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I don't think my town even has a mid bakery. It has a "bakery" that sells treats and espresso. Where's the bread, I ask it.
November 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I don't think my town even has a mid bakery. It has a "bakery" that sells treats and espresso. Where's the bread, I ask it.
I actually think Senate Dems are a bit of a red herring at this point.
What showed up very clearly in my feed that night was a sizeable percentage of my mutuals on here declaring support for ending the shutdown.
I have no reason to believe Senate Dems *weren't* representing the will of the voters.
What showed up very clearly in my feed that night was a sizeable percentage of my mutuals on here declaring support for ending the shutdown.
I have no reason to believe Senate Dems *weren't* representing the will of the voters.
Schumer led Senate Democrats in fighting Trump over healthcare, period.
If you think Senate leaders can control members of their caucus, you don’t know much about the Senate. And before you say “McConnell,” remember why we still have the ACA when Trump and McConnell wanted it gone.
If you think Senate leaders can control members of their caucus, you don’t know much about the Senate. And before you say “McConnell,” remember why we still have the ACA when Trump and McConnell wanted it gone.
November 11, 2025 at 4:48 PM
I actually think Senate Dems are a bit of a red herring at this point.
What showed up very clearly in my feed that night was a sizeable percentage of my mutuals on here declaring support for ending the shutdown.
I have no reason to believe Senate Dems *weren't* representing the will of the voters.
What showed up very clearly in my feed that night was a sizeable percentage of my mutuals on here declaring support for ending the shutdown.
I have no reason to believe Senate Dems *weren't* representing the will of the voters.
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Every Elon post sounds like Wheatley in Portal 2:
Wheatley - I read Machiavelli (Portal 2)
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November 11, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Every Elon post sounds like Wheatley in Portal 2:
I'm sympathetic to suggestions that Schumer is acting as a lightning rod while maybe doing subtly effective things, but if that's true, at a certain point the lightning rod is reduced to slag and it's time for a new one.
I think Schumer has to go because the trust just ain’t there, honestly. Like, whatever your opinions on the respective matters, the Israel/Palestine thing followed by the Mamdani thing followed by this one right after another… We need someone who can unite the party somehow. IDK who that’d be.
November 11, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I'm sympathetic to suggestions that Schumer is acting as a lightning rod while maybe doing subtly effective things, but if that's true, at a certain point the lightning rod is reduced to slag and it's time for a new one.
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"Thirteen Italian pasta brands could pull their products from US grocery stores — or potentially be forced to hike prices dramatically as soon as January, when punishing 107% tariffs are set to take effect." nypost.com/2025/11/10/b...
November 10, 2025 at 9:50 PM
"Thirteen Italian pasta brands could pull their products from US grocery stores — or potentially be forced to hike prices dramatically as soon as January, when punishing 107% tariffs are set to take effect." nypost.com/2025/11/10/b...
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Dawg what
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 10, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Dawg what
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actually the GOP reached its current ascendant position in American politics by "fighting for fighting's sake" and opposing every Democratic proposal as a bloc even when they had no hope of defeating it, hope this helps
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
actually the GOP reached its current ascendant position in American politics by "fighting for fighting's sake" and opposing every Democratic proposal as a bloc even when they had no hope of defeating it, hope this helps
The ending of Hades II sucks, and it's surprising that it somehow used to be worse.
November 10, 2025 at 3:03 AM
The ending of Hades II sucks, and it's surprising that it somehow used to be worse.
lmao there's a definite resemblance
We got fucking prigozn'd
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
lmao there's a definite resemblance
Really important to emphasize here how hard it is to starve to death in America, where calories available per dollar are a world-historical miracle of abundance and obesity rates are a world-historical travesty.
Optimal nutrition might require SNAP, preventing starvation is trivial.
Optimal nutrition might require SNAP, preventing starvation is trivial.
November 10, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Really important to emphasize here how hard it is to starve to death in America, where calories available per dollar are a world-historical miracle of abundance and obesity rates are a world-historical travesty.
Optimal nutrition might require SNAP, preventing starvation is trivial.
Optimal nutrition might require SNAP, preventing starvation is trivial.
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Why would you take back a job that is only protected until January 30th when you were illegally RIF’d in the first place.
November 10, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Why would you take back a job that is only protected until January 30th when you were illegally RIF’d in the first place.
"I suppose this is the best we can do with the senators we have" is quite possibly the most reasonable take, but I think it's important to emphasize that the *Republican* senators once again put on a master class in solidarity despite being under far, far more political pressure.
Two month CR and rolling back federal firing doesn't seem like a completely terrible end to this thing. That said, I wouldn't vote for it, but keeping senators on side is obviously the big problem.
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 AM
"I suppose this is the best we can do with the senators we have" is quite possibly the most reasonable take, but I think it's important to emphasize that the *Republican* senators once again put on a master class in solidarity despite being under far, far more political pressure.
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Thank God Trump reopened the govt and fed everyone is what my dad is saying. Cool.
November 9, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Thank God Trump reopened the govt and fed everyone is what my dad is saying. Cool.
This makes it more likely that there won't be political pressure from the left to reinstate ACA subsidies at the national level in the future.
ALSO: It's important to remember that NOT ALL ~24M ACA ENROLLEES WILL BE UTTERLY SCREWED.
