jordan from various blocks

The projected $911 billion reduction in federal Medicaid spending over the next decade puts immense pressure on states to reduce costs, disproportionately threatening coverage for people with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD).

These thirty seconds show a scandal of unbelievable proportion and it might as well never have happened. Just sucked into the vacuum of history immediately. I can't dwell on it or I'll go crazy.

I wrote about the Bari Weiss take over of CBS News as part of a broader trend away from the pretense of liberal institutionalism into a genuinely post-reality tabloidism, marked by AI slop, unsophisticated Trumpian-Likudite propaganda and consolidation of traditional and social media.

Pathetic. bsky.app/profile/step...

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Bad Bunny 101

Ooookay here we go. Bad Bunny 101 condensed into six weeks of music, reading material, and perreo

That's Jack Posobiec of pizzagate fame sitting at this table with the president, attorney general, FBI director, and DHS secretary.

Solar and batteries had a record-setting, grid-stabilizing summer in… Solar has set 17 power generation records in Texas so far this year, shoring up the grid alongside batteries as some gas plant developers step back.

The historically volatile Texas grid was entirely stable this summer, despite extreme temperatures. Grid operators never once had to ask Texans to conserve energy or shut off their air conditioners.

Why? Solar & batteries. Want a stable grid? Try solar & batteries.

SCOOP: Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

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One of the most nefarious actions that actually takes place on a regular basis is that laws & rules meant to protect those historically violated by our status quo and the individuals upholding it are weaponized against us.

It's also why I think Ethics should be required continuing ed for lawyers.

Legacy Journalists from NYT, CNN Are Mentors in a Fellowship Founded for Pro-Israel “Information War” Hardline Israel advocate Jacki Karsh says she founded the new journalism fellowship to help “shift some of the narrative” in Israel’s favor.

CNN’s Van Jones is among 16 mainstream journalists—including two New York Times reporters—serving as mentors in a new journalism fellowship explicitly created to help Israel's Likud regime win its “information war” against Palestinians.

Pritzker: "It's unconscionable. This has never happened before. They're calling out troops onto the streets of a state that doesn't want them and they're not even telling us where they're gonna go, what they're gonna do. This hasn't happened I don't think since the Civil War."

Doing crowd work from notes. Pitiful

we need to start building movie palaces again fr fr

“AAAGGGHHH!!!” A Memo from Animal, Your New Editor-in-Chief “[Editor-in-chief of CBS News] Bari Weiss told network staffers in a morning editorial call that she wants to ‘win’ before delivering a rallying cr...

"WE MAKE NEWS LOUDER. IF STORY GOOD ON ONE SIDE, SHOW OTHER SIDE TOO. OTHER SIDE WRONG? OTHER SIDE WANT BLEACH IN VEINS? ANIMAL RUN BOTH. REPORT BOTH SIDES. EVEN WHEN ONE SIDE THINK HEAD MEDS MAKE QUIET BABIES."

this is how I, a resident of LA, found out that the Palisades fire was arson, that they caught the guy, and that he used gen AI to work his way up to doing the crime

I think it's amazing that we somehow fixate on the horrors of overseas prisons and jails here in the United States.

if you work for a publication that does this and have any idea how much $$$ your outlet makes from affiliate sale commissions on prime day, DM or signal me: jason.404

also interested if you are a journalist who is asked to do these deal roundups as part of your job

oh i think they get their next one free!

The Median Experience Of Tyranny If the politics of tyranny were self-discrediting, we wouldn't need mantras like "never again."

Watching so many people in high places go through the motions of polling and median-voter whispering can make you feel like you're in Bodysnatchers. It's worth a reminder that the typical experience of tyranny is...basically normal life. Which means we have to will ourselves to fight harder.

so you eliminate mail-in voting, normalize the presence of troops in cities, and empower a vast national gestapo to kidnap anyone brown they see

pretty clear attack on democrats' ability to win elections

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

You cannot buy this kind of publicity, the ruling party thinks your upcoming televised mini concert is sexually demonic liberalism and keeps telling the media about why

Elon Musk and Donald Trump are now some of history's biggest murderers.

i gotta say this man has perfectly lived up to the job he was hired to do

in retrospect it was just great how milquetoast centrists decided the best way to react to the AWESOME police corruption and brutality exposed by the George Floyd protests was to go "actually, defund the police is a bad slogan, the Unserious Left needs to shut up" bsky.app/profile/mcle...

if you're too tired to defend obamacare,
R E T I R E

Pledge allegiance to your hands, your team, your vibes" "You made a deal with this devil, turns out my dick's bigger" "Everybody's so punk on the internet" "So we all dressed up as wolves and we looked fire" "Got me drеaming about a driveway with a basketball hoop - Boss up, settle down, got a wish list" "Please, God, bring me a best friend who I think is hot" "He dick-matized me and opened my еyes - Redwood tree, it ain't hard to see - His love was thе key that opened my thighs" "Good thing I like my friends cancelled - I like 'em cloaked in Gucci and in scandal" "Did you girl-boss too close to the sun?" "Who's the baddest in the land? What's the plan? - You could be my forever night stand" "They ripped me off like false lashes - And then threw me away" "Her name was Kitty - Made her money being pretty and witty - They gave her the keys to this city - Then they said she didn't do it legitly"

I cannot believe these lyrics from the new Taylor Swift album are real

lmao, kristi noem wanted a black bloc fight and got an inflatable rave instead. fuck you DHS, rip city forever.

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.