Shit

a “Space Force”, if you will

Jesus Christ

AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"

“All of them have the opportunity to hold these materials in their hands and say, ‘Oh, a human being did this.’”

Your tax dollars at work (enriching specific GOP Jan 6th-adjacent senators to the tune of half a million each)

Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.

every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites

Feels somehow fitting that the president who has done more to trample the legacy of Lincoln has just killed his coin even as he demands the Treasury mint quarters w/ his mug on both sides abcnews.go.com/amp/US/wireS...

An @killjamesbond.bsky.social evergreen: m.youtube.com/watch?v=y6kV...

Just did the math comparing my bills & w/ rising healthcare premiums, my cost of living increase being locked at the bare minimum 1%, & my ladder promotion frozen Next year I will come out at minimum ~ -$500 So, I will be PAYING to remain employed & serving the public … Swell

CPR recertified, so that’s something

God DAMN

Fuckin’ hell, man

oh my god

genuinely have been thinking about this all day i cannot stop laughing about the second verses lyrics

Oof

Great, cannot wait to wake up to fundraising emails with subject lines like “we’re not giving up!” asking me for $3 after completely letting us down.

Happy Birthday USMC.

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

Boom. Get fucked, bigots.

I was wondering this week whether the airlines were lobbying behind the scenes.

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

These are the same clowns who publicly chastised Zelensky for being suitless

Right, the answer isn't to abandon the party to these weasels. The answer is to flood the party with people who will take it over and transform it.

Never forget who sold us out: Hassan King Cortez-Masto Shaheen Kaine Fetterman Durbin Rosen

It’s HER day m.youtube.com/watch?v=XK1e... God rest ye, Mighty Fitz

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

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

That’s it - I’m giving myself a nosebleed raging over this Throwing my phone in another room & taking something to sleep; I’ll deal w/ the bullshit tomorrow The fury will keep

Democratic leadership: YOU MUST VOTE HARDER. Democratic voters: VOTE SUPER HARD IN MASSIVE NUMBERS AND FLIP SEATS AT MULTIPLE LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT ACROSS THE COUNTRY Democratic leadership: WE’RE CAVING. LULZ.

Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.

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.

shutdown deal per AXIOS: republicans get: government reopens and party avoids political consequences for refusing to make health care affordable democrats get: seven beans, an old case logic CD wallet (empty), a coupon for 15% off Busch Gardens, one spiced pumpkin scented candle, a 6-pack of Zima

Something I’ve repeatedly banged my head against a Horatio Alger novel over as a historian of the industrial era

I hear Dems might vote for a bill with no guarantee of a vote on health care subsidies, just a promise from Thune. Cool. He wouldn't try to trick anyone on a traditional holiday. Unrelated to anything, here some Thanksgiving cheer. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmFf...

Thank god I’m barely followed here compared w/ former numbers on other sites as I fear (at risk of self-aggrandizing) this generates “you’re my friend now - we’re having soft tacos later” energy but far more disturbed in timbre

Things are really bad rn but I did have a lunch date w/ Bob from the marina next door earlier today, so that was nice

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Telling that I used to pour over this thing as a pre-teen

Cannot believe we’re seeing people (such as those @czedwards.bsky.social is fact-checking) earnestly invert Vimes Boots Theory Or maybe I can - shit is BAD en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_t...

Okay yeah the House caucus is pissed.

just heard the news and all i can think of is

Americans gathering their great-grandchildren to tell them the tale of the mortgage they are about to inherit