Oh, so he totally stole the money

Speaking of which... I do wonder, what's the deal with Article 17-252? To remind you unnecessarily: "A Senior Senator, in the case of emergency, may yield the floor freely, without interruption, to another Senior Senator." This was proposed by the Imperial council. So... why?

Reality show where a different member of the Democratic caucus is locked in a room with Bill Kristol for 24 hours

by God, they just found a way to lose Alito’s vote

I think the reason the "TikTok lady says churches won't help a fictional starving baby when they refer her to a food pantry" discourse pisses me off so bad is that churches are the most reliable and consistent donors to food pantries and homeless services in my area.

Pelosi: ‘Well, Well, Well, Not So Easy To Find Congressional Leadership That Doesn’t Suck Shit, Huh?’

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

who up burning they american eagle jeans at socially distanced bonfires

I kind of love that FIFA is so openly corrupt, they’re out there like “for the right price we will happily proclaim that your idiot kid is the greatest goalkeeper in the history of the sport”

sidenote but if someone wants to measure the mood on (US politics) Bluesky, they could do worse than tracking usage of the phrase “become the joker”

i can’t quite explain it but “standing up as opposition doesn’t work” doesn’t seem like good optics for an opposition party to have

I thought the most likely outcome of a shutdown was “government gets reopened and healthcare funding isn’t restored” and I was okay with that! but I stg These preening senators saying ”I am a hero legislator, I got a PROMISE of a VOTE” are going to make me become the joker

Today.

I genuinely feel bad for Chuck Schumer, I know what it's like to suck at your job.

there’s that point where you’ve liked enough posts in a thread that you feel the need to go back and like all the others so it doesn’t look like you’re saying “post 4? that one sucked”

I want to be clear I am not speaking from opinion or principle, because we don't do that. It is not our business. Our business is politics, and this is malpractice on the scale of turning left from home plate. The public's standard is low: swing and get knocked down. But you have to keep swinging.

For at least the next year, wins are either going to be in court, or they’re going to be like last Tuesday – things that show that Trump is unpopular, and he is guaranteed to fail. Don’t expect legislative wins, not until we get at least one house of Congress.

The line needs to be, consistently, “Donald Trump said that he was willing to make every soldier’s kid go hungry rather than restore people’s healthcare. It was a hostage situation, and we know that Donald Trump is willing to shoot the hostage.”

Seriously, for their own good, Dems who voted for this need to not be saying “we did a good thing, this is why.” The line needs to be “we fought like hell to get healthcare back, but Donald Trump was willing to burn the country to the ground.”

I think I'm settling on something like this thread's view. Republicans didn't get what they really wanted AND they own the consequences of it anyway. Without Democratic control of at least one chamber that's just about the best we're going to see with this R trifecta configuration.

Mad about this reported deal on the shutdown and I’m terrified to think how mad the real BlueSky super users are

If we give Trump his stupid HSA plan instead of insurance subsidies I might actually become the joker.

I can’t answer that. The wind is at their backs and he will be primaried. He is doing nothing but ginning up the mob who’ll follow him everywhere. It makes no sense for the caucus or for himself.

ICE is drawing heavily on people who thought “they will give me a uniform and a gun, and then everyone will have to respect me for once”. They are not being shown respect, and they are like “Look at my uniform! Just a second… Look at my gun, too!”

Not going to preemptively defend Chuck Schumer, who sucks wombat. But realistically, there’s only so much we can get out of the shutdown. The result is going to be some version of “we did what we can, and everything bad in your life? Trump fought like hell to make sure that bad thing happened.”

“Mr. Trump interrupted Secretary Kennedy to observe ‘Honk shoo, mimimimimi’, then paused in apparent reflection”

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Historians will have a wild time digging into just why the Trump administration wanted to create so many headlines that amount to “RICH GUY TRUMP LIKES TO WATCH KIDS GO HUNGRY”. I don’t think the consensus will be “it was part of a brilliant evil scheme”.

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

Mamdani is going to implement Shania law. Man! he feels like a mayor

She smiles and says "I will always love you."

The ability to convince capital markets to hand you a trillion dollars on the strength of obvious bullshit paired with the inability to get a single human to sincerely and spontaneously say they love you is some real punishment of the gods shit.

The growing consensus on Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson's order tonight: a horrible situation, handled strategically (from @stevevladeck.bsky.social) www.stevevladeck.com/p/190-snap-wtf

“We don’t need any Black people on staff, we’re good.”

to paraphrase the Hero of Canton, the only thing “liquid” I see here is this puddle of piss trying to hold up SNAP

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

::movie trailer voice:: They said he was retired, but Bill Kristol has one more regime to change...

did women ruin the workplace

squawking "it's the structural conditions" is ego-saving copout. napoleon and most other great and terrible historical figures leveraged structural conditions. we simply just don't want to acknowledge someone like this was capable of making our lives hell through sheer force of will

It’s such a relief to know that while everyone else is abandoning their principles, Ben Shapiro will remain as anti-Tucker as he deems safe and no more pro-Fuentes than he finds necessary

2.) They don't have a message on costs other than "We already fixed those." I don't think you need me to tell you why this won't work, at all, when a bunch of people just voted your asses out because you aren't doing anything about costs.

Every single woman you know has had this happen to her. Even the goddamn president of Mexico.

guys I’m sorry but have you looked through Getty images for yesterday 💀

[to the tune of tenth avenue freezeout]

I strenuously object to the term “bluekkake” and I urge you all never to even read the word

I’ll just note that CJ Roberts says plainly that a tariff is an imposition of a tax *on Americans*. It gives Trump the sads when he hears this but that’s what it is.

baseball head dude is under the impression you have to show ID to buy gasoline, because baseball head dude is a moron