Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Caving now is an insult to everyone who was legitimately harmed during the shutdown. There are few things more repulsive than a leader who begs you to endure hardship in the hope of a greater future, then gives the fuck up.

A bunch of us: "In the face of unprecedented attacks on civil liberties, constitutional norms, due process, and the safety and welfare of the American people, we need the Democrats to fucking grow a spine already." Democrats:

It’s a (tentative, transient) snow! ❄️

plz any of the fired journalists, freely take my pitch and organize

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I can only speak for myself, but it is not my preferred outcome to have tens of millions of Americans dependent on a government food program. My preferred outcome is to make companies pay people enough so that it's not necessary. But these motherfuckers don't wanna do that, so here we are. (1/2)

When I was a kid, they told us that the communists would have us all standing in bread lines. youtu.be/tqhUb9SejTc

"If the President's wearing a hat, or that thing's wearing a Bartlet button, I'm hiding snakes in your car." "C'mon, don't say that! Not even to joke!" "You're never gonna know where they are, or if you got 'em all out." "Leo!" "Gonna lay their eggs right in the glove compartment."

"It's okay man, it's just bananas. It's just bananas." <— me, playing Civ6, soothing myself when I have to bulldoze a developed resource in a hex to build something important, but it's okay because it's just bananas.

"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”

SNAP costs less than a half-precent of our annual GDP and makes sure 40M Americans don't starve. Trump tax cuts for the richest of the rich are going to cost us almost $10T over the next decade. Don't be conned into believing the former is a bigger theft of your tax dollars than the latter.

I've been feeling a lot of (admittedly irrational) guilt lately, because things are going pretty well in my personal little universe while the world is absolutely burning around me. But honestly, it's a nice little refuge. (1/3)

"And listen, we are doing our damned best to cause some of those other problems, so y'all are gonna need every penny you can keep."

This case really is emblematic of how these tough guy "winners" in the Trumpist movement are actually all whiny, piss-baby losers. Hooray for jury nullification. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Like most American cities, Indianapolis has its fair share of violent crime. It's a terrible problem that needs to be addressed, and it makes the headlines when it happens. But it's not an abnormally, emergently violent place. (1/4) www.wthr.com/video/news/p...

This is delightful, but...is anyone else preoccupied with the ferret kid? Any chance they want to run for something?

Republicans are so abjectly opposed to your children's welfare that not only do they not care if other people bring guns into your kids' schools, they'll do it themselves if they have to. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

Huh. Turns out that if you put a sex pest, a vigilante, and a nice young man who wants to make the bus free for everybody on a ballot, voters have a pretty easy time making that decision.

My boss just asked me to be the "arbiter of process" for something. Now I just need an excuse to say "You may test that assumption at your convenience".

Cuomo, Trump, Musk. In the world of American politics, no group of people are more loyal to one another than rich sex pests. youtu.be/SzP8OhWoOG4?...

No, you dumb son of a bitch. I know it makes you feel sad in your underpants, but as Speaker of the House you're actually supposed to know *more* than we are.

Dick Cheney — unindicted war criminal and the Henry Kissinger your mom says we have at home — has died old and rich, unlike the hundreds of thousands of foreign civilians who died young and poor as a result of the American foreign policy he helped craft. (1/4) www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/p...

Well, as long as he didn't use an autopen to do it 🙄 arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

The Trump Administration: "We must stop the persecution of Christians, at home and abroad!" Also the Trump Administration: abcnews.go.com/US/faith-lea...

"He [Trump] again vowed to pull federal funds from the city if Mamdani wins Tuesday 'other than the very minimum as required.'" This is straight-up, explicit, out-in-the-open, on-the-record election interference. It's super, super illegal. Just sayin'. www.cnn.com/2025/11/03/p...

In September, the administration gave Congress notice of the first strikes on boats in the Caribbean “consistent with the War Powers Resolution.” Now, after 60 days, it says the Resolution does not apply, claiming that these strikes do not constitute hostilities.

So how's everybody else's first playthrough of 'The Outer Worlds 2' going? 🤣

There are few things as ominous as a sunrise.

Reading comments on local media's posts usually makes me sad. My fellow Hoosiers tend to be underinformed and incapable of nuance. But sometimes they express a singular truth with such eloquence that it stuns me. Behold.

Boko Haram deserves every bullet or bomb that comes its way. But there is no Christian genocide happening in Nigeria, much less one implicitly permitted by the Nigerian government. That whole narrative is racist, Steven Miller, 21st Century Crusader bullshit. youtu.be/qQooeAXkTik?...

I used to think the C-plot in that one 'West Wing' episode where Josh accidentally implies that the President has a "secret plan to fight inflation" was silly and fun and ridiculous. Then the GOP spent 15 years telling-but-not-showing their secret healthcare plan.

DST is obsolete nonsense and should be abolished in all lands where it still casts is accursed pall. But at least this one is the one where I was able to have an "extra" hour of night-time video game solitude.

Rebellion added phobia settings in an 'Atomfall' update where you can replace the games various vermin (e.g. rats, bees, etc.) with swarming Cornish pasties instead😆 youtu.be/jEjg10HdLkw

We’re not lost, Private. We’re in Normandy.

“My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier. That’s what I want to be — a peacemaker and a unifier.” www.cnn.com/2025/11/01/p...

Rust on the buttplate hinge spring, Private Bullshit. Revoked!

WITH SOME LICORICE INSIDE. youtube.com/shorts/pT1L3...

This whole thing is so dumb that I forgot to even mention this part: He says he's instructed the Dept of "War" (i.e. DoD) to do these tests, but the Dept of Energy manages our nuclear stockpile. This fucking mush-brain has never, ever understood how America's nuclear deterrent actually works.

This is your annual reminder that nobody's out here trying to put drugs in your kid's candy. Drugs are expensive. Get your kids stoned on your own dime.

It seems some are under the impression that the war continues because Ukraine keeps hoping to liberate its territories, whereas it continues because Russia keeps hoping to occupy all of Ukraine.

They tear-gassed kids last week.

If history has taught us anything, it's that military purges by profoundly un-expert authoritarians always turn out really, really fine for the country in question. He said, pretty sarcastically. www.cnn.com/2025/10/29/p...

Most foreign policy experts agree that, when your adversaries feel so vulnerable and weak that they start trotting out half-bogus weapons tests to try and make themselves appear anything but vulnerable and weak, the correct move is not to do exactly the same thing. www.cnn.com/2025/10/29/p...

Hi, my name is Sam, and my past-times include DROPPING IBUPROFEN ON THE FLOOR and THINKING IT'S FRIDAY WHEN IT'S NOT.

An lot of people are struggling to make ends meet. You may be one of them, or you may be trying your best to help loved ones who are (which is good and right). But if you're one of us lucky few who are doing fairly well /materially-speaking/ right now, this is a good place to throw a few bucks.

“The regime is arresting and prosecuting opposition politicians for the crime of public protest” has for eight decades been shorthand for “the democratic West should not support this regime.” And that’s where we are now.

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.