Money out of politics, money in your pocket, Medicare for all.
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El-Sayed: "If all Mike Rogers got is that 'his name is Abdul, and my name is Mike,' you're gonna be surprised how many people are like, 'Yeah, but that's the Abdul who wants to bring down the price of my groceries and make sure I got healthcare. So yeah, I like Abdul over your Mike from Florida.'"
El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"
Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.
A gracious concession: “I want to congratulate Abdul El-Sayed on winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. He is a doctor, a community health official, a Rhodes Scholar, and a dedicated Michigander. I am proud to offer my support as he takes on Mike Rogers in the general election…
Booker: "Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting in the lowest possible confinement after giving no information that helped us get one more investigation started and has been silent, and the man responsible for that we're about to make the attorney general of the US ... this is farcical."
When’s he gonna pitch Raycon ear buds? He’s gonna show us a sick build we can can get on Shadow whatever League of Legends if we use his link in the description.
Acyn@acyn.bsky.social · 2d agoThe President promotes Scotts Miracle-Gro in the middle of an Oval Office event: The best grass you can get. Scotts, you know Scotts? Scott's Miracle-Gro, they're doing it. They do great grass. I got to give him a plug because they did the White House for free.
getting tired of people on the left still launching substack newsletters after all the reporting on that company in recent years
"Democrats may fail to unite around their candidate" is a mischaracterization. Democrats will unite around their candidate. Those who don't are Republicans.
Exclusive: Never-El-Sayed moment in Michigan?
Democrats may fail to unite around their candidate in the general.
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Ban stock trading and revolving door careers. But couple it with a serious pay hike to bring legislators on board.
Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01)@repstansbury.bsky.social · 2d agoIt’s past time to BAN CONGRESSIONAL STOCK TRADING! No member of Congress [or the White House] should be trading stocks. Period. The American people deserve to know their representatives are working for them, not corporations and stock portfolios. It’s time to ban Congressional stock trading.
Bet you didn't know that the Little Morton Salt Girl is an immortal being who existed before there was life on Earth.
New in PN: Moderate Democrats have a choice to make "They can spend the next three months reinforcing Republican messaging about their party & making it less likely Dems take power. Or they can put the 'battle for the soul of the party' off for a while and do what they can to help their party win."
Moderate Democrats have a choice to make
Do they want to help their party win, or do they want to whine about the left?
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What's revealing here is that Iran and Oman are negotiating what is essentially a shared hormuz toll ("service fee") agreement. So the US is moving pretty rapidly to treat a post-war toll system as a given. 'Come up with an agreement on tolls or we'll attack!!' In other words, a massive defeat.
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2d agoUS President Donald Trump is pushing Iran to reach a deal with Oman on the Strait of Hormuz as soon as Tuesday, or face devastating air strikes on the country.
The proposition that the president of the United States is an adjudicated rapist isn't an argument. It is a fact.
People love a bad thing done by people, and hate a bad thing done by a complex system. Because people love to hate people. And hate complexity. Not confused by complexity. Actively hate it, and want to banish it.
Erika Hall@erikahall.bsky.social · 3d agoIt continues to fuck me up that we stay thinking about 9/11 but want to memory hole Covid so bad we're destroying the entire concept of public health in the US.
![In the United States, there have been 103,436,829[3] confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 1,238,563[3] confirmed deaths, the most of any country, and the 17th highest per capita worldwide.[43] The COVID-19 pandemic ranks as the deadliest disaster in the country's history.[44] It was the third-leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2020, behind heart disease and cancer.[45] From 2019 to 2020, U.S. life expectancy dropped by three years for Hispanic and Latino Americans, 2.9 years for African Americans, and 1.2 years for White Americans.[46] In 2021, U.S. deaths due to COVID-19 rose,[47] and life expectancy fell.[48]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ty2kxmxjmtealqi2kc7f4pww/bafkreiej6o22cdapxm6lj3rgrrznhhijzm5kpcjmvscemg2g7vg4tzm7na)
Starts when I was born. I’m just saying. Hot.
Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · 3d agoI'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
RFK Jr: We had the highest death rate from covid of any nation on earth BASH: That's not accurate RFK Jr: What I said was accurate BASH: There are other countries that had higher RFK Jr: When Fauci was mismanaging the pandemic, he was doing it under the Biden administration
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You have to think about the structure of a shit sandwich: bread of shit, meat of shit, cheese, lettuce, mayonnaise… even the salt and pepper is made of little tiny shits. On a shit plate, with a shit napkin.
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 4d ago🤷🏼
My mom ran our village library in what had once been the interurban station that had been the western terminus of a street car system that had connected my tiny village all the way to Detroit. Kids and the elderly could easily get anywhere. Then travel became a privilege for car owners.
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d agoIs everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.
even the worst abusers can avail themselves of some professional crisis comms assistance. and yet ...
The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 4d agoRep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"
A conspiracy theory seems to stem from the desire to explicitly punish people for their conscious malicious acts, rather than to correct systemic problems that emerge largely out of complexity. Complexity can only be tolerated when there is human agency, and blame.
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4d agoRFK told Dana Bash that Lyme disease “almost certainly” came from gain of function research. Which is utterly false. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
i'm gonna be honest i'm a little confused by this whole freakout over the pied-a-terre tax because property titles have literally always been public? "who owns this house" is a thing you have been able to look up since before America existed, ownership records have always been public
The Republican party is a stochastic terrorist organization in the same way that the KKK is and for the same reasons, and should be treated accordingly.
Surely Infantino's position at FIFA is untenable. FIFA is untenable Perhaps the main continental football associations should withdraw & organise a new World Cup