Kaine, who has experienced Long Covid, is abandoning those with Long Covid who have to work as contractors who are too sick to work full-time.

The thing about the Democrats caving on the shutdown is that they will win back control of congress in 2026 and they will feel completely vindicated and smart and millions of Americans will suffer in the process but that of course does not matter. "Winning" is what matters.

I’m to exhausted from all of this to make the graphic, so someone go ahead and make a 28-3 graphic with the dems as the Atlanta Falcons

Official statement from @jamestalarico.bsky.social on shutdown negotiations

CALL ALL OF THEM. SAY PRIMARY. "Sens. Jacky Rosen (Nev.), Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.),Jon Ossoff (Ga.), Gary Peters (Mich.) &Dick Durbin (Ill.) were among the Democrats who participated in secretive negotiations to end the shutdown & are considered possible “yes” votes for the deal."

In the meantime you can leave a message with his DC office at (202) 224-6542, because his other offices don't take messages.

Chuck Schumer's office number is (212) 486-4430. They open tomorrow at 9am EST. Call and tell them what you think.

looks like senate dems are folding on the shutdown in exchange for a doomed vote 40 days from now and nothing else

I am way too old to feel this much better just because my 2-8 football team won

Going 9-8 now

It may not be too early to talk about ditching this coach

We've been Leon Letted

Really have no idea what Kellen's strategy was all about that whole last drive

theres a whole category of newstertainment thats gotta go. and its "ask a really rich freak who is also evil and directly stealing from you what hes seen on the computer lately that has made him feel bad." the only -- ONLY -- story about this guy worth exploring is: he is getting rich spying on you

There's a weird unwritten rule of NFL officiating that says a safety should be really hard to do. The bias is always against calling anything a safety

Saints are in alternate uniforms today. I guess I would be embarrassed if people recognized me as a Saints player too.

I asked Georgetown law prof David Super wtf is going on with this latest demand for states to claw back benefits already sent out. He says the law doesn't allow for this, and if the USDA is mad that states already sent out SNAP money, too bad—they were following USDA's own guidance. Full comments:

Who benefits from 50 year mortgages: banks, developers, realtors, estate lawyers. Who gets screwed: everyone else.

This is 100% not someone who has been trained to use a gun. He's waving it around nervously. This is insane

It has been about 7 months since we moved and it still feels like we're on vacation somewhere too nice for us

People wildly overestimate the economic security experienced by past generations. There's no period in American history where significant numbers of young people were just handed high paying jobs. Nostalgia for a time that never existed is a huge problem.

LSU let Caesar’s email betting promotions to all its students … so I hope colleges are having a bit of grace for predatory, at your fingertips betting.

50 year mortgage is so crazy. to put it in perspective, 2016 was 50 years ago

Sora has ruined the idle pleasure of scrolling for cute animal videos

Not for much longer, though

SCOOP: Schumer was more involved than reported with the attempted cave on the government shutdown. The Gang of 8 Senate Dems had his approval & he was getting daily updates. In Thursday's caucus meeting, the Gang claimed they had 10 votes to cave. The caucus went nuts, leading to the new proposal.

LSU down by 11 but it feels like 50

I'm not impressed with this DeBoer fellow. This many teams should not have lost to him

Quick. Somebody fire Brian Kelly again

GUS-SPLOSIUON

Why do schools need bonds if they are publicly funded, how does this system of school funding create debtor schools? Who are our public schools indebted *to*, anyway? (Hint: You're not gonna like the answers) @debtcollective.bsky.social

Looks like today is the end of Mendozamania

Google's new global ID registration system means more risk for developers, and fewer options for users. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Sorry to do litmus tests but I want candidates who understand and say out loud that the big tech industry is a hive of evil charlatans who get rich pumping poison into the world

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

School vouchers but for cancer treatments

i think this is the one that convinced me. he's really losing it. his mind and his sauce, all at once. this is incoherent, firstly. secondly, even his superfans arent dumb enough to think that a thousand buck check or whatever is fine for buying healthcare services retail out of pocket

it seems like he's talking about giving the premium subsidies back to taxpayers but the subsidies are already in the form of tax credits? and okay let's assume that money is given to people. is he proposing they buy eg an MRI with it? or insurance? if the latter then what have we accomplished

and i thought his understanding of Grocery was bad

NEW: Why didn't Orleans Sheriff Susan Hutson meet a deadline for filing a campaign finance report? @jsodonoghue.bsky.social reports the sheriff said it's because her attorney was incarcerated. lailluminator.com/briefs/orlea...

look man one very consistent feature of concierge access to politicians is that you have to be current on your subscription, and rather than renewing you mailed in what appeared to be a bag of dog shit you had already (?) lit on fire

Hundreds of Louisiana public officials and their family members will soon be able to remove their home/work addresses from campaign finance reports. This will make it harder to figure out who is making political campaign contributions. #lalege lailluminator.com/2025/11/07/l...

this is why entergy is building 50 new gas fired power plants

This reminded me of this classic post except that everything has gotten far far dumber and more made up

Nothing matters in local politics besides one's status in the club. www.nola.com/news/politic...

Sam Altman will die in prison for this. If he's lucky.

lmao

holy frijole "we need to stay in power in order to avoid prison" damn

"Thank you for the money"

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing