🚨 Adam Kinzinger is right.
The GOP has a choice to make:
Stand up against child trafficking — even when it involves their own leader —
or admit they’re willing to look the other way as long as he hates the same people they do.
There’s no middle ground.
Silence is complicity.

Department of Education Proposal Excludes Public Health Degrees from “Professional Degree” Definition Discover the new results and implications of Dept of Ed consensus regarding professional degree programs and public health education.

This is designed to tank public health & primary care by excluding public health professions, advanced nursing practice, physical & occupational therapy from loans that can cover the cost of education. This is going to make an existing workforce crisis worse.
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WTF?

The discharge petition to force a vote on the Epstein Files only received a handful of GOP votes.

But when we get the actual vote to release them, I'm presuming we'll see a whole lot more, right?

"Congressman _____ voted against releasing the Epstein Files" isn't an ad you want before the midterms

I’m trying to eat dinner here.

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.

Great minds think alike. It’s relevant in so many ways.

It’s not fentanol, you m*r*n

Eat the rich

80% of Democratic voters want a new leader in the Senate.

Does that matter at all to Democratic senators?

“An Egalitarian Pressure”: Australia Has Been Requiring People to Vote for 100 Years As Australia compels voters to show up at the polls this weekend, a scholar lays out the genesis of

An Australian scholar explains the idea that drove Australia to adopt compulsory voting: "You would know that the government that was elected had the support of the majority of voters in the electorate—not just the majority of the people who turned up."

we spoke to @stopthedata.bsky.social’s amber fellows on why the town of ypsilanti is rallying against a proposed AI data center that will be used by nuclear weapons researchers and the personal trauma of fighting this as a Japanese-American person 80 years after from the Hiroshima/Nagasaki bombings

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

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The restored East Wing.

If I was writing a popular history this would be my pivot moment I think.

The Sociopath-In-Chief couldn't be bothered to even turn his head in the direction of a man in the midst of a medical emergency who collapsed in his office. Completely incapable of empathy, the EPSTEIN Files can't be released soon enough.

25/47

Tesla’s profit fell 37% in the third quarter. It's been in the process of laying off 14,000 workers. It had more cars impacted by recalls than any other brand in 2024.

Yet Elon Musk just got a pay package worth $1 trillion.

American capitalism is off the rails.

A dog sits behind a sorted field of (imitation) human bones laid out on a hardwood floor.

Whenever someone new comes to the house, Clyde always likes to show off his mailman collection.

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Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

👇 Pay attention because this is the plan. They have tried to take away the ACA since 2010. Let's fire Johnson next year. I am about tired of him.

BREAKING NEWS: IKEA now include an enthusiastic yet unqualified assembly otter with every purchase.

The banality of evil

How to find food — or help neighbors in need — while SNAP is paused: blockclubchi.co/4nI7m93

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

Seems like a good time for the Speaker of the House to swear in Rep. Grijalva.