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It's insane that the campaign against El-Sayed is basically that he has some secret relationship with the people that the president's family has a secret relationship with.

@theguardian.com should be absolutely ashamed of promoting this slop and this grifter. Their centrist turn is embarrassing and will only hasten their downward trend.

Federal agents search Ilhan Omar’s home as part of fraud investigation – reports

Somehow we never talk about the lack of empathy shown by people who deliberately reject participating in herd immunity

All props to Moira Donegan, who got Platner correct over 8 months ago. This is correct response to a heap of walking red flags!!! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I need y'all to understand that I teach high school and there are teenagers already planning to leave the U.S. to because they will be studying science or medicine. They are SO serious about it - saving money, learning extra languages, and looking to see if there are familial connections abroad.

As always, Cassidy is merely performing (very mild) opposition to Trump, his policies, and his appointments. He always kowtows in the end. Stop giving this man ANY credit!!! www.nola.com/opinions/ste...

Louisiana is working on this. lailluminator.com/2026/04/09/r...

Interesting news. I don’t remember Mrs. Benson creating a fund for the Church’s victims. Instead, the Archdiocese declared bankruptcy. www.nola.com/news/st-loui...

This is just straight up gibberish. Hopefully God will give her some ideas, since that’s all she references. www.nola.com/news/busines...

Part of the problem with Gavin Newsom is that he's a stupid asshole who listens to stupid asshole right-wing podcasts and invites those stupid asshole right-wingers on his podcast and all of this stupid asshole influence leads him to believe and say stupid asshole right-wing talking points.

Ugh. Isaacson and his “produce biographies more efficiently “. You mean not having to actually write them? Think you’re saying the quiet part out loud here, and I hope the only person your AI writer puts out of work is YOU. www.nola.com/news/busines...

Masked government thugs snuffed out Alex Pretti’s life in broad daylight | Moira Donegan

We have reached peak king cake ridiculousness. Unnecessary. I do like them trolling the buyers by serving the cakes through a clown mouth. www.nola.com/entertainmen...

"Should we vote to give more money to the people shooting my constituents in the face?" is not a complicated political question. And yet, Democrats don't seem able to answer it.

Over one thousand children in the US died from Covid, so silly me thinks that's more important. "COVID-19 quickly became the seventh leading cause of death for 1- to 17-year-olds from 2020 to 2022 and killed an estimated 1086 children." publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...

how about no

1. A new guide has been released by some of the top names in Democratic politics encouraging Dems to act more like Republicans on "identity and cultural issues." It becomes clear exactly what that means: queer and trans people. I argue against it in my latest. Subscribe to support my journalism.

Douthat writes that 2024, when Harris lost by 1.5% of the popular vote, was "an ideological referendum and progressivism lost." I wonder why he didn't view the 2020 election, when Trump lost by 4.5% of the popular vote, as a far more significant loss for conservatism. bsky.app/profile/larr...

Sounds like Republicans ought to get all the Republicans who form the Republican majorities in the Republican-led House and the Republican-led Senate together to pass the budget that Republicans wrote with the Republican White House and that Republicans now insist absolutely must be passed.

"The Tylenol announcement broke through to a lot of people, in large part because there’s widespread experience with and acceptance of the painkiller. "But it’s far from the only essential medication Kennedy wants to deny to pregnant women." www.salon.com/2025/09/29/r...

there's a weird feedback loop where the media's reaction to kirk's death pushes you to speak more ill of the dead than you otherwise would because it's the only reasonable response to the simpering praise they're heaping on him

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

Kafka is thinking, “My work was supposed to be a warning, not a handbook.”

If only there were a fail-safe process for killing the bacteria raw milk can harbor making it perfectly safe to drink

NEW from me — FEMA staffers say the response to the Texas floods is horrifyingly slow, and it may be because of DHS Secretary Kristi Noem's recent increased control over how the agency spends money. "If this is how they are going to do a major hurricane response, people are fucked.”

all of the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence about executive power - all of it - can be replaced with a simple flow chart. is the president a Republican? if so it’s ok. if not, it’s presumptively not ok.

It's also not true that RFK Jr has identified a real problem but proposes the wrong solutions. The "problem" he's identified is that Americans are unhealthier than we've ever been (false) and that prescription drugs are making kids sad, autistic and trans (deranged).

I'd go with like "many of the pedophiles who flew with Trump on Jeffrey Epstein's planes are the same people who are also trying to cut health care for Americans. Part of the reason they want us poor is so we can't fight back when they rape our kids."

Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and an open white supremacist, has a child's understanding of how government works. He has fired tens of thousands of people and believes all taxation and spending are illegitimate. He thinks his financial assistance to Trump gives him the power to set policy.

Thank God somebody brought this up. I read references to it in a very stupid pseudoscientific piece in the New Yorker last month, and the retconning of the lax Swedish lockdown strategy makes my blood boil. It's not that long ago: they had so many excess deaths that they changed policies, months in!

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

RFK Jr celebrated the release of the MAHA report by downing raw milk shooters in the White House with influencer Paul Saladino. Hazards of raw milk include Listeria, Salmonella, Campylobacter, Yersinia, E. coli O157:H7, and now-- avian flu.

Hard to feel sorry for this guy. He’s a Trump super fan who is *just* noticing this stuff? Suuure. Hope you develop empathy and the ability to think critically, kid.

Thanks a lot, mainstream press. Your normalization of Trump is part of a big problem in coverage.

Absolutely ridiculous and highly suspicious. Why wouldn’t Hutson process the crime scene? www.nola.com/news/crime_p...

I wrote about some of the worst journalism and punditry I've read lately, from the misbegotten journalistic philosophy of The New York Times to the unhinged ranting of a law professor.

the criticism that Dems put forth old and ailing politicians to their detriment is unquestionably true, but there’s a large contingent of the party dedicated to calling you a heartless scumbag if you point it out

MAHA trying to do the opposite of public health, as usual. This is evil. If you don’t want a vaccine, fine. You should do it anyway for the sake of others, but I guess we can’t fix stupid. But don’t take my right to make my own medical decisions from ME!