Brian, the Rude Mechanical

Hell is not punishment enough for Andrew Wakefield.

All I'm saying is that these are not the actions of people who do not want to be guillotined.

That's nuts. I went from $700 to $900. Now, that's just for me, not my wife and me.

Still, I'll be uninsured next year, too. The money just can't stretch that far.

Senate Dems: “ Republican senators promised us a vote!”

Mike Johnson: Well, I didn’t.

Foiled again!

Some people will remain eternally butthurt that they were ever compelled to act for even one second like other people actually matter

The new Republican plan same as the old Republican plan: Fucking die already.

I'm in this skeet and I don't like it.

The trick to finding your lost items is to order its replacement. The lost one will magically be found as soon as you spend money

you can stop looking, I've found the new Bond

No... The government has purchasing power can leverage prices like a group policy. If people have to insure themselves, the insurance industry will inflate every price and cover even less leaving huge payment gaps between services and coverage. This guy has the economic understanding of a Milk Dud.

If you're bleeding internally you just uhh call around and compare health care plans. Make a budget spreadsheet and see what you can afford. Do I have to spell it out for you. I have a ballroom to build

So if you buy a home at 25, which no one ever does, and you stay in the same job for 40 years after that, which happens sometimes but less often than it used to, you'll still have 10 years left on your mortgage when you retire (which to be fair no one is planning on doing)

I’m not even into weed and I’m horrified at the pull back of Dem support

Fascism has a bad effect on a lot of people‘s cognitive function and clearly causes horribly negative side effects

Why is the "we must be united!" hectoring directed at people who are mad at the Cavers and not to the Cavers? Everyone who's mad was united, then the Cave Caucus walked across the aisle and betrayed what the public had been told was the Dem position.

hilarious that the richest man in the world has been stunlocked by an 87 year old woman who posts all day and is famous for writing short stories you read in creative writing workshops

The sea doesn't even hate you on principle, it's just the sea and its one job is to itemize and redistribute your molecules.

Every fairy tale is about how the woods are so deadly that we'd rather go hang out with the witch or the beast or the wolf instead.

You can always tell when folks who didn't grow up in nature are getting into a mystical nature kick because they talk about forests like they're these serene, perfect, peaceful places. No friend, nature is scary and tense as fuck and you're looking at a place where things live and die BY THE MINUTE.

This may sound so silly but I’ve worn heeled boots while roaming the city for the last three days in a row, the most I’ve ever consistently worn and walked in heels before, and it feels like I’ve unlocked a new superpower

It can be hard to do math in your head, while standing up, on national television. Nerve-wracking, too. But even so, in twenty seconds on the air, I did a better job than the President in costing his latest idea and figuring out whether his new idea of a $2,000 rebate check will work. (It won't.)

A useful model for "AI agents" is that they're the current excuse meme for AI. They're not a thing that works at all, now or in the fabulous future. But they're *such* good material for hypecrafting.

a black-footed cat, which is small and looks vaguely ocelot-like in coloration

thsi little guy is the most successful hunter

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 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. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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Narrator: He immediately stopped fighting

After getting into the details, this seems less like "a deal" and more like abject surrender.

Getting nothing but a Republican promise just days after doling out a massive electoral ass kicking is a total political and moral failure.

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.

Bernie Sanders: "What this Senate is about to do is make a horrific situation even worse. So let's be clear what this vote is about. If this vote succeeds, over 20 million Americans are gonna see at least a doubling in their premiums in the ACA."