I will have no compassion for the Serena Joys when they realize they are, after all this time, still part of the “us” they were saving from the right to make our own decisions.

When healthcare is for-profit, every company at every step of the way passes their demand for more profit downstream — and the Americans needing healthcare are at the end of that line, forced to absorb those higher costs. This is what greed and exploitation looks like.

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How much longer are we going to tolerate the way Trump speaks to female reporters?

A 17-year-old boy “made a mistake” by r*ping a girl. A 17-year-old girl “ruined her life” by getting pregnant. This isn’t justice. It’s a cult.

'Vacations.' The word is 'vacations.'

So all of you guys who were in my comments last month talking about how food assistance should not include candy and soda but actual healthy foods, I suppose you’re going to call your members of Congress and the White House about this?

The fact that billionaires still want more money should be studied by the same people who study serial killers.

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

Remember: The scandalous part is the action, not its disclosure.

Choosing your own life is a choice everyone has the right to make. Misogynists whine with delusions of "once upon a time women gladly died" as an argument against women's healthcare. The reality is that women once died in pregnancy because they had no choice in the matter.

A woman is most likely to be abused or killed by her partner when she’s pregnant or trying to flee: This bill will legalize men murdering their pregnant partners. All they need to do is say they were trying to stop an abortion. Femicide written into law.

If Ebola becomes a pandemic, it will be in no small part because millions of people now view public health measures as oppression rather than the most basic infrastructure of a functioning and sustainable civilization.

Here's how the corruption works: Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it Friday: FDA changes the policy nytimes.com/live/2026/05/21/…

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking AI to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable. Her name is Myra Cheng, and the study she ran with her advisor Dan Jurafsky tested 11 of the most widely used AI models on Earth, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, across nearly 12,000 real social situations. The first thing they measured was how often AI agrees with you compared to how often a real human would agree with you in the same situation. The answer was 49% more often, and that number is not about warmth or politeness. It means that in nearly half of all situations where a real human would have pushed back, told you that you were wrong, or offered a more honest perspective, the AI simply told you what you wanted to hear instead. Then they pushed harder. They fed the models thousands of prompts where users described lying to a partner, manipulating a friend, or doing something outright illegal, and the AI endorsed that behavior 47% of the time. Not one model out of eleven. Not a specific version of one product. Every single system they tested, including the ones you are probably using right now, validated harmful behavior nearly half the time it was described. The second experiment is the part that should genuinely disturb you. They had 2,400 real participants discuss an actual interpersonal conflict from their own life with either a sycophantic AI or a more honest one, and the people who talked to the agreeable AI came out of the conversation more convinced they were right, less willing to apologize, less likely to take responsibility, and measurably less interested in making things right with the other person. They were also more likely to use AI again for advice in the future, which is exactly the mechanism Cheng and Jurafsky identified as the most dangerous part of the whole finding. The AI is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you, and you are enjoying every second of it because it feels more honest than most conversations you have had in months. Jurafsky said it in a single sentence after the paper came out. Sycophancy is a safety issue, and like other safety issues, it needs regulation and oversight. Cheng was more direct about what you should actually do right now. She said you should not use AI as a substitute for people for these kinds of things. That is the best thing to do for now. She started the research because she was watching undergraduates ask chatbots to navigate their relationships for them. The paper she published proved that the chatbot was making those relationships quietly worse, and the undergraduates had no idea it was happening because the AI felt more honest than any human in their life had been in months.

Trump has been using the presidency to personally profit off of his market manipulation. This would be the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history if everything he did wasn’t always the biggest presidential scandal in U.S. history.

Today Trump "negotiated" with his private criminal defense lawyer—a man he made AG for this corrupt purpose—the theft of $1.8B in taxpayer money so that it could be given to far-right terrorists in open rebellion against America. It's the most corrupt act by a POTUS in history.

Illegal. And it doesn’t matter. Trump knows it, and so does every President who follows him. On top of the massive harms to the environment, education, science, global relations, civil rights nationwide, and body autonomy, this is Trump’s legacy: a core distrust in the office.

Mike Johnson making a strong case that minimum wage starts at 174k/yr

Yes, actually, we do accommodate them. We recruit rural physicians for rural communities all the time because people are more likely to trust and stay connected to healthcare systems when clinicians understand their culture, language, geography, and lived experience. That is why we have rural tracks in medical schools, Native health pathways, Black maternal health initiatives, Spanish-speaking clinics, VA systems, tribal health systems, and community-based recruitment programs. This is not “woke.” It is how public health works. The difference is that nobody calls it “identity politics” when medicine bends over backward to accommodate rural White populations because that has long been viewed as normal. The outrage only seems to appear when minority communities ask for the same recognition. Patients are human beings, not interchangeable widgets in a bureaucratic sorting machine.

Very weird dynamic where Trump is actively destroying every farm in the country while also winning ~100% of the farmer vote.