the aurora looks incredible tonight down here in north georgia!

50s sci-fi invasion sky right here:

It was located entirely within my kitchen.

And everyone is scared of change, not being loved, and death.

What in the fuck

Nearly visible from the driveway. Worth the drive to see 'em.

"No YOU don't.":

You hired writers before they had a take you liked, example #6,325,997:

If you get a one time check for $2,000 dollars, that doesn't help you if your monthly payments for health insurance suddenly increase over $1,000 dollars a month. I'm choosing to believe that the accounts not getting this are bots. That's how I'm getting on with my day.

Taran Killem character:

Durbin, sure, burning all bridges with voters on the way out the door. Duckworth? What the fuckworth???

Inspiration can strike at any time. I keep a pen and a sharpie next to my bed. This way I have something handy to throw when it doesn't.

"No, it's not the same as a tortoise!!"

What you need to know is it will never happen.

Yes, what I have been told is that after Reid retired, Schumer went to senators and said “Remember how he’d always try to push you towards hard votes? How much you hated it? I won’t do that, I’ll let you do what you want.” And that’s how he became majority leader and how he’s governed ever since.

Democrats in office need to know: all of us with very few exceptions want all of you with very few exception to lose your god damn jobs because you refuse to do them.

they understand insurance. the entire premise of libertarian opposition to mandatory insurance is that they should not have to care about anyone else and be permitted to take risks. it's the same opposition to vaccination and taxation. they are bad neighbors.

Xenovember day 9! This commission piece was done last year, depicting the original xeno floating in the void after the film, finished a month before Dane Hallett would tell me over lunch that this was exactly how Alien: Romulus would begin! www.instagram.com/p/DQ3Ggm4kqW...

"Enough Dems are chickenshits who don't believe in anything that you can always roll them" is proving to be a reliable heuristic, with consistent real world results.

The dem shills are out in force trying to shame everyone who doesn't agree to continue to blindly support the Vichy dems in the senate and Schumer's brilliant 13 dimensional chess moves. Apparently it's fine for the party to betray us voters, but suggesting we stop falling for it is a no-no

I challenge anyone who still supports the senate dems as a whole to prove to me how they're anything more than controlled opposition at this point

Each new statement is dumber than the last.

Trying to imagine my son getting excited because I told him that, when bedtime comes around tonight, he can ask me for my permission to stay up until dawn playing video games. Sure, man, ask away. We both know what the answer is going to be.

Please note that our reps are not more informed or savvy or masterfully strategic than we are. They’re just people, often extremely ill-informed, compromised, and arrogant. Never take this kind of guff from these clowns.

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

Not my senator, but called her office to tell her staff to quit and find candidates worth helping:

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

Durbin's office still not taking calls, but I got through to a staffer at Duckworth's. Requested her to call for a change in leadership, said we don't need anyone who stands behind a party instead of standing behind the people, and told the staffer they're working for people who fucked us.

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

“Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is: never try.”

DONALD TRUMP: [asleep, drooling on long red tie] SENATE DEMOCRATS: fine, we give in

But they might want to leave one:

no money for politicians

Imagine being a government employee who sacrificed all the way through this shutdown only to have chuck schumer sell you out for nothing.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

Thanks to @mostmuscle.bsky.social www.opensecrets.org/orgs/america...

Chuck Schumer is doing this because he is sabotaging the emergence of a Democratic Party that actually promises real results for working people, in order to protect his phony job and his billionaire friends

"Where were you last night?" "We're looking at that very strongly." "What’s this motel charge?" "We'll have something on that in about two weeks." "Whose panties are these?" "That's a nasty question." Flawless strategy.

Durbin is trash. Yes, lots of great stuff in the past. Sure he’s a decent guy. But he’s pure trash now. Important to see that the bulk of Team Cave is made up of people who are retiring.

Do you support a change in Senate leadership after this surrender? Not picking on Booker - we should ask this of literally all the no votes.

Chuck Schumer isn't a wartime consigliere, He isn't even a peacetime consigliere. He's a playground consigliere. Dems serious about stopping fascism drop him, NOW Get someone w courage..Chris Murphy, Tammy Duckworth, Chris Van Hollen, Ruben Gallego..someone w at least a trace of spinal ganglia

like, this isn’t coming from leadership, it’s not coming from consensus, if they get this through — which is still a big if — it’s 8-10 dem senators essentially splitting from the caucus, and they should ask themselves how lieberman is remembered.

One of the talking points I keep seeing from Democrats is that part of the deal is that it will "ensure federal workers receive back pay" but that's the existing law! That's not something you've won in negotiations. That's just the letter of the law. You don't get to claim that as a win.

tbc: I consider this to be [a step toward, if not outright] defacto ACA repeal, because the GOP realized the covenants on insurance (preexisting conditions etc) only matter if you *actually have a policy* by killing the financial stuff (medicaid recs, 2021 expanded credits), you can kill the law.

This pile of flap meat has more spine than Chuck Schumer

Someone who gets it says:

You ever drunk dial your senator?

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable. We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina. A vote for this bill is a mistake.

I've looked at all the details of this deal to end the shutdown reached by a small group of Senate Democrats. I've talked to a number of friends on the Hill to see if there's anything I'm missing. Sadly, I am not. This is a shit deal. It's a betrayal. It's cowardice.