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Senator Warren: How much would it cost to extend the ACA’s enhanced premium tax credits for just one year? Witness: About $30 billion. Senator Warren: The Trump administration says this war [with Iran] will cost $50 billion. That means we could help all the people pushed off their health care and still have an additional $20 billion left over.

Instead of going to war with Iran, we could cover health care for millions of Americans.

And still have $20 billion left over.

Just so that we are clear, Israel drops criminal charges on five Israeli soldiers who were caught on camera sexually assaulting a Palestinian detainee. But Israel will keep kids in prison for decades because they were throwing rocks? Make it make sense 🤦🏽‍♀️

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

America is respected perhaps like never before

The second half of that statement is a lie, by the way.

The goal isn’t to help working class men. It’s to make them feel more powerful in comparison to women—specifically through reducing women’s wealth.

Which is all a distraction from the wealthiest white men hoarding even more wealth.

UFC Fighters to Train FBI Agents in ‘Historic Seminar’ This Week: We’ll ‘Be Even Better Prepared to Protect the American People,’ Kash Patel Says UFC fighters will head to Quantico, Va. this week to train FBI agents and students in what FBI director Kash Patel is calling a "historic seminar."

We are a nation of morons, embracing and elevating the most ridiculous coterie of submorons to lead us from the last shards of the American Century into the deepest chasms of ridiculous, absurdist moronity.

This is unbelievable even as farce.

WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings

This is outstanding journalism

I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.

Boycott 2: Boycott Harder

Target I'm sorry that was a breakup not just a boycott baby.

Very disappointing the Star tribune is doing PR legwork for corporations.

Yeah, thats a double-down on the botcott

We need reparations for ICE victims.

Anything short of that is setting the stage for a massive wealth grab from people of color that will re-entrench racial disparities for generations.

Elizabeth Warren: "I am a hard no on a supplemental. This is not a war the American people want us to engage in. This is not a war that makes us safer ... No. No more money. The only thing Congress has the power to do is to stop actions like this through the power of the purse."

‘Titanic’ statue of Trump and Epstein on the Mall draws praise, scorn The statue, depicting them embracing on a copy of the Titanic bow, is the third placed on the Mall by the artists depicting a connection between Trump and Epstein.

There's a new Trump-Epstein statue on the National Mall.

It's an enormous statue, spray-painted gold, of Trump embracing Epstein in a reenactment of that famous scene from "Titanic."
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You're not gonna share the website where you found this?

None. Not even one.

Beautiful color illustration book cover, details at this URL: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517920012/the-luminous-fairies-and-mothra/

Our local academic publishing house has a treat for everyone:
"The story that hatched Mothra—available in English for the first time, translated by Jeffrey Angles, who wrote an afterword about the novella’s cultural context, the unusual story of its composition, and the development of the 1961 film"

This looks very cool! I've submitted a purchase request to my local library.

If she's not winning, why is AIPAC acting like it?

A masterclass by @davidjbier.bsky.social on how to maintain your composure and principles in the face of people unable to do either.

We don't need to yell or mock because the facts, the law, and common decency are on our side, as David made apparent before someone unfit to hold the seat he's in.

KENNEDY: You said, 'Republicans think can troll their way to ethnic cleansing.' Did I read that correctly?

BIER: DHS tweeted for 100m deportations. That would be ethnic cleansing!

K: You don't think it's hyperbolic?

B: I think advocating 100m deportations is ethnic cleansing. Yes. Your time is up

Remember that time on Star Trek Next Gen when Geordie created an ai replica of a real person to ask it questions from her pov and she rightly freaked out when she found out because it's fuckin' creeper shit?

Yeah, not sure why that's coming to mind right now.

The response is….comprehensive.

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Someone asked me if I’d take a deal where I got $50k, but my worst enemy got $100k.

I said, “sounds amazing. I’ve always wanted $150k."

Surely the President’s task force on antisemitism will be looking into this pronto to figure out how this could have happened.

everyone is extraordinarily desperate to pretend that Donald Trump is a coherent individual with a real plan who understands what is happening in the world and none of that is true

God almighty. The psychiatrist (the Rami Malek character) who examined the 22 members of the Nazi high command at Nuremberg determined they were all psychologically normal. He wrote a book warning that what happened in Germany could happen anywhere. It was derided. He then took his own life.