peppermint.jack
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starting a fistfight at the family 4th of july bbq by reminding the divorced uncles that trump is a convicted felon
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google maps broke and created some kind of unholy chicago singularity
the great khan pritzker rallying his vassals as he prepares to wage war against the tyrants in washington
rick scott is literally the biggest thief of taxpayer dollars from the medicare/medicaid program in all of history
it's insane that he's allowed to even be in the room where policy is being crafted much less be the guy designing a new & atrocious medical insurance program
it's insane that he's allowed to even be in the room where policy is being crafted much less be the guy designing a new & atrocious medical insurance program
Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
November 11, 2025 at 10:53 AM
rick scott is literally the biggest thief of taxpayer dollars from the medicare/medicaid program in all of history
it's insane that he's allowed to even be in the room where policy is being crafted much less be the guy designing a new & atrocious medical insurance program
it's insane that he's allowed to even be in the room where policy is being crafted much less be the guy designing a new & atrocious medical insurance program
if you've never seen Tatsuya Nakadai on screen do yourself a favor and watch his iconic performance in Akira Kurosawa's "Ran" as the aging ruler of a failing kingdom. the visuals in that film are maybe the best of any movie i've ever seen
RIP Tatsuya Nakadai - one of the all time greats of world cinema variety.com/2025/film/ob...
Tatsuya Nakadai, Japanese Film Legend That Starred in ‘Ran,’ ‘Harakiri’ and ‘The Human Condition’ Trilogy, Dies at 92
Tatsuya Nakadai, one of Japan's most celebrated actors who was a frequent collaborator of Akira Kurosawa and Masaki Kobayashi, died. He was 92.
variety.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
if you've never seen Tatsuya Nakadai on screen do yourself a favor and watch his iconic performance in Akira Kurosawa's "Ran" as the aging ruler of a failing kingdom. the visuals in that film are maybe the best of any movie i've ever seen
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begging scifi writers and filmmakers to stop depicting these doofuses as smart
*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.
November 11, 2025 at 9:20 AM
begging scifi writers and filmmakers to stop depicting these doofuses as smart
this is what the stock market looks like right now
November 11, 2025 at 8:32 AM
this is what the stock market looks like right now
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there's one thing the democrats in the senate will always stand up to fight for and that's their right to not be inconvenienced
Did they all just do a unanimous consent agreement?
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 AM
there's one thing the democrats in the senate will always stand up to fight for and that's their right to not be inconvenienced
do i have depression or do i just have a normal response to keeping up with the news
This app is not good for my mental health but it's really just because being this informed will make anyone want to lose their fucking mind.
November 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
do i have depression or do i just have a normal response to keeping up with the news
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New diagram of Mamdani’s city hall.
November 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
New diagram of Mamdani’s city hall.
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Maxwells compliance with Trump also has to be viewed through the lens that Maxwell could reasonably assume that Trump ordered that Jeffrey Epstein be killed while he was in prison.
“The President sent his lawyer to negotiate a settlement with a convicted sex trafficker to provide cushy accommodation in exchange for her silence on his participation in said sex trafficking” is a cold description of the facts of an insane story that the media doesn’t find worthy of scrutiny
November 10, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Maxwells compliance with Trump also has to be viewed through the lens that Maxwell could reasonably assume that Trump ordered that Jeffrey Epstein be killed while he was in prison.
[seeing your team's quarterback deliberately throw four consecutive interceptions] "look, the only way we can win is to support our QB and tell him what a good job he's been doing"
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 10:53 PM
[seeing your team's quarterback deliberately throw four consecutive interceptions] "look, the only way we can win is to support our QB and tell him what a good job he's been doing"
this is the some delusion that lead congress to outlaw tiktok. those college students couldn't possibly support palestine because they sincerely oppose genocide—it must be the perfidious chinese brainwashing our kids through their phones
At this point I do sincerely believe this anti phone and social media drive is rooted in the "social contagion" idea of being trans. They do not think she died because she used her phone, they think she died because people in her phone convinced her she was a girl.
Phones did not murder Brianna Ghey in cold blood.
November 10, 2025 at 9:39 PM
this is the some delusion that lead congress to outlaw tiktok. those college students couldn't possibly support palestine because they sincerely oppose genocide—it must be the perfidious chinese brainwashing our kids through their phones
rand paul is willing to withhold unanimous consent to advance his agenda but democrats are not
i.e., rand paul is more committed to protecting KY weed farmers than the democratic party is to stopping ICE thugs from raiding a daycare like they're storming Jalalabad
i.e., rand paul is more committed to protecting KY weed farmers than the democratic party is to stopping ICE thugs from raiding a daycare like they're storming Jalalabad
Not much new here, but reiterates that Paul is threatening to withhold unanimous consent to drag out the shutdown unless his amendment is adapted that would save the THC industry.
Rand Paul wants hemp vote to speed up shutdown endgame
His insistence on the hemp vote comes after a bruising fight with senior appropriators.
www.politico.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
rand paul is willing to withhold unanimous consent to advance his agenda but democrats are not
i.e., rand paul is more committed to protecting KY weed farmers than the democratic party is to stopping ICE thugs from raiding a daycare like they're storming Jalalabad
i.e., rand paul is more committed to protecting KY weed farmers than the democratic party is to stopping ICE thugs from raiding a daycare like they're storming Jalalabad
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interesting, interesting idea that someone could have fired this dude.
