An Old Gremlin (she/her)

It’s day 38 of the government shutdown.

Republicans still control the House.
Republicans still control the Senate.
Republicans still control the White House.

This is still a Republican shutdown.

He has now erased fully 10% of the term to which Grijalva was elected.

"What did Watson and Crick discover?"

"Rosalind Franklin's notes."

The regime in the White House is making devastating cuts to the social safety to finance tax cuts for the super rich.

And the richest man in the world, who used his wealth to get this regime elected, is on track to be paid $274 million every day for the next 10 years.

Oligarchy.

Image comparing two quotes from Donald Trump. In the top frame labeled 'Trump Last Year:' Trump says "Starting on day one, we will end inflation and Make America Affordable Again." In the bottom frame labeled 'Trump Now:' Trump says "I don't want to hear anything about the affordability."

Spoiler alert: Trump did not make America affordable again.

yoda is disappointed , i am . Alt: yoda says disappointed , i am .

Yet another Democrat trudging rightward, chasing the elusive centrist voter like a conquistador hunting for El Dorado.

We just had an election that mandated Dem leadership show some spine and you pull out this garbage?

Shorter Sand: ~ooh, I'm a maverick, I'm not *really* a Democrat, vote for me~

We can safely assume every other Border Patrol, ICE, or DHS/HSI agent has the same mentality.

The regime's thugs assume themselves immune from consequences. So far, they've been correct.

“It’s merely an ‘interim’ decision that Thanksgiving and/or Christmas are canceled this year, we could make a different final determination as soon as June, 2026. Or we might rule that you were right to starve all along!”
– ACB, any day now.

They cancelled USAID. Why wouldn't they do the same here?

They ENJOY the suffering of the poor because it makes them feel powerful by comparison and they don't have to contribute a teensy fraction of their wealth to help someone buy infant formula.

They just really want poor kids to starve. That's what cancelling USAID was about, and that's what this is about.

Actual evil.

DHS confirmed it has stopped automatically storing officials' text messages.

Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

he’s saying exactly what we’ve been saying, he’s absolutely right, and any colleagues of his should listen to him

every part of the country that could just told Donald Trump to go to hell and we demand our elected representatives follow suit

We have an NSF funded study to explain why Trump fired Immigration Judges based on their past work background. Spoiler: you can predict likelihood of grants or denials of asylum based on past work experience--He's stacking the deck for denials. Un-gated article here:

trump take NASA
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Sam Corcos, who entered government with DOGE earlier this year, decided to kill DirectFile after one meeting with with tax software lobbyists.

www.wired.com/story/doge-d...

marco rubio and elon musk

Update on this: nevermind actually, the FOIA denial is reversed! City says it was done "in error." Please resume waiting with bated breath for these records to be released.

Stop forcing A.I. into fucking everything Nobody asked for it Everyone hates it Credit nobodyssweetheart

"ai piOnEeRs"

"teCh LEadErzzz"

Gag.

Show some restraint, JFC, you don't have to fellate them.

robert downey jr. is wearing a suit and tie and making a funny face . Alt: Robert Downey Jr. as Tony Stark is wearing a suit and tie and rolling his eyes

"my plagiarism machine is a real boy!"

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

It's so trashy. Wouldn't kill this guy to show a little dignified restraint? A smidge of respectability?

I love that there's video evidence and the jurors just looked the judge dead in the eye and said Not Guilty. Legendary, phenomenal, 10/10.

Jeanine Pirro is deep in the winebox tonight.

Like, if he's got a long history of antisemitic comments, I'd think you'd be able to come up with more than him saying variations of "Israel should treat all of the people under its power equally" before pivoting back to affordability

Only if you stop throwing groups under the bus.

We the People means ALL THE PEOPLE. Trans, immigrant, racially diverse, neurodiverse, allllll of us.

Sentence of the moment:
www.techdirt.com/2025/11/03/6...

This shit isn't popular. It's monstrously evil.

I wouldn't trust the police not to side with ICE. As we've seen over and over again in videos and testimony, police are supporting and defending ICE/CBP/HSI/etc in many jurisdictions.

Soto: all Biden would have had to do with student loans was declare some foreign purpose?

@developers.google.com so you're all-in on persecuting immigrants and people of color, huh? Just full-on fash? Hosting the abduction app but not the anti-abduction app. SMH...