My FireTV is unbelievably slow and I'm pretty sure it's because it preferentially loads about 800 advertisements before doing anything I want it to do

Taking out a 15 year loan to buy an item that typically lasts 10 years

This is good. Fuck those assholes

This is what a bunch of Democrats in the Senate just voted for:

These figures are in nominal terms, which is absolutely wild. Half the things listed here got cheaper or stayed the same *even without adjusting for inflation*.

Everybody talks as if this is impossible, but all Democrats need is the will to power. Which is to say, the will to admit DC as 250 states so we can rewrite the constitution at will

Tailgating is always a bad idea. Tailgating when the road is a block of ice is moronic

Dems are very proud of themselves for their “savvy” willingness to tell their base to simmer down and let the experts work. What they don’t seem to understand is the intangible, but very real, damage that does to the enthusiasm of their voters, who feel abandoned. And then the “experts” fail!

Here’s video of federal agents doing a drive by pepper spraying that hit a father and his one-year old on Saturday when the Feds were hitting Little Village and Cicero

if you genuinely think Schumer and Democratic leadership opposed this & Republicans coincidentally got exactly the number of votes they needed to avoid a filibuster and none of those votes are from Democratic Senators who are up for reelection in the midterms next year, I have a bridge to sell you.

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

the message is clear that Republicans are in charge permanently, can kill any D legislation with the filibuster, never need to govern at all, and when pressed, they can threaten the lives of millions any time they want and they will be given whatever it is they demand in exchange for their mercy.

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

One thing today has solidified for me is that I'm voting for Kat Abu, even though in most ways I like Biss better. I just don't feel as certain he will fight

Trump regularly ignores the law. That's why it's important to pass more laws saying "hey, you got to do this". It's called the Pinky Swear Principle

They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,

This is actually encouraging. If they don't have Kelly or Schumer, who are the 7.

Mark Kelly a NO, notable as he was allegedly one of the cavers

We tried to show them after the last surrender. There's no sense in trying to convince them anymore. Primaries are the only path to a fighting opposition party now.

Whatever else is in the deal, agreeing to merely have a vote on ACA is a fig leaf. Even if it passes the Senate, it won't in the House, which also makes it an easy yes vote for the Senate Rs who might want to, defusing it as an attack on them. It is a stupid ask even on Team Schumer's own terms.

Chuck Schumer diving in front of the rake Trump steps on

the vichy senate

Yeah, I'm inclined to agree here

The thing that gets me about Democratic senators is the degree to which they treat their base with casual contempt. Say what you want about the Republican party, they actually give a shit about what their voters want

However bad you think Schumer is, he is worse prospect.org/2025/11/08/w...

Because Republicans have learned that the only thing they need to do to win any future legislative fight is inflict enough pain on Americans and Dems will cave

Every Dem in the caucus, afaik, continues to support Schumer as leader. There are no good members, they all have to go

Filibuster Jan

I don't care how good you think your senator is, as long as they continue to support Schumer as minority leader they are part of the problem

Schumer and the Dems are about to teach Trump the lesson that they’ll cave whenever he abuses power to sufficiently hurt people.

this “deal” is embarrassingly bad and every Dem who supports it deserves to be primaried Trump is reeling right now, his popularity is crumbling, and he keeps flailing and making stupid decisions. bailing him out now is fucking insane

If the majority of Dems actually opposed this as much as they should, Schumer would be out of a job

Chuck Schumer diving in front of the rake Trump steps on

I'll withhold full comment until it's confirmed, but if that Axios report is correct, the Democrats will be proving their spinelessness once again. They will also be proving to Republicans, once again, that all they need to do to win every shut down fight is hurt people

I’m not going to name names but there are a lot of tastemaker accounts who see the crowd being aggressively wrong about something and instead of saying “Yeah, that’s wrong” step in to try to find a way to say “Well here’s why it’s half right.” The imperative is to find a way to agree with the crowd

“gambling is the worst, most game integrity destroying crime you can commit against the game of baseball now please read this sports betting advertisement, they’re our biggest sponsor” truly one of the most predictable disasters of all time

If you've only read one Barbara Tuchman book and it's A Distant Mirror, you reside on a higher plane of existence from the rest of us

I love Pulte tweeting like he and his wiz kids are sitting down with slide rules trying to work out the engineering required to add 20 years to a mortgage

Math nerds look at this and wonder what field could possibly use this notation. At least that's what I'm doing

in order to achieve the most important goal of the progressive electorate (defeat trump), we must elect politicians who do not care about progressive priorities, such as defeating trump www.politico.com/live-updates...

Once we abolish the filibuster, we should do a general immigration amnesty. Anyone deported under Trump should also be granted citizenship and a large cash reparation. This is on top of immigration reform making it vastly easier to come here.

The thing that always strikes me about these videos is how frequently these guys put themselves in situations that would be impossibly dangerous if they were, say, facing an insurgency

I have a very small mouth. I actually have to use a children's kazoo

I think you've gotta either abolish Border Patrol or purge it and hire an entirely new workforce. It's existed for over 100 years and the culture has been positively rancid for every single day of that.

Also, water is not a finite resource. There's a whole, you know, cycle.

Texas is going to gerrymander again before the midterms, lol

oh so these people do pay attention to who politicians follow on social media, they just don’t care that the vice president follows a bunch of actual neo-nazis

Media when the GOP vice president of the United States is in group chats with teenage groypers: I sleep Media when random Dem senate candidate follows women on Instagram: real shit

The world’s richest man is held to the same standard as Donald Trump, which is the media has tacitly agreed to never report what he says because it’s too embarrassing & discrediting

"You can't pray" really raising some legal questions