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· Jan 17
not exactly what the woman said, but same energy. the soliloquy this is from had me bawling at the time
now, i don't do this, i'm just much too shy around people i don't know and don't check in enough with the people i do. but as an ideal to aspire to? gotta be my lodestar
now, i don't do this, i'm just much too shy around people i don't know and don't check in enough with the people i do. but as an ideal to aspire to? gotta be my lodestar
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This means Rick Scott does not believe there should be any of what the ACA calls "essential health benefits" — things an insurance company *has* to cover
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Says all plans would have to cover pre-existing conditions. But if states set the rules, some might choose not to require coverage for thinks like pregnancy, or prescription drugs some people need to survive, and so on…(as it was pre-ACA)
November 11, 2025 at 4:19 AM
This means Rick Scott does not believe there should be any of what the ACA calls "essential health benefits" — things an insurance company *has* to cover
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More than just 8 but less than all of the Senate Dems
Whole point of this maneuver being we don’t know who exactly it was that supported it. Yes, “institutionalists,” tell me more about how the filibuster promotes good governance
Whole point of this maneuver being we don’t know who exactly it was that supported it. Yes, “institutionalists,” tell me more about how the filibuster promotes good governance
November 11, 2025 at 7:22 AM
More than just 8 but less than all of the Senate Dems
Whole point of this maneuver being we don’t know who exactly it was that supported it. Yes, “institutionalists,” tell me more about how the filibuster promotes good governance
Whole point of this maneuver being we don’t know who exactly it was that supported it. Yes, “institutionalists,” tell me more about how the filibuster promotes good governance
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I kind of think both Takes are right here. All us sickos remember, but a lot of people who aren't quite so engaged are probably just left with the vague impression that the Democrats are feckless
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
I kind of think both Takes are right here. All us sickos remember, but a lot of people who aren't quite so engaged are probably just left with the vague impression that the Democrats are feckless
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it's so dumb to talk about bipartisanship as an end unto itself because political parties are not supposed to want to work with each other if they can help it. you're not supposed to wanna work with your opponents. you want to accomplish as much of your agenda as possible
November 11, 2025 at 2:16 AM
it's so dumb to talk about bipartisanship as an end unto itself because political parties are not supposed to want to work with each other if they can help it. you're not supposed to wanna work with your opponents. you want to accomplish as much of your agenda as possible
The real win condition here was ‘force them to nuke the filibuster’. Not doing that, I’m not sure what they gained here; in the meantime the idea that the Dems could end the shutdown (and are this culpable for it) and could have done so at anytime for nothing (since that’s what they got) spreads.
It's obviously not Democrats' fault, but the Democrats are eating a loss because after making the whole news cycle about how they were going to save the ACA, they now won't
November 11, 2025 at 4:06 AM
The real win condition here was ‘force them to nuke the filibuster’. Not doing that, I’m not sure what they gained here; in the meantime the idea that the Dems could end the shutdown (and are this culpable for it) and could have done so at anytime for nothing (since that’s what they got) spreads.
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Anyone want to tackle this? Am not local and don’t know anybody who is, maybe @whstancil.bsky.social knows someone?
Anyone want to tackle this? Am not local and don’t know anybody who is, maybe @whstancil.bsky.social knows someone?
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Anyone want to tackle this? Am not local and don’t know anybody who is, maybe @whstancil.bsky.social knows someone?
Anyone want to tackle this? Am not local and don’t know anybody who is, maybe @whstancil.bsky.social knows someone?
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The GOP just hates successful direct to consumer businesses, first was the de minimus exception for shipping, now they kill hemp derived THC, what will they kill next
But like actually where did the political will to take the hemp industry out back and shoot it come from
November 11, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The GOP just hates successful direct to consumer businesses, first was the de minimus exception for shipping, now they kill hemp derived THC, what will they kill next
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In "Trust me, I'm Lying," Ryan Holiday talked about how online-only media outlets (then 2010s blogging) dishonestly edited headlines and content post-hoc, often reactively in response to outrage or being caught getting things wrong. its really incredible that this is MSM now
November 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
In "Trust me, I'm Lying," Ryan Holiday talked about how online-only media outlets (then 2010s blogging) dishonestly edited headlines and content post-hoc, often reactively in response to outrage or being caught getting things wrong. its really incredible that this is MSM now
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The Democrats erred by not forcing Republicans to nuke the filibuster. But there was nothing Democrats could have done to get the ACA subsidies extended, because Republicans control all three branches and strongly believe that only rich people should have access to decent healthcare
You can criticize Senate Democrats for capitulating but Donald Trump and Republicans are the ones destroying the ACA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
The Democrats erred by not forcing Republicans to nuke the filibuster. But there was nothing Democrats could have done to get the ACA subsidies extended, because Republicans control all three branches and strongly believe that only rich people should have access to decent healthcare
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read: expect shenanigans in 2026
NEW: President Trump's pardon of his alleged 2020 co-conspirators was less about shielding them from past crimes, his adversaries say, than about signaling to others that he has their back if he needs them again in 2026 or 2028.
