Generic drug companies say they can profitably sell Ozempic for just $100 a month. Novo Nordisk, which has made nearly $50 billion in sales off of Ozempic and Wegovy, charges Americans almost $1,000 a month — the highest prices in the world. Why? Excessive corporate greed.

One hopeful aspect of this story is that ordinary people - across the political spectrum - have routinely shown themselves to be more decent and capable of shame and regret than the men at the top of the Republican ticket.

Garcia: Vance also claimed there has been a rise in infectious diseases. even though the county health commissioner said, “if you look at all reportable communicable diseases together for the year-ending 2023, you will see we are at the lowest rate since 2016”

The Teamsters thing is another hit to 'deliverism,' the idea that if you deliver economic goods to people through policy, you'll get their vote. The ARP literally bailed out 350k Teamsters pensions. But today's politics is the culture war. democracyjournal.org/arguments/the-…

Not unpopular and very much correct. This is legislation that was pushed through by powerful interests and has a ton of momentum. It needs to be stopped.

A lot of this looks like post-debate noise, and maybe it is, but it also would be much more in line with what metrics like the Washington primary actually suggested for Democrats: an improvement of a point or so over 2020 in areas similar to the Midwest.

New Fox News/Howard University Poll of Likely Black Voters in 7 Swing States: 🔵 Kamala Harris 82% 🔴 Donald Trump 12% ⚪️ Undecided 5% This is exactly where Trump was in 2020, indicating that he is not gaining Black votes. foxnews.com/politics/overw…

The cynical theory behind congestion pricing suspension was that it would help swing seat Dems. What happened? Swing seat Rs took credit for pressuring Hochul, no voters moved toward her/Dems. A mess on policy *and* politics.

I’ve been watching for this for a while: A very boring (but plausible) Harris victory scenario would just be that Trump hasn’t hit his floor yet with suburban voters, college+ voters, post-Dobbs and that makes up for some losses with voters elsewhere.

This is an incredibly generous statement, and it’s a travesty that the Harris campaign still couldn’t meet these basic asks. Uncommitted turned out over 100,000 voters in Michigan and almost a million around the country. Meeting these asks wouldn’t even be a risk! 1/

Did he eat someone’s pet?

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It’s interesting that some websites that are very interested in the subject of antisemitism have no interest in the North Carolina governor’s race.

Vance, a more rigorous thinker than most politicians, concedes that the autarky trade agenda means lower material living standards and argues straightforwardly that it’s a price worth paying.

You know how Musk will post a provocative thing and just simply say “interesting” but you know he endorses the thing? Interesting “Four of Maga’s most influential voices are fiftysomething white men with formative experiences in apartheid South Africa” ft.com/content/cfbfa1…

Breaking: 3 weeks before early voting MAGA majority on Georgia state election board votes to require hand count of ballots, which will make counting longer, costlier & more inaccurate. Will be used as yet another pretext for GOP boards not to certify election if Harris wins

The tl;dr of Daniel Dale’s thread is that Springfield, OH had 5 murders in 2021 and 9 murders in 2023, but the overall number of murders in the last 4 years (22) is lower than the overall number of murders from 2017 - 2020 (32). Not a single one has involved a Haitian immigrant.

Looks like Nebraska's still short of votes on scrapping its electoral vote system. Key supporter in legislature says they're 2 or 3 off and no minds changed. omaha.com/news/state-reg…

The way Islamophobia and anti-Arab hatred is so deeply normalized and accepted in our politics is horrifying. It rarely receives the equal condemnation it deserves. It is inexcusable and a massive double standard. This is disgusting. And so is the silence around it. We see it.

Footage of two New York City police officers opening fire at a subway station as they confronted a man holding a knife shows they fired at him as he was standing still, his arms by his side and his back to a train. apnews.com/article/nyc-su…