Ghost Palm Technique

Letting insurrectionist senators sue over their phone records is just going to create an opportunity to introduce evidence of their roles in discovery, no?

The Lone Star tick. Often takes a long time to realize what is wrong because unlike most allergic responses, the alpha-gal reaction doesn't always happen right away.

Leo Frank

Not a unique instance, but I feel like one example is sufficient.

No, it does not.

I don't think this is an especially interesting question, because when was the last time the US Government was intentionally starving its own own citizen?

It is decidedly not. I am making a concrete prediction that this would cause Republicans to fold by mid-December if not sooner. If falsified he tactical withdrawal would make sense then for a number of reasons that it doesn't now.

sector jobs that is way too small. The incentives are to not quit.

A separate point, but I don't know where people are getting this "feds quitting en masse to avoid bankruptcy" idea, because 1) we can file for unemployment without quitting; we just have to return the money when we get paid back, and 2)if everybody quits they'll be fighting over a pool of private...

I don't think this is true.

The other reason I am upset that the Democrats caved is that the shutdown would *not* have continued indefinitely otherwise. After a November of no Thanksgiving and widespread food insecurity, Republican officeholders would be living every day in fear of literal lynch mobs and would quickly fold.

This might be a stress fracture in a metatarsal. Be advised: I have snapped a metatarsal in half by failing to ease up for one of these.

Given how many times we've seen cabinet officials have to walk back tariff grampa's statements lately, it's premature to panic.

I think this result is heavily colored by decades of Republicans lying to young people that Social Security is fundamentally insolvent and won't be there for them at all. I bet you'd get a different result if you informed people that just removing the FICA cap would instantly solve the problem.

The Dem base wants the shutdown to continue because it’s the only time we’ve felt like our electeds were representing us: trying to squeeze the GOP instead of squeezing us to accept concessions; directing their anger at the Republicans instead of at their own voters for wanting them to resist

Can't speak for anybody else, but for me the thing that makes this cave an abomination isn't the details of healthcare, it's the failure to cut off Russel Vought's balls in re impoundments.

What was the game?

I'm not sure this is correct. My wife and I are both without pay right now, and I just left a message asking for Warner to hold the line (couldn't find a way to do so for Kaine on a weekend). My more junior colleagues w/o an emergency fund are also generally looking for the Dems to fight.

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I can leave a voice message for @markwarner.bsky.social , but @kaine.senate.gov doesn't even let you do that after hours. What is the correct method to put their feet to the fire on a weekend?

I could be misremembering, but I thought that Dr. Strangelove *caused* the studio to delay release of Fail Safe after they were produced simultaneously.

I don't think it's going to be a uniform swing. In particular, I expect hispanics to swing hard, which is relevant to Texas specifically.

You can turn off AI in the settings and it will improve performance.

I don't know if you play video games, but you would probably appreciate Tactical Breach Wizards if so.

I am tireder, angrier, older, less trusting, more brittle.
2008 felt like magic. This feels like hard work and necessity and maybe finally hope.

I suspect VA will be similar. My wife and I both voted for the independent commission before; we will both vote to gerrymander next year.

DNC ought to run a supercut of their rhetoric.

A lot of "hot & spicy" versions of various processed foods are underwhelming. Noting for public benefit that Totinos "Hellfire" pizza rolls are legitimately hot.

I eventually saw the pair of fish, but the first thing I saw was a somewhat coquettish owl.

Howard Zinn came to speak at my college in the late 1990s, and he argued that US intervention in the Balkans was meant to lay the psychological groundwork for overcoming Vietnam Syndrome.

Looking at the specific image chosen to put in their search bar, I really don't think National Sandwich Day is what Google is commemorating today.