A fantastic investigation showing that the unit run by Greg Bovino, the Border Patrol agent in charge of racial profiling in LA and Chicago, is an outlier even in an agency already notorious for unnecessary use of force. Obama and Biden could have fired him, but didn't.
www.pogo.org/investigatio...
www.pogo.org/investigatio...
November 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
interesting, interesting idea that someone could have fired this dude.
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America’s chickenshit elites problem continues to be the biggest obstacle to fighting Trump www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
November 10, 2025 at 3:25 PM
America’s chickenshit elites problem continues to be the biggest obstacle to fighting Trump www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
more and more people are saying it's time to abolish the senate
Abolish the Senate. I am absolutely dead serious.
Shaheen: "We've heard from a number of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle that they're willing to come to the table, they're willing to work with us once the govt is open to get this done. We've heard the same thing from the White House. So now we'll see if they're really gonna work w/us"
November 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
more and more people are saying it's time to abolish the senate
democratic senators continue to talk about "my good friend across the aisle" and they keep doing this even as every republican is wearing a billboard that says "I Will Stab You in the Back Then Tell All My Friends How Much Fun it Was to Stab You"
It's dominance politics. It's not enough to defeat your opponents on policy, you have to humiliate them. Knifing Democrats in the back who just extended a hand to you in compromise and friendship is about humiliating them and showing how foolish and powerless your opponents are.
If I were Mike Johnson's comms staff I would point at the knife the Senate Dems shoved in their base's back and say outright "there will never be a House vote on ACA subsidies."
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 PM
democratic senators continue to talk about "my good friend across the aisle" and they keep doing this even as every republican is wearing a billboard that says "I Will Stab You in the Back Then Tell All My Friends How Much Fun it Was to Stab You"
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its cool how two of the biggest tech companies are also the global leader in enabling scams (Meta) and the global leader in fencing stolen goods and selling counterfeit ones (Amazon)
If 10% of my business was based on defrauding and scamming people, and was called a "pillar of the global fraud economy", I would have some serious moral qualms about my business. Not our friends at Meta though.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:54 PM
its cool how two of the biggest tech companies are also the global leader in enabling scams (Meta) and the global leader in fencing stolen goods and selling counterfeit ones (Amazon)
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fondly recalling when Chris Coons stopped witness testimony during Trump's impeachment trial for Jan 6 because he wanted to get home for Valentine's Day www.yahoo.com/news/biden-a...
Biden ally advised against calling witnesses in Trump's impeachment trial because many senators wanted to get home for Valentine's Day, says report
Sen. Chris Coons told colleagues that GOP senators wanted to go home so witnesses should not be called, reported The Washington Post.
www.yahoo.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
fondly recalling when Chris Coons stopped witness testimony during Trump's impeachment trial for Jan 6 because he wanted to get home for Valentine's Day www.yahoo.com/news/biden-a...
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it's all fun and games until someone threatens our moderate senators' precious vacation travel
I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:
November 10, 2025 at 2:55 PM
it's all fun and games until someone threatens our moderate senators' precious vacation travel
don't let any dem senators evade blame for this surrender
the party choreographed the vote so that only the retiring & least vulnerable senators took the hit. the decision to surrender was made collectively by the caucus
you can only trust the dems who are calling for schumer to step down
the party choreographed the vote so that only the retiring & least vulnerable senators took the hit. the decision to surrender was made collectively by the caucus
you can only trust the dems who are calling for schumer to step down
any dem who isn't calling for schumer to step down as leader must be assumed to fully support this kabuki that schumer orchestrated so that the democratic caucus could surrender to the GOP
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 PM
don't let any dem senators evade blame for this surrender
the party choreographed the vote so that only the retiring & least vulnerable senators took the hit. the decision to surrender was made collectively by the caucus
you can only trust the dems who are calling for schumer to step down
the party choreographed the vote so that only the retiring & least vulnerable senators took the hit. the decision to surrender was made collectively by the caucus
you can only trust the dems who are calling for schumer to step down
The Onion has been rightfully calling out the democratic party for years for not giving a shit
November 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
The Onion has been rightfully calling out the democratic party for years for not giving a shit
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the angry base has been right and the savvy "calm down" caucus has been wrong every step of the way for the last 10 years
This seems significant
November 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
the angry base has been right and the savvy "calm down" caucus has been wrong every step of the way for the last 10 years
incredible thread, dems in congress have fucked up so badly they've got matty, chris cilliza, and johnathan chait all turned against them and agreeing with the left
When you've lost *checks notes again* Chris Cillizza
November 10, 2025 at 4:58 AM
incredible thread, dems in congress have fucked up so badly they've got matty, chris cilliza, and johnathan chait all turned against them and agreeing with the left
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The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
so currently defectors are:
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
Kaine (2030)
Shaheen (Retiring)
Hasan (2028)
Fetterman (2028)
Durbin (Retiring)
CCM (2028)
Rosen (2030)
King (2030)
November 10, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.
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Yeah, the entire caucus is responsible for this, regardless of their vote
Any Democratic senator, at any moment, could've derailed this by calling for Schumer's replacement and casting their colleagues as MAGA collaborators, thereby shifting the Overton window. But they're all in on it. This was always a team effort.
November 10, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Yeah, the entire caucus is responsible for this, regardless of their vote