Glonzo the Great and Powerful
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furloughed park ranger-bureaucrat in Darkest Nevada, telling stories about America's public lands. Volunteer EMT, wildfire PIO, Draymond stan, erstwhile racing flack, forever believing in the better angels of our nature. opinions are mine. 🏳️🌈
THE BLUTAH PROPHECY
Breaking: Judge Gibson rejects the Legislature’s congressional boundaries. Chooses the plaintiffs Map 1. A solid northern SLCO district that strongly favors a Democrat.
November 11, 2025 at 7:25 AM
THE BLUTAH PROPHECY
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The fight tonight was over about $25 billion. Thats about 2.5% of the Defense budget. Would cover a year of the enhanced ACA credits. Republicans said that’s unaffordable.
November 11, 2025 at 3:50 AM
The fight tonight was over about $25 billion. Thats about 2.5% of the Defense budget. Would cover a year of the enhanced ACA credits. Republicans said that’s unaffordable.
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A retired National Park Service ranger discovered white spray-paint graffiti last week along the Devils Garden Trail in Arches National Park.
‘My heart sank’: Spray-painted vandalism found on Devils Garden Trail in Arches National Park
A retired National Park Service ranger discovered white spray-paint graffiti last week along the Devils Garden Trail in Arches National Park.
www.sltrib.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:29 AM
A retired National Park Service ranger discovered white spray-paint graffiti last week along the Devils Garden Trail in Arches National Park.
There is no universe in which Senate Republicans vote to extend ACA subsidies.
It. Will. Not. Happen.
All Senate Democrats can do is make it excruciatingly clear to the American people that this is the logical consequence of giving Republicans complete control of the government.
It. Will. Not. Happen.
All Senate Democrats can do is make it excruciatingly clear to the American people that this is the logical consequence of giving Republicans complete control of the government.
The Senate has rejected a plan from Sen. Tammy Baldwin D-WI to extend the expiring Obamacare health insurance subsidies for 1 year. Party line vote.
November 11, 2025 at 12:56 AM
There is no universe in which Senate Republicans vote to extend ACA subsidies.
It. Will. Not. Happen.
All Senate Democrats can do is make it excruciatingly clear to the American people that this is the logical consequence of giving Republicans complete control of the government.
It. Will. Not. Happen.
All Senate Democrats can do is make it excruciatingly clear to the American people that this is the logical consequence of giving Republicans complete control of the government.
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Help me out, I’m trying to pitch some taglines.
TrumpCare: You’re on your own
TrumpCare: Access, Affordability and High-quality care*
TrumpCare: You’ll wish you were wealthy
TrumpCare: Be Careful What You Wish For
TrumpCare: You’re on your own
TrumpCare: Access, Affordability and High-quality care*
TrumpCare: You’ll wish you were wealthy
TrumpCare: Be Careful What You Wish For
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 12:33 AM
Help me out, I’m trying to pitch some taglines.
TrumpCare: You’re on your own
TrumpCare: Access, Affordability and High-quality care*
TrumpCare: You’ll wish you were wealthy
TrumpCare: Be Careful What You Wish For
TrumpCare: You’re on your own
TrumpCare: Access, Affordability and High-quality care*
TrumpCare: You’ll wish you were wealthy
TrumpCare: Be Careful What You Wish For
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A shutdown is basically a form of a strike, and something this place's userbase does not understand is the point of a strike is to get (achievable) gains, not to go on forever, and that if your ask isn't realistic/you don't have a plausible theory of victory, things aren't gonna go well
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
A shutdown is basically a form of a strike, and something this place's userbase does not understand is the point of a strike is to get (achievable) gains, not to go on forever, and that if your ask isn't realistic/you don't have a plausible theory of victory, things aren't gonna go well
I did some exempt work on a prescribed fire funded by non-appropriated money last pay period, so this was my take-home for the last two weeks. The two weeks before that, I took home $0. The next two weeks, I was looking at $0.
How long can your family survive on this?
