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You’d never suspect Republicans have been trying to slash social security and Medicare for years, based on their reactions to Joe Biden’s State of the Union address.

The Florida High School Athletics Association decided Thursday not to require student athletes to give their schools detailed information about their periods—a proposed policy that sparked widespread outcry—but will ask for their sex assigned at birth.

Republican lawmakers in Idaho want to expand the definition of “human trafficking” to include helping a minor get an abortion.

“I know everyone thinks Republicans aren’t funny. But if you get a bunch of us together, we can be a real riot.”

Last Thursday, outgoing White House chief of staff Ron Klain, President Joe Biden, and Klain’s successor, Jeff Zients, took the stage in front of a crowd of White House staffers, family members, and reporters in the East Room. The gathering was a farewell event for Klain, who, stood at the president’s right, was clearly sentimental about the moment. Zients stood at the president’s left, occasionally cracking a modest smile while his hands were firmly interlocked below his tie. When it was Klain’s turn to give remarks... Читать дальше...

Sorry to everyone who wanted more time, but the 2024 presidential election began in earnest on Tuesday. Joe Biden delivered a searing State of the Union address that laid out the themes of his reelection campaign: He used his time in office to make the economy better and fairer, and his opponents are kooks who want to cut Social Security and Medicare.

The housing crisis is insane. None of its dysfunctions are exclusive to the United States, but the country has a talent for making them hideously manifest. In Oakland, Moms 4 Housing, a group of formerly homeless mothers of color, staged a protest over rising prices. For several months in 2019, they occupied a house owned by Wedgewood Properties, a local house-flipper that was holding it vacant to upgrade and sell. The company decided that the women had stolen the home. Sheriff’s deputies got involved... Читать дальше...

hear yourself
breathe. Can you help
me. Can you
hear the fly. Can you

hear the tree. No
I don’t mean wind,
I mean the breathing of
the tree through

bark. Can u, say the grasses
please hear
us. Can we hear u hear
the tips of water on

us, lithe &
so heavy with light & bending
lens-tips. Can u
hear this e-

vaporation. Can u
keep
blessing, keep not
thinking, remind

yourself of

your own

breathing, & what
is growing—leaves root sap... Читать дальше...

1

The snake was a fall guy.

That tree
was temptation enough.

Staged apples,
drop-dead gorgeous.

2

“Not in my body!”
they shout.

Benzene in the shampoo
lead in the water;
pesticide in fruit.

They mean the new vaccine, but
isn’t there more to it?

Water on fire;
neonicotinoids in nectar;
black and tarry
stools

Nearly 700,000 people live in Washington, D.C., which makes it more populous than at least two of the Union’s states. Unlike the people of Wyoming and Vermont, though, D.C. residents only have a partial form of self-government. But the return of a Republican majority in the House has brought with it the renewed threat that these rights may get chipped away—or one day, perhaps even abolished.

Even now, the glories of Election Night 2022 shimmer in memory as smug predictions of a first-term curse afflicting Joe Biden and the Democrats took it on the chin. The Senate was saved with every Democratic incumbent reelected, and John Fetterman victorious in the Land of Oz. Election deniers and insurrectionists were routed from Phoenix to Philadelphia. Even with the House, the Democrats could rightfully snicker as the widely anticipated Republican red wave crested during pundit roundtables... Читать дальше...

Republicans’ fateful “Twitter Files” hearing on Wednesday was supposed to reveal how the social media company and the left colluded to suppress a New York Post story about Hunter Biden’s laptop. Instead, witness testimony revealed more ways the social media company accommodated right-wing speech, and was even supplicated directly by Republican elected officials—including the White House.

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez helped reveal Wednesday that Twitter changed its rules to allow Donald Trump to tweet essentially whatever he wanted.

Thanks to Representative Maxwell Frost, “pussy ass bitch” is now in the congressional record.