4. ACA vote in December As part of the deal to end the shutdown, Republicans agreed to hold a vote on the ACA subsidies in December "But what if theyre lying?" They don't hold a vote? Dems hammer them. They vote no? Dems hammer them. They vote yes? Dems win.

I keep talking to Democrats who are mildly flummoxed by the fact that a shutdown strategy they undertook under duress and against their better judgment appears to be working. 😂

I saw the Washington Post editorial on redistricting today and this is my official response.

Tucker was texting about how Trump was lying about the election being stolen. At the same time, he was demanding a reporter who told the truth on air get fired. Think about how morally revolting this man is. People usually want to cancel others for saying things they disagree with. Tucker tries to cancel people for things he knows are true, that he himself believes, because it's bad for the bottom line. He's an off the charts psychopath. My experience with him is that he's unique in not even being able to distinguish truth and falsehood in his head. He's almost difficult to call a liar because truth has no role to play in his reality. Kevin Roberts calls him a friend. To like this man on a personal level is almost as unforgivable as thinking he has ideas worth discussing.

Pelosi's actions against Biden were her final great act - she backstabbed a decades-long friend to save the country Kamala couldn't win it all, but she saved half a dozen Senate seats and many more House seats

Nancy Pelosi's legacy will always be checkered by how she acted towards Biden, but you can't deny she was pivotal in getting some of the most important pieces of legislation of the 21st century passed.

I agree with Bernie Sanders that Abundance should not have to be an ideology—it is just good government—but in practice there are many entrenched interests who fight tooth and nail to prevent efficient delivery of public services and it takes a political movement to fight them

Things Mike Johnson has never heard of, or doesn't know anything about, a thread: (huge credit to @atrupar for steadfastly chronicling this stuff)

President Trump did a whole lot of lying on "60 Minutes." Here's a fact check of 18 of his false claims to Norah O’Donnell, the vast majority of them previously debunked: - It's not true grocery prices "are down"; Trump told this lie even after O’Donnell told him they're up - It's not true there is now "no inflation" (it’s at 3%) or that it's "less than 2%" (it's at 3%) - It's not true it was "my idea, which nobody, frankly, had thought of," to have AI facilities generate their own power on-site (they were already starting to do that while he was out of office, with Biden administration encouragement) - It's not true “$17 trillion” is being invested in the US “right now" (this fictional figure is nearly double the White House's own wildly inflated "announcements" figure) - It's not true each alleged drug boat "kills 25,000 Americans" (this figure plainly makes no sense given US overdose death totals) - It's not true some recent former presidents invoked the Insurrection Act "28 times" (Ulysses S. Grant has the record because he invoked it on six occasions) - It's not true Trump has ended "eight wars" (among other issues, his list includes two situations that weren't wars at all, one war still going full tilt in the DRC, and the Gaza conflict where killing also continues) - It's not true the Kamala Harris interview Trump sued "60 Minutes" over aired "two days" before the election (it was more than four full weeks before Election Day) - It's not true Biden gave Ukraine "$350 billion" (inspector general says the US had disbursed $94 billion through June 2025 and appropriated $93 billion more, including funds spent in the US) - It's not true foreign countries pay his tariffs (US importers make the payments and often pass on costs to consumers) - It's not true Trump inherited the worst inflation of all time (it was 3% the month he took office, same as now, and even the 9.1% Biden-era peak in 2022 was not close to the all-time record) - It's not true the 2020 election was "rigged and stolen" (his usual lie)  - It's not true the Presidential Records Act says he was allowed to have classified documents at his home post-presidency (it says all presidential records are to be in government custody the moment a president leaves office) - It's not true Trump never instructed the Justice Department to go after Comey and James (he explicitly pressured the head of the department to do so in a social media post we all saw) - It's not true Democrats are trying to give $1.5 trillion to illegal immigrants in the shutdown battle (even the White House's own disputed figure is a small fraction of that) or that Biden let in 25 million migrants (it's well under half that even if you count millions who were rapidly expelled) - It's not true foreign leaders have emptied their prisons to somehow insert criminals into the US as migrants (Trump's own team has never been able to corroborate this story experts say is baseless) - It's not true Nancy Pelosi flipped out after finding out his controversial 2019 call with Zelensky “was taped” (there remains no known US tape; what Trump released was a rough transcript, which bolstered rather than undermined Pelosi’s move toward impeachment) Link for more details: cnn.com/2025/11/03/politics/…

