Joel
Materials scientist:some range and depth, interested in making arcane topics a little more accessible.
Prior place photo was from the aughts; figured I should update.
- The proposed Republican budget will take healthcare away from 13.7 million people. That’s like taking healthcare away from every person in New York City, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia combined. We have to fight these cuts to protect American lives. apnews.com/article/medi...
- It’s a lot more like stripping health care from the entire combined population of West Virginia, Hawaii, New Hampshire, Maine, Montana, Rhode Island, Delaware, South Dakota, North Dakota, Alaska, DC, Vermont and Wyoming, but yeah. Basically.
- REPORTER: “Any message to the United States?” POPE LEO: “Many.”
- E unum, pluribus?
- Trump is currently “retruthing” a bunch of weird stuff but this one has me puzzled. What’s “beyond” the future? More future?
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- Beyond the future is a totalitarian mandate that time be forcibly ignored, after the pattern of the Year Zero in Cambodia
- Anyway, kind of wild to hear Democrats can't do politics when they keep crushing special elections. Why aren't Republicans panicking over how screwed they are every time Trump isn't on the ballot?
- Seems more like they don't know how to run against a populist authoritarian with off the charts celebrity than having a generic problem that requires them to become fascist-lite.
- They are probably confident that Roberts can bleach the electorate some more before the general
- Filthy 15
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View full threadI'm far less confused by She Bop (which has lines like "they say I'd better stop or I'll go blind," even Tipper could figure THAT one out) than by some of these others. "We're Not Gonna Take It"??? That's not even about anything specific, it's just a vague, generalized statement of non-it-taking!
- The story of congressional testimony about this song is pretty fun, I think there’s a YouTube video about it
- Cyrano de ENIAC
- Geographic sorting and partisan alignment is a big problem for Democrats in the Senate, but I don't think we have a solid answer to that either. Seems pretty inconceivable a Blanche Lincoln or Heidi Heitkamp would be successful today except in a very strong backlash.
- Radical Medicaid cuts are blisteringly unpopular, as are policies that shut down trade almost entirely, so we might see some significant backlash
- I have no interest in defending Prasad, but I think it's worth noting that the U.S.'s position on childhood immunization against COVID-19 is out of step with international guidelines. In Australia, children under 18 are only eligible for COVID-19 vaccines if they are seriously immunocompromised.
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- Haven’t we seen a higher rate of other infections among populations of children whose immune systems have been exposed to active COVID infection? Sort of like Measles?
- Winning Omaha mayor by >5 points is such a five alarm fire for the GOP.
- Several elections on tap tonight: • Omaha Mayor: Dem John Ewing up 54-46 in early vote. Would be a flip. • OK #SD08: GOP wins but another big Dem overperformance—around 20 pts • MA #HDEssex06: Dem win, double-digit Dem overperformance Special elections Big Board -->
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- Shit also goes bad when your security detail can’t hope to ever pose more of an existential threat to your constituents than the policies you’re trying to enact
