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On Friday, I was pulled over by cops in Newark (I was seeing Tom Papa, who was hilarious). Apparently, I drove in a parking lane in a maneuver that every driver here does. But, fine, it's illegal, I was caught, and I pulled over. One of the cops, who did have her badge and name visible, was masked.
November 10, 2025 at 8:56 PM
On Friday, I was pulled over by cops in Newark (I was seeing Tom Papa, who was hilarious). Apparently, I drove in a parking lane in a maneuver that every driver here does. But, fine, it's illegal, I was caught, and I pulled over. One of the cops, who did have her badge and name visible, was masked.
Random Observations on Senate Democrats Shitting the Shutdown Bed rudepundit.blogspot.com/2025/11/rand...
Random Observations on Senate Democrats Shitting the Shutdown Bed
Politics and sometimes culture from a rude liberal in blog form.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Random Observations on Senate Democrats Shitting the Shutdown Bed rudepundit.blogspot.com/2025/11/rand...
Sweet Jesus, just crank it somewhere you can cackle freely.
second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Sweet Jesus, just crank it somewhere you can cackle freely.
"Appearing to close his eyes"? Motherfucker, we can actually see his eyes are closed. It's an observable fact. How about "appearing to fall asleep"? Or "appearing to briefly die"?
Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise questions about Trump’s on-the-job performance.
Images of Trump appearing to close his eyes during Oval Office event spread across social media | CNN Politics
Images of Donald Trump appearing to close his eyes at an Oval Office announcement this week rocketed around social media this weekend, with the president’s opponents seizing on the footage to raise qu...
www.cnn.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"Appearing to close his eyes"? Motherfucker, we can actually see his eyes are closed. It's an observable fact. How about "appearing to fall asleep"? Or "appearing to briefly die"?
So barring some fuckery from SCOTUS, the SNAP fight would have been out of the equation for the time being.
NEW: The First Circuit Court of Appeals has denied the Trump admin's efforts to stop the release of full funding for November's SNAP benefits payments as ordered by a lower court judge.
The Supreme Court's administrative stay will now expire 48 hours after the 1st Circuit's ruling.
The Supreme Court's administrative stay will now expire 48 hours after the 1st Circuit's ruling.
November 10, 2025 at 2:29 PM
So barring some fuckery from SCOTUS, the SNAP fight would have been out of the equation for the time being.
I'm up at 9:30/6:30 ET/PT this a.m. on @stephaniemiller.bsky.social unless a group of bitch-ass Democratic senators negotiates that away.
November 10, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I'm up at 9:30/6:30 ET/PT this a.m. on @stephaniemiller.bsky.social unless a group of bitch-ass Democratic senators negotiates that away.
Then your constituents are idiots
Shaheen: "When I talk to my constituents in New Hampshire, you know what they say to me? They say, 'Why can't you all just work together to address the problems that are facing this country?'"
November 10, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Then your constituents are idiots
Schumer should have stepped down as Minority Leader when he announced his “no” vote. And, frankly, he should have resigned. Falling on your sword is underrated.
One of two things is true:
1. Chuck Schumer genuinely felt this is a bad deal, so he voted against it, but he couldn't keep Senate Dems in line because he's a lackluster leader.
OR
2. Chuck Schumer orchestrated the shutdown deal w/ retiring Dems because he's a bad strategist and got rattled.
1. Chuck Schumer genuinely felt this is a bad deal, so he voted against it, but he couldn't keep Senate Dems in line because he's a lackluster leader.
OR
2. Chuck Schumer orchestrated the shutdown deal w/ retiring Dems because he's a bad strategist and got rattled.
November 10, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Schumer should have stepped down as Minority Leader when he announced his “no” vote. And, frankly, he should have resigned. Falling on your sword is underrated.
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
He is a computer safety researcher.
And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.
In under 1600 words.
aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...
Should have just written a strongly-worded letter instead of putting us through this bullshit. It would have had the same effect.
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Should have just written a strongly-worded letter instead of putting us through this bullshit. It would have had the same effect.
My sister's premiums are going up over 200%, so, you know, shove your deal up your pasty asses when you fly home for Thanksgiving, you fucking losers.
November 10, 2025 at 4:04 AM
My sister's premiums are going up over 200%, so, you know, shove your deal up your pasty asses when you fly home for Thanksgiving, you fucking losers.
I guess that's what they'll say when Trump goes ahead and fires the federal workers again and Thune shrugs. This isn't a deal. It's a surrender.
Agree.
Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."
This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.
Sen Hassan, asked what will happen if Republicans don't carry out the deal, "Well, shame on them."
This is not what people were mobilizing for on Oct 18.
November 10, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I guess that's what they'll say when Trump goes ahead and fires the federal workers again and Thune shrugs. This isn't a deal. It's a surrender.
