Jeanette Z

From the geniuses who brought you the 50 year mortgage over the past week may I present the <15 year car loan>
Once again finance companies will be thrilled. Just one thing, the average ownership length is about half that time and the average vehicle lasts 13 years on the road.

Coming up on #KTLA: The Trump administration isn't just interested in 50-year mortgages. It's also looking at letting home buyers use crypto to demonstrate creditworthiness for loans (which is like them telling banks, 'Look, I'm a sap, give me real money')

Step 1: Make things more expensive by taxing them

Step 2: Realize you're unpopular because of Step 1

Step 3: Use finances (illegally) obtained via taxes to buy support

Step 4: Drive up prices because you've subsidized taxed consumption

“We need to keep the peace! Who can we call?”

“Well, there’s that agitated Yalie who shot his own eye out.”

“PERFECT!”

He's a doctor. He 100% understands how health insurance works and why risk pools are critical.

He just doesn't care.

The whole point of insurance is that most people don't make a claim. It doesn't work otherwise.

> @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.

Trump getting booed at the Commanders game

BlueSky is alive with rumors that Dems are about to cave. If they do, they’ll be doing Trump the biggest favor of his life. He’s on the ropes, don’t drop the pressure now.

Let me get this right… a sufficient number Senate Democrats appear to be willing to reopen government to alleviate air travel for upper & upper-middle income people at the expense of access to healthcare for lower income people. Yes?

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

Newsom: "Think about the state of mind of the VP. How do you square the circle when you go to a prayer breakfast? Old testament, new testament. What's the fundamental thing that connects John to Matthew to Proverbs? It's this notion of hunger, feeding the poor. It's central to advancing God's will."

A closer look at Trump’s apparent struggles to fight off sleep in the Oval Office A Washington Post analysis of multiple video feeds found that Trump spent nearly 20 minutes battling to keep his eyes open at a recent Oval Office event.

The president who regularly mocks “Sleepy Joe Biden” appeared to fight sleep himself in the Oval Office for nearly 20 minutes this week.

We watched the tape. With @riegerreport.bsky.social.

Watching another president demolish these odes of self-importance will go a long way to restoring a sense of public service.

Trump in the Oval Office of the White House with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The walls are decorated with tacky gold bullshit https://flic.kr/p/2rE6s9j

Just a little more gold and it will be perfect

"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”

Flights are being cancelled. Food assistance is suspended. Government employees are going without pay.

But priorities are being taken care of:

Hey kids the Trump Healthcare
Plan just dropped!

Criminal organization attempting to conceal evidence bsky.app/profile/brad...

They're going to the highest court in the land to avoid feeding children.

Video of Greg Bovino in Waukegan, with residents following and shouting, “You a bitch!” Taken by Armando Sanchez

Why am I sharing a photo of Donald Trump asleep during a presser? Because @jaketapper.bsky.social literally wrote a book about an aging Joe Biden and the media ignores what we all saw about Donald Trump.

For a man who genuinely understands (or at least has understood) how to work a camera and the importance of media presence, this is a distinctly shocking set of images.

As is the one of him just standing like (as one person put it) an idling NPC during the medical event in the Oval.

Let’s hear more of the dangers of democratic socialism under Mamdani

If you don’t test for Covid there won’t be any Covid theory, but for air travel.

He looked like he was in a trance.

Yeesh. Someone call a medic.