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Liked, but not well-liked.
Sen. Paul stunting on Dems by showing how casually, almost carelessly, he can unilaterally exercise the sort of power that Dems claim they don’t have, using a tool that any senator can use at any time. Just for style points, and in support of a Schedule 1 narcotic.
November 10, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I don’t know much about @jasonreynoldsforsenate.com but I do know that he should be capitalizing today on @markwarner.bsky.social and @kaine.senate.gov’s dishonesty to give Virginians a viable alternative to the Surrender Caucus.
November 10, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Hey @kaine.senate.gov if you don’t know how to use the power we delegated to you you should relinquish it to someone who does. Resign and let Spanberger appoint someone with the skills/temperament to do the job.
weirdly honest messaging from the breakaway mod/institutionalist leaders who blew up the party strategy

they're explicitly giving up. "It wasn't working so we quit" that's the message
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Is he arguing that Wyoming is less deserving of political representation in the Senate than the District of Columbia? Sure sounds like it.
Thune: Democrats are fighting for a fraction of a fraction, for a tiny percentage of the small percentage of Americans who are on Obamacare.
November 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Today in mens rea:
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Big “should we build a boat or sacrifice all our remaining livestock in prayers and supplications to the Lord to save us from the floods?” energy in (some of) the replies.
A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?
China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB

Photo: Eyevine
November 7, 2025 at 12:58 PM
DC JURY: “We’re all Dunn here.”
November 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
November 6, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Good! National has too many flights! Will they be cutting the empty flights they run as bribes for senators like Ted Cruz?
November 6, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Times like this you can tell whose rice has flavor and whose does not.
Zohran Mamdani says on NY1 he didn't get a congratulatory call from either Andrew Cuomo or Eric Adams last night.

He says he got a congratulatory call from Curtis Sliwa, though.
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 PM
it’s a bop
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Hunched over my phone just huffing good news till I pass out
November 5, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Andy Warhol Will Have His Revenge On New York
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Nothing says “landslide” like getting to bed on time on election night, good work team.
November 5, 2025 at 1:50 AM
The GOP version of omertà is…

BIG HAT NO TATTLE

Thankyou, thankyou, I’ll see myself out
COLLINS: Should the president know who he's pardoning?

MARKWAYNE MULLIN: I don't know anything about this one. That's the first time I've seen that.
November 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
So here’s to you, Ms. MacKenzie Scott, a nation turns its lonely eyes to you, woo woo woo
if there was a rich person with the will, you could build the most incredible news organization that has ever existed just from the wreckage of this year alone.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 8:30 PM
If you’re in line to pitch in game 7 of the World Series, STAY IN LINE
November 2, 2025 at 4:16 AM
All of this and the sports bar across the street is closed? And dark? I don’t have sports TV at home, I have a sports bar across the fucking street for times like this. WHAT THE HELL, KEVIN.
November 2, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Entering the office costume contest as a ghost of my former self
October 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
If they will not award us the Nobel Peace Prize, we shall take it by force
October 31, 2025 at 12:43 PM
I uninstalled Copilot, so the Copilot hotkey on the laptop keyboard is orphaned, and if I try to assign a custom action to it it tells me no other apps on my laptop will work with it, and it directs me to the Microsoft App Store where the only acceptable apps are… copilot or chatgpt. Great, awesome.
October 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
has anyone ever won a rap beef on appeal? honestly curious
October 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Change one letter, ruin a candy

Charleston Chaw
change one letter, ruin a candy

Milk dads
change one letter, ruin a candy

Spittles
October 29, 2025 at 9:33 PM
DC-area Subways better staff up for this weekend, they’re gonna be doing numbers. “Gimme the big Sean” they’ll say, one after another, lines out the door, pink shirts and shorts round the block.
October 29, 2025 at 7:31 PM