Currently reading ”Magnifica Humanitas” while listening to Holst’s “The Planets“ and awaiting the birth of our child. Finally found a recipe for some brief hope in these dark times!

Every well-intentioned insurance coverage mandate is also followed by private equity swooping in, extracting rents, and exploiting patients. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/23/h...

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good LORD @ossoff.bsky.social

FB Jacobin on Platner saying "the Mainers who voted for him" as if we've had any election at all. "Platner embodies that spirit, and so did the Mainers who voted for him despite the smear campaign highlighting his youthful missteps." @charlesgaba.com @hrryan.bsky.social @henrythedog.bsky.social

I’ll be in the same big tent with Zohran Mamdani, but there’s no tent big enough for me and Graham Platner. And I know the vast majority of Democrats probably disagree with me. That’s ok, I can only tell you what I think. Let me explain.👇 open.substack.com/pub/socialco...

maybe we should’ve asked jeeves how he was doing

The flight attendants union for Spirit Airlines, Spirit AFA-CWA, confirms that the carrier will permanently shutdown at 3 A.M. EDT. https://t.co/LlH3OjOg2j

I thought a run as an independent would just siphon potential democratic votes away but I feel better about this possibility. Funnily enough, if he wins the nomination he’ll be the second KS democratic senate nominee in a row who is a United Methodist pastor.

An interesting update to a story I wrote the other day. Pastor Adam Hamilton will run (!) for U.S. Senate in Kansas as a Democrat (!!), even though polling suggested an independent run might be more successful. He may be a surprisingly strong candidate. apnews.com/article/meth...

For real on the political nihilism here, look no further than anti-electoral far-left here.

. @aoc.bsky.social responds to this trend: "BOOOOO" "This race to try to see who can be exempt from participating in society is not a conversation that I'm interested in," she tells me, calling it an uninspiring message. "I'm a Great Society Democrat, and I believe in building that together."

Why the current "no" lead in Virginia's redistricting referendum is likely a mirage.

DDHQ Race Update (est. 65% in): Virginia Congressional Redistricting Amendment No (N): 1,017,482 (52.3%) Yes (N): 929,453 (47.7%) First votes are now in from Fairfax. Mix of vote types, but very few votes overall. Follow more results here: votes.decisiondeskhq.com/races/606382

idea for a scam: startup for an all ai newspaper that’s actually just a real one. use the insane valuation to pay living wages and invest back into it

margins may not even be that much of an improvement over 2024. Fuller is already leading and its still mostly early / absentee which have leaned much more Dem.

GET TO THE POLLS! #GA14

I completely agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene is a sentence I never thought I would ever write.

A nice result from tonight: one of the Republican candidates resigned his seat on the Dalton City Council to run for GA114. Although they're technically nonpartisan elections, the woman who won the election to replace him tonight was the Democrat.

Nearly all the votes reporting right now are early votes, which I suspect will skew Dem.

I’m guessing this goes to a Harris-Fuller runoff. Fuller wins in the runoff almost certainly but glad to see a good showing.

Cast my vote for Shawn Harris!

boy in retrospect, really shouldn’t have elected the worst person in the entire country president. that, it appears, was less than wise

helps quite a bit if I'm being honest

don't think there's a better encapsulation of everything wrong with "working class politics" that a literal petit-borgeois business owner is somehow universally viewed as blue collar because he's a white guy with a few slurs under his belt

www.kansascity.com/news/politic... I'm a United Methodist who has valued Adam Hamilton's leadership in the denomination, but a run as an independent seems like it would only help the GOP. The pastor of a church in a liberal denomination that performs same sex marriages won't get many GOP votes.

Like I’ve been saying: I think one of the big political stories of the year is going to be non-conservative Christians getting loud.

This is welcome from the Pope, and also man, any Christian that needs to be reminded of one of the most famous of Jesus’s sentiments, Matthew 25:40, needs to do some real soul searching.

I honestly can’t take a fourth presidential election cycle in a row in which privileged white leftists claim that the Democratic Party doesn’t do anything because they’re too lazy to spend 5 minutes doing a Google search.

I don't know, Aaron. I think we need to take this seriously. In fact, after surveying hundreds of years of history in the past few days, I've written an article assessing the originalist case here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Moved my intro philosophy class to all analog blue book exams. Been one of my better decisions...

Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.

This is a crock of shit. The ACA already prohibits federal dollars from being used to pay for abortion. ACA plans which cover abortion even include a separate $1/mo fee which the insurance carriers have to be kept segregated from the rest of their revenue in a separate bank account. I’m serious.

dawg not the steakhouse wedding font

“The ballroom is really the president’s main priority” is also what Bill Moyers said when audio of LBJ speaking with his tailor about his special pants request leaked.

Are we doing "The ACA Sucks" Discourse again? I'm going to guess most people hating on it from the left have never received a hospital bill the size of book; I put the apple there for scale. That's the $1.3 million bill my kid incurred in his first ~94 days. Why does that make me respect the ACA?

Anyway, what we're talking about is, this is what you wrote about one of the most important legislative achievements since the 1960s, which is responsible for over 40 million Americans currently having health care. And yet, NYT is somehow paying you to be an economics reporter. This is not normal.

I support everyone giving vast sums of money to Andrew Cuomo. It’s the “lighting a million quid on fire” art piece but this time performed by the worst people in the world.

as a christian, one thing i love about trump is that he explicitly rejects the teachings of jesus

NEW: GOP lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent twice as much on administrative costs as on health care. By @savmargaret.bsky.social

Jimmy Kimmel and other late-night comedians have certainly said things about me that I found offensive, even outrageous. It never crossed my mind to call up the networks and say, "Hey, get rid of this guy." Because that's not how America works. play.prx.org/listen?ge=pr...

This is something that I think needs to be said more for the young people. This shit got worse. Google was more useful in 2006 than it is today. Meemaw and Peepaw regularly post shit on Facebook that would have got you banned from Newgrounds.

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

The House has passed the giant GOP tax and budget bill - next stop is the White House. The final vote was 218-214. 2 GOP lawmakers voted 'No' - Massie KY and Fitzpatrick PA. No Dems voted for the bill.

Only "winners" from draconian #Medicaid cuts are firms like Deloitte getting contracts to design complex, burdensome work reporting requirements. Beneficiaries, providers and states are all big losers. My colleagues @joanalker1.bsky.social & Andy Schneider explain: ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/06/26/o...

www.budget.senate.gov/ranking-memb... CSR funding dies a victim of the Byrd Bath.

I’m thinking of how one would structure a database of state policy decisions affecting the ACA. I.e. Medicaid expansion enactment date, FFM v SBM dates, new EHBs, 1332 reinsurance, silver loading rules, etc. What other kinds of policy data points am I missing?