How long can your family survive on this?
November 10, 2025 at 5:33 PM
I did some exempt work on a prescribed fire funded by non-appropriated money last pay period, so this was my take-home for the last two weeks. The two weeks before that, I took home $0. The next two weeks, I was looking at $0.
How long can your family survive on this?
How long can your family survive on this?
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a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 PM
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
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The RIFs language is actually great. Not only does it rehire the people RIFed during the shutdown, it makes it an unequivocal Antideficiency Act violation to do ANY MORE RIFs through the duration of the CR (Jan 30)
Completely stops Trump/Vought Phase 2 for now
Would love to see this standardized
Completely stops Trump/Vought Phase 2 for now
Would love to see this standardized
November 10, 2025 at 12:27 AM
The RIFs language is actually great. Not only does it rehire the people RIFed during the shutdown, it makes it an unequivocal Antideficiency Act violation to do ANY MORE RIFs through the duration of the CR (Jan 30)
Completely stops Trump/Vought Phase 2 for now
Would love to see this standardized
Completely stops Trump/Vought Phase 2 for now
Would love to see this standardized
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1.) I disagree that this was the best way forward. The RIF language pretty clearly indicates to me that there's a taste in the senate GOP (at least) for reigning in Vought. Vought is probably incredibly mad about it, because it directly contradicts what he wants to do.
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
1.) I disagree that this was the best way forward. The RIF language pretty clearly indicates to me that there's a taste in the senate GOP (at least) for reigning in Vought. Vought is probably incredibly mad about it, because it directly contradicts what he wants to do.
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"What do you need health insurance for if you never get sick?" is one of the most insane/stupid arguments I've ever seen made in our political system so of course Republicans are making it.
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
"What do you need health insurance for if you never get sick?" is one of the most insane/stupid arguments I've ever seen made in our political system so of course Republicans are making it.
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Look I don’t expect you to like the deal- I don’t!- but also it’s goddamn infuriating that your answer to “what else could we get?” has been “who knows? Let’s just keep everything shut down until we feel like we got what we wanted!” without acknowledging the cost of that.
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Look I don’t expect you to like the deal- I don’t!- but also it’s goddamn infuriating that your answer to “what else could we get?” has been “who knows? Let’s just keep everything shut down until we feel like we got what we wanted!” without acknowledging the cost of that.
I, a 15-year career federal employee, am responsible for ACA subsidies being taken away.
Not the tens of millions of people who voted to give Donald Trump's Republican Party control of the American government, no, they're blameless victims. It's my fault and I should suffer for it.
fuck this shit.
Not the tens of millions of people who voted to give Donald Trump's Republican Party control of the American government, no, they're blameless victims. It's my fault and I should suffer for it.
fuck this shit.
November 10, 2025 at 7:58 AM
I, a 15-year career federal employee, am responsible for ACA subsidies being taken away.
Not the tens of millions of people who voted to give Donald Trump's Republican Party control of the American government, no, they're blameless victims. It's my fault and I should suffer for it.
fuck this shit.
Not the tens of millions of people who voted to give Donald Trump's Republican Party control of the American government, no, they're blameless victims. It's my fault and I should suffer for it.
fuck this shit.
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Okay so what should they have gotten out of it, concrete, in plausible terms
Be specific, because I understood (unlike the average bsky poaster apparently) that the healthcare ask was fundamentally glonzo kayfabe that was eventually going to collapse, because math is math and the GOP hates the ACA
Be specific, because I understood (unlike the average bsky poaster apparently) that the healthcare ask was fundamentally glonzo kayfabe that was eventually going to collapse, because math is math and the GOP hates the ACA
Look, if you were personally harmed by the shutdown, I get wanting it to end. But you should be incandescently angry at Dems for causing a shutdown in the first place if they weren't ready to take a hard line to actually get something out of it.
"All federal civil servants should enter Chapter 7, thus nuking their ability to ever hold a clearance again (I'm generalizing a bit but cmon now) so I can.........feel good?"
