"changes to SNAP are happening alongside cuts to Medicaid. It leads to what Allen calls a “terrible synergistic effect” of people’s food being taken away and people getting sick because of it while health care is stripped away."
Eligibility unchanged: its all policy change via administrative burdens
2025 Politico headline: Trump on Texas redistricting: ‘We are entitled to 5 more seats’
John Gramlich skeet quoting Trump in NYT today: Trump: “I don’t know if you know what gerrymandering is, but it’s not good.”
A sowing/reaping for the ages
one morning gregor samsa awoke and found himself metamorphosed into a hunky seismologist with a heart condition in an erotic visual novel for adult women
M*A*S*H Goodbye Farewell & Amen, Kung Fu (Incomplete, ATV-10, 31/10/83) : 2730s
oh hang on, 4 fronts - that someone in no 10 was angling for a head of mission, ie diplomat, job Matthew Doyle (head of comms sacked by PM, v much not a career diplomat, bonkers idea ) which suggests they saw diplomatic service as somewhere you could park people you sort of owed one.
I would look at the astonishingly long list of MPs and officials who suicide bombed their own careers to tank their party and put these swine back in the top jobs, and were rewarded for it with peerages and other non-jobs for life or e.g. ambassadorships, and start putting two and two together.
I do despair when I see people constantly saying that "no-one is reaching out to white working-class men". Rich white men control the world's most powerful algorithms. If they wanted to steer white working-class men towards all the fantastic advice on the internet they would. But they don't.
MISC/SHINEON.GIF
The Democrats fast tracked every single one of these nominees except Hegseth (and that is only because a single Democrat, Chris Murphy, held up the nomination).
Amazon saw lower prices at competitors and urged the brands to pressure those competitors to raise their prices, which they did. In writing. @robbonta.bsky.social has the receipts of this cartel behavior.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/t...
Yeah weird who knows where it might’ve gone, just one of those mysteries i guess newrepublic.com/article/2092...
Your regular reminder that cops don't actually justify their existence or enormous budgets by solving much crime.
Approximately 11% of all serious crimes result in an arrest, and about 2% end in a conviction.
And then there's this...
Fuck it we’ll do it dead
bring back shame
the greatest "Infowars Parody" was adult swim's TruthPoint, invented by @dril.bsky.social and myself
we've retained the IP, so the onion guys are allowed to help us revive that program. would love to work with them 😉
hoping for a future where Infowars becomes the new NEA bsky.app/profile/benc...
The TRUTH
Trump's "art of the deal" has always been about "negotiating for the right to save face after losing catastrophically on a dumb gamble, followed by furiously jumping into another investment so as to erase the memory of the last loss". That's his career. Nothing has changed.
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Oh so they're BROKE broke
SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2092...
Naming my security company after the giant evil eye that, crucially, was too distracted to see the actual threat sneaking in
Watching Palantir do Sephiroth posting about multiculturalism and I would like to remind everyone that they were doing corporate fake woke shit just like every other company.
It's laughable. No one is drinking with him here, no reason for the FBI director to be there, and this is just what's out in the open
In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
Bad draft is a lot easier to fix than a blank page
It’s also worth reading all 22 bullet points and asking yourself “would any of these be out of place in Mussolini’s Italy?”
I’m not saying Alex Karp is a fascist. I’m just saying he’s giving voice to a business-model-with-a-political-philosophy that just so happens to fit comfortably into fascism.
Portrait of Samuel Johnson, by Joshua Reynolds, 1775 (flipped)
this statement becomes hysterical when you remember zach branch measured in at the combine 5'8½", 177lbs
