I think this is a little different because I believe in unreleased form this is more of a monkey on the Trump fandom’s back. Had they just been released at the start, there would have been massive coverage for a week, but MAGA would believe that Trump’s different by being open and transparent about it, and Democrats are just whining and people would forget about it much like the Papers. Whereas this way, it’s clear the Republican swamp has something it REALLY doesn’t want to reveal, to the point they’d be willing to starve the country and hold the entire government hostage over releasing them.

If the average American voter’s days were filled with lavish dinner parties, golfing trips and vacations where famous people gave them golden trinkets, then I could imagine they would think their country is on a good path.

Here’s the thing. Mamdani’s a good man, the mayor has some levers like rent control, but he doesn’t have the power to fix everything about the city completely alone. He will need every New Yorker who was moved by his campaign to help him accomplish his promises.

AP calls the race for Mamdani as well.

Beacon of hope in a dark time for America. Now it’s time for all New Yorkers to prepare to make the city that lifts everyone up in a way that every North American city would want to emulate.

In one sense yes they are a monopoly. But there are alternative game stores. However Valve has earned their cut of money by actually trying to make a platform that works for game developers, game players and themselves.

Don’t get me wrong, they have a high risk of turning bad and extorting the market they have captured. But the truth is that every equally or greater sized competitor (Microsoft, Ubisoft, EA, Epic) has already skipped to the extortion part of the cycle and Valve simply hasn’t, and hasn’t really expressed any intention to do that. Being a privately owned company, Valve is allowed to sit back, enjoy the money they do make and not have to constantly ask for more, and develop what the staff feel like making without strict deadlines.

The smaller competitors are still great even if not as feature filled (GOG, itch) and you should support them too. So while I reject that Valve is the big bad, I also reject that Valve could never enshittify. My position is that Valve has earned a trust no one else has (even itch had to cave to Credit Card companies), and that trust is Valve’s to break.

Go and ask the clown ambassador Pete Hoekstra.

To do that (assuming rules mean anything to Republicans) they will have to swear Grijalva in as Congresswoman, and the Epstein files would be set for release so who knows if they will.

They’ve never done a thing like this.

Ikr! Like grow a bit more than half a spine!

I think your average Linux user does want to give game creators their fair share. But they would like to withhold from those that take away from others.

I more or less stopped pirating games after moving my PC to Linux full time.

If the next The Hunger Games prequel needs more filming locations for Panem, this gaudy-ass bathroom would fit right in.

See Vance’s comments here

Vice President Vance urged Senate Republicans at a lunch meeting Tuesday to keep the pressure on Senate Democrats by not allowing votes on legislation to pay SNAP benefits or air traffic controllers during the shutdown, according to Republican senators who attended the meeting.

Vance urged GOP senators to stick with Thune’s strategy of holding repeated votes on a House-passed continuing resolution to fund the government through Nov. 21.

His argument, according to GOP sources familiar with the discussion, is that passing “rifle-shot” measures to reopen the parts of the government would take the pressure off Democrats and possibly extend the shutdown.

Passing such bills in the Senate would also put pressure on the Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to reconvene the House to take up the legislation, further undermining the broader strategy of isolating Senate Democrats during the shutdown.

Make Americans starve so that we can own the libs. Shortchange the air traffic controllers deliberately so that we can pretend it’s Democrats’ fault. Don’t let any compromise measure pass, because then Johnson will have to let the new Congressperson in and release the Epstein files.

I respect that perspective but I view it as Senate Democrats were lambasted for caving in March so they are trying to not this time. And we see it seems to be working better.

There are few opportunities the Senate minority within their procedures to fight to the death for. Lawmakers in the House have been forcibly shut out from conducting their oversight on detention centres. Senate Dems removed any non-budgetary items from the summer bill. Sen. Booker talked for a day straight to delay proceedings. Their job is to write and change the law but they aren’t in control of the pen. So their ask is not big, and still yet, Republicans are making a huge hullabaloo over it, mostly to their detriment.

The private healthcare system is shit, but it was picked because being healthy is uncontroversially good, and Republicans’ obvious falsehoods about migrants receiving healthcare are not sticking and only further highlight how cruel this administration is.

Bessent’s paper-thin excuse doesn’t hide the fact it is definitely a bribe for Milei’s election.

Bring that message to your local No Kings rally.

So from what I can surmise in these last couple weeks, Trump and Hegseth are going to use Idaho towns as “training grounds” for the Qatari military.

Right so he has permanent Covid brain fog, except just caused by an old age illness instead of covid.

The other day I happened to watch a video of him speaking for a minute in 2019, and no, it’s night and day compared to now. Sure, even then he had trouble staying on topic, but he had a mental clarity about him that was more recognizable as a speech than a ramble. He’s slurring most of his words nowadays, you didn’t see that back then. 2019 Trump wouldn’t get lost and find himself on the roof of the White House…

Thanks. “Unelected” would be better word to substitute for “Acting”

Well, you know, Bessent could be calling for Trump’s death, in order to be able to legally put his face on coins in two years during what would be Vance’s acting term.