BENNET: Do you agree that 89% of children who died from flu were unvaccinated?
RFK Jr: I don't know the exact number
BENNET: That is the exact number, Secretary Kennedy
RFK Jr: *death growls*
BENNET: You took down the HHS communications promoting the flu vaccine. Do you regret that?
From Bibi? Yeah, sure.
80 years ago, people who were further to the right of Dwight Eisenhower figured out that a political party is a vehicle, not an lifelong identity.
People who think the Democrats should move left still have not come to this realization. Not voting is the easiest way to have no influence on a party.
Patel should get the boot for this alone, but Trump probably likes it www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...
And Purity of Essence no doubt.
Because I'm still on this. Imagine you have Country A frothing at the mouth for a war, and Country B saying "no, we don't want violence, we don't like killing." And then Country A invades, so Country B of course defends itself. And then the NYT calls that a "head-spinning reversal." Come on, guys.
People, Sen. Kennedy isn't really bitching about paywalls (I don't think). That's his way of saying "I don't wanna know about Kash Patel and please don't ask me"
My Dad was a National Guard medic called to active duty during the Korean war. He spent much of his time immunizing draftees and troops being sent in-theater. Just ignorant madness from this creep.
SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...
just one party behaving irresponsibly is bad for the whole system in the long run, and creates no path for things to return to functionality. You can’t make a party feel more reverent toward institutions and norms; you can raise the costs of irreverence. In the long run, that’s the most effective tool available.
Last year I wrote that Democrats being as reckless as Republicans on redistricting — rather than just calling out gerrymandering as un-American — would produce the best long-term outcomes smotus.substack.com/p/the-case-f...
And I bet Fred threw it at Donny as well, which is why it's engrained to his core.
i think it is cool that the president of the united states routinely slurs black people as biological inferior
I was struck by how many words Patel used, none of which actually denied the question.
The right gambled, tried to rig the election, lost, and now it’s excuses and tears.
Thanks for everything, Virginia. 🙏🏽
I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals
I've had them in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Taipei. Shanghai's were my favorite.
Back to duck, I was once offered a glass of what I assumed was something like Midori in a duck restaurant under People's Stadium in Beijing. I drank it, and our two-table private room went silent. Duck bile.
It's going to be interesting to see how many seats my home state of Pennsylvania loses in the 2030 redistricting, because the big cities have pretty much bottomed out while the real drains are in the rural middle, aside from some liberal college towns. If present trends continue, PA Cong goes blue.
Same in Pittsburgh. And we had 'Little' Warshington, PA just down the road, too. My mother, who loved the English language, would have none of it.
Don’t underestimate the backlash to Trump publicly ordering up a mid-decade redraw in Texas because Republicans are “entitled to five more seats.” And then getting it. That moment killed the (then still robust) Democratic resistance to maximal warfare with their own gerrymanders.
"America has made great strides since 1960 and certainly since 1964. Racism does not manifest as it once did. Now is in fact preferable to then. But to pretend that now is unaffected by then, to act as though where we are is independent of the path we took to get here, is naive."
The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.
A dog stands on a table, posing next a basted peak lapel sport coat. The jacket is being displayed on a dress form.
A dog sitting on the floor, posting next to a basted blue tweed sport coat with notch lapels. The jacket is being displayed on a dress form.
A dog sitting on the floor, posing in front of a wall where three tailored jackets are hanging.
A dog poses on a table. He's surrounded by a tailor's measuring tape.
Every time this tailor posts a photo of their workspace, it looks like their dog is a tailor and he's showing off the garments he made.
IG z.o.e.y.a.t.e.s
They think you're stupid.
Although coming here from the Pennsylvania branch of this awfulness.
Oh Lord, yes.
Philadelphia Pepper Pot is a similar, Colonial-era concoction while you can still find around there.
Ah, the Philadelphia breakfast. My dad, who worked in the meat industry liked to say that scrapple was what you made with the leftovers after you made sausage. The grey, substance-less kind is truly vile.
Not my cuisine but while I don't mind the tongues, duck web is the one part of the duck I'll never try again.
Have to say I feel the same way about "my" Pennsylvania German, AKA 'Dutch' cuisine. Lots of pickle and vinegar sits fine with me. Same with my Scots-Irish half - hell, I even like haggis - and there's strong evidence those guys gave us fried chicken to boot.
