@rayloclem.bsky.social
Our employers will send $45K of our compensation to insurance companies for premiums for our family of 4 this year. We spend $45K if none of us ever sees a doctor.
Would I prefer 12% of our income be sent to the federal government instead to cover premiums AND our actual care? Fucking OBVIOUSLY.
Would I prefer 12% of our income be sent to the federal government instead to cover premiums AND our actual care? Fucking OBVIOUSLY.
R U ok with paying 8 to 12 pct more in taxes and possibly losing your standard deduction ?
R U ok with losing access to different curative medications and care because the government can't afford to pay for them, even after taxing all the billionaires 90 pct?
R U ok with losing access to different curative medications and care because the government can't afford to pay for them, even after taxing all the billionaires 90 pct?
December 12, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Our employers will send $45K of our compensation to insurance companies for premiums for our family of 4 this year. We spend $45K if none of us ever sees a doctor.
Would I prefer 12% of our income be sent to the federal government instead to cover premiums AND our actual care? Fucking OBVIOUSLY.
Would I prefer 12% of our income be sent to the federal government instead to cover premiums AND our actual care? Fucking OBVIOUSLY.
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It’s clear who the aggressors are. Keep remaining nonviolent, and record EVERYTHING. All of these masked ICE thugs will be held accountable.
November 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
It’s clear who the aggressors are. Keep remaining nonviolent, and record EVERYTHING. All of these masked ICE thugs will be held accountable.
Miller and Yglesias love to say Trump won by moderating and therefore Democrats must veer right to win. Trump went HARDEST right on the very issues (immigration, race relations) that elite Republicans saw as their biggest electoral liability and on which they begged for moderation. "Experts" indeed.
Trump did what i’m suggesting not you. He went hard right on some issues and bucked the party to the middle on others (war, medicare, social security).
October 30, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Miller and Yglesias love to say Trump won by moderating and therefore Democrats must veer right to win. Trump went HARDEST right on the very issues (immigration, race relations) that elite Republicans saw as their biggest electoral liability and on which they begged for moderation. "Experts" indeed.
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“we heard tale of expanding the tent”
October 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
“we heard tale of expanding the tent”
Gotta either find a better source of dopamine than yelling at strangers on the internet or develop some impulse control. Not looking great on either front.
October 2, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Gotta either find a better source of dopamine than yelling at strangers on the internet or develop some impulse control. Not looking great on either front.
Never been more proud of my alma mater. 💜
At one point, the camera turned back and you see it’s the ENTIRE class chasing that dude off, wow.
Wow, the University of Washington's Psych 201 class does *not* play
go fuckin Huskies
Nazi UW students fuck off
go fuckin Huskies
Nazi UW students fuck off
October 2, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Never been more proud of my alma mater. 💜
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If Dems want to pivot to "kitchen table issue" in their messaging this is the one! Say he has to come to congress for a vote on the tariffs or you don't vote for government funding bill.
September 22, 2025 at 7:21 PM
If Dems want to pivot to "kitchen table issue" in their messaging this is the one! Say he has to come to congress for a vote on the tariffs or you don't vote for government funding bill.
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As others have pointed out, the idea that we can control their behavior by modeling respectability (cooperating with the compulsory grief around Kirk, for example, and not saying truthful/angry things about him) is akin to an abused person's belief that they can control the abuse by being perfect.
September 14, 2025 at 2:39 AM
As others have pointed out, the idea that we can control their behavior by modeling respectability (cooperating with the compulsory grief around Kirk, for example, and not saying truthful/angry things about him) is akin to an abused person's belief that they can control the abuse by being perfect.
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Look, if you're a world renowned institution of higher education and a pedophile criminal with an approval rating in the 30s offers you a deal, you gotta take it
July 25, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Look, if you're a world renowned institution of higher education and a pedophile criminal with an approval rating in the 30s offers you a deal, you gotta take it
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Fascinating survey data on the missing Biden voters by Lake Research. The voters who sat out in '24 weren't looking for a centrist or turned off by trans rights. They want a genuine economic populist agenda: take on corporate greed, lower costs, and make the wealthy pay their fair share.
July 19, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Fascinating survey data on the missing Biden voters by Lake Research. The voters who sat out in '24 weren't looking for a centrist or turned off by trans rights. They want a genuine economic populist agenda: take on corporate greed, lower costs, and make the wealthy pay their fair share.
