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"It is a hospital, a hospital where there are only people in pain and moaning all night over the loss of their loved ones and limbs, bleeding and spitting blood ... [Israel] bombed the reception area where the wounded are admitted, and they bombed the pharmacy that supplies us with medicine."

remember when a buncha losers got mad at susan sarandon instead of their own garbage choices? that was hilarious. anyway, susan sarandon forever. she was janet, you dorks.

bill maher eats children, pass it on.

'Why are high fertility people always so weird?' A weekend with the pronatalists

This Passover I’m thinking hard about the holiday’s history of resistance to tyrannical leaders, and the imperative for Jewish people to stand with all oppressed peoples of the world.

honestly never considered this but it makes sense

If the government can pay a foreign state to imprison you and, in so doing, remove you from the protection of US law, the Constitution is worthless.

they are busy insider trading

I wrote about the final season of "The Handmaid's Tale" and #Resistance feminism in retrospect, for @newyorker.com: www.newyorker.com/culture/on-t...

fell for it again award

Fine, I’ll open a factory.

Don’t overthink this. He’s asking for bribes.

watching stock prices chase every deranged thought Trump articulates like a cat after a laser pointer really undermines the concept of 'the wisdom of the markets'

okay now that you all have gotten a taste of America's rational and predictable new trade policy, everyone who wants to build your new factories here just form an orderly line

Goddamn I hate Joseph Biden so much

I don't think people realize that in important respects tariffs are now higher & more inflationary than what was announced on last Wednesday. Since then we've gone from 54% to 125% on China, our 3rd largest trading partner. That outweighs delaying the increases on 70+ others.

US peeps, if you're looking to purchase something like a window air conditioner, freezer, dehumidifier, or really anything semi-durable which can be obtained from a big box store... well you might want to take advantage of the inventory that's already here.

my favorite stock market live stream is the one where we can hear people murmur in the background because maybe we'll get lucky and hear someone crying

You're a mark if you listen to anything the "anti-war right" says

What about them

A predictable outcome

Boycotting the grocery store until they start buying an equivalent volume of groceries from me

We’re getting an economic nuclear winter. But it was a small price to pay for ending free speech on campus. by Bill Ackman

Me: Oh no that trolley is going to run us over! Guy tied up on the track next to me who somehow thinks he's actually the guy holding the lever: Lol cry more 😂

We’ve had two Republican presidents in the last thirty years and under both of them I’ve had weeks where I’ve genuinely not known whether ATMs would just stop working

211 dead journalists in Gaza These are my colleagues, my comrades in storytelling, the very best of our profession being burned alive in front of the whole fucking world My heart can’t fucking take it

You may be fearing your 401k is no longer enough for you to retire. But with all the cuts to NIH and Medicare you also won't live as long. So the policies are integrated.

If you’ve survived off of fried baloney and dollar tree frozen meals before, you are going to be just fine.

Tonight we learned that it was indeed Andry, the gay man sent to El Salvador because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos, who an American journalist saw sobbing as guards slapped him repeatedly and shaved his head. He is an innocent. And Trump sent him to a torture prison. Bring them back!