GOP lawmakers cite Georgia’s experiment as a model for the federal Medicaid work requirements set to take effect in 2027. A new report by a government spending watchdog found that the nation’s only Medicaid work requirement program spent twice as much on administrative costs as on health care.

Does anyone remember the conniption the right faked over Paul Well stone's funeral?

House GOP plans to honor Charlie Kirk, who called for Biden's execution www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

And they are giving the GOP a way to blame them when the premiums spike in 2027: "Democrats would only work with us to extend the subsidies for one year. We told you Obamacare was horrible, and now you're finding out". It's cynical, but that's exactly what Fox News and talk radio do.

Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week Reporter: [nods] Trump: so we must murder on the high seas Reporter: [nods] Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once Reporter: [nods] Trump: the cock on that bunny Reporter: [nods] Trump: bigger than you think Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives

Trump admin says it's stopping environmental programs in black communities because they cost too much: ~$53.5 million. I'm pretty sure he's already spent that much gov't money on golf trips. Then consider the Rose Garden, and White House Ballroom... www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Isn't that why people punch Nazis?

Obviously, there's bigger news happening right now, but Senate Republicans just voted against releasing the Epstein files. Every Democrat voted to release them. Susan Collins was the deciding vote to protect Trump and others named in the files.

#RIP Rick Davies, founder and lead singer of the British rock band Supertramp, who co-wrote some of its biggest hits, died on Saturday. He was 81. Davies had been diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a form of blood cancer, more than a decade ago” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/w...

Ok. Let's see what I can do with just 47 followers... Post something Friday Night Random. Anything. Comment. Pic. Video. Quote. Song. Gif. Movie clip. Audible link. Anything. Here's mine: "Carry the Zero" by Built to Spill remains undefeated.

Grok showed up in my Tesla this morning, and started speaking to me without me trying to trigger it. I saw a tab called "conspiracy theories", clicked it and asked Grok about climate change. This is what Elon Musk is telling Tesla drivers about climate change.

Ruin a movie: Beetleguts

Nosedive

So Big Balls got stomped. What's the evidence? Where's the woman? Dude says 8-12 attackers... Where was he? I really wanna see that police report.

I wonder if we've always lived like this... Where a Saudi prince can chop someone up with a bonesaw, a President can be in a pedo's black book, billionaire opiate pimps kill millions in broad daylight, and... ...there are no consequences. Emperor is fully naked, and we all just pretend it's not so

There were a couple cases during the first Trump administration where the Court ruled against him basically because it decided his legal argument was too embarrassing. The rise of the shadow docket has changed all that. When the conservatives don’t have to show their work, we get results like this.

if being part of the union does not entitle you to any of the benefits of the union, we do not, in any real sense, have a union

"I can't believe The New York Times did this" Trans kids? Claudine Gay? Gaza? At some point we have to stop being surprised. The right sees the Times as a vehicle for laundering its conspiracy theories and injecting it into elite America and the Times is very happy to oblige them.

Not sure who remembers, but when Tom Tillis led the NC state house after the GOP took over, he was every bit as ruthless and norm-breaking as this second Trump crew. He pioneered new depravities. To see him come to retire in ignominy from his own is simultaneously sad, scary, and schadenfruedesqe

"Waist Deep in the Big Muddy" Pete Seeger 1967 The song was considered symbolic of the Vietnam War and President Lyndon Johnson's policy of escalation, then widely seen as pushing the United States deeper into the increasingly unpopular war 💙 💙 ✌️ 💙 💙 #impeachtrump

Starting to think Zohran Mamdani may be "anti-Trump" insomuch as he's inspiring masses fed up w/establishment politicians bullying the status quo down their throats I wonder if he will appeal to those Trump supporters, or if Trump retains influence with them. But thousands voted for AOC and Trump.

