Laura HP

My daughter thinks when The Professor, our foster dog, “does his business”, we should refer to it as “he’s grading papers” or “he’s preparing lecture notes.”

Facts

If Admiral Bradley didn’t realize before that these cowards were setting him up to take the fall, he knows it now. Time to hire a good lawyer.

Photo of a handsome grey and black fuzzy pig nestling into a large pile of hay in front of stacked hay.

We keep explaining to Eli that pigs can't hibernate the winter away but every day he tries to bury himself in hay and do it anyway. 🤷‍♀️

Basically Trump’s defense on the double strike boat murder is that it didn’t happen, but if it did it was all Hegseth.

My health insurance premiums will more than double in January. I pay a little less than $500/month for my current silver plan.

I just reapplied and my new premium will be $1062/month.

And don’t forget: I still have a co-pay for every visit and pay for prescriptions.

Had my hair done today. I’ve been going to the same small-town stylist for a decade. Want to know the topic of conversation in the ENTIRE salon?

Insurance premiums. Every one of us has been impacted.

A tweet from MeidasTouch saying, “Watch out, everyone! Mike Johnson has hit the podcast circuit!” The image shows Speaker Mike Johnson sitting in a formal office, smiling and pointing both index fingers as if posing casually.

The manosphere may never recover.

you're telling me a right-wing catholic convert is just a protestant in disguise? shocked

Missouri AG Launches Last-Ditch Immigration Probe into Referendum that Threatens GOP Gerrymander Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: In the latest attempt to intimidate voters, Attorney General Catherine Hanaway (R) launched a sweeping immigration-focused investigation into the signature-gathering firm behind the referendum that threatens to overturn the GOP’s mid-decade gerrymander.

Trump’s healthcare plan looks a lot like extending subsidies for the ACA. You know, like the Democrats wanted in the first place.

Republicans are the lazy kid in a group project who tears shit up and hassles others for a week only to agree to sign-on on the last day to get a good grade.

The House takes 2 months off & finally reports back to work & promptly spends the next week filing censure motions against each other & attending black tie dinners w/Saudis while the clock counts down for 24 million people to have their health insurance premiums spike in 42 days.

Breaking: The House voted unanimously, 426-0, to strip a provision in the funding bill that allowed senators to sue the government for $500K if their phone data was searched without their knowledge.

The provision was designed for GOP senators to sue over the Jack Smith investigation.

NEWS: During a hearing in federal court in VA, prosecutors confirmed that the operative indictment in the case against James Comey was never shown to or voted on by the entire grand jury before it was presented in open court.

Defense counsel argued that’s a complete bar to further prosecution

Here’s How Much Cash OpenAI Is Burning On AI Video App Sora. What It Means Some back-of-napkin math suggests OpenAI is spending more than a quarter of what it’s making to power the AI slop factory.

Forbes estimates OpenAI is blowing $15m a day on Sora. Sure, why not? I bet OpenAI’s inference costs are absolutely horrifying
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Billionaire ballroom builder crypto grifter and Gatsby party thrower Trump dismisses affordability concerns as “a con job by the Dems” and lies that “costs are way down”

Republicans have been on vacation for 50 days.

For 50 days, Republicans have chosen to stay home instead of working to reopen the government.

🤷🏼

HAPPENING NOW: Portland Police Commander Franz Schoening testifies that federal officers on Oct. 18 barraged protesters with crowd control munitions — not because of any violence but because another federal officer accidentally shot tear gas onto the roof of the ICE facility.

BREAKING: Representative Ro Khanna is introducing legislation to ban the president, his family, members of Congress, and all elected officials from trading crypto or stocks.

The USDA has funding set aside to keep food assistance programs running during emergencies.

Trump just won’t release it.

440,000 Minnesotans - and millions more Americans - will pay the price.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 84th day out of the last 96.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Holy shit. Midnight massacre at ICE.

That's the authoritarian dream

So incredibly corrupt. Shout out to everyone who complained endlessly about Hunter but says nothing about this. @RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn @AndyOgles @RepFaison

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After working on his ballroom all week and destroying the East Wing of the WH, Trump is now flying around the world to make deals with autocrats while refusing to negotiate with Democrats to reopen the US government.

👇🏽

Funders of Trump's $300M ballroom and East Wing destruction include:

-Amazon
-Apple
-Coinbase
-Lockheed Martin
-Google
-Meta
-Microsoft
-Palantir
-Tobacco companies
-The Adelson family

Don't forget — they're not just buying a ballroom. They're buying Trump's favor.