Sean Satori
@seansatori.bsky.social
Government litigator with interests in antitrust, IP, cyberlaw, and privacy. Views = own != legal advice. He/him/y’all. Married to @wheresmyburrito.bsky.social
Or, maybe the Republicans didn’t “win” the shutdown after all, since Americans know they are willing to hurt the American people in any of a dozen different ways, including failing to prevent huge premium increases.
Republicans won the shutdown, but now face a health-care hangover as premiums set to soar for tens of millions heading into an election year (Gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
GOP’s Shutdown Win May Backfire Over Soaring Health-Care Costs
Republicans, still celebrating their US government shutdown victory, are waking up to a health-care hangover that risks upending the balance of power in President Donald Trump’s Washington.
www.bloomberg.com
November 13, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Or, maybe the Republicans didn’t “win” the shutdown after all, since Americans know they are willing to hurt the American people in any of a dozen different ways, including failing to prevent huge premium increases.
Can’t wait for Vance and Vermeule to explain why the Catholic bishops are wrong.
“We oppose the indiscriminate mass deportation of people. We pray for an end to dehumanizing rhetoric and violence, whether directed at immigrants or at law enforcement.”
This shouldn’t be a controversial position in the United States.
This shouldn’t be a controversial position in the United States.
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
November 13, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Can’t wait for Vance and Vermeule to explain why the Catholic bishops are wrong.
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What a great day for finding out that a lot of things people thought were conspiracies are actually backed up by emails that are like hey pedo, let us pedo together in pedoland on the second day of the pedo month
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
What a great day for finding out that a lot of things people thought were conspiracies are actually backed up by emails that are like hey pedo, let us pedo together in pedoland on the second day of the pedo month
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“We oppose the indiscriminate mass deportation of people. We pray for an end to dehumanizing rhetoric and violence, whether directed at immigrants or at law enforcement.”
This shouldn’t be a controversial position in the United States.
This shouldn’t be a controversial position in the United States.
BREAKING: At Pope Leo XIV’s urging, U.S. Catholic bishops just delivered the strongest rebuke of a sitting president in Church history — condemning Trump-Vance raids as “inhumane” and “dehumanizing” in a 216–5 vote.
NEW: At Pope Leo’s Urging, Bishops Issue Historic Rebuke of Trump’s Raids
Nearly all U.S. Catholic bishops united in Baltimore to denounce the Trump administration’s “inhumane” deportation campaign — a near-unanimous, unprecedented moral stand against a sitting president.
www.thelettersfromleo.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:10 PM
“We oppose the indiscriminate mass deportation of people. We pray for an end to dehumanizing rhetoric and violence, whether directed at immigrants or at law enforcement.”
This shouldn’t be a controversial position in the United States.
This shouldn’t be a controversial position in the United States.
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Still rocks me that Looney Tunes did a better job of handling this history than 99% of politicians, textbooks, and media
February 28, 2024 at 5:05 AM
Still rocks me that Looney Tunes did a better job of handling this history than 99% of politicians, textbooks, and media
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Here it is, from @clairewillett.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Here it is, from @clairewillett.bsky.social
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the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”
November 12, 2025 at 2:08 PM
the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”
I knew there was something there. God damn.
🚨BREAKING: Oversight Dems have received new emails from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate that raise serious questions about Donald Trump and his knowledge of Epstein’s horrific crimes.
Read them for yourself. It’s time to end this cover-up and RELEASE THE FILES.
Read them for yourself. It’s time to end this cover-up and RELEASE THE FILES.
November 12, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I knew there was something there. God damn.
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I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
November 12, 2025 at 5:45 AM
I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.
Tanks
DoorDash literally inflates restaurant and other prices to mask how much it actually costs to deliver shit to you and extract profit while doing so.
good news, we now officially measure the economy with the burrito taxi index
Trump admin Press Secretary citing DoorDash on local commerce price levels.
Quite possibly the most cursed ‘economic indicator’ I have ever seen.
Quite possibly the most cursed ‘economic indicator’ I have ever seen.
November 12, 2025 at 1:00 AM
DoorDash literally inflates restaurant and other prices to mask how much it actually costs to deliver shit to you and extract profit while doing so.
There is no Miracle Mile Shopping Center in Chicago. He's either confused the one in Pennsylvania or he's referring to Magnificent Mile which is an actual street with a ton of shops on it and three gallerias that last I checked were doing fine.
