so, today I got the surgery center where I got my deviated septum fixed to send me an itemized bill so I could submit to my FSA for reimbursement my out of pocket cost: $473 what my insurance paid: $4258 what they tried to charge my insurance (not a misprint): $173692

NEW STORY // Katie Wilson Takes 91-Vote Lead in Dramatic Seattle Mayor Race Story by Doug Trumm via @theurbanist.org // 🔗 www.theurbanist.org/2025/11/10/k...

Note the absolutely spot-on touch that * the football is never even placed *. Democrats keep trying to go through the motions anyway. Beyond dumb.

Government, taxes, & regulation are good actually

this is literally never not accurate

13) I think Dem leadership still suffers from frame drag. They think it's the 90s. Trump is dismantling the powers of Congress. They have to rise to that moment and demand big things. Vought is expanding the playing field to thinks off the table. Dems need to do the same. ###

Some thoughts on the CR/minibus. 1 The Dems negotiating with Rs were not freelancing. They coordinated with Sen Schumer. A few were ready to give in on day one, others worked to maximize appropriations wins. Those voting for the 'deal' are the ones furthest away from electoral consequences.

Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”

Senate Dems are out here posting noise like "omg the Senate GOP just voted against healthcare subsidies and are trying to sneak a bunch of terrible shit into the funding bill" — and people are flooding their mentions with "bitch, please, GTFOH" Never seen such a dramatic swing in political momentum

After yesterday’s surrender, we’re launching the largest Democratic primary program that we’ve ever run. We will not back any Senate primary candidate unless they call for Schumer to step down as Minority Leader. If you’re as pissed as we are, join this campaign to rebuild the Democratic Party. 👇

Former House speaker / Trump adviser newt Gingrich, saying on the record what we’d heard so much on background from those others: “Look at the rage on the left. It doesn’t sound like a victory party to me. All you have to do is look at the reaction on the left to figure out who won this shutdown…”

@sanders.senate.gov: "We have already had 15 Republicans in the Senate defy Trump and say, 'Release the SNAP funds.' So I think that if we had held firm, it would be the Republicans who would yield. That was not the position of these 8 Democrats."

We’ve recently learned that if you have undeniable candidates sometimes people still directly give them so much money that they briefly ask people to *stop.*

Don't Let Democratic Centrists Hijack the Majority With Their Cowardice! Vichy Democrats decided to betray their party, their base, and Americans fighting for lower healthcare costs based on a bullshit promise by Republicans. Never forget. thelefthook.substack.com/p/dont-let-d...

Tesla engineer was concerned about known thermal runaway problems in the batteries, elon and his head of security concoted a mass shooter threat pretending to be him, leaked it to the press and got a bolo issued to tried to get him swatted, Elon then stiffed his head of security

Immigration is good. Fighting immigration is disastrous.

Did you really think they weren't gonna bury terrible things in this so-called clean Bill?

BREAKING update to my lawsuit against DC Metropolitan PD for body cam footage from USIP raid — We've submitted our response, including sworn declarations from *six* USIP workers, 1 of whom says he "observed members of MPD giving each other high-fives and fist bumps" after removing staff from bldg.

i parachute into X/Twitter a lot for my job and obviously have chronicled the devolution but today it feels that, even outside of the realm of groyperposting the broad culture there is just like *i have lead poisoning*

OK, this is a weird one. I moved my office into my (carpeted) living room months ago. Last week, my monitor started going randomly black, needing to be unplugged, plugged back in, and then woken up. 😒 Turned out to be a static electricity problem! One humidifier later, no more screen crashing. 😅

Who made this and why are you choosing nerd violence? ✍️ I mean, it is true, but still.

"Maxwell has received custom meals personally delivered to her cell, after-hours time in a private exercise area, access to a service puppy, and private meetings with visitors arranged by the warden, complete with snacks. Visitors were allowed to bring computers..." www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...

man you just got voted a pay package that will make you the richest human being who ever lived and you're spending all your time obsessing over getting owned real bad on the internet elon really is the face of the billionaire brainworms crisis that is Online

The President pardoned members of his private militia after they failed to overturn an election; they, in turn, pledge their support to him and urge him to use them to police civil society.

‘I have actually become a star’: Louvre heist mystery ‘fedora man’ uncovered – video

these are the dumbest people on earth.

"Schumer voted against it, in the hope that his vote would conceal his fingerprints. He fooled no one."

GOP operatives (including two Trump pollsters) have long called for reinstituting the ACA credits, warning that the GOP is on track to pay a “political penalty” for its actions. As Jeffries points out, the largest percentage of voters who make use of the enhanced ACA tax credits are Republicans.

Wait, I thought Senate Democrats were caving on the shutdown so SNAP benefits could resume, but they’re not even getting that. They’re getting nothing for their surrender except lasting enmity from their own voters.

Starting now: Press conference announcing a motion for a temporary restraining order challenging USDA's unlawful attempt to withhold SNAP benefits, featuring Attorneys General of CA, NY, MN, NJ and leaders from City Harvest, Food Action Research Center and No Kid Hungry.

Funny thing about Nate's attempt to show he and his buddies on X are normal: Sydney Sweeney's new movie just posted one of the worst wide-release openings ever, whereas Predator Badlands—somehow deemed "woke," "gay," and "feminist" by online right-wingers—crushed it, setting a franchise record.

Yep. Don't give up the party apparatus, organization, etc to the Vichy Dems. Kick THEM out. They're the ones who suck, not us.

me when the AI bubble bursts

Guess some people haven’t heard of Blueskyism.

At first, I was excited. Then i got to the part where they still insist on adding progesterone - which makes me ill (pain, bleeding, depression, etc. etc.). All I want is a super-low dose of systemic estrogen. 🫤

In the final hours of Trump 1.0 JONATHON BRAUN, a VIOLENT FELON, USED HIS FAMILY TIES TO TRUMP'S SON-IN-LAW TO HAVE HIE 10 YR SENTENCE COMMUTED - ALL HE HAD TO DO WAS STAY OUT OF TROUBLE. He is back in court for multiple offenses. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/n...

Good article. Includes a timely reminder from Thomas Paine: “Of more worth is one honest man to society and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.” #NoKings

I thought I was being mean when I immediately assumed Dems feared losing their filibuster smokescreen, but Jonathan Chait agrees albeit in a nicer way. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

ICE ONLY detained the brown guys. Gift article. wapo.st/43W3haf

Mama mia! Trump take noodle www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Over the last 10 months, the federal government has cracked down on political expression with a persistence and viciousness reminiscent of some of the darkest periods of U.S. history. Welcome to the Third Red Scare.

Federal Judge, Warning of ‘Existential Threat’ to Democracy, Resigns www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/u...

On our “toxic tour” of dirty uses along the Delaware in Chester City, it became even clearer how unjust it is for Philly to send its trash here to be burned — poisoning our air and lungs. Let’s stop making Chester and our neighborhoods sick! www.inquirer.com/politics/phi...

This is really good--one of the most powerful and insightful pieces I've read about what @qjurecic.bsky.social appropriately calls "The Third Red Scare." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Republican voters need to ask WHY Republican legislators/the White House do NOT want the Epstein files released? Why the Pentagon does NOT want the press to talk to Pentagon staff? Why the Sec Def, AG, Director of FBI continue to fire in droves experienced people with integrity. wapo.st/3JG4ImA

Supreme Court declines to take on same-sex marriage: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...

Of course he did. Short of himself, a less deserving man never was. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Of the this fucking guys in the administration, this fucking guy is the this fucking guyest. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...