Excellent news for the NYC left: There were 10 city council members of the Progressive Caucus who faced primary challengers today, some of them very ideologically polarized primaries. All 10 incumbents are leading *by a lot.*

I need everyone on Normal People internet to know that American Girl Doll Instagram is doing doll protests today. There are tiny t-shirts and signs. AND THEN I realized it's a joint protest with the Barbie ppl, where there are EVEN TINIER SIGNS.

@msignorile.bsky.social Remember when Benny Johnson posted to his followers that gay cruises were advertising on military websites? He had to disappear his post when people pointed out that the Google Adsense algorithm was targeting him based on his internet searches. @siriusxmprog.bsky.social

Flashback

OMG. This is Tiananmen level.

At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

www.thenation.com/article/soci... Ugh, for good societal reasons, people once felt inhibited about showing their bigotry in public. Nthing wrong with canceling racists! Now objectively good speech is inhibited: good people are afraid to talk about how to make the world a better place.

lol Bluesky still has a daily video upload limit? Well, I guess I'm done here for the evening. Any help on this @pfrazee.com? Trump is currently being interviewed on ABC but I'll have to take my coverage elsewhere.

Also, too... Before the asteroid belt was discovered...

Fully on board with dems running for office promising to reinstate fired federal employees and jail this administration’s various criminals, but let’s go ahead and add “we will seize by eminent domain any national parkland sold to developers”

@atrios love how "reporters have been telling sources privately". we're not even pretending up is up and down is down anymore. Aren't eporters 'sposed to say things publicly? Like information they get from "sources"?

crazy this was just 4 days ago. but it's how they get away with everything. all at once. everywhere. every day is a new crisis, and yesterday's unresolved crises just kind of melt away in the shadow of the latest one

The subtext of these "centrists" & swing-voter whisperers (Carville, Axelrod, etc.) is that literally nothing matters except the next election. They care little about what happens between elections. Nor what happens to those hurt by the notion that some people need to be discarded to win elections.

This is an excellent letter.

@gregsargent.bsky.social would love for someone to ask Rubio, Vance, Trump, Bondi or even Steven Miller what diplomatic resources were deployed return Andrew Tate - admitted sex trafficker and proud predator - from Romanian custody, and why similar efforts aren't made to "facilitate" this return

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social have you heard any explanation for why Rubio facilitated unrepentant... nay, proud predator and sex trafficker Andrew Tate's return to Miami, but refuses to do the same pursuant to the SCOTUS decision?

@sarahposner.bsky.social @eschatonblog.com someone needs to ask why diplomatic facilitation for Andrew Tate, but nobody else?

Because it's the plan for all dissidents. Luigi will probably be one of the first when they figure out no jury will convict him of a capital offense. But after that, it's on to "eco-terrorists", "anti-Semites", and administration-defined "enemies of the state".

Doesn't CNBC also have a print/web component? I wouldn't blame Rueters based on what you saw on CNBC tv exclusively.

Absent starting a world war, is there precedent for any individual to have single-handedly destroyed this much wealth in a matter of days? It's critical we name this succinctly and accurately: It's not a Great Recession, it's the "MAGA Trump Crash".

I'd love to see more people commit to anti-consumerism. Just stop buying stuff you don't need. I'm in a FB Group called Buy-Nothing. You ask for things you want (say, a table saw) and people will give it to you, or let you borrow. It'll help you through tariffs and is sustainable activism

Yes, businesses absolutely need to show the tariff at the checkout screen. Don't hide it into the cost of the product.

Probably not, because he'd pocket it.

I teach at a school with a large nursing program and my intro to sociology classes are often filled with nursing students. Out of 35 of them only 2 knew about the cuts and grant cancellations in HHS and NIH, they were very upset when we discussed it - TALK TO YOUR STUDENTS ABOUT WHAT IS HAPPENING

Inoculation

They certainly should be failed! I mean, it's difficult to fathom how they retained their audience after cheering the Iraq War (and so many other dismal policies) But they persisted. And now, many occupy powerful executive branch offices. And they all got rich. So not sure "failed" is the right word

Must be talking about the Idiocracy writers.