[Bones McCoy]

Looking at projected figures for who's likely to lose healthcare. The states that expanded Medicaid get it worse than those that didn't. Some of the richer blue states might be able to do something about that. But Red states who expanded Medicaid get hit really badly as well. Louisiana, Kentucky aren't wealthy enough to do much about the losses their Senators (with the exception of Rand Paul) have just visited on them.

At least they'll have their nice red hats.

Shades of blue passports.

[Oboogie]

So Trump's got his Big Beautiful Bill passed.

I wonder what he told all those Republican Congressmen who were worried it would prevent their re-election?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvg8882p49et

[Boiler]

By coincidence, my sister sent me a photo of Harry S. Truman's house, which they visited today. It looked a modest little place: cf. the tackfest that Mar-a-Lago is bound to be.

[Abernathy]

Someone has had a go at answering a question about Donald Trump that’s been bugging me ever since Trump first blipped on my radar, namely :

How is it that half of America looks at Donald Trump and doesn’t find him morally repellent? He lies, cheats, steals, betrays, and behaves cruelly and corruptly, and more than 70 million Americans find him, at the very least, morally acceptable. Some even see him as heroic, admirable, and wonderful. What has brought us to this state of moral numbness?

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archi ... e=facebook

[Tubby Isaacs]

So Trump's got his Big Beautiful Bill passed.

I wonder what he told all those Republican Congressmen who were worried it would prevent their re-election?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvg8882p49et

He told them "Support it, or I'll get you primaried".

[Spoonman]

Tr*mp decides to stick his oar in to Brazil's affairs, Lula gives a measured response. Certainly a better backbone than Mark Rutte, at least.

[Andy McDandy]

https://www.thepoke.com/2025/07/10/list ... l-bananas/

This is actually quite enlightening - an actress reads out a Trump speech, as if it were delivered by a normal person. We're so used to him and his delivery that when you hear it in a new way, you realise just how full of fucking wank he is. Just utter gibberish, petty snarks, and non-sequiturs.

[Rosvanian]

It's terrifying really, and as clear an indication you'll ever see that Trump is an absolute clown and that much cleverer, sinister and yes, wicked people, are beavering away destroying the USA as we knew it, with him as their useful idiot stooge.

[The Weeping Angel]

It's amazing how, despite the talk online about how much of a master strategist Trump is he has managed in less than a year to lose support on immigration.

[Abernathy]

This is, apparently, for real. Rosie O'Donnell is "a threat to humanity".

[Oboogie]

I take it she criticised Trump in some way?

[Youngian]

Just sharing commonly held thoughts that Trump’s an evil POS. If O'Donnell has an Irish passport I doubt Trump’s threats are too much of a worry.
https://pagesix.com/2025/07/12/celebrit ... tizenship/

[Andy McDandy]

He's taking on Betty Rubble? SHOTS FIRED!