Senate Dems: actually it’s totally fine to make life worse for Americans as long as you promise us a performative vote

Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.

Assume all the yes and no votes from Dem senators are strategic and not sincere votes. The party caucus made a decision. No way to know how many were in favor. Then the caucus decided who would vote yes and no based on what would protect each of them politically the most. That’s how this works.

Senators on the brink of retirement who lived full, wealthy lives and never feared the loss of their own healthcare voting for their constituents to die from their inability to afford the same is treasonous

This right here.

You ever drunk dial your senator?

This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.

If a budget deal goes through without restoring Medicaid & ACA subsidies, they will never be restored. That's a death sentence for millions of Americans but also to the entire republic and economy: Health care is a for-profit business generating TREMENDOUS economic activity & will grind to a halt.

Democrats have to stop bailing out Republicans from facing the consequences of their own policies. And yeah, that means they have to stop sparing voters from experiencing what GOP government truly means. Every time Dems step in, it only emboldens the GOP & they make it even worse the next time.

Things are fine.

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Live your life in such a way that when you die people don't literally rise from the dead to shit on your grave.

Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June. It’s louder & clearer tonight.

I don't live in NYC, but my favorite part of the mayoral election is that Cuomo got beat twice by the same dude.😂😂😂

Re-watching the ninth inning. It appears Blue Jays Chris Bassit drew #51 on his cap for Dodger Alex Vesia. What a class act.

I scared the hell out of the cats, Dodgers. They were cutely snuggling. But not anymore. I hope you are happy.

Givin’g ‘em the ol’ razzle dazzle.

That commercial break was just long enough to run out in the back yard and scream at God.

How is Yamamoto not just barfing between pitches right now?

I honestly expected the German call to be more terrifying.

Does Blake Snell sleep ever? He has the look of a guy who "rests his eyes" for 20 minutes and then pounds a scalding cup of black coffee and gets on with it.

give us 20 innings this time. make this a root canal. i'll be watching. fuck god and fuck you

Look, Blue Jays. I'm a 45 year old man. I don't bounce back like I used to. That 18 inning game messed my week up. You pull that again, I'll end up dead or fired. Let's get this done in 9.

Fuck it, let’s go 23 innings

Oh no. No no no no no.

Lip-reading is hard unless the word "fuck" is involved

I love these "danger potholders" the Jays are wearing. Where can I get one of those for day-to-day use?

it is the 4738th inning vladimir guerrero the third comes in as a defensive replacement for his father the pitcher signals for another intentional walk to shohei ohtani

I’m not sure if they ever considered that they’d need to pinch hit the organ player

What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible. Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.

Cannot express enough appreciation for the teams *flying through a hurricane* while not being paid.

The 37 ballroom donors won’t be remembered for generosity, but for funding a monument to authoritarian vanity during a shutdown, at a venue nicknamed after a sex trafficker, while Americans wonder how they’ll eat. History keeps receipts & their names aren’t coming off those walls

As other people have noted, if you have local food banks, now would be an excellent time to donate cash to them, if you have the cash to spare. We will be upping our donations to food banks and hunger-related charities here in Ohio.

Good point! Tobacco traffickers are "terrorists," by Trump admin logic.

The president got his feelings hurt, so we're doing 10% more tariffs on Canada. Joke of an administration.

Hot take: Gausman was doing fine but got thrown off his game by that random ass Jonas Brothers concert they threw into the middle of the game.

They don’t even pretend to care. This is the only story. You can’t open the government if the House refuses to show up.

“Ronald Reagan loved tariffs” OK, meemaw, let’s get you back to bed

The New York Times publishes a handy guide to which federal forces are terrorizing us at any moment. This is America, 2025.

Let them eat ballroom

So the MAGA folks are going to go off the rails if the Jays end up winning the series, right?

Bin-go

I wonder just how far this overt hostility to public health goes before visa-free travel for US citizens becomes a real liability for countries that currently offer it.

I feel like this should result in a precedent-altering defamation lawsuit.

This press conference is the most unhinged, downright bizarre thing I've ever seen from an American president talking about science. Like...way weirder than bleach and COVID-19.

Cute cat, right? Well ...this was immediately after he brought a LIVE PILEATED WOODPECKER into our house through the catio door. I don't even know how this was possible.

In this angry toilet of a year, this means a lot.

Chicago should not be a target of our own military. Thank you Governor #Pritzker for speaking out! We need lower groceries, better paying jobs, and access to healthcare- the Feds should focus on real issues. This fake crime crisis is an illegal power grab. #resist #nokings #LeeCarterforJustice

Chicago has the 83rd highest crime rate in the country