Here’s the ad that The Washington Post canceled at the last minute. Bezos is a billionaire coward. Please share.

Trump and Hegseth told a despicable, hateful lie about DEI causing the horrific crash. We don't know yet what caused it. But I'd bet more on FAA funding shortfalls driven by Republicans funding tax breaks for the wealthy instead of infrastructure for the rest of us.

Opinion | Trump’s Reckless Greenland Comments Are Not a Joke China and Russia are listening.

“Trump’s remarks are reckless stupidity beyond belief. Imagine what happens when his choice for ambassador to Beijing, David Perdue, takes up his post and, in response to some aggressive act by China toward Taiwan, goes to the Chinese Foreign Ministry to lodge a protest. What will the ministry say?”

One of the most common rumors held that the biggest threat came from Baltimore, where [6,000] men were reputed to be armed and prepared to act. As the date of the count neared, [100] police officers from New York and Philadelphia converged on Washington to further ensure its successful completion.”

“General Scott’s troops and cannon were visible throughout the city [Washington], a potent symbol of the Army’s resolve to ensure that the electoral count and certification of Lincoln’s election, set for February 13 [1861], would occur without disruption.

The idea of disrupting the electoral count is old. From Erik Larson’s book The Demon of Unrest, p. 212:

The Mump Regime Musk, Trump, and Illness

Great name for what’s coming in January: The Mump Regime.

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Health Insurance is a Racket What value do these companies add, really?

Most medical care is paid for by the government, but the funds are filtered through insurance companies, which skim a lot off the top.

Drugmakers Paid PBMs Not to Restrict Opioid Prescriptions (Gift Article) Drugmakers including Purdue Pharma paid pharmacy benefit managers not to restrict painkiller prescriptions, a New York Times investigation found.

Our for-profit healthcare system is full of well-hidden payments and conflicts of interest among the gatekeepers to our health care. Bribing pharmacy benefit management companies (themselves monopolies owned by insurers) to let patients become addicted is just one example.

The Texas Ob-Gyn Exodus Amid increasingly stringent abortion laws, doctors who provide maternal care have been fleeing the state.

Stringent abortion laws are causing doctors to vote with their feet because they can no longer provide care that their patients need.

Wild Accusations It’s as reckless as it is false.

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Republicans Ponder: What if the Trump Tax Cuts Cost Nothing? Some in the party are considering alternative ways of assessing the federal budget as they prepare to extend temporary tax cuts passed in 2017.

“We’re going to have to take the bold steps of saying to the American people that we are not going to let $4 trillion of tax hikes happen and that it’s not going to increase the deficit.”

In other words, we’re going to have to lie.