Josh

Fan of Detroit sports, U of M, history, politics, star wars and a little bit of everything else.

[DIN Intel Network @DININTELNETWORK]

This exchange just happened on the Senate floor.
Cornyn: “I don’t understand how the SAVE Act disenfranchises voters.”

Durbin: “Happy to explain. Driver’s licenses don’t qualify under the bill. 50% of Americans don’t have passports.”
Cornyn: “Why not just amend it?”

Durbin: “When’s the last time the Senate actually amended a bill?”

Silence.

The SAVE Act requires passport-level documentation to register to vote.

50% of Americans don’t have a passport.

The people least likely to have passports: the elderly, the poor, rural Americans, young first-time voters.

The people most likely to have passports: wealthy Americans.

This is not voter protection.

This is voter selection.

And when a senator suggested fixing it — his own colleague couldn’t name the last time the Senate amended anything.

That’s the Senate in 2026.

[Gordon G. Chang @GordonGChang]

Lutnick must resign.

[Josh @ACE646]

@ostrowski_chris @TJLang70 Hutch, wonnum, Moore, don't need dline.
Corners weren't traded yesterday so not available.
Got depth safety for 6th or could have gotten Kirby replacement for 2nd and 5th. If they think Kirby coming back and like branch and Clark, why trade so much?

[Dave Smith @ComicDaveSmith]

It’s just too pathetic watching the few remaining Trump supporters trying to dunk on Massie. You should probably wait more than a week after that catastrophic beat down to start talking about who’s “taking Ls.”

Massie was absolutely right about the war that ruined Trump’s Presidency. Everyone knows that.

He introduced articles of impeachment against Hegseth for killing school girls for fucks sake.. This wasn’t lying about a blow job, fake ass Ukraine-gate or that obvious inside job Jan 6th. Good for him for doing it.

If you had listened to Massie instead of Levin, you would be sitting on majorities right now.

[Honolulu Blues @HonoluluBlues_]

Dan Campbell started off 1-6 with the Lions, since then he is 50-19

[Lien @Jacksonsrule]

UnitedHealth made over $6 billion in profit in just 3 months. Reportedly denying about 1 in 3 claims.
You paid your premium. They denied your claim.
They kept your money. Then they called it a "record quarter." And it's all legal.

[Josh @ACE646]

@sarahadams It's his own fault, changing name of defense department, signal gate, random firing of general's and high ranking officers, using military to bomb boats, iran war wasn't planned well, no clear win condition, no protection of allies in region and straight closure.He is political

[Saagar Enjeti @esaagar]

'Most decisions, with the perspective of time, will turn out to be the right ones, and that the perspective of history will judge the overwhelming majority of those decisions favorably.' - Donald Rumsfeld on Dec 8, 2006

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

Your health insurer shouldn’t own your doctor’s office, pharmacy, and the middleman who decides which prescriptions are covered and how much they cost.

That gives one corporation at least 4 ways to squeeze every penny out of you when you get sick.

Let's break up Big Medicine.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Massie: "I hope Hegseth addresses the 8 articles of impeachment, and doesn‘t get up and misquote the Bible in Quentin Tarantino fashion and do some pull-ups and call everybody fat and gay. I may have just given you half his speech, I don't know."

[Rami Elghandour @RamiElghandour]

This is Enron level fraud. Nvidia pumping sales by selling to fictious entities

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: The US Commerce Dept was approving sales of Nvidia, $NVDA, chips to companies in China which either did not exist, were on the sanctions list, and/or had ties to China's military, per NYT

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Massie: "I do have a message to the troops. This secretary has used our troops to go seize oil for large corporations in America. You shouldn't be used like that. You signed up to pledge your life for this country if need be, and that obligation shouldn't be diminished to stealing oil for big corporations."

[Your Daily Cents @YourDailyCentss]

If capitalism is so great, why do corporations need so many tax breaks, subsidies, exemptions, grants, legal protections, bailouts, and trade protections?

When citizens need these things, why is it socialism?

