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Monkey Census Taker
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I run, play guitar and write software in rural-ish Massachusetts.
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He should be forced to quit and then he should be primaried.

An utter disgrace.
Chuck Schumer's office declines to say who he voted for
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I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.
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Let us remember who Dick
Cheney really was.

Me for Zeteo, with 🧾:
zeteo.com/p/dick-chene...
My grandfather was Rumsfeld's XO and said he was the most unpleasant person he'd ever met.
"What does this have to do with... oh, nevermind"
In his first term, there would always be a normal official statement followed by a deranged post on social media. I’m guessing we skip straight to the deranged post.
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Dick Cheney Was Doing War Crimes in Exactly the Right Way, by Ezra Klein.
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and when a centrist loses it's because someone said 'defund the police' in 2018
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For the record, nothing prevents the House of Representatives from meeting during a shutdown.

Johnson could call the House back whenever he wants, swear in Grijalva, pass appropriations bills, advance other legislation...

Instead he's given Republicans a 7 week paid vacation.
BREAM: Can you not swear in Adelita Grijalva, though?

MIKE JOHNSON: There is a precedent for doing a pro forma session swearing in, but we are not engaging in regular business right now
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I hope future generations recognize how quickly and strangely the contours of what counts as a political scandal changed for this president.
O'DONNELL: Why did you pardon Changpeng Zhao?

TRUMP: Are you ready? I don't know who he is

O'DONNELL: His crypto exchange Binance helped facilitate a $2b purchase of World Liberty Financial's stablecoin. And they you pardoned him.

TRUMP: Here's the thing -- I know nothing about it
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perfect optics event to hold right as 40 million americans will increasingly struggle to get food with SNAP benefits expiring
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15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.
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Two big GOP activists from Oregon were in DC last month for meetings with Trump admin officials. On their podcast they talk about a plan they discussed to nullify the results of Oregon's 2026 federal elections. Pass federal voter ID law, then refuse to seat OR delegation because OR didn't comply.
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genuinely crazy-making how much the national press is indifferent to the verifiable fact that jd vance is buddy buddy with internet nazis, and the degree to which this is almost certainly a form of solidarity among people with a similar institution pedigree
mainstream media report on jd vance’s twitter mutuals, challenge level: impossible
He has already chosen, what the fuck are we doing here
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
JFC
Evidently there was an Auschwitz-themed float in a Halloween parade in Pennsylvania.

The float was for a Catholic school, and to their credit the church immediately disavowed it.

Thing is, I don’t think high school kids did this entirely on their own. I’m guessing parents had to be involved.
It's *really* incredible how polished he is, particularly compared to most of the Democrats with national profiles.
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This right here, this exact sentence, is THE problem in American political journalism.

The IRA *was* cheap energy and good jobs! That was the whole bill! Democrats did precisely what political pundits are telling them to do and the pundits just ignore it.
Isn’t wireless charging wildly inefficient?
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Lmao literally having a "we're rich" party while they cut SNAP is like cartoon level evil it's like the villain in a Dr. Seuss book
Per Danny Kemp via press pool

Trump is at the Halloween party at MAL

“Official theme is Gatsby and ‘a little party never killed nobody’, we’re told.”