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the great open secret of biglaw is that they generally aren’t worth what they charge. you don’t hire them because they’re good, you hire them to cover your ass when something goes wrong.

submitted 2 hours ago • 19 comments

I just remember, as we continue to get these sympathetic profiles of Trump voters and ceos just existing, how white people wanted a public trial and stoning of @katelynburns.com for pointing out how this sympathetic lens and demands for sympathy didn’t extend to stories about Mike Brown’s young life

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Since administrative costs are 1 percent of outlays, the only way this saves money is by making it very hard for people to access their earned benefits. Meanwhile, it will increase the potential for "waste, fraud and abuse."

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Imagining a world in which Democrats had instead responded to anti-trans stuff with “Republicans are sick perverts obsessed with other people’s genitals” and stayed on message with that ad nauseam

submitted 2 hours ago • 13 comments

the andrew tate news has solidifed this. they want women to be afraid because they think if we're afraid, then we won't thrive.

submitted 3 hours ago • 71 comments

I think if someone upends the lives careers of hundreds of thousands of people we should be allowed to know their name but, you know, I’m not a “government transparency advocate” or whatever these people call themselves

submitted 4 hours ago • 12 comments

if the Republicans' proposed sweeping cuts to Medicaid go through, West Virginia is going to get gored. more than a quarter of the state's residents are on Medicaid and 45 percent of its children paulkrugman.substack.com/p/cruel-and-...

submitted 2 hours ago • 24 comments

You don't have to "craft" anything, you let trans people use the bathroom they want and you ban creep behavior. That's already the policy in most public bathrooms in the US and has been for decades. Cis men pretending to be trans so they can assault women in bathrooms is vanishingly rare.

submitted 2 hours ago • 77 comments

People are wondering what to do with Democrats who won't fight. Nick Tagliaferro has compiled a list of Democrats most vulnerable to primary challenge. prospect.org/politics/202...

submitted 6 hours ago • 14 comments

The formalization of pedocon theory is that sexual violence is baked into conservative understanding of hierarchies and sexual violence from outside it is seen as actually bad. Hence trans panic but no Southern Baptist preacher panic, or all those “I’ll kill my daughter’s boyfriend” jokes.

submitted 7 hours ago • 24 comments

said this before and i wasn't exaggerating: RFK has the exact personality type of the kind of person that, in a different sort of regime, oversees mass starvation.

submitted 18 hours ago • 419 comments

The current FBI director appeared as a guest on this show eight times

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submitted 11 hours ago • 1 comment

I told you federal jobs are a shorthand for minority employment for the Right.

submitted 2 days ago • 34 comments

Every single Democratic governor and attorney general needs to do this -- if only to make it clear to voters right now that the firings and funding freezes that are about to hurt their states badly are the work of Trump-Musk in Washington. Get ahead of this now, or get blamed for it later.

submitted 20 hours ago • 162 comments

Very cool that all the cancel culture people will just ignore this.

submitted 19 hours ago • 13 comments

50% of babies are born on Medicaid. Medicaid covered both my births while I was working class and then later when I was a student. 50% They do it so babies get proper prenatal treatment bc NOT getting it cost society way more.

submitted 19 hours ago • 36 comments

the current head of the FBI has 8 separate appearances on this show

submitted 20 hours ago • 183 comments

Musk has said that he doesn’t think buying Twitter was a waste of money because he didn’t want a monetary return on his investment, but a political one: he bought Twitter to control U.S. political discourse. The think we should understand Bezos’ money-losing propositions at the Post the same way.

submitted 22 hours ago • 49 comments

This is money already owed. For work already done. They’re asking SCOTUS to let Trump run the government the way he runs his businesses.

submitted 20 hours ago • 50 comments

I mean it in all seriousness when I say if the Democratic Party is to have a future, it is beyond essential that the Hochuls Schumers Carvilles and Pelosis are removed from it and have no say or sway over any of it's processes or decisions and this happening asap is a matter of national interest.

