RFK Jr. told the House E&C Committee today that the way to bring down healthcare costs is to "clean up the risk pool" — remove the people who cost too much. He said the $4.3 trillion we spend on chronic disease is the emergency. He said most of Minnesota's autism services funding was stolen. 🧵
This is also the implicit argument made for the electoral college.
sometimes we get a lil high and go on the iinternet
I got invested via Body Bizarre in this young guy from Staten Island with epidermylosis bullosa. Followed his mom in IG to keep track of him. Just found out he died yesterday. I’m pretty upset. They call it “the worst disease you’ve never heard of.” He was “old” to die of the disease at 26. Dammit.
I will never forget the experience of seeing LEAVING NEVERLAND at its Sundance premiere. For @avclub.com I wrote about a devastating, definitive documentary about surviving sexual abuse that cannot be erased.
Republicans know they are about to lose the House and are trying to give Big Oil its holy grail: legal immunity from any futures actions that would hold the industry responsible for the climate crisis it knowingly caused and is making worse every day.
climateintegrity.org/news/view/br...
I have been with my husband while he’s had catheter screwups, it’s traumatic for *me* to remember and I wasn’t the one getting it. You have my most heartfelt sympathies.
The WHCD literally shouldn’t exist. The fourth estate holding a party for the public officials they’ve been tasked with holding accountable on behalf of the public? Fucking corrupt as hell.
it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit
A photorealistic mask of Clara Peller, the woman who shouted "Where's the Beef?" in old Wendy's commercials. The mask features her wavy grey hair and a string of pearls. The eyes are cut out, giving an incredibly unsettling appearance
Just so everyone is aware, as a promotion in 1984, Wendy's produced terrifying, photorealistic carboard masks of Clara Peller, aka the "Where's the Beef?" lady
Chuck Schumer has one hell of a nerve texting me
I think a lot about how violence against women skyrockets after big sports games but we just keep having those games anyway.
A-fucking-men.
Say what you will about the worst members of the Roberts Court, but they all make sure their wives are in on the grift.
Jane Roberts, Martha Alito and Ginni Thomas are equal partners with their husbands in the grand project of destroying the United States and enriching themselves in the process.
Flickr is having a special week for Polaroid photos and they are calling it... 'RoidWeek. 😳
how is this literally happening in real life
This is not an achievement when you consider, like, vehicles and things
This is a terrible take made by dudes who think it makes them sound cool to say it.
“Whether you’re considering an electric vehicle because of gas prices or climate change, there has probably never been a better time to buy a used EV.”
arstechnica.com/cars/2026/04...
Every mother in Minneapolis is braver than you.
preview of a sticker of a cat in cyan blue colors with blue flowers. the caption reads "generative ai is shit"
✨generative ai is shit✨
get the sticker here: mcapriglione.art
I learned the word 'estranged' when I was 9 years old. My aunt was dead, murdered by the man she was trying to divorce.
I was up past bedtime reading the newspaper at a neighbor’s kitchen table. I asked for a dictionary; I needed to understand why the media had labeled my aunt: ‘estranged wife.’
Netflix is going up to 20 dollars a month and I think I’m gonna bring myself to cancel. Watching some stuff first. Finally saw “Joy Ride” and it was frickin hilarious. Next up the new FLDS documentary (hey, I gotta be me).
Steve Schirripa with a sub sandwich and Weiner dog
Important Italian-American update
mRNA technology may be THE most underrated and unfairly scrutinized (fuck you COVID antivax crew) medical breakthrough in my lifetime.
Like... The things this is already showing it can do in the last 5-7 years is incredible.
Democrats planning to run in November’s midterm elections have been advised not to antagonise pro-AI campaign groups that have amassed more than $300mn to fight for the industry’s priorities. The warnings by top party consultants, corroborated by people close to four different campaigns and party strategists speaking on the condition of anonymity, come despite internal polling for Democrats showing widespread public support for tougher AI rules.
They're calling it the best democracy ever.
www.ft.com/content/7529...
There's this now-entrenched conservative belief that lies are just as good as truth, should be treated with the same respect, and that liars must not face consequences. Climate, vaccines, etc. They say you're 'discriminating' against them if you call out the falsehoods.
900lb crates full of onions in a field
The Coachella music festival is in the news with the minimum price of sold out 3-day ticket costing $549. Contrast that with "Nicolas" who is currently harvesting onions in the Coachella area and getting paid $22 for a $900lb crate. #WeFeedYou #coachella2026
In a major state antitrust investigation, California's Attorney General has unsealed hundreds of records revealing that Amazon illegally pressures its marketplace sellers to engage in price-fixing.
While Trump's DOJ lets corporate lawbreakers off the hook, states are still holding them accountable.
I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"
