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"[A]chieves a kind of perfection of awfulness that only earnest effort can produce." - Los Angeles Times "He thinks he's the Pope of Chili Town." - Clancy Wiggum
I'm calling it: "Start smoking" is going to be mainstream MAHA / Republican health advice by 2028. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Anti-abortion groups' latest strategy in their push to ban mifepristone is disguised as "advocacy": They claim that telehealth access to the pill enables abusers to force their partners to have an abortion.
Anti-abortion advocates push to ban mifepristone under the guise of protecting women from abusive partners
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as noted yesterday, Trump has now come around to treating an Iranian toll system covering the Strait of Hormuz as a given. Hard to overstate the level of strategic failure. US started the war purely as a war of choice and ends up dramatically empowering Iran and given the Iranian govt big wins.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 6h agoReuters: Iran wants fees of 5%-7% of the price of cargo from ships using the strait; Oman wants 3%. "Making fees voluntary, at least nominally, could be a way out of the impasse, although an implied threat of Iranian attacks could mean shippers would be unlikely to risk transit without paying."
the median midwestern voter loves two things: electing republicans and thwarting republican policy goals via ballot referendum
we are at the point where huge swathes of the media sees their only job as getting attention from the public and giving nothing back and you're supposed to juuust tell enough truth that you can't be called an outright liar, just get the click anyhow, it is used car sales masquerading as journalism
Gareth L. Powell / G.L. Powell@garethlpowell.bsky.social · 11h agoIt’s like how there was that one professor who thought the recent interstellar asteroids were likely to be alien spaceships, and even though the rest of the scientific community disagreed with him, it was reported as “scientist says…”
Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
i think a lot of well-meaning people fall into a rhetorical trap where they take the bait and argue about male vs. female performance in sports rather than arguing for the value and dignity of women’s athletics generally. don’t let yourself be dragged into a bad faith framing.
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d agothe best HS teams in the country have multiple guys who will be in the NBA in a couple of years. they aren't normal high schools, they're basketball factories. but this literally doesn't matter. the value of women's sports isn't contingent on their performance vis a vis men.
I still find it quite amazing. I can list all sorts of flaws with the Constitution in the modern age, but I did not expect Congress to surrender so meekly and so completely.
the intentional abdication by Congress of nearly all of its constitutional responsibilities is at the core of most of our problems as a nation
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
I choose not to get ripped because I'm hoping people mistake my dad bod for joie de vivre
INCEL PODCAST: If you're not at least 6'3" with zero bodyfat and making $250,000 a year you're FUCKED AVERAGE WOMAN ONLINE: George Costanza could lowkey get it
"I swear, I have no idea how it fell out of the back of my truck, I cinched it down tighter than a drum" "Did you make sure to slap it and say, 'Oh yeah, that's not going anywhere?'" "I, uh, wh--" "'Driver... At... Fault. All right, you have Court on the 17th if you want to fight this"
Bluesky's nuclear block supports a culture of consent. Each user can completely prevent another user from having any access to them on this site. Right wing harassers on X hate consent. They hate being told "no." They hate not being able to force their posts onto others and target others.
Chuds could have their own bubble here too if they want. But they don't, because what they want is to force their garbage takes in everyone else's face.
I'm just going to keep screaming this until I'm hoarse, but until Trump the norm -- for 50 years -- was that sitting presidents had their taxes audited by the IRS and released to the public to show they were clean. But Trump refused repeatedly, and sued when his return was leaked, and now ... this
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d agoFLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.
i’m never gonna be able to fire a cruise missile yet the question of using my tax dollars for them has never been up for debate
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
The MAHA position is that if some illness they let run rampant kills you but you have any other disability or health condition you had it coming and it’s not their fault.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d agoWonder will Alex Berenson now change his health reporting? Or will start pushing a "died with" rather than "died from" framing?
Is Lost far enough in the rearview for a gritty reboot of Gilligan's Island?
I would pledge fealty to a political movement that was laser-focused on the destruction of the American Car Dealer as a class.
Kelsey Atherton@atherton.bsky.social · 2y agodirect sale of cars from manufacturers would, in a single blow, hollow out one of the most consistently reactionary classes of local gentry, these small-money middlemen with their middling bribes that nevertheless halt years of work to maintain a rotten status quo.
It's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020"
The ghost of my dead plant watching me go to Lowe's gardening section
one of the many things about biden that pissed off our society's elites is that his administration had started - in a pretty small-bore and limited way - prosecuting the people who had defrauded the PPP program and that happens to include a huge % of small business tyrant types
Kirk Rudell@rudell.bsky.social · 3d agoShouldn’t be shocked at any lie RFK Jr tells, but he whined to Dana Bash that businesses were shut down during the pandemic “with no just compensation.” There was an almost trillion dollar PPP loan program, and his organization got millions from it, none of it paid back, to make payroll.
BREAKING: A reporter asked Mike Johnson at a press conference today, “Should we bother asking you any questions about Max Miller, Trump’s latest Iran deal, or his Capital One scandal, or have you not heard about any of them yet?"
So many parallels: Advances followed by brutal backlashes. Hatred cloaked in concern about "fairness" and "undue influence" on children. Insistence that it's a medical/mental problem. Rage at cultural institutions that "promote a lifestyle." Invective about "special rights." Malevolent statehouses.
Hunter Walker@hunterw.bsky.social · 3d agoI have been thinking a lot lately about how so many of the "arguments" against trans rights are essentially the same as the various fake panics about gay people.
Appropriate air quotes because the most infuriating part about Americans debating "lockdown" is that it simply never happened. Having to pick up your Applebees and eat it on the sectional does not count. There wasn't even a brief moment where "everything" was closed. That's not real.
Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · 3d agoif you hated covid "lockdowns" try long covid