Not at all thrilled with a federal officer looking this scared while pointing a gun at a press photographer. These guys are on the ragged edge of just gunning down a crowd

“Hello yes I would like to pay with card” “Oh sorry we only take Visa cards issued by chase” “Ok bye” (This is not going to last because consumers will REVOLT at the idea their Mastercard doesn’t work everywhere with a Mastercard sticker, and it will lead to the dreaded Abandoned Cart)

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

the chicago ICE guys are way too willing to brandish pistols at random civilians

Its kinda wild to me that ppl are watching an admin whose entire shutdown strategy is to lock itself in a house that its set on fire bc they think thatll own the libs & are going "yep these are guys that can rig a national election in the third largest country on earth by both landmass & population"

Looking at the GOP acting electorally suicidally and saying “they’re not acting like they’re planning on having elections” is like watching someone driving 90mph at a brick wall and being like “wow they must have figured out a way for this not to kill them.”

People need to realize their ideas about past "middle class prosperity" are mostly nonsense.

He always looks like the photographer told him exactly when and how he’s going to die immediately before the photo

This is the kind of rhetoric certain to move people visiting the uhhhhhhhhh national agricultural library website

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

We appreciate the classics here

Our politics are not non-material, but they are post-proletarian. And the mass intelligentsia or PMC—the people who do the essential work of maintaining the complex systems that sustain modernity—are the revolutionary class against a staid political order that cannot uphold modernity.

There’s still no evidence that Trump knows what a dog is or does

its so fucking funny that this is all over a european style socdem who wants to pilot a city run grocery store

When you just take a little peak inside the ark of the covenant

Not even close to the point but since my job is in a weird liminal space I’ve been reading ML papers a lot and I’m increasingly curious about how exactly these models handle optics. has it actually learned some statistical approximation or the physics along the lines of a knowledge based potential?

Live your life so when you die people are like “wow what a great person in addition to their material accomplishments” rather than “RIP Asshole”

If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

Tfw you’ve obtained the “Ham”

the funny thing about the filibuster is that the party is willing to do literally anything for Trump except their jobs

I don’t think many folks are aware of how bad it is for most Feds out there. Even for the most comfortable of us who have cushion it’s getting thin

Maybe what we could do is have some kind of website where people could go and see all the available healthcare plans like healthcare.gov or something

Hey kids the Trump Healthcare Plan just dropped!

so, the plan is to ruin thanksgiving, ruin christmas, make everyone’s lives harder, all stick, no carrot, and then… what? january 2026: “hey, we are the party that ruined fucking everything, let’s talk about the new year!”

The ballroom stuff cuts through to all the disengaged people who don’t follow politics. It’s very visual and meme-driven and hideous and genuinely shocking. Trump can’t help talking about it all the time, even as planes are grounded and children grow hungry.

The court not having a proper comms office is just absolutely hilarious bc it transforms a situation like this into an absolute bloodbath of public wrath over a technical issue that could have been explained by some PR lackey

Pure 🔥🔥🔥from Sen. Rosen: "This is a Republican shutdown...You are in control of the White House, the House, and the Senate. If you went home to a food bank instead of going to Mar-A-Lago...while people are starving, you might see and hear your constituents. You are blind to the suffering."

Just going to be an incredible decision if SCOTUS says they needed to make an emergency intervention because of the risk that poor people might get food they are legally entitled to

It seems like at this point there are 3 paths forward: 1) senate passes a shit compromise CR 2) Rs kill the filibuster and pass a slightly more shit CR on party lines 3) I guess we figure out how to proceed without a functioning federal government

Watson had it all: misogyny, racism, anti-Semitism, homophobia. He would have been anti-trans if he’d heard of it.

what the fuck

HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS

What a headline @nytimes.com #SNAP www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

do think this Dem deal proposal is very much reflective of Schumer's leadership style which is basically "consensus via carrots and his flip phone," Schumer staked out a win-win (or at least not-lose/not-lose) where Democrats either got credit for saving healthcare and made republicans back down or

I think there's a lot of takes running around right now that are profoundly silly in the face of what just happened on Tuesday and the people who are doing them are also the people who were smugly proclaiming that dems were doomed because they weren't following their strategy for electoral dominance

Democrats swept the board to a greater degree than expected in days ago so consider that maybe they don’t suck at messaging all the time and fuck up and fail all the time

if you are the public defense investigator who just subpoenaed Sam Altman on stage know that i love you and think you are a wonder upon this earth.

at some point, people have absolutely got to start trusting what they're seeing with their own eyes. dems up and down the line have held fast on this for an unprecedented length of time, and even when they're offering compromises that give things away, they're holding fast on the key points

What the fuck is boxed beef

a super funny thing about this is that the only reason this looks like some too-clever-by-half gambit is that thune, johnson, and trump have played this so badly, in any normal universe, this would look like a normal, uncontroversial, unobjectionable offer from the minority party in both chambers

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like 15 years ago I saw a talk by a science reporter who's name I forget. During the Q&A someone asked her if there was ever something she _regretted_ printing and she said "well, once I was at an awards dinner and I was sitting next to James Watson..." and he entire audience started laughing

this is how i found out

chuck schumer is a lot of things but one of those things is that he knows how to count votes

of course they did. some people on here are dumb as fuck

chuck stinks but he's got a very simple and obvious hand that he has consistently been playing for a month, nothing has changed on that. if the republicans weren't morons who didn't know what they wanted, it wouldn't even work at all

Schumer: Please take my shitty offer that is actually a big win for your side Thune: Nope, I am only going to accept that you get nothing, and I have no leverage to make you do that