Paul Chimko

Alabama Governor Signs New ‘Heartbeat Bill’ Lowering State’s Age Of Consent

Alabama Governor Signs New ‘Heartbeat Bill’ Lowering State’s Age Of Consent

But do you condemn the violence at the Bastille?

*first yoga class*

Instructor: To begin, we'll get down on our mats

Me: aaaaaaaahhhhhhuuuuugggghhhhh, ooooooouuuuuuu

Visionaries Without Vision The small and dreary political imagination of billionaires.

The people who believe that they are the world's visionaries are incapable of articulating a political vision that extends beyond their own egos.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/visionarie...

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Sun setting in Chicago along the lake

Third coast. ❤️ 🌊

On a similar note:

The 50 senators who voted against this bill represent approximately 379.77 million people.

The 50 senators who voted for this bill represent approximately 298.41 million people.

Tank Diaries: The Epilogue Shout-out Poku. Glory to Lu Dort. The NBA is a magical place where being good at being bad can launch you to the mountaintop.

Wrote about the champs.

Put Middle East regime change on the blockchain.

by Andrew Yang

Crazy that Luigi is charged with terrorism but the guy who had a hit list of democrats and shot 4 and killed two isn't

groimes you haeve to come get me at Geetmo

Calories don’t count if you’re waiting for something to heat up in the microwave.

snap cuts, growing to 35% by 2034

chip and medicaid cuts growing to 12-14% by 2034

Cost estimate of the House-passed "Big Beautiful Bill" is out

It'd be the largest cut to Medicaid+CHIP and SNAP in history while still increasing deficits by $2.4 trillion due to $3.8 trillion in tax cuts

This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

Ms Rachel got hands

never kill yourself

Ode to the Menaces, Stars of the NBA Playoffs Chances are, the conference finals will swing on a loose ball, a clutch 3, or a contested rebound—and one of these chaos agents will be the main reason why

From yesterday, I wrote about the spring of the menace.

Noticeable that teenagers routinely demonstrate an ability to speak more clearly about right and wrong than almost every elected leader in the Democratic Party. (See also: gun control, gay rights, racism, etc.)

i would like to thank the younger generation for cooking their brains with ai to the extent that they can never replace me

It is so incredibly revealing that when a journalist challenges Trump directly (about those dumbass tattoos), his response is not, "no, I'm correct, you have bad information." The notion of accuracy -- correspondence with external reality -- doesn't come up at all. It's, "you're not being nice."

This, from a woman in Oklahoma talking to her local news station, is better than the vast majority of political speeches you'll hear today.

Effective Corporate Tax Rates

1950: 50%
2025: 13%

Top Marginal Tax Rates

1950: 91%
2025: 37%

If you’re curious as to why the rich have so much and you have so little, these are good places to start.

Ikea CEO Wants New Desk On His Desk By End Of Day

Ikea CEO Wants New Desk On His Desk By End Of Day

The math here is simple. Republicans have passed a budget framework where very large cuts to Medicaid will have to occur. Now, they are preemptively shifting the blame for those cuts to Governors, who cannot engage in deficit spending.
All of this is for a regressive tax cut.

yeah. i want to "archive" an email. it wasn't an accident. i clicked that on purpose, because of how much i love to "archive" an email.

Billy Bob Thornton walked so Walton Goggins could run

here’s the video:

#GoGreen

s/o to Rutgers, Indiana, Nebraska and UMass-Amherst

Fight or Be

Fear & concern are coded feminine, so they get translated into anger, which feels more tough.

Hurt & disappointment are coded feminine, so they get translated into outrage & aggrievement.

The simple human need for love & affirmation is coded feminine, so it gets translated into demands & control.

Again, worth at the last considering the possibility that he’s a malevolent idiot who has no idea what he’s doing.

Stop treating these people like they have special insights into the nature of the world just because they've mastered an arcane financial system that's increasingly disconnected from actual economic reality