Why should all these money sucking Bad, Bad Insurance Companies be in between people and their healthcare, when there could be a Single Payer?

they should invent a day of rest

one thing i find crazy-making is the idea that getting rid of the filibuster would make congress a purely majoritarian institution. bicameralism itself is counter-majoritarian! equal state representation is counter-majoritarian! the fact that senate elections are staggered is counter-majoritarian!

Johnson is emphatically not a man with a plan and I think even the House GOP is not gonna tolerate that forever

RE: the TikTok church "test" lady If you've been working in any sort of charitable field for any amount of time, you know 1) giving cash is not normal or good for accountability reasons, and 2) there's something afoot if someone says "the only thing that will do is cash (or a Visa gift card)"

Something I love about the UMC logo, which I've heard repeatedly from clergy and others who've served in Africa and the Philippines is that it has power. It's recognized in disaster relief settings. It carries some weight and respect.

Please, Mister Trump, start sending cattle ranches to jail for making money while giving Argentina infinity dollars. I beg you. It’s the only way to make America great again.

We're all Nothing Ever Happens Squad these days but I think we're seriously underestimating the possibility of mass social upheaval SOON

And no one ever even asks the question! Like "hey, has this actually ever happened?"

We're gonna party like it's 1873.

Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.

I assume—optimistically—that Schumer expects this to fail and make the GOP look even worse

Yeah, people's instincts on this are precisely wrong. Like it is good, actually, that the PA legislature is large and well-paid.

My sense is that Mills is basically fine (minus the filibuster comments), but I do also think there's a real difference between 72 and 77.

WW3 is going to be the craziest war with Donald at the helm. We’ll be fighting a Canadian-Danish-Iranian-Venezuelan-Nigerian-South African-Korean alliance alongside Russia, El Salvador, Israel, and FIFA.

[flash forward to prime time television, September 2028] "My name is JB Pritzker, and I approve this message."

Perhaps the Democrats should run Olivia Benson

I have never seen gas stay as constant in price as it has for the last year. Coffee is $12 a bag, or else chopped to 10oz. That said, I do think he believes this all to be true, which leads one to wonder what info he's fed.

Sometimes I feel my redneck heritage is in doubt, but I just spent three flannel clad hours at a Turnpike Troubadors concert amongst five thousand other Yellowstone-Americans (I was there for Trampled by Turtles tbh but still)

Well, given the refusal to operate SNAP...

they're calling it the world's worst constitutional amendment

mfw I'm in second grade and someone starts to barf on the reading rug

ok Amaziah, I hope you get a nice pat on the head from the king

What an excellent time to take advantage of Pittsburgh International's brand new terminal!

unfortunately no one lives in Goochland County, so Richmond and NoVA get a bit more sway

CC: young, hip United Methodists with some media savvy

Just a reminder that a phrase you should never ever use if you're in a jury pool is "jury nullification," which is always to be considered a mystery Mousketool, a surprise tool that can help us later

Not that this reveals Moreno's relative strength against Gainey was entirely a racial thing but, uh, maybe a little!

Extra loquacious in my State of the Church report this year, as I reflect on how I discovered a number of these reports from my predecessors this year. My sense is what I write should be a legible, historic account of what ministry looks like in this moment: achievements, problematic dynamics, etc.

"um excuse me we win too sometimes!! hello!"

I feel like Netflix used to have previews for things, and not just show you a random decontexualized clip that gives you no sense of what you'd be watching

Sheer humiliation

I like that republicans keep calling mamdani a “literal communist” because they’ve been calling everyone to the left of william mckinley a communist for a hundred years and they need to distinguish

The wrath of the electorate can't come soon enough or hard enough for these people; God's response is of course God's business

The thing about Mamdani is that he’s so normal and so many people are so weird about him. And it becomes really hard to miss the fact it’s mostly because he’s Muslim

"Under the restructuring, the U.S. and the central conferences — eight church regions in Africa, Europe and the Philippines — each become regional conferences with the same authority to adapt the Book of Discipline, the denomination’s policy book, for more missional effectiveness."

I have been thinking about how many extra tons of carbon dioxide are pumped into the atmosphere every year, now that no one can sit at a red light without pulling their phone out, and then not notice when it's green for ten seconds

the executive cheesecake factory

This is like one of those maps that show the extent of the sea in the Cretaceous period matching up with Democratic counties in the deep south. Here, we are looking at the fall line.

Proud to say I'm slightly too young to know, but I hope this is true

Democratic Socialize-ism (laudatory)

Just looked at Mamdani's Wiki page and it gave me vertigo to see a big-deal American politician with a birthdate in the 1990s

Ok, one last race call for the night from a bellwether county... The Democrats have FLIPPED the Erie County, PA (Trump+1) County Executive position by 24 POINTS!

The spectre hanging over tonight is that we're probably about to see Trump lash out worse. He's not going to win, in the end, but it's not going to be fun.

Every ambitious Democrat in Pennsylvania has gotta be locked onto Fetterman's seat like a heat-seeking missile about to execute a war crime in the Caribbean

Results still coming in from my home county but it appears, in a funny-but-not-funny occurrence, my high school theatre director who expunged any references to Nazism from "The Sound of Music" is gonna narrowly lose a school board seat to a MAGA fascist activist

I've not spent a lot of time watching this race but she sure is a weird lady

Skimming local election results, I notice Democrats are excelling in suburban school boards, outrunning Republicans and cross-registered candidates. The third-party county council candidate is currently beating the Republican.