Behold: Republican permitting reform.

Social media, especially Twitter, is destroying our country. This guy supposedly went to Princeton. But social media encourages you to live in this kind of delusional dreamstate, where things become true because they feel good to say. And MAGA simply extends that idea into far-right politics.

Do these guys just never accept that sometimes the enemy also gets a vote

Scoop: Trump has started demolishing the White House's East Wing facade to build his ballroom. The president had claimed construction of the $250 million building wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure. /W @ddiamond.bsky.social wapo.st/4hqBNiU

one of the reasons I was substantially ahead of the curve during the pandemic was that I treated China as a real place, and assumed that the Chinese government and scientists as making decisions for real reasons - not always good ones, but real ones!

no, journos like talmon genuinely make the media worse by their employment

The ACA was gutted by Democrats. you can argue those key democrats could've been sidin with what many see as the more liberal/patient centered options. or you could say it was unfortunate that Dems didnt have 60+ more liberal senators.

but it was Democrats.

Johnson blames the No Kings protests. Says “it is quite ironic.” Johnson says “if President Trump was a king” the government would be open.

This isn't new, this isn't surprising. This is just America being America. But I'm sure the random fishermen being bombed for no reason, funding Israel to genocide palestine, funding the UAE to genocide sudan, or the endless war in ukraine didn't cross your mind before realizing "oh, this is bad".