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Tom
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· Sep 17
(to the tune of “a day in the life”)
i quantum leaped today, oh boy
i quantum leaped today, oh boy
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The radical idea that your own government shouldn't hate you and want to make your life harder at every opportunity.
November 10, 2025 at 3:53 AM
The radical idea that your own government shouldn't hate you and want to make your life harder at every opportunity.
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So, basically, no health insurance for me next year. Unless I can figure something out or find a more affordable plan, it'll be too expensive. Dems shouldn't have done anything without a guarantee, not just a vote. Thanks, moderate Dems, for screwing a lot of us.
UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.
An important vote in this series: Tammy Baldwin’s proposal to extend ACA expiring funds for 1 year. It’s structured as a motion to table (i.e. scrap it from the amendment tree). But it’ll show the appetite (or lack thereof) in the Senate to address this issue.
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 AM
So, basically, no health insurance for me next year. Unless I can figure something out or find a more affordable plan, it'll be too expensive. Dems shouldn't have done anything without a guarantee, not just a vote. Thanks, moderate Dems, for screwing a lot of us.
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The squishy Dems caved to basically get a result like this on a (promised) vote for ACA subsidies in December. Pathetic.
UPDATE: The Senate votes 53-47 to shoot down the Baldwin amendment to extend ACA funds for 1 year. A party-line vote with every Republican rejecting it.
An important vote in this series: Tammy Baldwin’s proposal to extend ACA expiring funds for 1 year. It’s structured as a motion to table (i.e. scrap it from the amendment tree). But it’ll show the appetite (or lack thereof) in the Senate to address this issue.
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The squishy Dems caved to basically get a result like this on a (promised) vote for ACA subsidies in December. Pathetic.
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The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The thing about Mamdani is that he’s a talented politician but not otherworldly or one in a billion, he’s just a competent guy with popular ideas who ran against an entitled piece of shit and to me it’s a lot more optimistic to imagine 1000 campaigns like his than to view him as a unique phenomenon
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Jim Gunn has the opportunity of a lifetime: have Darkseid make his first appearance in this, which would A) have Snyder dorks foam at the mouth for being "underwhelming" but B)expose them as frauds since is having Darkseid debut in a Jimmy Olsen series is entirely true to comics history
November 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Jim Gunn has the opportunity of a lifetime: have Darkseid make his first appearance in this, which would A) have Snyder dorks foam at the mouth for being "underwhelming" but B)expose them as frauds since is having Darkseid debut in a Jimmy Olsen series is entirely true to comics history
I guess I just need to set a daily alarm to call @durbin.senate.gov and tell him to resign his leadership position if not his entire seat.
November 11, 2025 at 2:49 AM
I guess I just need to set a daily alarm to call @durbin.senate.gov and tell him to resign his leadership position if not his entire seat.
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No, it's true, the Dems are losers.
November 11, 2025 at 2:38 AM
No, it's true, the Dems are losers.
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Why is the "we must be united!" hectoring directed at people who are mad at the Cavers and not to the Cavers? Everyone who's mad was united, then the Cave Caucus walked across the aisle and betrayed what the public had been told was the Dem position.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Why is the "we must be united!" hectoring directed at people who are mad at the Cavers and not to the Cavers? Everyone who's mad was united, then the Cave Caucus walked across the aisle and betrayed what the public had been told was the Dem position.
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Also, the caving started around the time 12 major airports grounded all private flights.
Never again 'blue no matter who'
Pick the best fucking person and back the hell out of them, and see what could happen.
Never again 'blue no matter who'
Pick the best fucking person and back the hell out of them, and see what could happen.
Democrats helped Republicans kill a ten billion dollar industry in order to cave on the shutdown.
of all the things about this deal that are pissing me off this might have pissed me off the most
November 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Also, the caving started around the time 12 major airports grounded all private flights.
Never again 'blue no matter who'
Pick the best fucking person and back the hell out of them, and see what could happen.
Never again 'blue no matter who'
Pick the best fucking person and back the hell out of them, and see what could happen.
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The most "technically true" headline in history.
It misleads with a headline that any person reading on Nov. 10 would assume means he was fighting to extend the shutdown beyond Sunday.
But if you actually read the article, it very specifically says he didn't want anyone to fold "before November."
It misleads with a headline that any person reading on Nov. 10 would assume means he was fighting to extend the shutdown beyond Sunday.
But if you actually read the article, it very specifically says he didn't want anyone to fold "before November."
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
The most "technically true" headline in history.
It misleads with a headline that any person reading on Nov. 10 would assume means he was fighting to extend the shutdown beyond Sunday.
But if you actually read the article, it very specifically says he didn't want anyone to fold "before November."
It misleads with a headline that any person reading on Nov. 10 would assume means he was fighting to extend the shutdown beyond Sunday.
But if you actually read the article, it very specifically says he didn't want anyone to fold "before November."
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Democrats helped Republicans kill a ten billion dollar industry in order to cave on the shutdown.
of all the things about this deal that are pissing me off this might have pissed me off the most
November 10, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Democrats helped Republicans kill a ten billion dollar industry in order to cave on the shutdown.
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I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
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i'm tired of this.
"this is how we got trump" doesn't fucking matter anymore because we have him now and the Dems in the Senate are doing fuckall.
the question is what are we doing NOW not scolding about some future election (like come on).
"this is how we got trump" doesn't fucking matter anymore because we have him now and the Dems in the Senate are doing fuckall.
the question is what are we doing NOW not scolding about some future election (like come on).