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 11, 2025 at 12:32 AM
read: expect shenanigans in 2026
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“The richest man in the world, who has no interiority and no ability to understand art, also owns a giant machine for creating and distributing an endless amount of soulless simulacra and kitsch” is basically the plot of like a Kundera novel or possibly a Fellini film and that’s very funny to me
November 10, 2025 at 10:43 PM
“The richest man in the world, who has no interiority and no ability to understand art, also owns a giant machine for creating and distributing an endless amount of soulless simulacra and kitsch” is basically the plot of like a Kundera novel or possibly a Fellini film and that’s very funny to me
just realized this may also be a good laugh for @merovingians.bsky.social
So this reminds me of one of my favourite WTF moments in heritage bureaucracy, which was the 2018 archaeological excavations just outside the chapel of St Peter at the Tower of London. nobody could decide who, apart from the king, could legally sign off on the project
…so there isn’t some department that is empowered to deal with this stuff that can just override the inevitable objections, I guess? rough, if so
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
just realized this may also be a good laugh for @merovingians.bsky.social
good summation of the situation.
November 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
good summation of the situation.
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*whispers* we were supposed to impeach Dubya
The single biggest question in American law today is:
Are lies a get-out-of-laws-free card? Can the government simply lie to grant itself new powers? And is everyone else under an obligation to act as if obvious lies are true, or at minimum, that they might have merit and deserve respect?
Are lies a get-out-of-laws-free card? Can the government simply lie to grant itself new powers? And is everyone else under an obligation to act as if obvious lies are true, or at minimum, that they might have merit and deserve respect?
November 9, 2025 at 4:04 AM
*whispers* we were supposed to impeach Dubya
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Maaaaaan if this is true it's like, worst of all possible worlds
"We just can't play politics with people's lives!" okay but you literally were doing that, and it was working, and then you decided enough of that already??
"We just can't play politics with people's lives!" okay but you literally were doing that, and it was working, and then you decided enough of that already??
November 10, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Maaaaaan if this is true it's like, worst of all possible worlds
"We just can't play politics with people's lives!" okay but you literally were doing that, and it was working, and then you decided enough of that already??
"We just can't play politics with people's lives!" okay but you literally were doing that, and it was working, and then you decided enough of that already??
weird to find ppl bellyaching about win conditions and such. I think it’s pretty clear that “win” here meant forcing the abandonment of the filibuster and refusal to vote for this government, making them own their disaster in toto. That’s how we’ve been talking about this for weeks, I thought?
November 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
weird to find ppl bellyaching about win conditions and such. I think it’s pretty clear that “win” here meant forcing the abandonment of the filibuster and refusal to vote for this government, making them own their disaster in toto. That’s how we’ve been talking about this for weeks, I thought?
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just a reminder that the 8 Dems who folded need to vote again later in the week (thanks to dumb senate procedure, unsurprisingly)
light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM
light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM
BREAKING
The 1st Circuit REJECTS Trump DOJ's request to pause a judge's order to pay up Nov's SNAP funds to the states.
The SCOTUS stay will expire within 48 hours absent further action from the justices, per its terms.
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The 1st Circuit REJECTS Trump DOJ's request to pause a judge's order to pay up Nov's SNAP funds to the states.
The SCOTUS stay will expire within 48 hours absent further action from the justices, per its terms.
Doc ecf.ca1.uscourts.gov/n/beam/servl...
November 10, 2025 at 5:46 AM
just a reminder that the 8 Dems who folded need to vote again later in the week (thanks to dumb senate procedure, unsurprisingly)
light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM
light their phones up tomorrow at 9AM
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The next president, if we have one, needs to learn that the penalty for treason is death and that you can't pardon a corpse
Trump just celebrated Schumer's cave by pardoning 75+ co-conspirators including Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, and Sidney Powell, for their efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 AM
The next president, if we have one, needs to learn that the penalty for treason is death and that you can't pardon a corpse
what the fuck was the point of all this if you don't even secure a serious deal? and if you can't secure a serious deal, why is there even talk of negotiating. you are not the majority ffs!
ENOUGH DEMOCRATIC VOTES TO BE SECURED IN SENATE TO PASS BILL TO END SHUTDOWN - SOURCE
November 10, 2025 at 12:33 AM
what the fuck was the point of all this if you don't even secure a serious deal? and if you can't secure a serious deal, why is there even talk of negotiating. you are not the majority ffs!
D A C O, apparently
this is not defensible
this is not defensible
Oh god these craven motherfuckers
November 10, 2025 at 12:32 AM
D A C O, apparently
this is not defensible
this is not defensible
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I think we should make it legal and easy to build starter homes like townhouses and condominium apartments in more places so people can get on the homeownership ladder affordable without having to sign up for 50 year loans they’ll probably never pay off.
Oh good. the 50-year mortgage. That should solve everything.
November 9, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I think we should make it legal and easy to build starter homes like townhouses and condominium apartments in more places so people can get on the homeownership ladder affordable without having to sign up for 50 year loans they’ll probably never pay off.
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This how I find out I have a son??
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
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November 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This how I find out I have a son??
a mitten is just a hand-sock
carry on
carry on
November 9, 2025 at 5:15 PM
a mitten is just a hand-sock
carry on
carry on
sometimes they give you an easy one
Entry:
עַכְבָר
n.m. mouse
עַכְבָר
n.m. mouse
November 9, 2025 at 7:30 AM
sometimes they give you an easy one
not a catholic, not really a fan either, but, someone needs to drill it into these assholes that this thing they signed up for isn’t actually supposed to be “my political beliefs plus some nice artwork and music” nor “carte blanche for every depravity I’ve ever contemplated or wanted to commit”
state of the trad catholic discourse on the other site is debating whether undocumented immigrants should be able to receive the Eucharist if you were wondering how that was going
November 9, 2025 at 6:42 AM
not a catholic, not really a fan either, but, someone needs to drill it into these assholes that this thing they signed up for isn’t actually supposed to be “my political beliefs plus some nice artwork and music” nor “carte blanche for every depravity I’ve ever contemplated or wanted to commit”