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Neuroscientist (UCD, University College London, UCSF), lifelong Californian, literally slipped on a banana peel…twice (two different continents, two different banana peels)
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Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Connecticut, hit back at Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, who went viral after telling a town hall audience member that "we all are going to die" in response to concerns over Medicaid cuts. bit.ly/3Sw9Uu8

submitted 13 days ago • 14 comments

Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people

submitted 14 days ago • 1123 comments

Folks don’t miss a beat 😂

submitted 15 days ago • 560 comments

Kristi Noem doesn't know anything. It shows. (By me.) fallows.substack.com/p/kristi-noe...

submitted 18 days ago • 11 comments

A reminder: Ru and Ukraine have exchanged prisoners steadily throughout the war. The latest exchange isn't a sign of progress towards a diplomatic solution. Ru remains as committed as ever to its maximalist goals; it's planning a summer offensive on Kharkiv. russia will only stop when it's stopped

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

I wrote a speech for Trump to deliver about his $175 billion Golden Dome defense shield. Get ready to feel something. “The second word is DOME. I love domes. They’re like a ball, only half.” www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

Ru’s primary goal has always been to take Ukraine’s sovereignty, not territory. The land grab is only for leverage towards achieving that end goal. This was true in 2014, in 2022 and now. That’s why territorial concessions by Ukr would solve nothing, that’s why Ru insists on things like…

submitted 219 days ago • 7 comments

And when they've broken everything and made people's lives worse in dozens of different ways, the GOP response is going to be complaining that the government is broken and we need to try New Things instead. No, it was working. They broke it. Don't let them weasel out of responsibility.

submitted 26 days ago • 99 comments

I would like to propose we change the name of “Sunday” to “Lieday” for the next 4 years. These Sunday interviews are unbearable

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Perfect concise summary of how we have completely lost the plot in our National Conversation™️

submitted 28 days ago • 13 comments

Trump admits (1) the company thrived during the last year of Biden’s economy and (2) will be bearing the brunt of tariffs in Trump’s economy

submitted 28 days ago • 112 comments

He really is the the Joan Rivers of Hitlers

submitted 29 days ago • 28 comments

Reminder: the Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen posts are just to distract from the Qatari "gift" or the fact that he's trying to rip Medicare and Medicaid from millions of Americans right now.

submitted 29 days ago • 917 comments

I hope the grotesque diplomatic theater we see in Turkey brings more people around to the realization (better late than never) that the only way to restore peace in Ukraine is to defeat the Ru aggressor not talk to them. Arm Ukraine, strangle the Ru economy.

submitted 30 days ago • 8 comments