--New Mexico is backfilling ALL lost federal subsidies for ALL enrollees!
--California is backfilling lost federal subsidies for all enrollees < 150% FPL (~290,000 enrollees)
acasignups.net/25/10/14/sil...
--New Mexico is backfilling ALL lost federal subsidies for ALL enrollees!
--California is backfilling lost federal subsidies for all enrollees < 150% FPL (~290,000 enrollees)
acasignups.net/25/10/14/sil...
Silver Linings Playbook: Some states are taking action to mitigate the upcoming tax credit tsunami (Update: Add MA to the list!)
As anyone not under a rock for the past few months knows by now, the improved federal Affordable Care Act tax credits which were put into place by President Biden and Congressional Democrats starting ...
acasignups.net
November 10, 2025 at 12:06 AM
This makes it more likely that there won't be political pressure from the left to reinstate ACA subsidies at the national level in the future.
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For a brief moment in time America had a functioning opposition party but nothing lasts forever
November 9, 2025 at 11:41 PM
For a brief moment in time America had a functioning opposition party but nothing lasts forever
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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 10:42 PM
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.
This is insightful.
in a very real sense, these people do not live in reality. they take actions based on what they see in cable news, and react to the consequences of those reactions as described by cable news. they have put their own propaganda inside their control loop.
November 9, 2025 at 5:38 AM
This is insightful.
The Republicans are going to keep prolonging this shutdown for as long as they think a critical mass of Dems are spineless dribblers who are on the verge of folding.
me yesterday: look, Chuck Schumer is an incompetent dipshit, but somehow he’s played the shutdown semi-functionally because his opponents are even stupider
today: you fool, you idiot, Chuck Schumer has only appeared vaguely competent because his caucus actively revolted
should have known better
today: you fool, you idiot, Chuck Schumer has only appeared vaguely competent because his caucus actively revolted
should have known better
SCOOP: Schumer was more involved than reported with the attempted cave on the government shutdown. The Gang of 8 Senate Dems had his approval & he was getting daily updates.
In Thursday's caucus meeting, the Gang claimed they had 10 votes to cave. The caucus went nuts, leading to the new proposal.
In Thursday's caucus meeting, the Gang claimed they had 10 votes to cave. The caucus went nuts, leading to the new proposal.
November 9, 2025 at 2:33 AM
The Republicans are going to keep prolonging this shutdown for as long as they think a critical mass of Dems are spineless dribblers who are on the verge of folding.
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i think we do actually need to force this issue.
"we", collectively, as humans
i think that we have had a window of internet driven activism that has notably elevated people with emotionally satisfying but practically disastrous policies and positions
if we want to succeed it has to end
"we", collectively, as humans
i think that we have had a window of internet driven activism that has notably elevated people with emotionally satisfying but practically disastrous policies and positions
if we want to succeed it has to end
It's bad manners to force the issue but in a lot of environmental advocacy (not necessarily climate), there is remarkable ambivalence about whether or not there should be people at all.
November 7, 2025 at 11:44 PM
i think we do actually need to force this issue.
"we", collectively, as humans
i think that we have had a window of internet driven activism that has notably elevated people with emotionally satisfying but practically disastrous policies and positions
if we want to succeed it has to end
"we", collectively, as humans
i think that we have had a window of internet driven activism that has notably elevated people with emotionally satisfying but practically disastrous policies and positions
if we want to succeed it has to end
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This entire game has been played like both teams were expecting to have six downs per series
November 7, 2025 at 4:05 AM
This entire game has been played like both teams were expecting to have six downs per series
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look man one very consistent feature of concierge access to politicians is that you have to be current on your subscription, and rather than renewing you mailed in what appeared to be a bag of dog shit you had already (?) lit on fire
Canadian multimillionaire and Shark Tank guy Kevin O'Leary went on TV to say he's upset Zohran won't talk to him: "I and others who invest in real estate have tried to get a meeting to figure out what's rhetoric and what's policy. So far for me it's been crickets."
November 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
look man one very consistent feature of concierge access to politicians is that you have to be current on your subscription, and rather than renewing you mailed in what appeared to be a bag of dog shit you had already (?) lit on fire
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November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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i REFUSE to be kept in ANY loop.
they haven’t made a loop strong enough.
you can try, but know that thousands have failed even after CIRCLING BACK
they haven’t made a loop strong enough.
you can try, but know that thousands have failed even after CIRCLING BACK
November 6, 2025 at 10:59 AM
i REFUSE to be kept in ANY loop.
they haven’t made a loop strong enough.
you can try, but know that thousands have failed even after CIRCLING BACK
they haven’t made a loop strong enough.
you can try, but know that thousands have failed even after CIRCLING BACK
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Trump is threatening the one thing Senators love doing most of all: never doing anything
I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win
November 7, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Trump is threatening the one thing Senators love doing most of all: never doing anything
"You weapon" has always been peak British insult IMHO.
In vernacular British English, any noun can be used as an insult if it feels right. Just looking around my immediate surroundings, 'you teacup' and 'you plant pot' work, but 'you subwoofer' and 'you mousepad' don't. Same with pastries: donut works, cheese lattice doesn't. Nobody knows why.
November 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM
"You weapon" has always been peak British insult IMHO.