And this is how we get Trump. Do. Not. Split. Even when you're furious. Especially when we're furious. Understand the gravity of the moment. We're not supporting him. We're supporting the fight against masked agents pulling people off of the street and children starving to death.
I'll get back to "party unity" as soon as the Senate Minority Leader tells us if he voted for the Democratic party nominee for mayor of his city.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
I'm tired of party unity only ever running one way.
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
i'm tired of this.
"this is how we got trump" doesn't fucking matter anymore because we have him now and the Dems in the Senate are doing fuckall.
the question is what are we doing NOW not scolding about some future election (like come on).
"this is how we got trump" doesn't fucking matter anymore because we have him now and the Dems in the Senate are doing fuckall.
the question is what are we doing NOW not scolding about some future election (like come on).
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ding ding ding
it's systemic versus individual thinking, which is why we get weirdos who think cursing out trans people online for being mad about stuff is "activism"
it's systemic versus individual thinking, which is why we get weirdos who think cursing out trans people online for being mad about stuff is "activism"
People who claim this always want the issue of Trump to be a bunch of individual failures instead of a systemic failure on the part of Democrats and our democracy to put roadblocks in front of autocrats like Trump.
November 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM
ding ding ding
it's systemic versus individual thinking, which is why we get weirdos who think cursing out trans people online for being mad about stuff is "activism"
it's systemic versus individual thinking, which is why we get weirdos who think cursing out trans people online for being mad about stuff is "activism"
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sometimes i feel like the republican party is a big tornado that is coming to kill me. and the democratic party is the rickety shed that i'm hiding in. and i say "we should really fix this shed, because it's not doing much." and people say "what? why aren't you criticizing the tornado instead?!"
June 12, 2025 at 5:14 AM
sometimes i feel like the republican party is a big tornado that is coming to kill me. and the democratic party is the rickety shed that i'm hiding in. and i say "we should really fix this shed, because it's not doing much." and people say "what? why aren't you criticizing the tornado instead?!"
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I mean:
1. I don't believe this for one second and...
2. If it is true, @schumer.senate.gov is incompetent and should go retire and hang out with Andrew Cuomo, and let someone competent take over.
1. I don't believe this for one second and...
2. If it is true, @schumer.senate.gov is incompetent and should go retire and hang out with Andrew Cuomo, and let someone competent take over.
SCOOP: Schumer privately fought to extend government shutdown
Scoop: Schumer privately fought to extend government shutdown
"We let him know what we were doing," said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.).
www.axios.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I mean:
1. I don't believe this for one second and...
2. If it is true, @schumer.senate.gov is incompetent and should go retire and hang out with Andrew Cuomo, and let someone competent take over.
1. I don't believe this for one second and...
2. If it is true, @schumer.senate.gov is incompetent and should go retire and hang out with Andrew Cuomo, and let someone competent take over.
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people.com/donald-trump... I just knew this was coming. And if you think this doesn’t end with a massive gold trump statue in DC you’re not paying attention
Donald Trump Is Putting His Face on Both Sides of a New Coin. U.S. Treasury Reveals 'First Drafts'
The U.S. Treasury revealed the draft of a $1 coin featuring President Donald Trump on both sides.
people.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:19 PM
people.com/donald-trump... I just knew this was coming. And if you think this doesn’t end with a massive gold trump statue in DC you’re not paying attention
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This is the greatest idea I’ve ever heard
Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda will write, executive produce and showrun the #Superman movie TV spinoff to star Skyler Gisondo, who played Daily Planet photographer and unlikely ladies’ man Jimmy Olsen: bit.ly/4hSZvnR
November 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
This is the greatest idea I’ve ever heard
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Really concerned that multiple transfem adult creators on my TL are being suspended from income sources. Some are having trouble affording food.
November 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Really concerned that multiple transfem adult creators on my TL are being suspended from income sources. Some are having trouble affording food.
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God I want to see a million “Dems demanding new leadership” articles today, I want it to be a narrative Schumer can’t escape
Democrats are demanding new leadership after Schumer failed to stop a GOP-backed funding deal that doesn't guarantee continued health care subsidies. Progressives like Ro Khanna blasted him for giving in and warned premiums could soar as a result.
Democrats Call for New Leadership After Schumer Caves on “Terrible” GOP Deal
“If you can’t lead the fight to stop healthcare premiums from skyrocketing … what will you fight for?” said Ro Khanna.
truthout.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
God I want to see a million “Dems demanding new leadership” articles today, I want it to be a narrative Schumer can’t escape
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We’re all trying to figure out who controls the democratic Senate caucus, because that person should resign.
I will not support the Republican bill that’s on the Senate floor because it fails to do anything of substance to fix America’s healthcare crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 10:03 PM
We’re all trying to figure out who controls the democratic Senate caucus, because that person should resign.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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we didn't immediately get a single all-time folk rock ballad out of the big boat getting stuck, huge L for millennials and zoomers
Ok I had no idea the Edmund Fitzgerald was a contemporary thing for the song, this is like his Toby Keith 9/11 song but about transporting taconite pellets
November 10, 2025 at 9:42 PM
we didn't immediately get a single all-time folk rock ballad out of the big boat getting stuck, huge L for millennials and zoomers
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JCO is back on top
November 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
JCO is back on top
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Don’t fall into the “absolutely everyone has the same rich interior life as me” trap I lived in forever. Most people do! But Fascism requires a certain number of people who are shockingly simple.
November 10, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Don’t fall into the “absolutely everyone has the same rich interior life as me” trap I lived in forever. Most people do! But Fascism requires a certain number of people who are shockingly simple.