Yup!

My cousin died of an asthma attack on Thanksgiving a few years ago. Asthma is still deadly but people don’t remember how it used to send kids to the ER on a regular basis bc now we have such good meds to treat it - like this type of inhaler.

Donald Trump is destroying American democracy, violating human rights, ignoring the rule of law, deploying the military to U.S. cities, & using the DOJ & FBI to persecute his enemies.

Trump is shredding the U.S. Constitution. And the wannabe dictator will shred any agreement he makes with Canada.

Oregon National Guard Adjutant General, General Gronewold says if they are federalized, that he will advise the Title 10 commander to utilize National Guard Troops to PROTECT protesters at ICE facilities. This is the right answer.

Pennsylvania Republicans are aiming to erase Democrats' majority on the state supreme court in November.

But this sort of push has virtually no precedent or template in this state, making a weird campaign where everyone is trying to find their mark.

A great new read:
boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...

"So, Democrats have three words for this: no fucking way. It's literally life or death. We will not let Republicans blow up our health care system."

This is, hands down, the best comms work Chuck Schumer has done in YEARS. Surprisingly good.

SWEATER WEATHER

Your periodic reminder that you have the right to find out why your health insurer denied your claim.

We built a tool to help you do it: projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

Thanks, Una! Here's hoping folks will enjoy an old-fashioned Star Trek story in which personal stakes are enough to drive a tale. No galactic threats, imploding timelines, or falling governments. Just people who need help, and others who want to help, and some who are causing trouble.

OUT NOW!
in hardcover, eBook & digital audiobook

= STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS – RING OF FIRE =
Captain Christopher Pike and the crew of the Enterprise come to the aid of a civilian research station whose secret mission is threatened by murder and sabotage.
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The media’s job is to make you think that the people who want to give you healthcare are just as crazy as the people trying to take it away.

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Anything you really need to know is explained in the text, as it would be in any novel (every story has some kind of backstory). Though reading this will contain some minor spoilers for season three of SNW. And those who are caught up on SNW might get more of the "Easter eggs."

Wait for the reprise and the finale.

@davidmack.bsky.social, well, I'm about 7% of the way through the audiobook and, well, this feels apropos.

Really, that entire sequence was comedy gold. 😆

The imperial presidency, created by both parties since WWII must be dismantled. Every one of the aircraft carrier-sized loopholes enabling the POTUS to act as a Mad King by waving his hands & invoking “national emergency” etc. must be closed. Democracy requires it.

bsky.app/profile/mcop...

The extended Cloud Atlas trailer is, IMO, the best cut of that film.

I revisit the Fury Road trailers often too. Then I usually have to watch the film again.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWnA...

Jessica Tarlov: I'm stunned that Republicans want to draw attention to this because... the senators who were part of this investigation are not just random names that he picked off a list, but people who were named in Jack Smith's charging documents for trying to turn over a free and fair election.

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

The Baron will not be amused.

In 2023, Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray oversaw a purge of voter rolls that removed over 80,000 names. If anyone was purged by mistake, they’ll now have to meet Wyoming’s more restrictive requirements to reregister.

As basic question from an ex-police reporter: Can some of our journalists detail the training regimen all these new federal agents receive? The lethal incompetence involving use of force and perameters of the 4A suggests they are just handed guns, masks and badges and told to go fuck people up.

"Look, the President clearly has some kind of dementia" should be how Democrats begin every single comment to reporters these days.