JD Vance a couple of years from now: the reason we don’t have as much gold as we used to is that the illegals put it in their teeth and wedding bands. We need some kind of final solution to that.

It's all so tiresome

People who say that mass deportations will make housing affordable do not actually care about housing affordability. They are just looking for another justification for state violence against a disfavored racial and linguistic minority

This guy! Born in 1988!! He's a year older than Taylor Swift!

dubs!!

Let's just stop for a moment and remember that if the name of literally any other president in history was all over the emails of the most notorious pedophile in history, it would be the biggest news story in history and they'd resign in disgrace within hours. But no, it's just another Wednesday.

probably something an innocent man would do

i'll admit it, Elon was right

VA covered vasectomy and afterwards they've been sending me a series of not bills, I assume each new one is when the hospital tries to bill them for something else Out of pocket: $0 (thank you taxpayer) What VA paid: $1500 What the hospital is attempting to bill: started at $4K, now up to $50K+

Kevin Kiley introducing a bill to ban partisan gerrymandering at the national level and desperately trying to become a Reasonable Bipartisan after Newsom deleted his district shows how you *acutally* uphold norms btw: you impost costs for breaking them

glorious. Texas gets to rerun California's experience destroying its own tax base, only without a state income tax to plug the hole.

"the American middle class is shrinking" is true but the reason why is a truth nuke so devastating that nobody will ever believe you: it's mostly because people are getting richer

behold! the end result of the conservative Christian values movement!

This one is potentially worse — Epstein is strongly implying that Trump had sex with one of his victims

the president is a child rapist

okc hitting all their 3s, refs not calling shit for the warriors, okc getting a parade to the line. yea this game is cooked.

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tbh were basically at the point (in core urban california) where there is no path toward homeownership for non-managerial professional class workers bsky.app/profile/maxd...

I think people should stop being so mad at each other when there's a Trump to be mad at

This is actually good spin, or would have been. But the fact that the Democratic cave happened without even a coordinated, agreed-upon message like this indicates the depth of the leadership void.

The most honest person about this is my friend who insisted that the Dems should simply have dissolved the government and kept it shut down until 2027. I do not think this was a reasonable thing to expect, but he's forthright about it.

people are worried about the continuity in bond movies when every bond movie opens with you, the viewer, getting shot by james bond

Unlike you, I can read and that’s why I know what the constitution says.

never mind the labubus, my main man here paid $250 for a screen-printed T-shirt.

tbh the fundamental issue with public safety in america is that there are so many guns that is extremely likely that whatever unarmed public safety outfits you have will lean heavily on the ones with guns for further protection

THE BLUTAH PROPHECY

The fight tonight was over about $25 billion. Thats about 2.5% of the Defense budget. Would cover a year of the enhanced ACA credits. Republicans said that’s unaffordable.

A retired National Park Service ranger discovered white spray-paint graffiti last week along the Devils Garden Trail in Arches National Park.

There is no universe in which Senate Republicans vote to extend ACA subsidies. It. Will. Not. Happen. All Senate Democrats can do is make it excruciatingly clear to the American people that this is the logical consequence of giving Republicans complete control of the government.

Help me out, I’m trying to pitch some taglines. TrumpCare: You’re on your own TrumpCare: Access, Affordability and High-quality care* TrumpCare: You’ll wish you were wealthy TrumpCare: Be Careful What You Wish For

A shutdown is basically a form of a strike, and something this place's userbase does not understand is the point of a strike is to get (achievable) gains, not to go on forever, and that if your ask isn't realistic/you don't have a plausible theory of victory, things aren't gonna go well

I did some exempt work on a prescribed fire funded by non-appropriated money last pay period, so this was my take-home for the last two weeks. The two weeks before that, I took home $0. The next two weeks, I was looking at $0. How long can your family survive on this?

a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,

The RIFs language is actually great. Not only does it rehire the people RIFed during the shutdown, it makes it an unequivocal Antideficiency Act violation to do ANY MORE RIFs through the duration of the CR (Jan 30) Completely stops Trump/Vought Phase 2 for now Would love to see this standardized

1.) I disagree that this was the best way forward. The RIF language pretty clearly indicates to me that there's a taste in the senate GOP (at least) for reigning in Vought. Vought is probably incredibly mad about it, because it directly contradicts what he wants to do.

"What do you need health insurance for if you never get sick?" is one of the most insane/stupid arguments I've ever seen made in our political system so of course Republicans are making it.

Look I don’t expect you to like the deal- I don’t!- but also it’s goddamn infuriating that your answer to “what else could we get?” has been “who knows? Let’s just keep everything shut down until we feel like we got what we wanted!” without acknowledging the cost of that.

I, a 15-year career federal employee, am responsible for ACA subsidies being taken away. Not the tens of millions of people who voted to give Donald Trump's Republican Party control of the American government, no, they're blameless victims. It's my fault and I should suffer for it. fuck this shit.

Okay so what should they have gotten out of it, concrete, in plausible terms Be specific, because I understood (unlike the average bsky poaster apparently) that the healthcare ask was fundamentally glonzo kayfabe that was eventually going to collapse, because math is math and the GOP hates the ACA

if we get rolling RIF prevention and very short CRs until 2027, that is actually almost a win.

yes correct elections have consequences, and the theory of victory is figuring out how to convince the idiot median voter of these facts, not just making a couple million people who work for you go without a paycheck for over a year because it makes you feel good

I'm going to say this just once and then step away: Any federal government shutdown falls on the backs of federal employees. We are the ones without paychecks going on a month. I want every person who calls this a "cave" to ask themselves if they'd be willing to skip a month's pay for this.

The only exception to that is with respect to reductions in force (RIFs). The bill appears to both roll back RIFs announced during the shutdown and prevent any further RIFs between now and Jan 30.

Setting aside this is transparently the squishies trying to pressure vs an actual done deal, something I think a lot of folks on here have not effectively come to terms with is actually getting change on the subsidies was always a dead letter Also small but non zero chance point 3 drives a veto lol

If that's the deal, and the minibus stops RIFs, and we can just do this all over again in February if they renege... I think that's a viable outcome. The bottom line is that if the GOP wants to break the ACA, they're going to be able to do it, and we should chain it to their necks in the midterms.

I think that the disconnect here is that real household income is absolutely (indisputably!) up, but the price of the most essential household good, the fucking house, has dramatically increased beyond general inflation (due to both lack of supply as well as lifestyle inflation)

man if this is coming from josh lol