An end to the shutdown is in sight. A senior Dem Senator tells me there will be more than enough Democrats to vote in favor of re-opening the government tonight. They’ll get a promise of a vote on health care — but nothing more. Most of the Democratic leadership will likely vote against it.
“A promise of a vote on healthcare” is nothing
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Chuck: I heard you. And so I will give the gop everything it wants and more. Oh yeah, and I'll get a faint hope of a promise of something in return. Who loves you, babe?
09.11.2025 23:11 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
You do nice work. 😎
09.11.2025 22:34 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.
Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again.
An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next.
Understand what it is to pray in Chicago.
“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.”
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Mine too. I called and emailed. 🤬 will call again.
09.11.2025 22:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Not to mention tapioca brains doesn't need to think big thoughts. He just needs to cheat to be competitive, and acknowledge the fawning adulation of the sycophants. That's what he's done all his life.
09.11.2025 22:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sharpie man
Sharpie man
Does whatever a Sharpie can.
09.11.2025 22:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
a little girl with a pacifier in her mouth is sitting next to a baby .
Alt: A baby takes a little girl's pacifier and makes a crawl for it.
Sure sure, laugh now, but after three hours of jousting on bluesky and Tom's attitude will be rough n ready, spoiling for a fight.
09.11.2025 21:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Trump regime's commitment to starving 42 million Americans to force Democrats to agree to take away healthcare coverage from 20 million Americans is frankly astonishing.
09.11.2025 17:04 — 👍 39 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 0
Gop is unable to govern. They break everything they touch then complain about it. 🖕🖕🖕 #ettd
09.11.2025 20:04 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🖕🖕
09.11.2025 19:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Flying into neeark and out of lga for Thanksgiving. Into and out of lga for Christmas. It's gonna be awesome!
Assuming planes are flying, that is... 😬
09.11.2025 18:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This newark reality is in my future. 😆 can't wait.
09.11.2025 18:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great if fawning reviewing. Patti Smith is a great one.
09.11.2025 18:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Beyond creepy. Truly sad.
09.11.2025 16:27 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Moscow doesn't deserve a meeting. So rubio will probably meet him.
09.11.2025 15:09 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Weird, no?
09.11.2025 06:11 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
❤️
09.11.2025 06:01 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I thought you were being cute. Guess not.
09.11.2025 03:34 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Near total eclipse of the face.
08.11.2025 22:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We won! Now, can we stop winning?
08.11.2025 21:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Maybe the wh dude in charge of implementation said, let's make this shite easy to remove.
08.11.2025 21:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Trump and heggy day drinking again.
08.11.2025 21:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
😬
08.11.2025 21:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I'm sure slick Rick Scott, bigtime Medicare fraud guy, has our best interests at heart. 🙄
08.11.2025 21:06 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Alexa, show me a picture of a room with the gaudiest, tackiest gold decor on the planet.
08.11.2025 20:52 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Per espn, trump wants the Washington commanders to name their stadium after him.
This fucking guy ... pab.
08.11.2025 20:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What they really want is every penny you have. The suffering is just collateral damage and they don't care.
08.11.2025 20:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fascists need an enemy. So China? Venezuela? Can't be Russia. 🤔🙄
08.11.2025 20:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🤮
08.11.2025 18:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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