Really makes you wonder why this guy wants to build his own state so US law doesn’t apply to him

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

New York Times killed Weinstein and Epstein stories but just asked Ms Rachel if she was funded by Hamas.

I don’t know at this point if there is enough evident to say “the New York Times, institutionally, was a co-conspirator with Epstein” but it’s basically beyond doubt at this point that at least one employee of the paper were co-conspirators and used their position at the paper to help affect that

Epstein: I’m best friends with this pedo running for President, here’s a bunch of stories about how big a pedo he is NYT: but her emails

Important to note that these polls were conducted before all of today's Epstein news (apnorc.org/projects/tru...)

The guy who wants to ban porn sure has a lot of thoughts about this well-endowed woman!

these are GOPpocalypse numbers which coincidentally was also the result we got last week Tuesday

68% of republicans is getting awfully close to the "something might happen" threshold

Switched to Qobuz a few weeks ago after over a decade on Spotify and it seems perfectly fine. If you think you have to keep Spotify for some reason (playlists/laved library, platform compatibility, etc) you are probably wrong. Most services are just as good now and moving things over is easy peasy

the republican party is engaged in a cover up to keep the american people from learning whether president trump is president pedo

lol, lmao even

I legitimately think one of the absolute poisons of American political discourse is how “but will this matter electorally” has become the only metric used by basically the entire non-partisan media for assessing a story’s importance

10 months in, and they’re replacing BLS data with doordash marketing statistics. You think this goes away with a strong showing in 26 and 28? My God. lmfao. By Allah. lmfao.

this is not "everyone is twelve" theory. this is the slightly rarer but typically much more consequential "no one knows what lawyers do" theory

Berkeleyside's coverage of the Charlie Kirk event included a brief moment of housing politics when the TPUSA speaker accused Berkeley of being nimby hypocrites and Berkeleyside is like: um acthually!

SNAP embarrassed him. So now he's against SNAP. SNAP is now the James Comey of government assistance programs.

Hard to count all the bombs the Trump economy is dropping on struggling rural economies’ ability to turn the corner

If there's anyone who has worked harder to flip the script on the NIMBY history of Marin than Jenny, I don't know them. Listen to the reformers: state law gets the goods. (And you still need people like Jenny holding cities' feet to the fire)

this is so obviously corrupt that it's probably worth $4m in expected electoral value

The politically smart move for Trump would be to do nothing and let the salience of healthcare fade but he can’t help but fucking with it because he hates that was something Obama/Biden did that he couldn’t

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Shaheen's own daughter disavows the deal her mom struck lol

Some thoughts on the CR/minibus. 1 The Dems negotiating with Rs were not freelancing. They coordinated with Sen Schumer. A few were ready to give in on day one, others worked to maximize appropriations wins. Those voting for the 'deal' are the ones furthest away from electoral consequences.

lol, lmao

Woof

They fundamentally don’t understand the concept of insurance

Elon buying X and firing everyone pretty much turned tech into a shitty place to work almost overnight.

The RIF provision in the bill is actually really strong and not just something we should handwave away as nothing, especially as people on here were saying the ask should have been reining in Vought rather than health care subsidies.

if they don't fix Obamacare credits and/or fuck it by replacing it with HSAs, next year is going to be uhhhh a healthcare election

I think if senate mods want to break, they will break, but it's really important they do it without cover from the caucus or leadership

Right

nonsensically internecine wonk beef? In *my* Democratic Party? It’s more likely than you’d think

They still just like don’t understand the concept of insurance

I don’t think the GOP realizes how close they are to (redacted). Like, they’re not feeding the army let alone paying them, they’ve canceled the bread dole, the rest of the economy is circling the drain, the air transport system is about to collapse, etc these are the things that give colonels ideas

I know everyone thinks all feds are like GS-15s in NoVa with a consultant spouse pulling down six figures, but in reality land shit is starting to Get Bad even for those of us with decent financial resources

GOP SEN. JOHN KENNEDY: It may be 2026 when we'll come out of the shutdown. REPORTERS: 😳 KENNEDY: I'm not kidding, you guys. I mean, you see what I see. Okay? This shutdown is going to last a long time. What's going to get us out of it?

just as this is an insane thing for a nominally populist administration to seek, it seems equally crazy for a court whining about its own reputation to do

I think we're genuinely flirting with a societal rupture and I'm not sure I want to experience that

hey guys isn't it weird how they're all saying this at the same time? ignore the fact that this is now happening with Tyler Cowen, an economist who sits at the center of a sprawling system of think tanks and policy "influencers" who have been laundered into DC with both Koch and SV VC money

HE'S APPEALING TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT HE BE ALLOWED TO STARVE AMERICANS

there has gotta be some non public information behind the tune switch on AI from “infinite productivity is right around the corner” to “you fuckers are in this boat too whether you like it or not, better psychologically prepare to open your taxpayer wallets”

i honestly dont think he wanted this outcome

I don't think people fully realize how brutal a vise Republicans are in now. If they cave tomorrow Democrats get all the credit for giving people healthcare. If they somehow bypass the filibuster they get a year plus of headlines about ripping people's healthcare away.

NEWS — The Oregon Department of Human Services has issued 100% of November SNAP benefits, per an alert on their website. I've received reports that the funds have already hit recipients' EBT accounts. www.oregon.gov/odhs/news/Pa...

ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*

it is very amusing that the DC abundance bros are mad about Lina Khan being one of Zohran’s transition co-chairs even though the other co-chair is Maria Torres Springer, NYC’s ultimate abundance YIMBY technocrat

Guy whose entire career has been writing one column a week has thoughts on "the workplace"

Per reports Speaker Pelosi never scheduled a vote unless she knew she would win the vote. GOAT