Look, Martha, I know that I said I was happily married to Usha last year. But as many Americans know, sometimes the circumstances of one's life change. Erika and I simply fell in love based on our shared Christian faith. Real life is messy, it's not something you can perfectly plan out ahead of time. Everyday Americans know that, as many of them have experienced similar situations in their own lives. And please spare me the self-righteousness from a media that lied to us for years about Joe Biden's cognitive state. Who told us to shut up when we suspected that a deadly virus might have leaked from a lab in the country that our elites shipped all the jobs to. The American people are sick of it and want you to focus on the real issues they're facing in their lives. Where I grew up, Mee-ma and Paw-paw would yell, fight, and light each other on fire. But I tell you what. If anyone dared threaten me as a boy, you'd have second and third cousins ready to drop whatever they were doing and take care of it. Those are the values I've tried to live by, and they're the values that Donald Trump has brought to the White House as he undoes decades of elite failure. Usha remains the mother of my children, and I will always be grateful for what we had. The idea that I broke up with her over religious differences is downright offensive, and frankly reeks of the kind of anti-Christian bigotry that has caused so many Americans not to take the mainstream media seriously anymore. I wish her the best, and only ask for the common decency to give us our privacy as we work through the divorce. As for those asking about 2028, you know, I've got a lot on my plate right now, and it's not something I've had time to think about. But I can assure you that whatever I do going forward, I will never forget the values that I learned in the hills of Appalachia, where my grandpappy and his grandpappy are buried, as I continue to fight to help finish what President Trump started.

>be trump >run the government >decide government owes me $230 million >for investigating me when i wasn’t running the government >people reviewing it are my old defense lawyers >they now run doj, fbi, everything >say i’ll donate the money to charity >charity is probably called “trump charity llc” >“totally ethical. the best ethics.” >mfw i’m president, plaintiff, and defendant at the same time >mfw i might actually pay myself $230 million with taxpayer money >americandream.jpg

lol, lmao even Praying for the next Dem AG-nominee to walk into his confirmation hearing in 2028, katana in had, with his only response to every single question being “master, forgive me, just this once, I must go all out” until Grassley and McConnell both fall over and expire (from old age)

Very good @nytimes editorial board piece today hitting a bunch of important points: - Trump won by moderating on Soc Security and Medicare - Moderates do outperform - In a nationalized media environment, the brand value of the whole party moderating is even bigger than one cand

