Flights are being cancelled. Food assistance is suspended. Government employees are going without pay. But priorities are being taken care of:

The morning after this same administration fought to deny food to 42 million people, we read: "In addition to the $4 trillion in tax cuts that President Trump signed into law in July... the administration is now adding hundreds of billions of dollars in new breaks for big businesses and investors."

"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”

‘Heroic actions are a natural tendency’: why bystander apathy is a myth

hey remember when the Supreme Court overturned this election on partisan lines and also ruled that it didn’t count as precedent against them in the future and here it is 25 years later and people are still going around talking about “American democracy” like it’s a real thing?

Well this is a grim thread

I know everyone thinks all feds are like GS-15s in NoVa with a consultant spouse pulling down six figures, but in reality land shit is starting to Get Bad even for those of us with decent financial resources

This reminds me: I’m still curious why Kushner couldn’t get clearance. In case there are any disaffected spooks out there

rosen is one of the moderates who sincerely wants a bipartisan deal, her being this angry is a good indicator of where they’re all at

These dumb doodles think Mike Johnson (R-Loseriana) has the wherewithal to mitigate an economic crisis that could rival the Great Depression? That is fucking hilarious

What’s amusing to me about this scenario is that they got bailed out by the Biden admin, repaid it with going balls to the wall for Trump, and now are mistaking the completely dysfunctional shitshow they helped elect for an actual, functional government. Hahahaha lmao

So is the deal that one guy who got under 300k votes in the 20th most populous state can deny every other American, 330 million people, representation? How is this legitimate or constitutional? [rhetorical]

“if you elect Republicans they will actually pass and implement Republican legislation” is a sentence that should be banal but everyone smart understands is an extinction-level scenario for the party as it currently exists

today in “democrats are your mom, republicans are your dad”: dad is absolutely losing it that mom made good on her threat to stop doing all the chores around here, and he is quickly learning how much “all the chores” is

God who else is so sick of this dum dum trope. It's so boring, tired and pathetic just grow up already.

Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix. Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!

Completely agree

I'm so sick of this Michelle Duggar doppelganger, four-times married, PITA. Live your life. Mind your business. abcnews.go.com/Politics/sup...

there you go look, this is not how I would have played it, I've posted 'retire bitch' about Schumer repeatedly, but objectively speaking it has worked "we're offering you an incredible good deal and you repeatedly spit in our faces" is part of why Trump is taking the blame for this

Ah, well. Everyone can stop screaming at Schumer in record time now

Okay, I hate this but also: I don’t think Republicans/Johnson have the votes for the ACA funding extension which means Schumer is offering something that would require Johnson to a) convene and b) whip votes. Johnson’s failure to do either will be extremely visible and clearly the fault of the GOP

For a long time Republicans have relied upon a central asymmetry: Democrats want government to do things, even if imperfectly, while Republicans do not want government to do things. So they have put Dems into hostage situations over and over where Dems cave so gov keeps working and no one dies

State employees—not billionaires, not AI, not robots—worked through the night here in Oregon so people wouldn’t go hungry this weekend.

photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty

Governor Kotek had SNAP funds released to Oregonians already. ODHS staff worked through the night to make it happen.

people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up

PHOTO OF THE DAY. A policeman stops traffic to let a man carrying an inflatable rubber giraffe cross the road on his way to the British Industries Fair in London (1935) 📷 google images

A distraught man came to Broadview searching for his wife of five years after she was taken by ICE at her court hearing. He wasn’t told anything, tracked her by her phone, and was left weeping in the parking lot.

Sister Marge got kicked off of the Trump revival show gravy train and now she needs new marks. Simple as

My main problem with the Yalie who fled abroad to shout at us like he’s watching a movie and we’re dumb bitches going into the Fascism Basement is that I went to grad school with at least seven of this exact guy and he doesn’t fucking know any more than the rest of us what’s going to happen

"We would rather be ruined than changed; We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die." —W. H. Auden, The Age of Anxiety

Holy shit McCarthyism

ron wyden looking straight at the camera and saying “taxation is the compromise”

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

The SNAP funds are liquid?! They’re not in a 9 month CD or something who is telling him this stupid shit

In Oregon, the highest-rank elected officials including the Governor ($98k), the Secretary of State ($77k), the Attorney General ($82k) and the Treasurer ($77k) all have direct reports who make considerably more than they do. I find this odd and not particularly laudable!

BlueSky shoutout on Abbot Elementary!

Where is your god now, economists?

“What if a cult sold shares”

Oh wow you mean these federal employees were actually important? Big Balls not so good at the cyber?

I know everyone hates hillary on bluesky because they love the guy who gave us tulsi gabbard so much but bsky.app/profile/tran...

Remember during Trump 1 when a lot of establishment liberals fell all over themselves praising Glenn Beck and other grifters for seemingly having principled objections to Trump? But it was all bad faith bullshit? There’s a lesson there

YES! PEOPLE WANT TO BE AROUND FUN CONFIDENT PEOPLE.

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In a Costco parking lot when my daughter was 2, we turned into a space and someone had left a cart in the middle of it. I made an angry noise and she asked why and I said “People who leave their carts like that are BAD PEOPLE” and my husband said I was overreacting and not “being nice.”

This looks really interesting (and this is not a complaint about a paywall): I would really love to be able to seamlessly pay 25 or 50 cents for an article like this. It makes no sense for me to subscribe to the Boston Globe! I’m happy to pay for good writing but I don’t want 53 separate logins!

Huh this is not what we were told last year when Trump said he'd lower our grocery prices in one fucking day.