There’s a pretty clear pattern in recent lower court rulings suggesting that SCOTUS has lost and respect & legitimacy not only in the eyes of the general public, but with the rest of the judiciary, which is saying so with increasing frankness. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Washington, D.C. has broken their pact with all 50 states and we’re paying the price to the tune of $370 million every week.

CUOMO: I'm not used to seeing naked propaganda on a government website. Are you worried about violating the Hatch Act? TURNER: We're not worried at all. This is about letting the American people know what's going on. C: It's not true. That's why I'm bringing it up. That's why it's propaganda.

Bluesky feed is like ------------------ we're doomed ------------------ we're doomed ------------------ we're doomed ------------------ cute kitty! ------------------ we're doomed ------------------ we're doomed ------------------ [adult content] ------------------ we're doomed ------------------

Our generals serve the country, not an ex-Fox News clown looking for headlines.

I just heard an interview on PBS News Hour with Rep. Haridopolos. It's worth watching. 1. No one, anywhere gets a subsidy for healthcare if you make over $100K (He claims you get a subsidy if you are single making $180K in Vermont or a family of 4 making $600K in Arizona.). That's a lie. ...🧵

New York City, I can see a future with you. And it’s one we can afford. Our new ad just aired during The Golden Bachelor.

Elizabeth Warren: "The president said 'I am going to impose a lot more pain on my fellow American citizens. I'm going to impose a lot more pain on people in NY who need to use those tunnels so I can get my way politically.' To me, that is a place to stop & say, then we're ready to fight about this"

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals? J: I didn't see it D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

Dean: The president is unhinged Johnson: A lot of folks on your side are too. I don’t control him Dean: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals. Johnson: I didn’t see it. Dean: Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing.

But also we’re terrified of the subway

Gavin Newsom likened Donald Trump to a certain controversial French monarch for continuing his ballroom construction amid the government shutdown.

No need to be scared of him. The trend is clear - everyone outside of his hard base is abandoning him.

Hertling: His comments about putting hands back on recruits… We moved away from that 30 years ago because it’s ineffective… You know where it didn’t go away? The Russian army.

Geek Smaller Canada, Census, 1931

BE LIKE PRESIDENT CARTER

I literally adore Governor Newsom He Understands The Assignment 💪💪💪💙💙💙

He found a really good stick.

A lot of us believed Pete Hegseth hated women even before he was confirmed. We weren’t wrong. Quotes on women in the military: • In a 2024 interview, Hegseth stated that "Women shouldn't be in combat at all. They're life-givers, not life-takers" 1/3

Restoring ACA subsidies would benefit both parties equally. It is a win-win situation. There is only one reason why this shutdown is still going on.

Cashmere Brassiere United States, Census, 1920

Mary Bonkings England, Leicestershire, Parish Registers, 1533-1991

Hegseth said yesterday he wants to ban any symbols of “superficial individual expression” by people serving in the military. Of course, he was probably talking about dangerous things like rainbows.

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"Churchill said it's the victors who write the history. It's not. Victors write the history most of the time, but in the case of our civil war, that is not the case." Ken Burns talks the Confederate battle flag, the Lost Cause, and more with @timmiller.bsky.social:

The Government is now shut down, but apparently nobody called the school in the Bronx that had come to the Capitol for their tour today, so they're getting the treat of a lifetime since AOC agreed to give them the tour herself! I’m loving this for all of them!

If NPR has no federal funding I think that means they're allowed to cuss

Eight decades after Hollywood legends like Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Humphrey Bogart, Frank Sinatra and Judy Garland launched the Committee for the First Amendment to stand up to McCarthyism, Jane Fonda is bringing back the organization. https://cnn.it/3KsdDYR

Vought always looks like the Onion version of a soulless bureaucrat.

California and New York paying taxes to this federal government in 2025 is tantamount to England and France paying taxes to Germany in 1940. The money is going to be used *against* you.

Lutnick on being invited over to his then-neighbor Jeffrey Epstein's house: He invites us in and there's a massage table in the middle of the room. I say, "Massage table in the middle of your house? How often you have a massage? And he says, "Every day...and the right kind of massage."

Jonathan Creek review (thus far): Seasons 1-3: delightful Season 4: jumped the shark Hopefully season 5 will redeem itself

Effin Opera

All blue states. What a surprise. I guess all we can do is vote out every single Republican candidate for every office in those states since none of them will speak up or do anything. And the Appropriations Chair Susan Collins.

If you live in New Jersey or Virginia, make sure you are registered to vote! Both states allow for online registration.

Town Hall resources from Indivisible indivisible.org/town-hall-re...

Make Stephen Miller do Pete Hegseth's PT

Stephen Miller is a political hack who has never in his entire life held a real job outside of partisan hackery.

Stephen Miller has never worked a job outside of politics in his entire life.

In Matt 25 Jesus says that individuals & nations will be judged by how they care for the poor & sick. Govt is shutdown bc GOP wants to throw 12-20 million low-income/disabled Americans off Medicaid. Bc the GOP uses Jesus as a prop, while despising His actual commandments.

If government workers need to be fired during the shutdown here are six candidates

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries: "We need from the president of the United States an individual who actually is focused on doing his job as opposed to engaging in racist or bigoted stereotypes."

Stankey Dastick United States, Enlisted and Officer Muster Rolls and Rosters, 1916-1939

Next time you find yourself in a discussion about the differences between liberals, leftists, democratic socialists, moderates, progressives, and never trumpers, remember: billionaires don't give a fuck. We're all the same to them: human capitol stock. And they love it when we fight each other.

Wolf Fuckermann New York, Passenger Lists, 1820-1920

Fixed it. Americans deserve a government that works for them, not one that cares more about making political jabs than lowering costs.

It's never too late to learn something new. It's never too late to discover the secret language of trees. It's never too late to wrap yourself in moss & malice and become the forest horror that timid folk whisper about in the dark.

"We absolutely need to stop the boats,” Polanski said, “but let’s stop the boats by offering safe and legal routes to asylum and not having people clinging on to dinghies for dear life.* www.newstatesman.com/politics/gre...

Spelling Be 2025 - Volonteres Needed

ME: "Jesus, why does your close friend Speaker Mike Johnson relentlessly bear false witness?" JESUS: "WHO???"