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

I come from the world of travel and food writing, where specificity of detail is PARAMOUNT ("the sandwich was bad" will get flagged every time with "In what ways??!") It's endlessly frustrating to see political pundits, who make much more $ and have huge platforms, not be held to the same standard.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

The thing about American reactionaries online is that they’re like “under a true Christian monarch, the West will flourish with the enlightened guidance of a philosopher king…” and it’s meant to justify supporting a senile gameshow host and a drug-addled manchild who cheats at Diablo.

submitted 21 hours ago • 33 comments

at no point in this piece does barro actually identify specific democratic politicians who are guilty of the sins he has accused them of.

submitted 21 hours ago • 160 comments

Cuomo isn't even a loyal partisan, he literally conspired with Republicans to hand them control of the NY state Senate for half a decade. maddening

submitted 1 day ago • 90 comments

This man is barely even a formal government employee, let alone elected or Senate-confirmed. A total failure of the Constitutional order, just broadcast & normalized by every major media outlet.

submitted 1 day ago • 173 comments

And that’s why it’s illegal to turn them off the way they did.

submitted 22 hours ago • 13 comments

Bezos is not acting out of fear. He is participating in a political project that benefits him. This distinction is important.

submitted 23 hours ago • 74 comments

Our government is being run by random right-wing and far-right influencers on Twitter, many of whom are anonymous, many of whom are not who they say they are

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Bezos destroying the post opinion pages is just another reminder: Conservatives think free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want.

submitted 1 day ago • 156 comments

Thread: pollsters are asking inaccurate and at times deeply derogatory questions about Trump’s anti-trans policies. This is producing results that create an appearance that a majority of Americans like what Trump is doing. Here we go…

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

In the last election, one candidate was proposing coercive restrictions on personal liberty and replacing free trade and free markets with heavy tariffs and authoritarian favoritism. The other was Kamala Harris. Bezos personally killed an endorsement of Harris and celebrated at Trump’s inauguration.

submitted 1 day ago • 175 comments

"The collapse of society will be a good thing, because the weak will die and strong people like me will survive and prosper" says man who experienced a complete breakdown from which he never recovered because he couldn't go to Home Depot and BW3 for a couple weeks in 2020.

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

My read of the trans visa rules are that this policy doesn’t ban entry for trans people officially. But it does provide cover for refusing entry to any trans person with an updated gender marker on documents. And it forces people to undergo humiliating surveillance in any case.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I think what this shows is that most people aren't actually anti-vax, they're just extremely obstinate about being asked to do anything even slightly inconvenient when they don't see an immediate benefit for themselves

submitted 1 day ago • 123 comments

Just as an FYI, hospitals NEED Medicare and Medicaid dollars to function. Smaller/ rural/ critical access hospitals will not survive without them. So even if you don't rely on Medicare, you still might lose your local hospital or find yourself stranded without care while traveling.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Yes, please, people. Direct your anger at the Republicans who went to their town halls and heard their constituents, some literally screaming at them, to not do this to them and when push came to shove they did this anyway.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Klobuchar voted to confirm Driscoll, Rollins, Collins, Burgurm, Duffy, Ratcliffe and Rubio, and voted for the Laken Riley Act.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

ok folks, let's all be on the same page: what's coming up is called The Trump Recession

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

The way we're already pricing in authoritarianism is very, very bad. Trump is using his power as president to openly retaliate against a law firm for representing Jack Smith and it's barely news. The signal this sends is chilling to anyone who would oppose him. What else will he do to his opponents?

submitted 1 day ago • 41 comments

It's telling that the GOP doesn't even bother with trying to sell their absurd tax cuts as economically defensible with dopey trickle down rhetoric or the like anymore, they're just kind of okay with admitting they work for the billionaires now, full stop.

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Towards fucking what. What is the goddamn purpose of this. What is even the objective

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Fuck, he's got us on the anti-Italian discrimination.

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