, every day).

If you didn't know, #BookSky is a thing and it's already becoming kind of awesome. Also, StoryGraph is a great app for tracking/looking for books....

Try to make it through life without ever been hated as much as Rudy Giuliani is by a courtroom sketch artist.

I love this quick brief by an author I like a lot, John scalzi, on "how best to buy his work." It's solid advice for supporting all creators, really....

Truth, this....

Double jab done -- flu & COVID. Let's see how this feels later....

This guy's "fitness art" is seriously next-level!! (Enjoy the free article.)

This is correct

Truth. And imminent reality.