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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!

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

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

We are losing, people.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

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.”

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 8 days ago • 5 comments

“The press doesn't give a shit.”

submitted 8 days ago • 805 comments

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.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 9 days ago • 1097 comments

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

submitted 9 days ago • 3805 comments

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

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

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

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This is the only Steve Miller I want to hear.

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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.

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Never forget

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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.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Pete Hegseth is going through withdrawal, right?

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Harvard T-shirts are selling like hot cakes!

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 47 days ago • 1560 comments

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

submitted 49 days ago • 262 comments

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

submitted 50 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

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?

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Happy with the crowd turnout today in DC!

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Et tu, Katyal?

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

The only explanation is that he is a Russian agent.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

“Why am I not surprised!”

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Where is Elon?

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

22 weeks apart.

submitted 56 days ago • 56 comments

Where is Elon?

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

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?

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

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.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

No lies told here.

submitted 58 days ago • 860 comments

"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

submitted 58 days ago • 271 comments