Every day we get that much closer to the good ending.

the economist net approval MRP map is a sea of red

I would probably be less horrified at people naming their kids things like Bryyan if they could actually articulate why they put two ys in there and no "i liked it" doesn't seem like a good reason.

"Is Dinald Trump the Anti-Christ (Secular?)" Is one of the most important questions of our time.

USAID is still gone, no other country has shown either the will or the ability to fill in the services whose disappearance is going to kill millions of people, and no one in the media or political class cares that we are going to kill more people than the Holocaust before this is over 👍

Starting a movement called ineffective altruism

i am mad as shit about the democrats caving, have a very good memory, and if you quiz me on exactly what happened this week on election day 2026 i will get maybe 30% right

BELIEVE IN THINGS THIS IS A THREAT BOTTOM TEXT

I'll go further and say that if you report the "Senate data" provision as being about Jack Smith you are actively lying to your readers. it is a bipartisan pro-corruption law that more or less confers immunity from corruption prosecutions on all 100 senators whether they want it or not.

Let's fucking GOOOOOOOO

the goal of posting is to convey every possible thought until you can communicate exclusively via quoting your own posts

he's going to ask Vought to nuke SNAP even after the government reopens, isn't he

get mad and, instead of quitting, elect better democrats it’s possible

Every one of the Caver Caucus should be forced to wear a real-life "Fell For It Again" ribbon.

does anyone else smell burnt toast

Spanberger flips Caroline County

GOOD FUCKING JOB GUYS

This dude fucking rocks and is the only person other than AOC and the Khan I'd like to see run for President.

"Why can't you just work together?" "How much do you want Social Security to be cut by?" That's the answer to give. There's very obvious reasons we can't "just work together".

Every book a CEO reads is called something like The Seventeen Habits of Highly Effective Rent-Seekers.

i hate senate brain

Further evidence that this isn't about being a progressive or a moderate. Its about being a fighter or a coward.

The thing about getting older I was determined to avoid was telling younger people how much better it was when I was young. Now I find myself having to explain to people how much worse it was. I was there Gandalf.

ok well i gotta give him this one

No Kings includes Angus

Virginia voters: we just elected someone who supports the death of Republican children and it wasn’t particularly close Tim Kaine: so you want me to cave immediately to Donald Trump, got it

Was the CPSC guy deemed an essential employee who wasn't furloughed or were these shitposts scheduled like 6 weeks in advance?

"With the Senate finally passing the CR, will you be bringing the House back in to session to reopen the government" Mike Johnson (sweat starting to pour down his brow). "I, uhhh, uh, you know. I haven't really— I'm not familiar with that vote. So I can't, um. I... I love God and support Trump."

many people are saying

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I say again, SENATUS DELENDUS EST. Having a legislature that's both deliberately unresponsive to voters & deliberately antimajoritarian is lethal to representative government

good

yeah the comparison is Ted Cruz shutting down the government in 2013 to defund Obamacare, which failed, enraged R primary voters when they caved, but also did not stop R's from taking the Senate in 2014

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

so currently defectors are: Kaine (2030) Shaheen (Retiring) Hasan (2028) Fetterman (2028) Durbin (Retiring) CCM (2028) Rosen (2030) King (2030)

still a lot in the air here in terms of the actual outcome

basically I am going to keep calling and insisting on recision control, because that's what I want and the next best thing is funding the government a week at a time

the vichy senate

THAT MAKES IT WORSE, YOU LOST CONTROL OF THE CAUCUS YOU MORON

remaking this for 2026 democratic primaries

yeah they have the votes if they have kaine

Hey @djinnandtonic.bsky.social if no one else wants it, how does being addressed as “The Gentleman from Maine” sound?

If the majority of Dems actually opposed this as much as they should, Schumer would be out of a job