As a shutdown approaches and Dem leadership does its usual schtick, just re-upping that basically every fed employee I've heard from in recent weeks (anecdotal, yes, but still!) is pro-fight, pro-shutdown-if-necessary. As I wrote a couple weeks ago about NIH: www.gravityisgone.com/the-walls-ar...

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs. His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims. (Published Feb. 2023)

hey whats up im the guy who just followed you and went through your media tab to like all your pics. how does that make you feel. horny right

The government knowingly putting false information in the label of a drug is crossing a Rubicon that should not be taken lightly

Stephen miller probably wasn’t on program… he just appears wherever systemic racism occurs like an evil genie

righteous gemstones was a documentary

Good point.

I hope this is widely read. It reflects the extraordinary diligence of CDC during the extreme stress of the pandemic. None of this information is secret--it was discussed and presented publicly. www.statnews.com/2025/09/19/c...

Pretty fucked that they had to split the right wing into flavors to get it all to fit in the chart

Immigrants, particularly on H1Bs, are the lifeblood of American innovation. If you wanted to hurt US competitiveness in the next century, I can think of few more effective ways than a move like this Even when found illegal, the mere intent will have irreparably harmed our future

Again Bouie from the top rope

I love this admin's consistent strategy of "solving" a problem by cutting off the head instead of treating the roots. There are no COVID deaths if we don't count them; instead of improving American schools to make us competitive in STEM, let's just get rid of highly skilled immigrants. Very cool 🥴👍🏻

Important to remember that H1B visa holders have their whole life in the US. The home they rent or own is here. Their family. Their kids go to school here. Being locked out of the US is also in many cases rendering them homeless and away from their family, with no obvious path to return

25% of Drs in US are foreign grads. Many are on an H1B visa. This will hit health systems hard especially rural hospitals and hospitals in underserved areas that sponsor these visas through waiver programs. The old cost was about 5000$ a year. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is the antiabortion playbook. Distort the risks, make people confused and afraid, and restrict access.

IN CASE OF METHODISTS HIDE DOWNSTAIRS

Catching up on @lastweektonight.com and captured an incredible moment with my cat

Belated #caturday timeline cleanse: this cinnamon roll has fangs 🤔

RIP Charlie Kirk, you would have loved politicizing the shooting of Charlie Kirk.

to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech

That both of Turning Point USA’s founders are dead from public health crises their organization worked hard to enable is a parable for our time.

the rightwing loves to be like “this is the moment we become the nazi party”

[bombing half the planet] haw haw whatchagonnado about it, power flows from a gun [watching one nazi get shot] please… not Violence

The President is going to give Charlie Kirk's eulogy and it's just going to be an hour talking about toilets and windmills and Rosie O'Donnell and that's exactly what he deserves.

(waking up in a cold sweat) it could have been any big-headed weirdo asshole moron dickhead from online

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023 www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

Reading this in Orson Welles' voice

what a nightmare, to flee a domestic violence attack & flag down a passing car & out pops Rudy Giuliani — not that there’s any reason to believe that’s what actually happened

Rudy Giuliani happened to be in the middle of one of his favorite pastimes - RESPECTING WOMEN - when he suddenly broke every single bone in his body. Please do not call and ask any questions because his business partner is taking care of him ❤️

public sector employment has historically been a more reliable path to the middle class for Black workers, especially Black women, than the private sector where discrimination is rampant, and this is another important reason why the Right wants to destroy the federal government

Okay. I just came back to this and you aren’t calling these efforts resegregation yet, you absolutely should be

They’re forming a CDC workgroup to decide which line on this graph looks better and their answer may surprise you

CVS requires prescription (Rx) for vaccines: AZ, CO, FL, GA, KY, LA, ME, NY, NC, PA, UT, VA, WV, & D.C. In MA, NV, & NM, CVS pharmacies can’t offer the💉to anyone under any circumstances Walgreens requires Rx: AZ, CO, GA, IN, LA, MO, MT, NM, NY, OR, SC, UT, VA, WA, WV & WI, based on NYT experiment⬇️

Trump requests for JD Vance to be buried alive with him

"The first wave of grocery-price increases will likely hit this winter. Roberson predicted produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year as inventories clear and new contracts kick in." fortune.com/2025/08/28/t...

someone should put together a "kennedy death count" for everyone who dies of a preventable disease and just plaster it everywhere www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

Holy fucking shit

what does it mean if you acknowledge they killed 90% civilians PLUS they don't target them. That would mean they are the most incompetent, Mr Magoo pratfalling boobs on the planet who should NEVER have a missile.

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

BALT: Bacon, Aegg, Loose cheese, Top and bottom of English muffin.

It's Minnesota State Fair time! It's time for Minnesotan folk art! Here, for example, is Saturn Devouring His Corn, in the seed art category!

I've been studiously ignoring the news by listening to podcasts instead of NPR and not checking this site much, but I came back here yesterday and immediately felt so much despair. Mysterious 🤔

Someone does some math that is typical of what high schoolers who reasonably excel in math routinely do and there's a whole class of people in power who treat it like divination. Meanwhile, our country employs thousands of political scientists who would tell you why this is foolish for free.

Actual human communication is dramatically more complicated that. Democrats have, without exaggeration, driven American democracy into a wall by outsourcing their brains to this class of hucksters, who pretend to insight but who have never successfully changed the public narrative on anything.

The methodology here is godawful and laughable, by the way. The effect of political messages can’t be tested by reading someone the message and then seeing how much less they approve of Donald Trump after. That’s not how social persuasion and consensus works, AT ALL.

If you’re mad about Dems avoiding talking about DC, you can blame the Democratic quants, as demonstrated in this memo from David Shor’s Blue Rose Research

“He’s trying to turn our city into The Squid Games.”