An anecdote I cherish is Mandy Patinkin once asked Rob Reiner what The Princess Bride was about. Reiner said it’s about a grandfather telling his grandson that the most important thing in in the world is love. I think that’s beautiful.
RFK Jr seriously needs to keep his mouth shut. You don’t get to tell women to “just breastfeed” in a country with no national paid leave, no guaranteed paid pumping breaks at work, no affordable childcare, and workplaces that barely accommodate lactating parents. Breastfeeding isn’t just a choice, it’s a system dependent behavior. If you want to promote it, you’d better start with the systems that make it possible.
President of the American College of Physicians and liaison to the HHS Advisory Committee of Immunization Practices, Dr. Jason Goldman: "I have spent two days dealing with Sec. Kennedy's vaccine committee. They are destroying our public health infrastructure.
Mitch McConnell didn’t just wake up one morning and decide to wipe out 95% of the $28B U.S. hemp industry.
Now we know why: he took nearly $900,000 from the alcohol lobby and then quietly slipped a hemp ban into a shutdown bill that threatens 300,000 American jobs.
YES: Rep. Jasmine Crockett calls for all 50 states to ABOLISH voting machines owned by Dominion, which is now owned by a MAGA election-denying Trump supporter.
They are about to shut down small farms and CBD/microbusinesses with a few lines of text tucked into a 1,000+ page bill nobody gets time to read. That’s not governance, it's sabotage.
This is officially one of the strangest pictures in American history, and I do not doubt that it will be considered iconic a hundred years from now.
100% serious here.
“They were careless people, they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby