Morning News: Twitter's So Gay, Beyoncé Goes "Heyyyyy!"

Excuses: GOP senators could block the latest federal budget compromise, thereby tempting another government shutdown at the hands of Republicans, because ideology.

Liberals, You Got Fucked on the Budget Deal: Despite those right-wing arguments that they didn’t get their way, Paul Krugman points to the “biggest loser”:

The pundit consensus seems to be that Republicans lost in the just-concluded budget deal. Overall spending will be a bit higher than the level mandated by the sequester, the straitjacket imposed back in 2011. Meanwhile, Democrats avoided making any concessions on Social Security or Medicare. Call this one for Team D, I guess.

But if Republicans arguably lost this round, the unemployed lost even more: Extended benefits weren’t renewed, so 1.3 million workers will be cut off at the end of this month, and many more will see their benefits run out in the months that follow. And if you take a longer perspective — if you look at what has happened since Republicans took control of the House of Representatives in 2010 — what you see is a triumph of anti-government ideology that has had enormously destructive effects on American workers.

I Understand How This Would Happen: Not apologizing for it, just sayin’ I could have been this boy and had it coming—school bus driver punches unruly child.

Let’s Start Call Them “Clarksvilles” Instead of Nickelsville: The homeless encampments across Seattke are largely her doing, after all. It was Sally Clark, as the Seattle City Council president, who is most responsible for shirking responsibility for managing encampments and spinning some yarn about the city getting all these folks into permanent housing. Now Clarksvilles are unregulated, disheveled, nomadic encampments scattered across neighborhoods.

Beyoncé Knowles: She blew the internet’s bangs back last night by unexpectedly dropping a 32-track album (with 14 tracks and 18 videos) onto iTunes—briefly crashing the site—and throwing fans into a conniption.

Shiny New Tea Party Loses Luster: For the first time, Gallup reports, most Americans dislike the Tea Party. Only 30 percent like it.

Boeing Machinists Throwing a “Temper Tantrum”: So says KIRO’s Dave Ross. After workers rejected the latest offer, pundits who have zero stake in the deal—and think it’s someone else’s job to accept subpar compensation—put on their paternal pants and tell the idiot prole children to pull themselves up by their child straps.

A Bunch of Stuff: A former Clinton adviser debunks the fear-mongering over raising the federal minumum wage:

[A] phased-in increase in the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour is not likely to affect business costs or prices significantly. On average, even the costs of fast-food restaurants would increase by less than 3 percent, and a price increase of a few cents on their products could offset a significant share of their higher labor costs. According to a recent estimate, McDonald’s could cover about half of its higher labor costs by raising the price of a Big Mac by about 1.25 percent, or 5 cents.

Twitter Does Something Gay: They changed the “block” feature so blocked users could still see the blocker’s tweets (and retweet the blocker). “Like, what’s the fucking point of a block?” all of Twitter scream/asked last night. To make things worse, the blocker wouldn’t even know the blocked user was doing any of this. Twitter answered by admitting it was stoopid and it reverted to the previous method in which blocking a user prevents them from reading the blocker’s tweets. (PS — I mean gay in the pejorative, obvs.)