I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here

Saying you inadvertently backed the US into a “National Security Event” isn’t the flex he thinks it is.

HE HAS HAD TEN YEARS AND HE STILL HAS NOTHING

and there's the official football yank. congratulations, centerist dems. you sold us down the river for nothing.

Did he… did he just do the meme? But for real?

every single week they're throwing this guy a special oval office love-in that appears to be the presidential equivalent of letting your dog scarf an entire big mac and fries before that last trip to the vet

While we're at it, why do we pay for a fire department when most houses don't even burn down.

I have come to believe this as well. The list is too strange. I don’t think a majority wanted to cave, but many more than the 8.

Here...they are: 1. Catherine Cortez Masto (D–Nevada) 2. Jacky Rosen (D–Nevada) 3. John Fetterman (D–Pennsylvania) 4. Dick Durbin (D–Illinois) 5. Tim Kaine (D–Virginia) 6. Maggie Hassan (D–New Hampshire) 7. Jeanne Shaheen (D–New Hampshire) 8. Angus King (I–Maine, caucuses with Democrats)

It was totally working. They were going to have to blow up the damned filibuster.

Dems backed Trump into a corner where he’s advocating for starving Americans and hemorrhaging support. If they vote to let him off the hook in exchange for nothing it’s a cataclysmic failure. I know people are in pain but insulating Republicans from political consequences is not the answer.

I wonder if Nancy Pelosi decided to announce her retirement this week because she knew this deal was coming…

This is not a deal — it's an empty promise. Trump and his Republican Congress are making healthcare more expensive for the middle class and ending it for working families. Time for Democrats to stand tall for affordable healthcare. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

I think Senate folders are significantly underestimating how fucking angry Democratic voters are at them

Luke. This is why you get the poop stories, Luke. @rocked.net

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

After this latest round of elections, if they cave, we can probably look forward to GOP control for the foreseeable future because a lot of the left is just going to say “fuck it.”

I’ve had two raccoons and a skunk coming by at night - always together, like some weird children’s book. So I moved the outside cat food higher up to try and make my porch less attractive. Now the raccoons are eating and the skunk can’t and I feel like a dick.

No Ozymandias?

“I don’t want to hear about the affordability.” Lessons were clearly NOT learned on Tuesday.

"Israel attacked first." This admission undercuts the Trump administration's collective self-defense justification for joining Israel's military campaign against Iran over the summer.

holy shit -- one of Trump's toadies just passed out and the White House event is brought to an abrupt end

This is the perfect picture metaphor for America under Trump and MAGA

Christ it literally is printer paper I hate everything

YEP. Cry about it.

Someone in my neighborhood had a friendly cat show up at their house and posted to ask about it and immediately like 5 people tagged me because “if anybody knows a strange cat around here it’s Tara.” I HAVE WON AT LIFE.

I know this isn't getting as much attention as the other races, but so glad that Colorado voted in favor of Prop MM, which increases state income taxes on people earning more than 300K to help give breakfast and lunch to certain public school students, with additional funds going to SNAP.

I forgot that @bookshop.org is on here, so in case you don’t know about them: You can order books online from them and they’ll sell and ship them to you from a nearby privately-owned bookstore. All the convenience of online shopping but you support a small business!

I assume all of the "It's cute how you think there are still going to be elections" people all died last night. I hope so

If anybody can break the curse of “everyone in NYC hates the mayor even if he won in a landslide and personally handed every resident $1000,” it’s this guy.

Oh my god somebody get in there and extract Serena, she is in DANGER.

It’s not even the 400th most important thing but I will just never get over how fucking tacky these people are.

No plans to change course whatsoever, brilliant. I'm fully on board

Oh cool we’ve reached the “I know a Good Thing happened but I need to point out a Bad Thing about it so that everyone will go back to feeling bad and also know how cool and smart and cynical I am” phase.

Trump responds to Republicans getting drubbed tonight by calling for "VOTER REFORM" 🤔

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

This is why Chuck has NO REASON to come back to the table. Let them twist. If you're coming back with wins this big during a shutdown, the people know where their bread is buttered. Don't throw them a lifeline. These aren't tiny margin wins. They're blowouts.

DID HE DO IT?!?! And are all the shitty MAGA NYers going to flee to Texas and almost immediately regret it? And if so can we make a TV show out of that?

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

…what.

I was pretty skeptical of an American Pope but honestly so far I like this guy. He doesn’t mince words or try to play nice when he shouldn’t and he’s clear on the actual teachings of the Bible, which is what people need to hear right now when American “Christians” get it all wrong.

Interesting...Pope Leo cites Matthew's gospel, "Jesus says very clearly, at the end of the world, we're going to be asked, you know how you did you receive the foreigner? Did you receive him and welcome him or not?" hmm. do we know anyone who has been blathering lately about getting into heaven?

I hope Mamdani wins because I think he’s the best candidate. But I also hope he wins because fuck Chuck Schumer.

Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.

…men can’t wear wired headphones now?

Listen I also loved all the Taylor Swift “Female Rage The Musical” memes but I think we all have to admit that all she really did was write the overture to “Female Rage The Musical” because we had NO IDEA what Florence Welch is capable of when she gets mad.

Legitimately I believe he does think that about the Oval Office all the time but it’s because he’s riddled with dementia.