Josh Caplan

Participation trophy generation.

It shouldn't take years to learn that there is a health care plan.

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

The same people who insisted devout Catholic Joe Biden was leading a “war on Christianity” are now cheering Trump on as his armed goons assault clergymen.

Not only is this not how appropriations work, but it is such a great example of why Dems can't vote for an approps bill - Trump just does whatever he wants to do, and doesn't care about the laws. It's about trust!!

The Affordable Care Act is almost old enough to drive a car, and the replacement that Republicans have for it after hundreds of attempts to repeal it is still about two weeks away.

If only the ADL knew a group that could have told them that you cannot give fascists an inch because they will then demand a mile.

But Thune is refusing to negotiate when the government is open too. So no negotiation - open or closed. Got it.

So ICE held a 5 year old girl hostage so that they could disappear her father (who has an active asylum case ongoing, which means he is following the law), and the police came in and rescued her from ICE?

Abolishing ICE is a pretty moderate position.

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years.

Pinochet was ousted with a referendum.

And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists.

Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

America's leading libertarian.

The Vibe Switch is really something to behold.

Hey Eric, did you see our post about the challenges of trust with current federal health agencies and patients with autism? More focused on the data gathering efforts than grants per se.

academyhealth.org/blog/2025-07...

As a fun fact, 18 USC 1001 says that a person who knowingly or willingly makes a material statement that is false, or fraudulent before Congress is committing a criminal offense.

It does not require that the person be under oath. Swearing someone in is more symbolic than anything.

It’s funny, we never get those anguished “but how will I explain this to my child?” posts when it’s armed goons violently snatching people off the street.

They save that for the real horrors, like someone having two dads.

Hey Bobby - did you see how bad the impoundments at the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality had gotten? Since April 1 RIF, not a single new research grant. Not one!

academyhealth.org/blog/2025-08...

This is expressly not what the Impoundment Control Act says.

"agreed" is legitimately hilarious framing.

Communities tearing down Confederate statues is rewriting history, but rewriting history is the President's job. So it has always been, so it always will be.

Science often sounds ridiculous out of context. But that’s why NIH grantees have to painstakingly document and explain what they do and why. Writing a grant application for NIH funding is notoriously The Worst, but it’s what has to happen. The NIH knows perfectly well what that money is spent on!

Republicans have killed public broadcasting, but at least Trump gets billion dollar airplane and a gold plated ballroom.

more evidence for “a bunch of AI cultists dismantled large parts of the federal government because they believed that their LLMs were intelligent and could do the work better” thesis

"making it extremely difficult"? That's what you all are going for?

Sigh.

Vote blue no matter who, amiright?

From the woman who literally wrote the book on concentration camps

In a time of breathtaking lies coming at us every second of every day, this is one that still makes you stop at the audacity.

The Narrative™️ cannot fail. It can only be failed.

Reminder that her handwriting (see: the whiteboard) is pretty much a perfect match for the graffiti found outside her home a few years back

So am I reading this court decision correctly? We now have 50 micronations with their own laws interpreting the U.S. Constitution wholly separate from one another? But there's one guy with private law enforcement who is immune from all punishment who can do whatever he wants in those 50 states?