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Today was a very stupid day but I have faith tomorrow will be stupider

Let us be incredibly, abundantly clear: We are demanding that Chuck Schumer resign for his continued betrayal of the American people. If he does not willingly step aside, we are calling on the Senators in the Dem caucus to remove him and Dick Durbin from Senate leadership.

Still think this was one of the best power moves of all time www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Fascinating inside baseball. The omission of those seven words is easy to miss, but it points toward a sharp dispute behind the scenes—KBJ wanted to make it as clear as possible that she did not support extending this stay any further.

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

There is virtually NO reason to believe this and several pieces of evidence to suggest she was trying to achieve the opposite. Had she denied the admin stay on Friday night, the full court almost certainly would have overruled her. She set tight deadlines for the First Circuit and SCOTUS then.

Q: A provision was added allowing senators to sue the US govt for $500k. What do you say to that? JEFFRIES: House Democrats are gonna offer an amendment before the Rules Committee to get that self-dealing sick provision out of the spending agreement

Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell

Oh good I was worried some hungry people might get some food

In Chicago, the courage of good, everyday folks getting in the face of ICE/BP and fighting back is restoring my faith in America In DC, the cowardice of Senate Democrats has undermined it, again America needs a government as good as its people. My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

Name them.

UPDATE — Here are the at least 10 congressional Democrats, 5 Democratic-aligned organizations, and 6 Democratic Senate candidates calling for Chuck Schumer to resign as leader:

Saying you inadvertently backed the US into a “National Security Event” isn’t the flex he thinks it is.

🚨BREAKING: President Donald Trump has broad unreviewable powers to flood U.S. cities with National Guard troops, the Department of Justice (DOJ) argued in an expansive new filing to the Supreme Court. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Deeply sick stuff from Trump here. HE did this to our country. Donald Trump did it to us. HE created this fiasco!

first it's pensions, then it's healthcare, then vacation, finally it's the wages, pretty soon you're just going to one box to work all day for no money and going to another to get the rest of snap to eat, which sounds a lot like how they described the soviet union to me in the 80s but what do i know

This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.

This would be “worst NFP print since Dec 2020,” adds the Goldman desk.

No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards"

Lol

Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)

In which @carlquintanilla.bsky.social casually kills a man

wow. WOW.

One of many costs to US murder (sorry, no better word for it) in Caribbean: "United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal."

Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”

we’re about to start seeing a lot of “here’s a cost effective meal your grandparents made during the great depression”

Joyce Carol Oates should say he can't do backflips off the roof next

Wait… do the writers think that we think that the Daniel Craig bond and the Sean Connery bond are… the exact same person?

Hm. Bubble getting thinner....

If you think Trump is bad now, wait until 2026 Great Depression II Trump

Obviously, America's BBC fans are not MAGA. I'd advise the Beeb not to blow it and bow to this public (derogatory) school bully.

It’s insane to treat the filibuster as the most sacrosanct. Article 1 power of the purse, oversight, and war? Nah. Emoluments clauses? Bribery prohibition? Meh. Criminal law? 14A? Doesn’t count. But maybe the Senate changes a rule it has multiple times before? Gasp! Not that. Anything but that.

this is so silly. people know the deal with bond. the writers should just embrace the metatextual aspects of the franchise

“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”

Because this is a brand-destroying action by Senate Dems.

“Negotiating your own insurance” will result in everyone getting the dirt-cheapest junk plan which covers virtually nothing, because most people are terrible at risk assessment.

the caucus gets how this is *worse* right? if you're just going around Schumer, what's the point of leadership

One of the more depressing aspects of this cave-o-rama is that it's revived the tiresome navel-gazing and self-flaggelation that we had finally managed to get beyond. "The discourse" is right back to Groundhog day. It's not the most important reason for being pissed but it's up there.

It is incredible — the blind spots you develop when you’ve never, ever been poor.

Carmax exists because Americans loathe negotiation and haggling.

This is so offensive I don’t even know where to start. “Vote blue no matter who and also shut the fuck up when those people betray you.” Nope. We will primary every senator who doesn’t call for Schumer to step down in the next 24 hours. You work for us.

This is Oakley. He has an injury that requires physical therapy and at-home massages. Luckily, his cat sibling River has been training his whole life for this. 14/10 for both

My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.

Yeah, real professionals will quit because this is not Justice. This is a concocted lie by a corrupt President who wants his followers to believe nonsense.

Senators look at Trump's shameless corruption and say "give us some of that"

Huh well it turns out I heard from a few federal workers about this and well "We civil servants organized to help our colleagues face the hardship of the shutdown, we put up with the pain and our only request was to not be betrayed like this. Trade our pain, make it count."