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Um, people… is this, um, concerning on some way…

🔥 A former president & a former chairman of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) resigned from ISI’s board on Friday. One of them posted this warning that “conservative institutions are being systematically…undermined by post-liberals who promote a ‘no enemies to the right’ mindset.” 1/

Would it be helpful if we did a talk on what an insurance death spiral is? And why ACA premiums entering a death spiral will mean that people who rely on employer-sponsored insurance will also be fucked?

Or do folks already have a good grasp on that?

So just wreckage everywhere

there is no separation at all between trump admin governance & donald trump's personal/family greed & ambitions. this is in part why all discussion of admin "policy" that neglects this baseline fact is so hollow & naive, & mystifying that ppl still write about policy without this framing.

“We’re just here for the huge tracks of land” corrupt Senators probably

⚡️ JUST NOW — Speaker Johnson will NOT guarantee a vote on ACA subsidies even if it passes the senate (after the Schumer-orchestrated cave)👇🏽

Imagine being the opposition party to this and caving so you don’t disrupt the airline industry’s lobbyist’s holiday profit bump

People are mad at Democrats over on Threads. Do you understand? THREADS.

Bodes ill.

Everything Trump touches dies.

A photo of Senator Schumer I took a decade and a half ago that seemed to capture something of his character. A man serving something other than his constituents

Democrats Have to Get Out of a Normal Democracy Mindset By folding in the government shutdown in exchange for virtually nothing, eight Democratic senators aid Trump's authoritarian takeover rather than oppose it

The harm caused by the shutdown was real, affecting millions, and no one should downplay that. But America is not in a situation of harm or no harm. Rapidly backsliding into authoritarianism, America is in a terrible situation where appeasement trades short-term relief for more long-term harm.

love this thread.

I wonder if any future historians who write about this moment in time, will make a note of Trump being savagely booed by tens of thousands of people literally at the same time that 8 Democrats bent the knee.

If Trump has been right about anything, it is that there is a deep rot in the upper echelons of American society, among people who have been put in positions of power and leadership. Trump understands that many of these people are weak, that their public commitment to civic principles can crumble under sustained pressure. In many cases, those folding have had ample resources to resist Trump’s shakedowns but haven’t been brave enough to do so. They are, in a word, chickenshit.

America’s chickenshit elites problem continues to be the biggest obstacle to fighting Trump www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Trying these beans today.

Loser energy

Supreme Court to Decide if States Can Count Late-Arriving Mail Ballots The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether states can continue to count late-arriving mail ballots, a target of President Donald Trump.

NEW: The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case over whether states can count mail ballots that arrive after Election Day.

The RNC and the Libertarian Party are challenging a Mississippi law that allows ballots to be counted so long as they are postmarked by Election Day.

Just reposting this from March for, you know, reasons...

I have & yup. The mocking of the disabled reporter was the crux for me;— people around me who ended up full MAGA thought it was "funny" & said I was overreacting to it. I was like how the hell is that a guy you would want in a leadership role? Apparently enough Americans did & have. And here we are.

YouTube video by 1AnitrasDance Davy Knowles & Tyler Bryant - Cortez - 6/25/23 Rams Head - Annapolis, MD

Another recent guitar heavy one that I like...

It’s a straight fucking line from then to now.

Does anyone know where the love of God goes /
When Schumer leads a Senate of cowards

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says | Fortune Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

This seems significant.

"U.S. GDP growth in the first half of 2025 was almost entirely driven by investment in data centers and information processing technology, according to Harvard economist Jason Furman."

Any response other than an immediate "fuck you, make me" is an indication your institution is already ok with fascism, and is now just haggling over the price.

They have a free kindling shelf at your coffee shop?

YouTube video by 404 Media Volunteers Archived 10,000 Signs from National Parks (with Jenny McBurney and Lynda Kellam)

Trump wants to erase any "negative" content from educational sites at National Parks.

This week, @samleecole.bsky.social speaks to a group of data preservationists behind "Save Our Signs" who want to save the real history of parks before the administration erases it.

that panel from Watchmen

some years, Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day just completely sneaks up on you

Pretty sure for the moderate dems this is just a kink now