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Boston Mayor Michelle Wu at the House hearing on sanctuary cities: "If you wanted to make us safe, pass gun reforms. Stop cutting Medicaid. Stop cutting cancer research. Stop cutting funds for veterans. That is what will make our cities safe." Mic drop! 🎤

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I’d rather listen to Adrien Brody on an endless loop before I’d watch Trump’s SOTU. Maybe.

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Conan: You know, Anora is having a good night. That's great news. Two wins already. I guess Americans are excited to see somebody finally stand up to a powerful Russian.

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My take on Trump’s betrayal of Ukraine. It was a long time coming, Trump has been signaling his fealty to Putin since forever, but few Americans care about other countries unless a lot of Americans are getting killed there.

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Something odd here. CBS News confirms other media reports: "Hegseth has issued a directive to U.S. Cyber Command to pause planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions." The CBS News then notes that National Security Advisor Michael Waltz said he's unaware of the directive.

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Thought cloud: “Is there an app that can help me find my balls?”

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My latest, on Bezos’ continued gutting of WaPo so that he can suckle at Trump’s teat.

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Jane Fonda last night, on the SAG Awards show: “Have any of you watched a documentary of one of the great social movements like apartheid or the civil rights movement or Stonewall?...We are in OUR documentary moment. This is it. And it's not a rehearsal. This is big time serious, folks."

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Jane Fonda, accepting her lifetimes achievement award at the SAG Awards, delivered the speech we desperately needed. "This is our documentary moment," she implored the crowd. The time when we must prove our courage. She delivered a call to arms that was also a call to empathy and community.

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Friedrich Merz did not even wait for the final results in Germany's election before delivering what could well be a defining verdict on US President Donald Trump, consigning Europe's 80-year alliance with the Americans to the past.

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My opinion today:

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Nikita Khrushchev, 1956: "We will bury you." Vladimir Putin, now: It took a while, but finally.

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My latest on Substack. Self-explanatory.

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Per orders from Duh Fuehrer, any band that wishes to play “Up on Cripple Creek” shall be required to revise a line in Robbie Robertson’s song. This will be taught in re-education camp: 🎸”…straight down the Mississippi River to the Gulf of America…”🎸 But that extra syllable screws up the cadence.

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Fucking A.

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For context, this is the same $1.3 billion dollar deal they announced back in December during the Biden presidency. Trump set fire to the US' relationship with both Canada and Mexico in return for literally nothing at all.

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Too late.

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I’m going to put my rich guy hat on and say I hope that Mexico and Canada issue equal, retaliatory tariffs and stick to them for an extended period. I apologize to all the people it will cost money and the businesses it will hurt. But it’s the only way for tariffs to be seen for what they are

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Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass

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When 2025 is blessedly over (is it over yet?), I dearly hope we'll look back on it with a bit of Beatles brio: 🎸🎸Everybody had a good year Everybody let their hair down Everybody pulled their socks up Everybody put their foot down🎸🎸

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the depressing thing about what's happening and to come is how fucking unnecessary all of it was. no war forced us into this, no massive recession. bunch of bored morons pushed the "break everything" button because of the man on the tv and the people on their phone told them, and people will die.

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For those ready to cash in on America, the best option I’ve found is Costa Rica — $50 a year for retirement visas if you deposit $1,000 a month in revenue in a local bank (Social Security counts). Unfortunately, Canada has no retirement visa, must renew guest visa every 6 months.

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Now that Trump ends Fauci’s security detail, it's worth reprising the conversation @helenbranswell.bsky.social and I had with him last summer. He resisted harsh words for Trump. www.statnews.com/2024/07/10/a... www.statnews.com/2025/01/24/d... via @statnews.com

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I wrote this on Substack.

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Here’s the extended video, including ugly reaction shots from the Trump family, of Bishop Budde’s courageous plea for mercy for “the people in our country who are scared now.” Please watch 👇and share. An extraordinary and important moment in Trump 2.0. www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/in-an-extr...

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A convicted criminal in the White House pardoned the convicted Jan 6 criminals. Meanwhile, the last surviving member of The Band died. And it’s only Tuesday.

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A convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and adjudicated financial fraudster sits in the White House. How the hell is this reality. Anyone still in denial about what's to come should be indicted for failure of imagination.

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It's Martin Luther King Day! "Let us all hope that...in some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty." His words are the only ones I'll acknowledge today.

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My new Substack piece:

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And with bird flu a possible threat on the horizon….If there is another pandemic, would RFK Jr. support developing and approving a new vaccine? Probably not. That could cause millions to die. Thank you, Trump voters.

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♻️

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Too much, or just about right? 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Five: The number of days til the death of the Weimar Republic

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Anyone remember when a Republican nominee for Secretary of Defense was rejected by the Senate for womanizing and heavy drinking? I do. John Tower in 1989.

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Me today: Ya gotta laugh, right? How else are we expected to remain sane?

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forgot about this classic

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#EmbarrassmentInChief 🤮

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A bunch of the louder voices on the right shoehorned their favorite anti-left arguments into the LA fires discussion, in part because that’s what they do and in part as a response to what they saw as left-wing rhetoric: mentions of climate change. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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NEW: California’s burning and its political foes are practically dancing in the flames and reveling in the ashes. The response from Trump and many allies has been utterly devoid of caring or compassion. It’s not just unseemly. It’s unprecedented. And cruel. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

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I spend a good portion of my day on this one problem. From @oliverdarcy.bsky.social's newsletter. [paywall possible] www.status.news/p/mark-hertl...

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Philip and many others do vital work at the Post. I fully understand why we're all angry at Bezos, but America needs more journalism, not less, and if you want to show your unhappiness with Bezos, cancel your Prime membership instead.

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Can’t help wondering how LA’s crime novelists - Michael Connolly, Robert Crais, Lee Goldberg - will reference The Fire, either in books not yet written or in books currently in the works.

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Here's my first Substack piece - the pilot episode, as it were, full of Dylan, media gripes, and popular culture musings. For better or worse, this is the new me. If you subscribe (for free), new posts land in your cluttered email box.

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