Basically saying "if you do crime for me, I won't only pardon you--I'll give you millions of dollars of public money." Truly unprecedented level of corruption www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.

TLDR: Dems caved because they want to campaign on Republicans screwing folks on healthcare (and because they feared the elimination of the filibuster), which all sounds plausible. Which means: primary these clowns and then vote for Democrats who might have spines.

I assumed that since Schumer asked for such a pathetically low number on the ACA extension (1 year) it would get whittled down to maybe four months and pinky promises. But if this reporting is accurate, they're not even going to try for four months. They're just going to take the pinky promises.

"Among the top 10 declining roles, 3 are creative positions: computer graphic artists (-33%), photographers (-28%), and writers (-28%). Computer graphic artists includes roles such as technical artists, 3d artists, and VFX artists. Writers include copywriters, copy editors and technical writers."

After Democrats try to punch themselves in their own dick with a craven capitulation, Republicans snatch their wrists mid-air, insisting *they* are the only ones allowed to punch themselves in their own dicks.

We should have tax policy that makes this impossible. This man should have 1/1000th the wealth he has.

the reason republicans lost yesterday is because theyre a bunch of weird freaks pushing policy that everyone hates

Instead of caving on the enhanced premium tax credits for the ACA, feels to me like it would be a perfect moment for Senate Democrats to dig in their heels and say, "Actually, I think it's time we enacted Medicare for All."

The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.

Wow, what a shock. I never would've guessed that granting faceless ghouls unlimited power could have negative consequences.

We should remember Cheney as he lived, shooting his friends in the face with birdshot.

Don't threaten me with a good time.

A movie you've seen more than seven times with a gif.

I mean, the building isn't GONE guys, it's just in a new form factor, specifically rubble.

I don't like that these goons are violent dolts, but I don't mind if they're slow AF.

Everything sucks now, but at least I get to enjoy this 7'6" phenom putting people in a blender, hitting stepback threes, and dunking from Bolivia with his go-go gadget arms. Go Spurs Go! www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJX9...

This.

These costs are sucking chest wounds to the average American, and will be impossible to weather. This, alongside the AI bubble, the housing market bubble, the loss of jobs, encroaching inflation, and every other batshit thing Trump does, will lend itself to a cataclysmic cascading failure.

Only two types of people have Nazi tattoos: Nazis and clueless morons. I wouldn't want either to represent me.

Republican rhetoric all week was clearly aiming to either depress turnout or inspire visible maga pushback. Neither happened and the press doesn’t seem particularly interested in exploring the implications of that.

Wouldn't it be great if our country's rich and powerful each had their own pair of balls instead of having to share a single diseased testicle amongst the lot of them? Then they could actually take a stand instead of preemptively capitulating at the slightest whisper of a threat.

This text is buried in a larger bill. Don’t want Marco Rubio to be personally responsible for revoking people’s passports based on thought crimes? Call your reps about it!

A portrait of what could’ve been if our country weren’t run by cowards.

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

The more this settles in, the more its danger and gravity becomes clear. 1. This was a crime, whether under domestic law enforcement, international law or war law. 2. By its very logic, there is nothing preventing them from doing the same within the US. 3. They are bragging about it.

I assume we've already put the finishing touches on the toilet-cleaning robot, the garden-weeding robot, and the dinner-cooking robot, then.

Surprise! There is none! It’s just murder.

About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”

this now brings us up to six (!) grand jury refusals to charge (that we know about), plus two cases filed as part of the dc surge dismissed on the us attorney's office's request

Every time your electricity bill goes up for the next 10 years, it can be traced back to this Administration’s actions. They are making solar and wind power illegal to build in the United States. They are artificially restricting supply while demand is going up.

House Democrats could force a vote on impeaching RFK any time they want. Of course it would fail. But do you want to make an issue of it or not?

Use your power when they call you for jury duty, when they ask you to be on the grand jury. Don't give into the fascist police state.

Lot of garbage in the White House these days, just saying.

Read more books. Doomscroll less.

I was in Rhode Island a couple weeks ago visiting family. Saw these on the pier as we took a ferry to Block Island. Can’t figure out if this decision is evil, insane, nakedly corrupt, or all of the above.

What? This man is not from Uganda!

Using GenAI turns your brain to mush.

I mean, duh.

One again, I urge everyone to understand the concept of jury nullification. It’s more important now than ever.

"If your books were uploaded to LibGen/fed into the LLMs, add your name to the potential class action lawsuit by tomorrow." Details: LibDem database: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... Attorney form: www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au... (This information comes via a reliable Discord source.)

Little known fact that the government packs all the tariff money onto a single shelf in a warehouse in Poughkeepsie, New York. A man named Albert works there whose job it is to stock the shelf. He often forgets to check how many billions are on it. He checked last week and found 29 billions.

Honest question: who cares about the job numbers? Obviously economists and bankers do, people employed in finance do, CEOs planning investments to some degree. But if the average Joe can't land a job if his life depended on it, do you think he gives a shit if the government says employment is up?

Is the work more sex trafficking?

Guess Trump is right. DC crime is way up. Infinity percent increase in sub-sandwiching.

Paramount is paying $7.7 billion for the UFC, but remember how The Late Show cancellation was predicated on it losing $40 million? Yeah.

It’s the gold phone from Ocean’s 13.

I hate all of them so much.

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

Motherfucking wind farms…