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Elderly and disabled people told Congress that cutting Medicaid could kill people and in response, they were arrested in their wheelchairs. What the hell are we doing?

submitted 2 days ago • 370 comments

A Muslim son of immigrants might become mayor of NYC in part because he cross endorsed and supported a Jewish candidate and Black candidate, and vice versa. It's a beautiful American story for the rest of us. A nightmare for all the right people ;) It's so New York.

submitted 3 days ago • 537 comments

don't really even know what we can say about the information environment anymore. the justification machine working so efficiently that it has replaced military intelligence.

submitted 4 days ago • 40 comments

one of the really challenging asymmetries in american politics is that democrats are asked to answer for the actions of every single hypothetical democratic voter in the country but republican lawmakers are not even asked about the behavior of their own elected peers

submitted 12 days ago • 23 comments

The next step is obvious

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

If C-3PO hadn’t told R2 that he didn’t like him either, R2 would probably never have run off; Luke would probably be tending to the moisture farm to this day; the rebellion would’ve been crushed; and all the contractors on the Death Star could’ve gone home to their families.

submitted 21 days ago • 20 comments

Stephen Miller tracking down Big Balls

submitted 22 days ago • 17 comments

Not a great time to have the American defense and national security establishment run by amateurs

submitted 52 days ago • 157 comments

All of the sudden, out of where, the courts ::checks notes:: pointed out that in 1791 the US Constitution's Fifth Amendment guaranteed 'any person' the right to due process of law and then again in 1868 clarified that 'any person' really meant 'any person' and applied to the states.

submitted 53 days ago • 16 comments

Literal fascism - playing this for crowds to cheer

submitted 59 days ago • 221 comments

This is outrageous.

submitted 59 days ago • 209 comments

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

submitted 63 days ago • 615 comments

By distracting us with fake terrorism, this administration is inviting the real thing. snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...

submitted 68 days ago • 72 comments

"no no no, this is a trap, democrats shouldn't talk about it" --every centrist Dem consultant/pundit paid six figures for their good politics brain

submitted 68 days ago • 47 comments

This is why I still think that the internet, not the issues, are the root cause of this culture war. People (including journalists…who are people) imagine the loudest, angriest positions as default positions because those are the ones that get eyeballs in an ultra-competitive attention economy.

submitted 68 days ago • 90 comments