To be fair, they also don't understand how science works
Billionaires are convinced AI is on the verge of making new scientific discoveries because they don't understand how AI chatbots work.
Billionaires Convince Themselves AI Is Close to Making New Scientific Discoveries
gizmodo.com
July 19, 2025 at 6:52 PM
To be fair, they also don't understand how science works
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I keep saying it: The push for AI made so much more sense to me once I realized tech bros talked to it like a woman who won't talk back.
There's something about the way men use LLMs that feel like those men at the strip club who believe that the dancers like them for their personality and wit.
They just want a toy that makes them feel good.
They just want a toy that makes them feel good.
July 16, 2025 at 4:23 AM
I keep saying it: The push for AI made so much more sense to me once I realized tech bros talked to it like a woman who won't talk back.
Who will primary @cantwell.senate.gov? We need a Senator worthy of Washington State.
July 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Who will primary @cantwell.senate.gov? We need a Senator worthy of Washington State.
Doing a smiling photo-op with Netanyahu should be a disqualifer for elected office.
July 11, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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the story of 2019-2024 was institutions from Silicon Valley to the police facing a modicum of accountability and radicalizing themselves into support of a leader and party who promised unaccountability
What we have here is an example of an incredibly effective political action by the police that is getting blamed on progressives by people who are looking for a reason to blame them. It's bad faith all the way down.
June 17, 2025 at 1:23 PM
the story of 2019-2024 was institutions from Silicon Valley to the police facing a modicum of accountability and radicalizing themselves into support of a leader and party who promised unaccountability
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Idk man but when the administration that tried to reject humanitarian aid for Los Angeles when it was burning tries to justify their illegal military occupation by saying they aren’t going to let LA burn it kinda sounds like bullshit
June 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Idk man but when the administration that tried to reject humanitarian aid for Los Angeles when it was burning tries to justify their illegal military occupation by saying they aren’t going to let LA burn it kinda sounds like bullshit
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There is no Central Committee of Immigrants, planning protests. People are protesting with the symbols of their own community because they feel that community is under attack and want to show support for it. You cannot order them to stop this like in a strategy computer game.
June 10, 2025 at 2:07 AM
There is no Central Committee of Immigrants, planning protests. People are protesting with the symbols of their own community because they feel that community is under attack and want to show support for it. You cannot order them to stop this like in a strategy computer game.
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sending 500 marines to a county of nearly 10 million people to stand around holding their dicks with nowhere to sleep is not actually the sign of a successful declaration of martial law
what i see is a white house whose ambitions outstrip its resources, who did not count on facing mass resistance, and which is scrambling to escalate the situation in hopes that a display of force will make people shut up
June 9, 2025 at 9:38 PM
sending 500 marines to a county of nearly 10 million people to stand around holding their dicks with nowhere to sleep is not actually the sign of a successful declaration of martial law
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ICE crossed a line in LA
June 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
ICE crossed a line in LA
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not sure there's a more embarrassing profession than ICE agent. Oh, you dress like a soldier to abduct sous chefs and throw flashbangs at protesters? Get a real job you loser
June 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
not sure there's a more embarrassing profession than ICE agent. Oh, you dress like a soldier to abduct sous chefs and throw flashbangs at protesters? Get a real job you loser
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I fundamentally, profoundly disagree with this incredibly dangerous A+B take from someone who has absolutely no business pretending to be a public intellectual.
We shouldn't use polling to tell us what our values are, we should use polling to further advance the causes we value.
We shouldn't use polling to tell us what our values are, we should use polling to further advance the causes we value.
June 7, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I fundamentally, profoundly disagree with this incredibly dangerous A+B take from someone who has absolutely no business pretending to be a public intellectual.
We shouldn't use polling to tell us what our values are, we should use polling to further advance the causes we value.
We shouldn't use polling to tell us what our values are, we should use polling to further advance the causes we value.
On "Abundance"
A very succinct way to make the point I've been struggling to make. It's a Trojan Horse for libertarians to push deregulation and anti-union measures. It's not leftist YIMBYism or progressive urbanism at all.
June 7, 2025 at 4:49 AM
On "Abundance"
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In general, I can't think of much that's more useless than an elected official scolding the public about message discipline, which is not the public's job.
June 6, 2025 at 4:03 AM
In general, I can't think of much that's more useless than an elected official scolding the public about message discipline, which is not the public's job.