Mazel Tov Cocktail
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Fresno-based Arizona Gooner, @FireSquadFresno lifer, comics fan, lapsed cartoonist. Refugee from that other hellsite.
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Hemp regulation is a genuine issue but overnight obliteration is ludicrously bad policy. Whole lot of hemp and hemp-associated businesses will go under, this criminalizes basically every delta-8/9 product with enough in it to have a psychoactive effect.
(Those 24 Senators voted the right way.)
(Those 24 Senators voted the right way.)
The shutdown deal includes a ban on hemp products that none of its negotiators debated in public.
Disappointing that only 24 senators voted against killing an amendment to strike that ban.
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
Disappointing that only 24 senators voted against killing an amendment to strike that ban.
www.senate.gov/legislative/...
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Hemp regulation is a genuine issue but overnight obliteration is ludicrously bad policy. Whole lot of hemp and hemp-associated businesses will go under, this criminalizes basically every delta-8/9 product with enough in it to have a psychoactive effect.
(Those 24 Senators voted the right way.)
(Those 24 Senators voted the right way.)
No one could possibly have seen this coming, right @schumer.senate.gov?
UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.
An important vote in this series: Tammy Baldwin’s proposal to extend ACA expiring funds for 1 year. It’s structured as a motion to table (i.e. scrap it from the amendment tree). But it’ll show the appetite (or lack thereof) in the Senate to address this issue.
November 11, 2025 at 5:38 AM
No one could possibly have seen this coming, right @schumer.senate.gov?
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They broke a deal with us to cut a deal with their Republican buddies.
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
They broke a deal with us to cut a deal with their Republican buddies.
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I don't trust any D politician who doesn't call out the D senators who threw us to the wolves.
November 11, 2025 at 2:34 AM
I don't trust any D politician who doesn't call out the D senators who threw us to the wolves.
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Note that she's not blaming the Democrats who doomed us to this outcome yesterday.
We already know every Senate Republican is trash.
But we're SUPPOSED to be supported by our own D senators.
But they screwed us.
Murray isn't addressing that. Plank in your own eye, etc.
We already know every Senate Republican is trash.
But we're SUPPOSED to be supported by our own D senators.
But they screwed us.
Murray isn't addressing that. Plank in your own eye, etc.
We're debating on the government funding package right now and every single Republican voted against a Democratic amendment to pass a clean, one-year extension of the ACA tax credits.
Republicans just don't care about your health care.
Republicans just don't care about your health care.
November 11, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Note that she's not blaming the Democrats who doomed us to this outcome yesterday.
We already know every Senate Republican is trash.
But we're SUPPOSED to be supported by our own D senators.
But they screwed us.
Murray isn't addressing that. Plank in your own eye, etc.
We already know every Senate Republican is trash.
But we're SUPPOSED to be supported by our own D senators.
But they screwed us.
Murray isn't addressing that. Plank in your own eye, etc.
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Maybe the Senate Spineless Caucus should have been more careful before voting for this bill
Buried inside the deal to reopen government is a provision that would give Senators private right of action to sue for millions in damages over their phone records being analyzed by Jack Smith's team.
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...
Shutdown Deal Would Let Senators Sue Over Jack Smith Searches
Senators whose phone records were sought by Special Counsel Jack Smith would gain authority to sue for millions in damages under a provision buried in the Senate-advanced deal to reopen the government...
news.bloomberglaw.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Maybe the Senate Spineless Caucus should have been more careful before voting for this bill
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people voted for him. twice. three times.
November 11, 2025 at 2:39 AM
people voted for him. twice. three times.
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Just in case you thought this was about trans athletes. This was solely about creating a fascist and racist gender bureaucracy over what constitutes being feminine enough to be considered a woman.
They're targeting cis women who may be intersex and banning them from sport.
They're targeting cis women who may be intersex and banning them from sport.
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Just in case you thought this was about trans athletes. This was solely about creating a fascist and racist gender bureaucracy over what constitutes being feminine enough to be considered a woman.
They're targeting cis women who may be intersex and banning them from sport.
They're targeting cis women who may be intersex and banning them from sport.
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So we make a deal that allows several Republican senators in key states to vote for ACA subsidies next month and get political cover back home, but not enough to pass it. Sounds great.
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 AM
So we make a deal that allows several Republican senators in key states to vote for ACA subsidies next month and get political cover back home, but not enough to pass it. Sounds great.
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No one who suggests this idea earnestly has ever had the unique displeasure of trying to get an insurance company to do something for them. These corporations could not care less about you and whatever they might give in ACA money will be nowhere near enough to cover even the basics.
I was at an event yesterday where Rand Paul spoke via video and talked about how great it was to send ACA money "directly to the people" so that they could work collectively to get better deals on health care.
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 AM
No one who suggests this idea earnestly has ever had the unique displeasure of trying to get an insurance company to do something for them. These corporations could not care less about you and whatever they might give in ACA money will be nowhere near enough to cover even the basics.
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My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
November 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
Empty fucking platitudes from an empty suit. “The fight” living on doesn’t get people’s premiums to affordable levels, and it’s cold comfort for people that are going to be priced out of their healthcare while we pay for his.
CNN: Was the shutdown worth it?
