It’s never gonna be a serious threat in part because not every Democrat actually needs to be primaried. For example, you can pry Oregon’s Senate delegation out of our cold dead hands.

You guys, this one wounds me.

My dad got hit by a deer once. It’s absolutely accurate that they can and do hit cars.

Jesus FUCKING Christ.

Having leaders of both chambers be from the same state is a mistake. Doubly so given that they’re both from NY.

ME AS A CHILD: i cant wait till im an adult, then i can finally Do Things ME AS AN ADULT: the spectre of Things To Do haunts me from sunup to sundown, and beyond

I don’t believe Oregon caucuses, but they DO have closed primaries. If you want to vote in a primary, you gotta be registered as a Dem. (That said we aren’t gonna do that to Merkley he is a good egg)

some years, Circulatory System Walking Through the Kitchen Day just completely sneaks up on you

It all sucks! But the people who are your enemies are in the WH, not the people who are just trying to fucking survive. There's nothing wrong with a civil servant being desperate to get back to work and get their backpay. Check your fucking fire.

This is a shit sandwich, and there are no good answers in a shit sandwich. You fund foodstamps, congratulations, 22m people now don't have health insurance. You bring civil servants back, and Vought has the ability to do it all again.

Our delegation is the bees knees. Except Bentz. We don’t talk about him. (Though to be fair he DOES largely represent the values of his district and thus also passes this test even though he’s a dillweed and needs to be gerrymandered out of existence)

Glad to see Merkley gets the “keep this one” sign off or we were gonna have Words. 🤣🤣🤣 (The Oregon Senate delegation is probably as good as it gets right now TBH)

“Adagio for Strings” just came up on my playlist. Seems fitting right now.

every day I become more convinced that the Senate as an institution is fundamentally irredeemable

So moderate Dems, likely without the approval of leadership or the rest of the caucus, hung Americans out to dry on healthcare, and there’s no guarantee the House will even take their bill up. Do I have that right?

My Senator remains on the correct side of shit.

ROLLS.

This morning, the president ordered states to not distribute full SNAP benefits for November, and demanded that states “undo” any benefits payments that have already been sent to working families for food. Read our statement in response.

Anyways I’m making rolls today.

Like yes, equivalent houses in the 80s/90s were objectively less expensive, but you still had to be rich AF to have a vacation house. Cooper is right that this type of memeing is poison.

The Heritage Foundation needs to be burned to the ground. Admittedly this will be much easier now that they’ve saddled themselves up with the current administration.

Wordle 1,603 2/6 🟩⬛🟩🟨⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Well that game could have been better but also could have been a whole hell of a lot worse. That said, Jerami Grant fouling out likely fucked us over pretty hard.

Congrats to Jrue Holiday for being the player that needed the fewest number of games to become a certified Blazers Legend

Clingan went down HARD on his tuchus there. Ouch!

Hey guys I think Jrue Holiday might be good at basketball.

Mamdani is going to implement Daria law or whatever.

Jerami Grant picking up 4 fouls in the first half isn’t great! 😬

Got a fabulous shirt today. (And a matching sticker!)

I have never done 5 of them. Which considering I’m not yet 40, is pretty impressive. The 5: 1 (I’ve used one but someone else had to dial) 7 (we had a player but I have no memory of being the needle dropper) 8 9 (had boombox, no shoulder action) 16

Axios tried to bust James Talarico for following adult content creators on Instagram and I'm genuinely impressed by his campaign's response

so, yes, at a basic level I think Tuesday showed that we can vote our way out of this and so we have to be clearer than ever about making sure the people we vote in are willing to do what's necessary to rebuild - packing the court, adding states, etc. or we'll find ourselves right back here

Of course the Roberts et al could choose to extend the admin stay or, more likely, will just straight up stay McConnell’s order before KBJ’s deadline passes. But she did what she could to control the process tonight and let CA1 put its reasoning on the record before Roberts et al disregard it.

KBJ threaded the needle thanks to CA1’s unfinished business. -if she denied the admin stay, the full SCOTUS woulda stepped in to override her. -if she immediately referred the case to the full Court, they coulda dragged feet. -instead she boxed them in to act quickly once she does refer the case.

It takes so little effort not to be a piece of shit, and yet so many still seem to fall short of even that. Be kind. Try not to hurt people. Assume the best. And for fuck's sake, don't play with people's hearts.

D&D tonight!

LET ME BE PERFECTLY CLEAR: DOJ DID ALL OF THIS TO TRY AND STOP PAYMENTS TO PEOPLE UNDER AN ANTI-HUNGER PROGRAM.

Dear everyone mad at Schumer “caving”… That wasn’t a cave.

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

The tiny bit about Billups speaks VOLUMES. As I have mused before, we’ve only heard from the people on the “nice” end of the sociopathy. Not the other end. Eventually we will. And it won’t be pretty.

Baked. And that’s it for the brownie posts, thanks for playing!

Batter… into pan… into oven.

Chocolatey.

Whipping. (No, not that kind of whipping you pervs)

Pulsed.

Melted and chocolatey.

Browned.