goodnight my monsters, thank you for letting me scream into the ether at you all night

oh god the timing of this is so on the nose

buddy, it’s time to go. resign your leadership position because you fucked everyone over on this one. no one believes you and no one trusts you. it’s over.

boy did I pick a good time to leave politics for therapy

The only way to do this is to start primarying all of them.

I have been on a real rant about this recently -- the problem with the Democratic Party isn't just weakness. It's that the leaders spend all their time with rich people. You know who spent an entire campaign shitting on billionaires and talking to normal folks? (Hint: he's the new mayor of NYC.)

not to be vengeful but i want all of us to remember this exact feeling the next time anyone pops off with some apologia for weak willed self serving democrats as if any of these fuckers deserve the benefit of the doubt

You have to resign. Tonight. This is such an embarrassing failure on your part. You and you alone. It was your job to hold the line to protect health care coverage, and you failed. Utterly. Miserably. You failed. Democrats won a resounding victory less than a week ago, and you caved. Resign. Now.

I'm so incandescently angry. And it's a different kind of angry from when I'm angry at Trump and his ilk. They're evil; I'm angry at them for wanting to do wrong. But these people are at least supposed to share my basic values. And seeing them capitulate like this--AGAIN--is more than I can bear.

I gotta say, I'm not interested in the statements of Democrats who opposed this unless they call for a change in Senate leadership. "This was a bad vote" is not enough. Call for Schumer's head.

This is literally treated as radical, outside-the-bounds of normal political discourse. But Elon Musk gets $1,000,000,000,000. Enough to by every unhoused person in America a $1.3 million home. Enough to cover federal spending on school lunches for 57 years.

for anyone who thinks this is an exaggeration - in Westminster systems, if backbenchers cross the aisle on a supply (funding) bill, either they'll be expelled from the party ("lose the whip") or party leadership will immediately resign whipping supply votes is, like, leadership's "you had one job"

Schumer will vote against the deal, but that does not matter. Either he gave the moderates nodding approval to their actions, or he is unable to keep his caucus together. This is his failure. @schumer.senate.gov should resign tonight (at least as leader) if this deal goes through.

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

Yeah it seems like the best political move is to give into this guy

"new dems" it literally doesn't get old dems than this

If Dems cave on health care subsidies, I might actually lose my fucking mind. "A vote in Senate on the issue" is 1000% meaningless.

"rich white guy who never speaks to normal human beings and has absolutely zero useful insights to share and pretends not to just be a republican but totally is" is the new "middle-class white guy in a diner who pretends not to just be a republican but totally is"

gonna repeat this: if you want to send your money to a man running against a republican senator this is the man to send your money to. he’s already been their senator people genuinely know and like him his campaign needs in state folks to knock doors for him. that takes cash.

Which psychologists consider this? Because maybe someone should take their licenses away and also lock them in a dungeon since they are literally a danger to society.

Wait till you hear about what Jesus did

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"you haven't been very productive this saturday" OH REALLY WELL THEN EXPLAIN ALL THIS PROGRESS I'VE BEEN MAKING ON COOKIE CLICKER

WHY THIS MATTERS:

Well that's because gerrymandering in Texas is good for free markets and personal liberties and gerrymandering in Maryland is bad for free markets and personal liberties.

I stand corrected!

If you're criticizing KBJ over the stay, you either think she's turned evil, or--like Charlie Kirk--you think she doesn't have the brain processing power to do the job. Which is it?

This has to be fake. No one ever called Florida for Gore. Some called it for Bush, then took that call back.

FRANKENSTEIN sucks, sorry

This is my favorite of the post-Mamdani crash outs because you know this guy could say these exact words about anything, anytime. There are ALWAYS divisions, conspiracies, and distractions if you are looking for them!

I'm already frustrated at how much the next Democratic president will be blamed for the problems being caused by the Trump administration's destruction of the federal government.

Over at @cbsnews.com , the climate coverage team was just laid off. @heatmap.news does a great job drawing the obvious conclusion. open.substack.com/pub/heated/p...

I was just saying something similar to a client yesterday- that if Adams does replace the Rent Guidelines Board, Mamdani should just act like that wasn’t effective and name his own people

He needs to act Trumpian too, in the sense that he needs to muscle through as much as he can on his own. Just tell the bus drivers, for example, that they should start letting people on without paying. Work out the details later, but make the buses effectively free immediately.

this cat looks like it got surgery to look more like jocelyn wildenstein (I love her)

Elon Musk is an unapologetic and outright racist. There is not a hair's breadth between what he believes and what Nick Fuentes believes. Instead of ruining him, those beliefs have only served to help make him more powerful, more obscenely wealthy than any human being in history.

A client called me a "walking trash can" today but I swear they meant it in the nicest way.

OK but seriously, Republicans must know they have to compromise with Democrats on the shutdown after Tuesday. I realize they're terrified for some reason of the least terrifying, goofiest motherfucker ever to sit in the oval office, but clearly the American people are disgusted with them.

maybe the next democratic president should just burn the building to the ground and start over

all your sandwich puns are great, I mean it

IMPORTANT ALERT FOR DC RESIDENTS: do NOT leave your house without a sandwich. this is for YOUR safety.

man I can't think of a single thing that can go wrong with this

that's an average of 397 pounds per person

Did Our Failure to Implement Full Communism Ruin the Workplace?

y'all watch how quickly RFK Jr. runs away when faced with an unhealthy person

"now that we've reported on historically high layoffs, it's back to thirteen straight hours of hyping up AI companies, thank goodness there is no connection between these stories"

It was. There was never a time in my life I didnt want to work for NASA and Goddard has been the best place I've ever worked. It breaks my heart to leave but I can't risk staying while it falls apart. 💔

I don't think I've ever had more mixed feelings about a politician than I have had about Nancy Pelosi. She was a historic figure as the first woman Speaker, and she was wildly effective at that job, corralling Democrats in a way no one had before. But...

at least it wasn't "females"

I've said this about billionaires, but I think it's just as true of the Speaker of the House: what's the point of accumulating all that wealth and power if you still have to bow and scrape to a piece of shit like Donald Trump?