All they ever do is let it happen and tell us to put them back in power. That’s the bargain. “Vote us back in and then we’ll fix it” and so we vote them back in and they do about 10% of what they promised and then lose again, and republicans go 100 steps further. Over and over.

The correct thing to do is to make every Senate Democrat beg for mercy. They’re all guilty. If not for this vote, then for letting Schumer remain leader after the previous nonsense in March.

Anyway a great way to radicalize people is for them to realize that you just abandoned their chance at being able to access and afford health care because you didn’t like waiting in line at the airport.

We gave them a victory beyond their wildest wet dreams on Tuesday, and they fucking kick us in the teeth today. It's fucking unbelievable.

What was the point of making government employees work for 40 days without pay and SNAP recipients lose their benefits if you were just going to capitulate and vote with the Republicans anyway

You think the republicans are getting suggestions on how to govern from their MAGA constituency? You think Randy the racist from mobile Alabama is calling up his congressman and laying out a plan? Come the fuck on man. Republicans are a political machine, democrats are a fundraising club.

Americans not doing the job of politicians for them hard enough is not the reason democrats are predictable, pathetic cowards clinging to a donor class for a whiff of relevancy. The cope on this take is so deep it is literally bottomless.

They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,

btw, the whole 7 democrats thing is complete bullshit. The number of dems that sold us out is the exact number of dems that were necessary for republicans to win. If republicans needed 4, it would be 4. If they needed 12, it would be 12. Dems know we don’t want this, so they sell out just enough.

Absolute embarrassment

Imagine being a government employee who sacrificed all the way through this shutdown only to have chuck schumer sell you out for nothing.

If you believe that Dem leadership is fighting for you, ask them what they did when the Supreme Court took away the human rights of 50% of the nation, when two thirds of Americans disagreed with the Court’s decision, and we had the presidency. More than 3 years later. Ask how they’ve fought.

no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good

You can’t convince me that Dem leadership gives a fuck about a single part of their platform. They’ll say compromise advances immediate goals like it’s not a veil of morality shielding platitudes and placation, but, in truth, all this party does is lose the long game, faster and faster, to oblivion.

Useless party. Fucking useless.

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

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

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

Hi I’d like a mortgage with a lower required monthly payment but I also want to pay nearly double the interest over the term and accrue equity in my home at a much slower pace. Pulte: ok hear me out - what if we could also make it a life sentence

In culture and in practice we still tend to assume that men pay the bill, and we always assume that women handle everything else, including the paperwork. This is true regardless of who actually pays the bill.

all that alpha male cosplaying bull shit just to spend every day getting called a moist bitch by graydons dad and they cant do anything about it lol

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Do not allow this administration’s unimaginably violent, unabashedly deliberate desensitization campaign to exhaust you. They don’t actually want you too scared to fight them - they want you too numb to flee.

In central MD alone, ICE is rapidly contracting: - AI skip tracing - AI face recognition - Cell tower spoofing vehicles - Signal exploitation equipment - 6 months of MREs for detainees - Detainee transport vans - Device cracking & data exploit firms

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Every single woman you know has had this happen to her. Even the goddamn president of Mexico.

lol

good @thedextriarchy.bsky.social take www.theverge.com/policy/81406...

If we had lost Virginia, there was a very real chance that we’d be losing abortion access in the state, which would be a disaster especially for us in DC, which couldn’t possibly absorb all those patients. Watching with my abortion fund board member hat on, these results are a tremendous relief.

great news for abortion rights in Pennsylvania

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

SNAP benefits increased under Biden, not because an abnormally large number of recipients were added, but because the admin increased the per person allotment under the Thrifty Food Plan from an average of $4.80 /day to $6.20 /day. The most recent prior cost of living evaluation occurred in 2006.

Mamdani ✅

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.

"[Chicago mom] Andrea Soria... overheard her 6-year-old whisper to her dolls: 'We have to be good or ICE will get us.'" apnews.com/article/chic...

What do you think would happen if you created a fake MySpace spoof profile for your coworker intended to mock them and attached it to your company website? This is absolutely twilight zone shit.

🎯"Magnetism is the notion that if you want people to come to your cause, you must be attractive. This, of course, requires having a cause to which to draw people. And, like any magnet, it also means having a polarity that distinguishes you from your opposition."

If you have two cats, then one is a philosopher and the other is a dumbass

When the suspects appear to be white guys, it’s not a bombing — it’s an intentional explosion.

Welcome to Bluesky. Here is your copy of the Antifa Manual and MLB Extra Innings for some reason.

Apparently there was a Gatsby party at Mar a Lago, while Trump is trying to kick 42 million off SNAP

perfect optics event to hold right as 40 million americans will increasingly struggle to get food with SNAP benefits expiring

The U.S. military has carried out another lethal strike on alleged drug smugglers in the Caribbean Sea. n.pr/47lM2Sa

Apologetically, I am increasingly convinced that age, not party, class, nor region, defines the US societal collapse. Critical thinking *reliability* is virtually nonexistent among under 25s and over 50s. The % of population that reliably understands what the fuck is happening is sub critical mass.

Saw someone refer to a man looking for a housewife as a “labor digger.” Stunned crying jumping cheering weeping

A show where a CEO has to open a product from their company, and if they fail they donate a years salary to charity

Every food brand: this bag is resealable! Open here 😉😉😜😜

They literally ruin everything they touch

A scoop that I’m not happy to report: CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution. heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...