He and Trump wanted them to come to work during a shutdown when they're sick, exhausted, worried about their childcare, overwhelmed and broke. What could go wrong? It's not as if they have a stressful job or anything.

Welp. Dust off your old Obamacare arguments. It looks like we're going to party like it's 2009 again.

Listen to this BS from Duffy. (Whose aviation-world experience = zero.) I know 1000 times as many controllers as he's ever met. OK, maybe only 100 times as many. This is offensive beyond belief.

I can't stress this enough as a super volunteer for the Democratic Party and Democratic candidates. This should prompt you to get MORE involved, not less. Show up and use the existing infrastructure to make it work for all of us. In my neck of the woods, we've seen a ton of local victories this way.

DoorDash says sushi prices are down, per White House

Actually a pretty typical take from too many east coast elites.

This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.

Let's bring back droit de seigneur while we're at it. It's only right.

Speaking of complaining...

LOLOLOL!!!! "Without complaining"??? Trump??? There has never been a bigger whiner sore loser in the history of the world! Nobody's ever seen anything like it!

Such a brave, heroic manly man he is.

I wish I felt confident that Mace and Boebert would hold the line. But I don't.

U.S. President Donald Trump says that his government will boycott the Group of 20 summit this month in South Africa over his claims that a white minority group there is being violently persecuted. Those claims have been widely rejected. https://to.pbs.org/4nPnWEf

King’s point is that it didn’t work because Trump was cutting SNAP benefits. But lower courts had required Trump to pay full SNAP, and while Trump *probably* would have won at SCOTUS, that outcome wasn’t guaranteed and would have been known soon anyway.

The hero of the working class.

One of the more depressing aspects of this cave-o-rama is that it's revived the tiresome navel-gazing and self-flaggelation that we had finally managed to get beyond. "The discourse" is right back to Groundhog day. It's not the most important reason for being pissed but it's up there.

It was always going to be so. I thought we all knew this. No?

This sounds like the start of a conversation to put Paw Paw in an assisted living center.

She does. I always thought she had to have something on Trump to have as much influence as she has but after reading this it just seems that she's the kind of crazy he can relate to.

Meanwhile, people unconstitutionally seized or brutalized by ICE agents can’t sue them because there’s no private right of action for them to do that.

Not a political consultant but I’m not sure “standing up to trump doesn’t work” is the best midterm message, even if if accurately represents senate dems position. Not much point in putting you in power then bsky.app/profile/atru...

This is why it's different. It was unfair that Biden was given no credit for the soft landing but people were still traumatized and still felt discombobulated. Trump promised to bring morning in America and not only hasn't the economy improved the entire culture is in chaos.

Could someone please ask him -- or any Republican -- how this is supposed to reduce costs?

This is most directly about the fake electors (none of whom face any federal charges anyway) but the actual wording of it is much broader: it's effectively a full and complete blanket pardon for anybody who had anything to do with trying to steal the 2020 election, not just the Jan 6-ers.

So what are we all betting will happen if the Senate Republicans do keep their word and allow a vote on the subsidies next month?

i suspect there’s some truth to this and also why we should be EXTREMELY skeptical that senate dems as currently constituted would ditch the filibuster should they ever have a trifecta again

"Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, 'Well, shame on them.'" FFS. I'm beginning to wonder if the Republicans already have 8 votes to kill the ACA completely and replace it with Trump checks in one fell swoop.

In other words:

Sanders: That is a totally meaningless gesture. You can get 100 votes here and it won't mean anything because the House is not going to take it up.

FFS...

So adorable. If the Republicans don't keep their word, they'll hear from the voters some time in the future. That's the guarantee. Lol.

This, from Tim Kaine is HILARIOUS:

Any "deal" with Senate Republicans for a future vote does not necessarily apply to the House. And even if Johnson goes back on his word that he would never put a subsidy extension on the floor, Trump hasn't signed on to anything. Surely the Democrats understand this, right?

The only people who buy through the ACA marketplace even allowed to have HSA's are those who have high deductible plans. Most of them don't have them.

There will be a revolution if Dems agree to this insanity. It's ridiculous. Maybe it's being floated to make their actual cave look better.

The Problem, as Schiff said this morning:

Things will never ever get better if the GOP can do this every year without fail

This is part of the tragedy of a surrender now. It invites more pain and suffering by emboldening the regime. Why should they listen to a weak opposition?

Yes- its been a below the radar problem with focusing on healthcare from the beginning

Trump’s approval rating drops to a dismal 37%. Trump: Free $2,000 for everyone!!!

Reductions in Force not required by shutdowns, have never happened in any previous shutdown, and a judge has ruled they are illegal. The shutdown is an excuse, not a reason, for them to do what they wanted to do: destroy government.

“A promise of a vote on healthcare” is nothing

Trump was at his golf club in Palm Beach when this was posted

A $64,000 Thailand beach vacation package being auctioned off at Mar-a-Lago as Americans continue to struggle with high grocery prices

LOL! Project 2025 planned to go the OPPOSITE WAY! They wanted to move toward 20-year mortgages! Wrote about that here: www.randomlengthsnews.com/archives/202...

As I said, the nazis will win the "civil war" in MAGA.

Rent with insurance, property tax and maintenance expenses. Awesome.