Mike Meginnis
@mikemeginnis.bsky.social
Author of DROWNING PRACTICE, FAT MAN AND LITTLE BOY, and a story about a fake videogame. Host of @librarypizza.bsky.social, librarypizza.com.
I believe in moderate strategic stove touching but one reason I can't really be too angry with the people that caved is this administration genuinely will starve millions if they can. Caving is not a guaranteed solution but if you can't see why a person would do it you're blinding yourself.
Jesus the administration is STILL fighting to keep 40 million people hungry www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to intervene in SNAP fight again
The battle over funding for the nation’s largest anti-hunger program has left millions wondering how they will afford food.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I believe in moderate strategic stove touching but one reason I can't really be too angry with the people that caved is this administration genuinely will starve millions if they can. Caving is not a guaranteed solution but if you can't see why a person would do it you're blinding yourself.
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The Democrats erred by not forcing Republicans to nuke the filibuster. But there was nothing Democrats could have done to get the ACA subsidies extended, because Republicans control all three branches and strongly believe that only rich people should have access to decent healthcare
You can criticize Senate Democrats for capitulating but Donald Trump and Republicans are the ones destroying the ACA.
November 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
The Democrats erred by not forcing Republicans to nuke the filibuster. But there was nothing Democrats could have done to get the ACA subsidies extended, because Republicans control all three branches and strongly believe that only rich people should have access to decent healthcare
If this ever happens, which it won't, I will throw the greatest talent show this city's ever seen
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 12:27 AM
If this ever happens, which it won't, I will throw the greatest talent show this city's ever seen
(sitting "cool-style" (backwards) on my Cyberpunk gamer chair)
Hey chat. Clean your room. Eat several different foods. Embrace foreplay. Don't say rude stuff into the gamer voice chat. Read a book.
Hey chat. Clean your room. Eat several different foods. Embrace foreplay. Don't say rude stuff into the gamer voice chat. Read a book.
I am ready to be the new performative reading-fueled influencer America's impressionable young men need
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 PM
(sitting "cool-style" (backwards) on my Cyberpunk gamer chair)
Hey chat. Clean your room. Eat several different foods. Embrace foreplay. Don't say rude stuff into the gamer voice chat. Read a book.
Hey chat. Clean your room. Eat several different foods. Embrace foreplay. Don't say rude stuff into the gamer voice chat. Read a book.
I am ready to be the new performative reading-fueled influencer America's impressionable young men need
November 10, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I am ready to be the new performative reading-fueled influencer America's impressionable young men need
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I wrote about what I see as the real lesson of Mamdani's victory: not that Democrats needs to move left (or right, for that matter), but that they should try to build real-world relationships with normal voters. publiccomment.blog/p/mamdani-th...
Mamdani the Party Builder
Partyism in action
publiccomment.blog
November 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I wrote about what I see as the real lesson of Mamdani's victory: not that Democrats needs to move left (or right, for that matter), but that they should try to build real-world relationships with normal voters. publiccomment.blog/p/mamdani-th...
I am old enough to remember when people were furious that they were making this about the subsidies
I think the new position (they should have tried for longer with the subsidies) has real merit, but if like me you've believed both things you should acknowledge you don't have everything figured out
I think the new position (they should have tried for longer with the subsidies) has real merit, but if like me you've believed both things you should acknowledge you don't have everything figured out
November 10, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I am old enough to remember when people were furious that they were making this about the subsidies
I think the new position (they should have tried for longer with the subsidies) has real merit, but if like me you've believed both things you should acknowledge you don't have everything figured out
I think the new position (they should have tried for longer with the subsidies) has real merit, but if like me you've believed both things you should acknowledge you don't have everything figured out
We at the hospital cafeteria mourn the budget-driven replacement of our beloved, weirdly good shoestring fries with bland, normal, loveless crinkle-cut fries
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
We at the hospital cafeteria mourn the budget-driven replacement of our beloved, weirdly good shoestring fries with bland, normal, loveless crinkle-cut fries
Farming clout should always be priority one when something irritating happens. You need to ask yourself, how can I turn this event into retweets? You don't have to have anything novel, interesting, or useful to say on the subject. In fact it is essential that you don't
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Farming clout should always be priority one when something irritating happens. You need to ask yourself, how can I turn this event into retweets? You don't have to have anything novel, interesting, or useful to say on the subject. In fact it is essential that you don't
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I have thoughts, and they aren’t going to fit neatly into Bluesky posts. Briefly:
1. The deal sucks.
2. Probably not as much as you think it does.
3. It’s good to be mad.
4. FFS, be madder at the GOP.
5. Strategy is hard.
5b. Timing matters.
