base-level hesitation about NYT writers aside I really thought she was better than this but this multiday crashout is wild

"until scandal led her" - this is what we call the exonerative tense, like it was the force of some unstoppable scandal bearing down on her and not her sexting a sentient beef jerky with prion disease

it was entirely airports, they would probably have let us go another month or longer if not for Thanksgiving. their only concern re: feds is the prospect of some embittered DOD or IC guy going postal, not Sally the GS-9 who started selling plasma two weeks into the shutdown

60% chance this vote passes IMO

Axios exists to manifest a GOP agenda and senators are more motivated by flight disruptions than healthcare subsidies, two things can be true at once

pretty believable that there are 3-5 Ds eager to cave but "at least 10" is pure fantasy

that's not what it meant, it's a bad pun (because it contains the continuing resolution [CR] + minibus)

Lmao OK so this got so much funnier. This guy saying it's against my religion to go to Shabbat dinner, but in reality he just doesn't want to hang out with Bethany Mandel and, well

yeah, the report is accurate but the story is "Republicans are breaking and looking for an off-ramp" not "Republicans have a magic plan to end the shutdown"

there are serious negotiations happening behind closed doors in the Senate and people are desperate to get something done before recess - if we don't see major progress/an end this week then we can assume this is going through January

we really fucked up by allowing astrology and other shit as ~ancestral folk non-colonialized wisdom for the oppressed~ or whatever

yes, there's like three weird misspellings of "Chris" too!! I can't find it though

nobody gets led into a rhetorical trap here, he genuinely cannot understand what she's saying and apparently neither can she

Truman is like if Amy McGrath was a distributed hivemind