Has ANYONE involved in this ever gone a day without food? People are supposed to sit around and starve while they wait for politicians to handle things? And what about when Thursday comes? The money won't flow by the end of business Friday so they'll wait all weekend? www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

I am so sick of this government holding us hostage and taking things away from women. How many laws tell a man what to do with his body? Every swinging dick would revolt. 98% of Congress doesn't even know where my clit is. Stay the fuck out of our vaginas. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

You can see the contrast between decadence and poverty in any city if you actually look.

Is this for real?

This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful. Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened. This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

The Democrats made us go through all of this BS and drama, and it was all for nothing. They have won nothing here, and they will win nothing in the future. The people who didn't support them see them as a nuisance that disrupted their lives. I see them as weak & ineffective. Nothing but losers.

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These headlines sum up our current administration.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 95th day out of the last 107. 12 days of work in 107 days. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

I can't stand what we've become. www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsan...

Take a break from doom scrolling and read about insanity of a different kind. My book is now #45 on the Amazon Best Sellers list under the 30-Minute Humor & Entertainment category! I screamed a little and did a happy dance when I saw it. a.co/d/gg2ezFZ

Wow, that truce lasted a few days longer than I expected. www.nbcnews.com/world/middle...

They "don't have the funding" to give citizens food but they can bail out Argentina and build a gigantic ballroom. I wish people would wake up. This is so frustrating.

This AWS outage has revealed to me that more platforms run on Amazon products than I thought, and it should be a cautionary tale of just how fast shit can be taken from you when you allow corporations to be this big with little competition.

How many classes today were canceled because a whole suite of EdTech services are built atop AWS? You know what platform never crashes?

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Explaining The Marketplace and what the subsidies mean in under one minute... www.tiktok.com/@lurky_lou/v...

Remember the last time the government was shut down forever? You know, when Trump was president? People were paid their SNAP benefits in advance while funding was still available. The White House has the power to do that. Just like the Republicans can end this shutdown and protect subsidies.

Have you ever trained a new hire and thought, "How does this person cross the street without getting hit?" They can't do the simplest of things, they have no experience - it's baffling. MAGA doesn't trigger libs. The left is frustrated. You should've learned about all this shit in grade school.

This is what the government spent on SNAP for fiscal year 2024. The government states that funding cannot be guaranteed for November...the equivalent of $8.3 billion based on these numbers...yet they will bail out Argentina with $40 billion.

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I'm a fanatic about tracking prices and boring because I buy the same things at the same time every month. Here is a breakdown of my orders this year. Do you notice a trend?

The people who died were failed by all officials on every level, but for her to come out and say this is their "new posture" is horrible. Does that mean we can expect this to happen all the time now?

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I'm sure all those people concerned with money going to immigrants can justify this with their mental gymnastics. We're spending more money in the long run to make people prisoners. It's disgusting.

The hospital in my small hometown closed three years ago. The closest is approximately 25 minutes away. People in that area overwhelmingly supported Trump, and this comment I saw on Reddit sums up the decline I've already seen in my town. I didn't think it could get worse, but here we are.

Being undocumented is not a criminal offense; it is a civil violation. Entering the US without proper inspection or authorization is a criminal offense. We don't know the difference until a person is afforded due process. It's as easy as that.

Make this all make sense. Why is the US the only country that voted against a day of peace? I can't believe I missed this story. I guess I was distracted by the stock market tanking and the other two dozen insane things that now happen on a daily basis. press.un.org/en/2025/ga12...

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You cannot "Safeguard the rights of women and girls" and take away their civil liberties at the same time. Kim Reynolds is a dried up old turd that fell off the ass of Branstad and it shows. If nothing else comes from this s*** show of an administration, I hope people wake up. Be safe people. ❤️

I bet they used Ctrl + F "probationary" to find the employees, copy and pasted their email addresses, then sent termination letters. People cheering these firings have obviously never been at a company during downsizing, but I'm sure they'll get their chance soon enough.

The fallout from this chaos is starting to kick in... I buy my coffee wholesale because it's second to oxygen. The price went up for the first time in 6 months, by $2.70. It pissed me off and thinking about it consumed my lunch. I don't care how dramatic it sounds. 😝 Don't f*ck with my coffee!

Anyone with a pair of scissors can cut hair. But without knowing where to cut and how much to take, without looking at the layers involved, you will remove too much. It's easy to completely dismantle institutions but a daunting task to rebuild & I don't see interest in anything but deconstruction.

I am distraught about our country and have spent most of my life writing and fighting and volunteering and I want to look around and yell, "WHY?!" But I won't. Instead I am learning graphic design to help get through to those that choose to be absurd. youtu.be/np_zKy9_aFQ?...