6. The fight isn’t over.
7. Go pet a cat. (Or a dog.)
1. The deal sucks.
2. Probably not as much as you think it does.
3. It’s good to be mad.
4. FFS, be madder at the GOP.
5. Strategy is hard.
5b. Timing matters.
6. The fight isn’t over.
7. Go pet a cat. (Or a dog.)
November 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I have thoughts, and they aren’t going to fit neatly into Bluesky posts. Briefly:
1. The deal sucks.
2. Probably not as much as you think it does.
3. It’s good to be mad.
4. FFS, be madder at the GOP.
5. Strategy is hard.
5b. Timing matters.
6. The fight isn’t over.
7. Go pet a cat. (Or a dog.)
1. The deal sucks.
2. Probably not as much as you think it does.
3. It’s good to be mad.
4. FFS, be madder at the GOP.
5. Strategy is hard.
5b. Timing matters.
6. The fight isn’t over.
7. Go pet a cat. (Or a dog.)
This is silly and I won't read it
It's good to do good things in public, to enjoy yourself where people can see you, to live your life without constantly surrendering to fear of somehow someway being judged "cringe" by people too cowardly to live theirs.
It's good to do good things in public, to enjoy yourself where people can see you, to live your life without constantly surrendering to fear of somehow someway being judged "cringe" by people too cowardly to live theirs.
November 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This is silly and I won't read it
It's good to do good things in public, to enjoy yourself where people can see you, to live your life without constantly surrendering to fear of somehow someway being judged "cringe" by people too cowardly to live theirs.
It's good to do good things in public, to enjoy yourself where people can see you, to live your life without constantly surrendering to fear of somehow someway being judged "cringe" by people too cowardly to live theirs.
Anyway, who's excited about having the 218th signature that will force a certain vote?
November 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Anyway, who's excited about having the 218th signature that will force a certain vote?
This was a bad end for the shutdown but there was never going to be a good ending and sustaining this another year might genuinely have broken the country. They can do this again, and we can discipline the squishes.
I recommend not spending your year trashing the party you need to win in 2026.
I recommend not spending your year trashing the party you need to win in 2026.
November 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
This was a bad end for the shutdown but there was never going to be a good ending and sustaining this another year might genuinely have broken the country. They can do this again, and we can discipline the squishes.
I recommend not spending your year trashing the party you need to win in 2026.
I recommend not spending your year trashing the party you need to win in 2026.
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I think this is basically right
November 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I think this is basically right
Remember that managing the senate from your phone is not your job and allow yourself a little serenity. Yeah, this sucks. Everything is gonna suck off and on for the foreseeable. Do you personally need to feel awful right now? Maybe not. Probably not.
November 10, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Remember that managing the senate from your phone is not your job and allow yourself a little serenity. Yeah, this sucks. Everything is gonna suck off and on for the foreseeable. Do you personally need to feel awful right now? Maybe not. Probably not.
I do feel like if they cave to some extent you do have to at least reflect on how this has gone as compared to how you imagined it going. So many people were sure they wouldn't do it, then that they would give in right away. Worth updating your thinking at least a little on this infuriating caucus.
Lotta people acting like this isn't the longest shutdown in US history already
November 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
I do feel like if they cave to some extent you do have to at least reflect on how this has gone as compared to how you imagined it going. So many people were sure they wouldn't do it, then that they would give in right away. Worth updating your thinking at least a little on this infuriating caucus.
I do think people should probably call their senators if they think it might help. All my legislators are GOP so all I can do here is watch and hope for the best.
November 9, 2025 at 10:57 PM
I do think people should probably call their senators if they think it might help. All my legislators are GOP so all I can do here is watch and hope for the best.
The amount of pain and suffering I have saved myself by simply not getting angry about things before they happen is incalculable
November 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The amount of pain and suffering I have saved myself by simply not getting angry about things before they happen is incalculable
People really do fall for this stuff, and what's amazing is that in many cases their parents really are rich *and honestly, so are they*, but they don't quite have everything they want in terms of prestige or etc., so they go sour and reactionary anyway.
Looking at these things and deciding that they’re true is just poison for your understanding of the world, but every day millions of people unlock their phones and nod along.
November 9, 2025 at 2:33 PM
People really do fall for this stuff, and what's amazing is that in many cases their parents really are rich *and honestly, so are they*, but they don't quite have everything they want in terms of prestige or etc., so they go sour and reactionary anyway.
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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.
Should I reread this
November 9, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Should I reread this
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This ruled. I assume a bunch of people are talking about it on some other part of this website
November 9, 2025 at 2:37 AM
This ruled. I assume a bunch of people are talking about it on some other part of this website
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Come back to us, Satoshi Kon
November 8, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Come back to us, Satoshi Kon