Roll initiative

I assume in Latin.

Yes but it’s seekrit

Tired: When they go low, we go high
Wired: when they send one of yours to the hospital, you send one of theirs to the morgue

That *is* legit exciting tho!

It’s like when you finally buy a new table saw etc

Iran going after Bsky is a genuinely funny waste of resources.

a bag of from Dick’s Drive-In that contains two cheeseburgers and fries

Eat a bag of Dick's?

Don't mind if I do!

One of trump’s several verbal tics that is fingernails-on-a-chalkboard to me is the completely nonsensical faux legalese he puts into his tweets. It’s freaking gibberish.

Not good, but less bad than all the other apparent alternatives

And didn’t pay attention. Why is he trying to thrust with what is clearly a slashing weapon? (Saber, cutlass, scimitar, couldn’t quite tell)

Is there a transcript? WiFi/cell signal is 💩 on the train

“My growing view,” wrote now-vice president JD Vance in 2020, “is that too many American Catholics have failed to show proper deference to the papacy, treating the pope as a political figure to be criticized or praised according to their whims.”

Huh. What is the preferred mode of address analogous to sir/ma’am for nonbinary people? Serious question. 🙏

Share an 80s movie you will always love

The Columbia River, seen from mid span of a bridge. It is gray and foggy and a suspension bridge is faintly visible in the distance

Crossin the mighty Columbia on the Amtrak

Lolol

So anyway, it’s nice that RFK Jr is just coming right out and saying what has ALWAYS been the case: the republican health plan is to clean up the risk pools by just allowing the sick people to die.

I argued a LOT with right wing health policy bloggers back in the day about this obvious, inevitable effect of their policy and they just refused to believe/admit it, insisting there was some “underpants gnomes” step I was missing.

The excluded folks had to join the high risk pools, which of course were without any external funding source and would immediately entered a death spiral to the point that they’d be completely unaffordable. The sickest consumers would have to go uninsured and basically die.

IIRC their chief ideas were
(a) “selling insurance across state lines” and,
2. “high risk pools.”

(a) would result in all health policies being domiciled in whichever state allowed them the least regulation, not covering much, and excluding a lot of people with preexisting conditions

Tbh the more I think about this the more it makes sense as an explicit statement as to the republican healthcare approach. I think back to 2008 when Obama was running on some sort of health care reform and the republicans were trying to offer an alternative.

Lmk if you find his full remarks or at least in context. Since it’s RFK I’m sure it’s bad, just curious how bad.

They pre-concede on immigration that there needs to be more enforcement at the border rather than make a case for expanding legal immigration

That’s why through the 90s and 00s Dems would only allow the faintest support for abortion rights (remember “safe, legal, and rare”?)—an argument that pre-conceded that abortion was inherently yucky and bad.

Reagan demonized “liberals” and then thumped them electorally at the same time a major realignment was taking place and since then democrats have been in this defensive crouch, convinced that their policies are unpopular and if they fight for them, they lose.

There’s a saying that a liberal is someone who won’t take their own side in an argument, and there is a grain of truth there, and has been since the ‘80s bc of course it goes back to Reagan

Gaza was the same. The fact that she clearly wanted to distance herself from Biden’s handling of the Israeli genocide but didn’t showed that she was someone who couldn’t be trusted to fight for what she believed in.

I fully believe that Harris lost votes on the trans issue, not because of the attacks on her and the $ spent on the ads, but on her refusal/inability to defend her clearly held beliefs that trans people deserve civil rights.

A clear sign of weakness that voters picked up on.

This is so important. Less engaged dem/centrist voters want fighters. They want leaders who stand up for their values. They don’t want compromisers or republican-lite politicians

That’s because the American positions are absurd. When you lose a war, you’re expected to make some concessions