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Did Underage Girls Ruin Politics?

Tomorrow in the @nytimes.com

There were literally congressional hearings where whistleblowers in the insurance industry cried while discussing being forced by superiors to repeatedly illegally deny payment for lifesaving care in the run up to the passage of the ACA. That’s what republicans want us to return to.

The Story John Darnielle Lived to Tell When he was a teenager, the Mountain Goats founder never expected to live to 21. He has since become one of this century’s best songwriters. The lessons of his survival, life, and work feel endless.

big ol article about me in GQ, if you go in for that sort of thing www.gq.com/story/john-d...

"That is why I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files" -- Rep. Grijalva

BREAKING: Rep. Adelita Grijalva signs the Epstein discharge petition, serving as the 218th vote to force the bill to the floor for a full vote of the House.

This is, in fact, a good thing.

"bluesky will suspend you for anything vaguely resembling a death threat" is maybe the single most consistent moderation policy they have I don't know why anyone is surprised by this one

yes, even if it's a reference to song lyrics

I love this for her. Karoline Leavitt is now the official face of covering for Jeffrey Epstein and friends. ❤️❤️❤️

the government is shut down still, breadlines are on the horizon, people are going to lose their health insurance but

Q: You said one of the costs of the shutdown was people missing their SNAP benefits. Can you explain then why the administration went to court to fight the funding of SNAP?

LEAVITT: Recipients missed their SNAP benefits because Democrats shut the government down. Then you had an unhinged judge ...

The account owner of @sarahkendzior.bsky.social was suspended for 72 hours for expressing a desire to shoot the author of an article. The post, made 11/10, stated: "I want to shoot the author of this article just to watch him die." 1/2

Annie Karni @anniekarni Trump himself called Boebert, regarding her signing onto the Epstein petition and spoke to her yesterday, I am told. Trump playing phone tag with Mace. So far, they are not planning to remove their names from the petition.

this should be obvious but the reason Trump is working desperately against Epstein transparency is because he's guilty

Q: Does the president think former Prince Andrew should indeed come and testify and Congress on the Epstein matter?

LEAVITT: I haven't spoken to him on that specific matter

nobody knows how to write anymore

Can some media person get Garland on the horn and ask WTF? Otherwise, don't even bother with "journalism".

Yeah whoever jacked up tariffs on coffee from Brazil earlier this year must be a real bonehead

It would make America a banana republic to investigate the very obvious crimes of the former president that he is extremely guilty of

When you do an oopsie and accidentally declared war on your own intra-military Nazis

One of the GOP's sweatier Epstein defenses has been "if they had good stuff they'd have used it when Biden was president." But the growing awareness that Garland spiked anything that could look political explains this!

the president admitted to sexual assault on camera and it didn't matter

graphic showing the prices of various food products rising significantly since one year ago

“When I win, I will immediately bring prices down, starting on Day One"

But all the startup outlets need $ and they need it fast. They need subscribers.

The truth is paywalled but the lies are free.

Q: A provision was added allowing senators to sue the US govt for $500k. What do you say to that?

JEFFRIES: House Democrats are gonna offer an amendment before the Rules Committee to get that self-dealing sick provision out of the spending agreement

Haahahahahahaha "enough books" hahahahhaha...(gasps, wipes tears of mirth)

Jeffries: "It's unbelievable that for 7 plus weeks Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva has been denied the ability to serve more than 800,000 people in Arizona because Republicans are running a pedophile protection program."

JFC. Does @schumer.senate.gov not get that by caving, Democrats make it *harder,* not easier, to make the ACA subsidies expiring stick politically to Trump/GOP? This effort to shame Republicans in this context risks signaling to low-info voters that Rs are standing on conviction and Dems aren't.

I get what Bernie sanders is saying when he’s asked if Schumer should be replaced, he says: who’s gonna replace him & that any replacement would be of a similar ideology and not a “progressive.”

I get that but there is a diff between “as left wing as Ilhan Omar” & “can hit the don’t-cave button”

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

Then you pretty much have to resign. Guaranteeing safety is the job.