Twitch is making the rounds again for incompetent decision making and If you've ever wondered "why isn't Twitch fixing this!?" this thread is for you. Let's clear up some misconceptions and have an honest conversation about where the company is at. The biggest reason you see Twitch in this state is simply that the company is a ghost of its former self. Twitch is run as a demo product for IVS - the Twitch architecture they sell to companies like Kick that want to build their own streaming service. In 2022 when most of you knew Twitch at its height, it had roughly 2500 employees. When it became apparent that the site was not sustainable, they had a 400 person layoff (March 2023) then another 400 in late 2023, then ANOTHER 500 in January 2024. Today Twitch is a shadow of what it was and is generously valued at about $46 billion. But Amazon is a 2.27 TRILLION dollar company. That means that best case, and $46b really is best case, Twitch is about 2% of Amazon's total portfolio. This was from a Needham analyst and I think the real number is much less, but let's assume that's true. Twitch is only mentioned a handful of times in earnings calls and financial disclosures, and never on its own. In 10 years Twitch has come up in Amazon public reports 4 times. 3 were in the Q1 earnings call in 2021, and the Q1 earnings call in 2024. They both were one sentence, and referred to Twitch as part of Amazon's advertising package. The 4th mention was a Q1 2025 Earnings Call, and was an Amazon executive mentioning Twitch as part of a "non-profitable sector." It has never had its own financial specifics listed publicly in a 10-K, meaning it's not material enough for Amazon to give it separate reporting. In late 2024 Dan Clancy (current CEO of Twitch) said Twitch is "not profitable at this point" and that revenue was at a five-year low. This is 9 years into the companies lifecycle. When I got into brand advertising I started with Twitch and thought I was running hot because I was doing $20,000-$50,000 influencer activations for gaming sponsorships for streamers on the platform. Then I expanded my agencies client base, 10x'd those deal values, and realized absolutely no one cares about Twitch. It's simply too weird, too parasocial, too extreme because of dominant political streamers and drama farmers for most advertisers to look at. If you are a non-gaming brand it is a joke to advertise on Twitch, and it's because of Twitch's direct choices to platform the types of streamers it does that this is so. And these days warring streamer communities will literally crawl email addresses of VPs of Marketing and warn them about advertising there. This happened to more than one of my clients when we focused budget there. It's unhinged and all just too much trouble to bother. Even in the world of livestreaming Twitch has lost out to Youtube and Tiktok Live. So it's not even a primary choice for advertisers who want that inventory. Youtube Live is 50% of the market, with 13.26 billion watched hours. Tiktok Live comes next at 9.23 billion, or 14.9% of the market. Twitch is half of that at 4.35 billion, representing only 6.3% of the market. For perspective, 8 years ago Twitch was over 75% of the market. That's how far it's fallen. So if you wonder why Twitch appears so incompetent and the laughing stock of Twitter, it's just not a relevant platform. Most of the truly great minds that worked there have left and the few that remain are marginalized and mired in corporate nonsense where any idea gets sunk into endless bureaucracy and never implemented. Most of the people left are enjoying the free meals at Twitch HQ and 6 figure salaries in San Francisco, and hoping AI doesn't clean them out of a job. Amazon doesn't need or care to fix it. It gives them advertising exposure to gaming and 16-36 year old male demos and is a great sales pitch for IVS web services. They do not care about the content or the creators. Amazon is a consumer-goods brand, not an ad network like Google is. That is why you see Youtube as such a priority for Google - because it's ad network is integral to its success. That is also why Youtube generates tons of profit, because of all of Google's business model can feed into it. But Amazon has a much weaker ad network, and it's directed towards selling its products on Amazon. It was never, and will never be, a content brand. They just don't care about that. If this post feels like I'm dooming on Twitch, I'm not. I actually think Twitch is pretty AI-resistant and a great platform to create on if you have a solid top-level discovery funnel that doesn't depend on it. You should never ever expect new viewers from Twitch. I also think it is not so great a loss leader for Amazon that it won't die and instead just remain a rudderless ship, with features gradually being stripped so it doesn't bleed Amazon's pockets too much. That could change in a long-term recession, but it's unlikely. I still love the platform and watch it everyday - mostly the OG gaming creators like Lirik and CohhCarnage who I think are the lifeblood of it. I just wish it was honest with itself and did what it does best, be a community-driven gaming platform. It's sad to see it lose its way. I don't see that improving without an extreme visionary CEO taking it on and convincing Amazon it needs serious change. I miss what Twitch was, and I'm still adamant that banning all political content is the first step to getting it back there. I'm grateful though that there's still a lot of authentic creators and I hope they still make careers on the platform, albeit they are wise enough to diversify. But if you've ever wondered why nothing seems to change and they make mistake after mistake, this is why. It's sometimes funny to witness how hilariously bad they mess stuff up but it's unfortunate in that it negatively impacts a lot of lives, both creators and users. I hope it changes, but I wouldn't hold your breath.

