Gary Legum
@glegum.bsky.social
Writer. Mope. I don't know what the hell you're talking about, Lucy, and I want you to shut up.
If anyone just heard a scream of frustration loud enough to crack the planet open, that was me. Sorry about that.
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 1:28 AM
If anyone just heard a scream of frustration loud enough to crack the planet open, that was me. Sorry about that.
Has Dick Durbin considered shutting up.
Whoa -- Sen. Durbin went to up Leader Thune during the vote last night to tell him that on the shutdown vote and ACA promise that "8 of us are sticking our neck out that you're going to keep your word. I hope you will. He said 'I assure you I will,'" Durbin says just now
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Has Dick Durbin considered shutting up.
Another idiot winger learning in real time that whoops, I might have slightly miscalculated on this "indulging bigotry in all its forms" thing.
www.cbsnews.com/news/dave-po...
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Dave Portnoy says there's been a "definitive shift" toward antisemitism: "People are coming up with real hate"
In a "CBS Sunday Morning" interview with Tony Dokoupil to air Nov. 16, the president of Barstool Sports talks about an increase in anti-Jewish expression: "This is not normal."
www.cbsnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Another idiot winger learning in real time that whoops, I might have slightly miscalculated on this "indulging bigotry in all its forms" thing.
www.cbsnews.com/news/dave-po...
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The Shutdown Surrender
I just... I mean... Whatever.
davekarpf.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:45 PM
She should retire tomorrow instead of waiting until next November.
Agree.
Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."
This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.
Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."
This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.
November 10, 2025 at 3:22 AM
She should retire tomorrow instead of waiting until next November.
Oh no, 81-year-old Angus King might face a tough primary in five years, oh no, he really walked his career off the plank on this one.
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Oh no, 81-year-old Angus King might face a tough primary in five years, oh no, he really walked his career off the plank on this one.
FSA??? Their own constituents are going to burn effigies of them if they agree to this deal. What a shitshow.
"A development that appeared to break the logjam: Republicans proposed that healthcare funding be provided directly to households rather than used to pay for a 1-year extension of ACA subsidies. That involves sending federal money into FSAs instead of insurance companies" www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Republicans Pitch Alternative to ACA Extension to End Government Shutdown
A proposal by GOP senators to send money directly to consumers’ health accounts rather than to insurance companies showed signs of breaking a stalemate on negotiations.
www.wsj.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
FSA??? Their own constituents are going to burn effigies of them if they agree to this deal. What a shitshow.
LOL, whose genius idea was this.
November 9, 2025 at 11:44 PM
LOL, whose genius idea was this.
LOL, the "plan" is to hold a test vote and see what happens? Okay everyone, back to your previously scheduled Sunday.
Senate Republican leader John Thune said a deal is “coming together” as he planned a test vote Sunday on a narrow spending package that would end the 40-day government shutdown.
Thune Plans Test Vote on Shutdown, Saying Deal Is Getting Closer
Senate Republican leader John Thune said a deal is “coming together” as he planned a test vote Sunday on a narrow spending package that would end the 40-day government shutdown.
bloom.bg
November 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
LOL, the "plan" is to hold a test vote and see what happens? Okay everyone, back to your previously scheduled Sunday.
Between this and people flipping out over an anonymously-sourced Axios blurb about the shutdown ending, everyone is doing great work today. Keep it up, I'm sure blood-pressure medication manufacturers will appreciate it.
November 9, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Between this and people flipping out over an anonymously-sourced Axios blurb about the shutdown ending, everyone is doing great work today. Keep it up, I'm sure blood-pressure medication manufacturers will appreciate it.
"Kind of pretty in a way." LOL, okay.
November 9, 2025 at 6:54 PM
"Kind of pretty in a way." LOL, okay.
You might get a ruling at any moment from the 1st Circuit that starts a 48-hour clock to ending KBJ's administrative stay and allowing states to resume sending out benefits. Which presumably means anything they claw back might have to go right back out again. Everyone is taking crazy pills.
The Trump administration told states that they must “immediately undo” any actions to provide full food stamp benefits to low-income families, in a move that added to the chaos surrounding the nation’s largest anti-hunger program during the government shutdown. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/b...
