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If moderate Republicans existed, a Behn win would drive a few of them across the aisle. Damn shame they don't. (Not even in the "problem-solvers caucus", which claims to be a haven for them.)
November 30, 2025 at 4:04 PM
If moderate Republicans existed, a Behn win would drive a few of them across the aisle. Damn shame they don't. (Not even in the "problem-solvers caucus", which claims to be a haven for them.)
So, the Trump administration keeps teasing an invasion of Venezuela... and the NYT publishes a story saying that their planning is likely based on bogus claims from a serial fabulist.
Researched for weeks, and published on a day almost no American will be paying attention.
Great work, editors.
Researched for weeks, and published on a day almost no American will be paying attention.
Great work, editors.
Venezuela’s Nobel Winner Pushes False Claims About Maduro, Critics Say
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
So, the Trump administration keeps teasing an invasion of Venezuela... and the NYT publishes a story saying that their planning is likely based on bogus claims from a serial fabulist.
Researched for weeks, and published on a day almost no American will be paying attention.
Great work, editors.
Researched for weeks, and published on a day almost no American will be paying attention.
Great work, editors.
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
[I've got pretty good odds, if they don't shoot me in the gut to keep me from talking...]
[I've got pretty good odds, if they don't shoot me in the gut to keep me from talking...]
November 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you?
[I've got pretty good odds, if they don't shoot me in the gut to keep me from talking...]
[I've got pretty good odds, if they don't shoot me in the gut to keep me from talking...]
Extension of ACA subsidies is what the Democrats shut down the government to assure (bypassing any number of other issues). If the Republicans do it without them, and without the pressure... it does not make the Democrats look like a more serious and effective party.
November 24, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Extension of ACA subsidies is what the Democrats shut down the government to assure (bypassing any number of other issues). If the Republicans do it without them, and without the pressure... it does not make the Democrats look like a more serious and effective party.
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"The Valley of Death: Why $100,000 Is the New Poor
Once I established that $136,500 is the real break-even point, I ran the numbers on what happens to a family climbing the ladder toward that number"
interesting analysis:
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Once I established that $136,500 is the real break-even point, I ran the numbers on what happens to a family climbing the ladder toward that number"
interesting analysis:
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:48 AM
"The Valley of Death: Why $100,000 Is the New Poor
Once I established that $136,500 is the real break-even point, I ran the numbers on what happens to a family climbing the ladder toward that number"
interesting analysis:
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Once I established that $136,500 is the real break-even point, I ran the numbers on what happens to a family climbing the ladder toward that number"
interesting analysis:
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Y'know, the Darien Gap is deadly to migrants who try to cross it even if they *aren't* also trying to manage a cow...
Scott Bessent says immigrants from South America are bringing diseased cattle with them when they immigrate, that's why beef is so expensive.
Of course! Migrant cattle caravans!
That's odd, caravans only come during election season.
www.mediaite.com/media/news/c...
Of course! Migrant cattle caravans!
That's odd, caravans only come during election season.
www.mediaite.com/media/news/c...
‘Can’t Be Serious’: Trump Official Roasted for Bizarre Take That Migrants Bringing Cattle With Them Are to Blame for Higher Beef Prices
Scott Bessent made a bizarre claim on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo that proved to be a head-scratcher for some on social media.
www.mediaite.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Y'know, the Darien Gap is deadly to migrants who try to cross it even if they *aren't* also trying to manage a cow...
Well, at least we know she wasn't publishing ChatGPT slop. It's better than this.
In case you writers out there have ever felt imposter syndrome, "From his mouth the bullet theoretical launched the bullet possible" is an actual sentence in whatever this is.
Vanity Fair's West Coast Editor Olivia Nuzzi was a star political correspondent until scandal led her into exile—and to a California up in flames.
In an excerpt from her book, ‘American Canto,’ she takes stock of scorched earth.
In an excerpt from her book, ‘American Canto,’ she takes stock of scorched earth.
