WHAT IS THE BIGGER FIGHT. I AM DYING TO KNOW.

On Thursday, a wave of horror stories about ChatGPT hit California courts.

In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies

You can measure Durbin's effectiveness by how well his letters to Roberts as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee worked.

THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago

The problem isn't that they caved for a promised vote; the problem is that the vote will be a meaningless gesture impressing no one but Senate Democrats. It will fail. ACA beneficiaries will suffer considerably as a result and there will be no consequences of any kind for Republicans.

I'm a SNAP recipient... for the last month I was tightening my belt, doing my best to eat cheaper and eating less so I'd have a little left over to help get me through when payments were cut. It was all for nothing. Fuck the dems who supported this.

Holiday travel, the filibuster, and the policies they want the filibuster to protect from reform appear to be the reasons for the cave, best we can tell.

This might sound crazy, but travel disruptions at Thanksgiving would have been … good? It would have driven home why we need a functional government. Dems could have capitalized. Instead, they worried more about disrupted travel than people getting thrown off their health insurance. Unbelievable.

This administration has quite clearly violated both US and international law, in conjunction with the El Salvador’s corrupt autocracy. Will anyone with the power to do anything about these crimes do anything about them?

What's unreal is that Trump has been blasting Senate Republicans to nuke the filibuster and end the shutdown for days and Senate Democrats are just going to hand them a win anyway.

If Dems accept this deal, it will help the GOP cement the following ideas into the public conscience over the coming 4 weeks: -Shutdown was Dems fault/responsibility -They did it for nothing -They caved to Trump Having accepted responsibility, it will also cripple them in the follow up debate.

What gets me the most about GenAI is that it requires people who understand statistics and probabilities to pretend that they don't. And way too many influential people willingly oblige. It's maddening to me.

Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??

Enjoy the circuses while this piece of shit steals your bread and healthcare.

NFL RedZone should be a trump-free space. Get that motherfucker off the broadcast.

With so many of them committed to the filibuster and supermajority rule, our Senate is more countermajoritarian than the framers intended. Similarly, changes to the filibuster have been made over time, but only in the direction of making it easier for the minority to obstruct.

Trump is punishing people for being poor and hungry and we're gonna just keep letting that go? Who the fuck thinks he's gonna fund SNAP when the government is open again? The fucking courts told him he had to end even THAT wasn't good enough. He's suing to be allowed to starve people

Bailing Trump and Republicans out of their own mess is one way to ensure that Democrats take the heat for the shutdown. If Ds agree to this, what was the point?

$40B of your money to this guy, so he can dance at CPAC at Mar-a-Lago while Americans wait for their paychecks, hoping the money actually comes.

If there's anything that Lindsey Graham cares about it's definitely fairness for the plebs and sticking it to corporations. For sure.

He is destroying the research infrastructure that makes mass higher education possible & an engine of economic growth & human progress. Thank you for your attention to this matter! www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

The canopy reminds me of Jean Jacket from Nope.

The House GOP caucus, all 36 of them (LOL), is going to be almost all right-wing white guys... bluevirginia.us/2025/11/frid...

Excellent observation

First, they came for the immigrants… utahnewsdispatch.com/2025/09/03/u... @utahnewsdispatch.com @kmckellar.bsky.social

Can you imagine looking at Tuesday's election results, at the crashing approval rating of this administration and think, yes, we should give up our autonomy and throw marginalized people under the wheels of the segregationists' bus? Can you imagine? Apparently Cornell's leadership could.

Abbreviated review, no public hearings, against the law--sounds familiar.

This is a genocide, in my mind, because this was certainly the intent.

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

Writing about Elon Musk’s pay package without leading with this is like profiling John Wayne Gacy’s booming party clown career.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

The more democratic elements of the American constitutional and economic order are actually throwing up road blocks to Trumpism. Protests and boycotts and low level courts and juries and cetera. Elite actors on the other hand are all too frequently caving. Fascinating study in who actually cares!

It's disqualifying at this point for anyone, or any organization, to take money from Elon unless they want to be aligned with Nazis. Elon's Hitler Salutes were not accidents or awkward behavior. He is, at this point in time, admitting that he is a Nazi multiple times a week.

The filibuster doesn't promote bipartisanship or meaningful deliberation. It does the opposite. None of this is true.

The dark and darkish purple down in the far west part of the state is mostly coal country.

And nobody learns anything.

it's not complicated: some guys (who, somehow, remain influential and comparatively powerful) are feeling powerless again and are trying to make it anyone else's problem but theirs

The filibuster doesn't promote bipartisanship or meaningful deliberation. It does the opposite. None of this is true.

SCOTUS has granted a stay in Trump v. Orr, the trans passport case, meaning that the government will be able to once again deny gender marker changes to trans passport applicants. This is a terrible decision with horrifying consequences for trans folks. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Not impeaching and removing every official involved with this remains one of the biggest failures of constitutional governance ever, and there is a direct line from that to where we sit today.

Again, the conflict between the “Hitler wing” and the center of the GOP is like the fights between the Klan and the White Citizens Council. The councils mostly agreed on substance, they just wanted to distance themselves from the tactics of the Klan’s vulgar commoners.

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

Dems took multiple votes in 2021-2022 on the Freedom to Vote Act, which would ban partisan gerrymandering, and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, which would (re-)ban racial gerrymandering. Republicans blocked them every time.

This is the first speech that isn’t for white people. He reflected the actual population of NYC and didn’t cater to a consultant‘s vision of who is worthy. Yet, he clearly spoke about “kitchen table,” issues. It’s just that he included other people’s kitchens, too.

I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.

each of them represents one of the five elements: Fire, Metal, Air, Water, and Anti-Trust.

I'm sure we won't get any diner safari coverage in the MSM from deep red Appalachian Virginia swinging left.

Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.

At the risk of sounding petty, calls for Democratic unity going forward are all well and good, but let’s not forget that the reason Cuomo ran against Mamdani in the first place was a last-ditch effort by the New York Democratic Party to ratfuck their duly elected nominee.