James A. Robichaux

Seems like it could be mildly plausible for that to happen in reality

You simply can’t separate anti-vaccine activism from the idea that autism is both something that makes you less human and something you can “catch”

So I wrote about that and RFK’s assault on our public heath.

Anas al-Sharif, prominent Al Jazeera correspondent, among five journalists killed in Israeli airstrike on Gaza Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital

I have studied the targeting of journalists for many years, but the scale and public display of these killings is truly shocking: “Israel admits deliberate attack on the journalist, known for frontline coverage, in a strike on a tent outside al-Shifa hospital“

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

I don't think that we should fault Trump for failing to do very bad things.

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Opinion | ‘Profound and Abiding Rage’: Canada’s Answer to America’s Abandonment

“Canada will have to serve as a connector between the world’s democracies, in a line that stretches from Taiwan and South Korea, across North America, to Poland and Ukraine.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/o...

300,000 black people lost their jobs in fields they deemed were for white people when this administration took office. All these mas deportations happening and they still couldn’t get one “inner city” (code for black) person to go to those fields.

Racism is expensive let’s all suffer together.

Yeah, Democrats embraced protofascism 45-50 years ago by embracing Neoliberalism and Monetarism, and here we are.

Yes, I VERY STRONGLY AGREE with the last paragraph.

Both because the folly of the logic of this "deficit" paranoia should be obvious and because this "deficit" crap is a phenomenal tool for austerity, I treat powerful people promoting it as if they know exactly what they're doing. So, should you.

which is to say, you never (or, at least, I never) hear them articulate a defense of transgender people *in general* while saying that they have disagreements on details like sports teams, let alone articulate why this is such an obsession for fascists in the first place.

Have you noticed this?

The myth that money comes from tax payers has helped create billionaires to begin with.

Now billionaires think that they create our national currency

lol.

Imagine thinking you’re so powerful & special that you even have the power to create our currency:

bsky.app/profile/mcub...

i distinctly remember a decade+ ago when all the creative jobs started going out the window being told to “learn to code”

Why is Donald Trump protecting left-wing politicians and left-wing billionaires who associated with Jeffrey Epstein from justice?

Why is he hiding that from the American people? What else must be in the Epstein files that he so badly wants to hide that he's protecting political opponents to do it?

Media are remarkably incurious about why a 15-year old was working for Donald Trump as a "locker room attendant" at Mar-a-Lago before being recruited as a "massage therapist" by Trump's good friend Ghislaine Maxwell.

Open the damn Epstein files!

www.bbc.com/news/article...

They don't quite understand Dem voters do not care if Dem leaders are exposed. We will gladly excommunicate anyone in those files.

My hopeful suspicion is that it did backfire but just not enough to overcome all of the numerous stiff headwinds that were pushing against the Harris-Walz ticket, many of their own making.

Well, @courtneymilan.com nailed this one three years ago today.

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Like, should we be asking here what it would look like if we treated The Fed as if its independence was *merely* the same kind of independence as if it were, say, the Surface Transportation Board and actually be able to openly question their decisions?

Thanks, Nathan. I always appreciate your perspective.

Could your views on this be summarized as that the problem is that the idea of "independence" here conflates *general* agency independence and the more mystic idea of the central bank going *beyond* the idea of mere agency independence?

You're HELPING Republicans garner public support for gutting the programs when you play this stupid game.

The mantra of

"it's MY money; I paid into it"

and the mantra of

"taxation is theft"

stem from the same way of thinking and, as such, reinforce each other.

The idea that payments of payroll taxes fund Social Security and Medicare, and idea guarded with ferocity by just about every Democrat and just about everyone who purports to be a *defender of* those programs, is the Achilles Heel of those programs.

I'm obviously just as surprised as anybody else that it was even still a service they provided, and yet I find myself somewhat sad to know that it is now disappearing from AOL's services.

Dial-up Internet to be discontinued AOL routinely evaluates its products and services and has decided to discontinue Dial-up Internet. This service will no longer be available in AOL plans. As a result, on September 30, 2025 this service and the associated software, the AOL Dialer software and AOL Shield browser, which are optimized for older operating systems and dial-up internet connections, will be discontinued. This change will not affect any other benefits in your AOL plan, which you can access any time on your AOL plan dashboard. To manage or cancel your account, visit MyAccount.

So apparently we are within the last 60 days of dial-up AOL being a thing.

help.aol.com/articles/dia...

ht @mat.tl

KESSLER: “Why I left the Washington Post… like being on the Titanic, drifting aimlessly as it sank with not enough lifeboats…”

An editor asked him: “How do we appeal more to Fox News viewers”? 🤔

The fact-checker’s reply: “We have to tell the truth.” glennkessler.substack.com/p/why-i-left...

This is very bad

Describing intelligence as a capacity, or a skill, means that it can be developed and taught: it's not something that one just has. PhD level intelligence represents the highly refined skills of PhDs to see what is in light of what can be, which is ultimately necessary to do the dissertation.

really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not

Right, one effect of living under total political war for a generation is that you just don't have ordinary "let's address the problems making people's lives worse" politics anymore

Directive from Melissa ISD administrators demanding that teachers remove their classroom libraries by the first day of school in response to SB13.

CLASSROOMS WITHOUT BOOKS.

This is the fruit of SB13. Melissa ISD is forbidding class libraries, book bins, & reading corners after book banners forced the law over objections of Texas parents.

The law doesn’t require it. But we @TXFreedomRead told legislators it would happen.

I am inclined to think that, if we had ranked-choice voting, this would not be nearly as much of a thing as it now is.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...