Also, 4 Republicans voted nay (Cruz, Lee, Moran, and Paul) & 3 didn't vote (Daines, Hawley, & Moody). Meaning this bill absolutely could not have passed this stage without the support of the Democrats.

Jon Ossoff (GA), Gary Peters (MI), Jack Reed (RI), Jacky Rosen (NV), Chuck Schumer (NY), Jeanne Shaheen (NH), Elissa Slotkin (MI), Mark Warner (VA), Raphael Warnock (GA), & Sheldon Whitehouse (RI).

Catherine Cortez Masto (NV), Dick Durbin (IL), John Fetterman (PA), Ruben Gallego (AZ), Kirsten Gillibrand (NY), Maggie Hassan (NH), Martin Heinrich (NM), John Hickenlooper (CO), Mazie Hirono (HI), Tim Kaine (VA), Mark Kelly (AZ), Angus King (I-ME), Amy Klobuchar (MN), Ben Ray Lujan (NM), ->

I don’t know how you maintain your sanity explaining to people shocked that this problem has long pre-dated Trump.

All I can listen to lately is Tom Waits. He’s my only musical balm in this moment.

Even harder than Gen X on housing affordability, day care, health insurance costs and, now, food prices; something Haley and her party helped along in combination with a full on assault of racial scapegoating. Her son is literally and figuratively a product of her own creation.

Last out with a chance to have the go-ahead run at first with Raleigh at bat with a pitcher struggling with control? Damn.

That’s my cat!

Holy crap - Mr C is JD Vance. That’s insane how accurately he’s rendered in that description!

At age 54, I am working on my first ever peer-reviewed historical piece on Black soldiers who were stationed in my town for 13 years in the late 19th and early 20th century. And I’m learning to fly fish!