Things are colorful down in Mexico!

kudos to ALL the comedians who have spoken out forcefully against this, including Marc Maron (who remains one of our greatest national treasures), Leslie Liao, and yes, even that conservative dipshit Shane Gillis. Pete Davidson's agreement to this "festival" especially is just disgusting, C'MON MAN.

Pope Leo in remarks to journalists tonight: "Someone who says I am against abortion but I am in agreement with the inhuman treatment of immigrants in the United States, I don't know if that's pro-life.” www.reuters.com/world/pope-l...

I don't know if people -- in general -- know what "authoritarianism" is. I don't know if they really know what "fascism" is. But I think they're far clearer on what a dictator is. Choice of words is very important right now.

There is no Democratic "membership" so that is meaningless. The Dems don't seem inclined to depose him. So your options are to either grudgingly support the Dems or try and make them so absolutely toxic they have to ditch Schumer for someone who would be on the exact same no win position.

If someone wants to dump a bunch of money into the "vote for the Democrats" bucket, don't threaten me with a good time. But you might want to check their priors first. The Tea Party was a civil war and while I won't go so far as to say the "good guys" lost, the bad guys definitely won.

There can be no Democratic equivalent of the Tea Party because no one is willing to pay for it and there's no media voices willing to sell it

In retrospect, it’s probably a good thing Trump chose a SecDef whose character, knowledge and comportment could only fill a genuine military professional with contempt and loathing.

“[That’s] an insane insult to his senior officers, who all made their bones fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan,” said Elliot Ackerman, who led Marines in the second battle of Falluja...“Those guys have got a lot more dust on their boots than he does.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

Either Trump et al want to gut the government or not. If their message is to Congress "is fuck you, we don't need you" that sends a very strong message to Dems not to give them anything, and anyone considering federal employment to not since it's now at-will employment for a bad boss.

I am not sure what strategy they're running but if they intend to make every headline for at the least next week: TRUMP FIRES FEDS he's giving Democrats even less incentive to negotiate and we're headed for the Senate nuclear-optioning to keep the government open.

*record scratch* *freeze frame* Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got here.

400,000 people in Illinois rely on ACA tax credits to pay for their health care. Republicans are shutting down the government because they want these credits to expire.

I mean if he's gonna do that he's gonna do that. We can only respond.

Oh

Guy is a demented miscreant who wants to destroy a century of progress to hasten the end times.

Dasha Burns is an idiot.

Adding to overanalyzing of Virginia early vote I have noticed that mail ballot return rate is high for a state election Likely reflects voters more certain about their votes Tracks with more in-person vote too than 2021 Mail ballots tend to be heavily Dem In-person more even

cooking your brain on the 2016 dem primary wars when you're not even from here is wild stuff

If you followed his politics posting over the years you know that almost his entire investment in Gaza is largely an extension of the same the continuum that saw him enraged over stuff like Nina Turner not being able to speak at the DNC in 2016 and made him a Tara Reade dead ender etc

He’s an interesting case study. Canadian film twitter guy (genuinely good critic/curator) forever mired in 2016 era infighting that served as his very entry into thinking about US politics and thus exhibits the poor media literacy that can’t discern between valid and bad faith anti-Dem narratives.

just remembered this podcast guy's take from a couple of weeks before the election. we aren't gonna make it.

Just a reminder that the Commander-in-Chief of the Louisiana National Guard, who can call them out all by himself if they were actually needed, is … Governor Landry.

"We are asking the Department of War to deploy to our cities" should be a statement that ends any Governor's political career.

Huh... i's almost like the whole thing was a op being driven by propaganda from hostile interests left, right, and foreign. And now that the money has all dried up because there isn't a Democrat to ratfuck, this whole "GeNoCiDe" narrative only exists in the very online version of America.

Hold the fuck up... When it was Biden/Harris, the Free Palestine Movement folks were storming everything, even college campuses, and demanding to be fed. But this is all y'all brought to the Bibi visit at the White House?!! Yes, it was never about Palestine or Gaza.

lmao this is really what you're goin' with, pal?

Sign hanging in bluesky break room: 0️⃣ days since posters took Politico/Axios bait

Chef’s kiss.

if the thing which you are about to post cites "a senior Dem staffer" without providing a quote or naming names or even saying who they're staff for, and you are going to make a blanket claim about the Party, please instead of doing that log the fuck off and have a nice mug of hot chocolate

Ok. So there's A LOT of misinformation about the government shutdown, the continuing resolution and gender-affirming care. There was one article in PinkNews that was VERY shoddy about what Trump said. So let's breakdown what's true and what's BS. 1/ www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/t...

The lesson in here is that communication for the audience here would be wise to: 1. Say/Demonstrate what one is doing to resist Trump and 2. Give people an assignment, tell them what they can do.

Watch at 35 seconds into the video where the guy who was knocked down flicks out his arm at an agent that seems to be leaning down to lift him up by the shoulder. They're claiming that is felony assault. Feel like it's going to be another no bill when they make it in front of a grand jury.

Yeah this is a complete lose-lose situation.

Sure, but since the Trump/GOP are refusing to negotiate *at all* with Dems, the only alternative is for them to agree to keep it open without getting *any* concessions of any sort. Which would literally make them complicit in everything he's doing. No good option.

This is why I think the shutdown is a bad idea.

Exactly! Most of them were pretty blatant about doing that *while they were still on his campaign staff*! Brianna Joy Gray was pretty naked about it!

Sirota, Brianna Joy Gray, Nina Turner, all of these people have, basically, left politics to promote personal brands. How the fuck are you supposed to be taken seriously when it kinda looks like a grift from the beginning?

Absolutely. Look, one of the main jobs of President is to put the right people in the right places to accomplish your agenda. So when the major qualification for working on the Sanders campaign seems to be how much you praise Bernie, that’s an issue.

I genuinely believe that, if his campaign staffing choices reflected his ability to create a cabinet, Sanders was nowhere near ready to be POTUS, and any Sanders administration would have been functionally do-nothing, because they'd all be off pursuing their pet interests.

Non-zero chance he turns up to get big mad about this anecdote at some point.

...proceeded to block me when I replied that while he'd forgotten me, I very clearly remembered how he's attempted to incite Twitter dogpiles on me on three separate occasions while he was still serving as Bernie Sanders's campaign manager. He is and always will be a cheap snotty schoolyard bully.

A couple of weeks ago David Sirota turned up in my mentions to rant about hard his life is with everyone always picking on him, all because I'd passingly disparaged Don't Look Up. He was very clearly name-searching and got mad when I used the nifty Detach Quote feature on here. He then...

"If you have body cams...turn them off." ????

Oh no. Que en paz descanse. None of this should have happened. A tragedy all around.

FWIW, if Dems were going to “cave,” I think you’d already see the outlines of whatever deal they were striking with, presumably Thune at this point, filtering in because it is now literally too late.

Ralph Ineson has the perfect response and he's right. gizmodo.com/ai-actress-t...

Quick tip when reading any news article: "Senior Democratic Staffer" usually means "Republican ratfucker".

Sending a note of sincere sympathy for career federal workers -- you have not deserved anything that his come your way since January 2025, and I hate that you are in this moment of uncertainty with the shutdown now -- your livelihood, your income, your worth, all of it is being assaulted by the GOP.