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an underrated part of this turducken of garbage is Elon posting an image of the Odyssey while discussing the Iliad, but it's all so terribly, terribly pathetic
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
an underrated part of this turducken of garbage is Elon posting an image of the Odyssey while discussing the Iliad, but it's all so terribly, terribly pathetic
Agh!! Outplayed again!!! Well the important thing is nobody could’ve seen this one coming, good game everyone.
In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies
November 11, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Agh!! Outplayed again!!! Well the important thing is nobody could’ve seen this one coming, good game everyone.
What a thread here:
Please share your favorite New Yorker longreads. Specifically The New Yorker, not other outlets. I need more bedtime reading and the New Yorker app has (1) dark mode and (2) no ads.
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
What a thread here:
Setting aside everything else going on here, “illegals” is a vile and dehumanizing way to refer to any group of people, and it’s a mark of our fallen society that we’ve just let this casual cruelty slide.
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 1:05 AM
Setting aside everything else going on here, “illegals” is a vile and dehumanizing way to refer to any group of people, and it’s a mark of our fallen society that we’ve just let this casual cruelty slide.
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Hey guys - does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
Haha happy Edmund Fitzgerald Day, you maniacs!
Haha happy Edmund Fitzgerald Day, you maniacs!
November 10, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Hey guys - does anyone know where the love of God goes when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
Haha happy Edmund Fitzgerald Day, you maniacs!
Haha happy Edmund Fitzgerald Day, you maniacs!
Incredible metaphor for the economy’s increasing reliance on speculative assets with no real value to society
It got overshadowed by the pipeline news, but NYS’s deal to allow Greenidge Generation to keep operating an upstate gas plant *for the sole purpose of mining bitcoin* might be almost as big of a reversal gothamist.com/news/upstate...
Upstate NY Bitcoin mine agrees to slash emissions, will get air permit from the state
The move comes days after Hochul’s administration paved the way for a new natural gas pipeline in New York Harbor.
gothamist.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Incredible metaphor for the economy’s increasing reliance on speculative assets with no real value to society
I believe it was George W. Bush who famously said, “well if ya fool me, I can’t get fooled again”
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 7:45 PM
I believe it was George W. Bush who famously said, “well if ya fool me, I can’t get fooled again”
Exactly. MAGA is a high-stakes bet that Reagan was right and government really is useless. They were losing that bet — painfully, in full view of the public.
Caving helps people who depend on government, today. But in the long term it lets the MAGA keep the gamble and the experiment going.
Caving helps people who depend on government, today. But in the long term it lets the MAGA keep the gamble and the experiment going.
"If Trump wanted to cancel flights over Thanksgiving rather than keep health care costs down, I don’t see why Democrats should save him from making his priorities so exquisitely clear. And I worry that Democrats have just taught Trump that they will fold under pressure."
Opinion | What Were Democrats Thinking?
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Exactly. MAGA is a high-stakes bet that Reagan was right and government really is useless. They were losing that bet — painfully, in full view of the public.
Caving helps people who depend on government, today. But in the long term it lets the MAGA keep the gamble and the experiment going.
Caving helps people who depend on government, today. But in the long term it lets the MAGA keep the gamble and the experiment going.
My guess is some Democrats think premium spikes will finally be the “touch the hot stove” moment that turns the public against GOP misrule.
Maybe? But wasn’t that what the shutdown was supposed to be, and was very quickly becoming?
Maybe? But wasn’t that what the shutdown was supposed to be, and was very quickly becoming?
Kaine on why he thinks just getting a vote on healthcare is a win: "We're the minority party, but everybody will get to see who is standing for them when it comes to lowering their healthcare costs"
November 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
My guess is some Democrats think premium spikes will finally be the “touch the hot stove” moment that turns the public against GOP misrule.
Maybe? But wasn’t that what the shutdown was supposed to be, and was very quickly becoming?
Maybe? But wasn’t that what the shutdown was supposed to be, and was very quickly becoming?
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Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Cowards die many times before their deaths,
The valiant never taste of death but once.
The valiant never taste of death but once.
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If our constitutional system survives this moment, abolishing the Senate really needs to be one of the reforms on the table.
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 AM
If our constitutional system survives this moment, abolishing the Senate really needs to be one of the reforms on the table.
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i suspect there’s some truth to this and also why we should be EXTREMELY skeptical that senate dems as currently constituted would ditch the filibuster should they ever have a trifecta again
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
i suspect there’s some truth to this and also why we should be EXTREMELY skeptical that senate dems as currently constituted would ditch the filibuster should they ever have a trifecta again
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This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 AM
This is really good to see: Miki Sherrill just put out a statement sharply criticizing the Senate Dems' pending cave in the government shutdown, ripping it as "malpractice" and a betrayal of the people who are "counting on us to fight for them." Sherrill knows what drove her victory. Wake up, Dems.