November 17, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Well, at least we know she wasn't publishing ChatGPT slop. It's better than this.
OK, Jamie. In the *same interview* where MTG called for release of the Epstein files and mumbled regrets for spreading toxic culture, she also suggested that CNN interview anti-semitic open fascist Nick Fuentes. She's not backing off the "Jewish space laser" stuff a bit.
Want that in your tent?
Want that in your tent?
Raskin: We are a big tent. We must be a huge, vast tent. I say this is a party that’s got room for Marjorie Taylor Greene if she wants to come over.
November 17, 2025 at 4:15 PM
OK, Jamie. In the *same interview* where MTG called for release of the Epstein files and mumbled regrets for spreading toxic culture, she also suggested that CNN interview anti-semitic open fascist Nick Fuentes. She's not backing off the "Jewish space laser" stuff a bit.
Want that in your tent?
Want that in your tent?
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This is fucking crazy
November 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
This is fucking crazy
The thing about trying to run on this 2028 platform is that the major donors all want to be sacred cows. So anyone trying it faces the same kind of opposition Mamdani did in New York.
(Which didn't work... but they sure burned a whole lot of money trying, and things might be different nationally.)
(Which didn't work... but they sure burned a whole lot of money trying, and things might be different nationally.)
i’ve said this before and i remain convinced it’s true, the 2028 platform that would deliver obama 08 results is “i am gonna
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
bring the hammer down on the corrupt self-dealing politicians and their rich friends and there are no sacred cows id give a pass”
November 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The thing about trying to run on this 2028 platform is that the major donors all want to be sacred cows. So anyone trying it faces the same kind of opposition Mamdani did in New York.
(Which didn't work... but they sure burned a whole lot of money trying, and things might be different nationally.)
(Which didn't work... but they sure burned a whole lot of money trying, and things might be different nationally.)
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"Mark my words, one wrong step in this town’ll land you in a whole heap of social services."
Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process
Well, well, well. What have we got here? Another city slicker who thinks he can waltz into my town and start causin’ all sorts of trouble. I’d be careful if I was you, fella. Because however they do t...
theonion.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
"Mark my words, one wrong step in this town’ll land you in a whole heap of social services."
Does anyone remember when the rumored worst-possible Russian kompromat on Trump was a "pee tape" supposedly involving grown-up prostitutes?
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Does anyone remember when the rumored worst-possible Russian kompromat on Trump was a "pee tape" supposedly involving grown-up prostitutes?
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Hmm: Ms Kendzior said: “the last things I posted were excerpts from my substack newsletter articles”. From her most recent “When I loved New York”: “for example, arrest war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu”. I wonder if that phrase gets you banned? sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/when-i-lov...
When I Loved New York
Will Mamdani bring back the city I remember? Can anyone?
sarahkendzior.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Hmm: Ms Kendzior said: “the last things I posted were excerpts from my substack newsletter articles”. From her most recent “When I loved New York”: “for example, arrest war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu”. I wonder if that phrase gets you banned? sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/when-i-lov...
Bond flick in the style of Rashomon, in which investigators are attempting to reconstruct an accurate picture of Bond's service record, displayed as clips playing conflicting versions from earlier movies featuring multiple James Bonds.
The solution to "but we blew up Bond in the last movie" seems obvious to me: make the next one a prequel. Return Bond to his Cold War roots with 60s gadgets and luscious midcentury cars, fashion, and decor. The stakes for the plot are already established and couldn't be higher.
November 11, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Bond flick in the style of Rashomon, in which investigators are attempting to reconstruct an accurate picture of Bond's service record, displayed as clips playing conflicting versions from earlier movies featuring multiple James Bonds.
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
-- Alan Kay, who did invent a lot of the stuff that latter-day techbros are exploiting, but had a very different vision for it.
-- Alan Kay, who did invent a lot of the stuff that latter-day techbros are exploiting, but had a very different vision for it.
