What makes me sad is that in the end, it always comes down to knives and fists and deals, without a hint of integrity, compassion, and community.

Lucy. Football.

Okay. That just burst my bubble.

Ufff……………. Please not

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

This times an infinity of zillions.

If your position is that Democrats have no choice but to agree, than you are impliedly admitting the Democrats are no longer an opposition party because the cost of opposition is too high, and we are effectively a one party fascist state.

HEY!!!!! Pay attention. They may not end up with enough votes. CALL.

I’m an Iowan and….. The good news is that unless death takes him first, this is his last term.

I'm hearing the same thing. Dems are nearing a surrender. I'm shocked. Largest protest in history + best election night in years + polling showing we're kicking their ass in public opinion. And now Dems may cave. It ain't over til it's over, so please do call if you've got a Dem senator.

Proceduralists get screwed in negotiations because they don't have any goals or values in the first place. The negotiation IS the goal. The Democratic leadership is proceduralist in this sense. They never lose because they aren't trying to win anything in particular.

Wow I can't believe George Soros bought up all those seats and paid all those people to dress up as Commanders fans

Also this

Kids, there is NO promise that Rs won’t break.

The Dems who are caving are doing so not because their base wants them to, not because the voters want them to, and not because SNAP recipients want them to. They are caving because their DONORS want them to. And that’s really all that ever matters to the establishment.

I’ll say it! That’s the only upside I see to the schumer cave.

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

This

Motherfucker schumer. If he wins another election……….

But….. he DID encourage the January 6 attack!

Interesting train of thought.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

the thing about this is that a) small states do not have any interests that are inherent to their size (no less than james madison understood this) b) the senate is organized along party lines which makes the small/big distinction almost irrelevant and c) the filibuster has never been used this way

PSA: gift links to WaPo are not free. Gotta give them an email in order to read. Use archive.ph instead.

Seriously! Who would bang on someone for posting about football??? Kids, I care deeply about the republic, but tonight I’m gonna watch Young Frankenstein (which I’ve never seen). Last night I watch GBBS. And the night before: Selling Sunset. And I’m reading an Agatha Christie.

I can’t even

Oh, lordie! I would love it if someone would walk the row and tell us if he omitted anyone. Like Biden. Or Barack.

No doubt a long shot, but does anyone know how to pronounce the name de Riqles? The person was American, not French.

Does it matter? He’s the president in name only. miller/vought make all the decisions. Let the guy sleep.

Thomas Theodor Heine ‘Cholera In The Balkans’, from Simplicissimus, 1912

They’re bailing out Argentina because they’re all going to be living there when this is over.

I can’t even.

“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”

What kills me about musk’s trillion $ thing is that he doesn’t seem to spend a lot of time actually focused on his various companies. From which I conclude that his board is 100% comprised of yes-men (using men intentionally).

This is a worthy discussion by two excellent minds, @pkrugman.bsky.social and @gelliottmorris.com Affirms my belief that if the average political pundit would take two minutes to view the world as an ordinary person, their punditry would be vastly improved.

Symmetry at 3:02. #LongExposure #MonochromeMood #NightPhotography #StillWaters #LandscapeSymmetry #QuietHours #ReflectiveNature #MinimalistPhotography #FineArtPhoto #3amMagic

it is darkly humorous that after all these years, the Republican health insurance plan ends up being to end health insurance

Men will literally destroy the planet to build an AI to create weird images of girls to tell them that they're loved instead of going to therapy.

I canceled my WaPo subscription a couple of years ago, and I missed reading @crampell.bsky.social. No more! She’s now writing for @thebulwark.com.

Good reporting here from @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social of @thebulwark.com on the agony of living with ICE and trying to keep businesses open in Chicago. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

A must-read

Do you suppose that actually being in office has changed her? Has forced her to broaden her view of how the world works?

I can’t figure out if mike is that stupid or that malevolent.

The NYT can give Ross Douthat space to highlight the views and arguments of the most reactionary degenerates on the right, but no one, my friends, no one can make you read it.

I am one of those strange creatures who loves a sickly soft centre when it comes to a tray of chocolates. This mid #1940s Charles James ballgown has always reminded me of a strawberry creme, or is that just me? @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

This is what I plan to watch on Friday.

Geological art from the Utah badlands… #photography #aerial #art #nature