What if I told you government could do things to meaningfully improve your life?

“Data-driven” and the data is a simpleminded graph assembled by someone who doesn’t understand data any better than they understand education.

it’s so funny that the drunk tv host in charge of the military is like “real warriors don’t need vaccines” when all the greatest generals in history would have done anything for a jab that kept their armies safe from disease

The top-two primary needs to be abolished. Every election cycle it leads to races where one party risks getting shut out of a general election it would likely win.

It forces parties to pick favorites in primaries just to avoid shutouts. It fails to do what its proponents intended—often the opposite

I realize that answer isn’t in the spirit of the thread but I’m genuinely now wondering what would be considered my cuisine.

Not sure I have a cuisine. Neither of my parents had any real allegiance to what they grew up with, and I grew up in a different region than either of them did. I could say like boiled dinner since I grew up in New England but I’ve never actually had that.

Boy, he really picked his moment for minimum impact and maximum derision. The theory that he has a humiliation kink only getting stronger.

Sent.

The New Deal brought power to the American South, gave my grandfather a job with the CCC (which is how he met my grandmother), and established the TVA where my mom worked until she retired, but please, do tell me how terrible FDR was.

3 stacked images with text overlayed that detail an exchange between OMB Director Vought and Rep Jayapal. The top image of Vought reads, "It's important to not have fraudulent programs." The bottom two images are of Rep. Jayapal and read, "Oh, I'm so glad you asked about fraud... how many consecutive audits has the Department of Defense failed as of the end of 2025? The number is 8. The DOD is the ONLY federal agency that has never passed an audit. And you want to talk to me about fraud?"

You want to talk about fraud? Look at the Department of Defense first.

[puts on glasses] well if he wants me to review them again

Every time we talk about how there's secret Republican votes if we fix rural healthcare - I have to remind you from practical experience, no, no there isn't. We should expand Medicaid everywhere cause it's the right thing to do, but don't expect rural conservatives to credit you. They won't.

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

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“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”

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Second, sometimes it’s easier to start if you have a minor distraction. Something that dials down the pressure on every word you are trying to write but doesn’t prevent your writing brain from taking over if it’s ready. Like a movie you’ve watched eight times.

First, be kind to yourself about the time it takes you to start. Writing is easier when the ideas have had time to sort themselves out in the background of your brain. 1/

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A second entry for #CountryRockSunday, which is "Country Rock" in the sense that it's "Norteño Power-Pop," and these guys should've been massive: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tzus...

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Are there any politicians with a better record of adorable kid photos and videos than these two? Put it together and…oof.

This is … not how pocket squares work?

What this underscores IMO is that this is someone who doesn't believe that his opponents are fascists and that fascism is the threat. Because if you did, then this is not how you come out swinging. You punch the fascists repeatedly, not some staffer at a nonprofit.

Tonight we are in Las Vegas & a group of girls in matching pajamas ran up to me & my kid, very excited, because they had a scavenger hunt that included getting a picture of themselves with someone in red shoes & my kid wears red shoes. Kind of made my night to have (accidentally) helped with that.

TBH I feel like people on the left often look for any alternative to referring to police/prisons/etc as constituting justice.

I'm pretty tuned into Democratic politics and I have never in my life heard anyone ever use the phrase "justice involved population."

But thank you for now vouching for the existence of that phrase and letting Fox News do a thousand pieces about it.

MLK had a 63% *unfavorable* rating with Americans in a 1966 Gallup poll.

Nelson Mandela was legally considered a terrorist by the U.S. government until 2008 (!!).

People saying this shit almost certainly would have hated both and found a way to delegitimize their causes at the time!

Palestinian Mandela is treated much like the South African one—>

One of the big conservative grievances against Biden was that his administration jawboned Facebook and others into removing COVID-skeptical and election misinfo content, but SCOTUS tossed that case because there was no proof the admin caused censorship.

Here, Bondi and Noem gleefully admitted it.

Justice Roberts believes the Supreme Court should just call balls and strikes!
But also, when he feels like it: supervise groundskeeping, design stadiums, re-write the rulebook, and decide whether it's too expensive too keep the playing field from being destroyed by global warming.

Just useless kvetching.

Been like 45 minutes since we finally got to the gate and not one bag from our flight has come out.