HAKEEM JEFFRIES: We have waged a battle on behalf of the American people.
CNN: But you didn't get what you want.
JEFFRIES: At the end of the day, the fight lives on.
HAKEEM JEFFRIES: We have waged a battle on behalf of the American people.
CNN: But you didn't get what you want.
JEFFRIES: At the end of the day, the fight lives on.
November 11, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Empty fucking platitudes from an empty suit. “The fight” living on doesn’t get people’s premiums to affordable levels, and it’s cold comfort for people that are going to be priced out of their healthcare while we pay for his.
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CNN: Was the shutdown worth it?
HAKEEM JEFFRIES: We have waged a battle on behalf of the American people.
CNN: But you didn't get what you want.
JEFFRIES: At the end of the day, the fight lives on.
HAKEEM JEFFRIES: We have waged a battle on behalf of the American people.
CNN: But you didn't get what you want.
JEFFRIES: At the end of the day, the fight lives on.
November 10, 2025 at 11:53 PM
CNN: Was the shutdown worth it?
HAKEEM JEFFRIES: We have waged a battle on behalf of the American people.
CNN: But you didn't get what you want.
JEFFRIES: At the end of the day, the fight lives on.
HAKEEM JEFFRIES: We have waged a battle on behalf of the American people.
CNN: But you didn't get what you want.
JEFFRIES: At the end of the day, the fight lives on.
This is one of the dumbest things said in a long career of saying exceptionally dumb things.
Trump: "I want the money to go into an account for people where they buy their own health insurance. It's so good. The insurance will be better. It'll cost less. Everybody is gonna be happy. They're gonna feel like entrepreneurs. They're actually able to go out & negotiate their own insurance"
November 11, 2025 at 4:27 AM
This is one of the dumbest things said in a long career of saying exceptionally dumb things.
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I'm going to actively say at this point that I don't think people should donate to any Dem-run PACs. What guarantee do we have that they won't give the money to cowards to stave off primary challengers?
I mean, it rather feels like the reverse will happen.
I mean, it rather feels like the reverse will happen.
November 11, 2025 at 3:35 AM
I'm going to actively say at this point that I don't think people should donate to any Dem-run PACs. What guarantee do we have that they won't give the money to cowards to stave off primary challengers?
I mean, it rather feels like the reverse will happen.
I mean, it rather feels like the reverse will happen.
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November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Democrats helped Republicans kill a ten billion dollar industry in order to cave on the shutdown.
of all the things about this deal that are pissing me off this might have pissed me off the most
November 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Democrats helped Republicans kill a ten billion dollar industry in order to cave on the shutdown.
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This is what 10 Democrats caved to 🤬
November 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
This is what 10 Democrats caved to 🤬
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this is literally never not accurate
November 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
this is literally never not accurate
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“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”
Don Moynihan on "Purge, Merge, and Surge"
"Instead of surging in Iraq, it’s happening here in American cities."
www.publicnotice.co
November 8, 2025 at 4:44 PM
“More and more cabinet members — Rubio, Miller, Noem — live on military bases now, & it's another parallel to Iraq, where the administration lived in the Green Zone. There’s something deeply unhealthy about a society where leaders are literally shut off from the communities that they govern.”
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So, we're fucked.
VAN SUSTEREN: Is the Republican healthcare solution going to go into effect at midnight on Dec. 31? Because people are gonna get sticker shock
MIKE JOHNSON: We have November and December to work on it
MIKE JOHNSON: We have November and December to work on it
November 10, 2025 at 9:34 PM
So, we're fucked.
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Palestinian American DSA member who represents metro Detroit, is the second sitting Democratic congressperson to demand the resignation of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, a Palestinian American DSA member who represents metro Detroit, is the second sitting Democratic congressperson to demand the resignation of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer.
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"Still, it’s worth running through some of the greatest hits just to establish how deep in the derp she was before her recent experiments with Pelosi-praising."
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wrote about Marjorie Taylor Greene heading for the center because (presumably) she thinks Trump is weak. www.publicnotice.co/p/marjorie-t...
Marjorie Taylor Greene flees Trump's sinking ship
Even hardcore MAGAs are eyeing the emergency exits.
www.publicnotice.co
November 10, 2025 at 9:35 PM
"Still, it’s worth running through some of the greatest hits just to establish how deep in the derp she was before her recent experiments with Pelosi-praising."
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Dems calling for Schumer to be replaced:
- Ro Khanna
- Mike Levin
- Seth Moulton
- Marc Pocan
- Delia Ramirez
- Rashida Tlaib
- Ro Khanna
- Mike Levin
- Seth Moulton
- Marc Pocan
- Delia Ramirez
- Rashida Tlaib
November 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Dems calling for Schumer to be replaced:
- Ro Khanna
- Mike Levin
- Seth Moulton
- Marc Pocan
- Delia Ramirez
- Rashida Tlaib
- Ro Khanna
- Mike Levin
- Seth Moulton
- Marc Pocan
- Delia Ramirez
- Rashida Tlaib
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Anything short of calling for Schumer to be replaced is performative outrage designed to mollify you
November 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Anything short of calling for Schumer to be replaced is performative outrage designed to mollify you