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Former political journalist, Senate speech writer, senior Homeland Security official and onetime rock ‘n’ roll garage band legend, now a screen writer and struggling but committed Democrat.
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Fight like Bruce!

Nothing in the Bezos Post today about Trump’s scummy meme coin investor dinner last night. Nothing. Not one word. Zero. Zip.

We are losing, people.

In his doctoral thesis in the 1980s, the future Pope Leo XIV wrote a message for our times: “The exercise of authority in any Christian community requires the setting aside of all self-interest and a total dedication to the good of the community.”

Here's a look at some of the highlights worth watching from late-night TV.

“The press doesn't give a shit.”

Maybe Corey Booker can conduct another lengthy speech on the Senate floor and explain why in the name of all that’s holy that he voted to confirm gangster Charles Kushner to be America’s ambassador to France. Booker will have to explain this if he runs for President, I promise you that.

They're arresting Members of Congress. Perhaps a sternly-worded letter is in order. Or, perhaps, it's time to play some damn hardball with the DOJ.

REPORTER: Is the president okay with this bill adding to the deficit? LEAVITT: This bill does not add to the deficit

My PIN # has long been 8647 but it seems now I may have to change it to avoid Trump jail time.

All of a sudden, SNL doesn’t seem funny anymore.

Maybe now the assholes will leave Joe Biden the fuck alone! Joe was one of the best Presidents in my long lifetime.

Trump telling Walmart to “eat the tariffs” makes me wonder: Didn’t he say China would pay the tariffs?

This is the only Steve Miller I want to hear.

How far have the Washington Post editorial pages fallen under Jeff Bezos’s ownership? Today’s lead op-ed is headlined: “What’s the right way to ride a horse?” And it’s actually about riding a horse.

Never forget

THE issue for the Democrats going forward: The 19 richest U.S. households saw a $1 trillion wealth increase in 2024, a rise that exceeds the size of Switzerland’s economy. These 19 households now control $2.6 trillion in wealth — almost as much wealth as the bottom 50% of American households.

I expected Jeff Bezos, because of his devotion to “personal freedom,” would have commissioned an editorial in his Washington Post condemning Trump’s arrest of a Wisconsin judge. But NO! A weasel is always a weasel, no matter how rich.

No NFL team wants Shedeur Sanders because they don’t want to deal with his Daddy’s shit.

Pete Hegseth is going through withdrawal, right?

Trump wants to take away Harvard’s tax exempt status but not the Heritage Foundation’s, which authored the Project 2025 plan he is following to a T to destroy America’s democracy.

I wish most that I had heard Pope Francis’s stories about when he worked as a bouncer.

Harvard T-shirts are selling like hot cakes!

Don’t you just love how White House staffer Stephen Miller referred to Senate-confirmed Attorney General Bondi as “Pam” in the Oval Office? Respect.

I didn’t know who the President of El Salvador is until yesterday when I saw him in the Oval Office, and I can now say that I know who Nayib Bukele is and I know that he is one smarmy arrogant prick.

Here is an up to date list of Big Law collaborators along with how much in free legal services they have pledged to Trump's causes. Paul Weiss 40M Cadwalader 100M Milbank 100M Skadden Arps 100M Willkie Farr 100M A&O Shearman 125M Kirkland & Ellis 125M Latham & Watkins 125M Simpson Thacher 125M

One is made a national story every single week and the other is shhhhh.....

The Supreme Court is not our friend. You should know that by now. Never count on the Court for anything good and decent anymore.

Twenty-two weeks after the election of Donald Trump and the Democratic Party has just now - just now - set up a rapid response “war room” to counter the flood of Trump lies that have all but washed away American democracy.

I found something to read as Donald Trump’s heist of America’s retirement savings and his ravishing of financial markets around the world roars into a third day with Republican Senators cheering on the madness of Caligula.

Donald Trump is picking your pocket again today. If you voted for him, don’t complain. If you didn’t, shout your complaints to the rooftops.

I wish I could celebrate Alex Ovechkin’s athletic accomplishment but his pro-Putin politics just won’t allow me.

Can you imagine any President other than Donald Trump allowing anyone, much less a clown like Kid Rock, lean so disrespectfully on the Resolute Desk?

Happy with the crowd turnout today in DC!

DEI never drained $6 trillion in two days from the US economy the way Trump’s tariffs did.

Et tu, Katyal?

The only explanation is that he is a Russian agent.

Jeff Bezos is the Dan Snyder of American journalism, taking a world class newspaper and driving it into the ground.

Kamala Harris made the mistake of assuming MAGA voters knew who Herbert Hoover was when she warned about Trump’s tariffs.

Just got a message from my financial advisor: “Run, Forrest, run!”

“Why am I not surprised!”

Where is Elon?

22 weeks apart.

Where is Elon?

How would you like to be living next door to one of those assholes in Wisconsin who sold their vote by taking a million dollar check from Elon Musk?

Does Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer plan to vote with his party on Tim Kaine’s anti-Trump-tariff resolution today? You never know with Chuck.

No lies told here.

"Roberts’s immunity ruling not only gutted Smith’s case against Trump, it also sent a clear message: If Trump won the election, he could freely engage in even more egregious crimes. As later events would demonstrate, Trump got the message loud and clear." — @davidrlurie.bsky.social