They do not have a plan, they’ve never had a plan. They’ve also never had the votes to repeal the ACA which is *OVERWHELMINGLY* popular, nor have they been able to get the Supreme Court to overturn it, so instead they’ve just shut down the entire government to try forcing Dems to stop funding it.

That's pretty much a wrap on this season... Already have some seeds delivered for January props, though! 🌶️🌱

And The House is supposed to balance that off but they need to up the cap on seats and mandate independent redistricting.

This perfectly encapsulates how I feel living in the US. The republican party is an insane death cult, the democratic party is 3 corporations in a trench coat, and the "socialists" are just the completely normal left-wing capitalists you'd find in any of 2 dozen European nations.

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

Never miss an opportunity to tell my favourite old science joke: What did Crick and Watson discover? Rosalind Franklin’s lab book.

It's Gameday in Iowa City! Let's Go Hawks beat them ducks

Joe Rogan has one of the world's most popular podcasts. Unfortunately, like nearly all of the most popular online shows, his tends to spread climate misinformation. For @climateconnections.bsky.social I scrutinize his recent episode with octogenarian climate contrarians Lindzen & Happer 🧵 (1/11)

holy shit

Lorenzo de Medici’s pet giraffe used to wander 1480s Florence sticking its head in second story windows to be fed by excited neighbors (or eating their ribeye is herbs) and this is a great visual to help imagine it.

Today, a friend involved in the Esna restoration project has shared with me his latest stunning photos of the restored ceiling and columns of the Temple of Khnum in Esna, Upper #Egypt. During a multi-year restoration project, the dirt and soot that had obscured the ...🧵1/3 📷 D. v. Recklinghausen 🏺

I brought some stickers to give out at @twincitiescon.bsky.social this weekend

If sandwich shops don’t start offering a sandwich named “the acquittal” then what are we even doing

that's one hell of a tell

trying to imagine the person that goes, "man, it's really important that i vote, i gotta keep steve bannon out of prison"

New version of Girl Yelling In Guy's Ear at Concert Dropped:

🚨 CNBC: "Announced corporate job cuts surging past 1 million so far this year, with 153,000 new layoffs just in October according to Challenger. That is the worst October since 2003."

Honestly happy I started subscribing again after 10+ years. It's a thinner magazine nowadays (most are) but still knocking out great content!

fucking enablers

Subway Employee Still Unnerved By High-Pitched Screech Sandwiches Make When Cut In Half https://theonion.com/subway-employee-still-unnerved-by-high-pitched-screech-1819576148/

Do tell.

Fuck the billionaires

your hard-earned tax dollars are paying for a White House social media account that calls duty elected senators "demented losers." it's totally unacceptable and a disgrace.

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

This is featured on the official White House website.

I honestly thought this was a spoof. It is not. This is the most childish, disrespectful nonsense. On the official White House page!! This is 10-year-old-level petulance. www.whitehouse.gov/mysafespace/

Hey ChatGPT: Please generate an image of a man thoroughly devoid of any and all human empathy.

paging @blainecapatch.bsky.social

it doesn’t get any clearer that america’s betrothal to fossil fuels is about letting energy companies pick our pockets to prop up their obsolete industry

JFC what pieces of shit

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I'm sick of being gaslit about "globalize the intifada." I never heard of it before Zohran started running! It's like you're telling me that "Surf Party USA" is anti-Semitic. You know what I knew was anti-Semitic? Throwing up a Nazi salute like Elon Musk www.jta.org/2025/11/05/i...

Oh come ON!

i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up

There is some sad irony in McClatchy shutting its DC bureau the same day that Dick Cheney died. That bureau (then Knight-Ridder) did some of the best, most skeptical reporting anywhere in the run-up to the Iraq War. And they took a lot of shit for it at the time. www.cato.org/commentary/q...

Rage, RAGE against the dying of the light! (It's getting dark earlier here in central Iowa, but it was in the upper 60s this afternoon, so a beer at my favorite taproom was in order!))

[Werner Herzog voice] Actually, the McRib never goes away. It is we who are here for a limited time.

A 2,000 year-old blue glass wine cup inscribed in Greek ‘EYΦPAINOY EΦωПAPEI’ “Be glad that you are here” Roman drinking cups like this were used to welcome guests at social gatherings. 1st century AD 🍷 📷 Corning Museum of Glass #EpigraphyTuesday #Archaeology

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The ease of suppressing votes by getting polling places temporarily closed on election day is a good reason to go to universal vote-by-mail...

Well, hell. Looks like I'm going to need to drink more coffee. Dick Cheney died and I'm going to need a full bladder for the funeral.

billionaires have invested in media not because they support journalism but because they want to control it. there is only downside to a free press for people with that level of wealth. journalism is a great equalizer and they don’t want us to be equal.

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Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’