When I got out of college, I rented a room in my buddy’s double-wide. He was a firefighter. I was a firefighter. I made $26,000 that year and had 0 kids. He had 3 kids, 2 jobs, rented out a room - and still needed food stamps to make ends meet and put good food on the table for the kids.

He’s finishing up what could not be achieved on 9/11

Letting the health care tax credits expire would devastate American families — and we’re making that crystal clear by giving you the data. We’ve built graphics showing how much costs would rise in every GOP district. Let’s start with Mike Johnson (R-LA):

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years. From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

sars_cov.2_covid_19 Just spoke with my CDC sources. They said RFK Jr. has instructed officials in California to hide tuberculosis cases after seven people tested positive. He’s doing the same with bird flu and other emerging infectious diseases. Before a virus spreads, concealment spreads first.

#booksky No one’s reading for fun, apparently. Here’s a reading list to fix that. flip.it/9aDDXe

Hope you’re able to tune in! ☺️

TACO everyday.

The United States celebrated Independence Day today by cruelly giving millions of its poorer citizens independence from their healthcare.

Michael Feinberg, threatened with demotion over his friendship with a former official on the FBI director’s “enemies list,” details FBI leadership’s efforts to oust him from the Bureau, and his decision to ultimately resign. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...

I’ve been lying to you…. youtube.com/shorts/8wHOE...

Beyond Chicken Pieces are great in tacos. And that’s why I’m bringing up tacos. For totally normal reasons. Ok I’m going to end this post now. Taco, taco, taco

Criminal trumps grandfather was an immigrant illegally in the country, that means his father loses birthright citizenship & so does trump & his children... apnews.com/article/supr...  Supreme Court limits nationwide injunctions, but fate of Trump birthright citizenship order unclear

They have more money than their children's children's children's children could spend, but they want more. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Give Democratic voters credit: when a sexual predator tried for a comeback and tried to foist himself on them, they sent him packing on Tuesday. Republicans have never done that to their sexual predator.

The best way to reduce the cost of Medicaid is to name and shame big employers that pay their full time employees so little, they qualify for Medicaid

Beloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."

Trump: we have two countries that don’t know what the fuck they’re doing Me: actually, it’s 3.

Damn right!!!

The fact that boxing has declined in popularity while “professional” wrestling has increased in popularity seems like a telling sign of our times. In boxing, bullshit walks. In the WWE, bullshit talks. It’s everything.

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

Tell me again about Trump's supposed working class coalition wapo.st/3FJhQ8z

📊The new Quinnipiac poll asked voters about antisemitism — and it turns out the more that a group believes antisemitism is a serious issue, the less likely they are to approve of how Trump is approaching it.

Can we prevent Type 1 autoimmune diabetes? A new review of the prospects www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Oh, Canada.

For me the 🖕is for everyone who told me I was overreacting when I said he’s an abusive husband and father do not underestimate him. He’ll be a fascist if he’s elected.

Boom 💥

At a time when America really needs heroes it gets Jake Tapper.

The hard truth is the Red states keep their taxes low and their poverty high. Very weak public infrastructure. Schools that look like old prisons Millions without healthcare. Only exception is Georgia.

This has aged so unfortunately well. Written in Oct of 2024

Congrats, everyone.

Good cover @economist.com

If no tax on tips passes my consulting fee will be $1.00 and the rest of your bill will be a required gratuity.

No matter what you call it, the Big Ugly Bill, the Big Bad Bill, the Big Billionaire Bill, it all comes out to the same thing: Republicans are stealing from the needy to give to the greedy.

Is Jake Tapper working on another book

Could you imagine the response if a democratic president said they didn’t know if they had to uphold the Constitution? How fast would the articles of impeachment be drawn ? 20 minutes at the most

R. E. M. E. M. B. E. R. Just 3,5% www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Holy shit, just three years into its existence, the nonprofit Baltimore Banner has won its first Pulitzer.

WOW. A teacher told me, "I gave one of my 2nd grade (dyslexic) students your nature poetry prompt. He is reluctant to write because of challenges with spelling, but I suspect he’s gifted. I told him just to write and we’d sort out the spelling later. This is what he wrote."

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

Not for nothing but ‘Genocide Joe’ wouldn’t have deported you for protesting, even when the person being protested was him.

Target should have listened to Jim Sinegal. True for everything. Treat your customers, constituents, Veterans, Retirees, trading partners, allies, etc. like 💩 enough and you’ll wake them up to the fact that you think they’re 💩. When that happens your the one in deep 💩. They see you and can’t unsee.

Did you know: one of the biggest ways to make a positive environmental impact is to eat plant-based every now & then and also to not go to space