Mel 🏳️‍⚧️

Caving on a deal that doesn’t fix health care is, and always has been, a giant betrayal of the American people.

Hold the line. Save health care. I’m a NO on anything that doesn’t extend ACA subsidies.

it is darkly humorous that after all these years, the Republican health insurance plan ends up being to end health insurance

My favorite part of my EV has been the infotainment display rebooting while I was trying to navigate and drive. Really cool not being able to see my speed or where to turn

Rand Paul on Trump's strikes on boats: "I would call them extrajudicial killings. This is akin to what China does, what Iran does with drug dealers -- they summarily execute people without presenting evidence to the public. So it's wrong."

BREAKING:

Jack Smith is requesting that Congress and the Justice Dept. let him testify in public.

In new letters to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees, Smith says he wants to testify "in open hearings" because of "the many mischaracterizations" around his investigations.

Today, the White House Press Secretary told the country that this ridiculous damn ballroom is “the president’s main priority”…not reopening the government, not lowering the cost of groceries, not lowering the cost of housing, not lowering the cost of healthcare….building a ballroom

The mixed use within buildings in Europe is so interesting. The hotel I’m staying in is half a floor of a 7 story building. All organized around a central stair/elevator. There are apartments, two hotels, and even some professional offices. All just jumbled in together.

as far as just messaging goes that video is probably the most embarrassing thing any president has done on the world stage in my life

and the fact that the sunday shows wont even describe it? total abdication of their responsibility

Minneapolis is showing up and showing out. #NoKings

Our federal tax dollars are being used to fund a network of government social media accounts that pump out disinformation 24/7. Even during a government shutdown. It’s definitely not essential work.

The reason they're coming after this place is because they can't control the people on it and it drives them nuts.

My heart can’t take the constant letdowns

Every time the subject of Jimmy Fallon’s spinelessness comes up, I think of this passage from Tina Fey’s Bossypants

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

People of Illinois, we need your help.

Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.

We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

He just wants to go all the way back to naked wrestling with the boys

Turns out they’re all pedophiles. Kind of wild that the pedo ring is real, just turned out to be all of the old rich man. Guess that’s not too insane actually

so basically every man with money and/or power over the age of 50 was involved with epstein huh

Mood

Final FFS is soon… and Minnesota trip! So nervous

The best we can do is constant fear of our own government

can we get a little political asylum as a treat

dems could win in red states if they ran unapologetically on raising taxes on people like george soros and colin kaepernick and bill gates to pay for universal healthcare and a 4 day work week

watching this trump news conference and it is just a nonstop stream of absolute nonsense and actual lies although, it is not clear whatsoever whether or not trump can distinguish between the truth and his own fantasies

its kind of insane that we’ve been forced to watch rightwingers openly celebrate and taunt everyone over the death of people like trayvon martin for over a decade now and now they’re trying to grandstand over the one time it’s personally affected them and political project

Just spend your short life suffering to make them happy, don’t worry about it. They’re not horrible people /s

Today is the day of the special election to fill the seat of former MN State Rep Melissa Hortman, who was shot by a right-wing extremist.

FBI Deputy Director breaks down on Fox: "I gave up everything for this. I mean, you know, my wife is struggling... I stare at these four walls all day in DC, you know, by myself, divorced from my wife. Not divorced, but l mean, separated. And it's hard."

been very hard to watch a bunch of 50-year-old podcasters come to terms with having a job.

my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"

The rumors of him being dead are giving me so much hope I really hope it’s true