Hating the ACA is similar to hating on vaccines. It's a luxury borne of not really appreciating what existed before. The fix wasn't perfect, and there is a lot more that we could do to make it better. But the "ACA Was Bad" Discourse is just untethered from reality.

If the WH press corps had any sense of solidarity or self-respect, "Who suggested Budapest for this meeting" would be every question at the next briefing.

So, the colorblind prey can't see orange (see image left/right below for trichromatic/dichromatic views), but humans can... which is also why we make high-vis hunting gear orange: the deer see it as dark green. But why not just make dark-green fur? It's much harder than it sounds!

#nokings Boston!

I filled an old windex bottle with holy water and spray my ghouls with it anytime they misbehave

When I make jokes about Italians, it’s clearly to satirize the stupidity and at times arbitrary nature of modern bigotries and racist policies at least that’s what I say so as to not irk the powerful gay Italians who control the media and run Hollywood and the pop music industry

People who think they are good at using LLM's are little different than people who think they are good at driving while drunk, except that in the former case almost half the US economy is tied up in a cargo cult of telling them they are right.

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces. This is truly terrifying.

He's the literal Democratic Party nominee. He is on the ballot on the Democratic Party's line. He earned his place there fair and square. And a party that refuses to endorse its own nominees is a party of feckless fools that is going to keep losing elections out of sheer asshattery.

In the 2000s Jack Johnson released the same song 7 times and we all let it happen

THIS! Whenever voters are shown considering which candidate’s tax plan will benefit them personally, I want to shake them and beg them to look at the impact on the whole.

I appreciate them taking the time to write this out because it's the equivalent of a veterinarian journal article explaining why you can't sew a porcupine inside a pig. Like what even is any of this and why must we discuss it? Everyone involved should be impeached and jailed.

@dylanthyme.bsky.social Dylan. Hi. So. If your third book is not about Bartholomew and his reign of terror over Will's lab, then let me be another voice crying out in the wilderness for *bonus content.* The people require apple science tyrrany. Thank you.

I guess advocating for white people to take responsibility for disarming doesn't fit within the Post's plan to "exclusively publish pieces supporting personal liberties and free markets."

May as well say that Radio Rwanda was doing politics the right way if you’re definition of “right” is fully agnostic as to content and impact

The Nation pulls NO punches, from @espiers.bsky.social "There's no requirement to take part in this whitewashing campaign. Refusing to join in doesn’t make anyone a bad person. It’s a choice to write an obituary that begins “Joseph Goebbels was a gifted marketer and loving father to six children.”

How many calories does constant seething rage burn

Keeping the U.S. government funded now is to participate in the most atrocious misuse of the power of the United States in modern times. So I for one have decided that the best route is to shut the whole f*cking thing down. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/should-democrats-shut-the-government

This is such an abuse of the criminal process, for a quickly corrected misstatement in testimony, and it is being perpetrated by. the. judges.

endorsed

If you donate three dollars, they will send a rubber ducky and delivered to your Congress person! Let’s impeach the quack.

The DOJ's procedurally insane challenge to a D.Md. standing order--which required a 48-hour hold on deportations of persons who have filed habeas petitions--is dismissed and on its way to the 4th Circuit.

Democracy is not a spectator sport. If we want to see this stop, it’s up to us to stop it! #resist #speakout #lesstalkmorerock #jemmy

thinking about becoming a three-day calendar view in outlook guy. who cares what’s happening on thursday? we might all be dead

You fucking cowards

“No one disputes that the Executive has a duty to follow the law. But the Judiciary does not have unbridled authority to enforce this obligation—in fact, sometimes the law prohibits the Judiciary from doing so." Justice Barrett has a free apartment in my head as I puzzle this one out. #lawsky

This is such textbook corruption!

I think it's fine. I don't see any harm transitioning to a model where you possess no civil rights save those for which you successfully sue, and even then they apply to you alone.

If you want to walk on eggshells and avoid confronting them, as De Blasio did, they will still hate you. The news outlets they read will just make up lies about you. If you actively stand up for your office and power, well, they're gonna hate that too, but they at least might respect you at the end

ICE is now changing tactics and arresting people who have been granted asylum hearings.   This is both a violation of US & international law that demands immediate attention from all New York elected officials & underscores the urgent need for legal service providers to be at all of these cases.

Prediction: Footnote 18 from the universal injunction opinion will not stand the test of time

The Supreme Court is about to go on an extended summer vacation, after having blown up the docket of every single lower court judge who has been working like a dog to deal with the firehose of illegal orders coming out of this administration.

Alito includes screenshots from the books he thinks parents should be able to bar schools from letting their children read.

If the Supreme Court thinks universal injunctions are unconstitutional, to wait until *now* to say that, in this of all cases, with this of all presidents, is a devastating indictment of both its impartiality and its prudence.

Houston police called ICE on a woman who called 911 to report domestic abuse by her ex-husband. The only reason she didn't get deported is because ICE said there was no one to take custody of her kids, according to the police report. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

I'm writing this post in high dudgeon because what the Court endorsed today is unamerican and contemptuous not just of the role of the judiciary but also of the responsibility we have as a nation to those in our custody and those we subject to punishment. I'm mad as hell. You should be too.

it is funny how many people affiliated with the secret police have had to say "stop making fun of the secret police, the guy in the tac vest that covers him like a training bra is a hero, he tracked down and subdued two hospice orderlies using only the W-2 forms they file annually"

/2 The hidden premise of the question seems to be there is some hidden cheat code that lawyers know that will solve this. But there’s no cheat code for fascism. You submit to the masked armed thugs or you get brutalized and/or prosecuted. There’s no win scenario…

#nokings Milton, Mass.: 600 people gathered, making use of the major highway overpass!

#nokings Milton, Mass.

#nokings East Milton, MA

Happy Pride to the ungovernable flashlight-wielders of Jacksonville. bsky.app/profile/erin...

And, as I said yesterday: A large protest is a safe protest. Normies, please go! White folks, especially!

There are like five conservative social media apps, including one run by the president of the United States, and it’s weird how we never get a Washington Post editorial about how divisive and unwelcoming they are.

She has a point! Hey Elon! #teslatakedown