Il Pomodoro
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Dad, cyclist, pianist, lawyer
What if he's paying someone else to do this?
The funniest part of Elon spiraling out about this is that he isn’t responding with anything linked to others or relationships, just posting “great movie”
For reference. I might print this out and hang it in my house:
November 10, 2025 at 8:20 PM
What if he's paying someone else to do this?
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The funniest part of Elon spiraling out about this is that he isn’t responding with anything linked to others or relationships, just posting “great movie”
November 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The funniest part of Elon spiraling out about this is that he isn’t responding with anything linked to others or relationships, just posting “great movie”
The smell we all love, ammonia
November 10, 2025 at 8:15 PM
The smell we all love, ammonia
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What a way to learn that there was a Division I head football coach named Mickey Mental
Weber State has parted ways with football coach Mickey Mental, who went 3-7 this season and was 13-20 (8-14 Big Sky) in three overall years.
Brent Myers (offensive line) has been named interim head coach for the season’s final two games.
FCS coaching tracker: tinyurl.com/mps8b2x9
Brent Myers (offensive line) has been named interim head coach for the season’s final two games.
FCS coaching tracker: tinyurl.com/mps8b2x9
November 10, 2025 at 8:13 PM
What a way to learn that there was a Division I head football coach named Mickey Mental
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I think a lot about the anonymous note that Judge Young included at the beginning of his AAUP v. Rubio opinion: “Trump has pardons and tanks … what do you have?” The pardons may be more dangerous than the tanks.
"If you’re a Republican official convicted of corruption, your odds of receiving clemency from Trump are roughly 100%...
"The latest move seems intended to deliver a political message: Those who assist Trump with his schemes need not worry about legal consequences..."
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
"The latest move seems intended to deliver a political message: Those who assist Trump with his schemes need not worry about legal consequences..."
www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...
November 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
I think a lot about the anonymous note that Judge Young included at the beginning of his AAUP v. Rubio opinion: “Trump has pardons and tanks … what do you have?” The pardons may be more dangerous than the tanks.
The best part about this is the shutdown isn't even going to end for at least another week.
November 10, 2025 at 7:57 PM
The best part about this is the shutdown isn't even going to end for at least another week.
If you like kei trucks, the Dominican Republic is a good place to be.
November 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
If you like kei trucks, the Dominican Republic is a good place to be.
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There was always going to be an agreement & we were unlikely to get a lot. I think though it should have gone in to Dec if necessary, when most people would be making their decisions on open enrollment. Repubs still may have said no, but I think it would have made it clearer Repubs were to blame.
November 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
There was always going to be an agreement & we were unlikely to get a lot. I think though it should have gone in to Dec if necessary, when most people would be making their decisions on open enrollment. Repubs still may have said no, but I think it would have made it clearer Repubs were to blame.
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I feel like I’m winning when I’m losing again
A fine day to remember Jim Harbaugh's unique relationship with "The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald" and the remarkable interpretive work that his and other football brains have done on this important text. (This is a gift link; I believe this news must be shared widely.) defector.com/the-edmund-f...
The Edmund Fitzgerald Is Inspiring Jim Harbaugh And Michigan Football To Achieve "Lake Mindset" | Defector
The popular culture of the 1970s is almost impossible to parse in retrospect. The people making the movies and music and television of the era were horny and ambitious and earnest, they were ingesting...
defector.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
I feel like I’m winning when I’m losing again
Oh great, the Man in the Yellow Hat left Curious George alone in Fort Detrick.
November 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Oh great, the Man in the Yellow Hat left Curious George alone in Fort Detrick.
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I'm so worried about what'll happen when our kids are old enough to have phones!!!! 😮😮😮
![A meme depicting a woman staring at her phone with one hand on her head, with the following text below:
IS YOUR CHILD TEXTING ABOUT THE WRECK OF THE EDMUND FITZGERALD?
What your Great Lakes maritime history-obsessed teen's text messages actually mean:
brb = bell rang bro
rofl = rang out for lost (crew)
bff = big freakin' freigher
lol = Load of Ore on the Lake
smh = shift minutes to hours
glhf = Great Lakes hella freighter
tbh = taconite be haulin'
stfu = steer the freighter upwind
tfw = that freakin' witch (of November)
asl = a ship lost
gg = Gitche Gumee
idc = immoderate deadweight capacity
btw = beneath the waves
afk = a freighter kaput
hbd = hauler's beacon down
ily = iron load yonder
jk = just [24] kilometers
lmao = lost my abyssal ore
nbd = north bound draft
glhf = good lord, hold flooding
omg = obliteratingly massive gales
tmi = too much iron
wtf = White Fish (Bay)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ccm7gttkbfs2eyyrlpshmeun/bafkreib6ughtj23oqdskaisavrueyn6fijujbp2e663h6p6ukx74lbibyu@jpeg)
October 31, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I'm so worried about what'll happen when our kids are old enough to have phones!!!! 😮😮😮
Not my preferred deal, but I'm not a fan of this site's one two move of assuming away all tradeoffs and on that basis, attacking people's motives.
November 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Not my preferred deal, but I'm not a fan of this site's one two move of assuming away all tradeoffs and on that basis, attacking people's motives.
