Huh…

Would you let them all just spit in your mouth?

No?

Then put a mask on, what's wrong with you, you're being gross. And if nothing else, it will keep you from touching the straps/stanchions/railings that everyone else is touching, then absentmindedly touching your face.

5) Learning a bit of a lot of languages has finally paid off.

Being able to spot a german passport and say, "Deutsche? Ein minuten, bitte" and pull out my phone to translate further has been a *godsend*. Likewise for Spanish, French. Knowing like eight sentences of each (and apologizing for /

Ellison's CBS brought on the two editors that got NYT to publish Tom Cotton's 2020 op-ed calling for soldiers to shoot protesters in the streets. Hard to find a clearer editorial throughline than "anyone protesting murder by the state should be killed for it."

not gonna lie i’ve personally really enjoyed the benefits of living in the global diplomatic hegemon but if they let us back in the driver’s seat without serious reforms the leaders who facilitate it will have condemned the world to a generation of chaos. this country is unfit to lead

I would purchase this if anyone cares to design it.

This has to be a major red line. No state should ever be able to send in their guard into another state against that state's leadership, Every Dem Gov should threaten to do the same because they could be next.

Trump has never sounded guiltier than this and that's a high bar

Agree w @krispierson.com and @chasingray.bsky.social .

Did a post last night on why shutdown won't make flying unsafe. But it will slow everything way down. fallows.substack.com/p/air-travel...

From understaffed TSA lines to work-to-rule, "better safe than sorry" procedures everywhere.

More accurately, she would like it to eventually become a bipartisan plan if she can fool six Dems.
Right now all she’s got is Trump’s ramblings.

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Angus King says that he might switch his vote from YES to NO on the Senate CR, due to how the GOP is refusing to lift a finger on healthcare.

Honestly, a part of my cynically wondered if his original YES vote was to allow him to switch to NO later in order to give Dems the appearance of momentum.

The Plymouth County Correctional Facility is the only ICE detention center in Massachusetts and the linchpin to ICE's infrastructure in New England. It seems like the easiest way to weaken this infrastructure is for the Mass. legislature to pass a law terminating any county-level contracts with ICE.

I don't have the bandwidth to make this case explicit. But today, Todd Bessent put Frank Bisignano in charge of IRS, in addition to Social Security.

Bisignano, at Social Security, gave Big Balls access to all our Social Security data.

Now he's in charge of IRS.

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Fixed it for you: Woman assaults ICE bullets with her body.

They tried to kill this woman because she annoyed them and they are charging because she lived. Her being alive is an assault on them.

Obviously we need to shovel more billions at him to help make it come true

Something big is going to drop and I think it's a whole lot more than the obvious story (it's well-documented that he was presenting on his computer in a meeting and porn started playing on it)

Just thinking that I've seen politicians leave public service for something more lucrative and I've seen them bail because someone is onto them, reporters are calling people in their inner circle to confirm parts of the story and they know they're politically doomed...

He ends foreign aid, and now he taxes funds sent back home. That's usually low-wage money earned with hard labor., then taxed. So Trump now wants a fee whenever migrants send a part of what's left to help their families. What an asshole.

US government is running a protection racket

I LOVE where Luckovich is taking Vance's make-up! Gonna turn him into a messy drag queen soon

I am not surprised. They have backed them selves into a corner with no way out. When NATO retaliates they can claim the were beaten by evil NATO, not by 'little' Ukraine. Sadly it looks increasingly like this is the route we are going.

She spend $95 million dollars to lose by 20 points.

Elected but Not Seated, Grijalva Waits to Sign Epstein Petition

Adelita Grijalva spent her first week on Capitol Hill in a stuffy conference room, waiting to find out when she would be sworn in.

Between the Epstein fight and a government shutdown, she's still waiting.

my story from DC:

Keep wondering about this regarding new funding. It would explain why they keep saying 'BS is tech and not the users' because it would look for all the world that BS was bought by Thiel/Andreessen to shut up opposition talk and no other reason if they didn't keep talking about the platform.

Do us all a favor and please don't donate to any Senatorial candidate in a state redder than Ohio or Iowa.

Black people in Chicago had their apartment building raided in the middle of the night, were detained for hours, and had their Fourth Amendment rights violated during an ICE operation that had nothing to do with them. Nah, they are not thrilled.

We can look forward to 60 Minutes becoming a weapon to "investigate" any nonconforming or minority views, like Joe McCarthy's red-scare hearings but with better camera direction and more dramatic lighting.

We need to start thinking up ways to troll them. She seems sorta gullible and the pressure is on for her to produce (big-time!)—how hard can it be to fuck with her ego and entitlement in a way that humiliates her bosses?

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