We all know Sen Dems should have asked for more than just ACA subsidies to agree on a budget, but we got behind the strategy because at least it was a fight. And then we used that strength on Tuesday to blow them away. And now...they just took all that energy and tossed it in the garbage. Bastards.
November 10, 2025 at 3:54 AM
We all know Sen Dems should have asked for more than just ACA subsidies to agree on a budget, but we got behind the strategy because at least it was a fight. And then we used that strength on Tuesday to blow them away. And now...they just took all that energy and tossed it in the garbage. Bastards.
Some weak-ass shit here. A fundamental misreading of the base and absolutely dispiriting to voters who just got energized.
From what I have seen so far this does not seem like a good deal:
November 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Some weak-ass shit here. A fundamental misreading of the base and absolutely dispiriting to voters who just got energized.
Signs that must have a story behind them.
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Signs that must have a story behind them.
Democrats need to talk about this savagery and say that they want to do it to Americans.
Our reporters interviewed 40 of the men the Trump administration sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador: They described being beaten, sexually assaulted by guards and driven to the brink of suicide. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Democrats need to talk about this savagery and say that they want to do it to Americans.
I wish I cared about anything with the passion that the Trump administration cares about making sure people starve.
⚠️ Feds sent a late night memo demanding states “immediately undo” any actions to provide full SNAP benefits.
(It’s unclear if there will be an effort to claw back benefits already distributed, but an expert says such efforts would not be legal.)
Gift link:
(It’s unclear if there will be an effort to claw back benefits already distributed, but an expert says such efforts would not be legal.)
Gift link:
Trump Administration Demands States ‘Undo’ Work to Send Full Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:05 PM
I wish I cared about anything with the passion that the Trump administration cares about making sure people starve.
Every day, just story after story about the abject dickishness of this garbage administration.
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Every day, just story after story about the abject dickishness of this garbage administration.
What fucking president ever had a building or stadium or post office or toilet officially named after him while he was still in office? It's embarrassing. MAGA freaks should be ashamed but, as we know, they do not have that capability.
Just a pathetic, needy, egomaniacal cult leader
Sources: Trump wants D.C. stadium named for him
A senior White House source said there have been back-channel communications with a member of the Commanders ownership group, led by Josh Harris, to express Trump's desire to have the $3.7 billion dom...
www.espn.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What fucking president ever had a building or stadium or post office or toilet officially named after him while he was still in office? It's embarrassing. MAGA freaks should be ashamed but, as we know, they do not have that capability.
I’m no geography expert but I’m pretty sure that Mexico and South America are part of the West.
November 8, 2025 at 12:47 PM
I’m no geography expert but I’m pretty sure that Mexico and South America are part of the West.
I wish Democrats fought for anything with the intensity that Donald Trump fights to starve poor people.
BREAKING: DOJ goes to SCOTUS trying to stop a district court order that USDA pay out full SNAP benefits this month.
The First Circuit denied an administrative stay, but has not yet ruled on the stay request. And, CNN reported that USDA is already processing payments.
DOJ went to SCOTUS anyway.
The First Circuit denied an administrative stay, but has not yet ruled on the stay request. And, CNN reported that USDA is already processing payments.
DOJ went to SCOTUS anyway.
November 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I wish Democrats fought for anything with the intensity that Donald Trump fights to starve poor people.
"You must allow us to starve poor people because then Democrats will let us take away their health insurance" is a hell of a message for a president and his party, but there it is.
BREAKING: The Trump administration asks a federal appeals court for an emergency pause on a federal judge's order to fully fund SNAP benefits this month.
Trump administration asks for emergency pause on judge's order to fully fund SNAP
The administration has said it cannot draw from money set aside for child nutrition programs, known as Section 32 funding, to pay for SNAP during the government shutdown.
nbcnews.to
November 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
"You must allow us to starve poor people because then Democrats will let us take away their health insurance" is a hell of a message for a president and his party, but there it is.
One of the less-discussed points Al Gore made in his crusade against fossil fuels was that there was a ton of money to be made in developing alternative sources of energy. But, of course, we were too dumb to listen.
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
One of the less-discussed points Al Gore made in his crusade against fossil fuels was that there was a ton of money to be made in developing alternative sources of energy. But, of course, we were too dumb to listen.
The definition of “feckless” right here.
November 7, 2025 at 1:43 AM
The definition of “feckless” right here.
I'm glad that you shifted your vote back to Democrats this year after voting for Trump in 2024 after voting for Biden in 2020, but, seriously, you seem like you're a fucking idiot.
November 7, 2025 at 1:24 AM
I'm glad that you shifted your vote back to Democrats this year after voting for Trump in 2024 after voting for Biden in 2020, but, seriously, you seem like you're a fucking idiot.