I love my chaos queen.

And the Rs vote no, and then what? At some point, even Lucy must have been shaking her head as Charlie Brown ran pell-mell at the football.

Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments. My response ⬇️

If true, Schumer is a chickenshit. The Republicans did this. If they want to wreck the holidays for tens of millions of Americans, let them do it and make them own it.

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

Problem is his followers aren't that smart. They don't check sources. He is their first and only source, perpetually unimpeachable.

Wife and I signed up for a 30-year fixed, 2.7 percent, simple interest. Fantastic terms. Stepdad was like, "THIRTY YEARS??!! Are you two crazy?" Fifty is just a whole new level of madness, like 80-month car loans and the other things meant to take advantage of consumers who want more, bigger.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Funny that this was their way of sidestepping away from the original headline because the phrase “conservative feminism” is so funny. Everyone involved in the conversation is beyond stupid but conservative feminism is just patriarchy but championed by women, apparently.

People wildly overestimate the economic security experienced by past generations. There's no period in American history where significant numbers of young people were just handed high paying jobs. Nostalgia for a time that never existed is a huge problem.

Do you think Trump got excited about 50 year mortgages because 50 is a bigger number than 30

50 year mortgage is so crazy. to put it in perspective, 2016 was 50 years ago

One thing about a hot area here is they will put a house absolutely anywhere. "No room? I beg to differ." Poor buggers had a view of the ocean for years and years, then ... womp womp.

There is an automatic belief in newsrooms to trust government sources. With this administration that needs a rethink, but overcoming that reflex is hard. Yes, agencies have shaded truth, but the blizzard of lies that comes from these folks should give a newsroom pause.

Have now seen two stories from major local broadcast outlets in Chicago repeating a claim by DHS that shots were fired and paint cans/bricks were thrown today in Little Village, with the only "evidence" being a post from the agency on a nazi website. This is more than irresponsible.

Ok I listened to whole thing to be fair. Conclusions: 1. Lightweight guests with jazz hands insights who style themselves to be bold tellers of truth and are simply reductive nincompoops. Did Liberal Feminism Ruin the Workplace? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...

"It’s taken this long and something as grotesque as Carlson normalizing a Nazi sympathizer for the right to realize what many have been saying all along: that elevating dangerous hatred and lies comes with real consequences." www.status.news/p/ben-shapir...

Six people died from tampered Tylenol and the company pulled 30 million bottles off the market. ChatGPT is accused of urging seven people towards suicide, and OpenAI just assures us they’re still working out the kinks. Billions in investment, zero accountability.

I personally find it astonishing that the Supreme Court is essentially Trump's "I can do what I want, ask them" card. Whenever he is rebuffed, he goes to them and they never say, "GTFO." They always hear his appeals and rule in his favor. That court has to be reformed.

SNAP benefits are currently being held hostage by the Trump administration and their fate now lies with the Supreme Court. Beneath the legal arguments are real people who simply need food—a former federal worker, a single mother of 4, a disabled man. I spoke to them. Here are their stories:

Expecting the Douthat slavery column any day now.

Luis Diaz good lord

I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul

I don't think people realize how crazy they all are. If they can stick their heads in the sand through the holiday season, with no SNAP or air travel, there will be nothing to end the shutdown. The longer it goes on the more government services will grind to a halt. The cruelty is the point.

Watched "The Asset." Six episodes that could have been four, but the Danes like their brooding. Worth your time, and the ending is excellent.

Big boy grillin on the roof!

I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point

This is not only essentially their standing offer, but now has Republicans on record as declining to compromise and reopen the government. If they take it, it's a win because it would have kept health care in view for midterms. If the Rs don't take it, they look like (bigger) assholes

For all the longevity folks, if the dude who discovered the structure of goddamn DNA couldn't figure out a way to game the system, what hope do pill popping, hyperbaric chamber sleeping rich dudes have?

Nothing will doom the Republicans more completely than if Social Security checks stop showing up. So much of their voting base sits at home, mainlining Fox News and worrying about the grim, horrible world outside. Stop those checks and all bets are off.

yes, Mamdani *is* radical on immigration by the standards of most major European politicians - name the major European politicians who advocate for immigrants, especially non-white ones, as human beings and not just mere economic units. It’s a short list and we all know it is.

photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty

I can only repeat: Y'all crazy.

fun fact: the irs knew this was gonna happen and put the source on github like a year ago, it doesn't have 100% of the functionality since some of it was irs backend proprietary but it's been forked a bajillion times now

The crazy thing about the Indianapolis shooting through the door thing is that Indiana has ridiculous "castle" laws that in effect protect a homeowner who might think, however unresonably, that someone is trying to illegally access their home. Even a cleaning lady at the wrong address WITH KEYS.

A cleaning woman showed up at the wrong house with her husband. Someone inside shot through the door, striking 32-year-old María Florinda Ríos Pérez de Velásquez in the head, killing her. The Indianapolis suburb is called Whitestown.

"We are going to court for permission to starve people."

So Elise Stefanik is running for NY governor. She abandoned every principle she claimed to have in exchange for a seat on the Trump train. Here’s a thread about Stefanik, who is a serial liar, an ally of a Hitler admirer, and an opponent of sharing baby formula with migrant infants. 🧵 1/10

Wait ... WHAT??!!

If I was running for Congress, I would promise to appropriate money for USAID, b/c as far as I am concerned it remains an agency as no-one repealed the statute that created it in 1998. It blew my mind at the time that we were like, yep, sure, we will just close an agency without authorization.

really good reporting apnews.com/article/trum...

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

Tomorrow marks the first time the federal government has failed to release a jobs report two months in a row. Without these data, unemployment insurance claims provide the most up-to-date read on the labor market. As the shutdown drags on, continued UI claims by federal workers hits 30k. #EconSky

The power of petty. An absolute queen. And I can tell you as someone living in Portugal, the Brazilian thing is real. What's funny is that many Americans mistakenly use programs that teach Brazilian Portuguese, come over and are like, "I used Portuguese and got sideeye."

Nope

The fact that the United Center is anywhere near this list makes the whole enterprise suss. Not that “a music critic’s favorite venues” is terribly useful in the first place!

This could have something to do with Trump making the economy worse

The arc of the moral universe is the flight of a foot-long

"without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." This is flatly false! Trans people with a passport that does not match with their plain appearance when presented to a border agent is subject to additional hassle compared to a cis person presenting a passport.