In 2021, McConnell successfully filibustered a Democratic CR ahead of a government shutdown and forced them to accept a clean one instead. What happened this week - a total cave on a totally partisan long-term funding bill - hasn’t happened in the 20 years I’ve covered Congress.

Awful: Internal USAID memo instructs employees to refrain from talking to the media about cuts in assistance to the most vulnerable or they may get fired, WaPo reports.

Trumpworld knows this is a big political problem for them. Keep the focus on it.

New piece:
newrepublic.com/article/1915...

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

do you have any idea just how badly you have to fuck up to get Canada mad at you

Salem lost a little weight and can now jump and balance on here

Democrats fought to lower Insulin to $35 a month.

Trump rescinded Bidens executive order,
it's now $600 a month.

Grab Your Wallets #TrumpFlation has only just begun.

This is such a stupid time in human history that the villains aren’t even charismatic, entertaining, or articulate

We’re denied even that silver lining

I’m sad.

The biggest political divide in America isn't "left" versus "right."

It's the American people versus the oligarchy.

🤌

If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game.

The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

Your Black Friday reminder that in 75% of U.S. industries, a smaller number of companies now control more of the business than they did twenty years ago.

We must stop the monopolization of America. Shop small if you can, please.

i either read for 8 hours straight or don’t touch a book for 8 months there is no in between

I think I'm just going to put on noise canceling headphones for the next four years.

People who think professional wrestling is real think that the allegations of covering up sexual assault against Linda McMahon and her husband Vince are fake.

Make it make sense.