Because I'm still not seeing a theory of victory here
Bsky continues to not beat the allegations
Because I'm still not seeing a theory of victory here
Bsky continues to not beat the allegations
November 10, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Okay so what should they have gotten out of it, concrete, in plausible terms
Be specific, because I understood (unlike the average bsky poaster apparently) that the healthcare ask was fundamentally glonzo kayfabe that was eventually going to collapse, because math is math and the GOP hates the ACA
Be specific, because I understood (unlike the average bsky poaster apparently) that the healthcare ask was fundamentally glonzo kayfabe that was eventually going to collapse, because math is math and the GOP hates the ACA
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if we get rolling RIF prevention and very short CRs until 2027, that is actually almost a win.
I think a lot of people are thinking it's just "none of the RIFs get to stay and no more illegal RIFs", rather than the "no RIFs, even if otherwise permissible by law, and if you try to do it it's a felony criminal offense under the Anti-Deficiency Act" that this actually is.
November 10, 2025 at 4:00 AM
if we get rolling RIF prevention and very short CRs until 2027, that is actually almost a win.
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yes correct elections have consequences, and the theory of victory is figuring out how to convince the idiot median voter of these facts, not just making a couple million people who work for you go without a paycheck for over a year because it makes you feel good
the message is clear that Republicans are in charge permanently, can kill any D legislation with the filibuster, never need to govern at all, and when pressed, they can threaten the lives of millions any time they want and they will be given whatever it is they demand in exchange for their mercy.
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM
yes correct elections have consequences, and the theory of victory is figuring out how to convince the idiot median voter of these facts, not just making a couple million people who work for you go without a paycheck for over a year because it makes you feel good
I'm going to say this just once and then step away:
Any federal government shutdown falls on the backs of federal employees. We are the ones without paychecks going on a month.
I want every person who calls this a "cave" to ask themselves if they'd be willing to skip a month's pay for this.
Any federal government shutdown falls on the backs of federal employees. We are the ones without paychecks going on a month.
I want every person who calls this a "cave" to ask themselves if they'd be willing to skip a month's pay for this.
November 10, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I'm going to say this just once and then step away:
Any federal government shutdown falls on the backs of federal employees. We are the ones without paychecks going on a month.
I want every person who calls this a "cave" to ask themselves if they'd be willing to skip a month's pay for this.
Any federal government shutdown falls on the backs of federal employees. We are the ones without paychecks going on a month.
I want every person who calls this a "cave" to ask themselves if they'd be willing to skip a month's pay for this.
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The only exception to that is with respect to reductions in force (RIFs). The bill appears to both roll back RIFs announced during the shutdown and prevent any further RIFs between now and Jan 30.
November 10, 2025 at 12:00 AM
The only exception to that is with respect to reductions in force (RIFs). The bill appears to both roll back RIFs announced during the shutdown and prevent any further RIFs between now and Jan 30.
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Setting aside this is transparently the squishies trying to pressure vs an actual done deal, something I think a lot of folks on here have not effectively come to terms with is actually getting change on the subsidies was always a dead letter
Also small but non zero chance point 3 drives a veto lol
Also small but non zero chance point 3 drives a veto lol
"More than enough" Senate Democratic Caucus members to pass shutdown deal led by Shaheen, King and Hassan, source familiar with deal says
- CR through Jan. 30
- ACA bill vote on bill of Dems' choosing in December
- Minibus has RIF reversals and "protections" against them in future
- CR through Jan. 30
- ACA bill vote on bill of Dems' choosing in December
- Minibus has RIF reversals and "protections" against them in future
November 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Setting aside this is transparently the squishies trying to pressure vs an actual done deal, something I think a lot of folks on here have not effectively come to terms with is actually getting change on the subsidies was always a dead letter
Also small but non zero chance point 3 drives a veto lol
Also small but non zero chance point 3 drives a veto lol
If that's the deal, and the minibus stops RIFs, and we can just do this all over again in February if they renege... I think that's a viable outcome.