[John Craven @johncraven1]

🚨NEWS: @SenBlumenthal declines to endorse @SenSchumer as the next Senate Majority Leader

Blumenthal just told reporters: "We need a conversation about leadership going forward because we need new energy and ideas"

[Val for Nevada @ValforNevada]

PLEASE GOD DONT TAKE AWAY MY PRIVATE INSURANCE, I LOVE MY $10,000 DEDUCTIBLE

[KelFuller @BlushandChaos]

Thomas Massie voted with the Republican Party over 90% of the time.
The only time he didn’t is when the Republicans protected pedophiles, started endless wars and voted to bankrupt Americans.

I think you have your “backstabbers” mixed up.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I’ve seen some of my colleagues say @SecWar Hegseth has been effective and they agree with the war, so they’ll vote not to impeach.

That’s not the question though. The question is whether he committed impeachable acts, and the answer is yes, eight times:
https://t.co/JnrtWL15Sb

[Mykhailo Rohoza @MykhailoRohoza]

Pete Hegseth was reportedly handed a briefing card explaining why a highly decorated U.S. general was not responsible for security at the site of the deadly Kabul airport bombing. He glanced at it — and, according to The New York Times, replied: “I don’t care.”

That is one of the most striking revelations in a New York Times investigation into the campaign against Gen. Christopher Donahue, one of the U.S. Army’s most experienced combat commanders.

According to the Times, Hegseth believed Donald Trump wanted someone held accountable for the disastrous 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan and the suicide bombing at Kabul airport that killed 13 American service members.

Donahue was a senior commander at the airport, but his paratroopers were not responsible for security at Abbey Gate when the bomber struck. Marines were manning the gate. In other words, Donahue appears to have become a convenient target — partly because he was the general in one of the defining images of America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan.

The famous night-vision photograph shows Donahue boarding the final U.S. military flight out of Kabul, making him the last American soldier to leave Afghanistan. Hegseth reportedly became fixated on the image and repeatedly referred to it as a “selfie.” It wasn’t. The photograph was taken by an Army photographer. Donahue did not take it and did not distribute it.

Hegseth’s then-chief of staff, Joe Kasper, reportedly tried to correct the record. On the way to the White House, Kasper handed Hegseth a card laying out several basic facts: the photograph was not a selfie, Donahue had not distributed it, and Donahue’s troops were not responsible for Abbey Gate when the bombing occurred.

According to the Times, Hegseth briefly looked at the card, handed it back and said: “I don’t care.”

Donahue’s military record makes the episode even more extraordinary. He served for roughly three decades, completed more than 20 combat deployments, commanded Delta Force and later helped develop new approaches to drone warfare after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. His supporters reportedly regarded him as a generational military talent.

Yet the more senior officers and lawmakers tried to defend him, the more determined Hegseth allegedly became. An effort to arrange a meeting between Donahue and Vice President JD Vance was reportedly derailed after Hegseth learned about it. Senators were later told that lobbying on Donahue’s behalf was only hardening Hegseth’s position.

On August 27, Donahue retired from the Army.

The contrast is remarkable. When a congressman previously suggested that troops deployed to Los Angeles had not been properly cared for, Hegseth indignantly declared: “No one in senior leadership cares more about troops than this secretary.”

But when his own chief of staff reportedly placed evidence in front of him showing that a distinguished combat commander was not responsible for the security failure Hegseth associated him with — and that the supposed “selfie” he had fixated on wasn’t even a selfie — Hegseth apparently did not ask for more information.

He did not reconsider. He did not ask whether he might be scapegoating the wrong man. According to The New York Times, he simply handed the card back: “I don’t care.”

Those three words say more about the episode than any congressional testimony ever could.

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[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Here is crazy that pretty much every F500 CEO is complicit in

1. They self insure - good thing
2. They hire a third party administrator that is owned by a Too Big To Care insurance company. - Really Bad
3. They allow that TPA to deny care determined by the doctors that the TPA selected to be in network - Horrifically bad
4. They don’t tell the CEOs about the denied care , when it’s their money and ultimately their decision as to whether they should pay for care - more horrific
5. Employees and their families get sicker while the denial is appealed. Again, when the ceo has no clue. Even if the cost to help the patient could a small amount. - insane

Big self insured companies do dumb shit that makes the cost of care in this country far higher than it should be.

It’s not their core competency and they often listen to consultants whose interests are not aligned with theirs.