Hal Gregory

There's a point, well below a billion dollars, where the amount of money you have lets you rid yourself of anyone who can be a check on your worst impulses, and replace them with people who tell you those worst impulses are somehow valorous. Rare is the billionaire with someone to tell them "no."

This post is the GOAT.

This is so wrong. Just fucking wrong.

While not nearly as warm & cuddly as the real thing, I really, REALLY love my Mabel sweatshirt❣️

Annotating the Judge’s Decision in the Case of Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-Year-Old Detained by ICE (Gift Article) Our critic annotates the barbed wordplay of a decision challenging the Trump administration’s theory of executive power.

Here’s a useful reminder of what our federal courts SHOULD be doing to uphold our constitutional traditions:

Global aid cuts could lead to 9.4 million deaths by 2030, study projects The Lancet study examines how the dismantling of international aid by the U.S. and other countries could undo decades of health gains.

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BERNIE SANDERS: Do vaccines cause autism?

BHATTACHARYA: I do not believe that the measles vaccine causes autism

SANDERS: Nah. Uh uh. I didn't ask measles. Do vaccines cause autism?

BHATTACHARYA: I have not seen a study that suggests any single vaccine causes autism

Yuuuuup…

But it's one hell of a head start.

Blanche: It's not a crime to party with Mr. Epstein.

Schrödinger’s dog 🐶 ...

This is funny, but also brilliant. Once people go down the path (of any wrong decision), it is sooooo hard to turn back -- because it is tantamount to admitting you were foolish. As hard as it is, we need to offer soft landings and gentle off ramps (which is what we'd want too)

Thinking about whoever said that by accepting a meal from people and then arresting them ICE agents broke a cultural taboo that was invented by, like, the first humans to set up a tent

It was probably difficult to foresee that Trump would put the Kennedy Center out of business.

“Melania” is so bad they had to close the entire Kennedy Center after it premiered there.

I missed the first of these when it happened and choose not to seek it out online but I appreciate the metaphor gods working overtime on this one

A duckling, bull wide open like it’s talking, sits next to the head is a dachshund with pleading eyes.

my mother explaining EXACTLY how she wants her food prepared as my father silently pleads with the server not to spit in it

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The two federal immigration agents who shot Alex Pretti in Minneapolis have been identified as Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez.

What’s a good name for Latinos who are paid to brutalize and terrorize other Latinos?

The Right-Wing Militia Leader Who Opposes ICE Ammon Bundy’s criticism of the Trump administration has left him out of step with his own community.

“Not so long ago, Ammon Bundy was the most famous right-wing militia leader in America … But Bundy’s criticism of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown now threatens to make him a pariah within his own community,” Jacob Stern reports:

Just so wrong... Ffs

"Godsend" or "concentration camp"? A lucrative ICE deal divides a Colorado town. Trump has unleashed a gold rush among immigrant-detaining private prison companies. In cash-strapped cities, residents aren’t sure the money is worth it.

Trump has unleashed a gold rush among immigrant-detaining private prison companies. In cash-strapped cities, residents aren’t sure the money is worth it.

Jane Fonda on the arrest of Don Lemon: "They arrested the wrong Don".

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