Call in the troops to solve the commercial real estate crisis in our swanky downtown cores
You can’t make this shit up, folks
You can’t make this shit up, folks
November 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
There is no Miracle Mile Shopping Center in Chicago. He's either confused the one in Pennsylvania or he's referring to Magnificent Mile which is an actual street with a ton of shops on it and three gallerias that last I checked were doing fine.
Veterans' Day snuck up on me and I don't have my where to go for free stuff plan in place.
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Veterans' Day snuck up on me and I don't have my where to go for free stuff plan in place.
I'm struggling to understand what cause of action they would have and what their damages would be.
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 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
I'm struggling to understand what cause of action they would have and what their damages would be.
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They were never going to get ACA subsidies, which is part of why it was a mistake to insist this was only about ACA subsidies and nothing else.
Sincere question: does anybody have any evidence that the GOP/WH would have eventually folded and extended the ACA subsidies if the shutdown continued?
I haven’t seen any. The President didn’t seem to feeling any pressure. No GOP Senator AFAIK expressed any concern. (Some Reps did)
I haven’t seen any. The President didn’t seem to feeling any pressure. No GOP Senator AFAIK expressed any concern. (Some Reps did)
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 AM
They were never going to get ACA subsidies, which is part of why it was a mistake to insist this was only about ACA subsidies and nothing else.
It is amazing to me that Democrats in the Senate continually vote against the wishes of their base. I cannot remember the last time Republicans voted against the wishes of theirs.
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 PM
It is amazing to me that Democrats in the Senate continually vote against the wishes of their base. I cannot remember the last time Republicans voted against the wishes of theirs.
Senate brain is a disease.
like i say every few weeks (annoying all my followers), in a crisis like this, people are scared, and they are looking for leaders they can trust — people who they think will fight for them, and defend them when it gets bad.
now think about the message democrats sent today.
now think about the message democrats sent today.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Senate brain is a disease.
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like i say every few weeks (annoying all my followers), in a crisis like this, people are scared, and they are looking for leaders they can trust — people who they think will fight for them, and defend them when it gets bad.
now think about the message democrats sent today.
now think about the message democrats sent today.
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 AM
like i say every few weeks (annoying all my followers), in a crisis like this, people are scared, and they are looking for leaders they can trust — people who they think will fight for them, and defend them when it gets bad.
now think about the message democrats sent today.
now think about the message democrats sent today.
Looks like they finally pryed Cornyn out of his crypt.
November 10, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Looks like they finally pryed Cornyn out of his crypt.
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
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50 year mortgage is so crazy. to put it in perspective, 2016 was 50 years ago
November 9, 2025 at 6:42 AM
50 year mortgage is so crazy. to put it in perspective, 2016 was 50 years ago
I’m a furloughed federal employee and I endorse this message.
Any Democrat voting for this should be primaried as quickly as possible because they're stupid, aren't capable of recognizing they're winning, are incapable of representing their constituents, and are cowards not up to this era's challenges.
Senate Democrats asked for a year of ACA subsidies and were told to fuck off.
So they came back and asked for a pinky promise to hold a vote on ACA subsidies that they will assuredly lose?
Seriously?
So they came back and asked for a pinky promise to hold a vote on ACA subsidies that they will assuredly lose?
Seriously?
November 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I’m a furloughed federal employee and I endorse this message.
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Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.
My response ⬇️
My response ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments.
My response ⬇️
My response ⬇️
We should stop calling them trad Cath because they are absolutely repugnant to Catholic tradition, whether American or otherwise. They are heretics.
Immigration is a central if not primary feature of American Catholicism. For its often-awful flaws, it gave people new to these shores a sense of belonging and dignity in a country frequently determined to deny them both. This is antithetical to nearly two centuries of religious practice.
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 5:08 PM
We should stop calling them trad Cath because they are absolutely repugnant to Catholic tradition, whether American or otherwise. They are heretics.
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Immigration is a central if not primary feature of American Catholicism. For its often-awful flaws, it gave people new to these shores a sense of belonging and dignity in a country frequently determined to deny them both. This is antithetical to nearly two centuries of religious practice.
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 4:48 PM
Immigration is a central if not primary feature of American Catholicism. For its often-awful flaws, it gave people new to these shores a sense of belonging and dignity in a country frequently determined to deny them both. This is antithetical to nearly two centuries of religious practice.
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“I was astonished that just with one photo you can become viral in a few days.”
Bless this kid. Stay weird. apnews.com/article/louv...
Bless this kid. Stay weird. 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.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 4:32 PM
“I was astonished that just with one photo you can become viral in a few days.”
Bless this kid. Stay weird. apnews.com/article/louv...
Bless this kid. Stay weird. apnews.com/article/louv...