You accused the Governor of overreacting when he closed a portion of the freeway to protect the public. And now we learn … live ordinance detonated early, striking a vehicle on a closed portion of the highway during the event. Without a doubt an apology is owed — to not just Californians, but all Americans. nytimes.com/2025/10/19/us/po…

The self-victimization of these Hasan fans lmao wtf If Israel went Super Saiyan they would just turn into Turkey - Pussy Palestinian genocide (2 years, 60k dead maybe) vs Chad Armenian genocide (2 years, 1.5 million dead) - “Surrounded Israel” with deal from the UK still had to fight off ten+ Arab states just to create a country vs Chad Turkey (Sigmaman Empire) who lost WWI because they were too busy genociding Greeks to fight in the war - “Nakba” of 800k Palestinians constantly cried about for a century vs Turkish infinity stone snap of over 1 million Greeks out of their territory for no reason (lmao) - Loser nuclear state Israel vs Chad NATO member Turkey who doesn’t even need to waste time getting their own nukes - “Spooky” Israel maybe “destabilizing” the Middle East while Turkey shoots down Russia jets for fun (they were flying to Syria and would impede on Turkish desire to murder more Kurdish people) - Fake and lame Israeli democracy vs Chad Turkish Dictatorship that has coups every few years but doesn’t even change leaders (Erdogan just aura farms the military) - Israel constantly apologizes and is chastised for killing 2 Palestinians in West Bank vs Gigachad Turkey killing hundreds or thousands of Kurdish people per year (Kurdish deaths hard to keep track of since Turkey doesn’t consider them human 😎) - Submissive Israel begging US to go bomb Iran while Alpha Turkey tells the US it wants to go bomb ISIS in Syria but instead uses the opportunity to just go bomb more Kurds in Syria (lmao) - Jewish conspiracies about Mossad and ISIS working together while Turkey was their number 1 buyer of oil (actually based energy policy) - Betayahu triggers half the US by speaking to Congress while Alphagon shows up in the US and orders his security guards to beat US citizens just to flex his jawline - Mossad accused of random attacks all over the world vs Turkey openly sending aid flotillas (they are all empty btw lmao) constantly towards Gaza just for memes (the last one was so meme they put Greta on it (she ate all the food so they were empty, too (lmao)))

What an unbelievably amazing poll, lmao. This is what Trump has done involving the Middle East: - Throughout his entire term, Trump supported Saudi Arabia in their attacks on Yemen - In 2017 in Syria, Trump launched 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at the Shayrat Airbase - In 2018 in Syria, Trump bombed multiple sites in the country. - In 2018, Trump pulled out of the JCPOA (the Iranian nuclear agreement to prevent them from seeking nuclear weapons) - In 2019 in Syria, Trump allowed our ally (!!!), Turkey, to bomb Kurdish supporters who we'd worked with in Syria - In 2019, Trump eliminated an Obama-era requirement to report different drone strikes in Yemen, Pakistan and Libya - In 2020 in Iraq, without cooperation with anyone in the government there, Trump carried out an assassination against Soleimani, and Iranian military leader - In 2020 in Qater, Trump made an agreement to fully surrender the country of Aghanistan to the Taliban, without even including the current government of Afghanistan in the talks - In 2025 in Iran, Trump authorized a stealth bombing mission of their nuclear reactors

This is the conservative "marching order" on the indictments, every MAGA slop/influencer is repeating it, but they will always refuse to honestly answer these two, simple questions - If grand juries are so reliable, do you agree with all of the indictments they approved for Trump, then? If juries in general are so reliable, you agree, then, that Trump was rightfully convicted of his 34 felonies in NY? (also FYI, you don't need a lot of evidence to get an indictment, the standard is only probable cause)

