America has the most marketized health care system, with co-pays and HSAs already in place to patients to act like consumers. And we have the most expensive system with poor outcomes.

Gosh, I just love plucky student journalists on the case. Go, plucky student journalists! I'm rooting for you!

My latest today on how strict adherence to the rules is killing Democrats while fascists take cities

the other thing is that he got radicalized when government regulations shut down his gambling haunts for a time because of the pandemic. this is downstream of that; this is all about someone who was forced to recognize they were part of the society that had made them wealthy & crashed-out instead

Things we learn: 1. Bovino's existence is the result of chain migration, which MAGA wants to ban 2. His family arrived legally under an immigration law MAGA wants to repeal 3. His father killed a woman while driving drunk, a crime for which MAGA aims to deport immigrants And much more. Read it.

Insane. Netanyahu is blaming the horrible shooting in Australia on Australia calling to recognize Palestine as a state:

It’s never a good sign when the United States’ national security plan is praised by Russia as being “largely consistent with our vision”… Read @johnavlon.bsky.social's commentary: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

> @miatretta.bsky.social

Fiddler on the roof, but with ICE agents playing the part of Cossacks. I know people think of Fiddler as a heartwarming story about a funny man doing Ya-ba-dibba-dibbas, but it's literally about pogroms like this

Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah. Praying for his full & speedy recovery. And so deeply inspired by his example.

Conservatism consists of a second proposition which isnt that I can do what I want to do it’s that it’s an Imposition on me that you do what you want.

And with how few books are getting read, maybe what USA needs is: more drag queens

Hard to take French or Williamson seriously on this though as French wrote a whole article supporting some of Trump war criminal pardons, and Williamson wrote that famously racist article about St. Louis several years ago also.

The theory of power that says conservatives as a whole, and young right-wing men in particular, are victims repressed by the left-wing forces dominating society is, in a word, insane. It cannot possibly be addressed, because it's not true. It's just rationalization for hatred and hurting others.

I can understand, even if I disagree, why French wants to try and empathize with the concerns of these RW culture war types. But that empathy is just reinforcing their whiny, spoiled attitude when what they need to be told is to grow the fuck up, those aren’t real problems.

But David French, the guys flipping out over Drag Queen Story Hour are the weak men creating hard times. If they think something has gone terribly wrong, and that the thing is people reading books to kids at a voluntary family event, that's insanely weak. And an excuse to act on irrational hatred.

This is a horrific act of antisemitism during a time meant for light & celebration. My heart breaks for the Bondi Beach community & my thoughts are with all those who lost loved ones & the entire Jewish community as we condemn this evil. Antisemitism has no place in our world.

7News Australia reports that the hero who jumped and disarmed one of the terrorist shooters His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed A 43 year old married father of two He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland No experience with guns He was walking past He has two bullets in his arm

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We sadly know Zoe Weissman because of Parkland. In fact, our families are so close, that she has been there for my wife and I after Parkland and helped with our foundation Orange Ribbons For Jaime. America, are you ok with this?

Just as the fire department in Rad Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 exists to start, not stop, fire, so the Justice Department under Pam Bondi increasingly assumes the characteristics of an international criminal syndicate, engaged in acts of piracy, kidnapping, torture and assorted crimes against humanity

The HERO didn’t have a gun, the VIOLENT MAN did. Tell me again how guns make us safer??

Shooter = coward Bystander = legend Guns are the problem

Everyone currently paying bribes to the White House should be made to understand that we are going to remember and make them regret it. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/if-he-buil...

The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns. The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.

Many folks who leave religiously zealous homes, enter into atheism with zealotry still in their hearts despite relinquishing religion. They still want to simplify their lives and reduce variables. You grow up thinking you can narrow your problems down to one thing to eliminate and it messes you up.

If you're wondering what happened to Nate Silver, he was into the COVID lab leak theory and got negative feedback online, including from epidemiologists and virologists and (GASP!) posters, which added to his belief that The Woke are victimizing Nate Silver. It spiraled from there. I'm not kidding.

It's not that expertise is unnecessary. It's that it is inimical to the aims of the people in the role of chief executive who want things done that would elicit strong pushback from someone who knows what they are doing

“All of the strikes constitute unlawful killing."

the entire thing is a spectacle based on a professional provacateur who comically gut put in charge of CBS news interviewing the bereaved wife of a far right political rabble rouser. No big mystery why adverts are squeamish. anyone w a media background says no shit

This is getting lost: For weeks Trump officials had the option to remove Abrego Garcia to Costa Rica, but refused to do so. Instead they kept trying to send him somewhere more dangerous. Costa Rica wasn't cruel and dehumanizing enough. This is deeply sick conduct. newrepublic.com/article/2043...

You go back and look at my early cartoons, you see that I never bought into the techno-utopian vision of the internet, because I had actually met human beings.

Read this. newrepublic.com/article/2043...

bingo. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Watch attempts to use the horrific mass shooting in Australia as “proof” that gun safety laws don’t work Bondi is Australia’s first deadly mass shooting in 3 years Brown is USA’s first deadly mass shooting in 3 days And the 15th deadly & 389th overall mass shooting of 2025 There is no comparison

You have to admit that Bari Weiss taking over CBS News and instantly turning it into her personal Tiktok page is freaking funny as hell

These fucks sold an innocent guy out and now try and make it seem like it was virtuous. Fuck this kind of solidarity, I don't think it's good politics, and I will admit that even if it were I consider it below myself to consider it.

We need safer bike infrastructure in D5 @marnivonwilpert.bsky.social. This is happening way too often.

The repeated pattern (see also Washington Post) is that these choices to veer rightward are not economic decisions: they turn off the core audience. Editorial choices are loss leaders for bigger corporate goals.

No shooting stars spotted. Still nice.

I shouldn’t have to share this article as much as I do. Sending condolences to all friends and family and loved ones from the Brown Shooting today. www.newsweek.com/2025/07/18/f...

just. brutal.

The recent tanker seizure shows they are absolutely capable of interdicting these vessels without any loss of life. They’re murdering because they want to murder.

There are a lot of things that make me mad. Like. A long list. But fake AI videos of wild animals doing cute things that animals do in fact do, make me so unreasonably mad. Should this incite the most rage in my heart, of all the horrible things going on right now? No. But here we are.

Erika Kirk got lightly questioned about Charlie’s racist ass comments and saying that some gun deaths are worth it in the CBS interview and she went with idk about those quotes, also those quotes are out of context, also people who brings these comments up are part of the problem. Peas in a damn pod