ARE YOU EVEN TRYING?

This is exactly correct.

I have to hand it to Democrats. I'm one of the feds working and not getting paid and they manage to make reopening the government feel worse than the alternative. Like, why did I miss 2.5 paychecks to end up right back where we were before the shutdown started?

Fucking feckless cowards.

Republicans on health insurance.

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

Hearing from more people after this went out. "We're all pissed. This was a lot of unnecessary stress on people and their families for nothing. And if I win the lottery tonight I absolutely will spend millions to hire people to follow these 8 Dems around for a year and make their lives miserable."

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

Philanthropy will never be a replacement for the services that the government can and should provide. Which is why we should tax the shit out of wealthy people to pay for such services.

The function of a toothless opposition party in dictatorship is to provide a veneer of legitimacy to the regime, allowing it to commit further crimes with even deeper impunity. As such, it's best to consider Schumer and ilk as part of the rising autocracy.

So it seems

After millions of people took to the streets, and a resounding nationwide electoral sweep, Democrats clearly had no other option in the Senate but to utterly capitulate to the Republicans.

Broadway review: Kristin Chenoweth in the new Stephen Schwartz musical The Queen of Versailles. Vers-sigh. www.timeout.com/newyork/thea...

Dammit, I’m a whiner. I am.

Finally a lil’ stoned, dammit. All it took was all my meds, which are considerable, heavy duty, you could even say, plus 43 million bong hits and 300 actual mg of cannabis capsules. Listening to George Winston, ffs. The light is dim, my bed is comfortable. Wide the fuck awake. #NEISVoid

How am I still conscious, she asks tiredly.

Still not over my hairdresser moving away without telling me even though I’ve found a new one. That’s a RELATIONSHIP, ma’am. You don’t just up and go.

Still cracks me up that this song was a monster hit and played everywhere in 1995. So random.

Since I’ve been talking about this masterpiece, have this and imagine you are Stevie Nicks: youtu.be/eDwi-8n054s?...

Tonight at midnight: My review of the new Broadway musical The Queen of Versailles, starring Kristin Chenoweth. Stay tuned!

Am I hungry or just bored?

This Black Friday, if you are able, please shop local and small businesses *only.* Consumers cannot continue rewarding these billionaires. We're helping to fund the architects of this administration and big donors. And they show no signs of ending their cruelty. www.aol.com/articles/inf...

E. Jean Carroll outsmarts him by so much you realize he’s even more inept than we knew. She has done a great service to our country, and to history, with style. Chef’s kiss. #mustread @ejeancarroll.bsky.social

If you are in line to be an Air Traffic Controller, stay in line!

as an aerophobe I’m inspired with great confidence that Hegseth and this knob are on top of this

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Selfie sticks are The Devil's fondue skewers.

I hope no one lets any elected official to pretend to forget about this. They want people to starve.

And now, if you read the devastating piece about what Venezuelan deportees endured at the El Salvador torture prison, read what incarcerated U.S. citizens endure in Alabama prisons. State prisons in the U.S. that are massive systems of human rights violations. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Making America Hungry Again #SNAP

For Trump: Seafood towers at Mar-A-Lago For Americans: Bread lines

I’m still getting that divorce I don’t want and it’s making me sad.

This is obscene!!! Trump throws another extravagant party at Mar-a-Lago while thousands, including government workers, line up at food banks during the shutdown— while he’s still fighting to block SNAP funding while kids go hungry. Literally a tale of two Americas.

Grateful for this Delta flight attendant for providing some clarity on the upcoming changes to flights during the holidays. Listen in ⬇️

Pub height tables in private homes offend me. #HGTV

Mamdani is going to implement My Sharona law. Everyone will have to create songs with undeniable rock beats.

Whenever I’m sad and need a small boost of joy, I remind myself Rush Limbaugh is dead and immediately feel better, and that’s all I have to say about Dick Cheney and Charlie Kirk.

Voting with your ears.

I woke up thinking this morning what it must be like to have run for Congress in the hopes of serving your neighbors and improving their lives only to have the most copiously sycophantic incompetent Speaker in history put you on a never ending leave. I’d be livid by now. Just livid.

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Thirteen babies have been hospitalized, including one in Rhode Island, amid an infant botulism outbreak, federal heath officials say. No deaths have been reported, but the disease can be fatal. on.nbcboston.com/UjslbEU

If I were to defy a court order, I'd be in jail, not building a ballroom. Reopen government, swear in Adelita Grivala, release the Epstein Files, restore healthcare subsidies, and fund SNAP.

BREAKING: Trump’s ICE bans Christians and all people from praying “in front of or inside” the Broadview ICE facility. So, forced prayer in school is good, but volunteer prayer for the prisoner is banned. This is what white nationalist Christianity looks like. This is Trump’s fascist America. Smh.

50 year mortgage is so crazy. to put it in perspective, 2016 was 50 years ago

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Justice KBJ is a brilliant strategist. She is working the rules to compel timely review of the stay in the SNAP case by both the Circuit Court and by the Supreme Court. This is why knowing which SCOTUS justice has supervision of the Circuit you file in is essential. www.reuters.com/world/us/usd...

While they’re still screwing about with SNAP, it’s a good idea to donate to pet shelters, too. If you dare show up with “poor people shouldn’t have pets”, I will tear such a new one it generates a black hole. apnews.com/article/pets...

I’ve been trying to say this for a while, but I feel like no one is really listening to me who’s obsessively focused on the “groyper problem” at the expense of everything else. The issue with unhinged far-right streamers goes beyond Fuentes and the groypers. Things have been cooked for years.

Abortion bans are a violation of the 1st Amendment’s protection of freedom of religion, because they force people to follow made-up Christian beliefs about when life begins. The justices who testified that Roe vs. Wade was settled law then voted to rescind it should be removed from the bench.

We’re buying a cop’s house. Will fumigation be enough or do we need a full exorcism?