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It’s straightforwardly bad for this site’s mental health that a huge proportion of people here went into the shutdown with no idea of what would be a win condition, and so settled on their default: an affect of “seeming to be fighting.”
November 10, 2025 at 11:55 AM
It’s straightforwardly bad for this site’s mental health that a huge proportion of people here went into the shutdown with no idea of what would be a win condition, and so settled on their default: an affect of “seeming to be fighting.”
RIF protections and funding snap thru next year make the January fight a bit easier so harder to reduce to a cave/fold hard binary, but overall a good perspective. Something that can't go on forever, won't.
November 10, 2025 at 12:02 PM
RIF protections and funding snap thru next year make the January fight a bit easier so harder to reduce to a cave/fold hard binary, but overall a good perspective. Something that can't go on forever, won't.
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This is actually a huge get
(and which also might sink the deal in House anyway)
(and which also might sink the deal in House anyway)
The RIFs language is actually great. Not only does it rehire the people RIFed during the shutdown, it makes it an unequivocal Antideficiency Act violation to do ANY MORE RIFs through the duration of the CR (Jan 30)
Completely stops Trump/Vought Phase 2 for now
Would love to see this standardized
Completely stops Trump/Vought Phase 2 for now
Would love to see this standardized
November 10, 2025 at 12:30 AM
This is actually a huge get
(and which also might sink the deal in House anyway)
(and which also might sink the deal in House anyway)
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fully funding SNAP a year out is what makes this a potential ceasefire not a surrender. it takes starvation off the table as potential stakes.
I would be more enthusiastic about that if I had any confidence that they actually would take another go at it in January.
November 10, 2025 at 1:03 AM
fully funding SNAP a year out is what makes this a potential ceasefire not a surrender. it takes starvation off the table as potential stakes.
What I want to see is how the vote on subsidies shakes out. If you have 4 R votes the deal looks different from if you don't.
This seems like an attempt to save holiday travel and take SNAP benefits off the negotiating table, but sets up another shutdown fight over healthcare early next year.
Better than what some of the reporting has suggested. Still unclear if it'll pass IMO
Better than what some of the reporting has suggested. Still unclear if it'll pass IMO
November 10, 2025 at 12:07 AM
What I want to see is how the vote on subsidies shakes out. If you have 4 R votes the deal looks different from if you don't.
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I don't read enough Congressional legislation to speak with any real authority here but this RIF language stood out to me
November 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I don't read enough Congressional legislation to speak with any real authority here but this RIF language stood out to me
Ok everyone go home (or outside as the case may be)
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Ok everyone go home (or outside as the case may be)
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yeah i think this is the case
4/ My hunch is that the real dynamic is there. There are already enough cave votes to throw in the towel. But the cavers desperately want cover from the rest of the caucus. So everyone jumps together or enough join them to make it look like the caucus was ready to cave.
November 9, 2025 at 10:52 PM
yeah i think this is the case
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Here you with more creditable reporting from Politico, www.politico.com/live-updates.... The deal would be: (a) a mini-bus of three bills; (b) a separate vote on health care subsidies; and (3) protection for federal workers “laid off” during the shutdown.
Senate hopes for shutdown breakthrough Sunday
Senators believe enough Democrats are ready to reopen the government.
www.politico.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Here you with more creditable reporting from Politico, www.politico.com/live-updates.... The deal would be: (a) a mini-bus of three bills; (b) a separate vote on health care subsidies; and (3) protection for federal workers “laid off” during the shutdown.
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This sounded like something Rs were trying to manifest. But now I am legit worried. Why would you cave now.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 8:56 PM
This sounded like something Rs were trying to manifest. But now I am legit worried. Why would you cave now.
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F*, and I mean this sincerely, these people and anyone who did anything to bring them to power
Girl Scouts in a Chicago Suburb hosted a food drive. But the girls encountered masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents with weapons.
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
"ICE turned it into a scary and what felt like an unsafe environment for us to be out with these kids"
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Masked ICE agents put damper on Oak Park Girl Scout food drive: ‘It’s heartbreaking as a mom’
Federal immigration agents were confronted in Oak Park on Saturday morning by residents blowing whistles as local Girl Scouts collect food for local pantries, rattling some girls and their parents.
chicago.suntimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:46 PM
F*, and I mean this sincerely, these people and anyone who did anything to bring them to power
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Quick thread on timing of reopening the government, if they’re able to invoke cloture on MTP. (That’s a 60 voter, so you need 8 Dems assuming Rand Paul is still a no.)
For timing, if they invoke cloture today (assume after 6pm), that begins the 30 hours of debate. Takes us to Tuesday for MTP vote.
For timing, if they invoke cloture today (assume after 6pm), that begins the 30 hours of debate. Takes us to Tuesday for MTP vote.
November 9, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Quick thread on timing of reopening the government, if they’re able to invoke cloture on MTP. (That’s a 60 voter, so you need 8 Dems assuming Rand Paul is still a no.)
For timing, if they invoke cloture today (assume after 6pm), that begins the 30 hours of debate. Takes us to Tuesday for MTP vote.
For timing, if they invoke cloture today (assume after 6pm), that begins the 30 hours of debate. Takes us to Tuesday for MTP vote.