The sick thing is, the government's motion is likely correct here. But check out this kicker. No bar is too low for them to slither under. wtop.com/local/2025/0...

Read this column from @jackmirkinson.bsky.social in @thenation.com. Read it. Sit with it. Contact your legislators and tell them exactly this.

Medicare IS affected.

I got an email from their marketing department claiming credit here. How sick is that?

I can't believe the Nats didn't bring Lucas Sims back out after it started raining. Missed opportunity!

Ask your representatives to use the tools at their disposal to demand the Executive Branch uphold the rule of law.
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Finally, Brooks concludes by admitting "Trumpism is doomed," but goes on to imply that the left is not actually helping to defeat it unless we all give up our horrible no good lefty ways of thinking.

(7/11)

Later in the discussion, he proposes reform. Again, I would argue that expanding access to working class students has been a progressive agenda item for decades. An honest broker would just say he wants affirmative action for "conservatives." The abundance agenda he describes is straight (5/11)

However, Brooks just can't resist falling back on his stock in trade. The reactionaries never would have won over the conservatives if only the liberals had fallen in line with conservative wishes. (3/11)

In the column, David Brooks takes a break from his usual career-long writing pattern (best summarized as trying to persuade "the left" to drop liberal values and adopt conservative ones) to lament the shift of power within the Republican party from "conservatives" to "reactionaries." (2/11)