The war in Iran began with a dream of violence. The question now is whether that tyrannical emotional state, the utopia of violence, that brought us the war will be applied inside the United States.
snyder.substack.com/p/utopias-of...
The US spends more on healthcare than its peer high-income nations (relative to the size of its economy)
It gets the worst health outcomes among that group of countries
Oh, & a new survey conducted between Oct & Dec 2025 finds that fewer than half of Americans say they can afford such care
Polyvagal theory and the neurobiology of connection – the science of rupture, repair, and reciprocity www.themarginalian.org/2026/06/22/p...
The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, best known as a Reaganomics champion, is using anti-LGBTQ+ politics to advance its broader political goals. But that wasn’t always part of its strategy.
When Republican senators like John Cornyn and Bill Cassidy become lame ducks and suddenly start telling the truth about Trump, it exposes the culture of cowardly silence that dominates the Republican Party.
Timothy Snyder
How many thousands of people would need to be arrested to adequately cover for Dumpy’s immense incompetence?
open.substack.com/pub/heatherd...
Corrupt Ken Paxton is (predictably) calling his opponent schoolyard taunts like “Low-T Talarico” “Six Gender Jimmy” “Tofu Talarico.”
Talarico's response?
“Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.”
I love it. Chef's kiss perfect.
Maria Popova
So a "win" is a worse—and at that, exponentially more fragile—version of where we were in 2015?
Forget about setting a low bar, what about setting *any* bar whatsoever?
Why does Barack Obama get called a terror funder for running 10 marathons and Trump gets a trophy for tripping over his own feet?
Prof Gavin Yamey
"After analyzing federal and industry records, including never-before-examined data on vehicle dimensions, we found that the rise of large pickups and S.U.V.s is an important factor."
i'm sorry but how the fuck is this correlation just coming to light now?
Tom from Temecula
Ms. Magazine
Mark Jacob
Tom from Temecula
The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.www.nytimes.com
Comer: "If we have inspectors going in there and that strait is open for business and oil is flowing, then I think it's very clear the United States will have won this conflict"
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Aaron Rupar
Fewer than half of Americans say they can afford healthcare. It's the lowest rate since Gallup began tracking it five years ago.
abcnews.com/Health/fewer...
It's the lowest rate since Gallup began tracking it five years ago.
At 12:09 a.m. this morning, while the sky was pitch black outside and most Americans were asleep in their beds, the President of the United States was wide awake, hiding away from the world inside one...
Conversations with Trump aren’t “particularly useful,” Cornyn said, “because he can and will change his mind depending on the next person he talks to on the phone
“The president seems to revel in chaos, which is so different from any other leader that I’ve ever seen”
www.semafor.com/article/06/2...
The Trump-ousted Texas Republican senator sat down with Semafor to talk about how he’s using leverage and the colleagues he’s helping.