BREAKING: Doug Krugman served for 24 years in the United States Marine Corps. He resigned because of Trump and then wrote this: On Sept. 30, at an unprecedented gathering of senior military leadership, President Donald Trump said, “If you don’t like what I’m saying, you can leave the room — of course, there goes your rank, there goes your future.” I wasn’t invited to be in the room that day, and I had decided months earlier that I had to leave. By coincidence, Sept. 30 was my last day as a colonel in the United States Marine Corps. I gave up my career out of concern for our country’s future. United States military officers take an oath to defend the Constitution without mental reservation or purpose of evasion. I swore or repeated that oath under five presidents, starting with former president Bill Clinton. I risked my life for it, serving as an infantry officer in two wars. I watched Marines die for it. No commander in chief is perfect. President Clinton’s moral failures are well known. President George W. Bush’s invasion of Iraq might be one of the worst errors in U.S. history. All recent presidents share responsibility for our failure in Afghanistan. I continued to serve despite all that because I believed the Constitution brought the country more success than failure, and I believed our presidents took their oaths to it seriously. With President Trump, I no longer believe that. During his first term, his actions became increasingly difficult for me to justify, culminating with the Jan. 6 attack on Congress as it tried to execute its duties. I hoped he had learned from those errors, but it only took a few days of his second term for me to realize he had not. I could not swear without reservation to follow a commander in chief who seemed so willing to disregard the Constitution. My departure was not about policy disagreements, which exist in every administration. President Trump won in 2024 and has the right to implement his policies within the law. My first reservations were about promises and actions that I thought were morally wrong even if they were possibly legal. The Constitution gives the president the power to pardon, but pardoning roughly 1,600 of those who tried to violently overthrow the results of an election didn’t help defend the Constitution. Likewise, I didn’t see it as moral to deny refuge to Afghans who risked their lives to support us, which he did on Jan. 22. Ignoring reality to take advantage of vague laws to assume emergency powers is also immoral. For those who believe in honoring their word, breaking promises our country has made — including some trade agreements President Trump made himself — is not moral. These are not the kinds of actions that I’m willing to risk my life to defend. Worse than immorality, however, has been President Trump’s willingness to disregard the law and Constitution to achieve his goals. When asked in May about the Fifth Amendment requirements for due process and if he needed to uphold the Constitution as president, the first words out of his mouth were “I don’t know.” This month, National Guard officers received orders from the defense secretary that their governors opposed. A federal judge intervened, citing the lack of apparent emergency and the 10th Amendment. Those commanders and units were stuck between competing orders with no clear answer. When the president’s orders push or cross legal limits and put commanders in these situations, cohesion within our military is at risk. President Trump’s description of Portland as a “war zone” is as fantastical as his belief that the June protests in a few blocks of Los Angeles would somehow “obliterate” the massive city of nearly 4 million. In both cases, his words had little connection to reality. Every dubious basis he gives for an order creates more room for doubt, more room for reservations and more threats to our unity. The president said to military leadership on Sept. 30 of fighting domestic enemies: “And this is going to be a major part for some of the people in this room. That’s a war too. It’s a war from within.” It wasn’t clear if he was referring to actual crime or to political criticism of him. In either case, military force is not the answer. Some of his voters likely dismiss President Trump’s seeming disregard for the Constitution — such as him saying that criticizing the president should be illegal, despite the First Amendment — as him exaggerating. Others apparently don’t care, believing that achieving their ends justifies any means. This president acts as though one election makes 236 years of constitutional order irrelevant. Instead of trying to work within the Constitution, or to amend it, President Trump is testing how far he can ignore it. If voters and legislators cannot close the gaps in our laws to clarify the limits to presidential power, those who serve our government will continue to struggle. The next president — of either party — may continue us down this path toward collapse. I do not claim to speak for any other person or institution. I respect those who still serve, many of whom have service contracts and can’t simply retire like I did. But if they have doubts about their orders, they are not alone. They should be confident in questioning possibly immoral or illegal orders, remembering they are responsible for their own actions, and knowing others are asking the same questions. I voluntarily gave up my rank as the president suggested, but the future of our country is more important than any individual’s career, wealth or power. I have no regrets about my decision. I have given up the service I loved for the freedom to do the right thing, the freedom to speak my mind and the freedom to speak in defense of our country.

Wow. Charlie Kirk’s producer just refused to condemn the Young Republican group chat on stage.