Ed Winstead

I'm assuming they used the Rocky theme song because Stallone is a Putin stooge, not because in the world of Rocky IV a Russian gets knocked out

The Medicaid Program That Saved Money, Turned People’s Health Around — and Got Killed The end of the Healthy Opportunities Pilot in North Carolina is a story of how MAHA might actually be realized — or not — at the state level.

There's the acute SNAP funding issue, and then behind it a hundred more things like this callous and stupid refusal to fund the HOP.

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Me not reading about how women ruined the workplace in the New York Times.

WSJ: Operation Warp Speed Aimed at Covid and Hit Cancer

Melanoma patients who got an mRNA vaccine for the virus saw median survival times double.

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I worked on a campaign for a House of Delegates seat in Virginia many years ago when we lost in a wave like the one that hit the GOP yesterday, and man it was not fun. Couldn't be happier for them.

This would be GREAT for housing affordability. Zohran keeping his promises.

Good news! A new fund will distribute $50 million to literary nonprofits. Several charitable groups—among them the Ford, Hawthornden, Lannan, MacArthur, Mellon, and Poetry foundations—are teaming up to launch the Literary Arts Fund, an effort to give the “essential…

"American philanthropy can and must play a bigger role in strengthening the financial infrastructure of the literary organizations and nonprofits that serve these literary artists." —Elizabeth Alexander, poet and President of the Mellon Foundation lithub.com/good-news-a-...

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Today, a coalition of seven charitable foundations announced the launch of the Literary Arts Fund, a historic philanthropic investment of at least $50 million to strengthen the nonprofit literary arts field in the U.S.

The top issue in Gallup is now "The Government / Poor Leadership"

Old Soviet joke:

Why do ICE agents travel in groups of three?

One can read, one can write, and the third keeps an eye on the two intellectuals

I am never ever fucking EVER getting over these fuckers just driving around snatching our neighbors off the street.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

Bad writing

This is nightmarish and every Dem politician, every media figure who is silent is complicit. This is not supposed to happen here. Masked thugs with guns dragging moms away in front of their screaming children. Trump’s government must be destroyed and his accomplices must rot in prison

And he doesn't even teach classes! Imagine what the benefits for actual professors must be, even adjunct ones!

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Was he, in fact, Beethoven? I can’t say for sure. But we did exchange pleasantries in German.

At a performance of Beethoven’s Third Symphony a man dressed as Beethoven gave me this while I was standing in line to enter.

Harvard Students Skip Class and Still Get High Grades, Faculty Say

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Wow breaking news

A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.

ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.

A judge has ordered his immediate release.

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Eyes Wide Shut is a Christmas movie and Alan Cumming is the Santa

Phone screenshot of the whitehouse website executive orders page edited to look like there is an executive order titled “Why do they call it oven when you of in the cold food of out hot eat the food?”

Hakeem Jeffries still refuses to endorse the Democratic Nominee for NYC mayor but has plenty of praise for Eric Adams who, left the party, openly supports Trump, & cut a deal with Trump to disappear the DOJ’s bribery & corruption charges against him. Can’t imagine why the Dem Party has 26% approval🤔

Hey, whatever you do, don't call these street thugs who are snatching up immigrants and violently assaulting women "Nazis" because that will hurt their poor little feelings.

strong agree, from 2017: opaque commercial social platforms becoming the most vivid, accessible representation of discourse, democracy, the public sphere, the media, etc was a massive accelerant for cynicism/resentment/despair www.nytimes.com/2017/08/21/m...

Does anybody ever actually have just milk and honey? Sounds great.

Look, at some level you cannot have a functioning democracy where both parties presuppose an electorate of selfish, ignorant louts and compete to offer them the best array of goodies, which is more or less what “focus on kitchen table issues” means. You have to activate some kind of civic impulse.

Dems are too afraid of sounding classist in the economic sense to make the obvious observation that the Trump GOP has leaned hard into being the part of trash. That’s their elevator pitch. Are you human garbage tired of being made to feel inferior to basically decent people? We’re on your side!

Fortunately I’m well established as a filthy elitist libertarian, so I can say it without too much fear of contaminating nice progressives. But that’s the sell. Are you vulgar, unlettered, and sick of hearing it’s not OK to drop casual racial slurs or smack your wife around? We’re your people!