"Speaker Johnson sees nothing... which isn't surprising, given where he is."
A fantastic, brutally accurate portrait of @SpeakerJohnson by the legendary @AnnTelnaes
If a doctor approves a procedure, no insurance company should be legally allowed to deny coverage. This is the whole reason people have insurance in the first place. If we're going to keep this shit fuck system, at least force the motherfuckers to play by the rules they wrote.
George Lopez: "Republicans be like "we hate fraud" until they are partying in Dubai with two fugitives who embezzled $15 million from a Chicago hospital.
We see you Paxton"
We’ve tallied every instance we can find of immigration authorities holding a U.S. citizen against their will for any period of time.
We found 36 cases of Americans held for at least a day without being able to contact a lawyer or their family.
https://t.co/swEfc2LTNS
Gibney's MUSK film contains no known revelations; it sounds like a solid piece of filmmaking and will shape public opinion, which is helpful. But no one, not Gibney, Isaacson, or any other chronicler of Musk's arc has covered this — and IMHO it's key.
https://t.co/UNj0sippWU
The Chi Phi gang rape at @Cornell is not the first time the university has used money to try and cover up sexual abuse on campus.
Fact: this kind of abuse is allowed to continue at colleges all over the US because it is primarily happening to women. https://t.co/MDUzV9UBTk
Many of the memecoin buyers vying for seats at Trump's next memecoin dinner appear to be based overseas, raising concerns about foreign actors buying access to the president.
https://t.co/Rv924rmh62
The billionaires warning that AI could end humanity are the same ones lobbying to write its rules. In a major new essay, Arundhati Roy argues that artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination https://t.co/Uns3stgF0P
Honoured and grateful for this shout out from @themarginalian of whom I am a big fan! “In an epoch when it is difficult to say anything original about AI, [Prophecy] offers a revelatory look at the prison we have chosen to live inside and a key out.”
https://t.co/Wff4ql1XhL
Everyone should read “Prophecy” by @CarissaVeliz. It demystifies the PR strategy of Big AI … and gives you tools to make sense of what is really going on in tech and the world.
The photo on the left is of Lynn Maro. She is the county prosecutor that represents Youngstown.Ohio...
Where a female protester was savagely beaten at a Trump rally last night.
Maro needs to have a press conference today, saying her office will investigate the police officers involved and asking for help to identify others who took part.
But I bet you, she won't do that because Lynn Maro is a Republican.
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Your semi-regular reminder that there is no mainstream survey of American religion that indicates a religious revival among Gen Z.
In fact, they are 7 points more likely to be non-religious than Millennials.
And 19 points more likely to be nones than Gen X.
"Sadly, all too many Canadians feel betrayed by the President’s attacks..."
Ah, that's your problem right there, Adam.
It's not "all too many".
It's all of us. Every single Canadian.
Your party had 4 years to stop him.
Impeachments. Lawsuits.
You dropped the ball. Not us.
It's not just Trump. Vivek Ramaswamy, who says "Our goal should not be for Putin to lose", is in politics because he was JD Vance's friend at Yale: he & Vance both met Peter Thiel, who cultivated Vance. Like all Thiel's proteges, both men praise Russia. We must ask why. 1/
"Jared Kushner is required to follow the Constitution and federal law, and if he has nothing to hide, he should welcome the opportunity to go through the Senate confirmation process and show the public everything is above board.”
We just sued. https://t.co/tYtwh8pXz3
ICYMI: Trump and allied lawmakers are escalating calls to prosecute Jack Smith, the former special counsel who led the investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents.
We’re investigating if they’re coordinating with DOJ.
https://t.co/BvBFf8gV4F
"Why [do some men] even desire sex with an unconscious woman?”
Once you confront the psychological attraction, you start seeing strains of it everywhere, like an outbreak. When, amid this very climate, a comedian cracks jokes about gym “whores” on national TV. https://t.co/qrI27otv6v
These guys have been in control for almost two years, and they want you to believe that nothing is their fault.
Republicans can’t take accountability for ANYTHING.