The bottom line is that if the GOP wants to break the ACA, they're going to be able to do it, and we should chain it to their necks in the midterms.
The bottom line is that if the GOP wants to break the ACA, they're going to be able to do it, and we should chain it to their necks in the midterms.
"More than enough" Senate Democratic Caucus members to pass shutdown deal led by Shaheen, King and Hassan, source familiar with deal says
- CR through Jan. 30
- ACA bill vote on bill of Dems' choosing in December
- Minibus has RIF reversals and "protections" against them in future
- CR through Jan. 30
- ACA bill vote on bill of Dems' choosing in December
- Minibus has RIF reversals and "protections" against them in future
November 9, 2025 at 11:49 PM
If that's the deal, and the minibus stops RIFs, and we can just do this all over again in February if they renege... I think that's a viable outcome.
The bottom line is that if the GOP wants to break the ACA, they're going to be able to do it, and we should chain it to their necks in the midterms.
The bottom line is that if the GOP wants to break the ACA, they're going to be able to do it, and we should chain it to their necks in the midterms.
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I think that the disconnect here is that real household income is absolutely (indisputably!) up, but the price of the most essential household good, the fucking house, has dramatically increased beyond general inflation (due to both lack of supply as well as lifestyle inflation)
What drives me absolutely insane about this debate is how claims like “there has been a generational stagnation of purchasing power” have taken on the tenor of religious faith among progressives, and seemingly cannot be disproven with any evidence, no matter how overwhelming. It simply isn’t true!
November 9, 2025 at 6:21 AM
I think that the disconnect here is that real household income is absolutely (indisputably!) up, but the price of the most essential household good, the fucking house, has dramatically increased beyond general inflation (due to both lack of supply as well as lifestyle inflation)
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man if this is coming from josh lol
November 9, 2025 at 4:07 PM
man if this is coming from josh lol
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All of republican governance in our lifetime has now devolved to angry white men incoherently screeching—in the halls of power and online alike—that nothing is working and they demand democrats put it back together in the exact way that republicans want or else they’ll start killing more people
November 9, 2025 at 4:19 PM
All of republican governance in our lifetime has now devolved to angry white men incoherently screeching—in the halls of power and online alike—that nothing is working and they demand democrats put it back together in the exact way that republicans want or else they’ll start killing more people
15 percent of American homes lacked indoor plumbing in 1960.
The idea that everyone in 1955 America lived in a split-level suburban home with two cars and three kids and one income is, quite simply, a fantasy borne of media consumption.
The idea that everyone in 1955 America lived in a split-level suburban home with two cars and three kids and one income is, quite simply, a fantasy borne of media consumption.
November 9, 2025 at 5:04 AM
15 percent of American homes lacked indoor plumbing in 1960.
The idea that everyone in 1955 America lived in a split-level suburban home with two cars and three kids and one income is, quite simply, a fantasy borne of media consumption.
The idea that everyone in 1955 America lived in a split-level suburban home with two cars and three kids and one income is, quite simply, a fantasy borne of media consumption.
Hot take: if you refuse to take my credit card because of a 2% interchange fee, I'll refuse to shop at your store.
Besides, if I pay you in cash, it's going to cost you way more than 2% to handle that money.
Besides, if I pay you in cash, it's going to cost you way more than 2% to handle that money.
Visa and Mastercard are nearing a settlement with merchants that would let stores reject certain credit cards.
Exclusive | Visa and Mastercard Near Deal With Merchants That Would Change Rewards Landscape
The deal under discussion would lower credit-card interchange fees for merchants, but could make it harder for consumers to use rewards cards at the register.
on.wsj.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Hot take: if you refuse to take my credit card because of a 2% interchange fee, I'll refuse to shop at your store.
Besides, if I pay you in cash, it's going to cost you way more than 2% to handle that money.
Besides, if I pay you in cash, it's going to cost you way more than 2% to handle that money.