Didn’t he campaign on housing prices? His slimy running mate even spread a few lies about illegal immigrants buying up all the housing between couch thrusts.

It wasn’t ICE, it was CBP.

Which is even more asinine as Minneapolis isn’t exactly a port of entry.

I got an email from the Illinois Department of Public Health detailing the Illinois vaccine schedule for 2026. I’ve been practicing for 11 years and get periodic emails from them (food borne illness outbreaks, disease outbreaks, etc.) but this is the first time I’ve ever gotten a vaccine schedule from them. I expect to receive it early going forward.

Anyway, it was the same sensible, evidence-based schedule I’ve come to expect from IDPH, and matches what the CDC’s schedule looked like up until last year. I’ll have no trouble staying compliant with the IDPH guidelines.

1:1:1

Of course he has, and anyone who thought he wasn’t was blissfully naive.

Project 2025 Tracker

“a proprietary habitation modules system and automated process for transforming lunar soil into durable structures”

Smells like bullshit to me.

The moon isn’t zero G.

Supreme Court: Uno Reverse card.

It actually makes sense if you think about it.

Titanic was Cameron’s previous record breaker, and still has more cultural impact than Avatar. Why? Because it’s also one of the best selling home media films of all time. People watched it in theaters, then took it home and watched it again. They watched it when it aired on tv.

Even before home media, movies like Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz were released in theaters multiple times, and then later were sold on home media and aired on tv. Home media films are the ones generations grow up with and continue to talk about.

Avatar movies are purely theatrical films. How many people are rewatching them dozens of times on streaming? Likely very few. So the buzz only shows up when one enters theaters, and once the theater run is done the buzz dies down.

And between films, people only really talk in meta-commentary: the box office, whether the films are overrated, whether they have cultural impact, etc. No one is comparing Jake Sully to Captain Kirk or Luke Skywalker, no one is shipping characters, no one’s commenting on the plot at all, they only talk about the films as films.

Alas, what started in their network soon became a social currency for adults online. Gen Xers and Millennials—the parents of today’s middle schoolers—couldn’t leave six-seven be; they’re accustomed to burning through such memes like their parents or grandparents did cigarettes, as if culture writ large can withstand habitual abuse. Social-media-influencer culture also latched on to the phrase for its own attentional ends, as did brands, the indefatigable scavengers. These forces stole six-seven from the kids who had nurtured it.

Yeah ok. It was a song lyric first and then became a TikTok basketball video meme. It was an adult meme that kids latched onto. How dare adults continue to use it and destroy childlore or whatever?

As long as they have teleporter pyramids.

As a practicing family doctor:

Women whose hepatitis B status is negative should talk with their doctors about vaccination, the recommendation says.

“Your kid should should get the vaccine.” That was easy.

The panel voted 6-4, with one member abstaining, to recommend testing children’s antibody levels after each hepatitis B shot to determine whether additional shots are needed.

I’m not ordering unnecessary blood draws on an infant, that’s both asinine and mean. That’s two extra needle sticks to not change the number of vaccine sticks the kid gets at all (Hep B comes comboed with other vaccines, so they’d still get the exact same number of shots.)

classifies such items “potentially divisive.”

That makes sense, actually. There’s a sharp divide between people who find these symbols offensive and literal NAZIs.

Since ICE agents refuse to identify themselves and often operate while wearing masks, there has been a growing number of incidents in which residents and local police cannot tell if the individual they’re dealing with is a federal agent or an opportunistic criminal.

“Yes.”

The part the Republicans deemed suitable for release.

That video’s about how long it’ll take him to release the Epstein files.

Yours must have, because it’s uncensored for me.

Prince Andrew will remain a prince, but will cease to be the Duke of York - a title received from his mother, the late Queen Elizabeth - as well as giving up membership of the Order of the Garter, the oldest and most senior order of chivalry in Britain.

[. . .]

Sarah Ferguson, his former wife, will no longer be known as the Duchess of York, but their daughters - Beatrice and Eugenie - will continue to have the title of princess.

How quaint.

https://youtu.be/gO0jiJw7GaY

80% of government “debt” is actually in the form of bonds. People voluntarily give the government more money than they’re required in taxes because they believe the government will be strong enough to pay them back interest later. The government does not have to pay down all that debt because the bonds are being cashed out at a predictable rate and people are buying new bonds all the time, so the new bonds finance the old ones.

For example, someone in 1995 buys a series EE bond at $100. It’ll be worth roughly $200-215 now, which is 30 year maturation. But due to inflation, $100 in 1995 is worth $212 today. So even though the US government paid out over $100 in interest, due to inflation it was basically a wash, and they had 30 years to invest that money in infrastructure. Meanwhile, since $100 is not worth as much now, people in the same social class are likely now buying $200 bonds, so really the US is on the hook for the last $15 or so. In short, this “debt” was actually a good deal for the US government.

The short version is the government is fine as long as it can pay the interest on its loans without needing to print so much money to do so that it causes hyperinflation. You don’t have the ability to do that with your personal debt.