When rich people get more money, they *might* invest it in creating new jobs, or higher pay for existing jobs. Or they might buy a yacht. Or just sit on it.🤷🏿‍♂️ But when poor people get money? They *do* spend it. They have to. Trickle down has always been a lie. Trickle up has never not been true.

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Medical debt shouldn’t exist.

I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution. Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.

He already sent a lynch mob to chase Congress out of the Capitol and it was a skin-of-their-teeth miracle they didn't manage to get their hands on any of them. It's a big deal, but shouldn't be framed as shockingly new. It is his longtime position that murdering his political opponents is good.

A Trump supporter started murdering his way through an assassination list of Democratic law makers FIVE MONTHS AGO. He murdered my colleague Melissa Hortman, and her husband Mark — and attempted to assassinate my dear friend John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. I was also on the hit list. WTF

I’ve been saying this for ages: These folks are doomed to be permanently angry because they’re angry about aspects of the culture that policy ultimately can’t change. They’re seeking political power as a consolation prize for lack of cultural power, and will always be dissatisfied.

Something you could also argue (with a few obvious caveats) about journalism. Newspapers were broadly viewed as conservative until the mid-60s, when George Wallace pioneered a strategy of “it’s not me, it’s them” when the (conservative) newspapers of Alabama had had enough of him.

Have people really forgotten how bad it was? That they could deny you healthcare for pre-existing conditions? That babies born with « issues » had no healthcare? That people lost healthcare over diabetes or allergies or cancer? That we had to pay for mammograms? That birth control cost hundreds?

“Oppose genocide, *and*” is maybe the simplest, best advice to be given in this particular moment.

I've been saying for a while that when a real conspiracy emerges the Conspiracy Theory Complex will be some of the least interested people in it, because the point of the Conspiracy Theory Complex is not to discover conspiracy but to create rationales to justify untenable beliefs.

There’s that 29-31% figure again. We know EXACTLY who they are…

Please remember the initial claim was that Trump wasn’t in the files at all

Somebody over at The Onion is apparently a fan of the early work of @danielobrien.bsky.social web.archive.org/web/20130122...

BREAKING: The Trump administration is officially withdrawing a Biden-era plan to require airlines to pay passengers cash compensation when flight disruptions are caused by the airlines.

I had a former Scout Leader who managed live to 101 years old. In his 90s, his son had the foresight to take a LOT of video of him, just talking about his own life. A really great memento. So I’m not saying I disagree that it’s ghoulish. Just that I understand the appeal.

Not for nothing, this is one reason why we say "pregnant patient" instead of "woman." It's not just for non-binary inclusion.

I don’t know what’s making me laugh harder: reciting the Xzibit meme for myself, or that the people who make Oreos think we would be astounded that they have access to real bits of Oreos.

The lack of flexibility to move is very real. I’m doing well and live in a relatively inexpensive metro region (outside Detroit). I hear from friends what it costs to rent/buy locally, and if I had to move I’m not sure I could afford to without restructuring my whole lifestyle to afford it.

Anyhoo, here's a paper about "the centrality of housing concerns in facilitating the Holocaust and the complicity of individuals in the exclusion of Jews for economic, ideological, and geographic reasons." journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

This is perhaps a more-wonky-than-necessary reaction, but we should all be more concerned about how he capitalizes “Hemisphere” and “Homeland.” And probably more concerned than THAT that he is relying on “Homeland” as a term so much.

the reason theyre so brazen is because they think theyre better than us and should be allowed to get away with it

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

Seems weird that between this and acetaminophen, the administration is VERY quick to talk down the utility of readily-available, cheap-to-manufacture, over-the-counter medications without any remaining patent protections. Gee, wonder why that might be 🤔

Modern conspiracy theory acts primarily as a way for people to ignore uncomfortable evidence against their beliefs. Jan 6? False flag! Global warming? NWO plot to steal your freedom! When the conspiracy *is* the uncomfortable fact, conspiracy theorists suddenly lose interest in conspiracies.

Every time Hegseth says stuff like this, it is important to remember that he actively has human shit on his hands while he says it. www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

Artist’s rendition of what Trumpcare would look like…

Oh, my: how will we ever determine what to do with this franchise material after they killed the protagonist to end a continuity reboot? (How do they suck so badly at this? It’s an easy problem to solve.)

I cannot stress enough that EVEN IF 40 years was a conventional loan length for a mortgage, he’s still talking about a 25% increase in the lifetime of the mortgage. Meanwhile, interest continue to creep up from the 2010s, and prices remain very high.

no money for politicians

I actually spoke to my state legislator during a canvassing stop at my home recently. And I said point blank: “I am tired of being treated like my vote is a hostage.”

You didn't get a vote. You got a "promise" of a vote. From a party who is disappearing nannies & gardeners and zip-tying children. A party who has flushed Due Process in America down the toilet. Who has subjugated its Congressional duties to an autocrat. That's what everybody sees, Tim.

Senator, we already know the answer is “basically nobody.”

The ACA fucking *sucks*, is a national shame, is confoundingly cruel and ineffective and insufficient and, also, simultaneously is SO MUCH MORE PREFERABLE to pre-ACA American healthcare it's not even close.

The cure to the loneliness epidemic is just liking things.

Stuff like this really hits me in whatever nostalgia I still have for that period of my life.

This preliminary injunction hearing in Chicago is just like... normie white liberal after normie white liberal describing how federal agents beat them, shot at them with pepper balls, pointed guns at them, threw flashbangs and tear gas at them

Predictably - the Trump/Republican response to last night won’t be to try to earn more votes, it will be to suppress the vote.

At the risk of sounding petty, calls for Democratic unity going forward are all well and good, but let’s not forget that the reason Cuomo ran against Mamdani in the first place was a last-ditch effort by the New York Democratic Party to ratfuck their duly elected nominee.

It’s like they all have a compulsion to say shit like this. Calling for a “Republicans Just Be Fucking Normal” Challenge 2025. (Challenge level: impossible.)

Yes, we surely can't have an executive taking equity portions of private companies whose leaders come to gatherings where they all sit in a room around a table and tell him how he is a golden god. Who ever would imagine such a thing?

The Heritage Foundation, which staffs the current presidential administration and wrote its agenda, spent this past week defending Tucker Carlson’s decision to mainstream actual Nazis. Also this week, a thousand rabbis told me Zohran Mamdani is the greatest threat to my safety as an American Jew.

You cannot make a meaningful deal with someone who has told everyone that he's going to lie about the deal and then go around the appropriations process. He has let you know that the deal means *nothing* no matter what it is.

we collectively through our government can eliminate poverty. charitable giving just can't and won't do that.

Blue Collar/Working Class has long since become an aesthetic to most. A guy who owns a construction company and makes six figures is working class because he wears work boots and jeans. A barista at a coffee shop is a member of the elite because Pronouns and Big City

Magas just hate everything! That’s it! That’s all it ever is! You can’t convert them to your side! Their WHOLE deal is being immutably fixed in their existing ways!