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
-- Alan Kay, who did invent a lot of the stuff that latter-day techbros are exploiting, but had a very different vision for it.
-- Alan Kay, who did invent a lot of the stuff that latter-day techbros are exploiting, but had a very different vision for it.
No, Oates's "totally uneducated, uncultured" was *not* her final blow. She was just getting warmed up...
November 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
No, Oates's "totally uneducated, uncultured" was *not* her final blow. She was just getting warmed up...
The defense of the Vichy Democrats against complaints from mere voters that they should have done... something: "Do you think you know better than us?"
Echoing a line from their Vichy forebears. King here even has the look for it...
Echoing a line from their Vichy forebears. King here even has the look for it...
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The defense of the Vichy Democrats against complaints from mere voters that they should have done... something: "Do you think you know better than us?"
Echoing a line from their Vichy forebears. King here even has the look for it...
Echoing a line from their Vichy forebears. King here even has the look for it...
So that's the line -- "when we fight, we lose". But you didn't.
November 10, 2025 at 3:43 PM
So that's the line -- "when we fight, we lose". But you didn't.
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These 8 Senators sold us out to Trump:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Understand This Fact: Chuck Schumer is behind this. None of these 8 are up for reelection in 2026. Schumer asked them vote yes—they agreed. He's such a coward that he folded and won't even own it.
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Understand This Fact: Chuck Schumer is behind this. None of these 8 are up for reelection in 2026. Schumer asked them vote yes—they agreed. He's such a coward that he folded and won't even own it.
November 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
These 8 Senators sold us out to Trump:
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Understand This Fact: Chuck Schumer is behind this. None of these 8 are up for reelection in 2026. Schumer asked them vote yes—they agreed. He's such a coward that he folded and won't even own it.
Hassan
King
Cortez-Masto
Shaheen
Kaine
Fetterman
Durbin
Rosen
Understand This Fact: Chuck Schumer is behind this. None of these 8 are up for reelection in 2026. Schumer asked them vote yes—they agreed. He's such a coward that he folded and won't even own it.
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Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week
Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 AM
Since the Democrats worked extra hard to hide who actually supported this, I think the No Kings/Resistance position should be to primary every Democrat unless they publicly call for Schumer's ouster this week
Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
Either they go into total rebellion mode, which they won't, or the people will
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They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,
Chuck Schumer came out of the Senate Caucus meeting smiling, knowing that there were 10 votes for the cave-in without him, so it could pass without his vote.
If he didn't approve, the vote wouldn't have happened.
Chuck: some reporters may be this dumb, but your primary electorate isn't.
If he didn't approve, the vote wouldn't have happened.
Chuck: some reporters may be this dumb, but your primary electorate isn't.
November 10, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Chuck Schumer came out of the Senate Caucus meeting smiling, knowing that there were 10 votes for the cave-in without him, so it could pass without his vote.
If he didn't approve, the vote wouldn't have happened.
Chuck: some reporters may be this dumb, but your primary electorate isn't.
If he didn't approve, the vote wouldn't have happened.
Chuck: some reporters may be this dumb, but your primary electorate isn't.
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“A promise of a vote on healthcare” is nothing
November 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
“A promise of a vote on healthcare” is nothing
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If Democrats get no concessions, then what they are doing is casting blame on themselves for the shutdown,
November 9, 2025 at 8:55 PM
If Democrats get no concessions, then what they are doing is casting blame on themselves for the shutdown,
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Less than 24 hours ago Republican Senators were offering terms like reversing all the firing of govt employees. It appears Schumer is now looking to just settle on one year extension of ACA subsidies for the sake of bipartisanship.
GOP makes new funding offer, opens door to reversing mass firings
Republicans delivered their latest proposal just ahead of a crucial Democratic lunch meeting.
www.politico.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Less than 24 hours ago Republican Senators were offering terms like reversing all the firing of govt employees. It appears Schumer is now looking to just settle on one year extension of ACA subsidies for the sake of bipartisanship.