November 9, 2025 at 4:58 PM
You might get a ruling at any moment from the 1st Circuit that starts a 48-hour clock to ending KBJ's administrative stay and allowing states to resume sending out benefits. Which presumably means anything they claw back might have to go right back out again. Everyone is taking crazy pills.
Oh sure, the feds have nothing to do with energy policies that affect how states distribute energy. I am very smart.
Pressed by Stephanopoulos on the fact that electricity prices have in fact gone up, Bessent punts: "Electricity prices are a state problem ... look, there are things the federal government can control. Local electricity prices are not one of them."
November 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Oh sure, the feds have nothing to do with energy policies that affect how states distribute energy. I am very smart.
The only way these guys know how to govern is through bullying, and it's fun to see how lost they are when it doesn't work.
November 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
The only way these guys know how to govern is through bullying, and it's fun to see how lost they are when it doesn't work.
"Pay the people, not the insurance companies!" Da, comrade!
November 9, 2025 at 3:20 PM
"Pay the people, not the insurance companies!" Da, comrade!
This is the most depraved thing I've ever seen on this website.
There isn't a single goddamn chocolate brownie alive that wouldn't be made better with nuts
November 9, 2025 at 4:33 AM
This is the most depraved thing I've ever seen on this website.
Mamdani is going to implement Shar-Pei law. Everyone has to be really, really wrinkly.
Mamdani is going to implement Shar Law. Everyone will have to bow down to the Mistress of the Night, the Lady of Loss, and devote themselves to bringing about a darkness that will smother her hated foe and sister Selûne
Mamdani is going to implement My Sharona law. Everyone will have to create songs with undeniable rock beats.
November 9, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Mamdani is going to implement Shar-Pei law. Everyone has to be really, really wrinkly.
Flailing hard enough to bump the planet out of orbit.
you know he's mad when he's posting about the fillibuster for like the 5th time today
November 8, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Flailing hard enough to bump the planet out of orbit.
Looking healthy and normal very powerfully, sir.
November 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Looking healthy and normal very powerfully, sir.
I guess no one has ever said that to him while breaking up with him, which in itself tells you something about him.
Elon has never experienced this and neither have his biggest fans but now they can create these visuals with the help of a computermachine
November 8, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I guess no one has ever said that to him while breaking up with him, which in itself tells you something about him.
So instead of paying my individual subsidy to the insurance companies, the government will send me the cash so I can ... send it to the insurance company.
November 8, 2025 at 4:21 PM
So instead of paying my individual subsidy to the insurance companies, the government will send me the cash so I can ... send it to the insurance company.
God I'm glad she's on our side.
I saw the Washington Post editorial on redistricting today and this is my official response.
November 8, 2025 at 3:28 AM
God I'm glad she's on our side.
Lawyers can tell me if I'm wrong, but I think this is SCOTUS basically telling Trump that the First Circuit has to finish its work before anything else happens.
BREAKING: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issues an administrative stay in the SNAP benefits case, for the First Circuit to issue its ruling on the stay request (“with dispatch”).
Her administrative stay ends 48 hours after that ruling is issued (or upon further order).
Her administrative stay ends 48 hours after that ruling is issued (or upon further order).
November 8, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Lawyers can tell me if I'm wrong, but I think this is SCOTUS basically telling Trump that the First Circuit has to finish its work before anything else happens.
Remarkable. They're so obsessed with getting their way that they'll appeal to SCOTUS for the right to withhold food from people.
BREAKING: DOJ goes to SCOTUS trying to stop a district court order that USDA pay out full SNAP benefits this month.
The First Circuit denied an administrative stay, but has not yet ruled on the stay request. And, CNN reported that USDA is already processing payments.
DOJ went to SCOTUS anyway.
The First Circuit denied an administrative stay, but has not yet ruled on the stay request. And, CNN reported that USDA is already processing payments.
DOJ went to SCOTUS anyway.
November 8, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Remarkable. They're so obsessed with getting their way that they'll appeal to SCOTUS for the right to withhold food from people.