This time it is not a debt limit issue, just that the government cannot work (with exceptions) if Congress (with POTUS signature) hasn’t explicitly authorized funds to be spent via an annual budget or, more likely nowadays, a continuing resolution.

Different issue, but same result of employees (and program recipients) being treated like pawns.

Golden Girls.

How many siblings did they all have?!?

Gaston/Ralph AO3 tag incoming. I can ship it.

It was a very open appointment. I don’t know if I mean that light-heartedly or with mournful wail…probably both.

Just like Gene Roddenberry always wanted. /s

I love Nancy. She was one of our best leaders AND I think it’s long past time for her to have retired.

In today’s money that’s $100 billion. /hj

They’ve been needing to for a while and haven’t…and there’s little sign they will soon. /vent I hope I’m wrong though.

And yet they remained in power…/vent /nmay /nbh

Roberts and McConnell are pretty neck and neck for that distinction. I’d personally choose McConnell for his decades of sabotage, but you know, it’s horses for courses.

This episode nearly took me out several times. Lou, Jiavani, and Ross are a fantastic team.

Some democratic politician is going to say something that DESTROYS him…again.

It’s what happens when a plague makes sex a death sentence that decimates queer communities. By the time sex no longer equals death, they’re either too old to go to the club or they’re the old guys at the club or the old guys on the apps, easy to filter out. And that’s if they were lucky enough to come out before living a repressed life either in closeted celibacy or in a decades-long heterosexual relationship first.

Unless they’re not white, then they’re an adult at…12. Some kids are lucky if they get that grace for even that long.

The AI is determining whether calls are emergencies or not. I’d hate to be a caller who has the AI get it wrong and gets a report written.

That still doesn’t hide the cowardice of the act.

We’ve reached a part where they won’t talk about who actually was murdered in the Pulse tragedy. At this rate, it won’t surprise me if Lawrence v. Texas were overturned by our current SCOTUS.

That was so freaking wild. Wealwell’s gonna need some therapy…Maxwell, too.

Thanks Trump. /s

Y’all are going through it from what I heard from a USDA friend being transferred from their office