There are a handful of cases in WW1 where trench assaults *worked* and attacking soldiers broke through into undefended country and a war-altering opportunity.
But they all still failed. Why? The victorious soldiers realized they had no idea what to do. There were no plans for how to exploit a win.
But they all still failed. Why? The victorious soldiers realized they had no idea what to do. There were no plans for how to exploit a win.
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
There are a handful of cases in WW1 where trench assaults *worked* and attacking soldiers broke through into undefended country and a war-altering opportunity.
But they all still failed. Why? The victorious soldiers realized they had no idea what to do. There were no plans for how to exploit a win.
But they all still failed. Why? The victorious soldiers realized they had no idea what to do. There were no plans for how to exploit a win.
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
The GOP offer, which Senate Democrats seem poised to accept, is a *vote* on ACA subsidies — in December, subject to the 60-vote threshold. No way that passes.
How many times can Lucy pull the football before Charlie Brown finally learns?
How many times can Lucy pull the football before Charlie Brown finally learns?
BREAKING: Deal to end government shutdown in reach
Deal to end government shutdown in reach
At least 10 Senate Democrats are expected to support a key procedural motion.
www.axios.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
The GOP offer, which Senate Democrats seem poised to accept, is a *vote* on ACA subsidies — in December, subject to the 60-vote threshold. No way that passes.
How many times can Lucy pull the football before Charlie Brown finally learns?
How many times can Lucy pull the football before Charlie Brown finally learns?
Don’t put people who hate government in charge of governing
CONTINETTI: “.. The off-year Democratic wave flooded Republican safe harbors. Democrats flipped at least 13 seats in Virginia’s House of Delegates. .. New Jersey Democrats will enjoy their largest Assembly majority in 52 years.”
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November 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Don’t put people who hate government in charge of governing
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it is darkly humorous that after all these years, the Republican health insurance plan ends up being to end health insurance
Trump: "I am recommending to Senate Republicans that the Hundreds of Billions of Dollars currently being sent to money sucking Insurance Companies in order to save the bad Healthcare provided by ObamaCare, BE SENT DIRECTLY TO THE PEOPLE SO THAT THEY CAN PURCHASE THEIR OWN, MUCH BETTER, HEALTHCARE."
November 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
it is darkly humorous that after all these years, the Republican health insurance plan ends up being to end health insurance
This would be a stunning rebuke to everyone who ever said America needs a “businessman president,” if those people could read
Seriously? He has no idea how insurance works or how to govern. I’ll never get over 77 million people thinking a man this incompetent belongs anywhere near the Oval Office.
November 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
This would be a stunning rebuke to everyone who ever said America needs a “businessman president,” if those people could read
OpenAI knows LLMs can be harmful. Yet they insist on rushing a dimly-understood tech to market to satisfy the impatience and ideological projects of the Silicon Valley VC class.
At this rate they’re risking a backlash that could turn the public against them and whatever value the tech could bring.
At this rate they’re risking a backlash that could turn the public against them and whatever value the tech could bring.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
OpenAI knows LLMs can be harmful. Yet they insist on rushing a dimly-understood tech to market to satisfy the impatience and ideological projects of the Silicon Valley VC class.
At this rate they’re risking a backlash that could turn the public against them and whatever value the tech could bring.
At this rate they’re risking a backlash that could turn the public against them and whatever value the tech could bring.
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“Executive suspends legislature” and “government funding crisis” are pretty common elements in revolutionary histories. Another, “peaceful protest ends with civilian killed by regime soldier,” is a risk Miller seems to be actively courting.
Truly dangerous levels of instability.
Truly dangerous levels of instability.
GOP SEN. JOHN KENNEDY: It may be 2026 when we'll come out of the shutdown.
REPORTERS: 😳
KENNEDY: I'm not kidding, you guys. I mean, you see what I see. Okay? This shutdown is going to last a long time. What's going to get us out of it?
REPORTERS: 😳
KENNEDY: I'm not kidding, you guys. I mean, you see what I see. Okay? This shutdown is going to last a long time. What's going to get us out of it?
November 8, 2025 at 11:35 AM
“Executive suspends legislature” and “government funding crisis” are pretty common elements in revolutionary histories. Another, “peaceful protest ends with civilian killed by regime soldier,” is a risk Miller seems to be actively courting.
Truly dangerous levels of instability.
Truly dangerous levels of instability.
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I would put more money on continuing to harvest infinite energy from the sun over assuming that forcing everyone to use The Machine The Lies To You is the steady basis of an entire economy
A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?
China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB
Photo: Eyevine
Photo: Eyevine
November 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
I would put more money on continuing to harvest infinite energy from the sun over assuming that forcing everyone to use The Machine The Lies To You is the steady basis of an entire economy
Terrible new film genre just dropped
November 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Terrible new film genre just dropped