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Very cool that our government will spin up tribunals to prove for the 10th time that one of the most widely used medication forms (vaccines) are in fact effective and safe. Meanwhile, absolute snake oil (supplements) is ignored by the FDA by law. And soon more by enforcement discretion.

It feels like we are now experiencing the cyber version of driverless car companies using American cities as sites for open beta. Something’s going to smash into a fire truck here, run over a pedestrian there… but it’s fine, models will improve. When do we get checks for providing this test service?

I’ve said this on a couple of previous occasions. You don’t have to pretend to like people upon their demise. If they caused great damage in life, it’s okay to breathe a sigh of relief that their mortality stopped the damage. Maybe even celebrate the energies liberated for actual world improvement.

With Slaughter and Cook together, SCOTUS has declared it is fine with massive natural disaster death tolls, disease outbreaks, cancer corridors, usurious banks, defective and deadly products … the one thing that needs protected expertise is financial markets. Time for some packing.

The conservative ideal remains, to wit, to assert there are those who law protects but does not bind, and those who law binds but does not protect. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

A fantastic example of the kind of research behind antivax and other wild medical claims. And hopefully absurd enough in the conclusion to show folks how the mess is made. arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

The argument against modern Republicanism isn’t just that they are here to empty your wallet for the rich (and they are). But also they are dedicated to burying our country in the past as a White Christian nationalist petrostate when all of those things can’t compete in current times.

Anyone old enough to remember when TSA was recognized as security theater that sprung from an irrational fear of American Muslims? And now somehow there’s a need to back them up from another security group that started from Muslim fear but now has a mission based on hate for all immigrants.

Very random thought but Elon Musk circa 2010 was all but the template for Robert Downey Jr’s Tony Stark. Circa 2026, Downey is Dr. Doom. Related? Just asking questions.

The Democratic Party mission should be pretty simple to articulate: to make America a true multiracial democracy and to make all our institutions places where people are built up rather than shaken down. There’s a lot of space in that tent for exactly how to do it or describe the mission.

After all this time, I don’t know why it’s so hard to have the Democratic Party take on a generational project: complete America’s transition to a multiracial democracy and make the nation’s massive economic resources work to help everyone flourish. The job is there if we want it.

It is beyond time for @schumer.senate.gov to lead, follow, or get the fuck out of the way of someone in the caucus who actually wants to do something about this out of control agency.

Where is the torrent of reporting on the mental health impacts and learning delays that will affect children kept home from school in fear of ICE? Our press had plenty of time to accuse public health people in a once in a lifetime pandemic. How about for this white supremacy in plain sight?

What amazes me about the Powell affair is how it shines a light on the one small part of government the wealthy haven’t insulated themselves from. We can have rampant disease, marauding police, toxic wastelands, and undetected storms. But the plutocrats still need public currency to function.

Looking at stories like this, it’s amazing how many “good ones” American communities have woken up to find in their midst as targets of the monsters behind ICE and CBP.

Forget the Civil War - the standard history curriculum should really focus on Reconstruction and Redemption and how the South really should have been put under a military rule for a full generation.

Today is a reminder that Dick Cheney, Rumsfeld, and probably also W should have been referred to the ICC for trial.

I’m not sure why there’s always so much fear generated around marijuana. Because it’s clear cocaine and ketamine cause so much more damage when abused by people put in charge.

Since there’s some symmetry here with the death of a liberal celebrity against one Charlie Kirk, I’ll say: go ahead and speak of the dead as you would when they were alive. Praise your heroes, curse your demons. Whom you choose as which says more about your values than some bland decorum.

Today I am thankful that there are a lot of people in this country that still want a well-functioning, vibrant, and inclusive democracy. I hope our time and treasure dedicated to the cause bears fruit in a resurgence.

SCOTUS basically acting as the anonymous goon in movies that keeps a gun trained on the kid to be sure the hero hands the McGuffin to the big bad.

One thing the centrist Dems could do in their votes for the CR is skip the “pee on our legs and pretend it’s raining” phase. It’s a loss; act like it. Leave the field quietly and at most describe how you plan to train to not lose again.

Now that there has been a strong electoral signal, perhaps it is time for the political press to ask why the US House of Representatives has been dissolved via Speaker fiat in order to protect the guilty named in the Epstein files.

Almost every NYT columnist hitting “publish” on their 500 words on how Mamdani needs to not over-interpret his mandate.

Not to get all focus group driven, but it does seem there is a good narrative to be had in Trump promising to lower prices and instead spike them, then show absolutely no interest when Dems put up a direct fix because now has a ballroom and citizen abuse content to make for fun.