This garishness screams, "And what would you like on your double cheeseburger?"

Look at what this garish, classless, tasteless fool has done to the People’s House.

happy bday writer Kurt Vonnegut, b.1922, Indianapolis. “We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.” “A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”

Heather Cox Richardson:

Unbelievably depressing

It took science a century to eliminate measles and misinformation less than five years to bring it back. Decades of progress erased by conspiracy theories and political cowardice. Congratulations, anti-vax movement: you’ve successfully reinvented the 19th century.👇

Called my reps and called them craven and said they were betraying the American people. That was fun. (It was not. It was depressing just like it always is). Stop assuming your Dem senators are the good guys and don't need a call. Call anyway. It takes like 3 min.

happy bday Russian writer Fyodor Dostoevsky, b.1821. "Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things." “What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.”

🍎😁

The family that turned corruption into a lifestyle brand.👇

This point absolutely correct and I will add that Mamdani demonstrates that an insurgency, even one with real moral clarity and anger at the status quo, can still be cheerful and inviting.

Yeah, I don't think either party wants them released. At least not until they're "cleaned up."

The apple don’t fall far from the tree!

The irony.

Maybe Trump should have followed the law then. 🤷‍♂️

Wonder what would happen if Obama did that?

Teaches everyone to be in debt.

“The unwind would be over 3 trillion dollars.” Sounds like Trump accidentally confessed to blowing $3T on his tariff fantasy.👇

Be careful what you share, Ivanka. Some of us actually read the rest of the story.👇

Only the best people

To all those serving, to all who have served: Your duty and sacrifice don't just represent the best of America. You make America possible as the land of the free and the home of the brave, aspiring always to be a light for democracy around the world. Thank you.

My wife and I pay for life insurance even though we have never died. I pay for fire insurance even though my house has never burned down. That's not because we want to throw money at insurance companies. It's because THAT'S HOW INSURANCE WORKS.

Ahhhh, he doesn’t carry his bag. He drives a cart, with a caddy to drop his ball on the green. He couldn’t walk two holes, let alone 18.

The way the US funds itself has always appeared counterintuitive to me. Doesn’t give stability.

Maybe the whole thing was a charade. Maybe Dems were "holding out" while the Epstein files were being scrubbed. Maybe the files have now been scrubbed to the extent that they can be released. So it was time for Dems to "cave." Maybe. 🤷‍♀️

Never mind Geirge Washington forging a country, Lincoln holding it together, or FDR saving it from disaster.

Feels like we are in an abusive relationship for so many reasons. This is one of them.

the crisis isn’t funding the government. the crisis is the government.

This is what happens when non-believers of science get put in charge. Anything they cannot understand is “bad”. It is hard to be dumb.

BURN! 😂

"Outrage and betrayal" AOC on House Dem.

Don’t worry, they pinky promise to fix healthcare.

Don't call the cops on someone in a mental health crisis unless you want them dead.

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

When I buy phosphate fertilizer, it has $120 a ton tariff in the cost. The retailer I bought it from paid it too. The wholesaler they bought through paid it. Whoever imported it paid it, the cost just kept getting passed down. Who gets the money if it's refunded? Same with any product.

BTW....there Was nO MESS to cleanup! F47 and regime tore down a great economy!

Phang: These firings were illegal in the first fucking place. It’s like the Republicans are supposed to think that they’ve now done something right by not doing what is illegal in the first place.

NEW: Jeffries is talking about a discharge petition in the House for the ACA subsidies.

Biden got us through the world wide pandemic. Obama got us through the mortgage crisis/2007 recession. Every republican president leaves America worse than they found it, and democrats spend their entire time in office cleaning up and then get blamed for not getting it ALL done on day 1.

Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise questions about Trump’s on-the-job performance.

Can someone explain the point of this shut down to me?

By law, President Dumbass can't dock ATC pay, or hold up back pay. He signed the Government Employee Fair Treatment Act of 2019, but he obviously has no fucking clue about the law he signed. ourpublicservice.org/blog/federal...