Based on the fact that the hospital refused to answer any questions from his wife until after ICE kidnapped him from their facility it seems a lot more likely that they were more concerned with not producing any evidence that might incriminate ICE agents than they were with their patient's well-being

That one member of the party who always took the empire's side

Also his unwavering support of military aid for Israel put them in the position where they felt like they could push for this

If there's anything the last 10-15 years of politics should have taught us it's that we need to neutralize the Joe Bidens and Hillary Clintons of the world or we're going to inevitably end up with more Donald Trumps seizing power

Same situation as it was with universal healthcare, Obama wanted the appearance of caring about his voters but he was never willing to actually fight for them when the rich and powerful opposed something. He made more attempts at Social Security than he did at closing Guantanamo.

"Peter?"

"Michael."

"What do you know about If Books Could Kill?"

"Is it a podcast about the Supreme Court decisions that have left our nation flying blind like Malcolm Gladwell thinks all Korean aircraft pilots do?"

"No, that's your other show."

Theme song

Oh yeah, the show where the main character sleeps with an underaged guy and it's played off for laughs and has a Chinese best friend who only exists to say racist and sexist stuff the white male writers wish they could say? Yeah, everything about that fits.

A roster of Vance’s YLS class might make you think the country’s run by an Ivy League cabal.

"Run" implies that these idiots have some kind of plan when they're pretty clearly just flailing through day to day, but otherwise no shit it is Vanity Fair, and fuck you for trying to downplay it

Also, the title is a reference to a book the author apparently expects us to be familiar with, which also sucks because the book in question is a dusty old piece of hateful garbage

Listen to a podcast about William F Buckley's God and Man at Yale or read an archived copy of a transcript.

Federal spending on the initiative grew from $12 million to $17 million between 2021 and 2024. During the same period, the audit found that 39% of money for the Missing and Murdered Unit was redirected toward other Bureau of Indian Affairs law enforcement costs, including upgrading vehicles.

Thank you Joe "fund the police" Biden, very cool /s

For real, if you have to market yourself as a moderate (which unfortunately probably is the only way to win the DC suburbs for now) you can still push through decent policies on the DL and then just play the "why are you asking me about trans people when American households want to know how they're going to pay for groceries" schtick when Fox news whines about it. It's not hard at all to protect marginalized communities while still projecting a moderate image as much as some moderates have tried to pretend otherwise.

I'd rather have someone actually doing shit, than sitting on their thumbs vomiting empty platitudes.

Meanwhile in reality Mamdani gets this and five other things done before lunchtime and centrists like Jeffries and Schumer just stay spouting useless platitudes

I remember them covering for GWB during the lead up to the Iraq war and covering for Reagan during Iran-Contra. They are 110% bootlicking collaborators who will always side with whoever they think is the most powerful.

Ed should have called that bluff instead of giving in