Staggering - AND sobering. Average cost of Employer Sponsored Health Insurance (ESI) for an American Family of 4 is now $37,824 - per year. Sidenote: The employer contribution declined from 61% in 2005 to 58% in 2026

Not believing in science really comes back to bite you, doesn’t it?

“I believe it is imperative that the architect of the deal, Vice President Vance and his negotiating partners….” They’re setting up Vance to take the fall.

#BREAKING: Deposing Attorney: Do you regret that people lost income to support their lives?  DOGE Bro: “No. I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from $2 trillion to close to zero.” Deposing Attorney:  Did you reduce the federal deficit? DOGE Bro: “No, we didn’t.” Deposing Attorney: So you weren’t able to reduce the federal deficit and you still don’t regret that people lost some of their livelihood based on your actions? DOGE Bro: “No.” 🤦‍♀️

It means you live in an aurhoritarian political climate with a mob boss style leader.

This is not residual algae. This is not sabotage. This is not sea monkeys. This is not going away. This is the result of incompetence and creating a heat sink in a shallow non chlorinated pool.

JFK once invited to dinner 49 Nobel laureates, Robert Frost, William Styron, Ernest Hemingway, James Baldwin, Katherine Anne Porter, John Dos Passos, James Farrell and Lionel and Diana Trilling, and others. His line on the occasion became famous: “I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House—with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." Some of you were alive when that happened.

This is the official channel of the United States Army broadcasting a private corporations live feed. This is illegal. No one in the Republican Congress will lift a finger.

We spent over $70B bombing them. We will spend $300B to rebuild them. We lost this war, and now we will be funding Iran.

original iran nuclear deal: “under no circumstances will iran ever seek, develop or acquire any nuclear weapon.”

... that history prof at Yale must be *so* proud.

"Peter, small question for you: Is the post-World War II international liberal order created and maintained by the United States over?" @JeffreyGoldberg asked. "Yes," said @peterbakernyt. "Our understanding of what we thought the world order was for the last 80 years is over."

Hegseth removed Chappie James's portrait from the Air Force Art Gallery and left the wall empty. James flew 179 combat missions across two wars. First Black four-star general in US military history. Curry passed that portrait every day for a decade. When it came down, he retired. The wall is still empty.

Hitler killed himself and Germany surrendered. Japan got nuked. Do they teach history in Ohio?

"This Sunday night’s UFC spectacle on the South Lawn...captures something about this moment in our history. It's vulgar, violent, commercial, grandiose, tacky, and it dishonors a place once thought worthy of care and respect. In other words, it’s Donald Trump." open.substack.com/pub/thebul…

we have the money, we can pay the benefits. If our kids have trouble it will be because of Elon Musk and the billionaires, not Social Security. FWIW, if Musk's trillion dollars makes sense, then the country will be very rich, not poor as Jason implies.

Yea - let's find *more* ways to fleece Americans with their healthcare. ~1/3 GoFundMe listings are med related ~27M uninsured ~60-70M underinsured ~$200 B med debt in active collections ~$30K = Avg cost of ESI (family of 4 - PPO coverage)

It’s not about arguments. It’s about facts. I know one great fact about American elections, and I know it because the Republican Party has proved it to me: There is no election fraud of any consequence anywhere in the United States. The Republican Party and its allies, FOR DECADES, have been searching high and low, in every corner of our country, for evidence of election fraud. This effort has been made with vast sums of money and other resources, and with some of the greatest powers in our nation at the party’s disposal: A presidential commission under President Donald Trump. The Department of Justice under President Donald Trump, armed with the resources of the FBI, and the powers of subpoena. Committees of Congress under Republican control, also armed with the powers of subpoena and the investigative resources of the first branch of government. State legislatures under Republican control, also with subpoena powers, have launched similar efforts to find evidence of election fraud. Republican-controlled states have set up special commissions and task forces, some with subpoena powers, all well-funded and with access to the state’s electoral systems. Conservative academics and think tanks have launched projects seeking out evidence of election fraud. Fox News and the rest of MAGA media have dedicated significant resources to finding evidence of election fraud. What is the result of this enormous Republican effort to find election fraud? Ask The Heritage Foundation. For nearly a decade, Heritage has maintained an “Election Fraud Database.” The database contains “proven instances of election fraud.” It covers elections going back nearly fifty years. That’s billions and billions of American votes. Right now, the total number of proven instances of election fraud that Heritage can document is: 1620. That’s an infinitesimal number, vanishingly small, and it is solid proof of two things: 1. Some individuals commit election fraud. 2. There is no evidence at all of systemic or even widespread election fraud anywhere in the USA. The election-fraud panic is the Big Lie of our time. It is peddled by people who know better. Their own investigations over decades demonstrate that. Stop trying to subvert our democracy. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

Trump said something outside a press gaggle that I don’t think enough people caught. A reporter called him out on the corruption. He gave three responses. 1. I have the right to do it. 2. He’s not stealing that much. A billion or two billion dollars. Not that much money. Classic Trump. 3. People don’t care. That’s the permission structure. Our collective apathy is what they’re using to justify everything happening in Washington right now. Please stand up and prove him wrong.

GOP loves to rally around this battle cry but "pricing transparency" is just a big distraction b/c seeing a price isn't agency to influence it and "shoppable" healthcare isn't a big healthcare cost category.

Possibly the most painful chart to look at in energy policy: