Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

The former DNC Vice Chair?

We’re at peak greed when the president brags about 24k gold décor for the White House while cutting commissaries, healthcare, and social nets. A palace of glitter for him, an empty pantry and hospital bill for you.

THE MEME IS REAL

From President Lyndon B. Johnson to the Smothers Brothers, who had a popular, bold, and very funny political satire TV show in the late '60s. I'm old enough to remember it.

They regularly skewered Johnson (Vietnam War era), and for all his faults, was elegant enough to respond thus.

“I think there’s a recognition that Netanyahu is making Israel and Israelis and Jews unsafe all over the world,” said Sen. Brian Schatz. “More and more of us are saying so and voting accordingly.”

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.

Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.

The list goes on and on.

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

Gun suicides in US reached record high in 2023 • Stateline More people in the United States died by gun suicide in 2023 than any year on record.

Via @amandavhernan.bsky.social and @stateline.org: Alabama saw 12.1 gun suicide deaths per 100,000 residents in 2023, well above the national rate of 7.6 per 100,000 and higher than every neighboring state except Tennessee.

Can’t really articulate how furious it makes me to see gentile politicians wield fake charges of antisemitism against Mamdani. It’s not just the plain Islamophobia, it’s the fact that they’re needlessly stoking tensions in a way that puts Jewish New Yorkers at GREATER risk.

Mike Lee Stresses He Would Have Posted Same Thing If Own Family Savagely Murdered WASHINGTON—After being confronted about social media posts that blamed the shootings of two Minnesota lawmakers on the far left, Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) stressed Tuesday that he would have said the same thing if his own family had been savagely murdered. “Democrats can say what they want about me, but I would have absolutely called […]

Mike Lee Stresses He Would Have Posted Same Thing If Own Family Savagely Murdered theonion.com/mike-le...

oh no the crypto guys sent him out there with the unvetted talking points

NEW: We're going to have more about this later after today's court hearing. But I just got more details about a part of the DC Metro Police/US Institute of Peace story that I at least knew nothing about yesterday. Based on new filings - which again are just filings at this point - those private

Seems noteworthy to me that they're admitting that they're sending in the military because of the state government's ideology!!!

TRUTH BOMB 💣 this guy is a Pedophile. I also made him President

Earth is likely to cross a key climate threshold in two years A new World Meteorological Organization report spells the end of the world’s most famous climate goal.

Earth will warm 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels in just two years, new data shows. Irreversible tipping points — like the melting of Arctic ice sheets or the collapse of coral reefs — are closer at hand than previously believed.

Worcester father of 4-month-old deported after ICE ‘violated his rights,’ attorney says A Worcester mother was arrested by ICE in a chaotic scene. Her daughter's partner, and father of her 4-month-old grandchild, has been deported, an attorney said.

BREAKING: First, ICE agents deported a man for honking at undercover documents. Then, they signed deportation authorization documents on his behalf. Insanity.
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First of all, MAGA Murder Budget is great. Second, asking people which messages would be most persuasive to them is worse than useless. Human beings are terrible at reporting why they believe things!

NYT headline: Amid Cease-Fire Talks, Israel Says It Has Expanded Ground Operations in Gaza This new stage of the war is aimed at pressuring Hamas into releasing hostages and ultimately destroying the group or forcing it to surrender.

Nineteen months in and they're still letting the IDF write their copy:

Rep. Jason Smith: "And then you can look at Medicaid cuts -- Medicaid reforms, I should say."

Oops.

political journalists obsess over the public’s lack of trust in our profession but strangely see that as downstream of things like “we didn’t talk enough about how biden was old” and not “many of us appear to be indifferent to a nihilistic attack on the constitution”

to put this another way: a sistah souljah moment could work for clinton because EVERYONE SAW IT. if kamala harris had set an effigy of kendi on fire, it is an open question whether it would have registered beyond anyone who was already decided on their vote

Chat is it good that the President is talking like a dad who got laid off before Christmas but is hiding it from his kids?

your child will toil valiantly in the factory. it will be masculine. it will restore our national character. it will make america great again. oh my child? my child will run a lucrative rightwing podcast

ICE Agents Wait At Edge Of Delivery Table To Deport Newborn

ICE Agents Wait At Edge Of Delivery Table To Deport Newborn

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

listening to some stevie and i kind of think that you could bring a good chunk of americans back from the abyss if you could just get them to listen to “As” and force them to hear him sing/growl “did you know that you're loved by somebody?!?”

these people hate DEI because they would be unemployable in any system where they couldn’t rely on favoritism and nepotism