Truer words have never been written.
Posts by Rafael Ramos
BREAKING: The Trump administration seeks an emergency pause to a court order demanding full November SNAP payments.
NYC Exit Polls data showing how women voted.
Half of the city’s women voted against Zohran. His first act as mayor-elect? A transition team made up entirely of women.
Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?
Never, even in my wildest dreams, did I imagine I'd see Jon Hamm playing El Profesor Jirafales deadline.com/gallery/snl-...
It’s incredible how companies are threatening employees to use AI or else but then have no idea how or what employees are supposed to do with it.
Suburban man retreats to safe space.
One of the most important and powerful things any kid can do to make a better world is if they see someone being pushed around, stand up for them.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Good morning! I'm in Uganda to visit family and friends.
But depending on your perspective, don't worry or I'm sorry: I'll be back by the end of the month.
See you soon, NYC.
Cuomo: I am now running on affordability.
Also Cuomo: there is no “real answer” on affordability.
“If there is one thing Mamdani has demonstrated over the course of this campaign so far it’s he’s pretty good at sticking to his principles and message discipline," says Chris Hayes.
I cannot emphasize enough how true & real this is.
In almost anywhere on the political spectrum you ID with or major issue, there’s probably a bot/troll operation to encourage your rage and vitriol.
And how/where that rage gets directed, esp understandable rage, is what they are out to influence.
One thing I’d say about ranked choice voting in NYC is that you don’t have to do complex calculations of viability. You should rank in order of *who you want to be mayor* and if you *don’t* want someone to be mayor, you shouldn’t rank them!
Republicans snuck an amendment into this bill to ban Affordable Care Act insurance plans from covering abortion care.
This is part of their play for a national abortion ban, in the middle of the night, and ripping healthcare away from millions.
THIS WEEK: House Republicans are deciding how many families and senior citizens they’ll kick off Medicaid, SNAP, early education, and countless other programs that working families rely on — all to fund tax breaks for billionaires.
Call your representative NOW if you live in a GOP district.
I thought James Carville had all the answers!
This isn't hypothetical.
The coming days are bringing higher prices and disrupted supply chains, this time not because of a pandemic or a war, but self-inflicted by our country's government under this president.
Your kids get a max of two toys and then grow up to work in the same factory as their father and grandfather screwing in tiny screws. It’s called The American Dream.
When companies like Aetna or UnitedHealthcare want to rein in costs, they turn to EviCore, whose business model depends on turning down payments for care recommended by doctors for their patients.
(Published Oct. 2024)
Lots of people I know that were furious about kids having to wear masks are real quiet about a two year old citizen being wrongfully deported
I believe this is called healthy living.
Intuit donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration. He's now planning to end the free IRS Direct File program.
Apple donated $1M. Trump exempted most of Apple’s imports from tariffs.
Coinbase donated $1M. Trump’s SEC dropped a major lawsuit against them.
See how this works?
“Some books are prosciutto, and don’t you forget it.”
Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment.
By @tchristianmiller.bsky.social
Pouring out a little liquor today for the handful of women astronauts who survived years of onerous training, men, and men only to have the press make Katy Perry their equal.
Elon Musk is looking toward the camera. He is wearing a black shirt. A headline reads: "DOGE Is Far Short of Its Goal, and Still Overstating Its Progress." Photo by Eric Lee/The New York Times
Elon Musk now admits his Department of Government Efficiency will produce only 15% of the savings it promised. But even that estimate is inflated with errors and guesswork. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...