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Saturday afternoon: Liver specialist who's treating my father-in-law reviews lab results and tells family to get him to ER at Georgetown hospital immediately. Saturday 3pm: check at Georgetown ER. See a tech within the first hour to take blood and record vitals. Sent back to ER waiting room.

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

👇🏻👇🏻

submitted 61 days ago • 763 comments

The greatest business battle EVER to be fought will come when President Elon starts trying to implement AI for federal processes. The battle will be fought over which company’s AI will be used by the feds. This is a zero sum battle that will create more chaos than this country has ever seen

submitted 60 days ago • 2523 comments

here's today's post: "doddering old fool gets pantsed by Canada and Mexico" — and Democrats finally wake the fuck up. thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —

submitted 72 days ago • 121 comments

A couple of (actually serious) thought-experiment questions on where we are and where we’re going: If a bunch of sociopaths are destroying the federal government from within, why should we pay federal taxes? And if they succeed, who’s going to make us pay those taxes?

submitted 72 days ago • 1813 comments

This is Acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll. Last Friday he refused Justice Department order to identify & assist in firing all agents involved in Jan. 6 riot cases, He is said to have pushed back forcefully. Thank you Brian Driscoll!🇺🇸

submitted 72 days ago • 1391 comments

really weird how everything Kamala warned us would happen is happening

submitted 72 days ago • 358 comments

Senator Chuck Schumer sums it up

submitted 72 days ago • 806 comments

The DOGE kids showing up at Treasury:

submitted 72 days ago • 725 comments

If it feels like Donald Trump and Elon Musk are trying to destroy our country from within, that’s because it is exactly what they are fucking doing.

submitted 72 days ago • 489 comments

Some good news for a change…👇 Pay ATTENTION, now!

submitted 72 days ago • 437 comments

not gonna lie—were I potus I would def threaten Canada with ginormous tariffs if it would make them take Ted Cruz back

submitted 72 days ago • 1106 comments

My instinct is to make the case that USAID is extremely good, actually. But I feel like it’s more important to say, “What is happening is antagonistic to the foundational document of the nation.”

submitted 72 days ago • 467 comments

So naturally, you know what to do…👇 Enjoy. 😎✨

submitted 72 days ago • 813 comments

Just saying.

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Congrats to Meidas Touch for beating Fox in audience ratings. Talk about a light in the darkness!

submitted 72 days ago • 281 comments

I’m old enough to remember when we had 3 branches of government. Forget checks and balances. I guess we are a Muskocracy now.

submitted 73 days ago • 1333 comments

This is a great idea. Do you know anyone in Congress you can talk to?

submitted 72 days ago • 2774 comments

Any other person would be arrested…

submitted 72 days ago • 1165 comments

I think we are all searching in vain for evidence that Donald Trump or Elon Musk are serving America rather than other interests. Their anger at USAID sounds like ventriloquism from Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping. It makes no sense whatsoever to anyone who actually loves this country and its values.

submitted 73 days ago • 262 comments

no funding if it seems like the research MIGHT involve a woman or a nonwhite person

submitted 72 days ago • 612 comments

In 2016 the NYT ran multiple front page stories page about the grave national security risk of Hillary Clinton's server. Today's front page, and nary a mention of the successful "plutocratic coup" (said by a sitting House member) or "constitutional crisis (said by a sitting Senator) unfolding

submitted 72 days ago • 1526 comments

Congratulations to Trump on securing a $1.3 billion border security deal from Canada.... which was already negotiated in December 2024.

submitted 73 days ago • 682 comments

LA Fire TikTok comments are BLEAK. Every conspiracy theory I’ve ever heard plus a bunch that are brand new.

submitted 98 days ago • 661 comments

TikTok (and Donald Trump) deserve to lose. The Supreme Court should give Trump a civics lesson. He does not have the authority to set aside the law. It should also draw a bright line between American speech, which is protected, and Chinese control of an American media outlet, which is not.

submitted 98 days ago • 7 comments

Russian bots launched a “pro-Kremlin disinformation campaign” on social media to support an anti-NATO Croatian presidential candidate, a group of researchers said.

submitted 98 days ago • 9 comments

when RAND corporation released their report on neo-medievalism I don't think they were expecting it to be this medieval

submitted 99 days ago • 785 comments

Shortly after Citizens United, Jimmy Carter issued a stark warning about the role of Big Money in politics. May we remember the truths that he told us — and act to remedy them. bit.ly/4j6N1cC

submitted 98 days ago • 324 comments

You will read countless times today that the LA mayor cut the LA Fire Department's budget by $23 million. That is a lie. The budget was actually increased by $50 million.

submitted 98 days ago • 898 comments

Some primetime blatant misogyny from Fox’s Jesse Watters. (Fox is poison, exhibit infinity)

submitted 98 days ago • 166 comments

New York's highest appeals court declines to block Trump's sentencing in hush money case www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

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They are taking back campaign promises faster than they made them.

submitted 98 days ago • 2622 comments

most of the "I need a private fire brigade and no property taxes" guys will also probably be furious to see new homeless people in their city and will definitely not interrogate the connection between those two things at all

submitted 99 days ago • 45 comments

He’s a complete crackpot.

submitted 99 days ago • 727 comments

Alito spoke with Trump on Tuesday, not long before Trump’s lawyers asked the Supreme Court to delay his sentencing following his conviction in a New York fraud case. "Alito said the call was a routine job reference for a former law clerk." He doesn't care. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/08/u...

submitted 98 days ago • 44 comments

14 million Americans owe over $1,000 in medical debt. 3 million Americans owe more than $10,000. Good luck convincing Canadians to give up their free healthcare.

submitted 99 days ago • 78 comments

The insanity of being a fire ecologist in the epicenter of a major fire event, bags packed and ready to evacuate, watching active fire from my window, while taking media requests and explaining to the public, for the 100,000th time how climate change is largely responsible for this

submitted 99 days ago • 613 comments

😧

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It’s why I’m mostly here now, in The Good Place.

submitted 98 days ago • 817 comments

Let's do it.

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Trump's vile rants about the LA wildfires remind us that the MAGA project is all about degrading public life and denying our common humanity at every opportunity. On the pod, historian Nicole Hemmer is brilliant in tracing the deeper roots of this on the right: newrepublic.com/article/1900...

submitted 98 days ago • 43 comments

ICYMI... Nothing about this is okay!

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