SchoonerJohn

We acknowledge that no one has the bandwidth for this, but if it helps: -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It's 'buck naked' -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’ -It’s ‘toe the line'

The breast cancer center appealed thousands of Blue Cross reimbursements for being too low. At trial, the insurer revealed that it had never considered any of the appeals — and that they were pointless: “An appeal is not available to review an underpayment.” (Published April 2025)

from the article about the 1983 song "Maniac"

Here is @iamstevenhale.bsky.social, who I directed you all to be following earlier and was a witness tonight, reporting on what Tennessee did tonight. Just absolutely horrifying.

Seattle

I feel you, Daniel L

god this is cool

lol holy shit I wouldn't talk about literally anything else if I was the guy running against him. —"What do you think about trans kids in sp-" —"Did you hear my opponent had his patient, who was 8 months pregnant, arrested in front of her son because she didn't pay a $50 medical bill?"

i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's

Spending these days fact-checking and endnoting, I've been Googling at industrial scale, which has given my a brain-melting lesson in how fucked we are as a civilization. In today's installment, a quote from Geo W. Bush's 2nd inaugural in 2005 is depicted—why not?—as one from Obama's in 2013.

EXCLUSIVE: In a 20-page order, the judge in my lawsuit for the Epstein Files just ordered Todd Blanche to produce to him, in chambers & by 9/24, the unredacted handwritten FBI notes implicating Donald Trump in the sexual & physical abuse of a 13-year-old girl: youtu.be/Yo1ZUGe_O4o?...

ESPN had Ted Cruz on 'College GameDay' in a conversation with Rece Davis for nearly 10 minutes. Cruz was heavily booed by the crowd -- and heard "Ted, you suck!" chants -- in Austin.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court blocks a district court TRO that had through Missouri’s congressional maps into chaos. There are no noted dissents. This should mean that the 2022 maps, not the new HB1 maps, will be used. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/dueling-ru...

A phenomenal essay/tribute to a complicated artist. As I've said to you before (probably on Twitter back in the day), amazing work @stevenhyden.bsky.social. For the record, here's a vote for "Carmelita" as his best song.

Maria Bartiromo joins an endless list of people who were reasonably well respected in their professions or businesses and then they joined the Trump cult and unraveled in a steady downward spiral until their careers and reputations are in complete tatters. Never go full MAGA.

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If her resumé ONLY included "Jolene," "9 to 5," her ongoing literacy project and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," Dolly Parton would have — zero embellishment — one of the most significant cultural lives in American history. #RIP

This is amazing. Truly. People need to realize they don't care about growth, welfare, well-being, none of that. They only care about holding power and racial purity.

DHS claims it found 16,000 noncitizen voters in Nevada. Now it has dropped to 1% of that figure, and even that seems very doubtful. But the claims gets loads of attention and when it turns out they're lies, that hardly garners a passing mention.

HALF NELSON was a 1985 Joe Pesci TV series that was cancelled after 9 episodes, but its intro seems to last forever via an escalating cavalcade of absurd cast reveals, underscored by a theme song that feels like a gag gift when you can't license "I Love L.A."...

The Air Force One catering truck scandal is deeper and darker than the media is portraying it — it’s a Russian nesting doll of corruption and national security threats: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-five-s...

As the grandson of Kansas wheat farmers, let me offer my careful opinion -- this is not good.

As to Haiti, remember that this is happening because Justice Sam Alito — joined by all of the Republican SCOTUS appointees — insisted that Trump's racism isn't racism. www.lawdork.com/i/203137816/...

This is Finn. He likes to ominously stand on his hind legs in the water. We've asked him to stop but he won't. Still 13/10 (TT: firstmatefinn)

RFK Jr. made Cyclospora tracking optional, gutting a CDC program used to detect outbreaks. Now cyclosporiasis has hit 31 states. That's what happens when you dismantle the systems designed to keep us safe. www.npr.org/2026/07/12/n...

losing my mind at how ruthless this sentence is

ALERT: More trouble for Todd Blanche today. Attorneys for @katiephang.bsky.social ask Judge Emmet Sullivan to issue a $1000/day fine against Blanche until Blanche adheres to court order to release more Epstein files (Blanche refused to do so by July 2 deadline)

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

Oh. So Tulsi Gabbard wrote a report showing that voting machine vulnerabilities didn’t flip any votes. And now she’s not the DNI anymore. Hmm. www.reuters.com/world/white-...

JJ Watt, Buc-ees, and the KU band have done more for US public diplomacy during this World Cup than the entire Federal government

He lives in a pineapple under the sea.

Congrats, John Roberts! You ended the three-branch method of governance!

Sentence starts bad, somehow ends worse.

Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

For more than a decade, Stephen Colbert has been one of the top voices of late night—making us laugh and, even more importantly, reminding us who we are and what America stands for. Michelle and I enjoyed being Stephen’s guests—even when the games were rigged—and we’re grateful to call him a friend.

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This map shows, in purple, congressional districts where Trump's approval on prices is below 50% — and, in green, districts where he is above 50%. Local estimates of approval, party trust, and the generic ballot are now available at Strength In Numbers Pro. Check it out: pro.gelliottmorris.com

Surely they've suffered enough?